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NFL

The Ringer’s 2026 Preseason NFL Power Rankings

2026 NFL Power Rankings

The Ringer’s 2026 Preseason NFL Power Rankings

2026 NFL Power Rankings

Diante Lee

AFC South Preview: Can the Texans Be a Real Contender?

AFC South Preview: Can Houston Be a Contender?

Sheil Kapadia • 12 min read

AFC South Preview: Can the Texans Be a Real Contender?

AFC South Preview: Can Houston Be a Contender?

Sheil Kapadia

The Best Futures Bets for Every NFL Team

Anthony Dabbundo • 27 min read

The Best Futures Bets for Every NFL Team

Anthony Dabbundo

NFC South Preview: Is This the Bucs’ Division to Lose?

NFC South Preview: High Stakes for the Bucs

Sheil Kapadia • 11 min read

NFC South Preview: Is This the Bucs’ Division to Lose?

NFC South Preview: High Stakes for the Bucs

Sheil Kapadia

The Latest

The Sweep

Welcome to The Sweep, Your Home for NFL Intel

Welcome to The Sweep

Tom Pelissero

The Sweep

Welcome to The Sweep, Your Home for NFL Intel

Welcome to The Sweep

Projections ($)

Truth and Liz: How Nathan Fielder Redefined the Future of Documentary

Nathan Fielder Is Redefining Documentaries

Truth, Liz, and Nathan Fielder

Sean Fennessey

Projections ($)

Truth and Liz: How Nathan Fielder Redefined the Future of Documentary

Nathan Fielder Is Redefining Documentaries

Truth, Liz, and Nathan Fielder

Music

How ‘Is This It’ Launched the Legacy of the Strokes

How ‘Is This It’ Launched the Strokes’ Legacy

By Steven Hyden • 12 min read

How ‘Is This It’ Launched the Legacy of the Strokes

How ‘Is This It’ Launched the Strokes’ Legacy

Steven Hyden • 12 min read

The McShay Report ($)

My 2027 Top 50 Big Board, Position Group Power Rankings, and the Players on the Outside Looking In

My 2027 Top 50 Big Board, Position Group Power Rankings

My 2027 Top 50 Big Board

Todd McShay

The McShay Report ($)

My 2027 Top 50 Big Board, Position Group Power Rankings, and the Players on the Outside Looking In

My 2027 Top 50 Big Board, Position Group Power Rankings

My 2027 Top 50 Big Board

Sports

Owners Manual: Steve Ballmer’s Nightmare Is Now Reality

Steve Ballmer’s Nightmare Is Now Reality

Owners Manual: Steve Ballmer’s Nightmare Is Now Reality

Steve Ballmer’s Nightmare Is Now Reality

Katie Baker

Noteworthy Reads

WNBA

The WNBA Changed. Cathy Engelbert Didn’t.

By Seerat Sohi • 7 min read

WNBA

The WNBA Changed. Cathy Engelbert Didn’t.

By Seerat Sohi • 7 min read

NFL

AFC South Preview: Can the Texans Be a Real Contender?

AFC South Preview: Can Houston Be a Contender?

By Sheil Kapadia • 12 min read

NFL

AFC South Preview: Can the Texans Be a Real Contender?

AFC South Preview: Can Houston Be a Contender?

By Sheil Kapadia • 12 min read

Videos

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1:45:00

Mahomes or Allen (Again???) and a Clippers-Heavy Mailbag With Nick Wright

Mahomes or Allen and a Clippers-Heavy Mailbag

The Bill Simmons Podcast • Sept. 8

1:45:00

Mahomes or Allen (Again???) and a Clippers-Heavy Mailbag With Nick Wright

Mahomes or Allen and a Clippers-Heavy Mailbag

The Bill Simmons Podcast • Sept. 8

NBA

22 Increasingly Unhinged Ways to Fix the NBA

The Ringer Staff

Study Up Before NFL Kickoff

NFL

The Best Futures Bets for Every NFL Team

By Anthony Dabbundo • Sept. 4 • 27 min read

NFL

The Best Futures Bets for Every NFL Team

By Anthony Dabbundo • Sept. 4 • 27 min read

NFL

The Ringer’s 2026 Preseason NFL Power Rankings

2026 NFL Power Rankings

By Diante Lee • Sept. 7 • 23 min read

NFL

The Ringer’s 2026 Preseason NFL Power Rankings

2026 NFL Power Rankings

By Diante Lee • Sept. 7 • 23 min read

NFL

The Next Generation of NFL Play Callers Is Here

The Next Wave of NFL Play Callers Is Here

By Steven Ruiz and 1 more • Aug. 24 • 32 min read

NFL

The Next Generation of NFL Play Callers Is Here

The Next Wave of NFL Play Callers Is Here

By Steven Ruiz and 1 more • Aug. 24 • 32 min read

NFL

The Five Archetypes of the Modern NFL Cornerback

By Diante Lee • Aug. 17 • 18 min read

NFL

The Five Archetypes of the Modern NFL Cornerback

By Diante Lee • Aug. 17 • 18 min read

NFL

Who Will Have the NFL’s Best Defense in 2026?

Ranking All 32 NFL Defenses for 2026

By Anthony Dabbundo • Sept. 2 • 28 min read

NFL

Who Will Have the NFL’s Best Defense in 2026?

Ranking All 32 NFL Defenses for 2026

By Anthony Dabbundo • Sept. 2 • 28 min read

NFL

Who Will Have the NFL’s Best Offense in 2026?

By Anthony Dabbundo • Sept. 1 • 27 min read

NFL

Who Will Have the NFL’s Best Offense in 2026?

By Anthony Dabbundo • Sept. 1 • 27 min read

NFL

AFC South Preview: Can the Texans Be a Real Contender?

AFC South Preview: Can Houston Be a Contender?

By Sheil Kapadia • Sept. 7 • 12 min read

NFL

AFC South Preview: Can the Texans Be a Real Contender?

AFC South Preview: Can Houston Be a Contender?

By Sheil Kapadia • Sept. 7 • 12 min read

NFL

NFC South Preview: Is This the Bucs’ Division to Lose?

NFC South Preview: High Stakes for the Bucs

By Sheil Kapadia • Sept. 4 • 11 min read

NFL

NFC South Preview: Is This the Bucs’ Division to Lose?

NFC South Preview: High Stakes for the Bucs

By Sheil Kapadia • Sept. 4 • 11 min read

NFL

AFC West Preview: Is Everyone Sleeping on the Chiefs?

AFC West Preview: Are We Sleeping on the Chiefs?

By Sheil Kapadia • Sept. 3 • 14 min read

NFL

AFC West Preview: Is Everyone Sleeping on the Chiefs?

AFC West Preview: Are We Sleeping on the Chiefs?

By Sheil Kapadia • Sept. 3 • 14 min read

NFL

NFC West Preview: Super Bowl or Bust for the Rams?

NFC West Preview: The Rams Are All In

By Sheil Kapadia • Sept. 2 • 12 min read

NFL

NFC West Preview: Super Bowl or Bust for the Rams?

NFC West Preview: The Rams Are All In

By Sheil Kapadia • Sept. 2 • 12 min read

NFL

AFC North Preview: Should You Believe in the Bengals?

AFC North Preview

By Sheil Kapadia • Sept. 1 • 13 min read

NFL

AFC North Preview: Should You Believe in the Bengals?

AFC North Preview

By Sheil Kapadia • Sept. 1 • 13 min read

NFL

NFC North Preview: A Rebound Year for the Lions?

NFC North Preview: A Rebound for the Lions?

By Sheil Kapadia • Aug. 31 • 13 min read

NFL

NFC North Preview: A Rebound Year for the Lions?

NFC North Preview: A Rebound for the Lions?

By Sheil Kapadia • Aug. 31 • 13 min read

NFL

AFC East Preview: Will the Bills Break Through?

AFC East Preview: Is It the Bills’ Time?

By Sheil Kapadia • Aug. 28 • 15 min read

NFL

AFC East Preview: Will the Bills Break Through?

AFC East Preview: Is It the Bills’ Time?

By Sheil Kapadia • Aug. 28 • 15 min read

NFL

NFC East Preview: Is This the Cowboys’ Year?

NFC East Preview: Is This Dallas’s Year?

By Sheil Kapadia • Aug. 27 • 15 min read

NFL

NFC East Preview: Is This the Cowboys’ Year?

NFC East Preview: Is This Dallas’s Year?

By Sheil Kapadia • Aug. 27 • 15 min read

Politics

MAGA’s Big, Beautiful Quest to Rename the Entire World

The Entire World Is Lake America Now

MAGA’s Big, Beautiful Quest to Rename the Entire World

The Entire World Is Lake America Now

Brian Phillips

The Clippers Investigation Reaches an End

NBA

The Clippers Are Screwed. The NBA Can Exhale.

The Clippers Are Screwed. The NBA Exhales.

By Howard Beck • 6 min read

The Clippers Are Screwed. The NBA Can Exhale.

The Clippers Are Screwed. The NBA Exhales.

Howard Beck

Sports

Owners Manual: Steve Ballmer’s Nightmare Is Now Reality

Steve Ballmer’s Nightmare Is Now Reality

By Katie Baker • 22 min read

Owners Manual: Steve Ballmer’s Nightmare Is Now Reality

Steve Ballmer’s Nightmare Is Now Reality

Katie Baker

The Offer Sheet

KawhiGate Is Over. The Clippers’ Nightmare May Never End.

KawhiGate Is Over. L.A.’s Misery Isn’t.

Danny Chau

The Offer Sheet

KawhiGate Is Over. The Clippers’ Nightmare May Never End.

KawhiGate Is Over. L.A.’s Misery Isn’t.

Video Games

How Capcom Cracked the Code of Game Development

Lewis Gordon

College Football’s Brave New World

College Football

The 26 Biggest Story Lines Ahead of the 2026 College Football Season

26 Story Lines for the 2026 CFB Season

By Joel Anderson • 19 min read

The 26 Biggest Story Lines Ahead of the 2026 College Football Season

26 Story Lines for the 2026 CFB Season

Joel Anderson

College Football

Bill Belichick’s System Failure

By Tyler Parker • 7 min read

Bill Belichick’s System Failure

Tyler Parker

College Football

The August Issue: How Do We Talk About College Football Now?

How Do We Talk About College Football Now?

The Press Box

The August Issue: How Do We Talk About College Football Now?

How Do We Talk About College Football Now?

The Press Box

College Football

Buying Chambliss, Selling Ole Miss in the Top 10, Holding Carr, and More CFB Sunday Reactions

Buying Chambliss, Selling Ole Miss, Holding Carr, and More CFB Reactions

Chambliss, Ole Miss, Carr, and More in CFB

The McShay Show

Buying Chambliss, Selling Ole Miss in the Top 10, Holding Carr, and More CFB Sunday Reactions

Buying Chambliss, Selling Ole Miss, Holding Carr, and More CFB Reactions

Chambliss, Ole Miss, Carr, and More in CFB

The McShay Show

WNBA

Eight Questions About the Caitlin Clark Era of Team USA

Eight Questions About Team USA’s Caitlin Era

Eight Questions About the Caitlin Clark Era of Team USA

Eight Questions About Team USA’s Caitlin Era

Seerat Sohi

Shorts

Bill: Are tennis matches too long? 🤔

Sept. 8
83s

Trinidad Chambliss refused to lose against Louisville | The McShay Show

Sept. 8
63s

Can we trust Sheriff Kerry? 🤔🚔

Sept. 8
71s

Imagine flying across the globe to line up against Myles Garrett and Aaron Donald in Week 1 😳

Sept. 8
44s

Podcasts

Explore All Podcasts

The Bill Simmons Podcast

Mahomes or Allen (Again???) and a Clippers-Heavy Mailbag With Nick Wright

Mahomes or Allen and a Clippers-Heavy Mailbag

The Rewatchables

‘Talladega Nights’ With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly

‘Talladega Nights’ With Craig, DH, and DK

Good Hang With Amy Poehler

Good Hang

Sandra Bullock Spoke the Perfect Amount on This Podcast

Sandra Bullock’s Favorite German Word Is ...

The Big Picture

The 10 Best Movies at the Telluride and Venice Film Festivals. Plus: Nathan Fielder’s Stunning Elizabeth Holmes Doc.

The 10 Best Movies at Telluride and Venice. Plus: Nathan Fielder’s Doc.

The 10 Best Movies at Telluride and Venice

The Ringer Fantasy Football Show

The 2026 Fantasy Football Football Take Purge

Explore All Podcasts

Great Reads

Movies

There’s More to Learn From Wile E. Coyote’s Never-Ending Pursuit of the Road Runner

There’s More to Learn From Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner

Wile E. Coyote, a Resilient Icon of Ineptitude

By Adam Nayman • 8 min read

There’s More to Learn From Wile E. Coyote’s Never-Ending Pursuit of the Road Runner

There’s More to Learn From Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner

Wile E. Coyote, a Resilient Icon of Ineptitude

Adam Nayman

Tennis

There Will Never Be Anyone Else Like Gael Monfils

By Anthony Dabbundo • 8 min read

There Will Never Be Anyone Else Like Gael Monfils

Anthony Dabbundo

NBA

What the Hell Are the Denver Nuggets Doing?

What the Hell Are the Nuggets Doing?

By Michael Pina • 7 min read

What the Hell Are the Denver Nuggets Doing?

What the Hell Are the Nuggets Doing?

Michael Pina

Movies

Keep Chasing That Bird: The Oral History of ‘Coyote vs. Acme’

The Oral History of ‘Coyote vs. Acme’

By Alan Siegel • 25 min read

Keep Chasing That Bird: The Oral History of ‘Coyote vs. Acme’

The Oral History of ‘Coyote vs. Acme’

Alan Siegel