Dennis Rodman landed in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday on the second visit of his “basketball diplomacy” tour. The high-profile trip comes a week after Kim Jong-un executed his uncle, Jang Song Thaek. Many foreign observers interpret such rash behavioral exhibitions as possible camouflage
“If we ever start valuing the TV audience more than the paying public,” NFL Commissioner Bert Bell explained on the eve of the 1958 Colts-Giants championship game, “we’ll be in trouble.” Nevertheless, 45 million viewers tuned in to the NFL’s
Hoops monikers, older than the NBA as “Mr. Basketball” George Mikan proves, will become a formalized part of gear this season as the Miami Heat and Brooklyn Nets place nicknames on the backs of jerseys for two games played between
Whoever said “success has many parents but failure’s an orphan” had never heard of Jovan Belcher. Long before ghoulish doctors convinced the murderer’s family to exhume his corpse to search for signs of the neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE),
“It has been brought out many times already that injuries are more frequent in the open plays than in the so-called close formations,” football founding father Walter Camp maintained in 1905. Nevertheless, rules makers opened up the game through the
The doctor at the center of the conflict of interest controversy surrounding TauMark tells Breitbart Sports that he has renounced his stake in the mysterious company, which made widely-reported claims about diagnosing the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)
Should the ugly action outside of the ring in Macau foreshadow this weekend’s Manny Pacquiao-Brandon Rios fight, the clash inside the ring will prove particularly savage. Trainers for Pacquiao and Rios squared off in a boxing gym underneath the Venetian
The company behind headline-grabbing claims of a CTE diagnoses for living NFL players has publicly proclaimed a major scientific breakthrough, but a TauMark representative refuses to say who owns the mysterious corporation or where it’s located. Are the doctors touting
Johnny Hendricks dazed UFC welterweight champion George St. Pierre, bloodied him, and even compelled him to contemplate retirement after Saturday night’s fight. He didn’t defeat him–at least in the eyes of two of the judges at MGM Grand Garden Arena
ESPN got punked. Pro Football Talk‘s Mike Florio, The Sporting News‘s David Steele, The New York Times‘s Frank Bruni, and The Atlantic‘s Ta-Nahisi Coates fell for the hoax. So did ABC, NBC, and CBS News, for that matter. No, Hall
Tuesday night’s “League of Denial” PBS documentary appears more sensationalistic Inside Edition than staid Frontline. Atop a montage of pornographic gridiron violence in its promotional trailer, Will Lyman, PBS’s voice of God, intones: “Frontline investigates what the NFL knew and
Fifty years ago this month the smartest television show of all time first aired. As a writer, I am a sucker for good writing. “The Twilight Zone,” as Michael Anton recently wrote in his commemoration at National Review Online, is
When Captain Lou Albano entered the ranks of professional wrestlers in 1953 their “sport” ranked somewhere above pornography and below football betting cards in cultural respectability. When he departed more than three decades later, professional wrestling was a global phenomenon
I hate getting a song stuck in my head. This is especially true when the song is “I Saw Her Again Last Night” and the reason it’s stuck there is because I just heard the news that Papa John Phillips
Without John Hughes, would there have been a 1980s? The filmmaker and screenwriter died of a heart attack while walking Thursday in Manhattan. For the uninitiated, he wrote National Lampoon’s Vacation, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Weird
You are realizing your age today if you grew up in the 1970s or ’80s. Farrah Fawcett, whose iconic image was as ubiquitous on the bedroom walls of American teenage boys as Kim Il Sung’s was in the homes of
Should the Motion Picture Association of America retroactively slap an “R” rating upon To Have and Have Not (1944)? After all, the classic film famously depicts silver-screen debutante Lauren Bacall and future husband Humphrey Bogart–gasp!–smoking. The American Medical Association Alliance
Inspired in part by the Academy Award-winning Milk, California’s senate has passed a bill making slain San Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk’s May 22 birthday a Golden State holiday. But the celluloid hero portrayed by Sean Penn bears little resemblance
What does it say about the state of popular music that aspiring acts turn to petty crime rather than singing lessons to establish their musical bonafides? Stephen Gilmore allegedly robbed the Super Stop Food Store last Friday night in Gainesville,
Why would Perez Hilton be invited to judge a beauty contest? That, rather than the fact that Miss California answers the gay marriage question as the voters of her state did, is the real scandal of last weekend’s Miss USA
Kal Penn’s character killed himself on “House.” Kal Penn didn’t commit career suicide by accepting a job in the Obama administration. Penn is merely taking Tinseltown’s love of politics to another level. While it’s not unprecedented for the stars of
“This class struggle plays hell with your poetry,” John Reed, celebrated in Warren Beatty’s Reds, confessed to friends after jumping from the lighthearted literary Left of Greenwich Village into the world of hardcore Communists. Bono may be thinking the same
Stage Right explains, “There is a problem with the American Theatre.” But American street theatre, if judging from the The Taxpayers Clearing House Prize Patrol, offers no similar cause for concern. No budget? No problem. Conscript Senators Chuck Schumer and
Though seeing Sean Penn deliver a “best actor” Academy Awards acceptance speech that was more taunt against political enemies than expression of gratitude toward industry friends made me click off, reading Ben Shapiro’s transcription of Penn’s graceless tirade clicked on
