The Obama administration borrowed in one month nearly six times as much money as will be cut from the budget during the whole year due to the sequester. The federal government’s debt climbed by $253.5 billion in February, while the
After Rory McIlroy admitted that it was “not the right thing to do” to abruptly withdraw from the Honda Classic in the middle of the round last Friday because of an apparent toothache, the world’s top-ranked golfer said he could
Toronto Blue Jays knuckleballer R.A. Dickey will start the World Baseball Classic opener for the United States against Mexico on Friday at Chase Field in Arizona. Joe Torre, the former Yankees and Dodgers skipper who will manage the American squad,
Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco said multiple times his record NFL contract was not about the money, but his insistence that it was about “respect” proved that, in the NFL, money does does the talking when it comes to respect
The National Rifle Association will sponsor the April 13 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway. The race, which used to be known as the Texas 500, will now be called the NRA 500. The NRA made the
The Gonzaga Bulldogs became the top-ranked team in the Associated Press and the Coaches Poll college basketball rankings on Monday for the first time in school history. Gonzaga is No. 1 in the new AP poll, followed by Indiana, Duke,
After Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim outfielder Mike Trout had the best rookie season in the history of the game last season and almost won the AL MVP award, the Angels rewarded him by giving him a measly $20,000 raise. Trout will
After Missouri House Republicans rejected plans by Democrats to expand Medicaid under Obamacare last week, Missouri’s Republican state Senators may be working to enable the expansion. According to a RedState report, state Senator Mike Parson has filed SB 456, described as a
Jacksonville Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew once wanted to score a touchdown instead of kneeling down at the end of the game to help football fans who had him on their fantasy football teams. At the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics
A former U.S. speedskater, Birdie Farrell, has accused Andy Gabel, a four-time U.S. Olympian and silver medalist in the sport, of sexually abusing her in the 1990s when Gabel was 33 and Farrell was 15. Farrell told a radio station
Danica Patrick’s huge wreck in Sunday’s NASCAR race may have been one of the best things to happen to her this year, her first full year in the Sprint Cup Series. With over 100 laps in Sunday’s Subway Fresh Fit
Keith Olbmermann, who was instrumental in turning MSNBC into the partisan and shrill network that it is today, is reportedly looking to go back to ESPN. ESPN president John Skipper told the New York Times that Olbermann had dinner with
Lauren Silberman became the first female player to try out for NFL teams on Sunday at the NFL Regional Combine in New York, and her historic tryout lasted just two kicks. According to reports, her first kickoff attempt went
The Chicago Blackhawks were down 1-0 and 2:02 away from losing their first game in regulation in 22 games to start the NHL season at Detroit on Sunday when Patrick Kane scored to send the game into overtime and guarantee
Dennis Rodman, the flamboyant former Chicago Bulls star, said he would not apologize for his new “friend” Kim Jong Un, the North Korean dictator with whom he met last week in what is believed to be the first meeting between
Dennis Rodman compared North Korea’s prison camps to former President Bill Clinton’s affair with intern Monica Lewinsky in a bizarre interview on Sunday after he became, by all accounts, the first American to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong
Dennis Rodman, the former NBA superstar who went to North Korea last week and, by all accounts, was the first American to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, said Jong Un had a message for President Barack Obama:
UCLA kept pace with Oregon to stay atop the Pac-12 conference by defeating No. 11 Arizona at a sold-out Pauley Pavilion 74-69 on Saturday night. The Bruins (22-7, 12-4) and Oregon (23-6, 12-4) are tied for first in the conference.
The California Golden Bears routed the Colorado Buffalos 62-46 on Saturday at Berkeley, winning their seventh straight game and most likely getting off the NCAA bubble and securing a spot in the tournament. Cal (20-9, 12-5) also has a chance
The second-ranked Gonzaga Bulldogs, the small Jesuit school in the Pacific Northwest that won four games in head coach Mark Few’s first year 14 years ago, rested their case for a No. 1 seed in the tournament and No. 1
Liberals have accused Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia of being the court’s resident bully, but when two liberal female Suprem Court Justices–Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan–this week tried to browbeat Scalia and lawyers arguing against the Voting Rights Act’s Section 5
Butler and Gonzaga took up all of the college basketball oxygen this week, but VCU elbowed its way into the spotlight on Saturday by thumping Butler 84-52 at home in what was Butler’s worst loss ever under head coach Brad
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (R) declared a financial state of emergency for the city of Detroit on Friday, clearing the way for Michigan to take over the city that is $14 billion in debt and faces a current fiscal year budget
