It is not often these days that Sean Payton is the youngest guy in a room. He has been a head coach in the NFL for nearly two decades and first entered the NFL as an assistant with the Philadelphia Eagles in 1997. Players he once coached, like Dan Campbell and Aaron Glenn, are now…
One of the four head coaches left working in the men’s NCAA Tournament will win his first national championship Monday night. It could be Houston’s Kelvin Sampson in his 36th season of running a program at age 69. It could be Duke’s Jon Scheyer in his third at age 37. Auburn’s Bruce Pearl is on…
Years before it became obvious that Alex Ovechkin was going to smash the NHL’s all-time goals record, he had an unbroken five-season run leading the league in power-play goals. The 101 pucks he pumped home with the man advantage over that stretch, from 2012-13 to 2016-17, prompted opponents to significantly adjust how they gameplanned around…
Fittingly, the last men’s college basketball we saw before the NCAA Tournament bracket graced the screen Sunday was the end of Michigan’s win over Wisconsin in the Big Ten tournament final — the needless, grinding, painful end. Out of bounds call, review. Out of bounds call, review. Out of bounds call, review. One of them…
Some are names and faces you know — Jason Kelce, Sean McVay, Kevin O’Connell, Nicole Lynn — while others are behind the scenes and under the radar … for now. This is The Athletic’s NFL 50 under 40, a list of rising coaches, executives, personalities and other personnel who significantly impact the NFL and will…
Rodell Rahmaan has seen enough man-on-the-street interviews on social media to know he wants to do one. He’d love for a stranger with a camera to ask him the most famous person on his phone. “I can’t wait,” Rahmaan said, “to tell them it’s Eddie George.” The 1995 Heisman Trophy winner is in Rahmaan’s contacts…
Arizona coach Adia Barnes had never given a more important halftime speech. The Wildcats were in their first national title game in 2021, and they trailed at the half by five to familiar foe Stanford. It was Barnes’ fifth season with the program and the furthest Arizona had ever advanced in the postseason. Barnes rushed…
The college all-star game played Saturday in Mobile, Ala., is called the Senior Bowl, but the game between the Chiefs and Eagles a week from Sunday in New Orleans could be called the Senior Citizen Bowl. While the Sean McVay effect remains real (see the hirings of 38-year-old Ben Johnson and 39-year-old Liam Coen), coaches…
The victims of a crash between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter included teen figure skaters returning from a national meet with their mothers and coaches, an Ohio college student coming from her grandfather’s funeral, two Chinese nationals and a group of hunters headed back from a guided trip in Kansas. They were…
The Kansas City Chiefs are still standing, but they’ve still got to deal with some heavyweights ready to finally add some new fingerprints to the Lombardi Trophy. With the conference championship games upon us, it’s still all about the Chiefs’ quest to become the first three-peat Super Bowl winners. They’re just two wins away from…