A.J. McCarron better pray that Brent Musburger doesn’t try to reenact a scene from The Graduate at his upcoming wedding. Katherine Webb announced her engagement to quarterback A.J. McCarron last night on Twitter. Webb claims McCarron helped design the gaudy
A 5.1 magnitude earthquake, which had an epicenter at La Habra, California, was felt at Dodger Stadium in the bottom of the sixth inning while the Angels and Dodgers were playing their annual Freeway Series Spring Training game. Legendary and
CNN apologized on Friday for falling for a Twitter hoax and declaring that soccer legend Pele had died. “#BREAKING Brazilian former soccer player Pele dies at 74,” CNN’s @NewDay Twitter account tweeted to its 54K+ followers. Pele, to use a
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) blasted statistician Nate Silver days after he predicted that Republicans had a 60% chance of taking back the Senate and retiring Reid as Majority Leader. “He gave me a 16 percent chance of being
New England Patriots captain Vince Wilfork had asked for his release, ripped the nameplate off his locker, and cleaned out his stuff. But reports of the death of his career as a Patriot now appear greatly exaggerated. The nose guard
When No. 1 Arizona survived on Thursday night against No. 4 San Diego State for a hard-fought 70-64 win, Arizona head coach Sean Miller joined his little brother Archie Miller in the Elite Eight, making it the first time in
A day after a regional director for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) determined that college athletes should be considered employees and be allowed to form unions, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) on Thursday said college athletes should be
After his comments in a New Yorker profile in which he criticized those who came to Trayvon Martin’s defense before the facts came out just because Martin was black went viral on Thursday, Los Angeles Lakers superstar walked back that
Derek Jeter is the 11th best leader in the world, according to Fortune magazine. President Barack Obama is not even in the top 50. Pope Francis, with whom Obama met on Thursday, topped Fortune’s 2014 list of the the “world’s 50
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady witnessed the nine-alarm fire that took the lives of two Boston firefighters on Wednesday. It was only four doors down from his home, and Brady said it was one of the scariest experiences of
Former President George H.W. Bush and Texas Gov. Rick Perry attended Johnny Manziel’s pro-day workout on Thursday at College Station. Bush is an Aggie fan, and his presidential library is at the university, which is also Perry’s alma mater. Bush
A regional director of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled Wednesday that scholarship athletes should be considered “employees” with rights to unionize under federal law. The decision stems from an attempt by the Northwestern University football team to form
Jared Allen, twelfth on the NFL’s all-time sack list, departs Minnesota after six seasons. He’s not, to the dismay of Vikings fans, departing the NFC North. The prolific pass rusher signed with the Chicago Bears early today. Allen, 32, agreed
Navy running back Will McKamey, who was airlifted to a hospital after collapsing during spring practice on Saturday, died on Tuesday. The 19-year-old freshman from Tennessee, according to the Associated Press, “died at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center
Heisman Trophy winner Jameis Winston, who is also a pitcher on Florida State’s baseball team in addition to being Florida State’s quarterback, was involved in a benches-clearing brawl against rival Florida on Tuesday in the eighth inning. The brawl started
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) campaign just could not get the simplest of ads right on Tuesday. The campaign embarrassingly put out a web ad that mistook players from Duke’s 2010 championship team for Kentucky players three days before
J.J. Redick, the former Duke basketball star who is now with the Clippers, reportedly harassed his former girlfriend after she signed an abortion contract with him to abort his child in the second trimester of pregnancy. Last year, MediaTakeOut
Ralph Wilson, the only owner the Buffalo Bills have known for its entire 54-season existence, passed away today. He was 95. Wilson started the franchise with $25,000 in 1959. The Bills approach $1 billion in value today. He helped orchestrate
Kevin Connolly, one of the stars of the much anticipated Entourage movie, broke his leg last week while playing football on the set of the film with Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, who will make a cameo in the movie.
In what could be an unprecedented move, Brooklyn Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov, who ran against Vladimir Putin for president in 2012, plans to move his U.S.-based company, which runs the basketball team, back to Russia after the U.S. levied sanctions on
The Rams and Raiders left Los Angeles after the 1994 season. Rumbles out of both franchises indicate that they might want to return to America’s second-largest media market. Absence makes the heart grow fonder–or at least the absence of a
Tampa Bay wide receiver Mike Williams was hospitalized on Sunday after being stabbed in the thigh at his gated home. Police suspect his “brother, Eric Baylor, stabbed him with a kitchen knife,” and a “warrant has been issued for his
David Ortiz finishes strong. The Boston Red Sox ensured this weekend that their star designated hitter would finish with the organization. Ortiz signed a contract extension that pays him $16 million for the 2015 season and gives the club options
It started differently than their epic first fight. And it ended quite differently, too. But the same man felt his hand raised. Dan Henderson endured several onslaughts by Maurcio “Shogun” Rua in the first and second round to finish the
The CEO and co-founder of the organization that arranged for Dennis Rodman to travel to North Korea to meet with dictator Kim Jong-un and train the country’s basketball team says that Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen rejected offers to travel
