Vince Wilfork, a Patriots team captain and one of the few remaining links to the team’s last Super Bowl victory, has asked the team for his release. The NFL Network first reported the story. The nose guard, who claims he
Mike D’Antonio could have used Kobe Bryant on the court this season. Kobe Bryant can’t conceive of Mike D’Antonio on the bench next season. Bryant reportedly has “no interest” in playing for Mike D’Antonio. The Sporting News reports that Kobe
The basketball revolution will be tweeted. Former Knicks point guard Greg Anthony broke the news of the Knicks’ hire of 11-time NBA championship-winning coach Phil Jackson for a front office position last night. “@nyknicks it’s official @PhilJackson11 will be joining
Football fans can again find Revis Island in the northeast. Darrelle Revis lost his job on Wednesday. But just hours after his release from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the shutdown cornerback found a new job in New England. The one-year,
The Fresno Grizzlies, the Class AAA minor-league team for the San Francisco Giants, will wear Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles jerseys on August 2. Fans will pick which of the four jerseys that the players will wear. The uniforms will be
A collegiate summer league baseball team will wear jerseys made of selfies during a game in July. The Kalamazoo Growlers, of the collegiate summer baseball Northwoods League, announced that they “will be wearing a SALUTE TO SELFIES jersey during a
On Wednesday, ESPN announced that Brent Musburger will leave his partnership with Kirk Herbstreit on ABC’s Saturday Night Football broadcast to join Jesse Palmer to call games for ESPN’s new SEC Network. It is believed that ESPN did not want
In a move that may be best for the future of the Los Angeles Lakers and Kobe Bryant, the Lakers superstar will not play this year while recovering from multiple injuries. Bryant, after undergoing surgery for a torn ACL, missed
The Denver Broncos signed Aqib Talib, improving their secondary and damaging divisional rival New England Patriots all in one move. The Broncos reached an agreement with the elite cornerback on a six-year, $57 million contract with $26 million in guaranteed
When a baseball flies your way and you’re holding a stroller, do you let your kid, or the baseball, roll away? A fan at the Mets-Marlins spring training game faced this choice Monday. The alleged Mets backer made the wrong
The Dallas Cowboys entered the NFL’s new year without the burden of the staggered $10 million cap penalty imposed by the league after Jerry Jones’ free spending during 2010’s no-cap campaign. They also enter it without the benefit of their
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell reportedly met with top Redskins officials, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Native American groups that want a name change last December to discuss the team’s nickname. According to a report in the left-wing ThinkProgress, “Cantwell, then
On Monday, an NHL hockey game between the Dallas Stars and the Columbus Blue Jackets was postponed after Dallas Stars forward Rich Peverley collapsed on the bench. Peverley, who reportedly missed games earlier this season with an irregular heartbeat, collapsed in Dallas
Leave the audience wanting more remains a basic rule of show business. Like running backs Robert Smith, Barry Sanders, and Jim Brown before him, Rashard Mendenhall retires from football still hearing cheers. But he doesn’t want you to call him
Amane Gobena of Ethiopia won the “gender” challenge on Sunday at the Los Angeles Marathon. Gobena won $50,000 for finishing “first” in the race and another $25,000 for being the first woman to cross the finish line. Gebo Burka of
Harvard University clinched the Ivy League title Friday night. The championship proved especially sweet for the Crimson as they defeated rival Yale 70-58 to win its league’s regular season crown. Crimson basketball has witnessed a renaissance under former Duke guard
Johnny Manziel hasn’t taken a snap in an NFL game. But the Texas A&M product is already a millionaire. The quarterback signed a multiyear endorsement deal with Nike on Thursday that figures to eclipse similar agreements entered into by other
A Harvard professor has written to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to urge him to fund studies to determine if medical marijuana can aid in the treatment of concussions. Goodell has said that the league, which prohibits medical marijuana, may allow
Former President George W. Bush embraced SMU’s mascot on Wednesday night as No. 18 SMU lost to No. 18 Louisville 84-71 in an American Athletic Conference showdown in Dallas, Texas. Plenty of luminaries were in attendance as Bush hugged the
With Peyton Manning and Tom Brady nearing the end of their storied careers, the NFL had been craving for someone like Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson to be one of the new faces of the league. And when the Seattle Seahawks
College football’s rules committee tabled on Thursday the proposed ten-second delay for the center’s snap after the start of the game clock. The rule would have not applied to the final two minutes of each half. The delay in deciding
The Rangers sent their captain Ryan Callahan to Tampa Bay. In exchange, the Lightning awarded Martin St. Louis, eighth in points this season, to New York. The blockbuster marks a spate of trades between hockey clubs in the days and
Mike McQueary, the former Penn State player and assistant coach who walked in on Jerry Sandusky sexually abusing a child in the shower, may have been abused as a child and gambled on his own team while he was a
Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin said that it was “absurd” for the NFL to penalize the use of the N-word on the field because it was a “term of endearment.” “I think it’s absurd,” Baldwin told the News-Tribune on Monday.
The NFL franchise-tag deadline has passed. All but six NFL teams passed on designating a potential free agent as a “franchise” or “transition” player. The most predictable franchise designation came in the form of Jimmy Graham, the freakish tight end
