After scoring a touchdown in Friday’s preseason game, Raiders running back Maurice Jones Drew appeared to make the “hands up, don’t shoot” gesture that the Ferguson protesters have popularized after Michael Brown’s death. The Redskins’ secondary also made the gesture
A top African soccer player died this weekend after he was reportedly hit in the head with a rock that was thrown from the stands. According to news reports, “24-year-old striker Albert Ebosse of JS Kabylie died at the hospital
On the final day of his Martha’s Vineyard vacation on Saturday, President Barack Obama hit the golf course again. It was his ninth golfing outing during his vacation. According to pool reports, Obama again golfed with former NBA and Georgetown
The future is finally now for the Cleveland Cavaliers. The team completed the much-anticipated deal for Kevin Love on Saturday afternoon. Love averaged 26.1 points and 12.5 rebounds a game last season for Minnesota. At 25, the three-time All-Star gives
Johnny Manziel lost his cool. Now he will lose $12,000. The NFL fined the Browns backup for his middle-finger gesture aimed at the Redskins sideline on Monday Night Football earlier this week. The Redskins had been taunting Manziel for much
The Boston Red Sox landed Cuban defector Yoenis Cespedes in a trade last month. Friday, they added another Cuban defector to their outfield. The Sox signed vaunted centerfielder Rusney Castillo to a $72.5 million contract that will make him Boston’s
The 49ers, with a taxpayer assist, broke the bank on their new Santa Clara stadium. They apparently went cheap on the grass. The team cut short their public practice on Wednesday after players lost footing and created massive divots on
The Little League World Series drew Major League ratings for ESPN Wednesday night. The game between teams from Philadelphia and Las Vegas captured a 3.4 rating for the network in primetime. Viewers in Philadelphia spiked ratings in the City of
Kevin Durant won an MVP award earlier this year. Now he looks to win a $285 million sneaker deal. ESPN’s Darren Rovell reports that Durant received an endorsement offer from Under Armour worth between $265 million and $285 million over
Tony Stewart will not be racing in NASCAR’s race at Bristol Motor Speedway on Saturday night. Stewart-Haas Racing said that Jeff Burton will fill in for Stewart once again. This marks the third NASCAR event that Stewart will have missed
How ’bout them Cowboys? Forbes released its annual valuation of all 32 NFL franchises. While Jerry Jones’s team remains mired in mediocrity on the field, it plays as the envy of the NFL off of the field. The magazine estimates
Mo’Ne Davis has achieved something none of her male counterparts wearing a Little League uniform ever could. The Mo’Ne Davis Sports Illustrated cover has arrived. And the magazine comes just in time to jinx the 13-year-old as she takes the
Welcome to the NFL. Ryan Kerrigan sacked Johnny Manziel in the first quarter of the Cleveland-Washington preseason game. Redskins teammate Brian Orakpo added insult to the setback by rubbing his thumbs and fingers together in the iconic “money” gesture that Manziel
Roger Clemens won induction to the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame with shortstop Nomar Garciaparra, radio broadcaster Joe Castiglione, and fellow righty Pedro Martinez on Thursday. If the Cy Young Award-winner from the Dominican Republic had any say in
Yellow means caution, not throw caution to the wind. That’s the message of a new rule introduced by NASCAR in the wake of the death of Kevin Ward Jr. The new rule states that “if a race car is involved
Tony Stewart will not compete in a NASCAR race at the Michigan International Speedway on Sunday, the driver announced Thursday. This marks the second consecutive race the driver will have skipped. The announcement came on the heels of the Ward
Those post-Super Bowl, pre-Opening Day blues are about to get bluer. The NBA expands its All-Star break to an eight-game minimum for the 2014-2015 season. By way of comparison, MLB breaks for a three-day minimum during its All-Star break. NHL,
When the politicians speak, the politician’s son listens. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, according to a report in the Washington Post–a few politicians read that paper–looks to increase the penalties for players involved in domestic violence. A source familiar with the
BYU wide receiver Devon Blackmon has allegedly been suspended for the team’s first game for wearing earrings. “Rules are rules … Abide by them or suffer the consequences … Looking forward to the Texas game,” Blackmon reportedly Tweeted on Tuesday,
On Wednesday, Tiger Woods removed himself from Ryder Cup consideration to heal his ailing back. Ryder Cup captain and fellow Stanford alum Tom Watson was considering choosing Woods as a captain’s pick, but Woods made the decision for him. “I’ve
When Oakland goes into battle with other NFL teams, Raider Nation goes with them. Coaches may rethink the wisdom of inter-team preseason practices, popular with Bill Belichick and other elite field generals, after the Raiders-Cowboys brawl on Tuesday. “The brawl
Rory McIlory feels he is winning majors again because he broke off his engagement with tennis star Caroline Wozniacki. “I think what happened has been for the better in terms of my golf,” McIlroy said before the final round of
Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder’s Original Americans Foundation purchased art from members of the Zuni Pueblo tribe on Monday. A self-described Native American “sketch comedy group based in the wooded ghettos of Minnesota and buffalo grass of Oklahoma” sought to
Tony Stewart, two days removed from a fatal sprint-car accident, has been removed–or removed himself–from a scheduled dirt-track sprint-car race in Indiana. The Bob Newton Classic will take place without the three-time NASCAR Sprint Series champion on Saturday night. “We
War Machine had a bummer weekend. The mixed-martial artist, porn star, and sometime denizen of correctional facilities remains the prime suspect in an early Friday morning intergender assault that left a man and a woman requiring treatment. War Machine dates
