
A protest organized by Black Lives Matter Boston stopped an MBTA commuter rail train en route to Gillette Stadium on Saturday. Protestors delayed the train, picking up fans in Dedham, by jumping on the tracks with a banner saying “white silence = violence.”
by Daniel J. Flynn11 Jan 2015, 12:58 AM PST0

When Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh said of one of the offensive formations run by New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, “It’s not something that anybody has ever done before,” he didn’t mean it as a compliment.
by Daniel J. Flynn11 Jan 2015, 12:20 AM PST0

The 12th Man brings the noise. Does he make the ground shake?
by Daniel J. Flynn10 Jan 2015, 12:59 AM PST0

The Justice Department has intervened in the case brought by the Washington Redskins against the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
by Daniel J. Flynn10 Jan 2015, 12:03 AM PST0

The best weekend in football arrives in time for the worst weekend in weather. Some fans will drink on added layers and hover over parking-lot burn barrels. Other, smarter fans will wear a blanket on the couch.
by Daniel J. Flynn9 Jan 2015, 10:46 AM PST0

The NFL can’t stop Rob Gronkowski. And it can’t stop A Gronking to Remember, either.
by Daniel J. Flynn9 Jan 2015, 7:51 AM PST0

Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, appointed by the NFL as a special investigator to look into the Ray Rice affair, reports that he discovered nothing to substantiate charges that the league viewed video of Ray Rice knocking out his fiancée prior to meting out punishment.
by Daniel J. Flynn8 Jan 2015, 11:34 AM PST0

Donald Cerrone says that he accepted a fight with former UFC lightweight champion Benson Henderson scheduled two weeks and a day removed from his UFC 182 victory because he thinks he can win and, more importantly, because he’s a “s#!+-bat loon.”
by Daniel J. Flynn8 Jan 2015, 1:45 AM PST0

Nike celebrates Black History Month by selling black sneakers. Surely the folks at Converse bang their Chuck Taylors against their foreheads for not coming up with this idea the world has patiently waited 4.6 billion years for.
by Daniel J. Flynn8 Jan 2015, 12:34 AM PST0

The woman alleging that Jameis Winston raped her filed a Title IX lawsuit against Florida State University on Wednesday.
by Daniel J. Flynn7 Jan 2015, 1:03 PM PST0

UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones tested positive for cocaine a month prior to his UFC 182 title fight with Daniel Cormier.
by Daniel J. Flynn6 Jan 2015, 3:40 PM PST0

Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone, fresh off accepting a fight with Benson Henderson that will occur just 15 days after his victory over Myles Jury, tells Breitbart Sports that the UFC’s agreement with Reebok that removes all other sponsors from fighter gear in the octagon actually helps bottom-card mixed-martial artists.
by Daniel J. Flynn6 Jan 2015, 2:06 PM PST0

Donald Cerrone amazingly sparred for several rounds with Pat Healy immediately before his victory over previously undefeated Miles Jury at UFC 182 on Saturday night. For an encore, he has agreed to fight Benson Henderson for a third time just two weeks and a day after his decision victory over Jury.
by Daniel J. Flynn6 Jan 2015, 9:22 AM PST0

Allie Sherman, the diminutive Giants head coach, passed away Monday in Manhattan at 91.
by Daniel J. Flynn6 Jan 2015, 7:21 AM PST0

Jon Jones would appear in that Michael Jordan mid-1990s zone, a place where an elite athlete finds boredom in competition because competition simply doesn’t exist. He’s not.
by Daniel J. Flynn5 Jan 2015, 7:59 AM PST0

Stuart Scott understood the meaning of sports, and he revealed it not in a “War and Peace”-like treatise but through a solitary word culled from the single least used part of speech in the English language.
by Daniel J. Flynn5 Jan 2015, 5:30 AM PST0

Do believe the hype. Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier delivered an exciting main event to meet the anticipation at UFC 182. In the end, the champion beat back a game but fading challenger by outwrestling the wrestler.
by Daniel J. Flynn4 Jan 2015, 12:01 AM PST0

A different Donald Cerrone showed up in Las Vegas.
by Daniel J. Flynn3 Jan 2015, 9:20 PM PST0

A few months after the NBA celebrated its first season with more than 100 foreign players on rosters one of the association’s biggest stars laments the dearth of fundamentals imparted to American players that has led to the relative decline in U.S. players.
by Daniel J. Flynn3 Jan 2015, 2:33 PM PST0

Someone finally meets their match in tonight’s Jon Jones-Daniel Cormier match.
by Daniel J. Flynn3 Jan 2015, 10:31 AM PST0

“My real dream is not to headline in a stadium but to headline at Madison Square Garden,” light-heavyweight champion Jon Jones divulged on the conference call promoting UFC 182. “I’ve been saying it before I was champion. I do believe it will happen one day.” But that day won’t be today.
by Daniel J. Flynn3 Jan 2015, 12:12 AM PST0

The Oregon Ducks put a 59-20 thrashing on the Florida State Seminoles in the Rose Bowl. But the scoreboard, several Ducks players thought, didn’t say enough.
by Daniel J. Flynn2 Jan 2015, 12:01 AM PST0

Jameis Winston made history on New Year’s Day. He lost.
by Daniel J. Flynn2 Jan 2015, 12:01 AM PST0

He’s proud to be an American. They’re ashamed that he’s singing at their hockey game.
by Daniel J. Flynn31 Dec 2014, 9:20 AM PST0

Jon Jones lied three months ago. He told the truth last night. We should applaud the latter rather than bellyache over the former.
by Daniel J. Flynn30 Dec 2014, 1:04 PM PST0