The San Francisco 49ers traded quarterback Alex Smith to the Kansas City Chiefs on Wednesday for two draft picks. According to ESPN, Kansas City will give San Francisco its second-round pick in the 2013 draft (the No. 34 overall pick)
An overwhelming majority of Americans still believe that individuals are responsible for their own success, according to a new national Rasmussen survey. The poll found that 86% of Americans believed success in life was determined primarily by the “choices and decisions”
Eight teams sponsored by Adidas will wear short-sleeve basketball jerseys in the NCAA tournament. Adidas confirmed the report to the Sporting News on Wednesday, but did not specify which teams would wear the jerseys. “We are still working on teams, but it
Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) took Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to task on Wednesday for saying the looming sequester would be “catastrophic” for the economy and asked Bernanke to submit his own long-term plan to reduce government waste and spending.
With 6:10 to play in the fourth quarter in Indiana, Indiana’s Roy Hibbert and Golden State’s David Lee got into a shoving match on Tuesday that escalated into a melee that spilled into the crowd. After Indiana’s David West drew
During the NFL Combine this week, Nike unveiled the first athletic cleat made with parts from 3D printers. The shoe will help football players excel in the 40-yard dash because it is “specifically designed for gripping on football turf” and
Alabama and LSU have played in what may be college football’s best–and most heated and significant–rivalry the last five college football seasons, and now they are competing for an 8th-grade football player. Alabama and LSU made offers to Edward Moses,
On Tuesday, Alan Goldsmith of Americans for a Strong Defense claimed Chuck Hagel should not be confirmed as the next Secretary of Defense because of his “insufficient management experience,” “limited accomplishments,” “botched performances” at his confirmation hearing, and “extreme views.” “On
Secretary of State John Kerry thinks of himself as college basketball legend and eccentric broadcaster Bill Walton. Kerry has been reportedly “telling friends he likes to think of himself as Bill Walton,” who came to a star-studded Boston Celtics team with
A nonprofit and tax-exempt charity started by Alex Rodriguez gave only 1 percent of proceeds to charity in 2006 and is perhaps the most egregious example of athlete-run charities that have fallen far short of what is considered standard for
Boston Celtics star point guard Rajon Rondo’s nonprofit organization only raised $209 in 2009. According to a Boston Globe investigation, the Rajon Rondo Foundation asked supporters to donate $5 for every one of Rondo’s assists in 2009, and was only able to
ESPN sportscaster Brent Musburger, again showing he does not care what the politically correct crowd thinks of him, autographed a poster of Katherine Webb in a bikini on Monday night with the words “She’s a 10!” An Iowa State student
A panel of trademark judges in Washington, D.C. declared this month that the New York Yankees are the only Evil Empire in baseball when rejecting an application from an entrepreneur to trademark the phrase “Baseballs Evil Empire.” The Wall Street
The Gonzaga Bulldogs moved to No. 2 in both the Associated Press (AP) poll and the Coaches Poll this week, marking their highest ranking in school history. Indiana is No. 1 in both polls, but because Indiana plays in the
In what may be his George H.W. Bush moment, and much to the chagrin of Virginia’s conservatives, Republican Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, along with Republican VA House Speaker William Howell, endorsed the largest tax increase in the history of Virginia
Last weekend at the NFL Combine, an NFL head coach asked Tyler Eifert, Manti Te’o’s teammate at Notre Dame who is a tight end prospect, if Eifert’s girlfriend was real during a 15-minute interview session. As Yahoo! Sports reported, the
In a move that could forever change professional and amateur golf, PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem defied the the U.S. Golf Association (USGA) and Royal & Ancient Golf Club’s (R&A) proposed ban of the anchored putter on Sunday when he said
The Los Angeles Lakers won their third consecutive game since the death of their legendary and iconic owner Dr. Jerry Buss last Monday when they defeated the Dallas Mavericks 103-99 in a crucial battle for playoff positioning in the Western
Danica Patrick made history in Sunday’s running of the Daytona 500 by becoming the first female to lead a lap at the Great American Race under a green flag. She finished in eighth place despite being in contention for much
James Franco, the self-absorbed actor who penned a poem for President Barack Obama’s inauguration, took what many believed to be a sexist dig at female NASCAR driver Danica Patrick before the start of Sunday’s Daytona 500. Franco, as the honorary
Professional athletes, even those who played as little as one game in California because they played for out-of-state teams like the Dallas Cowboys and the Denver Broncos, have used California’s workers’ compensation system to get six-figure payouts in addition to
Chris Chocola, the president of the Club for Growth, told Breitbart News this weekend that establishment Republicans who have no qualms about growing the size of government and benefit from it find the fiscally conservative group to be a nuisance
Todd Palin, the husband of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, donated his winnings from the Iron Dog race in Alaska to the Chris Kyle Memorial Fund. Todd raced with a Chris Kyle decal honoring the fallen American sniper and hero
Moments after the horrific crash in Saturday’s Nationwide race at Daytona that left at least 28 fans injured, NASCAR aggressively took down YouTube videos fans posted from the event, citing copyright infringement. Breitbart Sports readers discovered that fan videos that
What makes NASCAR different than other sports is its signature event–the Daytona 500–occurs at the beginning of the season and not at the end. The Great American Race–or NASCAR’s Super Bowl–is the race every NASCAR driver wants to win. Tony
