Daniel J. Flynn

Guards flagged convicted murderer Aaron Hernandez for allegedly possessing a shank in his cell at the Souza Baranowski Correctional Center in Lancaster, Massachusetts.

The University of Nevada-Las Vegas commissioned its chief diversity officer to conduct a study on whether the school’s “Rebels” nickname and “Hey Reb!” mascot constitutes institutional racism. The suggestions aired in the report include replacing “Hey Reb!” with “a non-human mascot” not “gendered and raced,” creating a “blended” family of mascots exhibiting “expanded skin tones” that one campus group rejected as “heteronormative,” and depicting “Hey Reb!” as a single parent of a character called “Baby Reb!”

Conor McGregor does not face UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo until December 12. But the timing failed to stop King Conor from unveiling a grand plan for his title reign on the UFC 194 conference call.

Wladimir Klitschko intends to exercise the rematch clause in his contract with Tyson Fury.

Frankie Edgar and Chad Mendes each want to fight for the featherweight title after beating the other. But they split on a willingness to wait should a rematch between champion Jose Aldo and interim titlist Conor McGregor delay the winner of Edgar-Mendes fighting for the belt.

Tonight the 0-18 Philadelphia 76ers play the 2-14 Los Angeles Lakers. That’s a .059 winning percentage between the sad pair.

The prospect of as many as five teams with 5-7 records playing in the postseason over the next month moves conference executives to urge the NCAA to decimate games diluting the value of bowls.

Ronda Rousey’s shocking loss to Holly Holm at UFC 193 reinforces the lesson anyone’s beatable on any given day, strawweight contenders Rose Namajunas and Paige VanZant told Breitbart Sports on Monday.

Aleksey Lovchev set a clean-and-jerk world record over the weekend.

The boxing ring, seen by spectators as a squared circle of sadistic brutality, strangely serves as a refuge from violence for many practitioners of the sweet science. O’Neil Bell, the former lineal cruiserweight champion of the world, serves as a case in point.

The Philadelphia 76ers set the wrong kind of record Friday night.

Ohio Governor John Kasich officially declares today “Scarlet Letter Saturday.”

Tom Brady lamented the “junk” food handed out on Halloween last month. This month he partook in the time-honored trick-or-treat tradition of scaring small children on Thanksgiving.

Two animal-rights activists crashed the Thanksgiving party at Ford Field demanding “Animal Rights Now.”

Are the Golden State Warriors better than the Philadelphia 76ers are worse?

St. Louis Rams wide receiver Stedman Bailey endured gunshot wounds to the head on Tuesday evening.

Like a lot of foreigners working in America, Conor McGregor does not care for Donald Trump.

Harvard rolled Yale 38-19 Saturday. The victory marks the Crimson’s ninth in a row over the Bulldogs and gives them a share of the Ivy League title for the third straight season.

Jameis Winston enjoyed his best day as a pro on Sunday afternoon on Fox, throwing five touchdowns in a 45-17 road rout over the Philadelphia Eagles. On Sunday evening on CNN, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback endured a one-sided beatdown on The Hunting Ground, a documentary alleging an “epidemic” of campus sexual assault that supports the charge that Heisman Trophy-winner raped a woman while attending Florida State University.