Less than a day after prohibiting reporters from live-tweeting golf events, the PGA Tour walked back its nonsensical policy on Friday by informing golf reporters on the course at Torrey Pines for this week’s Tour event they are now allowed
Dr. Phil McGraw has landed the first interview with Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the alleged perpetrator of the Manti Te’o fake girlfriend hoax. According to TMZ’s sources, Dr. Phil and Tuiasosopo watched Te’o’s interview with Katie Couric, which aired on Thursday, and
School districts that do not provide deaf students “a visual cue” alongside a starter pistol to enable them to compete on the track team or create basketball and tennis leagues for students in wheelchairs will be in violation of federal
Danica Patrick, the female NASCAR driver who gets tons of media buzz, is dating fellow driver Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. “I have a boyfriend, his name is Richard,” Patrick told the Associated Press. Stenhouse confirmed the relationship. Patrick is 30 years
On Thursday, United Airlines announced it would cut 600 jobs after losing $723 million last year. “In December, I announced a 7 percent reduction in our officer headcount,” Chief Executive Officer Jeff Smisek told employees in a statement. “Today, we
In a Fox News survey, two-thirds of Americans said they would “defy” a federal gun ban and keep their guns if the government ever passed a law to “take your guns.” The survey asked respondents, “If the government passed a
On Thursday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Washington politicians should not take advantage of recent tragedies to pass aggressive gun control laws, especially since “real assault weapons” have been illegal since 1934. Cruz was responding to the bill Sen. Diane Feinstein’s (D-CA)
The PGA Tour will prohibit reporters from live-tweeting golf tournaments in an age when social media is becoming more critical to sports and news coverage. PGA Tour official Ty Votaw sent an e-mail to reporters on Thursday that said the PGA
In his first on-camera interview since it was revealed his girlfriend never existed and was a hoax, Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o told television personality Katie Couric he was “sorry” to those who were misled and insisted he still did
CNN will debut a sports program during the weekends that former ESPN reporter Rachel Nichols will anchor. Jeff Zucker, in his fourth day in his official capacity as network’s president, announced the hiring. Nichols is Zucker’s first official hire at the
On Thursday, former Alaska governor and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin wrote a Facebook note about Owen Groesser, an “an eighth grader with Down Syndrome who became an overnight social media star” on Wednesday when ESPN played his highlights on
When television personality Katie Couric asked Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o if he was gay, Te’o said he was “far from it.” In his first television interview since it was revealed that his girlfriend who he thought had died of
Manti Te’o released three voicemails allegedly from “Lennay Kekua” to Katie Couric, which have been posted on the website of “Katie,” her syndicated talk show. Te’o claims one of the calls was made on “September 12, 2012 — the day she
On Wednesday, a mainstream news outlet that prides itself on news and often mocks blogs or new media outlets for publishing gossip ran a story solely based on pieces information the outlet even conceded “were not originals” and “could not
In a clip released by “Katie,” Katie Couric’s syndicated show that will air the Manti Te’o interview on Thursday, Te’o described speaking to the person he thought was his girlfriend “Lennay Kekua” after the person allegedly got out of a
Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay sent a random follower on Twitter $8,500 in cash for most accurately predicting the score of Sunday’s AFC title game between the Baltimore Ravens and the New England Patriots. Before the game on Sunday, Irsay
Manti Te’o allegedly was speaking to a man who was impersonating the voice of a female in order to have a “relationship” with Te’o. The lawyer of the man believed to be behind the Manti Te’o hoax said his client,
Former Notre Dame head coach and ESPN college football commentator Lou Holtz sent a text message to House Speaker John Boehner after watching President Barack Obama’s inauguration and complained “the country’s over with” and that he never wanted to see
Billionaire Ron Burkle, a close friend of former President Bill Clinton’s, is in serious talks on a bid to buy the Sacramento Kings franchise. Burkle is a part owner of Pittsburgh Penguins NHL franchise and, according to USA Today, may
PGA Commissioner Tim Finchem, a former economist in Jimmy Carter’s presidential administration, said Phil Mickelson’s potential decision to leave California because of the state’s high tax rate was “not a unique thing.” “I don’t know if I should comment on
Three days after golfer Phil Mickelson publicly said California’s high tax rate may force him to make “drastic changes” to his career or consider leaving the state he loves for financial reasons, he was bullied into apologizing for what Mickelson said
ESPN writer Rick Reilly, joining other writers who immediately started to mock Phil Mickelson for speaking out against California’s high taxes, made fun of Mickelson on Twitter on Tuesday, even creating a “#MickelsonProblems” hashtag. Reilly tweeted that Mickelson’s “private jet”
