
We’ve heard it repeated that Major League Soccer remains a retirement league, lacks quality playmakers, blah blah blah.
by Daniel Zimnikov30 Jul 2015, 6:00 AM PST0

Ronda Rousey wants to perform her own stunts in the movies. She believes she participates in not mere cage fighting but in a “cultural revolution.” She says that fans crowding into bars or onto couches to catch her fights are “watching history.”
by Daniel J. Flynn30 Jul 2015, 4:01 AM PST0

Wichita State’s win over Kansas in March Madness to claim bragging rights in the basketball state featured all the best athletes in the Sunflower State. However, the greatest athletes ever were running star and Congressman Jim Ryun and baseball Hall of Famer George Brett.
by John Pudner30 Jul 2015, 1:36 AM PST0

New Orleans Saints tight end Ben Watson expressed disgust over reports that Planned Parenthood harvests organs from aborted babies.
by Daniel Leberfeld30 Jul 2015, 12:03 AM PST0

Russian President Vladimir Putin casually offered disgraced FIFA President Sepp Blatter as a candidate for the Nobel Prize, in public talks, saying that “if there is anyone who deserves” the honor, Blatter and sports officials like him do.
by Mary Chastain29 Jul 2015, 12:33 PM PST0

When Minnesota dentist Walter J. Palmer shot a lion during a recent hunt in Zimbabwe, he says he had no idea the animal was “Cecil,” a 13-year-old lion who served as a “major tourist draw at Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park.”
by AWR Hawkins29 Jul 2015, 11:58 AM PST0

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft ripped the NFL on Wednesday for its refusal to alter Tom Brady’s four-game suspension for Deflategate, calling the decision “unfathomable.”
by William Bigelow29 Jul 2015, 9:41 AM PST0

Tom Brady reacted to Roger Goodell’s decision to uphold his four-game suspension for the 2015 season in a statement released Wednesday.
by Breitbart News29 Jul 2015, 8:34 AM PST0

The NFL Players Association seeks correspondence pertinent to Deflategate between the NFL and the law firm that employs Ted Wells. Roger Goodell refuses to hand it over, citing attorney-client privilege.
by Daniel J. Flynn29 Jul 2015, 8:25 AM PST0

In press conference on Wednesday, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft took to the media on the heels of the NFL’s announcement that it had denied an appeal of a four-game suspension for team quarterback Tom Brady for allegedly deflating
by Jeff Poor29 Jul 2015, 7:48 AM PST0

In his appeal ruling on Tom Brady’s four-game suspension, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell wrote that “steroid use” appears as the “closest parallel” to the New England Patriots quarterback’s alleged infraction.
by Warner Todd Huston29 Jul 2015, 1:01 AM PST0

ESPN has Missouri back in the Top 25 in football, and the top four student-athletes in the state are in fact Mizzou players getting ready for another SEC season. The state also has a lot of high school talent in big-time volleyball and basketball prospects.
by John Pudner29 Jul 2015, 1:00 AM PST0

Tom Brady allegedly destroyed his cellphone during the NFL’s investigation of “Deflategate.”
by William Bigelow29 Jul 2015, 12:05 AM PST0

On Tuesday’s episode of “Pardon the Interruption” on ESPN, co-host Tony Kornheiser reacted to the NFL upholding New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s four-game suspension for his alleged participation in “DeflateGate” and said that it’s a bad look for the
by Trent Baker28 Jul 2015, 8:47 PM PST0

The Arizona Cardinals decision to hire Jen Welter through training camp and the preseason made history by bestowing a coaching position on a woman for the first time in the NFL.
by Robert Wilde28 Jul 2015, 2:26 PM PST0

Los Angeles is now the frontrunner for hosting the 2024 Olympics. If selected as the U.S. Olympic Committee’s choice, the City of Angels will still be the second choice behind Boston.
by Adelle Nazarian28 Jul 2015, 2:08 PM PST0

Mike Francesa, host of Fox Sports 1’s “The Mike Francesa Show,” reacted to the report that the Arizona Cardinals hired Jen Welter as an assistant coaching intern for training camp and the NFL preseason to help coach inside linebackers, by saying, “I’m
by Trent Baker28 Jul 2015, 1:35 PM PST0

Roger Goodell doubled down on dumb. The commissioner consistently plays bad hands this way. People losing the house’s rather than their own money often do.
by Daniel J. Flynn28 Jul 2015, 1:14 PM PST0

On Sunday, vendors at the Orange County Fair barred former NBA All-Star Gilbert Arenas, 33, from winning any more prizes after he swished too many basketballs at carnival booths.
by William Bigelow28 Jul 2015, 12:47 PM PST0

The NFL announced on Tuesday that Roger Goodell has upheld the four-game suspension meted out to Tom Brady over Deflategate.
by Daniel J. Flynn28 Jul 2015, 11:54 AM PST0

Stephen A. Smith broke news on ESPN2’s “First Take” about the long-awaited decision of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s appeal of the four-game suspension for his alleged participation in “DeflateGate,” saying that he is hearing Brady’s suspension will be
by Trent Baker28 Jul 2015, 9:50 AM PST0

The Ohio State University athletic department released a video of someone set up to wait in the facilities dressed as a dummy football player jumping out and scaring actual players as they walk by. The dummy had more success at bringing down Ohio
by Trent Baker28 Jul 2015, 9:31 AM PST0

July 31 marks the last day when teams looking to make a postseason run can significantly bolster their rosters. Which teams most need a playmaker to help with a playoff run?
by Daniel Zimnikov28 Jul 2015, 7:44 AM PST0

Mexico Gold Cup soccer win celebrants in Santa Ana, California caused police to shut down a portion of a major street in order to protect pedestrians from erratic drivers spinning doughnuts.
by Michelle Moons28 Jul 2015, 6:34 AM PST0

This weekend the NFL gave referees explicit instructions to start monitoring all game balls in response to Deflategate.
by Robert Wilde28 Jul 2015, 12:30 AM PST0