The Athletic: Football News

Name: The Athletic: Football News
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Rating: 4.494266986846924 (47825 reviews)
Author: The New York Times Company

The New York Times Company

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4.5

47.8K reviews

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About this app

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

DAILY EXCLUSIVE STORIES AND EXPERT ANALYSIS
Go deeper with in-depth, global coverage from our award-winning newsroom of dedicated sports writers. Discover the top stories of the day, breaking news and live score updates.

TOP NAMES IN FOOTBALL WRITING
Enjoy coverage of the biggest teams in the United Kingdom and Europe from David Ornstein, Daniel Taylor, Oliver Kay, Michael Cox and Adam Crafton.

A GLOBAL NEWSROOM
The Athletic brings you top stories across football, tennis, racing and beyond, as well as expert insight and analysis into U.S. professional and college teams.

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

Updated on

29 Apr 2025

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Ratings and reviews

4.5

45.1K reviews

Christopher Rogers

11 February 2025

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.

11 people found this review helpful

Michael Pantano

21 February 2025

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.

5 people found this review helpful

Albert Godlesky

20 February 2025

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.

10 people found this review helpful

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