Daniel J. Flynn

Is abortion now a litmus test gauging whether one is morally qualified to own a basketball team? Floyd Mayweather’s tweet condemning abortion has sparked the alleged mother of his aborted twins to suggest that the opinion disqualifies the boxer from

Floyd Mayweather, who faces the heavy-handed Marcos Maidana on pay-per view Saturday night from Las Vegas, tweeted out that his recent breakup stemmed from his fiancee’s abortion. The Tweet quickly coaxed a delete. “The real reason me and Shantel Christine

Loquacious Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, perhaps having visions of Robespierre on the guillotine, started the week warning of a “very slippery slope” should the NBA take Donald Sterling’s Los Angeles Clippers away from him. By midweek, following the NBA

It took 124 years, name changes from such monikers as the Atlantics, Bridegrooms, and Superbas, and a move from the East Coast to the West. But on Wednesday night, the Dodgers won their 10,000th game. And they did so on

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), an organization founded in 1909 to fight racists, now provides indulgences to them. Disgraced Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s lifetime achievement award, revoked by the Los Angeles branch of the NAACP

Russell Kirk famously responded to conspiracy theorists questioning President Dwight Eisenhower’s patriotism by pointing out that “Ike’s not a Communist. He’s a golfer.” The gaudy bills for Eisenhower’s successor’s frequent trips to the fairways may leave critics wondering if Obama’s

Rob Gronkowski, who suffered a season-ending knee injury on a low hit by Browns defensive back TJ Ward in December, believes that deciding between a concussion and an ACL tear is a no brainer. Many questioned whether knee injuries have

Are rights a reward that the state bestows upon citizens for good behavior? The extended two-minute hate now focused on Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling compels such heretical questions. Jerks, one surmises from the public reaction to the controversy,

In the first major challenge in Adam Silver’s young tenure the NBA commission announced a lifetime ban of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling in a nationally-televised press conference today. Silver announced that the NBA has completed its investigation of

The Sports Hangover tries to recover from a wild weekend. Thank goodness the hangover proves not as painful as Donald Sterling’s.   What Do You Do For an Encore after Three Decades of NBA Futility? Is it safe to say

Wladimir Klitschko knocked down Alex Leapai three times en route to a fifth-round stoppage victory over the Samoan-Australian Alex Leapai on Saturday. Wladimir Klitschko defended his heavyweight belts with another sparring-session of a match before a cheering German audience, wife

Is the National Labor Relations Board giving labor-movement organizers a face-saving out by agreeing to hear a Northwestern University appeal to the decision that empowered student-athletes to form unions? The NLRB’s eleventh-hour timing certainly sparks suspicion. Northwestern University football players

Dr. Frank Jobe, the medical innovator behind Tommy John surgery, died during spring training. The young 2014 baseball season shows that his gift to sports medicine will long outlive him. Yankees pitcher Ivan Nova, who will undergo the procedure on

Are you ready for some football? There are 256 games on the schedule released yesterday by the NFL. They all count equally in the standings. But some games are more equal than others in the minds of fans. Here are

The storied rivalry between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees gained a new chapter Wednesday night. The home-plate umpire tossed Yankees starting pitcher Michael Pineda out of the game for employing a banned substance. Pineda, after experiencing control

Whoever said, “Any publicity is good publicity,” surely said it to Adrien Broner.  I could have asked Adrien Broner about why he flushed $20 bills down the toilet on YouTube. I could have inquired just what possessed him to dip

US Marshals and police in Tempe arrested a cage fighter who once competed in the UFC on a cold-case murder earlier this week. The authorities arrested Homer “The Rock” Moore, who boasts a 26-9-2 mixed-martial-arts record over more than a

He won a super-featherweight title at 21 before capturing multiple belts in bigger-boy divisions. He’s quick with his fists and his words. He brings the bling. He speaks in the third person. One could be talking about Floyd Mayweather or

They call him “King James,” not “President James.” But a new map of the nation shows LeBron James winning the popularity contest in states representing a bare majority of the United States. LBJ–see, he already has the familiar presidential initialism

The Sports Hangover recovers from a weekend of boxing in the blood seats at the DC Armory, an exhausting Patriots’ Day of watching other people run marathons, and incoming playoff action from all directions. Loving the Alien Boxing, currently a

Marathon Monday, atop October’s Head of the Charles Regatta and November’s even-year Harvard-Yale game, ranks as the most festive sports holiday in Massachusetts. When a couple of poor sports crashed the party last year by killing three and maiming dozens,

WASHINGTON, DC–Bernard Hopkins beat Beibut Shumenov on Saturday–and Father Time. The 49-year-old even threw in a knockdown as if to say he can still do it all. In the process, Hopkins unified the IBF and WBC light heavyweight belts on

WASHINGTON, DC–Peter Quillin-Lucas Kocekny, the first fight of a three-fighttelevised card, worked as somnambulant. Paulie Malignaggi-Shawn Porter playedas speed. The high-energy slugfest may win consideration for fight of the year andcertainly wins hands-down as Paulie Malignaggi’s least Paulie Maignaggi-likefight. That

WASHINGTON, DC–Bernard Hopkins works as a walking metaphor for his sport. Hopefully, the old man never becomes one of pugilism’s barely-walking, slurred-talking clichés. Boxing is about getting up when you get knocked down. So is Bernard Hopkins. Sentenced at seventeen