Eric KarabellOct 3, 2025, 12:53 PM ET Close Eric Karabell is a senior writer for fantasy baseball, football and basketball at ESPN. Eric is a charter member of FSWA Hall of Fame and author of “The Best Philadelphia Sports Arguments”. It may be boring, but good luck finding legitimate reasons to avoid taking Los Angeles...
The WNBA pushed back on the idea it’s intentionally stalling in negotiations over a new collective bargaining agreement with an Oct. 31 deadline only weeks away. A league spokesperson told The Athletic’s Ben Pickman the narrative is “not accurate.” “We continue to negotiate in good faith and remain focused on delivering significant increases to salaries...
New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone doesn’t shy away from absorbing any criticism that comes his way to protect his own players from hearing it. After the Yankees kept their season alive with a 4-3 win over the Boston Red Sox in Game 2 of the AL wild card series on Wednesday, Boone told The...
Alexa PhilippouOct 1, 2025, 01:57 AM ET Close Covers women’s college basketball and the WNBA Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer LAS VEGAS — A host of WNBA players leaguewide showed...
The New York Mets “are still happy” with manager Carlos Mendoza despite missing the 2025 MLB playoffs, according to The Athletic’s Tim Britton and Will Sammon. Britton and Sammon cited a source who said president of baseball operations David Stearns “chose the right guy.” Another person with the Mets expressed their belief Mendoza has the...
Matt BowenSep 25, 2025, 06:49 AM ET Close Matt Bowen is a fantasy football and NFL writer for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2015, writes regularly for ESPN+ and spent multiple years on “NFL Matchup.” After graduating from the University of Iowa, Matt played safety in the NFL for St. Louis, Green Bay, Washington and...