The Athletic: All Sports News

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About this app

Keep up with the teams you care about with The Athletic app. Review sports news, scores and stats, and expert insights analysis for each league. Turn on notifications to get real time updates for basketball, football, soccer, hockey, baseball, and more. Get in depth with sports coverage when you can listen to exclusive podcasts and read breaking news stories on your favorite athletes and teams.

Download today to stay up to date on your daily sports news.

The Athletic Features:

EXCLUSIVE SPORTS NEWS, INSIGHTS, AND ANALYSIS
- Go deeper with in-depth, global coverage and exclusive sports news.
- Our award-winning newsroom of more than 400 sports journalists.
- Get exclusive access to expert sports insights and analysis.
- Explore deeply-reported long reads and exclusive sports interviews.


SPORTS SCORES AND STATS ON ALL MAJOR TEAMS AND LEAGUES
- Discover the top sports stories of the day, breaking news and live score updates, all from the biggest names in sports writing.
- Access exclusive coverage on professional and college teams across football, hockey, basketball, soccer and beyond,
- Find sports updates for the United States and international sports.
- Follow your favorites so you never miss sports scores or stats.

UNMATCHED SPORTS PODCASTS:
- Follow and listen to a variety of sports podcasts on your favorite leagues
- Discover daily podcasts like “The Athletic Football Show”, “The Audible” and “No Dunks”.

CONNECTIONS: SPORTS EDITION
- Play The Athletic’s daily game for sports fans.
- Group sports terms that share a common thread.

STAY UP TO DATE ON YOUR SPORTS:
- Keep track of which NFL teams are in contention for the playoffs and follow to see if the Eagles can remain on top.
- Catch all the MLB action with live scores, breaking news and in-depth coverage to see if the Dodgers can repeat their World Series win.
- Stay up to date on all NHL hockey scores, games and news for the Stanley Cup Defending Oilers.
- Don’t miss any NBA highlights and news from this upcoming season and see if the Thunder can defend their NBA Championship win.
- What school will reign supreme from March Madness to the NCAA Football Championships? Don’t miss a score or stat update.
- Stay updated on every swing from the PGA Tour to see who can stay in the lead.
- Who in the Big Six will triumph in the Premier League this year, and can Liverpool defend their title?
- Follow Argentina, Spain and France as they compete for the FIFA World Cup next summer.
- Stay up to speed on Formula 1, NASCAR, Indy Car, MotoGP and World Rally


Terms of Service: https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/115014893428-Terms-of-Service

Privacy Policy: https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/10940941449492-The-New-York-Times-Company-Privacy-Policy
Game-changing sports coverage with breaking news, live commentary and scores.
Updated on
Oct 30, 2026

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Ratings and reviews

50.1K reviews
Daniel Newton
April 5, 2026
One of the few bits of journalism I'm happy to pay for. Great coverage and articles on my two favourite sports, football and American football. The NFL coverage in particular is massive and interesting. My only slight issue is navigating the app to find the latest and popular articles isn't always clear, it feels like I'm relying on the algorithm to feed me the articles I want to read. It does a good job in the main though. All in all I recommend The Athletic to folks all the time
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Pete Clarke
May 20, 2020
Some truly great articles, but to be honest not enough to warrant £10 per month - especially in the current climate. I can't justify £60 for the year at the moment either, maybe offer a lower tariff for "featured b content only" with the more club and sport specific stuff for the full price. It's the sort of thing I'd read for 10 minutes here and there, but not enough to justify paying £10 a month for an app.
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The New York Times Company
May 26, 2020
Hi Pete. We do offer free trials and special rates for new subscribers. If you would like assistance in obtaining a trial or a discount please contact support@theathletic.com and mention your review name "Pete Clarke".
A Google user
November 16, 2019
Want £ back. . Signed up for trial week on basis of paying £4.99 per month. Was notified yesterday that £59 was taken from my account. I thought I would be paying monthly. Also you get an annoying amount of alerts from the app, but when there is one for an article that sounds interesting if you tap it to take a look you are dumped into list/menu screen and not the article you want to read. You then have to scroll through loads of stuff you don't want to see to find the article in the alert.
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