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1. 5/5Golden Knight

   Great article. Listened to Mike Rupp this morning on Nhl radio and they asked him about the Fluery/Lehner situation and Walsh tweet. He said he didn’t think it would have any effect on the players and even went so far to say players probably laughed about it. I have respect for Rupp’s opinionbut in this case I think he is one hundred percent wrong. The decisions that the front office made as outlined in this article had to creep into the players minds even if they all deny it. And the coaches minds as well ,think back to deboer when asked about lehner’s play after game two of stars series, he answered by saying he feels great with whoever is in net to me that was him realizing this goalie situation was being analyzed to death and he was going to have to answer. Fluery is beloved in Vegas and in that locker room (see T-Mobile commercial with big smile on Mark Stone face) so yes huge distraction and in my opinion the Golden Knights in the end got what the deserve for disrupting the chemistry in such a huge way. Again great article touching on the moves the Knights made, sports is a business so we should never be surprised when things like this happen but the Knights could have handled it so much better. Here is hoping Fluery is back in Penguins black and gold next year. One other great point of the article is how others will view this front office and their transparency, or lack thereof, if you are a coach or player so you want to part of that type of organization. I mean really, fire a coach two years after he takes an expansion team to the Stanley Cup Final, give me a break that should entitle you to a bit of a longer leash.

   Phil from NPR · 2 Sep 2026

2. 5/5Back To Normal

   Everything is back to normal with the technical aspects of the app! HALLELUJAH! The app goes back to 5 Stars because, after the latest fix, The Athletic has the best sports content with the best writers around. Thank you for all the app fixes in recent weeks! Please don't do that again! ---------------------------------------------------------------- You've recovered much after you blew up the usefulness of your app a month or two ago, but there is still a few glaring item you continue to overlook with your many updates to recover: the app still no longer syncs read articles in My Feed across devices and the website like it used to do. And, you still can't swipe left or right across articles in My Feed using an iPad though you can again do so with an iPhone. A thing I loved about how the app was previously set up was that articles you read on, say, the iPad also showed up as read on my iPhone and the website. Please fix these remaining problems you introduced to what previously was one of the best sports subscription apps available and I'll go back to a 5-star rating.

   Granville00 · 2 Sep 2026

3. 4/5Some Under the Hood Cleanup Needed

   I wanted to share a couple of observations. First, as a blind person who uses a screen reader, I’d like a more consistent approach in terms of how teams are referenced. In the four major US men’s leagues, NFL, MLB, NHL and NBA, when a game alert comes out for the start of the contest, you use the team names, but for the final score, you use an abbreviation to represent the team by its home city. So tonights Blues Vs. Blackhawks game says Blues at Blackhawks for the starting alert, but the final will be sent at as STL at CHC. Personally, from an accessibility viewpoint and use of a screen reader, team names work better. IN the college arena where many teams have similar nicknames, the Utah State, New Mexico State and Texas A&M Aggies for example, use the name of the school for the alert. My second observation is that the search feature for teams needs to be improved. Some MLS teams do not have more than their city written for the search find, Austin and San Diego are examples. The search screen also pulls up every single team in the database, please for the love of time and efficiency, allow the user to at least select the league from which they are wanting to set up various team alerts, such as MLB or NCAA Football. Thank you for your time.

   R Deal · 2 Sep 2026

4. 2/5I love the Athletic... but not the app

   Let me start by saying that The Athletic is one of my favorite sites as both a sportswriter and a fan. There’s a lot of quality content on the site that I have no problem paying for. The problem I have is with the experience that comes with the app. For the recurring cost, I’d expect something that works more smoothly and loads articles properly. Ever since the most recent redesign of the app, it has been freezing on the intro screen at least half of the times that I open it. After getting through those freezes, the app will kick me back to the home page whenever I switch to one of my team filters. When loaded, the stories themselves are generally slow and unresponsive, which further hurts the experience. There are other minor complaints, such as not having articles load in the app after being clicked on from newsletters or social media feeds, as well as not being taken to the comment that’s made on your thread when you get a notification, leading you to try to figure out which story you commented on in the first place, which typically doesn’t have the response to your comment anyways. (Desktop is always ahead of the app in terms of comment threads being updated). Overall, the quality of this app is nowhere near the value of free sports apps, which is a shame, because the writing is great.

   Fryman22 · 2 Sep 2026

5. 1/5Good at first, now trash

   Seemed interesting when this first launched, but now it’s just as bad as a decade or two ago at ESPN. It really is just an updated version, now that their plan is to hire big names, not talented writers or columnists. Don’t waste your money. Speaking of ESPN, Keith Law literally had my account (comment portion, anyway) for the most banal critique I’ve ever written; verbatim: “Lol Keith’s analysis of these ‘prospects’ is silly, but to each their own.” Oh, the humanity! It’s so lame. No need for it. Thought it’d be more legitimate when the Times bought it. Not so. Shame. Used to be solid. Addendum: Don’t wanna sound like a right-winger decrying the lack of free speech! Not at all. But in the first couple years, it really was interesting and fun to comment and engage right below the stories. Now? It’s SLIGHTLY-better ESPN with comments that need to be banal as heck to even make it on the platform. Shame. Thought when the Times acquired TA, there’d be a bit more liberal takes. Nah. We all love the Times, but they’re a corporate entity first and foremost. Really is a shame because TA used to be very good. Oh, and they promote white supremacy in the comments AND articles like it’s going out of style. Especially NHL related stories. A but with MLB, but I must say their “big name” MLB reporters are the best they have or the four major sports. Buy at your own risk/peril. Take care.

   UncleTom88 · 2 Sep 2026

4.5 52704 ratings · Google Play

1. 2/5

   Most of all the articles require a subscription to read.

   Vedant Acharya · 1 Aug 2026

2. 2/5

   why is everything generated from feeds. why not a sports section?

   Brian Curtis · 1 Aug 2026

3. 5/5

   If your interest is sport you can rely on the Athletic to assuage your desires with well sourced and beautifully written articles on a whole panapolly of sports, both in the UK and across the Atlantic in the USA!

   Andrew Whinnerah · 1 Aug 2026

4. 5/5

   thorough and informative Articles and fingr on the pulse, All of the insider rumour stories ive read from them turn out to be true! Got my account free through a paid Revolut account but I've often received subscriptions offers over the years for €1/€2 a month and its well worth the money. would gladly pay for it in the furure if i didnt have it free!

   michael lynch · 1 Aug 2026

5. 2/5

   they keep pushing North American sports despite living the other side of the world. Very annoying and seemingly unstoppable in the preferences

   Eamon Lyons · 1 Aug 2026

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