We are living in the age of the football prodigy. At Arsenal, Max Dowman is a regular in Premier League and Champions League squads at the age of 15, following on from Ethan Nwaneri who became the youngest player in English top flight history in 2022 aged 15 years 181 days. Rio Ngumoha became the…
On Wednesday afternoon, an email landed from the organizers of the Ryder Cup to those planning to attend the opening day of the golf tournament on Friday, Sept. 26. The news, as has become familiar to those who watch showpiece sporting events in the United States, was that President Donald Trump would be in attendance…
When executives from all 20 clubs gather for the Premier League’s shareholder meeting in London on Tuesday, proceedings will take on a distinctly different feel. Daniel Levy, one of the top flight’s most influential figures over 24 years as Tottenham Hotspur chairman, will be missing after he was removed from his position this month. On…
Some Major League Baseball fans have arrived at ballparks this month to find their digital tickets have not only disappeared, but have been resold on popular platforms such as SeatGeek and StubHub. In a statement acknowledging the problem to The Athletic, the league said that “bad actors” have been able to access fans’ tickets on…
FIFA has been warned it will “set a dangerous precedent” if it sanctions domestic league matches being played abroad. Spain’s La Liga and Italy’s Serie A are attempting to export regular-season matches abroad this season. La Liga is hopeful of staging December’s fixture between Villarreal and Barcelona in Miami, Florida, while the Italian top-flight is…
FLUSHING MEADOWS, N.Y. — Naomi Osaka walked on to Louis Armstrong Stadium and sparkled under the lights, with red roses on a hairpiece and a red jacket and dress studded with crystals. The four-time Grand Slam champion’s night-session outfit for the 2025 U.S. Open sent out a spectacular fashion statement, and its design, conception and…
On Friday, just hours before President Donald Trump and FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s latest joint briefing in the White House, the MGM Resorts group in Las Vegas received a courtesy correspondence. It came from FIFA. It was a short and generic email. It said, essentially: Thank you, but no thank you. The expectation of many…
A season’s worth of NFL games will be shown on UK free-to-air television for the first time with Channel 5 picking up the rights to one of the league’s early Sunday kick-offs, sources with knowledge of the new multi-year deal have told The Athletic. The American-owned broadcaster has a history of showing live NFL games…
After months of lead-up — and years of planning, strategic acquisitions and seismic changes to a consumer foundation it is built on — ESPN will launch its new direct-to-consumer streaming service Thursday, along with a reconfigured app to get customers to live sports and programming they have paid for. The network going direct-to-consumer reflects a…
Should FIFA, football’s global governing body, allow domestic matches to be played overseas? What appears a simple question is actually fairly complex. Many football fans, particularly the so-called “legacy fans” who regularly attend matches, are naturally appalled by the idea of Villarreal and Barcelona playing their La Liga match at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami,…