The supposed epidemic of NFL suicides joins acid rain, the Y2K bug, and the once imminent invasion of South American killer bees as a media narrative long on hype and short on evidence. A Harvard Medical School researcher is the
A Major League Baseball arbitrator reduced Alex Rodriguez’s suspension from 211 games to 162 games on Saturday. The ban covers all of the 2014 season, including the playoffs. The suspension strangely does not cover spring training, which A-Rod vows to
Come late April, UFC President Dana White may be thinking: “We’re not in Vegas anymore.” The long-delayed matchup between UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones and challenger Glover Teixeira finally has a solid date and an unusual venue. The fight will
Penn State has hired Vanderbilt’s James Franklin as its new head coach. The school is scheduled to make the announcement official at a 4:15 p.m. EST press conference today. Franklin led the Vanderbilt Commodores to an uncharacteristic winning record after
Technology enables the Florida Panthers to make ice in Miami. But it can’t make the Miamians watch the Florida Panthers make hockey on ice. The beleaguered franchise has asked Broward County for $70 million in concessions to its existing arena
Bill Belichick doesn’t smile much. It is what it is. The New England Patriots won twelve games this year, including unforgettable comebacks against New Orleans, Denver, and Cleveland. But not much gives the Patriots head coach reason to show his
Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson praised Dennis Rodman’s visit to a prison-state devoid of civil rights as “illuminating” in a Wednesday television interview. “Why are we discussing North Korea today?” Jackson asked CNN’s Don Lemon. “Because of Dennis Rodman.” The
Whoooo! A few disturbed football fans declare on social media that they want to do worse to Ric Flair than a figure-four leg lock. Carolina Panthers fans have reportedly issued death threats against professional wrestler Ric Flair for the pep talk
Dan Snyder remained faithful to his tradition of hiring big-name coaches. Though “Gruden” may rank with “Spurrier,” “Schottenheimer,” and “Gibbs” as a high-profile name in the coaching ranks, the Gruden Snyder hired is not the Gruden normally associated with head-coaching
When friends Daniel Jorge Correia de Abreu and Safiro Teixeira Furtado fell victim to a drive-by shooting in Boston on July 15, 2012, their deaths made local headlines but no sense. Now that police have identified Aaron Hernandez as a
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has rejected a trademark application for a product associated with the Washington Redskins because the agency regards the team nickname as offensive. “Registration is refused because the applied-for mark REDSKINS HOG RINDS consists
Dennis Rodman serenaded dictator Kim Jong-un with “Happy Birthday” Wednesday as his “dream team” of forty- and fifty-something basketball players competed against, and then with, North Korea’s national team. The American players clapped in unison as Rodman sang, with the
The mother of Jovan Belcher, the NFL linebacker who killed his girlfriend and then himself on December 1, 2012, has brought a lawsuit against the Kansas City Chiefs. The wrongful death complaint, filed in Independence, Missouri, lays blame at the
Florida State’s Jameis Winston capped off a Heisman Trophy-winning season by orchestrating a come-from-behind, last-minute victory over Auburn at the BCS title game at the Rose Bowl Monday night. But the postscript added to the perfect end to his perfect
It’s unanimous. Ken Gurnick shouldn’t be allowed to vote. The Baseball Writers’ Association of America announces the results of its vote for the 2014 Baseball Hall of Fame class on Wednesday. Debate has surrounded the players–Curt Schilling, Jack Morris, Craig
The NBA retirees on Dennis Rodman’s “dream team” playing basketball in North Korea to celebrate strongman Kim Jong-un’s birthday have largely led nightmare lives since departing the league. There’s no word on how much North Korea will pay the players,
A professional mixed-martial artist killed one home invader, put another in the hospital with facial injuries, and sent two more fleeing on New Year’s Day in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The four assailants, reputedly all gang members, allegedly forced their
Will a lack of demand force scalpers to eat tickets to tonight’s Florida State-Auburn game? ESPN reports that some tickets in the secondary market for tonight’s BCS National Championship are priced below face value. The median price paid for the Florida-State-Auburn
In the parallel universe created by the Sports Gods, Lance Armstrong didn’t win the Tour de France seven times, Joe Paterno isn’t the winningest coach in college football history, and Mike Tyson didn’t beat Andrew Golota. Each of these iconic
Welcome to the Sports Hangover, the weekly Monday ritual of making sense of the wild week now fading into memory. Did we really watch the Colts come back from 28 down in the second half? Was Andy Reid suffering from
Richard Sherman is a big-play cornerback with a big mouth. So, given Seattle’s bye week, the third-year player figured to get attention one way or another. He’s done so with a column at MMQB–he writes one there weekly–in which he
The Marine Corps has delayed implementation of its new fitness plan requiring women do three pull-ups because a majority of female recruits failed to pass the standard. Why not delay the roll out of women in combat instead? “I don’t
George Lynn Cross, the longest serving president of the University of Oklahoma, famously answered a skeptical state legislator’s query about why the school needed a boost in allocations by explaining, “I would like to build a university of which the
Green Bay, already host to four of the ten coldest games in NFL history, prepares for what may become the most frigid contest in the league’s 94 years of existence. Sunday’s game between the Packers and ’49ers, scheduled for 3:40
Chris Kluwe, the former Minnesota Vikings punter who used his platform to promote gay marriage, believes that his beliefs cost him a job in the NFL. To rectify this injustice, Kluwe wants a Vikings coach who holds views opposed to
