No one really knows how a calling begins, but it might have gone something like this: during a soccer match, nine-year-old box-to-box midfielder Álvaro Felipe Baquero suffered an accident. He hit his ...

Dive into the essence of Soweto's Meadowlands with this captivating look back at Kasi football and Gwijo music in 2016, a time when the grassroots football scene was not just a sport, but a pivotal ...

Looking back at the year in music, it was very much a “Golden” age. But, demon hunting aside, did it also count as golden with a small G? As we dived through our favorite music of 2025 to consider ...

So there was no official song of summer. So let’s move beyond the biggest hits and check out the 10 songs we kept coming back to this year. The singer-songwriter who has worked with Miley Cyrus, ...

Jordan Wax, a Santa Fe-based composer and performer of Yiddish and New Mexican regional music, has just released a record of original secular Yiddish children’s songs. When asked why, he didn’t skip a ...

The Soccer 100, published in the UK today, is a rundown of the greatest male footballers of all time, as decided by a crack team of Athletic writers. But we are nothing if not democratic, so we ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Pop music was not at all safe this year from the encroachments of an AI industry determined to slop-ify everything ...

The Athletic is delighted to announce the release of The Soccer 100, the definitive ranking of the greatest male players to have graced the beautiful game, published by William Morrow. Our carefully ...

The NCAA women's soccer tournament bracket was unveiled today. The NCAA tournament begins Nov. 14-16 with first round games and ends with the Women's College Cup is Dec. 5 and 8 in Kansas City. Here's ...

Speculations of a romance sparked when the Argentine singer and rapper, 24, allegedly kissed the Spanish professional footballer at his 18th birthday celebration in mid-July. Most recently, the “Wapo ...

Real Madrid and Barcelona headline the 30 soccer clubs with the most social media followers as of June 2025, and it's not particularly close with the rest of the field. There's no doubt Spain's two ...