Perspective | The Ron Rivera era was a mess. It’s time to clean things up.

Perspective | The Ron Rivera era was a mess. It’s time to clean things up.

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save That Ron Rivera was finally, mercifully relieved of his duties as head coach and roster builder of the Washington Commanders falls into the pope-is-Catholic, sun-rises-in-the-east category. If new owner Josh Harris hadn’t fired Rivera on Monday, there might have been a mutiny of a fan…

Perspective | In the ruthless NFL, everyone is disposable. Everyone.

Perspective | In the ruthless NFL, everyone is disposable. Everyone.

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Nothing, not even the brutal realities of the sport itself, can stop the NFL. This weekend, as another regular season stomps to a close, we’re reminded of its dominance. While ambivalent retiree Tom Brady might criticize today’s football, believing it has tumbled into “mediocrity,” millions…

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…

Draymond Green reinstated by NBA after serving 12-game suspension

Draymond Green reinstated by NBA after serving 12-game suspension

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save The NBA reinstated Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green following his indefinite suspension for striking Phoenix Suns center Jusuf Nurkic in the head, the league announced Saturday. Green, 33, has missed Golden State’s past 12 games after the Dec. 12 incident with Nurkic and is…

The Rangers finally won a championship. These teams haven’t.

The Rangers finally won a championship. These teams haven’t.

The Texas Rangers on Wednesday did not end Major League Baseball’s longest World Series drought. That belongs to the Cleveland Guardians, who have not won the World Series since 1948. But the Rangers still ended decades of misery by winning the first World Series title in franchise history, which began in 1961 when the team…

Capitals’ Tom Wilson is named to the NHL All-Star Game

Capitals’ Tom Wilson is named to the NHL All-Star Game

For the second time in three years, Washington Capitals winger Tom Wilson is headed to the NHL All-Star Game. In 2022, Wilson was named as a replacement for Washington captain Alex Ovechkin when Ovechkin tested positive for the coronavirus ahead of the event. This time around, Wilson was included among the initial 32 all-stars, one…

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…