If you want journalists to mock you, say aloud that chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) has “an unknown incidence” among football players and that “a cause and effect relationship has not yet been demonstrated between CTE and concussions or exposure to
Richard Sherman made a lot of enemies with his outburst following the Seahawks Sunday win over San Francisco. NFL sacks leader Michael Strahan isn’t one of them. The former New York Giant relayed on a Fox Super Bowl conference call
Former Giants defensive lineman Michael Strahan and former Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw don’t always agree in their picks on Fox’s Sunday NFL pre-game show. But on Peyton Manning, the duo sees things the same way: Don’t retire. Reports that the
Don’t call Terry Bradshaw a company man. As his Fox bosses celebrated their broadcast in ten days as the “biggest, boldest, and coldest Super Bowl,” the Hall of Fame quarterback offered a reality check that he acknowledged was politically incorrect.
Does Roger Goodell forget that the organization he leads calls itself the National Football League? “The extra point is almost automatic,” Goodell observed on the NFL Network in floating the idea of eliminating extra-point kicks. “I believe we had five
The Yankees wanted a top-of-the-rotation pitcher. Masahiro Tanaka wanted top-of-the-rotation money. So, the pairing seemed inevitable since the sought-after pitcher gained the ability to negotiate with Major League clubs. The Yankees signed the Japanese ace for seven years at $155
“Let it Snow!” read the press release from the NFL announcing a media event at MetLife Stadium for today at 11 a.m. But with a blizzard blanketing the northeast, dropping over a foot of snow outside Philadelphia and dropping the
Axe, the body spray for men, has sparked past controversy in its advertising by depicting women as latent sex maniacs awaiting the smell of its product to unleash their inner-nymphomaniac. The cologne company’s commercial at this year’s Super Bowl may
She’s not Whitney Houston. But she’s not chopped liver, either. The NFL and Fox announced the “Star-Spangled Banner” performer for Super Bowl 48 today. She is world-renowned opera singer Renee Fleming. Actress Amber Zion, and thankfully not that expressive man
Viewers of this weekend’s AFC championship glimpsed a moving pre-game vignette of the game-winning quarterback tossing the pigskin as a kid. If an Empire State assemblyman has his way, New York children aspiring to be the next Peyton Manning would
Did that really happen? The Sports Hangover arrives to help those inebriated from the weekend’s action to see reality through the haze. Betters Rebel Against Bookies Seattle opened as a 2-point Super Bowl favorite only to have early action flip
The bookies like the Seahawks. The bettors like the Broncos. Seattle opened as early favorites in numerous Las Vegas sports books Sunday night, only to have the early action transform the minus next to the Seahawks to a plus. Within
What do you do for an encore when you single-handedly–was it his right or left hand that tipped Colin Kaepernick’s pass?–send your team to the Super Bowl? If you’re Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman, you taunt the losing team’s players
Kobe Bryant once called Dwight Howard “soft.” Can we accurately apply that pejorative to all of Howard’s Houston Rockets teammates now, too? The Rockets played like their name in the first half of Thursday night’s game against the Oklahoma City
Judge Anita Brody on Tuesday temporarily blocked the $765 million settlement between the NFL and more than 4,000 players suing it for “sustained repetitive [mild traumatic brain injury] while in the NFL,” who “now suffer from latent neurodegenerative disorders and
Derrick Coleman tells a powerful story. So it’s appropriate that a battery maker would tap into his message to generate sales. It’s not that Coleman made the Seattle Seahawks after being overlooked in the draft or that he caught on
Magic Johnson sold millions of Converse sneakers and hundreds of cans of Slice to young people during the 1980s. Now, the fifty-four-year-old retired Los Angeles Laker sells ObamaCare to that healthy demographic. Was Bob Cousy unavailable? In a video featured
Aaron Hernandez caught Tom Brady’s last Super Bowl touchdown pass, but when his former quarterback faces off against Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos this weekend for a Super Bowl berth, Hernandez won’t be watching. The accused murderer sits 21-hours
A federal judge has denied a settlement in the lawsuit brought by more than 4,000 retired NFL players against the league. The parties agreed on a $765 million settlement just prior to a the negotiating deadline set for early last
The Chicago Cubs unveiled “Clark,” a backwards-cap wearing mascot dubbed “unbearably cute” in promotional literature, on Monday. By Tuesday, the long-suffering team’s fan base had reacted more like a hungry grizzly bear than a smiling teddy bear. “THIS IS BRUTAL,”
Tracing the provenance of the myth that NFL players kill themselves at dramatically elevated rates is a lot like playing the children’s game “operator,” only in reverse. The pattern generally sees one article attribute the claim that an astronomically high
Charles Barkley and Dennis Rodman weren’t the only ones downed by a hangover this weekend. The Sports Hangover wonders if the heads of Alex Rodriguez, Jimmy Graham, and the men standing between LeGarrette Blount and the end zone hurt more
