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.
After collecting a win over Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos, Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay went on to add to his impressive collection of Beatles gear with the $2.125 million acquisition of Ringo Starr’s famed Beatles logo “drop-T” drum head.
The office of New York’s attorney general fired off cease-and-desist letters to FanDuel and DraftKings fantasy sports websites.
A Raider who allegedly taunted a Bandit faces a possible felony charge in Pittsburgh.
UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey says her vote belongs to Bernie Sanders in the upcoming presidential election.
Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfed promises to provide Pete Rose with a decision on his application for reinstatement by the end of December.
On Monday, ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith warned “black America” to not jump so quickly to thinking someone with different views or skin pigmentation are racist. Taking into account he could be called an “Uncle Tom” or “sellout,” Smith continued the University of
The University of Missouri Tigers ended their two-day strike in solidarity with student activists calling for the removal of the school’s president, Tim Wolfe.
Ken Griffey Jr. leads a pack of fifteen first-time candidates for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Monday night, Tommy Hanson, 29, the hard-throwing 6-6, 220-pound hurler who played for the Atlanta Braves and the Los Angeles Angels, died from catastrophic organ failure. Hanson passed away at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, according to a Braves representative.
The United States Soccer Federation and other of the sport’s governing bodies announced new rules for youth competition on Monday to settle a concussion lawsuit filed by parents.
Manchester United football player Wayne Rooney slapped and floored WWE wrestler Wade Barrett at an event in Manchester, UK last night after Barrett spotting him in the audience and goaded him. Sky News reports that Rooney was at the WWE
Four All-Americans give the Big Ten the toughest All-Conference team, led by Melo Trimble who hopes to lead Maryland to a Big Ten and national title. Most of the talent is concentrated in the 10 preseason All-Conference teams listed below, but All-Americans Fred VanVleet and Ron Baker of Wichita State lead the “best of the rest” from the other 23 conferences.
San Francisco 49ers running back Reggie Bush plans on suing the city of St. Louis because of a fall he took on Sunday, when he slipped on a concrete path after being pushed out of bounds on a punt return.
Michael Sam, the openly gay football player who competed at the University of Missouri from 2009-13, tweeted his delight after Mizzou president Tim Wolfe announced his resignation Monday morning.
Hundreds of people turned up at an Oxnard beach Sunday to pay their last respects to Tillman, an English bulldog whose surfing and skateboarding videos made him a social media sensation.
In wake of the announcement of University of Missouri president Tim Wolfe stepping down after protests and demands from students and professors for his response to alleged racial incidents on campus, MSNBC had former Missouri Tiger football player Michael Sam on to give
Over the weekend, 32 African-American players on the University of Missouri-Columbia football team joined a strike to protest purported acts of racism on campus saying they would boycott team activities, including games. But that boycott could have cost the school a million dollars for missing the game.
“I would like to build a university of which the football team could be proud,” quipped the late University of Oklahoma President George Lynn Cross. On Monday, University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe left a university of which his football team could be proud. Everyone else remains puzzled.
On Monday’s “First Take” on ESPN2, co-host Stephen A. Smith reacted to the news of University of Missouri president Tim Wolfe resigning amid racial tension and protests on campus. Smith first said that Wolfe “had to go” due to the black
GENEVA (Reuters) – An international anti-doping commission recommended on Monday that the Russian Athletics Federation be banned from the sport over widespread doping offences – a move that could see the powerhouse Russian team miss next year’s Rio Olympics. The
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The president of the University of Missouri system stepped down Monday amid criticism of his handling of student complaints about race and discrimination.
Breitbart Sports recently named its first preseason All-American team, with Kris Dunn of Providence the runaway Player of the Year.
New York Jets defensive lineman Sheldon Richardson came out in support of the striking players at his almost alma mater.
More than thirty University of Missouri student-athletes interlocked arms for a picture this weekend conveying their solidarity to boycott football until school president Tim Wolfe resigns or receives his termination. But an anonymous player says the team is not as united as that photograph suggests.
Over the weekend, 32 African-American members of the University of Missouri-Columbia football team joined a group of students staging a hunger strike to protest purported acts of racism on campus.
