The Athletic: All Sports News
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Description
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
What's New
Bug fixes and performance enhancements.
Details
- Developer
- The New York Times Company
- Main Category
- Sports
- Version
- 13.142.1
- Version Release
- 2026-07-18
- Initial Release
- 2016-09-02
- Size
- 174 MB
- Age Rating
- 12+
- Price
- Free
- Languages
- EN, FR
- Bundle ID
- com.theathletic.news
- Version Rating
- ★ 4.81 (235,018)
- First Seen
- 2026-06-08
Metadata updated 2026-07-19
Rank History
Free · Max 90 days · Top 5 categories shown (Y-axis: rank, lower is better)
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| 57 | The Athletic: All Sports News | Free | ★ 4.81 | 235,018 | 2 | 2026-07-18 |
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User Reviews
Constant Pulse Notifications all of a sudden and no way to turn them Off. Will have to unsubscribe of they din’t fix it.
I get my news from nowhere else. Live activity are broken on iOS 26.5.2
Get off my phone
Includes too much liberal leaning politics into sports stories. Useful only if you follow a few big city franchises.
Great app but shocked there’s no Wimbledon coverage. It’s not even listened in scores. Went to check when some of the matches were and couldn’t find it. I would suggest adding tennis for the 4 major events. Otherwise great overall coverage.
The Athletic is a great idea. In depth sport journalism for the sports fanatic. Unfortunately now over two different subscriptions, it’d abundantly clear that all the NYT/The Athletic care about is low hanging fruit/clickbait “journalism.” This a subscriber based app, yet they still have a “one off” journalism/editorial strategy of focusing on hot takes over in depth articles. Very disappointing (again).
I turned off video autoplay and am constantly having video ads auto playing. Means the app is entirely unusable when not on WiFi for those of us without unlimited data.
It was displaying Paraguay France World Cup live activities on the lock screen then stopped. what happened? how do you control this feature from within the app? it looked NICE. i want to turn it on but there’s no control that i can find in app. i have live activities both switched on for the app in system settings.
Constantly trying to force new notifications on me, making me have to constantly turn them off.
Used to be my go-to now it’s just woke progressive BS.
Won’t let me select teams to follow
There is no real access to this app without paying for it
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