Cuando a Wayne Rooney le dijeron que su tiempo como entrenador del Birmingham City había terminado después de sólo 15 partidos, se sorprendió. Tras firmar un contrato de tres años y medio, el exdelantero inglés sintió que se había apuntado a un proyecto a largo plazo. Rooney había mantenido un diálogo abierto con la jerarquía…
LOS ANGELES – Terry Bradshaw versa una tazza di caffè, ma Curt Menefee non sussulta. Menefee si sporge verso un vassoio non visibile in televisione per prendere dei fazzoletti di carta per pulire mentre Bradshaw continua a sottolineare i Cincinnati Bengals. Howie Long aiuta con le pulizie e Bradshaw continua a parlare. Jimmy Johnson ascolta…
TORONTO — The line began at the gates of Mattamy Athletic Centre and stretched a full city block. Women’s hockey fans, after decades of waiting for a best-on-best league, were happy to wait a little longer for the doors to open for the first-ever Professional Women’s Hockey League game. The line was dotted with reminders…
The cheers rang long and loud around Valencia’s Mestalla Stadium as fans celebrated Hugo Guillamon’s late equaliser against Barcelona in their final home match before La Liga’s Christmas break. Four kilometres away, on the other side of Valencia’s old city centre, all was quiet around the site of the Nou Mestalla — where the club’s…
L’Athletic ha una copertura in diretta di Texas contro Washington nel Playoff di football universitario al Zuccheriera. È arrivato più lontano di qualsiasi stella del football universitario negli ultimi due anni – 3.064 miglia e da due vittorie ai College Football Playoff – ma in un triste lunedì di aprile a Seattle, Michael Penix Jr….
En los días posteriores al 7 de octubre, en el que militantes de Hamas mataron a unas 1.200 personas, Yarden Garzón tuvo dificultades para comer y dormir. El estallido de la guerra en Israel y la Franja de Gaza la devastó mientras veía las noticias desde Bloomington, Indiana, donde es guardia de segundo año. Yarden,…
Peter Storrie can remember visiting the London studio of Herzog & de Meuron, the renowned Swiss architects, and being shown a striking vision of Portsmouth’s future. “It was something else,” he tells The Athletic. “They put it up on the screen for us and it certainly had the wow factor.” This was 2007 and the…
Scoring touchdowns during each offensive possession is the unspoken goal for every NFL team. For decades, celebrations have been the norm in accompanying touchdowns. It goes back all the way to the 1960s with Homer Jones and his touchdown spike. Touchdown celebrations have become a choreographed production for some teams. Think back to the 1980s…
Los Baltimore Ravens obtuvieron su victoria más impresionante de la temporada el lunes por la noche, derrotando a los San Francisco 49ers 33-19. Además de hacerlos parecer dignos contendientes al Super Bowl, la victoria los coloca en una gran posición en la AFC. Con marca de 12-3, están un juego por delante de Miami y…
The dunk is basketball’s most lionized play. The most iconic ones are canonized, referenced fondly and often, debated for their merits and significance. The sport’s language has created so many names for it: jam, yam, slam, poster, stuff, hammer. It’s a unique club that only few on this world can join. It’s marvelous. And it…