Sam Settleman

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! 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.

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! 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.

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! 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?

4 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! 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 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! 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.