Health scoring prioritizes measurement over meaning. A score tells you what, but rarely why. When a user sees a “bad” number, they are left with unanswerable questions: Is the score low because of ...

Name, image and likeness (NIL) deals have flooded college sports with hundreds of millions of dollars — but universities and team general managers have been operating with little formal oversight, ...

Welcome to Row Z, The Athletic’s weekly column that shines a light on the bonkers side of the game. From clubs to managers, players to organisations, every week we’ll bring you the absurdities, the ...

We have all been in this standoff. You are at a card show, standing at a dealer’s table with a slab in your hand. You know the last eBay sale was $100. The dealer knows the last eBay sale was $100.

The Pittsburgh Steelers were only up 3-0 after the first quarter against the Houston Texans on Monday night, but based on how the previous six playoff games had gone, it felt like 300-0. In the first ...

Braden Smith went off for 26 points and 14 assists against Penn State. He doesn't want anyone to forget that he's still capable of scoring at a high level. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — For a second straight ...

On Tuesday afternoon, Bob Starkey was in the LSU women’s basketball team’s locker room when he decided to take out his phone and snap a photo he’d later post to Instagram. Starkey wanted people to see ...

My husband and I recently paid off our car loan early. It was the last piece of debt we had. We did so to prepare for our second child and to purchase a larger car. We ended up selling/exchanging our ...

Often labeled as the most advanced tank in the world, the T-14 Armata also comes with serious technical and logistical challenges that raise questions about its real combat value. Two congressmen ...

The Steelers had a chance to tie the game at the end of the second quarter, but the Ravens stopped them from the 1-yard line to keep the score 10-3, Baltimore. On third-and-goal from the 9 with seven ...

Washington can barely keep the lights on between shutdown threats. Meanwhile, ordinary Americans are doing what Congress can’t: solving problems in their own communities. I learned this when I watched ...