After former Republican South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford won the GOP nomination for Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-SC) congressional seat on Tuesday, Democrats signaled they will not focus on Sanford’s affair with his Argentinian mistress–now his fiancée–but will highlight possible ethics
President Barack Obama attended two fundraisers on Wednesday on San Francisco’s “Billionaires’ Row” and said it would be a “whole lot easier” to govern if House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) became House Speaker after 2014. Obama even said he
On Wednesday, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said the Pentagon needed to “challenge all past assumptions” and “put everything on the table” when it came even more defense cuts, even though he conceded such “dramatic changes” could prove unwise. “It could
The Auburn football program reportedly committed academic fraud to help players play in its 2011 BCS title win over Oregon and remain eligible for games during that season. Selena Roberts, a sports reporter and Auburn graduate, wrote on Roopstigo, a website
Lance Armstrong, the disgraced cyclist who admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs to win all of his Tour de France titles, is set to compete in swimming events. Armstrong is signed up to swim three events this weekend at the Masters South Central
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, who inked a six-year, $108 million contract last weekend, has the fifth highest salary in the NFL, but he will take home the most money because he plays in Texas, which has no state income
Chicago Cubs President and former Boston Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein believes the designated hitter (DH) is on its way to the National League. “I think we’re going to see the DH in the National League,” Chicago Cubs President
On last Friday’s “The Situation Room” on CNN, Wolf Blitzer allowed commentator and activist John Avlon to attack Sarah Palin without disclosing to the viewers that Avlon is a co-founded the anti-Tea Party group No Labels. Blitzer introduced Avlon as
John Avlon, the co-founder of the anti-Tea Party No Labels group, wrote a bizarre attack piece on Sarah Palin’s lean political action committee last week after completely misconstruing what Palin said at the Conservative Political Action Conference. At CPAC, the former Alaska
A former Washington Post editor who is now a columnist for the publication wrote that the Washington Nationals should have chosen Franklin Delano Roosevelt as one of its mascots instead of William Howard Taft, suggesting FDR’s selection would have been a
On Monday, Donald Trump ripped Alex Rodriguez, the embattled Yankees slugger who has been linked to a performance-enhancing drug dealer in Miami and whose $29 million salary this year is more than the Houston Astros payroll. Trump called him a
After the Obama administration played politics with the sequester by suspending its aerial flight teams–like the Air Force’s Thunderbirds and the Navy’s Blue Angels–last week, nearly every ball park on baseball’s Opening Day did not get a traditional flyover after
When Kobe Bryant’s contract with the Lakers expires at the end of the 2013-14 season, he may walk away from the the game he loves. When asked on Sunday if next season could be his last in the NBA, Bryant
Dunk City is heading to Hollywood. USC hired Florida Gulf Coast’s Andy Enfield on Monday, signing him to a six-year deal that will pay him more than $1 million a year. Pat Haden, USC’s athletic director, said “those in the
The Pac-12’s head of officiating, Ed Rush, is under investigation for allegedly ordering and offering referrees $5,000 or a trip to Cancun to call technical fouls on Arizona head coach Sean Miller or throw him out of the game. He
For the first time in history, the wife of a United States prosecutor was murdered along with her husband when Texas District Attorney Mike and Cynthia McClelland were found shot to death last Saturday in their home. While the motive
The Republican National Committee has hired the son of Fox News commentator Juan Williams to coordinate the party’s efforts to reach out to young and black voters. Raffi Williams, the 24 year-old son of the liberal Fox commentator, will be
President Barack Obama does not have to run for re-election anymore, but his permanent campaign continues, as Obama will attend fundraisers in San Francisco and Silicon Valley this week to help Democrats take back Congress in 2014. According to the
On Friday, President Barack Obama asked for $21 billion in more infrastructure funding in Miami in front of Chinese cranes. But in official photos the White House released of the event, all of the Chinese logos are covered by American
New York and California are the two worst states when it comes to personal freedom, according to an exhaustive new study released by the Mercatus Center of George Mason University. In the “Freedom in the 50 States” study published last
The eyes of the baseball world will be on Southern California this season as the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim field lineups full of superstars that must live up to their potential. Los Angeles Dodgers
Vin Scully, the inimitable and legendary Dodgers announcer regarded as the best in the history of the game, will be on the mic for his 64th season with the Dodgers, and he will not lack storylines this season. All eyes
It seems almost unfathomable that just four years ago, headstrong manager Bruce Bochy angered and outraged San Francisco Giants fans by refusing to play the talented catcher Buster Posey. Fans of the defending World Series champions were right about the
To close out Spring Training, the New York Yankees became the first Major League team to play Army at West Point in an exhibition game since 1986 when the Yankees defeated Army 10-5 on Saturday. The Yankees are now 22-0
