Northwestern football coach Pat Fitzgerald urged his team on Saturday to vote against forming a union later this month. “I believe it’s in their best interests to vote no,” Fitzgerald said on Saturday, according to ESPN. “With the research that
Carlos Gonzalez of the Colorado Rockies returned to lineup on Friday after leaving the game the night before after he swallowed some smokeless tobacco. “I talked to him last night after the game and he assured me he was fine and was
A minor league baseball game in Texas was postponed on Thursday because a tornado was approaching the stadium. The fans in Texas, though, seemed unfazed by the approaching storm during the game between the Frisco RoughRiders and the Northwest Arkansas Naturals
Conan O’Brien called Charles Barkley “notoriously generous” on his show. The Round Mound of Rebound responded, “I think it’s important that the more successful you are, the more you should tip. I truly believe that.” He said it’s vital to
Running Back Chris Johnson is a free agent. The Tennessee Titans released the seventh-year back today. The team was scheduled to pay Johnson $8 million this year. But coming off his worst year as a pro, in which Johnson averaged
Quarterback Jameis Winston helped win Florida State the national championship. That doesn’t mean the school will drop an investigation into the circumstances surrounding an incident that led to a rape allegation levied at Winston. Strangely, Winston is not the subject
Derek Jeter has given 20 seasons to Major League Baseball. The Houston Astros gave him some atrociously ugly boots in appreciation. In a moment made for regifting last night, the Astros presented the Yankee shortstop with a cowboy hat, golf
What better way is there to announce that baseball is back than a spate of ninth-inning victories? Home-team fans witnessed walk-off wins in five cities on one night on Wednesday. In all, six different pitchers blew saves. The Pittsburgh Pirates
U.S. men’s soccer player Michael Orozco scored the goal that gave the United States its first win on Mexican soil in the famed Azteca Stadium for the first time in 75 years in 2012. Two years later, a Mexican soccer
A painting of new Vanderbilt football coach Derek Mason will be redone after the NAACP chapter at Vanderbilt University thought the original depiction subjugated blacks because it was reminiscent of the racist imagery found in minstrel shows. After James Franklin
Members of the University of Pennsylvania’s women’s lacrosse team are under fire for wrecking parts of a bar and allegedly engaging in “absolutely deplorable behavior” — such as exposing a young woman’s genitals to the “adulation of the rest of
President Barack Obama’s selfie on Tuesday with Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz was part of a Samsung promotion just like Ellen’s “selfie” at the Oscars that became the most re-tweeted photo in history. Soon after Ortiz snapped the selfie
Bill Jackson, Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman writes at MMQB, “picked me up from elementary school 30 minutes away from his home for practice and games because my parents both worked and didn’t finish until later, and I wanted to play
The Philadelphia Eagles engaged in conscious uncoupling with DeSean Jackson on Friday. But the speedy receiver has ensured that the pair reunite at least twice this coming season. DeSean Jackson agreed to terms with the Washington Redskins on a three-year
Donald Trump told a Buffalo radio station that he has been approached about investing in the city’s NFL franchise and if it were up to him he would keep the Bills in Buffalo. Ralph Wilson, Jr., the only owner the
Tiger Woods announced on Tuesday that he will miss the Masters golf tournament for the first time since he has become a professional. This was not an April Fool’s joke. “After attempting to get ready for the Masters, and failing
The statue memorializing the firefighter who died from a fall at a Texas Rangers game three seasons ago appeared as a garbage can on Opening Day at Globe Life Park. In 2012, the Rangers erected a statue depicting, Shannon Stone,
Andrew Wiggins, the 6-8 Kansas forward who averaged 17 points and 6 rebounds this season, announced that he will enter this year’s NBA draft. Wiggins forgoes his final three years of eligibility as a Jayhawk. The Big 12 recognized Wiggins
President Barack Obama had Michigan State winning the NCAA men’s basketball title in his bracket. After UConn defeated the No.4-seed Spartans at Madison Square Garden in the East Regional Final on Sunday and busted his bracket, the team’s Twitter account
Alex Davidson, the man whose belly and chest police pelted with pepper balls as he walked toward them undaunted on Saturday, showed off his welts after being released from prison on Sunday. Arizona students rioted after the Wildcats lost an
While Arizona students rioted on the Tuscon campus after the No.1-seeded Wildcats lost a heartbreaking Elite Eight game to the Wisconsin Badgers Saturday evening in Anaheim, a photographer caught some students taking selfies at the scene. Photographer Alex Brown told
Kobe Bryant condemned the reflexive racial response to the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman case. Then his critics condemned him as “cornball,” “clueless,” and a “jerk.” TheBlackMan.com offered that the Los Angeles Laker remained ignorant about the controversial case because “Kobe Bryant
Kain Colter, the Northwestern University quarterback who organized his teammates into a union, meets with senators and representatives in Washington, DC on Wednesday and Thursday. Ramogi Huma, the president of the College Athletes Players Association, joins Colter in meeting with
After the No.1-seed Arizona Wildcats suffered a gut-wrenching, devastating and stunning loss to No.2-seed Wisconsin in overtime 64-63 in the West Regional final in Anaheim on Saturday evening, Arizona fans and students at the Tuscon, Arizona campus promptly rioted. According
Chris Culliver ran afoul of cultural enforcers at Super Bowl 47. He ran afoul of law enforcers yesterday. The 25-year-old cornerback allegedly struck a bicyclist with his Ford Mustang before fleeing the scene. When a motorist followed Culliver and boxed
