Leigh Diffey is one of the most recognizable voices in all of motorsports, a well-earned distinction for the NBC Sports broadcaster who has called just about everything there is on wheels, including IndyCar, Formula One, sports cars, motorcycles and even NASCAR. But while Diffey has covered many a big race
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MLS summer spending analyzed: In a depressed global market, the league bought more and younger than usual
The MLS secondary transfer window closed with a flurry earlier this month, as clubs like Atlanta United, Austin FC, Chicago Fire and the LA Galaxy paid mid-seven- and low-eight-figure transfer fees to complete a series of signings before the deadline struck on Aug. 5th. According to reporting and analysis conducted
Sources: MLB proposes salary minimum funded by new tax on teams spending $180 million
In a face-to-face collective bargaining meeting in Denver on Monday, Major League Baseball made its first proposal covering core economics to the Players Association. The plan included a new tax on team spending, one that would both effectively lower the first luxury-tax threshold in the sport to $180 million, and
NFL wants to relocate from St. Louis again, this time the Rams move lawsuit
In 2016, the NFL allowed the Rams to relocate from St. Louis to Los Angeles. The league now wants to relocate the ensuing litigation out of St. Louis, too. The NFL filed, under seal, a change-of-venue motion last week in Missouri Circuit Court, where the city of St. Louis, St.
An inside look at why the T206 Honus Wagner card sold for a record $6.6 million
He played hard, fast and well, belting triples and stealing bases at an age when most ballplayers would have settled into the lucrative role of power-hitting DH – if such a thing existed when Johannes Peter “Honus” Wagner terrorized National League pitchers from 1897 to 1917. Today, Wagner is best
The art of effective communication: An interview with the WWE’s Seth Rollins
If you are a professional wrestling fan, the name Seth Rollins will be very familiar. Rollins is one of the most accomplished performers working today, a standard-bearer for the WWE, the most well-known wrestling promotion in the United States. On Saturday, Rollins meets up in a storyline against Edge at
Dean Spanos is living the dream now, and has no regrets about moving the Chargers to Los Angeles
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Years of heartbreak showered Dean Spanos on the way to the polished wood, football-shaped conference table he is seated at, located in a conference room just off one of the two luxurious owners suites in SoFi Stadium. It’s Sunday, Aug. 8, and a career-defining day for the
Staples: Why would the Big Ten form an alliance with the ACC and Pac-12? It’s all about TV’s ‘Four Million Club’
The ACC, the Big Ten and the Pac-12 are planning something. The Athletic broke that news on Friday, but since even the principals of the deal haven’t quite agreed on exactly what they’re going to do together, it’s difficult to project how impactful an alliance could be. If it’s purely
NFL 40 under 40: How football’s youngest power brokers are changing the game on and off the field
Welcome to The Athletic’s second annual NFL 40 under 40 list, a collection of the rising stars in football, the young league and team power brokers you should know this season. Here are some parameters we used in creating this list, after soliciting nominations and advice from people working in
‘Taxpayers, wipe your brow’: Why Bills stadium rhetoric is causing unnecessary angst
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The inflamed discourse surrounding the Buffalo Bills’ proposed new stadium terrifies Nelson Civello. People have been furious since The Buffalo News reported two weeks ago that Bills owners Terry and Kim Pegula want the public to fund a new, $1.4 billion stadium. Civello considers the story “borderline