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Mikel Arteta turns to his unpredictable weapon to fix Arsenal attack
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Catching up with Stars GM Jim Nill: Unfinished business, injury updates, playoff format and more
TORONTO — Sitting down for an interview with Dallas Stars general manager Jim Nill early this week, the surroundings were hard to ignore.Just over two weeks since the Toronto Maple Leafs announced to the world they had a GM opening, Nill settled into a seat in the bowels of Scotiabank Arena as his team prepared to play the Leafs.Advertisement
Canadiens still need Brendan Gallagher in the playoffs, whether he plays or not
PHILADELPHIA — There was symbolism dripping from the Montreal Canadiens’ final game of the regular season.The Canadiens were attempting to at least force the Tampa Bay Lightning to win their final game Wednesday night to have home-ice advantage in their first-round playoff series, but that series itself — no matter where it is starting — is symbolic of a lot.Advertisement
The best fits for the Patriots in the 2026 NFL Draft: Using 'The Beast' to find targets
Two hundred and fifty-seven players will hear their names called during the 2026 NFL Draft next week. More than 100 others will sign on as undrafted free agents.But most teams enter the draft with a board of players considerably smaller than the over 350 who will end up on NFL rosters next weekend. That’s because teams focus on their needs and how a player might fit their scheme.Advertisement
Bengals draft questions, Part 3: When is the best time to add pass rush?
This is the third of a five-part series assessing the outlook of the most important Bengals’ questions of the 2026 NFL Draft. Monday: What happens at pick No. 10? Tuesday: Can they build the future at CB? Wednesday: When is the best time to add pass rush? Thursday: Who fits best at linebacker? Friday: Where will they supplement the offense? CINCINNATI — Four words have reverberated throughout this Cincinnati Bengals offseason. They were uttered by de facto general manager Duk...
USC's JuJu Watkins, Notre Dame's Hannah Hidalgo headline 2027 WNBA Draft class
The 2027 draft class has been eagerly anticipated since the moment the players in this group took the court as freshmen. On the first day of the 2023-24 college basketball season, Hannah Hidalgo put up 31 points on eventual champion South Carolina, while MiLaysia Fulwiley dazzled so thoroughly that she earned the acknowledgement of Showtime himself, Magic Johnson. On the other side of the country, JuJu Watkins dropped 32 points of her own to lead USC to an upset of No. 7 Ohio State. By the end o...
Blue Jays embrace the chaos, outlast Brewers for a chaotic and classic win
MILWAUKEE — A tornado warning was issued around American Family Field moments before first pitch. Phones buzzed with the alert as rain began to fall. The Toronto Blue Jays and Milwaukee Brewers’ contest was shielded from the swirling winds above, with the roof rapidly closing as batting practice ended. Still, the chaos found a way into the stadium.Advertisement
Who is Johnnie Robbie? Meet West Coast Pro's women's champion and rising star on the indie scene
Johnnie Robbie will enter WrestleMania week as a relative unknown and rising pro wrestling star, but when the dust settles in Las Vegas this week, fans will certainly know who she is.Robbie is a California native who has trained at New Japan Pro-Wrestling and has made brief appearances at Ring of Honor and All Elite Wrestling. She will enter the week as West Coast Pro wrestling’s women’s champion. She will have about a half-dozen matches over the course of the week, headlining the company’s show...
Stephen Curry, Draymond Green on 16-game vs. 82-game players: 'I'd rather a 16-game guy'
LOS ANGELES — Years ago, Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green famously said there were two very different types of players in the NBA: 82-game players and 16-game players.His point, which has gained more credibility over time, was that there were players built for regular season-games and players you trust when you needed them the most: in the playoffs. As the Warriors prepare for Wednesday’s Play-In game against the LA Clippers, Green, 36, expounded on his theory after Tuesday’s practic...
Matt Crocker's abrupt U.S. Soccer departure brings many questions. Here are the answers.
On March 29, an overcast Sunday in rural Georgia, Matt Crocker strode across a vast pitch that represented the future of U.S. Soccer.By his side was JT Batson, the CEO who’d hired him. Together with U.S. Soccer president Cindy Parlow Cone and other leaders, they led a tour of the federation’s new national training center. “We,” Crocker said, “want to create an environment [here] where the community, the whole of football, soccer, comes together.”And a couple weeks later, he left it all behind.Ad...
Coachella, tennis and back to the factory: How drivers and F1 teams are spending the break
Jannik Sinner may have needed a double-take had he looked courtside during his Monte Carlo Masters semifinal against Alexander Zverev last week.The world’s No 1 men’s tennis player, a huge Formula 1 fan, would have seen Ollie Bearman, Gabriel Bortoleto and Alex Albon — all of whom live in Monaco — sitting together watching him play. After the match, Oscar Piastri joined the trio to meet Sinner, with the Australian also speaking to Carlos Alcaraz shortly afterwards.Advertisement
NHL All-Under-25 Team: Celebrini, Bedard and Schaefer headline 2026 roster
Each year at The Athletic, our colleague on the MLB team, Stephen J. Nesbitt, has built an MLB All-Under-25 Team that aims to put together a batting order and a pitching rotation of the best young players in baseball.Over the last couple of years, NHL prospects writers Corey Pronman and Scott Wheeler have stolen the idea to try to assemble our own NHL All-Under-25 Team.Advertisement
In perhaps Jordan Binnington's final Blues' game, fans show out wearing his No. 50
ST. LOUIS — If the St. Louis Blues’ 7-5 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins Tuesday was goaltender Jordan Binnington’s final game with the franchise, he went out a winner.It wasn’t easy.The Blues trailed the Penguins 4-1, but with five unanswered goals and some saves from Binnington, they rallied back to win.Advertisement
Inside the stunning fall of the Maple Leafs: Chaos, dysfunction and AI
TORONTO — It spoke to the gravity of the situation that he felt compelled to be there at all, inside the war room at the Toronto Maple Leafs’ suburban practice facility ahead of the March 6 trade deadline.Seldom does a finely tailored suit from the C-suite rub shoulders directly with scouts who spend hundreds of days pounding the pavement each year looking for players, but there was Keith Pelley, the president and CEO of MLSE, overseeing the action.Advertisement
He told his family he'd get them to the NBA. The Warriors helped him keep that promise
SAN FRANCISCO — During the 44 days Shama’ar Jefferson’s family waited for him to say something back, basketball broadcasts were often the only sounds in his hospital room. His parents figured that if anything could wake Shama’ar from his coma, it was the squeak of sneakers on hardwood.So last spring, Brandon and Shaquela Cornwell kept the TV in an intensive care unit tuned to hoops as the middle-schooler’s wordless days rolled along through March Madness and into the NBA playoffs. The 13-year-ol...
Evaluating Islanders' season means balancing big-picture optimism with short-term failure
ELMONT, N.Y. — There was a finality to the dressing room that only a season finale can bring. Islanders players walked off the ice Tuesday wearing only shoulder pads, their jerseys given to select fans in a ceremony following their 2-1 loss to Carolina. In the room, assistant coach Ray Bennett went to the skaters sitting in their stalls, shaking each of their hands. No. 2 goalie David Rittich brought in a pair of sticks for star rookie Matthew Schaefer to sign. Parting mementos.Advertisement
Tigers' Kenley Jansen reaches third on all-time saves list, has so much perspective to share
DETROIT — On the night he passed Lee Smith for third place on the all-time saves list, Kenley Jansen stood in the middle of the Detroit Tigers clubhouse and shared part of his soul.Jansen gave a CliffsNotes version of his career, the good and the bad, the highs and the lows. There were times he doubted himself and more times he let the opinions of others crumble the walls around his mind. There were even nights he wondered whether his time in this fickle game was done.Advertisement
Dallas Stars vs. Minnesota Wild 2026 NHL Stanley Cup playoffs preview
Everyone knows the NHL’s playoff format is unjust; the Dallas Stars and Minnesota Wild aren’t the first teams to be screwed by the format and certainly won’t be the last. Still, this series feels like a new low for Gary Bettman’s NHL.Minnesota earned significantly more points than the fourth-best team in the West and will be rewarded for that incredible regular season with a matchup against the second-best team in the West.Advertisement
Alberto Mendoza watched his brother win the Heisman. Now he wants to prove he belongs
He met Doug Flutie. He talked to Tim Tebow. He had a great conversation with Chris Weinke, who was honored on the 25th anniversary of his Heisman Trophy. But mostly, Alberto Mendoza spent that December night in New York soaking in his older brother Fernando’s accomplishment and not ruling out that path for himself.“Hopefully, fingers crossed, I’ll be back one day,” Alberto Mendoza said.As for the conversation with Weinke?“Didn’t think anything of it,” Mendoza said.Advertisement
The Mets keep losing. It's still too early to discuss Carlos Mendoza's job security
LOS ANGELES — Let’s lean into the absurdity of discussing a manager’s job in the middle of April and say it plainly: Carlos Mendoza is not in danger of losing his job at this point.And it would take a lot more for that to change.We are less than three weeks into a season that requires six months. Somehow, Mendoza’s job status has morphed into a daily discussion when it shouldn’t be, based on observations from being around the team and an understanding of how the Mets operate.Advertisement