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4 days ago | nytimes.com | Sam Settleman |Alex Kirshner

| This is The Pulse Newsletter 📣 The Athletic's daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! Be decisive today. Exceptionalism Meets Irony: A quarterback purgatory like few othersSince Ben Roethlisberger's decline and retirement after 2021, the Steelers have been long-term tenants in quarterback purgatory.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Sam Settleman |Alex Kirshner

| This is The Pulse Newsletter 📣 The Athletic's daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! Keep your nose out in front today. Amazement: The Mets shouldn't be this good yet As baseball moments on April 18 go, this one was inspiring: Juan Soto stepped to the dish with one out in the fifth inning against the Cardinals, his Mets trailing 2-1 at Citi Field.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Sam Settleman |Alex Kirshner

| This is The Pulse Newsletter 📣 The Athletic's daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! Find some late-round value today. On the Prowl: The NHL's playoff villain is whomst? The Florida Panthers have become what they set out to destroy. The Panthers' road to their first Stanley Cup win last June was long and full of disappointments, many of the latest at the hands of their Floridian rivals, the Lightning.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Sam Settleman |Alex Kirshner

| This is The Pulse Newsletter 📣 The Athletic's daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! Have some candy today. Spring Dreaming: Stubbornly great Padres lead spring surprisesA month ago, the Padres figured to be a fringe playoff contender that could get hot and challenge an elite team or two in October - like they did last year, when they took the eventual champion Dodgers to a decisive fifth game in the NLDS.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Torrey Hart |Sam Settleman

📣 | This is The Athletic's daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! Not So Fast: Why Corso resonates with CFB fansLee Corso didn't become synonymous with college football for being the greatest analyst the game has ever seen. He wasn't an all-time coach, nor did he ever reach the professional level as a player. Corso will forever be intertwined with the sport because he loved college football as much as the fans did.