Co-favorite Orb won the 139th Kentucky Derby on Saturday, winning his fifth consecutive race as jockey Joel Rosario guided the horse to what he called a “perfect race.” Golden Sol and Revolutionary finished behind Orb in muddy and sloppy conditions.
Late on Friday evening, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) announced on Twitter that he will not run for Senate in 2014. “I will not run for Senate in 2014. A Senate race takes me out of urgent battles in Congress that
As soon as NBA basketball player Jason Collins came out this week in an article in Sports Illustrated, he was lauded for his bravery and heroism for being the first active out male gay athlete in major professional team sports.
Hillary Clinton and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will address the Clinton Global Initiative forum on June 13-14 in Chicago. This will be the first time the former First Lady will speak at the conference, which is sponsored by her
Carolyn Moos, the ex-fiancee of Jason Collins whom he led on for eight years, is planning to freeze her eggs later this month in case she will need to undergo IVF to have kids in the future. Moos, 34, revealed
Comcast SportsNet Chicago fired the sports reporter who made a freudian slip and said the Blackhawks had a “tremendous amount of sex during the regular season” during a live television broadcast on Tuesday. The network made the announcement late Thursday
Frac Daddy, the three-year-old thoroughbred slated to run in Saturday’s Kentucky Derby, was named as a tribute to oil field workers and the horse’s name is a reference to hydraulic fracturing, a practice environmental groups and many Hollywood actors have
Former NBA great and current TNT announcer Charles Barkley said American society is more homophobic than locker rooms in the NBA. He made those comments on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” after Jason Collins came out on Monday in a Sports
In a sign that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is laying the groundwork for a potential 2016 presidential run, his chief of staff is leaving Paul’s Senate office to run his political action committees and organize in the early primary states.
On Thursday, the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and ESPN officially announced they have signed a 20-year deal to partner on a multiplatform SEC television network that will launch in August of 2014. SEC Commissioner Mike Slive and ESPN President John Skipper
As more television viewers watch live sporting events on dual screens while using Twitter and other forms of social media, the NCAA has banned the use of hashtags on football fields. The NCAA Football Rules Committee ruled that “social media designations
Lobbyists, interests groups, and corporations are attempting to influence President Barack Obama by purchasing commercials on ESPN, the 24-hour sports channel Obama reportedly watches religiously. In a Politico report, media strategists said “they offer up the all-sports network as an
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) accused U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack of knowing that women and minority farmers fraudulently claimed discrimination to receive taxpayer-funded settlements, and they knowingly initiated more programs to facilitate more of these payments.
On Wednesday, President Barack Obama signed a bill to end air-traffic controller furloughs that resulted from across-the-board sequester cuts. The furloughs were blamed for flight delays last week. As The Hill noted, Congress was in such a hurry to pass the bill
A gay rights provision Democrats want to insert in the Senate’s immigration bill may ultimately kill the legislation. According to Politico, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has told gay rights groups that he will introduce an amendment next
MoveOn.org has started a petition to get ESPN reporter Chris Broussard immediately suspended from the network for comments he made regarding Jason Collins’s homosexuality, which Broussard said was a sin according to his personal Christian beliefs. The group said Broussard
Jason Collins may not have apologized to his ex-fiancee, Carolyn Moos, for ending their engagement and leading her on for eight years even though he knew he was gay. Moos said she was stunned when Collins ended the engagement and
The woman who dated Jason Collins for nearly eight years and was engaged to him said she only found out last weekend that Collins was gay. She said she had no idea he could even be gay when she was
USA Today sports columnist Christine Brennan said on Monday that Jason Colllins will be seen in history “right next to” Jackie Robinson. In an appearance on the BBC, Brennan said Collins’s coming out will be seen as a “big of
After NBA basketball player Jason Collins came out on Monday, CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley asked CBS Sports anchor James Brown this question: “Is this a Jackie Robinson moment?” Brown, in response to the question, said Pelley’s comparison was a “fair
Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi said that NBA player Jason Collins “is” simply Jackie Robinson in a Tuesday tweet from his verified account. Collins came out on Monday, and he became the first male openly gay athlete in major professional
After he was done answering questions from the press during a Tuesday press conference about important topics like Benghazi, Syria, the Boston Marathon bombing investigation, and immigration, President Barack Obama came back to the podium to specifically answer–and reflect on–a
Late Monday evening, ESPN’s NBA reporter Chris Broussard issued a statement on Twitter in response to his remarks on Monday on “Outside the Lines” about how he felt his Christian beliefs led him to personally believe that openly homosexual people–like NBA player
The family of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers reportedly received over $100,000 worth of state, local and federal benefits over the past decade. Sources told News Center 5 in Boston that they had seen 500 pages of documents and that the Tsarnaev
CBS Sports anchor Tim Brando does not think NBA basketball player Jason Collins should be called a “hero” for coming out on Monday and becoming the first openly gay male athlete in major professional team sports. In a series of
