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.
Manager Don Mattingly and the Los Angeles Dodgers parted ways on Thursday. Reports state that the relationship between the genial manager and the highest-spending team in baseball ended amicably, as Mattingly wanted out.
Last week boasted some headliner matchups, and this week features none. Still, playoff contenders Clemson, Utah, and Texas A&M all face teams this week with the talent to potentially knock them out of the discussion.
Tom Brady says he wants to play for another decade.
Daniel Murphy set a major-league record by blasting his sixth home run in six straight postseason games on Wednesday night.
A new generation of Amazins is heading to the World Series. Daniel Murphy homered for a record sixth consecutive postseason game and the Mets brushed aside the Cubs 8-3 Wednesday night, capping a National League Championship Series in which New York never trailed. Lucas Duda hit a three-run homer in the first inning and a two-run double in the second, silencing a sellout crowd of 42,227 at Wrigley Field desperately hoping for the beginning of an epic comeback in Game 4.
Marco Estrada pitched one-hit ball into the eighth inning, giving Toronto’s tattered bullpen a rest and leading the Blue Jays over the Kansas City Royals 7-1 Wednesday to close to 3-2 in the American League Championship Series.
In the wake of multiple investigations in states across the country over allegations of “insider trading,” the NCAA has imposed a ban on advertising for the fantasy sports betting sites FanDuel and DraftKings.
On Tuesday, former Washington Redskins running back Clinton Portis ripped ex-coach Jim Zorn for proselytizing of his Christian faith when he coached the Redskins in 2008-09.
The University of Florida lost their kicker to injury. They hope to find one among the 50,000 or so students enrolled at the Gainesville school.
On Tuesday, beleaguered Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson announced he will not seek reelection for a third term.
Former NBA All-Star Kevin Johnson took himself out of the running for a third term as mayor of Sacramento late Tuesday.
FIFA might want to reach out to Magnum P.I. to fill its presidential vacancy coming this February. Soccer’s governing body confirmed internal investigations into 11 officials on Wednesday.
Before Dusty Baker chewed toothpicks next to Steve Garvey in the Dodger Stadium dugout, he smoked a joint with Jimi Hendrix on the streets of San Francisco.
The R&A announced that the 148th Open Championship in 2019 will return to Royal Portrush, making it only the second time in British Open history, and the first time in nearly seventy years, the tournament will be held outside England or Scotland.
Ben Zobrist and the relentless Kansas City Royals showed they can play home run derby, too. And with one more win, they’ll have a chance to show off their power in a return trip to the World Series. Zobrist hit a two-run homer on knuckleballer R.A. Dickey’s fourth pitch of the game, Alex Rios connected an inning later and the Royals romped past the Toronto Blue Jays 14-2 Tuesday for a 3-1 lead in the American League Championship Series.
On Tuesday, Kansas City Royals right-hander Edinson Volquez asserted that his fellow pitcher, Johnny Cueto, believed that the Toronto Blue jays were stealing his catcher’s signs, enabling them to hammer him for eight runs in two-plus innings in Monday’s Blue Jays’ 11-8 victory.
During Sunday’s football game between the Indianapolis Colts and the New England Patriots, the Colts ran a very questionable fake punt while only down by a touchdown to the reigning Super Bowl champs. The play had a wide receiver snapping the ball
According to Bloomberg, the increasingly left-wing ESPN sports network has been forced to cut 350 jobs due directly to subscriber losses, which is also known as cord cutting. Early estimates were between 200 and 300 job cuts after parent company
A group of basketball recruits for the University of Louisville disclose that their visit to the college was more like an extended party—including sexual favors—than an assessment of an academic career.
Skeptics point to the disappearance of Ray Lewis’ white suit as evidence of his involvement in two Atlanta homicides. The linebacker points to his clothes on the night in question as evidence of his innocence in the matter.
According to ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” report, former University of Louisville players admitted that the Cardinals basketball team was routinely provided with strippers at parties within the dorm, and that some of the strippers had sex with players in exchange
Members of a marching band in Texas could be suspended over a fruit basket that school administrators say was racist. According to Fox 8 in Houston, TX, the tradition for members of the Atascocita High School band is to exchange gifts
An executive called the NFL Network quickly morphing into Skinemax during a postgame interview in the Cincinnati Bengals locker room “a regrettable mistake by our production team.”
Troy Tulowitzki, Josh Donaldson and the slugging Toronto Blue Jays were eager to return to their homer dome after dropping the first two games of the AL Championship Series in Kansas City. They showed everyone why. The Blue Jays came out swinging and their rowdy fans were singing from the start, with Tulowitzki and Donaldson connecting in a six-run third inning as Toronto roughed up Johnny Cueto and the Royals for an 11-8 victory that cut Kansas City’s series lead to 2-1.
The NFL is coming to town for community hearings next week in St. Louis, San Diego and Oakland, the cities of three league teams making efforts to move in to the Los Angeles, California market.
