When you brazenly cheat on your wife, make racist comments about African Americans, and oversee one of the most consistently pathetic franchises in sports, you’re not going to win any popularity contests. A new survey by E-Poll Market Research found
Pacers guard Lance Stephenson scored last night by blowing air into LeBron James’s ear on national television. LeBron James scored just seven points. Has Stephenson invaded LeBron’s head as he seems to have invaded everybody else’s? “No, it’s just buffoonery,”
Chael Sonnen repeatedly, and some would say bizarrely, claimed that Wanderlei Silva would find a way to worm out of their long-awaited fight. It turns out that the American Gangster knew his opponent better than the fans did. The Nevada
Clean-cut Chris Weidman doesn’t much look like an outlaw. But that’s how his home state treats competitors in the undefeated UFC middleweight champion’s profession. New York, once a mecca for fight fans, now shoos those fans away in its ban–the
Johnny Football and Renan Barao surely feel a bit groggy in the wake of Memorial Day Weekend. Welcome to the Sports Hangover. Johnny Vegas Johnny Manziel partied by the pool with Rob Gronkowski and DJ Pauly D and a bunch
If jocks were a race or sports were a religion, it would be easy to see Elliot Rodger’s murder spree as a hate crime. “I don’t know why you girls aren’t attracted to me, but I will punish you
On a night when T.J. Dillashaw shocked the mixed-martial arts world by upsetting Renan Barao for the bantamweight belt, UFC 173 witnessed two blasts from the promotion’s past head in different directions on the fight’s main card. Dan Henderson
T.J. Dillashaw shocked the mixed-martial arts world with a dominant performance that ended with an exclamation point. The Team Alpha Male product followed up a fifth-round head kick with hammerfists to put an end to Renan Barao’s reign as bantamweight
The commissioner of Major League Baseball owes the very existence of his office to the insistence of the first man to hold it that the game needs a single person outside of it and above its internecine disputes to preside
“Three men have changed the face of baseball,” 288-game winner Tommy John tells Breitbart Sports. “The three men are Jackie Robinson, for breaking the color barrier; Marvin Miller, for creating free agency; and Dr. Frank Jobe for Tommy John surgery.
Marshawn Lynch goes into Beast Mode on the gridiron. Everywhere else he pretty much goes into Meek Mode. The Seattle Seahawks running back skipped the team’s obligatory visit to the White House yesterday. “No particular reason was given to me,”
A class-action lawsuit brought by Jim McMahon, Jeremy Newberry, Roy Green, and five other NFL retirees seeks damages for alleged medical misconduct by league doctors and trainers in liberally dispensing various pharmaceuticals. The NFL insists that they put the health
Joel Embiid left a country deemed unfree by human rights organizations to play basketball. Is the draft by which the Cameroon-by-way-of-Kansas seven-footer gets to live his dream also a despotic institution? Sports drafts have been decried as socialistic schemes that
Lawsuit settlements beget more lawsuits to settle. This stands as a reason why the late NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle fought the USFL in court rather than surrendered in a lawyer’s office. The NFL lost that lawsuit. In winning triple damages
Tommy John has been retired for a quarter century, but the sinkerballer’s name strangely remains in the conversation more than any current player in Major League Baseball. Nineteen major leaguers, including two of the game’s best young aces–Patrick Corbin of
The Cleveland Cavaliers, entering the NBA draft lottery with a 1.7 percent chance of winning the top pick in the draft, won the drawing for the third time in four years Tuesday night. A positive sign came for the Cavs
A 17-degree mean temperature plus $498 million in corporate welfare equals a Super Bowl. The NFL’s owners voted today to award Super Bowl 52 to Minneapolis. The vote comes as a payback to Minnesota for pouring at least $498 million
The NFL’s 32 owners decide on a site location for Super Bowl 52 today. Three finalists–New Orleans, Indianapolis, and Minneapolis–compete to hold the big game in 2018. Indianapolis is a nice place to live but would you want to visit
Undefeated welterweight Floyd Mayweather has announced a September 13 date for his next fight. The fight date, coming as it does six weeks after Ramadan, surely won’t please one of his potential foes. “Look, Ramadan only comes once a year
The Sports Hangover recuperates from a weekend of a final-furlong-finish Preakness, the NBA and NHL playoffs weeding out weakness, and an MMA card with several losing fighters peddling a grievance. Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Beautiful “F— France and F—
The concussion crusaders who have attacked American football now set their sights on European football. When does the ban come on “duck, duck, goose” head patting? Association football, a phrase that degenerated into “soccer,” shares a name, eleven players to
Are concussions minor injuries not worthy of a public fuss or a scourge requiring a White House mind-meld meeting? The Obama Administration announced on Thursday the White House Healthy Kids and Safe Sports Concussion Summit, an event scheduled for May
Jason Collins proved in his return to the NBA this season that he no longer possesses the skills or athleticism he enjoyed when the New Jersey Nets drafted him in the first round thirteen years ago. He also proved that
Martin Perez became the latest MLB pitcher to opt for Tommy John surgery to heal a ligament tear in his throwing arm. The decision comes on the heels of the Miami Marlins losing ace Jose Fernandez to the procedure. By
Michael Sam, the only NFL seventh-round draft choice to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated, in a Visa commercial, and within a White House tweet, also boasts his own reality television program. Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network will broadcast the
