The Athletic: Sports News

Name: The Athletic: Sports News
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.629032135009766 (48143 reviews)
Author: The New York Times Company

The New York Times Company

In-app purchases

4.6

48.1K reviews

1M+

Downloads

Rated for 3+

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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Updated on

May 27, 2025

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Ratings and reviews

4.6

45.4K reviews

Christopher Rogers

February 11, 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.

14 people found this review helpful

Michael Pantano

February 21, 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.

9 people found this review helpful

James Douglas

May 25, 2025

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.