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.
On Tuesday, Barack Obama, always eager to increase his ubiquitous presence with an appearance on TV, attended the season opener between the Chicago Bulls and Cleveland Cavaliers in Chicago, offering trenchant analysis of the NBA on TNT.
Fox didn’t have game—Game One of the World Series—for several minutes Tuesday night.
According to Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook, regarding winning the 2015-16 NBA championship, the Cleveland Cavaliers go off at a 2 to 1 shot, while the 16-time NBA champions the Los Angeles Lakers maintain 300-1 odds.
The father of Kansas City Royals Game One starter Edinson Volquez died hours before the most important outing of his career.
Eric Hosmer knocked in Alcides Escobar with a 14th-inning sacrifice fly to defeat the New York Mets 5-4 in Game One of the World Series.
Yusaf Mack claims he does not know exactly how it happened — but the former boxer from Philadelphia ended up in a gay porn film posted online, and he thinks he was drugged into participating.
While addressing the reigning Women’s Gold Cup winners at the White House Tuesday, President Barack Obama praised the United States Women’s National Team for their victory, as well as for being the most ever watched soccer match, men’s or women’s, in
Cleveland Cavaliers star forward LeBron James expressed his excitement that President Barack Obama might be in the audience during the upcoming season opener between with the Chicago Bulls in Chicago on Tuesday night.
Columbia University announced on Tuesday its latest faculty hire: former Boston Red Sox GM Ben Cherington.
On Tuesday’s “The Herd” on Fox Sports 1, former Major League Baseball All-Star outfielder Lenny Dykstra told host Colin Cowherd about how he gained a competitive advantage during his playing days. Cowherd noted that Dykstra kept a book on umpires,
On the same day Torii Hunter retired, prompting a tweet from former teammate LaTroy Hawkins about the paucity of blacks in major league baseball, Commissioner Rob Manfred spoke of increasing black representation in MLB’s bureaucracy.
A long suffering Ohio football fan has paid homage to the many “quarterback casualties” endured by the Cleveland Browns by erecting a “quarterback graveyard” featuring faux gravestones of the nearly two dozen quarterbacks that have come and gone since 1999 at FirstEnergy Stadium.
The Mets last playoff appearance was pre-Obama. Their last pennant was pre-Bush 43. They haven’t won it all since Reagan. To say they’re hungry in Queens would be an understatement.
The bookies see the Kansas City Royals and the New York Mets as evenly matched, at least on their ledger sheets, going into the World Series.
World Series tickets for games at Citi Field surpass the priciest in history.
Friday, on Washington, D.C.’s ESPN 980’s “The Tony Kornheiser Show,” host Tony Kornheiser spoke with Huffington Post editor and political journalist Howard Fineman on Paul Ryan and the Speaker of the House position. Fineman said that as Speaker, Ryan would
Controversial former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson has endorsed Donald Trump for President.
The Los Angeles Lakers roster will include 35-year-old veteran forward Metta World Peace, known most of his life as Ron Artest and for a short time as “The Panda’s Friend.”
The Cleveland Browns have not had much success over the last 16 seasons, having seen 22 different quarterbacks take snaps for them since drafting Tim Couch first overall in the 1999 NFL Draft. Browns fan Tony Timoteo, with the help
On Monday, University of Mississippi Police Department officers took down the state flag, yielding to those who argued that the standard’s Confederate battle flag in one corner made it unfit to display. The flag was furled and saved in the university’s archives.
Stephon Marbury, who spent his rookie season in the NBA playing for second-season coach Flip Saunders in Minnesota, Instagrammed an emotional eulogy for his former coach.
The University Interscholastic League (UIL) will ask the school superintendents in Texas to vote on using a birth certificate to determine a student-athlete’s gender. The founder of the group TransAthlete.com cries foul, saying the proposed rule denies equal access to transgendered students.
Greg Hardy is, to paraphrase Dennis Green, who we thought he was.
In what was supposed to be a week that did little to provide a clearer playoff picture, Utah and Florida State took losses that make it difficult to see a path back to playoff contention while Texas A&M now competes thoroughly out of the mix.
Flip Saunders, the only man to coach the Minnesota Timberwolves in the playoffs, died on Sunday at 60.
