St. Louis Rams linebacker Jo-Lonn Dunbar and NBA free agent Donte Greene brought their talents to South Beach–their barroom-brawler talents. Their meanderings into impromptu, amateur mixed-martial arts landed them both in jail, charged with battery and disorderly conduct. Miami Beach police
Rory McIlroy won $1.66 million for winning the British Open on Sunday, but his father–along with three of his buddies–won over $340,000 for a bet they placed ten years ago on McIlroy to win the British Open by the time
On July 11 the Cleveland fans pictured watched Roberto Perez homer in his first game and learned that LeBron James would return to their city. I spent a few days this week in the city that also won the Republican
First, the 49ers moved from San Francisco digs to a new stadium in Santa Clara. Will the Oakland Raiders be moving south next? “They have to make that determination, whether they’re in a new stadium in Oakland or whether they
The NBA will become the first major American professional sport to honor teams with championships by adding recognition of a triumphant season to player jerseys. Starting in the 2014-15 season, the nineteen NBA teams that won championships will have a
Shabazz Napier, the incoming Miami Heat rookie whose selection in the 2014 NBA draft had Lebron James lauding the pick, is protesting that he was unaware of unfollowing James on his Twitter account, @ShabazzNapier, and deleting some tweets after James
“The habitual users run a serious chance of getting into severe trouble,” American League President Bobby Brown told the Chicago Tribune in 1989. “The statistics show that a person who uses the tobacco on a regular basis has a 50-times
Derek Jeter plays in his fourteenth and final All-Star Game tonight at Target Field in Minneapolis. Nike pays its respect to the retiring 20-year veteran with a moving commercial during the Midsummer Classic. Set to a stark piano soundtrack sans
NEW YORK (AP) — Even without the home team involved, the World Cup final between Germany and Argentina set a television viewership record in the United States, capping a tournament that exceeded expectations for interest on both ESPN and Univision.
Baltimore Ravens defensive back Jimmy Smith became the fifth Ravens team member to be arrested during the offseason when he was taken into custody this weekend and charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct. ESPN reported that Smith was helping an intoxicated
Louis “Red” Klotz, the mastermind behind several of the teams that perennially lost to the Harlem Globetrotters, died at 93 after more than 60 years working with the famed team of basketball showmen. Klotz passed away in his sleep overnight
WORCESTER, MA–It’s about two hours after the Germans have captured their fourth World Cup and first without a divisive geographic prefix. The Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra transitions into “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina.” Musicians, like comics, possess a good sense of
KISS star Gene Simmons says sports reporters hold morally upright athletes like Tim Tebow to a different standard that those who find trouble wherever they go. “It’s interesting to me that media often picks on the good guys and lets
In 2010, Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert labeled LeBron James’s exodus “cowardly” and “narcissistic.” Four years later, James returning to Gilbert’s employ has added nearly a half-billion dollars to the value of his franchise. Then, Gilbert felt the pain in
The Houston Rockets have traded Jeremy Lin and a future first-round pick to the Los Angeles Lakers for cash. The deal shifted Lin’s $15 million salary–with about $8 million counting against the cap–off Houston’s books for 2014-2015, allowing the team
We live in a cynical age, an age in which we project and predict based on criteria that include salary caps, mid-level exceptions, biannual exceptions, and even Larry Bird exceptions. We predict what athletes will do based on what other
This time, like the last time, LeBron drags out the decision. But it’s the enormous ego of Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert, not that of the best basketball player on the planet, that prolongs the drama. “If it wasn’t for
World Cup ratings are high–astronomically so. National Public Radio reports that ESPN and Univision, which acquired the rights to broadcast the tournament in English and Spanish, respectively (with Univision paying three times the price!), are celebrating some of the highest
Floyd Mayweather has announced his next opponent. It’s his last opponent. The welterweight champion will take on Marcos Maidana on September 13. Mayweather won a memorable majority decision victory over the Argentine brawler on May 3. Maidana gave Mayweather one
The Brooklyn Nets will pay an NBA-record $90.57 million in luxury-tax penalties to the rest of the NBA teams for their gargantuan 2013-2014 payroll. Team owner Mikhail Prokhorov boasts a net worth exceeding $10 billion. Based in large part on
A day after describing his wife as so gentle as not to harm a fly, Donald Sterling continued to invoke the animal kingdom in court on Wednesday in reference to his bride. “Stay away from me, you pig,” Sterling angrily,
A massive thunderstorm in Rio de Janeiro knocked out ESPN’s power just after Germany shellshocked Brazil by scoring five goals in 18 minutes in the first half. “Our studio has gone dark much like Brazil,” host Mike Tirico said. He
The Chicago White Sox thought they had a great promotion idea by giving fans White Sox rain ponchos to wear in the stands during the July 2 game. Unsurprisingly they were produced in a brilliant white color. The problem only
Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert called former player LeBron James’s departure from Cleveland “narcissistic” and a “shameful display of selfishness and betrayal by one of our very own.” Now he wants James in a Cleveland tank-top again. Despite the very
Everynew installment of the World Cup tournament resurrects the debate on the popularityof soccer in the United States. Even NBAgreat Kareem Abdul-Jabbar recently weighed in on the strange sports pro-con controversy.is suddenly inspired to rise once more and proclaim, ‘Onward
