UPDATE: Katie Hansen, the U.S. Olympian luger whose pre-game dancing and twerking videos have gone viral and been recognized by the likes of Beyonce, played a prank by posting a YouTube video in which she claimed she may have spotted
NFL general managers enjoy a little more breathing room today. ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports that the $10 billion behemoth will share a little bit more money than expected with players this coming season. The salary cap, pegged at $123 million
A D.C.-based nutrition group blasted former U.S. Olympic figure skater Michelle Kwan for appearing in a Coca-Cola ad for the Sochi Games–and holding a non-diet Coke!–while sitting on First Lady Michelle Obama’s Presidential Fitness and Nutrition Council. The Center for
Members of the Austrian olympic men’s hockey team have apologized to their country for partying until 6 a.m. right before they were run out of the Olympics on Monday. After Austria defeated Norway 3-1 on Sunday, a group of players
The World Cup remains four months away. But London bookies William Hill already have posted odds. They imagine the home team as enjoying the best chance. The odds reflect the amount won based on bet of 100 whatevers (pick your
Call her the Michael Jordan of figure skating. South Korea’s Yuna Kim leads after the short program in her quest to win back-to-back gold medals in women’s figure skating at the Sochi Games. Kim effortlessly scored 74.92, the best score of
The Washington Nationals and the Miami Marlins are using drones to film practices during spring training. Though the Nationals have said that they are using the drones for promotional vides, they may ultimately use the drones to help position their
American figure skater Gracie Gold, who is the country’s best hopeful for the medal that bears her last name, was excited to finally meet and get a picture with South Korean star Yuna Kim, who is called “Queen Yuna” for
An NFL hopeful has quit his job, exhausted his life savings, and is living in a minivan–even while the northeast was hit with bone-chilling temperatures and snowstorms–to pursue his dream of potentially making an NFL roster. Rashid Williams, who last
Jennifer Welter, the first female to play running back in a men’s professional football league, got walloped by men twice her size in a preseason game on Saturday in the Indoor Football League. According to Fox Sports, the 36-year-old Women’s
Is Vladimir Putin’s police Pussy Riots’ oppressors or their press agents? Two members of the Russian punk-rock collective Pussy Riot claim that Russian secret police arrested them and roughed them up on Tuesday. The incident took place in Sochi, just
“Last year is over and done,” World Series-winning manager John Farrell explained as the Red Sox opened spring training last week. Hope springs eternal–even though it’s not quite spring–and fans of every one of the thirty Major League Baseball teams
Fans went to a gay-rights protest Monday night and a hockey game broke out. Authorities in Sochi detained a former Italian legislator protesting at the Olympic Games for homosexual and transgender rights on Monday. Police removed Vladimir Luxuria, a man
Number 23 turns 51 today. After an early present of twins, Michael Jordan received birthday presents from two of the current NBA greats who wanna be like Mike. Last week, LeBron James announced that he’ll be on the basketball Mount
A poster of President Barack Obama golfing that says he is “Sub Par” has been spotted by Breitbart Sports outside the PGA’s Northern Trust golf tournament in Southern California near the Riviera Country Club. The “Sub Par” posters have also
Lyoto Machida hoped for a title shot with a win over Gergard Mousasi. He got the win. His title shot may have to wait. The Brazilian karate black belt put on a prototypical Lyoto Machida performance in Brazil on Saturday
The U.S.’s dramatic victory over the Russians on Saturday in Sochi shattered NBC Sports Network’s ratings records even though the game aired on Saturday morning. The game made T.J. Oshie, who scored all of the U.S.’s goals in the dramatic
The legendary Soviet Union hockey goalie who was pulled in the “Miracle on Ice” game and lit the flame in the opening ceremony for the Sochi Games said that officials correctly disallowed what appeared to be a potentially game-winning goal
When U.S. hockey star T.J. Oshie converted on four of six shootout attempts in overtime to lead the Americans to a victory over the Russians in front of Vladimir Putin on Saturday, fans changed his wikipedia page was to describe
The head of the Russian parliament’s foreign affairs committee in the country’s lower house of parliament was so livid after the U.S. beat the Russians in hockey at the Sochi Games on Saturday that he accused the U.S. of cheating.
T.J. Oshie, the American hockey player who propelled Team USA past Russia in front of Vladimir Putin on Saturday, has been hailed as an “American hero” after the game. And he’s a winner off the ice as well. He said
My name is Dennis, and I’m not an alcoholic. That’s the message NBA Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman gave to ESPN upon his emergence from three weeks in a New Jersey treatment facility. “I needed to decompress from all the
The United States men’s hockey team beat the Russians in a thrilling, riveting, and classic contest in front of Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Sochi Games 34 years after the US’s “Miracle on Ice” win at Lake Placid. The
President Barack Obama announced on Friday that Billie Jean King, who had to skip the opening ceremony in Sochi due to her mother’s illness, will be in the presidential delegation to the closing ceremony of the Sochi Games on February
On Friday, CNN host Don Lemon, who is gay, said that Johnny Weir’s flamboyance could turn people off because nobody likes “a gay minstrel show.” Weir, the former American Olympian and figure skater who is now an NBC analyst at
