The sound that followed the sight of Odell Beckham Jr.’s catch wasn’t a deafening roar but a confused murmur. The MetLife Stadium live crowd didn’t believe their own eyes. “That may be the greatest catch I’ve ever seen in my
Cub Swanson had no answer for “The Answer.” Frankie Edgar punished Swanson for five rounds before gaining the latest stoppage in UFC history. A confident Cub Swanson landed more significant strikes in the first round but Frankie Edgar employed wrestling
BOSTON–The Only Game That Matters really, really mattered this year. A full house of 31,062 at Harvard Stadium, $30 tickets peddled for $120 by guys in track suits boasting neither Harvard nor high school degrees, and ESPN’s College GameDay trekking
Curt Schilling fought the Law–and the Law lost. ESPN has strangely suspended baseball commentator Keith Law from Twitter after he ridiculed critics of evolution, including the former pitcher, on his account. The network contends that the timeout has nothing–“absolutely nothing,”
War Machine pleaded not guilty on Thursday. His neck tattoos colorfully said otherwise. The mixed-martial artist stood in a Las Vegas courtroom on charges of a brutal August attack on porn star Christy Mack and a late-night male companion. This
Last month, Jermain Taylor remarkably recaptured a share of the middleweight crown. This month, the good-guy boxer more remarkably finds himself facing 26 years in prison. Prosecutors on Wednesday charged the 2006 Arkansan of the Year with first degree battery
A beleaguered Rick Pitino famously lectured Boston Celtics fans that Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, and Robert Parish would not be “walking through that door.” Dana White has spent the last three years playing that wet-blanket role in pushing a flailing
Less than two days after exploding for 201 rushing yards on Sunday Night Football, unheralded power back Jonas Gray exploded onto the cover of Sports Illustrated. Rushing for four touchdowns in primetime television tends to have that effect on a
The chief operating officer of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) tells Breitbart Sports that gambling is “good for sport” and “good for the UFC,” making the mixed-martial arts (MMA) outfit the second major sports brand, behind the NBA, to endorse
What happened in Vegas didn’t stay in Vegas. TMZ reports that the Clark County district attorney has charged Los Angeles Clippers forward Blake Griffin with a count of battery. The misdemeanor carries a maximum penalty of six months in jail
On a day when ESPN’s Outside the Lines exposed more than two-dozen cases since 2000 of NFL players guilty of domestic violence not missing a down in the league, the four-letter network earlier this week hired retired cage fighter Chael
Mr. October owns Major League Baseball’s strikeout mark. Canton-bound Brett Favre sits atop the NFL’s list of most interceptions thrown. Kobe Bryant hit the NBA mark for misses on Tuesday night. The Lakers guard scored 28 points in last night’s
In the midst of UCLA’s magical John Wooden-era run, Lew Alcindor and Lucius Allen, frustrated over money and perceived ill-treatment, plotted transfers to Michigan State. A Los Angeles businessman and UCLA booster, Sam Gilbert, stepped in and provided Alcindor and
A Baltimore Ravens cheerleader hurt her neck, back, and head landing at the wrong end of her body during a sideline stunt on Sunday. Her fellow cheerleaders had thrown the injured woman up in the air before she hit the
The MBTA doesn’t extend to the Georgia-Tennessee border. That doesn’t mean a runner in the Chickamauga Battlefield Marathon can’t pull a Rosie Ruiz. Tabitha Hamilton won the race on the women’s side with a time of 2:55:39. That’s 23:43 off
The patriarchy, not content with its suzerainty over wombs through the sexist demand that women buy their own birth control, has invaded the soccer pitch to ensure that men and women compete on unlevel playing fields. Thirteen members of the
A Delaware grand jury accuses the oldest cheerleader in NFL history with partaking in sex acts with a boy younger than the law, and decency, allow. A Sussex County, Delaware, grand jury indicted Molly Shattuck, an author, fitness-video guru, former
Arnold Schwarzenegger transitioned from bodybuilder to actor to governor of California. New York Knicks forward Bill Bradley was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame and the United States Senate. Bob Mathias won a decathlon gold medal at the Olympics
Ed Gillespie, like the Washington Redskins, figured to be a longshot this year. But with the aid of the local team, the Virginia Republican finds himself in a Senate race too close to call the day after the election. “Senate
Bernard Hopkins insists that the media doesn’t cover his late-career accomplishments “because I’m black.” He’s half right–but for the wrong reasons. The 49-year-old light-heavyweight titlist told ESPN that if he were white with an ethnic surname, “I’d be on every
Protestors, some dressed in traditional Native American garb, descended upon the University of Minnesota’s TCF Bank Stadium on Sunday to denounce the nickname of Washington’s NFL team. The people wearing horned helmets and wielding giant mallets showed up in Minneapolis to cheer
A Houston attorney has filed a $50 million lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in U.S. District Court in Texas on behalf of a former Longhorns football player. Julius Whittier, an attorney who broke the gridiron colorline at
Georges St. Pierre may not have seen the big overhand right of Matt Serra. But he claims to have caught a good glimpse of another flying object. “I never talk about aliens,” the former UFC welterweight champion confessed to Chael
Fans tuning-in to Game Seven of the World Series witnessed an astronomical phenomenon as much as a sporting event. Madison Bumgarner, who won two games, saved the finale, and boasted a .43 earned-run average against the Kansas City Royals, became
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are ‘It might have been.’–Kurt Vonnegut Kansas City Royals fans will debate for years whether third-base coach Mike Jirschele should have flashed green instead of red. Like Red Sox fans
