# The Athletic: All Sports News

> Insights, Stats & Highlights

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1135216317](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1135216317)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1135216317`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** The New York Times Company
- **Category:** Sports
- **Rating:** 4.80 / 5 (235,086 ratings)
- **Version:** 13.151.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-14
- **First published:** 2016-09-02
- **Size:** 204 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-17
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-athletic-all-sports-news/id1135216317)
- **Website:** [https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/](https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://help.nytimes.com/10940941449492-The-New-York-Times-Company-Privacy-Policy](https://help.nytimes.com/10940941449492-The-New-York-Times-Company-Privacy-Policy)

## Description

**The Athletic** delivers in-depth sports news, live scores, statistics, highlights and expert analysis for professional and college teams worldwide. Follow football, basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer, golf, motorsports and more, with real-time notifications for breaking news and game updates.

Read exclusive reporting and interviews from an award-winning newsroom, listen to sports podcasts, follow your favorite teams and leagues, and play the daily Connections: Sports Edition game. Coverage includes the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, NCAA, Premier League, FIFA, PGA Tour, Formula 1, NASCAR and other major competitions.

## Rankings

- #1,765 — Overall
- #1 — Get Your Sports News
- #3 — Essential Sports Apps
- #5 — Dominate Your Fantasy League
- #16 — sports
- #58 — sport

## Review summary

Users praise The Athletic for strong, writer-led sports content and broad coverage, making it a trusted go-to source for fans. However, multiple reviews cite major frustrations: a poorly personalized feed that ignores user preferences; intrusive push notifications with limited control; cross-subscription access issues with NYT All Access; reduced local beat reporting since acquisition; and UI/readability problems on iPhone that hamper reading.

### Pros

- High-quality content and writers across a broad range of sports
- Broad coverage across teams and leagues, making it a go-to source for sports news
- Long-time subscriber value and consistent appreciation of the content
- Generally fast and functional app performance

### Cons

- Personalization/feed issues: the feed shows irrelevant articles and doesn’t reliably reflect followed teams or leagues
- Notifications: intrusive push prompts and poor control over notification settings
- Cross-subscription access: NYT All Access readers can’t reliably read articles within the app
- Reduced local beat reporting post-acquisition and desire for more local coverage
- UI/readability problems on iPhone (display issues and hard-to-read names in the left column)

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