UFC heavyweight Matt Mitrione has a message for ISIS: “Try. C’mom. I don’t live my life in fear of anybody, especially ISIS, or anybody that has a different set of ideologies than I do.”
What do you do for an encore after catching seventeen innings of baseball? When you’re Milwaukee Brewers catcher Martin Maldonado, you hit a walk-off home run to end your knees’ misery.
Allen Iverson infamously derided it as just “practice.” Buffalo Bills coach Rex Ryan commanded his team to skip it today and play golf instead.
It’s pretty amazing that a 92-year-old could complete a 26.2 mile marathon. It’s even more amazing that’s she did it after beating cancer—twice!
Harriette Thompson ran Sunday’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon in San Diego in 7 hours, 24 minutes, and 36 seconds. Her time, on this planet rather than in the race, makes that a record.
A new academic study finds that college football games in which the point spread and over-under total remain up for grabs late tend to enjoy higher television ratings than ones in which the gambling winners and losers appear as foregone conclusions early.
Troubled Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel threw a water bottle at a heckler in an incident that didn’t lead to any arrests or charges at the AT&T Byron Nelson golf tournament.
The “Tonya Harding,” dubbed so by the Atlanta Hawks radio team, who helped the Cleveland Cavaliers sweep the Atlanta Hawks is a former rugby player who “Americans hate,” according an Australian news outlet, and who has “got to learn,” according to the player who nailed him in the head with an elbow.
Just two days after the Justice Department arrested a number of FIFA officials on various charges, FIFA held its presidential election in Zurich on Friday. Bob Ley, host of ESPN’s “Outside the Lines,” showed the FIFA agenda to the viewers at home, pointing out
The Tampa Bay Lightning are the Eastern Conference Champions after they shut out the New York Rangers 2-0. They will either face the Anaheim Ducks or Chicago Blackhawks in the Stanley Cup Finals.
The 14 Southeastern Conference schools will receive a record payout of $31.2 million this year, authorities say.
George Carlin’s classic critique of football and baseball strikes today as slightly yesterday. But his premise easily extrapolates to compare and contrast the good ol’ US of A and all our funny-sounding international neighbors, who seem to adore a kicky-kick sport (what we call “soccer”) managed by the honorable men of FIFA.
Four-time NBA All-Star Vin Baker stands apart and above the other trainers, cut men, and assorted hangers-on that accompany fighters to the squared circle. The 6′ 11” Olympic gold medalist’s uplifting journey from the bar stool to the ring stool surely beats the story of 1993’s eighth pick in the NBA Draft burning through (and getting burned) nearly $100 million within two decades.
The Atlanta Falcons released linebacker Prince Shembo on Friday after police charged him earlier in the day with felony aggravated cruelty to an animal for allegedly killing his former girlfriend’s dog, according to ESPN.
For the first time in the history of the world a husband and a wife, while playing golf together, teeing it up on the same hole, playing as a twosome, shot consecutive holes in one.
Sepp Blatter won election to a 5th term as FIFA president in Zurich on Friday.
Sepp Blatter has been re-elected as president of FIFA after days of revelations about alleged corruption within the organisation. A total of 14 FIFA officials past and present were indicted by a US court after an FBI investigation uncovered evidence
FIFA President Sepp Blatter, embroiled in a corruption scandal that landed numerous associates in handcuffs this week, fell short of the necessary two-thirds total on the first ballot at today’s elections in Zurich.
On Friday’s “First Take” on ESPN2, co-host Stephen A. Smith reacted to Philadelphia Eagles coach Chip Kelly saying in a press conference, that despite allegations of racism by former player LeSean McCoy, race plays no part in his roster decisions.
First, we had FIFA officials busted on corruption charges. Now, Egypt is stepping up to do its part in the War on Soccer, with the alarmingly named Cairo Court for Urgent Matters designating hardcore “Ultras” fan clubs as terrorist organizations.
A retired NFL quarterback tells Breitbart Sports on the condition of anonymity that signal callers in the league regularly manipulate footballs the way the Wells Report alleges that Tom Brady did.
For decades, our global betters have been urging Americans to take more of an interest in soccer. And we have–though not the interest the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) had in mind. This week, the U.S. Department of Justice revealed that 14 FIFA officials had been indicted for corruption. In somewhat related news, FIFA is to vote this weekend on suspending Israel from international soccer because of security-related travel restrictions on some Palestinian players.
News surfaced this week that U.S. authorities are charging 14 world soccer figures, including officials of world soccer’s governing body known as FIFA, with racketeering, bribery, money laundering and fraud to the tune of $150 million. And this incident is only the latest revelation of alleged criminal behavior.
Next Tuesday, San Diego Chargers Chairman Dean Spanos will begin negotiations with San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer over the possibility of a new stadium, as great uncertainty over the Chargers’ future in their longtime home hangs heavy in the air.
Scandal-hit FIFA President Sepp Blatter has demonstrated the scale of his sloping shoulders by saying that he can’t be held responsible for corruption in the organisation he heads. Speaking at the governing body’s annual conference in Zurich, the man who is
The United States Soccer Federation vows to cast its ballot against Sepp Blatter as he seeks re-election as FIFA’s president today.
