Jeff Taylor, the Charlotte Hornets small forward suspended 24 games by NBA commissioner Adam Silver, won’t appeal. Yahoo Sports reports that the Swedish-American player will accept the remaining 13 games of his suspension after sitting for the last 11. The
Papa John’s launched a Philadelphia-area “76ers Win, You Win” deal on pizza in October. But nobody won. The promotion offered fans 50% off an online pizza order the day after a 76ers win. The 76ers couldn’t keep their end of
The Buffalo Bills scheduled eight home games at Ralph Wilson Stadium this season for the first time since 2007. Mother Nature had other plans. The NFL rescheduled the Bills-Jets Sunday 1 p.m. game for Monday. The Bills will now host
The NFL Players Association has asked Roger Goodell to recuse himself from the appeals process of Adrian Peterson as he seeks reinstatement in the league. “The NFL is making up the process and punishment as it goes–a blatant violation of
The Buffalo Bills still plan on playing this Sunday. New York’s Governor says the game would “jeopardize public safety.” The Buffalo area endured three-to-six feet of snow in recent days. The storms left eight dead and hundreds of motorists stranded.
Jason Collins, the first up-front homosexual competing in one of North America’s big four professional sports leagues, has announced his retirement. The Brooklyn Nets celebrate Collins at Wednesday night’s game against the Milwaukee Bucks at the Barclays Center. Collins struggled
The NFL Players Association decried Roger Goodell’s indefinite suspension of Adrian Peterson as unfair. The commissioner indefinitely suspended the Minnesota Vikings running back on Tuesday morning. Peterson’s hiatus, according to the league, will last at least the rest of this
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell suspended Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson for at least the remainder of 2014 on Tuesday morning. The indefinitely-long exile comes in the aftermath of Peterson’s plea deal in his child-abuse case. The agreement put a
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) crashed NFL games on Sunday to search for narcotics. The DEA questioned team medical staff and inspected bags in an effort to determine whether teams illegally distribute drugs to players. The San Francisco 49ers and
“I’d decided I was going to kill myself,” Brenda Tracy confessed to The Oregonian. The 40-year-old woman says that on June 24, 1998, four football players, including two Oregon State athletes, gang raped her. Sixteen years after declining to pursue
Two Southern California baseball stars claimed MVP awards from the two big leagues on Thursday. Mike Trout won a unanimous vote of the Baseball Writers Association of America to snag his first MVP award after finishing as the runner-up the
A familiar ace, and an unfamiliar face, won the National and American Cy Young Awards on Wednesday. Clayton Kershaw won his third National League Cy Young Award. The Dodgers ace went 21-3 allowing an anemic 1.77 earned runs per game
“If y’all came here for an education, you should have gone to Harvard.” Tydreke Powell maintains that his former football coach Butch Davis said this to him when he entered the University of North Carolina. Powell, who called in to
The Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) unanimously voted Chicago White Sox first basemen Jose Abreu the American League Rookie of the Year. The Cuban smashed 36 home runs, accumulated 107 RBIs, and hit .317 in his inaugural campaign. No
A Muslim teammate of LeBron James calls reports that he skipped the national anthem at Wednesday’s game “a big misunderstanding” after initially telling reporters he bowed out for religious reasons. “It’s because of my religion,” Dion Waiters told Cleveland.com of
WNBA star Brittney Griner chronicled the bizarre knife attack on her and a teammate last week in Shenyang, China, in a conversation with ESPNw. A Chinese man chased Griner, who plays on the Beijing Great Wall team, on a team
The University of Alabama-Birmingham has, according to TMZ, opened up a point-shaving investigation into Chris Rabb, an associate of Jameis Winston who plays on UA-B’s football team. Rabb allegedly placed a $5,000 bet on the Louisville-Florida State game last week.
A Pennsylvania public official instrumental in the firing of Joe Paterno now says that Penn State “probably” shouldn’t have axed their longtime coach. “They probably shouldn’t have fired him,” Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett told the Philadelphia Inquirer in their Thursday
President Obama fired back at Michael Jordan’s characterization of him as a “hack” golfer. Jordan “wasn’t very well informed about this” the president told Earl Stokes of Milwaukee’s WJMR regarding the NBA Hall of Famer’s ridicule of him as a
Jameis Winston’s lawyer named his accuser in a November 4 tweet. The social-media posting remains on David Cornwell’s account despite public outcry. The tweet juxtaposed the quick approach of the November 17 school disciplinary hearing faced by the Seminoles quarterback
The College Football Playoff rankings lost an SEC team in its fab four and gained a Pac-12 team in the wake of the weekend’s slate of games. The four team’s at the top of the rankings at season’s end will
Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson has reached a plea deal in his child abuse case, ESPN reports. The agreement puts a reckless assault misdemeanor charge on the running back’s record. The charge to which Peterson pleads guilty makes no
A Big Ten school elicited charges of smallness for refusing to give their opponents five. The captains of the University of Maryland football team refused to shake hands with their counterparts for Penn State at the coin toss of Saturday’s
Did he mistake a Peyton Manning “Omaha” for a “Pueblo”? A missing Denver Broncos fan has been found 112 miles from Mile High. “He said he had his fill of football and that he likes to walk and wander,” Pueblo
The 2014-2015 NBA season started where the 2013-2014 season left off: with the Spurs winning. But Vegas Insider sees the season ending differently: with the Cavaliers, a team that has missed the playoffs for four straight years, winning it all
