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Welcome to The Briefing, where every Monday during this season The Athletic will discuss three of the biggest questions to arise from the weekend’s football.This was the FA Cup weekend when Plymouth Argyle celebrated jettisoning...

There are still a number of difference-making free agents on the board and likely some significant trades still to come, but let’s take stock of each team’s offseason moves — or lack...

A dominant win in the last warm-up tournament before a Grand Slam doesn’t sound like an occasion for an Olympic gold medalist to express disbelief. But in Adelaide, after a 6-2, 1-0...

The trolls finally got one, but not for long.NBA social media has become a cesspool of negativity, where fans come together to commiserate about why this player is overrated and that team...

Belmont Drive runs parallel to Rocky Lane, a noisy thoroughfare in Liverpool that blurs into West Derby Road, connecting the city centre with Anfield and its famous football stadium.Here, the peeling grandeur...

“It’s totally feasible that an artificial intelligence (AI) agent could simulate more football in 24 hours than has ever been played professionally in the real world in the entire 150-year history of...

At last month’s Winter Meetings in Dallas, agent Joel Wolfe held court in front of a large group of reporters and caused a stir when discussing his client, Japanese right-hander Roki Sasaki,...

The Mets signed Juan Soto to a record-breaking $765 million deal, the Yankees landed Max Fried with a $218 million deal, and the Diamondbacks once again shocked the baseball world, adding ace...

FOXBORO, Mass. — As far back as July, when Jerod Mayo arrived at the practice fields out behind Gillette Stadium for his first training camp as coach of the New England Patriots,...

LOS ANGELES — It was one week into his new job as coach of the Los Angeles Lakers when JJ Redick had a sudden rush of horror.He had just hired his first...