Sports in the last 24 hours.
5,031 articles from 196 domains, grouped into 4,281 stories; 308 of them were covered by 2+ domains. Most are about Football. Updated Nov 8, 10:22 AM UTC.
What is being written about
Colour shows tone, positive minus negative coverage in points: red from −50 to −8 is more negative, grey between −8 and +8 is about even, green from +8 to +50 is more positive. A dashed tile has too few rated articles.
Size = number of stories · ▲▼ = change in share vs previous 24h
- strongly negative
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Tone ≠ price forecast. Not investment advice.
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Sports news tone today
According to Sonar, the sports news tone index for the 24 hours to November 8, 2026, 10:22 UTC is 68/100 (positive): 24% of rated articles positive, 12% negative, based on 5,031 articles from 196 domains. In the last 24 hours Sonar grouped 4,281 stories about sports from 196 domains. The usual level is 58, so today reads above usual. The largest topics by share of stories: football (58%), NFL, MLB and NHL (11%) and motorsport (11%).
How the index is calculated
A model rates the tone of every article, and the index is the gap between the positive and negative shares, put on a 0 to 100 scale: 50 means they balance, and neutral articles are left out. The usual level is the mean daily index over the last 30 days. More in the methodology
How the media write about sports →
Topics in sports news
- Football — 58% of stories, index 64 (positive)
- NFL, MLB and NHL — 11% of stories, index 67 (positive)
- Motorsport — 11% of stories, index 64 (positive)
- Transfers and business — 9% of stories, index 62 (positive)
- Olympics and athletics — 8% of stories, index 80 (strongly positive)
- Boxing and MMA — 5% of stories, index 78 (strongly positive)
What Sonar is
Sonar reads 236 sports desks, leagues and specialist domains, merges reprints into stories and rates their tone without taking sides: records and comebacks read positive, injuries, doping and scandals negative, previews and plain results neutral.