Last spring, not long after the Toronto Maple Leafs announced that Brendan Shanahan would not be returning as team president, Keith Pelley famously said that his only goal as the leader of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment was to win and win big. “The fans here not only deserve but demand a championship,” Pelley said. … Read more
There are a lot of people polishing their resumes right now down at Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment headquarters. Some of them are doing so because they’re about to be out of a job, as GM Brad Treliving will not be the only one fired this spring. Others simply want out of the gong show … Read more
OTTAWA — A sea of fans in red jerseys stood up and decided it was time to do the wave. It was partway through the third period of a close Wednesday night game between the Montreal Canadiens and the Ottawa Senators at the Canadian Tire Centre. Fans typically do this when their team is winning. … Read more
MANALAPAN, Fla. — Heading into Wednesday’s NHL action, the Colorado Avalanche had the most points in the NHL, the Dallas Stars the second-most and the Minnesota Wild were tied for the third-most. All just so happen to be in the Central Division, and under the current NHL playoff format, two of those three teams will … Read more
Iran is negotiating with FIFA to move its World Cup matches from the United States to Mexico, according to a post by the country’s embassy in Mexico. The message on X attributed comments to Mehdi Taj, president of the Iranian Football Federation, saying that the men’s team will not travel to America this summer because … Read more
The Athletic has live coverage of the latest news for the 2026 World Cup. In March 2024, Canada’s men’s national team had reason to be on edge. It had bottled a 2-1 lead in the first leg of the Concacaf Nations League quarterfinals the previous November, allowing three goals at home to Jamaica in an … Read more
The 2026 Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grands Prix have been canceled due to the ongoing war in the Middle East. An announcement of the move was made early on Sunday morning in Shanghai, where Formula 1’s 2026 Chinese Grand Prix is taking place this weekend. It leaves a 35-day gap between the Japanese GP on … Read more
A year ago, in the shadow of a new round of redundancies but also an encouraging home draw with Arsenal, Manchester United announced plans for a new, 100,000-capacity stadium, replacing the club’s famed Old Trafford home. The blueprints were ambitious, though one rather key question was without an answer. At a purported cost of £2billion ($2.7bn), … Read more
MILAN — Hunter Hess is a big name in skiing, but he is not a household name. Compared with the likes of LeBron James, Shohei Ohtani and Serena Williams, he is something of a proletarian superstar, an Olympic athlete who, when this is all over, will need to make a return to real life, which means … Read more
The Athletic has live coverage of the 2026 Winter Olympics. In the years between Sochi in 2014 and Milan in 2026, when NHL players did not participate in the Olympics, the men’s hockey tournament was a lot more wide open. Russia beat Germany in the gold-medal game in Pyeongchang in 2018, and Finland knocked off … Read more