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.
A Las Vegas gambler won nearly $2.5 million when the Royals won the World Series. According to the Sporting News, “Dave Oancea, a Hawaii native and Las Vegas resident,” bet $100,000 total on the Royals to win the World Series
On Wednesday, one of Rory McIlroy’s Facebook fans jokingly asked if he could have one of McIlroy’s old drivers. Much to the fan’s surprise, the golf superstar responded him and agreed to send him one of his old Nike golf clubs.
Former NBA great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar comes out swinging against Dr. Ben Carson, writing that Carson would be a terrible president and an “unmitigated disaster” for black Americans. In a Wednesday Time op-ed, Abdul-Jabbar first concedes that Carson “is good for
Losers in the Houston “bathroom ordinance” election are saying they are going to boycott Houston’s economy and are asking the NFL to move the Super Bowl. Houston has been named as the site of the 2017 Super Bowl.
Payne County District Attorney officially filed second-degree murder charges and 46 counts of felony assault against Adacia Chambers, who is accused of purposely driving into the Oklahoma State University homecoming parade. The judge demanded Chambers undergo a psychological evaluation.
NEW YORK (AP) — A Brazilian FIFA official who was a key organizer of the 2014 World Cup in his home country pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to U.S. charges stemming from a sprawling bribery case that has scandalized the soccer world.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The latest as tens of thousands of people flood into Europe in search of a new life.
An Arizona high school football player who says he was ejected from a football game last Friday for praising God has won his appeal and is now eligible to play in his team’s first playoff game in 21 years this
An estimated 800,000 people celebrated the Royals’s World Series win on Tuesday, according to Kansas City Mayor Sly James, and they partied without burning cars, rioting and violence. Kansas City Police Chief Daryl Forte reportedly “said there had only been three
The Clemson Tigers, LSU Tigers, Ohio State Buckeyes, and the Alabama Crimson Tide are the top four teams in the first College Football Playoff rankings of 2015. The College Football Playoff Committee released its first rankings on Tuesday, and here
Outfielder Jonny Gomes gave quite a speech during Tuesday’s World Series celebration for the Kansas City Royals, who defeated the New York Mets four games to one on Sunday. Gomes grabbed a U.S. flag, asked for a moment of silence to
“My All American,” written by the same screenwriter as “Rudy” and “Hoosiers,” is about the short life of “Game of the Century” University of Texas football safety Freddie Joe Steinmark. Steinmark, who died at the age of 22 of cancer, was a member of the 1969 UT National Champion and Cotton Bowl Classic winning football team.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said in a recent interview with ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” that it is at best “disingenuous” to use taxpayer’s money to pay for on-field patriotic recognition at sporting events and at worst “unacceptable.” ABC’s Jim Avila reported that
Michelle Payne has become the first female jockey ever to win the prestigious Melbourne Cup, assisted by her brother Stevie, the groom or “strapper,” who has Down syndrome.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had a few pointed comments about racism and law enforcement in an Interview with Bleacher Report prior to the November 3 release of the HBO documentary/biography Minority of One revolving around the former NBA superstar.
Fresno State football player Christian Malik Pryor was arrested on November 2 for allegedly threatening a gun-related mass shooting on the school’s campus.
Leftwing filmmaker Michael Moore refused to remove his hat during the patriotic singing of “God Bless America” at the World Series.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dusty Baker is the new manager of the Washington Nationals, meaning Major League Baseball avoids what would have been its first season since 1988 with zero black skippers.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — LeBron James needed one simple slam to hit another major milestone.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Two protesters rappelled down from the upper balcony to unfurl a banner protesting Bank of America during Monday night’s game between the Indianapolis Colts and the Carolina Panthers.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — A person with knowledge of the decision says quarterback Colin Kaepernick has been told he won’t start Sunday for the San Francisco 49ers, replaced by backup Blaine Gabbert.
Businessman and GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump is “okay” with sports gambling and fantasy sports. In a Monday interview with Fox Sports’s Colin Cowherd, Trump first said that the question about fantasy sports at CNBC’s “financial debate” last week was
On Monday, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) called on Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant to release his pet monkey to wildlife experts and asked the DeSoto, Texas police to investigate whether Bryant was in illegal possession of
On Monday evening, hundreds of men’s and women’s college basketball coaches asked the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve race-based affirmative action in a friend of the court brief. UConn women’s basketball Geno Auriemma, Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, Penn State women’s
School districts all over Kansas City are canceling school on Tuesday, when the Kansas City Royals will have their World Series victory parade after winning the franchises’s first World Series in 30 years. A writer for the Big Lead received
