The Athletic: Sports News

The New York Times Company

In-app purchases

About this app

The Athletic app is the only daily sports news destination you need to keep up with the teams you care about.

YEAR-ROUND COVERAGE OF ALL MAJOR TEAMS AND LEAGUES
The Athletic covers hundreds of professional and college teams across football, hockey, basketball, soccer and beyond, both in the United States and internationally. Follow your favorites so you never miss a story.

CONNECTIONS: SPORTS EDITION
Play The Athletic’s daily game for sports fans. Can you find the common thread?

DEDICATED SPORTS WRITERS
Go deeper with in-depth, global coverage, exclusive stories and expert analysis from our award-winning newsroom of more than 400 sports journalists. Discover the top stories of the day, breaking news and live score updates, all from the biggest names in sports writing.

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Ratings and reviews

The app sacrifices basic accessibility options (like allowing you to zoom the screen on images) for DRM. The more you use it to read articles, the more frustrating this becomes when a complicated line graph will be included that's impossible to digest. On the content side, the NYTimes ownership has unsurprisingly worsened the product. Soccer coverage focuses almost entirely on the biggest teams and the Athletic can't imagine a world where users aren't obsessed with the NFL.

Outside of NFL draft season with Dane's content, this isn't worth paying for at all. It's the same quality you can get for free elsewhere. Definitely worth not the $72/yr they want (either with Dane's Beast). Also, be careful. Their business model is like a chain gym franchise. No warning for your renewal and no refunds. They just want you to forget, rather than trying to justify the expense.

The app functions very well and is easy to navigate. There are only two things that keep if from being five stars for me. One is that it's difficult at time to find articles with multiple authors in the byline. The second is that I wish there were a 'listen to article' feature, like the NYT app has. EDIT: Now, in addition to the bug mentioned in many other reviews about articles being cut off half way, the slider on the side of articles has been removed. This lowers my rating from 4 to 2 stars.

What’s new

Minor fixes and improvements