Each Friday, a selection of reporters and editors from The Athletic will offer recommendations of games, events and shows to watch over the weekend. Saturday 🏀 Men’s College BasketballDuke at UNC6:30 p.m. ET on ESPN The final weekend of the regular season for high-major men’s basketball conferences is loaded with marquee matchups, but you don’t…
They didn’t have much, but they could create. Money was tight for the family, so they built their own board games growing up in Saskatchewan, Canada. One year, Matthew Fehr’s father created his own little golf board game out of huge bristle boards with holes drawn in and different clubs tapered off. They rolled dice…
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Doors open for Beach Night with a feels-like temperature of 7 degrees and purple aloha shirts for the first 250 students through — a true commitment to the bit. But the party is on inside, already. Crudites and chicken skewers are disappearing apace; an open bar is working like a bug…
Deion Sanders signed future Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter — the nation’s No. 1 overall recruit — to Jackson State without ever stepping foot on his high school campus. No one on his staff visited, either. It was unprecedented, an unthinkable recruiting victory that established Sanders as a force in the sport. But now entering…
Hall of Famer Jimmy Johnson announced his retirement from Fox Sports, where he served as an integral part of its NFL Sunday pregame shows for decades, yukking it up weekly with Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long and host Curt Menefee. Johnson’s retirement is not much of a surprise as, at 81 years old, there had been…
The last 12 months for Sabrina Ionescu have been like a movie. Last February, she lit up the NBA All-Star stage in a one-on-one 3-point shootout with her role model and friend Steph Curry of the Golden State Warriors. In June, the Sabrina 2 dropped, the second edition of her signature Nike shoe — embraced…
Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred is reviewing a request for Pete Rose to be removed from MLB’s permanently ineligible list, which could lead to his eventual selection to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. According to reports published last Saturday, Manfred met with Rose’s daughter, Fawn, and his former lawyer Jeffrey Lenkov about reinstatement…
For almost a decade, Jill Saulnier was an energy line forward for the Canadian women’s national team, winning two Olympic medals and a world championship. Now she can add a new line to her resume: She threw the first real punches in the history of the Professional Women’s Hockey League, in a fight with Ottawa…
“We’ve been to some places together us lads, haven’t we?” Matt Peet, head coach of the Wigan Warriors, asks his players. It is half an hour before a landmark occasion inside Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium, the first Super League game played on U.S. soil up against the Warrington Wolves. Rugby league has a new frontier…
Allen Iverson driving to the basket for a layup. Steph Curry draining a deep 3-pointer. To RaMell Ross, this is basketball at its best. Speed, motion and athleticism all on display. Roughly a decade ago, a professional basketball career would have been the highlight of his life. Ross played pro ball in the United Kingdom…