Football traded in the scrummage for downs from scrimmage. But it owes its ball and some of its rules to rugby. Increasingly, football looks to its forebear for advice on tackling techniques.
Peyton Manning showed himself better than Brett Favre but worse than Brock Osweiler all in one game. It’s been that kind of Twilight Zone season for the 18-year veteran.
Super Bowl 50, scheduled for February 7, 2016 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, will likely feature even heavier security than normal as a result of Friday’s massacre of 129 people in France by Islamic terrorists.
An NFL Sunday is always a good diversion for Americans looking for an escape from the harsh realities of the world. And there are no shortage of interesting storylines in Week 10 of the NFL season to grab your attention.
Success, and Holly Holm’s left foot, finally got to Ronda Rousey’s head.
The Paris attackers who left a body count of 120 people and rising intended to murder far greater numbers but saw their plans foiled by security at Stade de France.
With attorneys general across the country turning their attention to online fantasy sports sites, many are being shut down as states figure out what regulations to impose on the industry. But two of the nation’s biggest sites are proactively filing a lawsuit in New York to prevent the state from shutting them down.
On Friday, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled that the state must make restitution to convicted child molester and former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky for the pension funds denied him after his conviction three years ago.
University of Missouri head coach Gary Pinkel announced his resignation because of a non-Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis.
Although the game will play at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Super Bowl 50 will celebrate the festivities surrounding the event in San Francisco.
On Thursday, Dallas Cowboys star wide receiver Dez Bryant blew up on a black reporter in the locker room for his reporting on the 2-6 Cowboys. ESPN’s Stephen A. Smtih reacted Friday on “First Take” to the tirade, saying black athletes
Duke and Oregon are about 20 points better than opening day opponents Siena and Jackson State according to www.kenpom.com, but they are the two teams that could be hurt by up to 10 points a game by injuries. The table below shows the 50 best players on the bench for opening day, and how many points they are typically worth to their team based on www.valueaddbasketball.com.
The New England Revolution’s all-time leading goal scorer red-carded three University of Massachusetts-Boston players who ridiculed him on Twitter for embracing litigation-forced rule changes to youth soccer that eliminate heading for under tens and limit them for older players.
The NCAA tournament ends in four months and 21 days. The regular season starts now.
A prostitute who wrote a book charging that a University of Louisville employee hired her for “sex parties” for recruits will now meet with the NCAA to discuss her charges, a report says.
Oscar De La Hoya says it’s nice to say goodbye to Floyd Mayweather in a scathing career assessment in Playboy.
Dez Bryant accused a reporter of using the n-word in reference to Dallas Cowboys players.
The former caddy to Tiger Woods claims in his new book that the golf superstar treated him like a slave.
The University of Missouri wears all-white uniforms when the Tigers take on the BYU Cougars this Saturday at Arrowhead Stadium.
Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic, the first man to submit Josh Barnett in mixed-martial arts and knock out Bob Sapp in kickboxing, became the first man suspended by the UFC under its new drug-testing regime administered by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.
Four unbeaten teams went down on Saturday in the first weekend when the race for the playoffs got substantially clearer. Still, it is tough to say any of the top 14 are completely out of the race. With numerous quasi-quarterfinal (and potential quasi-quarterfinal matchups) still on the schedule (North Carolina-Clemson, TCU-Baylor, TCU-Oklahoma, Michigan State-Ohio State, Utah-Stanford, Florida-Alabama, Oklahoma-Baylor, Oklahoma-Oklahoma State, Notre Dame-Stanford, Iowa-Ohio State, and Oklahoma State-Baylor), the best of the college football season is yet to come.
Miguel Cotto and Canelo Alvarez fight on November 21 to determine the best middleweight not named Gennady Golovkin. Their heavyweight promoters lay down a heavy bag of change on a bet on the fight.
The NYPD found a basketball star once drafted by the New York Knicks dead in his Lexus SUV in Brooklyn.
Greg Hardy was proven guilty in a court of law for domestic violence before a settlement with the alleged victim resulted in dropped charges. But the Dallas Cowboys defensive end wants the Twitterverse to know that judging him guilty without a conviction dubbing him so amounts to discrimination.
Virginia Tech players on Wednesday partook in an uncommon practice of a common basketball play: the national anthem.
Sports bore some sports writers. They advertise their professional discontent by turning the sports page into the op-ed section. An underachieving college football team in Columbia, Missouri, this week awarded the failed Grantland Rices the opportunity to become third-rate Mary McGrorys. This, rather than any imaginary civil-rights triumph achieved, compels scribes to scribble love letters to a football team on a four-game losing streak.
