The San Francisco Giants visited President Obama for the third time in five years on Thursday. The Giants defeated the Kansas City Royals in an exciting seven-game series highlighted by the postseason heroics of Madison Bumgarner.
At the 1958 NFL Championship Game, Commissioner Bert Bell, who the previous year mandated white vs. color jerseys to cater to black-and-white sets, sat in the corner of the Baltimore Colts locker room weeping. He understood what the overtime victory over the New York Giants—The Greatest Game Ever Played—meant for the NFL.
Game 1 of the NBA Finals begins, after a lengthy respite, on Thursday as the Cleveland Cavaliers visit Oakland to take on the Golden State Warriors.
In the 1970s and ’80s, Edwin Moses won 122 straight hurdles races as a clean track and field athlete. Now, as chairman of the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), the two-time Olympic gold medalist seeks to rid sports of dirty competitors.
“Your number one,” the UFC tells its fighters, “in a cup right now.”
MLB wants shorter games. It’s low scoring games, such as Tuesday night’s 1-0 affair at Fenway, that generally make a long story short. Is that really what MLB wants?
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell outlined his reasons for not recusing himself from Tom Brady’s suspension appeal in a letter to the NFL Players Association released on Tuesday.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter resigned on Tuesday. The resignation comes just four days after Blatter won reelection to a fifth term and less than a week after a raid led to police taking away more than a half dozen of
“Dude, I wonder if this is that fighter’s car, Jon Jones,” one Albuquerque cop says to the other. “I wouldn’t doubt it, bro. They said he was really tall.”
Allen Iverson infamously derided it as just “practice.” Buffalo Bills coach Rex Ryan commanded his team to skip it today and play golf instead.
Harriette Thompson ran Sunday’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon in San Diego in 7 hours, 24 minutes, and 36 seconds. Her time, on this planet rather than in the race, makes that a record.
A new academic study finds that college football games in which the point spread and over-under total remain up for grabs late tend to enjoy higher television ratings than ones in which the gambling winners and losers appear as foregone conclusions early.
Hours after FIFA’s spokesman reasoned that a “presumption of innocence” required keeping the group’s officials arrested in a corruption dragnet in their positions, the international soccer governing body reversed itself and banned eleven people from involvement in the game.
FIFA characterizes Wednesday morning’s corruption arrests of its officials as “the consequences of what we initiated.” But the international governing body for soccer refuses to initiate consequences or for the FIFA officials arrested thus far.
To say that Walter De Gregorio’s presser exuded a Kevin Bacon, remain-calm-all-is-well vibe would be understating matters.
FIFA insists that despite the corruption arrests of more than a dozen officials and businessmen associated with the group, Russia and Qatar will host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups as planned.
FIFA plans to hold an election this Friday for its highest office despite the arrest of officials of the soccer governing body in a corruption investigation.
The Houston Rockets finally ended their drought against the Golden State Warriors. And then the skies opened.
“Touch ’em all” means a home run. “Touch ’em all” also means, well, touch ’em all.
Michael Sam transitioned from the SEC to the NFL as the most celebrated seventh-round pick in football history. Should he transition from the CFL to the NFL, he will have succeeded in navigating the road less traveled.
The University of North Carolina Tar Heels won three NCAA men’s basketball titles as their players cheated their way to eligibility. The academic misconduct of players past may turn the dreams of a 2016 NCAA title of players present into a nightmare.
Fight fans watch one of the most stacked cards in recent mixed-martial arts history tonight on pay-per view. But before they see UFC 187’s main card, viewers hear the less-recent noise of nu metal.
Daniel Cormier takes on Anthony “Rumble” Johnson for the UFC light heavyweight championship on Saturday night. In other words, the winner claims the title of “second best.”
James Joyce, the umpire and not the novelist, ejected Will Smith, the relief pitcher and not the actor, from Thursday night’s Atlanta Braves-Milwaukee Brewers game.
Aaron Hernandez pleaded not guilty in court on Thursday. His neck tattoo begged to differ.
