The Seattle Seahawks look to keep their promising start to the season going when they take a three-game winning streak on the road to face the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday. Behind rejuvenated quarterback Geno Smith, Seattle (3-1) has scored at least 24 points in each of their three wins since a Week 1 loss to the Los Angeles Rams. "I really like the last three weeks," Seattle coach Pete Carroll said. "The ( Seahawks' scoreless) second half of the first game, that still kills me the way we were. But the last three games, we've stayed in the mode where we're playing with the same kind of focus, same kind of intensity. "We feel like we're gaining on some things. We're getting better at some stuff. We finished in similar fashion, which is some…

In a season of ups, downs, postponements and wild differences in the number of matches played, it can be hard to pick out the games that will define this Women’s Super League campaign.

However, when Arsenal and Manchester City kick off in Borehamwood on Sunday, it is hard to believe there will be a bigger week for either team. Separated by four points (with Manchester City third and Arsenal fourth with a game in hand), for either side to keep title aspirations alive they will need to win and, counterintuitively, cheer for their opponent later in the week: Arsenal play the leaders, Chelsea, on Wednesday and City host second-placed Manchester United on Friday.

“The WSL is set up for that [season-defining games],�…

Liverpool have suffered a fresh injury blow with midfielder Naby Keïta facing a further spell on the sidelines. The Guinea international missed Monday’s Premier League defeat at Manchester United after suffering a setback prior to the game.

Keïta is yet to feature this season having been ill for the league opener at Fulham and an unused substitute against Crystal Palace last week. The 27-year-old’s absence compounds Jürgen Klopp’s selection problems with Curtis Jones, Ibrahima Konaté, Joël Matip, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Diogo Jota, Thiago Alcântara, Calvin Ramsay and Caoimhin Kelleher all sidelined through injury. Darwin Núñez, Liverpool’s star summer signing, is suspended.

Rashford caps Manchester United’s first win fo…

Two-fifths of Premier League football clubs have yet to make their latest accounts publicly available, as Sunday’s deadline for most official filings approaches.

The gaps in up-to-date public information comes at a time when the finances of England’s top flight are under increasing scrutiny, especially over concerns about potential breaches of financial fair play (FFP) rules.

The delay in filing accounts also exposes those running Premier League clubs to criticism for a lack of transparency.

Stefan Borson, a football finance expert, said: “Almost every set of accounts in this cycle has matters of interest and consequence. Most interesting will be Everton, especially in respect of the …

For 229 days, the college football world has awaited the return of the ever-changing sport. No team is more eager to get back to the proving grounds than No. 10 Florida State. Georgia Tech and Florida State kick off the 2024 season on Saturday in Dublin, Ireland. Saturday marks the ninth college football game played in the country. A College Football Playoff bridesmaid in December, the Seminoles return depth from the 13-1 conference-championship winning team. Florida State brings back 73 players, including nine All-ACC members, an unprecedented number in today's transfer portal-dominated landscape. In the backfield, the Seminoles are led by fifth-year senior Lawrance Toafili, who rushed for 463 yards in 2023, when he backed up Trey Benson. Toafili was last year's ACC Champio…

Happy holidays, you filthy animals, and welcome to Deadspin’s annual IDIOT OF THE YEAR extravaganza. Within these hallowed slides are 50 of the year’s least bearable dorks, whose transgressions range from “just kinda silly,” to “dangerously stupid,” to “Trevor Bauer.” The IDIOT OF THE YEAR selections ahead were voted on by an expert team of Deadspin staffers, whose first round of balloting was thrown out after they’d unanimously picked themselves No. 1. With that conflict of interest loophole sewn up, the team tried again. This list is the product of that scrupulous process. The qualities considered include, but are not limited to: Volume/Wrongness Coefficient: Look, nobody cares if you’re wildly off the mark about everything in private. But please don’t shout abo…

The biggest event on hockey’s international calendar, and one of the biggest events of every winter games, will not happen next year. The news disappoints players, who want to play, and fans, who want them to play. But it makes owners happy! The NHL will not participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and the reason is, of course, money. The Olympics are less than 11 months away, and the NHL is following through on the threat it’s been making for a long time, so I guess this isn’t a huge surprise. It still really, really sucks, though. (The league leaked the news through Sportsnet, and did so now “so it doesn’t overshadow the playoffs.”) NHL owners hate disrupting the season for three weeks while the best players head overseas for the games. They h…

The Oscars are Sunday! Wednesday, to help you out with your pool, Tim Grierson made predictions in all the technical categories; yesterday, Drew Magary yelled a lot. Today, we both unveil our picks for the eight major categories: you know, the ones you actually care about. Let's get to it.
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New York Rangers forward Filip Chytil was helped off the ice at practice Friday morning, a day after he returned to the team as he recovers from a suspected head injury, multiple outlets reported. Chytil was observed down on the ice for several minutes at the team's optional morning skate, though the reason he was sent to the ice was not clear. He left the Madison Square Garden ice with assistance from teammates Zac Jones and Jake Leschyshyn and the Rangers training staff. Chytil, 24, was placed on injured reserve after sustaining an upper-body injury on Nov. 2 in a win over the Hurricanes when he collided with Carolina star Sebastian Aho. He had six assists through 10 contests to start the season. At practice Thursday, he wore a red, non-contact practice jersey and mostly worke…