Articles filed under The Athletic
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Sorting through the Big Ten’s second tier: Who still has a shot at contention?Oct 09, 2025 11:23 am - Beyond the top-10 trio, there are as many as nine other teams with at least one loss that could compete for both the league title and a College Football Playoff spot. However, none of them are infallible. Let’s break down nine teams that have a reasonable shot at remaining in league title contention entering midseason.
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Blackhawks’ youth shows in season-opening loss to champion Panthers: ObservationsOct 08, 2025 5:28 pm - Going up against an experienced team like the Florida Panthers, who had just raised another Stanley Cup banner, what transpired for the Blackhawks shouldn’t have been completely surprising. Over the first 20 minutes, the Blackhawks compiled turnovers and penalties and the Panthers added up shots and goals.
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Connor Bedard addressed his speed this off-season. Now what happens in Year 3?Oct 06, 2025 7:01 pm - Blackhawks television play-by-play announcer Rick Ball could have gone in any topical direction as the second period of a recent preseason game began.
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Panthers’ Seth Jones ‘taken aback’ by Blackhawks’ Nick Foligno’s post-trade swipes, but no ill willOct 06, 2025 3:12 pm - Former Blackhawks defenseman Jones said he talked to Hawks forward Nick Foligno about comments Foligno made, and Foligno had no ill will toward Jones on Monday.
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‘One won’t kill ya’: Cubs will try to keep proper perspective after blowout Game 1 loss:Oct 05, 2025 2:02 pm - MILWAUKEE — Not even an hour into Saturday’s opener of their NLDS matchup against the Milwaukee Brewers, Craig Counsell had to be thinking about the best way to set his t...
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Pressure’s on Cubs, Brewers with NLCS berth at stake. But who’s feeling it more?Oct 04, 2025 9:00 am - With the Cubs and Brewers playing a best-of-five NLDS starting Saturday in Milwaukee, maybe the pressure has shifted. Maybe now it’s on the Brewers. The Cubs are just a plucky wild-card team, after all.
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Cubs make Cade Horton unavailable for NLDS, name Matthew Boyd as Game 1 starterOct 04, 2025 12:42 am - One day before his team was scheduled to take on the Milwaukee Brewers, Chicago Cubs manager Craig Counsell said injured starter Cade Horton has been ruled out for the National League Division Series.
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Where will Blackhawks forward Lukas Reichel be next week?Sep 29, 2025 2:01 pm - Lukas Reichel is by no means old at 23, but he’s a veteran when it comes to Blackhawks’ training camp. This is No. 5 for him.
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After being overlooked and underestimated, Cubs’ bullpen will embrace OctoberSep 29, 2025 11:48 am - In finishing with 83 wins in each of the previous two years, the Cubs were thwarted by a bullpen that either wore down near the end of the season or failed in too many clutch moments. In learning more about the club’s personnel, manager Craig Counsell drew praise from relievers for his direct style of communication as well as an emphasis on rest and recovery.
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Blackhawks’ Connor Murphy desperately wants to win, but will he be in Chicago to see it?Sep 27, 2025 10:39 am - Blackhawks defenseman Connor Murphy, by far the longest-tenured player as he enters his ninth season in Chicago (no one else has more than three full seasons), has played in 745 regular-season games over 11 NHL seasons but has never played in a Stanley Cup playoff game.