Bill Belichick to meet with Robert Kraft on Patriots’ next steps

Bill Belichick to meet with Robert Kraft on Patriots’ next steps

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save New England Patriots Coach Bill Belichick said Monday that he would meet with team owner Robert Kraft, perhaps multiple times, to determine the franchise’s next steps following a 4-13 season. “It was obviously a very disappointing season all the way around — players, coaches, staff,…

Analysis | What to know from NFL Week 18: The Eagles are limping into the playoffs

Analysis | What to know from NFL Week 18: The Eagles are limping into the playoffs

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Week 18 finalized the playoff bracket, and it accurately represents the oddity of the season. Joe Flacco is in, but Trevor Lawrence is nowhere to be found. The teams that lost Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers made it. Three teams from the AFC North are…

The Paris Olympics’ Seine River plan is bold, audacious … and risky

The Paris Olympics’ Seine River plan is bold, audacious … and risky

PARIS — By day, the Seine River winds gracefully through the city’s center, but as darkness falls, the Seine turns from turquoise to indigo to inky black until it glows with reflections of the city lights. Many call the Seine the world’s most romantic river, and beneath the Pont d’lena, a man waits beside a…

Even in Michigan, the land of ‘Go Blue,’ tackle football is slipping

Even in Michigan, the land of ‘Go Blue,’ tackle football is slipping

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Over the past three years of Michigan football’s charmed existence, the program’s long-awaited breakthroughs — beating rival Ohio State, winning the Big Ten and reaching the College Football Playoff — suddenly became routine. Those feats, repeated each season since 2021, appeased restless fans who had…

Entering Paris Games, the top U.S. male Olympian isn’t a swimmer

Entering Paris Games, the top U.S. male Olympian isn’t a swimmer

Updated January 4, 2024 at 5:25 p.m. EST|Published January 4, 2024 at 5:51 a.m. EST Noah Lyles won three gold medals at last year’s world championships and aims to do the same this summer in Paris. (Shaun Botterill/Getty Images) Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Never shy about publicly proclaiming grand…

Analysis | The eye-popping price of MLB starting pitching keeps going up

Analysis | The eye-popping price of MLB starting pitching keeps going up

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save For teams that never had much chance at Shohei Ohtani and even for those who did, the defining feature of this baseball offseason has been the frantic and expensive scramble to secure starting pitching. From the top of the market to the bottom, the prices…

MLB star Wander Franco freed amid Dominican sex-abuse probe

MLB star Wander Franco freed amid Dominican sex-abuse probe

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco, one of baseball’s top young stars, was freed from custody by a Dominican court Friday as details emerged about an investigation in which he is accused of having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl and paying her mother…