Sam Settleman

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! Just put your ball back in play today. I got to Oakmont Country Club, site of the 125th U.S. Open, just before 8 a.m. on Friday. The first golf I watched was on the 12th hole, a 632-yard par 5. I set up behind the green and watched Justin Thomas, the No. 5 player in the world, come through with Brooks Koepka and Min Woo Lee.

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! Share some revenue today. Softball Question: Why not pour money into softball? The Women's College World Series was great theater. Texas beat Texas Tech, 10-4, last night in a decisive third game of the championship series. It was the Longhorns' first title.

1 month 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! If you're up in time for F1 this morning (9 a.m. ET), enjoy having high-stakes sports on TV for the vast majority of the day. Slam Season: A new chapter in French Open historyFor the better part of the last two decades, you could count on one guarantee in the world of professional sports: Rafael Nadal ruling Roland Garros.

1 month 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! Qualify for something special this weekend. Champions: Soccer's $200 million SundayThe Premier League title race has been over for a month, thanks to Liverpool's dominant season. But this final weekend is still one of the most suspenseful the league has ever had.

1 month 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 mindful of the second apron today. Celtic Slide: What does Boston do now? Two weeks ago, the Celtics were the favorites to come out of the Eastern Conference. They were the defending NBA champions. And if they didn't win another Larry O'Brien Trophy this June, there was no reason they wouldn't be a front-line contender again in 2026. Now, though?