The Athletic: Sports News

4.5
47.9K reviews
1M+
Downloads
Content rating
PEGI 3
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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.

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
May 6, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
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This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Audio and 3 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.5
45.1K reviews
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.
6 people found this review helpful
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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.
13 people found this review helpful
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Mark Jagger
April 10, 2025
I am disgusted that you are unable to view your account settings from the app and that they automatically set your account to renew with no reminders or warning on the only place that I use the athletic, the app!!!!! I've just had 60 deducted from my account for the yearly subscription ag a hugely inflated price to what I paid previously. I am thoroughly disgusted by this, I do occasionally enjoy reading the articles and would be happy to pay what I was previously, but not this, I want a refund!
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What’s new

Minor fixes and improvements