Was that LeBron or the Lone Ranger? Didn’t Julio Cesar Chavez retire? Nick Saban doesn’t support the “Saban” Rule? Really? The Sports Hangover makes sense of the wild weekend in sports. Would ‘Fisting’ Be a Technical Foul or Merely a
When Brooklyn Nets center Jason Collins presented the parents of Matthew Shepard with a jersey after his team’s victory over the Denver Nuggets last week, the kind gesture, like the cruel crime endured by Shepard more than fifteen years ago,
Mark Cuban made his money broadcasting NCAA games over the internet. Now he wants to put the 109-year-old entity out of business. The Dallas Mavericks owner advises young basketball players using higher education as a stepping-stone to the pros to
Jimmer Fredette, who negotiated his release from the Sacramento Kings earlier this week, cleared waivers and will join the Chicago Bulls. ESPN Chicago’s Nick Friedell first reported the agreement. After Friday night’s impressive win over the Mavericks, the Bulls improved
To tank or not to tank? That is the question the Celtics, Lakers, and ’76ers ponder in the home stretch of the 2013-2014 regular season. Once proud franchises that competed for NBA championships now race to the bottom for privileged
Must one pass a political litmus test, or fail a logic quiz, to gain employment as an ESPN talking head? On ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption, Tony Kornheiser, former columnist with the Washington Post, likened a bill passed by both houses
The Nevada State Athletic Commission announced a ban on testosterone-replacement therapy for boxers, mixed-martial artists, and other participants in state-sanctioned contests today. The announcement comes on the heels of George St. Pierre’s hiatus from the UFC. The promotion’s former welterweight
An ESPN poll of Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) coaches reveals that nearly three out of four of them oppose the proposed ten-second delay before offenses can snap the ball. The proposed rule finds support from slightly less than one in
Jimmer Fredette won the Wooden Award, the Oscar Robertson Trophy, the Naismith Award, the Adolph Rupp Trophy, and the Associated Press and National Association of Basketball Coaches player-of-the-year honors. Three years later, the Sacramento Kings eagerly negotiate a buyout with
The NFL Scouting Combine came to a conclusion yesterday, and with it so did the first-round hopes of numerous pro prospects. Breitbart Sports caught up with Dan Leberfeld, who covered the events in Indianapolis, to gain a sense of the
The three-point shot, a shot clock, and ditching the jump ball after every basket once appeared anathema to basketball purists. But the sport evolves, and if it can add a point for long-range shots why can’t it add one more
Was the fight of the century the fix of the century? Fifty years ago today, Cassius Clay, as Muhammad Ali was then known, and Sonny Liston, the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, squared off in Miami Beach. Joe Louis
Michael Sam, the University of Missouri defensive end who publicly proclaimed his homosexuality earlier this month, hoped his performance at the NFL Combine would silence doubters. Instead, it only created more doubters. The AP’s SEC defensive player of the year’s
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. likes a man with a slow hand. He picked one with two of them for his next opponent. The undefeated welterweight scheduled a fight with Argentina’s Marcos Maidana for Saturday, May 3. Was Henry Bruseles booked that
The 23-day weekend in Russia has mercifully come to an end. The conclusion of the once-in-a-four-year-lifetime event puts us back to business as usual: March Madness, the NFL Combine, spring training, NASCAR, and after nearly a month’s respite, the NHL.
The Soviet Union imprisoned Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in the gulag after World War II, suppressed his writings during the Brezhnev years, and finally expelled him from his homeland in 1974. Forty years later, at the Sochi Winter Olympic Games, Russia celebrated
The United States placed first for third-place finishes at Sochi. We’re #1–at being #3. It was a bronze medal kind of Olympic Games for Team USA, good but not great. Sochi featured twelve more events than Vancouver. Americans won nine
Ronda Rousey fights Sara McMann in Las Vegas tonight. The combatants seek to settle the question of who is the best Olympian on the UFC’s female roster, silver-medal winning wrestler McMann or bronze-medal winning judoka Rousey. They fight for claims
When your last name morphs into a verb or an adjective, it’s generally a bad sign. “So, you want to talk about the ‘Saban Rule’?” South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier asked an inquirer from USA Today. “That’s what I call
Maybe Charles Barkley was right. Kids shouldn’t look up to athletes. They’re bound to let them down. One of the latest heroes to fall is accused serial rapist Darren Sharper, a five-time Pro Bowler, Super Bowl champion, and, until his
The punk-rock group called Pussy Riot tried to film a music video for its song, “Putin Will Teach You to Love the Motherland,” in Sochi today. Instead, journalists filmed a clash between the anti-Putin musical troupe and uniformed security forces.
A new two-year study of youth football players found that bruised appendages and torn ligaments, not concussions, were the injuries that most vexed young gridiron athletes over the last two seasons. Just one in twenty-five players suffered a concussion. USA
Seventy-five-years ago, Finland fended off a Russian invasion. Today in Sochi, the Russians couldn’t fend off the Finnish invaders. As in 1939, the Russians struck first. Ilya Kovalchuk scored on a Russian power play at 7:51 of the first frame.
What a weird, wild weekend! No real NBA, NHL, MLB, or NFL games. It’s the equivalent of a sports blue moon eclipse. What just happened? Sexy or Sexism? When Richard Petty talks, NASCAR fans listen–except when Danica Patrick walks by,
Americans worried over what disasters awaited in Sochi. Terrorism? Dingy hotels? Rabid dogs? They didn’t anticipate the disaster would be their Olympic team. U.S. snowboarder Sage Kotsenburg won the first gold medal of the Sochi games. Since then, to borrow
