Why doesn’t anyone tweet out the wager receipt when they lose? Boxer Floyd Mayweather pocketed $32 million in guaranteed pay from a night’s work in Las Vegas last month. Yesterday, he snagged $1.4 million from the casinos of Sin City.
The National Football League finally wants to bring a franchise back to Los Angeles, but the San Diego Chargers are fighting the move by citing the “economic harm” it will cause them. On Thursday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said
Week 6 is upon us. Last week’s action brought us marquee performances from Peyton Manning (479 yds, 4 TDs, 2 INT) and Russell Wilson (323 combined yds, 3 TDs, 0 INT), as well as outstanding play from Austin Davis (375
Katy Perry has agreed to play the Super Bowl halftime show according to numerous reports. The event takes place at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on February 1. “I would be honored, of course,” Perry told ESPN’s GameDay
Seattle, Washington, was one vote away from getting its own National Hockey League team when the Phoenix Coyotes almost fled Arizona, reports say. Only one vote in favor of a new arena cast 15 months ago by the City Council
The 2014-2015 NHL season starts Wednesday on Rivalry Night with a game between the Montreal Canadiens and the Toronto Maple Leafs. It is the perfect beginning for what should be another exciting season. The NHL implemented a few rule changes,
ESPN confirms that they have hired Michelle Obama’s brother Craig Robinson as a men’s college basketball analyst for the cable network. Robinson was fired from his head basketball coaching job in Oregon State in May with three more years remaining
LeBron James wants $17 million for his Miami manse. He wants a lot more from the NBA. The league’s marquee talent warns NBA owners not to cry poor in the next round of collective bargaining. That “will not fly with
The NBA is expected to announce on Monday that they have reached a nine-year television contract with ESPN and TNT worth a staggering $24 billion. NBA to announce $24 billion/9 year deal w/ ESPN and TNT on Monday. Annual average
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Bo Wallace threw for 251 yards and three touchdowns, including two in the fourth quarter, and No. 11 Mississippi rallied from a fourth-quarter deficit to stun No. 3 Alabama 23-17 on Saturday. It was a methodical,
We’re officially one quarter of the way through the NFL season. And what a season it has been. With all the off-field legal drama and injuries to key players through the first four weeks, fantasy rankings charts and stat leaderboards
An Ohio State student who ran onto the field during a Buckeyes football game now faces losing his full-ride scholarship over the stunt. Engineering student Anthony J. Wunder, 21, ran out onto the field in the second quarter of the
There apparently is not a huge market for boring numbers geeks and their stats, stats, stats, stats, stats, and data, data, data, data, data. When ESPN nabbed Nate Silver from the New York Times, political elites and those in the
Police in Baltimore arrested Michael Phelps for a DUI on Tuesday at 1:40 a.m. According to multiple reports and confirmed by the Maryland Transportation Authority, police clocked the 29-year-old Olympic swimming marvel driving 84 mph inside the Fort McHenry Tunnel
On Monday Night Football, referees penalized Husain Abdullah for sliding on his knees in the end zone. By Tuesday morning, the excessive celebration penalty became a punished-for-praying flag. The Kansas City Chiefs safety glided on two knees in the end
If you have any interest in the NFL, and the Ray Rice/what-did-Roger-Goodell-know-and-when-did-he-know-it case, then you have probably heard ESPN contributor Bill Simmons’s f-bomb-laced rant on the topic. Simmons, who edits the sports and entertainment website Grantland and comments on the
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist led a discussion about ESPN podcaster Bill Simmons recent suspension over comments he made regarding NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, calling him a liar for suggestion he was
In one of his recent podcasts, ESPN regular and the editor-in-chief of Grantland Bill Simmons ranted against the NFL chief Roger Goodell, calling him a liar for his suggestion in a press conference last week that he was unaware of
This week a gambler from Kingman, Arizona correctly picked the winners of all 15 Sunday and Monday NFL games, winning $57,935 off of a $5 bet. The Arizona gambler, who asked to be identified only as “Rex,” took his big
Week 3 in the NFL saw little of the off-field controversy of the previous weeks. Instead, football fans were treated to some fantastic on-field performances from unexpected players: filling in for the injured Robert Griffin III, Kirk Cousins delivered a
NFL fans don’t agree with Eric Holder, Keith Olbermann, and Hillary Clinton on the Washington Redskins. A Sports Illustrated/Marketing & Research Resources poll of 500 NFL fans found that 79 percent of them do not consider the nickname of Washington’s
Ray Lewis, owner of a missing white coat, proclaimed Sunday: “There’s some things you can cover up and then there’s some things you can’t.” In what played as an awkward moment, Lewis, the former star linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens
Brandon Marshall implored journalists in a dramatic press conference on Thursday to let the “process play itself out” and to “gather all the facts before…playing judge and jury” on embattled NFL players. The Chicago Bears wide receiver took the podium at
Few Americans agree with ESPN’s Keith Olbermann and the National Organization for Women that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell should resign. An NBC/Marist poll found that just 29 percent of Americans surveyed believe the commissioner should leave his post because of
What a Week 2 in the NFL. From on-field injuries to off-field indictments, this week’s player rankings are missing quite a few marquee names. Jamaal Charles and Vernon Davis were both bit by the injury bug last week; Charles suffered
