“This decision today proves neither my guilt nor my innocence,” Mumia Abu-Jamal told a Philadelphia courtroom 32 years ago this month. “It proves merely that the system is finished. Babylon is falling!! Long live MOVE!! Long live John Africa!” More
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
The host of The NFL Today on CBS says that the Washington Redskins should change the team name. “If the name is offensive to a group of people, then do the right thing and change the name,” James Brown declared
It’s one Diaz down and another to go for the UFC. Nick Diaz retired from his retirement on Thursday. The welterweight mixed-martial artist has been away from the octagon since his March 2013 defeat to Georges St. Pierre. St. Pierre’s
Don’t play in traffic. Keep an eye on oncoming vehicles. Look both ways before before stepping into the street. Simple parental wisdom seems lost on the dumb people wielding smart phones at the Tour de France. As technology advances common
Hunter Pence saved the Phillie Phanatic. Then he saved the Giants. The right fielder heroically performed mouth-to-snout resuscitation on the 35-year-old mascot listed as hailing from the Galapagos Islands but rumored to come from outer space. The fat phat Phillie
Hall of Famer Lou Groza described the Art Modell-engineered exodus of the Browns from Cleveland as “like some man walking off with your wife.” Nearly two decades later, and two years after the exiting owner’s death, Groza’s analogy, and the
Daniel Cormier wanted to fight Jon Jones. Jon Jones wanted to fight Daniel Cormier. Swedish striker Alexander Gustafsson cooperated by bowing out of his UFC 178 rematch with the champion due to a torn meniscus. Fans miss out on a
A century ago in No Man’s Land on the Western Front, a soccer game broke out during a war. Yesterday in Austria, a war broke out during a soccer game. In the second half of a match between Maccabi Haifa
One of the benefits to NBC in posting rather than broadcasting Tony Dungy’s apology is that there’s no risk in the cameraman clumsily panning back to reveal the machine gun pointed at the Sunday Night Football analyst’s head. NBC didn’t
What does Tony Dungy’s late son have to do with the Super Bowl-winning coach’s admission that he would have passed on openly-gay pass rusher Michael Sam in the draft? Everything, according to those lurking in the darkest recesses of the
Tony Dungy issued the obligatory apology today regarding comments about Michael Sam appearing Monday in the Tampa Tribune. “I wouldn’t have taken him,” Dungy said in Monday’s paper. “Not because I don’t believe Michael Sam should have a chance to
Let bite-gones be bite-gones. Mike Tyson will give the induction speech for Evander Holyfield when the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame enshrines the Real Deal next month. Iron Mike infamously bit both of Holyfield’s ears in their 1997 rematch in
California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a bill that limits contact in football practices during the season and prohibits it during the offseason. The Assemblyman Ken Cooley-sponsored bill states, “A high school or middle school football team shall not
Tony Dungy wouldn’t have drafted Michael Sam. He won’t be getting a reality-television show from Oprah or a shout-out from the president for his candor. “I wouldn’t have taken him,” Dungy told the Tampa Tribune. “Not because I don’t believe
Detroit needs an assist. In exchange for several hundred million dollars, the Red Wings promise to give them one. The Ilitch family owning the Detroit Red Wings and Joe Louis Arena (and Little Caesar’s) unveiled plans for a new arena
Rory McIlroy enjoys a six-shot lead heading into the final round of the British Open. His father saw this coming–ten years ago. According to British sports broadcaster Andrew Cotter, Gerry McIlroy placed a legal wager in 2004 on his 15-year-old
The Minnesota Vikings suspended special teams coach Mike Priefer for three games on Friday for making an anti-gay comment in 2012. The disciplinary action comes as a result of accusations made by disgruntled cut punter Chris Kluwe against his former
Evander Holyfield, as Hasim Rahman could attest, has a hard head. So, whose fists hit the Real Deal’s hammer head the hardest? Mike Tyson? Lennox Lewis? Riddick Bowe? Holyfield tells TMZ Sports that a smiley grill salesman 18-years removed from
Manny Pacquiao’s next opponent is undefeated. He’s also unheralded. Pac Man named his adversary for his next fight. It’s New Yorker Chris Algieri, who owns wins over Ruslan Provodnikov and Mighty Mike Arnaoutis but just eight knockouts in twenty fights.
CBS Sports Chairman Sean McManus tells the Hollywood Reporter in a lengthy interview that the network will leave it up to their on-air talent whether to say “Redskins” or not on the air. Several major sports journalists, including Peter King
Two of the most exciting fighters on the UFC roster capped off an action-packed Atlantic City card on Wednesday night that featured six stoppages in the six scheduled televised fights. In the main event, New Jersey fighter Jim Miller pleased
UFC President Dana White backed up the assertions of his promotion’s women’s champion by boasting in May that Ronda Rousey would “badly” hurt Floyd Mayweather in a cage. Two months later, Mayweather has hurt Rousey “badly” by responding to a
The NFL loves staging games on Thanksgiving, the NBA on Christmas, and the NHL on New Year’s Day. What’s so special about July 16 that Major League Baseball awards their players a day of rest and reflection? Is it to
“The habitual users run a serious chance of getting into severe trouble,” American League President Bobby Brown told the Chicago Tribune in 1989. “The statistics show that a person who uses the tobacco on a regular basis has a 50-times
The All-Stars of Major League Baseball play Tuesday night in Minneapolis. Earlier in the day, the All-Stars of the mascot world gathered on the grass at Target Field. Several of the mascot All-Stars showed up naked to the team picture.
SMH Bill Belichick may not like to talk. He loves to text. LOL! The prosecution in the Aaron Hernandez murder case–The case involving one dead friend and not two dead strangers–possesses 33 pages worth of texts between the former Patriots
Nearly a half century separates Joey Logano from Morgan Shepherd. On Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, daylight didn’t even separate the pair. Logano, in second place on Sunday, saw his hopes to win, place, or show dashed when he
WORCESTER, MA–It’s about two hours after the Germans have captured their fourth World Cup and first without a divisive geographic prefix. The Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra transitions into “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina.” Musicians, like comics, possess a good sense of
When an elbow injury forced Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka to the disabled list, thoughts raced to Tommy John surgery. But the Japanese phenom opted for rehabilitation. That’s becoming increasingly unusual. Jose Fernandez, Bronson Arroyo, Patrick Corbin, and 21 other major
This time, like the last time, LeBron drags out the decision. But it’s the enormous ego of Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert, not that of the best basketball player on the planet, that prolongs the drama. “If it wasn’t for
Floyd Mayweather has announced his next opponent. It’s his last opponent. The welterweight champion will take on Marcos Maidana on September 13. Mayweather won a memorable majority decision victory over the Argentine brawler on May 3. Maidana gave Mayweather one
The sun also rises. So does Bill Hillmann. The 32-year-old Hillmann, who co-authored Fiesta: How to Survive the Bulls of Pamplona, did just that yesterday. The Chicago bull-running enthusiast, dressed in customary white, encountered the biggest bovine in the lot
