Reviews of The Athletic: All Sports News

By: The New York Times Company

List of user reviews and ratings for The Athletic: All Sports News

Total ratings

4.52 (Rating count: 51,939)

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Review summary

Users widely praise The Athletic for high-quality, in-depth sports journalism and solid soccer/insider content, with coverage including recent results. However, repeated complaints center on notification overload, persistent ads—even with a subscription—, frequent crashes and article-loading errors, and a rough mobile UI/UX that hampers navigation and discussion features.

Pros

High-quality, in-depth journalism and sports coverage.
Strong insider content and soccer coverage.
Coverage includes recent results alongside in-depth articles.
Generally well-regarded app with reliable performance when functioning.
Subscription is seen as offering good value given journalism quality.

Cons

Notification overload and poor control over alerts (March Madness spam, settings not working).
Ads and podcast advertising persist despite subscription.
Frequent stability and loading issues (crashes, browser errors) affecting reading articles.
Poor mobile UI/UX and navigation (terrible interface, hard to find replies, no history).

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User Reviews

Recent rating average: 2.90

All time rating average: 4.52

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Date	Author	Comment
2026-06-08	Ja*****	keeps doing stupid review me pop ups
keeps doing stupid review me pop ups
2026-06-06	Ch*****	World encompassing sports journalism of the highest quality and integrity.
World encompassing sports journalism of the highest quality and integrity.
2026-06-06	Je*****	Love many of the articles by most of the writers. Fully enjoy the friendly banters on the comments sections. However a few months back I was stricken from commenting without warning or reason. I've reached out multiple times thru various channels but can't get one single reply to tell me what happened or forward me the comment in question. So now I'm basically gonna let my subscription expire as I can't see supporting The Athletic further due to this bizarre treatment
Love many of the articles by most of the writers. Fully enjoy the friendly banters on the comments sections. However a few months back I was stricken from commenting without warning or reason. I've reached out multiple times thru various channels but can't get one single reply to tell me what happened or forward me the comment in question. So now I'm basically gonna let my subscription expire as I can't see supporting The Athletic further due to this bizarre treatment