The Las Vegas Raiders’ win on Sunday may have ruined their chances at the top pick in the NFL Draft next spring. The Raiders beat the Jacksonville Jaguars 19-14 on Sunday, which gave them their third victory of the year and snapped a 10-game losing skid. In turn, the Raiders dropped from the projected No. … Read more
Som junior college athletes will see their careers extended, at least for now. The NCAA Division I Board of Directors, composed of university presidents, agreed to a waiver for junior college players that grants them an additional year of eligibility if they are in a similar situation as Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia. Pavia is suing … Read more
Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard bring the star power that the NBA likes to showcase on its annual Christmas day schedule. But they won’t be playing this Christmas. And Bucks players including Antetokounmpo are miffed that they weren’t invited to league’s annual holiday party. They spoke about their Christmas snub with The Athletic’s Eric Nehm … Read more
Notre Dame senior defensive tackle Rylie Mills will miss the remainder of the postseason with a right knee injury suffered in Friday’s College Football Playoff victory over Indiana. The No. 5 seeded Irish will next face No. 2 Georgia in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1. Head coach Marcus Freeman announced Mills’ status during his … Read more
49ers extend odd streak to 22 seasons after playoff elimination originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area After being eliminated from playoff contention, the 49ers have extended one of the oddest streaks in the NFL. San Francisco either has missed the postseason entirely or has made the NFC Championship Game in every season for the … Read more
In a move that shifts the gravity of the 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports antitrust case against NASCAR to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell on Monday denied NASCAR’s motion to stay—pending NASCAR’s appeal to the Fourth Circuit—the injunction Bell ordered last week. The injunction, which applies … Read more
McDaniel has oddly specific message for Bosa after 49ers-Dolphins game originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Mike McDaniel caught up with old friends and former players before and after the 49ers’ 29-17 loss to the Miami Dolphins on Sunday at Hard Rock Stadium. The former San Francisco assistant coach and current Miami head coach … Read more
Stephen Curry put France to bed in the men’s gold medal basketball game at the 2024 Summer Olympics. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File) You know that old bit about how confused someone who’d been in a coma for five or 10 or 20 years would be upon waking up to see the present day? Yeah, you … Read more
Subscribe to Good Word with Goodwill Vincent Goodwill and The Athletic’s James Edwards react to Karl-Anthony Towns’ fast start in New York and whether or not the Knicks can translate this into playoff success. Vince and James then break down Detroit Pistons F Cade Cunningham’s spectacular season so far and if he deserves his first … Read more
What’s more fun than second-guessing NFL coaches? Nothing, that’s what. So let’s do it every week, right here. Today: Schedule-shuffling! The scenario This year, the NFL for the first time exercised a “Thursday Night Flex” — that is, flexing a game from Sunday to the previous Thursday. That happened this past week, when Denver traveled … Read more