The Athletic: All Sports News

The New York Times Company

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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

As far as content goes, I would give at least 4 stars and maybe 5 depending on the teams you follow. There's always something interesting in there to read if you're a sports fan. That is, if you can actually manage to get to the stories themselves, because this app is routinely just broken. At least once a week I won't be able to access anything in it, just get a repeating "something went wrong message" despite the app being fully updated and every single other app on my phone working just fine.

It appears they've leaned more heavily into "curation" on the My Feed page, so I'm regularly getting suggestions for multi-day-old or multi-week-old articles despite there being newer articles within my selected interests. It could be something to do with articles I've saved being resurfaced, but that's what the Saved selection is for.

The Athletic has some of the best sports writing on the planet, which is why I subscribe, but lately the home page has started auto-playing highlight videos of teams/events I don't follow, with no way to opt out. As somebody with a low data cap, this essentially renders it unusable when not within Wi-Fi range. This was a five-star app without the videos. If we get a chance to remove them, I'll come back and change my rating. Since I can only use it at home, though, it's significantly limited.