athletic

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In the middle of an otherwise routine article of jocular sportswriter predictions on The Athletic, Canadian journalist Joshua Kloke explained why he’s bringing his seven-year-old son to a match this year.

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026

A change in the presidency of the Chilean Football Association was followed by Bielsa resigning in 2011, but within months he accepted the role of head coach at Athletic Club, Bilbao's LaLiga side.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

Iraola, a former Spain right-back who spent the majority of his playing career at Athletic Bilbao, started out in management in Cyprus with AEK Larnaca.

From BBC • May 31, 2026

McDonald told the Athletic that “Kurt’s Card Care has nothing to do with me or the card.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

At 4:45 the first- and second-place crews from the previous day’s trials— California, Pennsylvania, Washington, and the New York Athletic Club— paddled from the Princeton shell house out onto Lake Carnegie.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown