In the wake of gridiron prospect Michael Sam coming out of the closet last Sunday, the defensive end’s journalistic well-wishers have ridiculed the notion that homosexuality wouldn’t be welcomed within NFL locker rooms. Time’s Eric Dodds, for instance, accused those
In 1892, Harvard unveiled one of the most celebrated, and shortest-lived, plays in the history of football in a game against arch-rival Yale. The following season, Penn employed the same flying wedge to become the first team to score on
The first pucks dropped in the Olympic hockey tournament today. The Czech Republic started taking on Sweden and Latvia began battling Switzerland at 9 p.m. Sochi time, with the remaining eight teams competing tomorrow. Ice hockey plays as the marquee
Michael Sam led the Southeastern Conference in sacks, won first-team All-American honors, and earned the Associated Press’s nod as the “best defensive player” in the nation’s best conference. So, casual fans assume that Sam, who announced his homosexuality to ESPN,
NFL prospect Michael Sam earned praise from the First Lady of the United States, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, and Super Bowl MVP Malcolm Smith for revealing his homosexuality. But as the All-American defensive end predicted to ESPN, “There
Was it a snowflake or an Olympic ring? Were DMX and Zimmerman really going to fight? What did the SEC defensive player of the year just say? It was a wild weekend that you could have missed if you blinked.
A bipartisan pair of lawmakers has written a public letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell demanding that the league he oversees denounce the nickname of the Washington Redskins. “We are writing to express our disappointment with the National Football League’s
The Olympic rings, the symbol of the games, became the symbol of Sochi–or at least four of them did–over the weekend. American viewers witnessed a glitch that marked a Mona Lisa of an opening ceremony with a pimple. Sochi happens.
Russian chess grand master Garry Kasparov has blasted the Sochi Olympics as a propaganda show for Vladimir Putin as the games get underway in Sochi. The man believed by some to be the best chess player in history dubs the
Once an employee expresses his opinion on a hot-button issue, does the unstated threat of a discrimination lawsuit mean that he lays claim to the job for life? Former Vikings punter Chris Kluwe posted mediocre statistics in 2012 despite kicking
Broward County, Florida police arrested UFC light heavyweight contender Thiago Silva after a SWAT standoff outside of the fighter’s home late Thursday night. Earlier that evening, folks at the Pablo Popovitch Mixed Martial Arts Academy in Oakland Park, Florida allege that
What’s causing athletic fields once teeming with kids to resemble ghost towns? A study by the Sports and Fitness Industry Association (SFIA) reports that youth sports lost 11 percent of its casual participants since 2008. Although gymnastics, beach volleyball, and
“They are missing the teamwork, putting your team ahead of yourself, perseverance, goal setting, and how to learn from your mistakes,” high school baseball coach Steven LaForest explained in a Breitbart Sports feature on the decline in youth athletics participation.
How did an unknown summer resort with stray dogs roaming its streets, a civil war raging nearby, and hotels without heat, shower curtains, or clean water land the Winter Olympics? It’s not as though alternatives didn’t exist. Instead of squalor,
Syracuse doesn’t owe anybody an apology for the way they’ve been playing basketball. As for a couple daring to support Duke in a crammed Carrier Dome Saturday night, they’re deserving of more than an “I’m sorry” from the Orangemen for
The pigskin and politics make strange bedfellows. But efforts this past week by both the White House and National Football League Players Association, as well as Super Bowl sideshow coverage of the legalization of pot in the home states of
Jason McIntyre of The Big Lead obtained (PDF) more than 1,000 text messages between Richie Incognito and Jonathan Martin, the two Miami Dolphins embroiled in a he-said/he-said bullying controversy. The published texts reveal crude banter, an overbearingly social guard, and
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) lashed out at quarterback Joe Namath for flipping the coin before the Super Bowl in a fur coat. The group’s Twitter account asked followers, “[H]ow many animals died to make Joe
It’s not Sunday’s beer or the bad food. It’s the end of the football season that’s bringing you down. Be not afraid! Pitchers and catchers report next week. Cornucopia Destiny Did you hear the one about OJ Simpson rooting for
A Big Apple Super Bowl didn’t make for a big-budget Super Bowl for Madison Avenue. Gone were the Pets.com sock puppet, Paul Harvey’s “So God made a farmer,” and other memorable spots. In their place were a bare-bones collection of
MetLife Stadium, home to rowdy tailgaters sixteen times during the regular season, forbade such celebrations in their parking lot prior to the Super Bowl. In fact, the NFL permitted fewer than 13,000 cars in in the Giants-Jets shared facility. The
NEWARK — What UFC 169 lacked in action, it made up for in news. The promotion’s Prudential Center card appeared on paper stacked. But in practice it just lacked. In the main event, featherweight champion Renan Barao defeated Uriah Faber on
Breitbart Sports reports from two rows from the Octagon at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. Here are the results from tonight’s action…. Fight 12: Renan Barao (champion) v. Uriah Faber, Bantamweights Round 1 The California Kid appropriately enters
Breitbart Sports will be reporting live from Octagonside at tonight’s UFC 169 pay-per-view card held at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. Notable fights include championship scraps between Renan Barao and Uriah Faber and between Jose Aldo and Ricardo
So I’m floating on the Hudson River with the Denver Broncos. The party boat borrowed from a late-’90s rap video serves as a strange backdrop for a team that repeats variants of their coach’s assertion, “We’re on a business trip.”
