Daniel J. Flynn

A Brazilian fighter captured a mixed-martial arts championship carrying a baby. It’s later than you think.

Michael Sam announced a leave from football on Friday night. The Montreal Alouettes player cited pressures over the last year adversely impacting his mental well-being.

It’s as though the Roadrunner summarily dismissed Wile E. Coyote or Sherlock Holmes informed Professor Moriarty he no longer wished to follow him around.

Anderson Silva, the longest reigning middleweight champion in UFC history, received a one-year suspension from the Nevada State Athletic Commission on Thursday.

Fans of 31 NFL teams deride Tom Brady as a “pretty boy.” A courtroom sketch artist does not agree.

The judge in the Deflategate case badgered an NFL lawyer for proof of a New England Patriots conspiracy to deflate footballs, leaving the league to concede that no such smoking gun exists.

The judge overseeing the lawsuit brought against the NFL by its players’ union on behalf of Tom Brady today again ordered the two parties to settle their differences.

Frank Gifford, who died this weekend at 84, lived as a man too blessed. An All-Pro at running back, wide receiver, and defensive back who threw fourteen touchdown passes for good measure, offseason actor, product pitchman for Vitalis, Lucky Strikes, and Palmolive, staple of the Monday Night Football booth for more than a quarter century, and husband of Kathie Lee, Frank Gifford so obviously would make an excellent fictional character that he naturally became one.

Investigator Ted Wells asserted attorney-client privilege a half dozen times during his testimony during the Deflategate appeal to avoid discussion of matters between him and the National Football League, which he now terms his client. Simultaneously, Wells stressed his complete independence from the entity that readers discovered he represents as an attorney.

Arian Foster revealed to ESPN that he doesn’t believe in a divine power. Then the Houston Texans running back suffered a groin injury requiring surgery that likely claims most of his season. God moves in mysterious ways.

The documents released as part of Tom Brady’s lawsuit against the NFL include an email from Indianapolis Colts equipment manager Sean Sullivan to general manager Ryan Grigson stating that the Baltimore Ravens informed the Colts that they suspected the New England Patriots of tampering with footballs.

Ted Wells testified in front of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell that the league and its referees displayed ignorance that balls lose air pressure because of weather conditions.

A transcript released of testimony given before Roger Goodell in the Deflategate appeal reveals that the NFL remained ignorant of the Ideal Gas Law and the influence of temperature on ball pressure when the league busted the New England Patriots for playing with balls beneath the league’s minimum pressure levels in the AFC Championship Game.

Fox Sports has responded to the lawsuit filed by Craig James against it for religious discrimination, a story Breitbart Sports broke earlier today.

The International Olympic Federation recognized disc sports, including ultimate frisbee and disc golf, at its 128th session at Kuala Lumpur this weekend. The IOC did not say whether they plan to recognize the tradition of drinking between holes (disc golf) or smoking pot after games (ultimate frisbee), too.

Don’t make a federal case out of it.

Ronda Rousey wants to perform her own stunts in the movies. She believes she participates in not mere cage fighting but in a “cultural revolution.” She says that fans crowding into bars or onto couches to catch her fights are “watching history.”

The NFL Players Association seeks correspondence pertinent to Deflategate between the NFL and the law firm that employs Ted Wells. Roger Goodell refuses to hand it over, citing attorney-client privilege.

Roger Goodell doubled down on dumb. The commissioner consistently plays bad hands this way. People losing the house’s rather than their own money often do.

The NFL announced on Tuesday that Roger Goodell has upheld the four-game suspension meted out to Tom Brady over Deflategate.