Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner, GM Brian Sabean, and manager Bruce Bochy all acted like they had been there before (because they had). Rikk Wilde, evidently, hadn’t. The “all-new, 2015 Chevy Colorado” can have that effect on a man. Rikk Wilde,
The San Francisco Giants, the team that opened the seasonwith the seventh-highest payroll in baseball, defeated the Kansas City Royals, whichhad risen from dead last in 2011 to nineteenth this year, to win the WorldSeries. With $154 million in salaries
Sunday witnessed a tale of three NFL celebrations thoroughly denigrated on Monday. Buffalo Bills receiver Sammy Watkins appeared on his way to an 89-yard touchdown after catching a Kyle Orton pass. But the rookie transformed six points into a mere
On Thursday, PGA of America President Ted Bishop compared English golfer Ian Poulter to a “little school girl squealing.” On Friday, the PGA of America ousted Ted Bishop. After Poulter treated Nick Faldo and Tom Watson harshly in his book
The underwear police, aka the Department of Homeland Security, raided Birdies Panties in Kansas City earlier this week. The store’s offense? Selling underwear with a K connecting with a C on the rear. The Kansas City Royals also embrace such
How soon until fans hear “God Save the Queen” before NFL games? British treasury chancellor George Osborne told the London Evening Standard that he has been in talks with the NFL to bring a franchise to Wembley Stadium. “This is
A long-awaited report by former federal prosecutor Kenneth Wainstein alleges that thousands of student-athletes at the University of North Carolina took easy-A, no-show classes in the school’s African and Afro-American Studies Department (AFAM) over an 18-year period. The UNC-authorized report
A spectre is haunting baseball–the spectre of the Kansas City Royals deposing baseball’s royalty. The Karl Marx theory of the World Series wouldn’t see diamond have-nots rising up against the diamond haves until the passage of a revenue-sharing revolution. What
Cain Velasquez has pulled out of his UFC 180 heavyweight championship bout with Fabricio Werdum citing a meniscus injury. The heavyweight champion’s departure from the main event deals a major blow to the promotion. The November 15 card represented the
“Why doesn’t anyone tweet out the wager receipt when they lose?” we asked last week. Floyd Mayweather apparently reads. The undefeated welterweight finally posted a sports-book defeat. After grabbing close to $800,000 on the Cardinals over the homedog Raiders on
Mathew McConaughey partied with Earl Campbell at the University of Texas. The Green Bay Packers drafted his dad. And don’t forget that he once held a joint subcommittee meeting on the 50-yard line with Lee High’s star quarterback Randall “Pink”
If you could drive a DeLorean three decades into the past, you’d likely stumble upon a dark hall full of Americans captivated by the idea of driving a DeLorean three decades into the past. You would also find a small-market
ESPN’s College GameDay came to Tallahassee. And Tallahassee told College GameDay to go back to Bristol. Before Florida State beat Notre Dame, Florida State’s fans beat up ESPN. Seminoles fans, citing bias in ESPN’s coverage of embattled quarterback Jameis Winston
WORCESTER, MA–“Courage,” trainer Carlos Garcia says of what separates light heavyweight Edwin Rodriguez from his peers. “He doesn’t give up. He has what you call the ‘cojones.’” A year after taking a beating in a decision loss to Andre Ward,
“Ignorant,” “moron,” and “idiot” read as a few of the printable words applied to Cincinnati Bengals Head Coach Marvin Lewis in the wake of his “lingering” concussions comment. But newly-published scientific researched actually supports the coach rather than his critics.
War Machine, who preferred sleep to submission in his three losses by choke, attempted to tap out on life in the Clark County, Nevada, jail at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday by strangulation. The caged fighter reportedly tied one end of a
Unemployed, facing a new mouth to feed, and burdened with two house payments, I made the perfectly defensible decision, at least in the eyes of boxing die-hards, to spend $50 to order the Roy Jones-Joe Calzaghe pay-per view six years
Matt Hughes owns victories over cage-fighting legends Royce Gracie, Georges St. Pierre, B.J. Penn, Sean Sherk, and Matt Serra. Dan Hardy occupies a lower place on the mixed-martial-arts foodchain, which might explain his spirited defense of zebras, lions, elephants, and
Dan Snyder watched his Redskins play the Cardinals on Sunday alongside Ben Shelly, president of the Navajo Nation, and his wife Martha. Snyder’s team lost the game on the field as they won a public-relations victory in the visiting owner’s
What happens on bye week doesn’t always stay on bye week. Dolphins defensive end Derrick Shelby won’t lace up his cleats this weekend. He allegedly didn’t wrap up another part of his body his last weekend. Broward County cops arrested
Katy Perry has agreed to play the Super Bowl halftime show according to numerous reports. The event takes place at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on February 1. “I would be honored, of course,” Perry told ESPN’s GameDay
Jason Miller has defeated the likes of Robbie Lawler, Kazushi Sakuraba, and Tim Kennedy. But the cage fighter proved no match for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. They put him in their cage. The former star of MTV’s Bully Beatdown
Media hype surrounding sports concussions harms athletes enduring the injury and the promise of litigation payoffs results in prolonged reporting of symptoms, says a new article in a medical journal. “Research has shown that compensation and litigation factors are the
It took 2,567 days for Jermain Taylor to regain the middleweight title that he lost to Kelly Pavlik in 2007. Bad Intentions knocked down Sam Soliman four times last night to regain the IBF’s share of the crown that once
