Daniel J. Flynn

A good general knows when to cut his losses.  The Army National Guard has dropped its sponsorship of Dale Earnhardt Jr. after spending tens of millions of dollars with next to nothing to show for the expenditure by way of

Dustin Johnson may be suspended from the PGA Tour (or he may not be). But he’s not suspended from playing golf. The controversial golfer shot a 61, according to Golf Digest, in recent days at the Gozzer Ranch Golf and

Major League Baseball’s owners will reportedly vote on August 14 on a new commissioner. The owners choose from MLB chief operating officer Rob Manfred, MLB executive vice president for business Tim Brosnan, and former Padres owner and current Red Sox

What’s a gnome Werth? On eBay, possessors of the one-day-old Jayson Werth garden gnome demand as much as $199.99. But the plastic doodad commands bids at just above the $50 mark. You can ask for anything. People don’t have to

One would think that at 61 Paul Serbu would empathize more than most with the motionless Morlocks inhabiting graveyards. Baltimore County, Maryland police have charged the Franklin, Ohio man with disorderly conduct in a cemetery for allegedly urinating on the

He gets the palm-over-fist pose perfect, flashes the championship bling, and dons the all black suit for the occasion. Brian Scalabrine calls his article “I’m Coming Home” and even signifies authorship with the line “by Brian Scalabrine as told by

Oscar De La Hoya invested his ring winnings in a boxing promotion. The man that retired him has put his money into mixed-martial arts. Does Manny Pacquiao know where combat-sports world spins?  Kevin Iole reports that Pac Man has invested

Levi’s Stadium sells vegan hot dogs, bans throwing footballs in its parking lots, and offers wine for $12 a non-glass glass. You can take the 49ers out of San Francisco. But you can’t take San Francisco out of their stadium.

David Blatt trailblazed an NBA head coaching job straight from an overseas league, lucked into one of the best players in NBA history joining his roster, and appears primed to compliment LeBron James in the frontcourt with the likely acquisition

In the 1970s, Barry Obama would shout “Interception!” to them as he took a hit off a joint out of turn. This weekend, he shouts “fore!” with the reunited members of the Choom Gang. The president spends his birthday weekend

If you walk up to the heavyweight champion of the world’s lunch table, taunt him, and proceed to eat the food off his plate, one of the alphabet-soup sanctioning bodies should make you the mandatory challenger by virtue of your

Paul George’s 2014-2015 NBA season hasn’t even begun. It’s already over. The Indiana Pacers all-star suffered a gruesome right leg injury in a Team USA scrimmage in Las Vegas Friday night. The fractured fibula and tibia came on a James

Everlast sells competition boxing gloves for $72.50 on Amazon. Heritage Auctions sold the pair Muhammad Ali wore in his first fight with Joe Frazier for $388,375. The fight, Ali’s third since his reinstatement after his draft evasion suspension, sold out

A buffed and big-mouthed Shannon Briggs crashed a Wladimir Klitschko training session in Florida earlier this week in hopes of coaxing the heavyweight champion to give him a title shot. “Every time I see you champ you’re fighting bums,” Briggs

The Boston Red Sox stuck with Jon Lester through cancer and the chicken-and-beer controversy. But enduring a first-to-worst season and facing an expensive price-tag to retain the soon-to-be free agent, the Red Sox decided to deal Lester in the hours

In 1940, the Chicago Bears slaughtered the Washington Redskins 73-0 in the NFL championship game. The team looks to avoid any such lopsided outcome on the debate over the franchise’s logo and name by launching “Redskins Facts,” a website advertised

Anderson Silva has a name and a date. The former middleweight champion returns after a 13-month hiatus at UFC 183 to fight the recently un-retired Nick Diaz on January 31, 2015. The fight marks the legendary cage fighter’s first appearance

Joe Riggs’s long, strange trip back to the UFC got even stranger this week. The welterweight veteran found himself out of his next fight and in the hospital after shooting himself in the hand and thigh while cleaning his pistol.

Hillary Clinton called the name Redskins “insensitive” in an interview with Jorge Ramos of Fusion TV. The former senator joins fifty Democrats in the upper chamber of Congress in calling for the team to ditch its 81-year-old moniker. “I think

Maryland law enforcement made a blackhearted Browns fan feel blue today after announcing his pending arrest for giving the green grass of Art Modell’s grave a golden shower. The longtime Browns owner absconded from Cleveland with the team in the

Police in Scottsdale arrested Phoenix Suns forward P.J. Tucker for “Super Extreme DUI” back in May. The sports media apparently just found out–about the arrest and the existence of a charge called “Super Extreme DUI.” The Arizona arrest came long

When you try to roll strangers, you really roll the dice. Houston thieves discovered this the hard way earlier this month. Spotting an employee returning to the Fuel Depot from the bank, a trio of robbers attempted to make an

Everyone has an opinion on the name of Washington’s football team. John Madden’s reads as more cryptic than most. The boss of Madden’s former network, CBS Sports President Sean McManus, recently said he would allow announcers to not say “Redskins”

Noad Lahat won the biggest fight of his young career in a unanimous decision victory over cage-fighting veteran Steven Siler on Saturday night. Now he prepares for the fight of his life.  The Israeli reservist looks to rejoin his fighting