Daniel J. Flynn

Cris “Cyborg” Santos has called out Ronda Rousey for a match. Now she’s calling her out the SI covergirl for being a mean girl.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell rejected the suggestion Wednesday of a quid pro quo between himself and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft.

Four years after largely negating kickoffs by moving them forward, the NFL has enlivened point-after touchdown (PAT) attempts by moving them backward.

Fourteen losing franchises converged on the Midtown Hyatt Ballroom in Manhattan to discover the order of the NBA Draft. The biggest loser emerged as the biggest winner.

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft announced that his team will “accept reluctantly” the punishments inflicted upon it by the NFL in the wake of the Wells Report.

The New England Patriots and the NFL pursue “back-channel conversations” to resolve the standoff between the league and the team on punishment over Deflategate, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

Not a single free man sought to escape the North to enslave himself in the South during the short history of the Underground Railroad. On Monday, a linebacker who dubbed his time with the New England Patriots “4 years a slave” re-signed with his former master.

The last time Dan Jennings managed a baseball team, George Michael’s “One More Try” ruled the pop charts. More than a quarter-century later, the Miami Marlins general manager wants to give the dugout one more try.

Under Armour has removed a t-shirt based on the iconic Joe Rosenthal photograph showing a half-dozen servicemen planting the American Flag on Iwo Jima’s Mount Suribachi.

The NFL Players Association has come out swinging on behalf of its most famous member.

Notre Dame standout Pat Connaughton out-leaped everyone at the NBA Combine on Thursday. Caucasians, rejoice! White men, or at least one white man, can indeed jump.

The NFL, defying the stated wishes of its players’ association, announced late Thursday night that Commissioner Roger Goodell will personally hear Tom Brady’s appeal of his four-game suspension.

The NFL Players Association has issued an appeal of Tom Brady’s four-game suspension on behalf of the Super Bowl MVP.

The New England Patriots today issued their own report on the Wells Report.

The New England Patriots kickoff the NFL season with a Thursday night game against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Gillette Stadium. Tom Brady won’t be there. Will Roger Goodell?

Deflategate, already offered as a for-credit college course at the University of New Hampshire, has now become a protest movement.

Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather may not have lived up to the hype in the ring. It did on the accountant’s ledger.

The NFL suspended Tom Brady four games and snatched $1 million and first- and fourth-round draft picks from the New England Patriots based on the Wells Report’s Deflategate findings. The Brady punishment’s odds of surviving appeal appear somewhat less than the quarterback’s odds of entering the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft offered full-throated support for his suspended quarterback and blasted the NFL’s punishment of Tom Brady and his team as biased.

Don Yee, Tom Brady’s agent, fired back at the NFL by calling the league’s four-game suspension of Tom Brady “ridiculous” and illegitimate.

NFL executive Troy Vincent added insult to injury in a scolding letter to Tom Brady, suspended four games by the league because an investigator found it “more probable than not” that the New England Patriots quarterback knew of a conspiracy to deflate footballs, a scheme also deemed “more probable than not.”

The Suffolk County, Massachusetts, district attorney announced new witness intimidation charges for Aaron Hernandez today based on a grand-jury indictment on Friday.

Canelo Alvarez and James Kirkland ran toward each other instead of away. They didn’t need the help of three judges to decide a winner.

The top pick in last week’s NFL Draft has filed counterclaims in U.S. District Court in Orlando against the woman who accused him of rape.

Tom Brady’s long-linked rival Peyton Manning won’t go there.