TMZ Sports reports that Mickey Mantle’s moving farewell address, which he wrote as he was dying in 1995, has sold at an auction for $24,000. Mantle wrote the note on a PGA scorecard just before he gave a speech on
“In the end, truly, Tony Gwynn’s greatest achievement was not that he was so admired or emulated, but that he was so loved,” wrote Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times. San Diego and Padres icon Tony Gwynn, affectionately known
Italy embarrassed England, but now England needs Italy more than ever since they lost to Uruguay 2-1 on Thursday afternoon. If England wants to stay alive, they need Italy to win twice. If Italy keeps its end of the bargain,
ESPN reports that Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s estranged wife, Shelly Sterling, is scheduled to appear Thursday in court to argue that her husband and his attorneys have threatened, intimidated, and harassed witnesses scheduled to testify in the July
Group play hasn’t even ended, but the World Cup has already shattered online-video streaming records. According to Variety, the World Cup has “already broken the record for peak amount of online-video streaming bandwidth as delivered by Akamai Technologies, and also
The United States men’s soccer team’s thrilling World Cup victory over Ghana in their World Cup opener on Monday evening drew the highest-ever rating for a World Cup game on ESPN. The match “averaged a 7.0 overnight rating” and, according to
On Monday, Baltimore Ravens star running back Ray Rice and his wife met with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to discuss how the league would deal with his February arrest for aggravated assault against his wife. The NFL has a personal
The Sports gods delivered the World Cup, a US Open, a new keeper of the Stanley Cup, and an old, familiar champion in the NBA this weekend. Popovich Rules the World The San Antonio Spurs lack a representative in the
The prophecy tattoo didn’t come true for Eric Hartburg and Mitt Romney. It nearly worked for Tyler Austin Black and the University of Kentucky basketball team. For Tim Connors and the Seattle Seahawks, a preseason prediction of a Super Bowl
An anonymous Associated Press source has revealed that Donald Sterling’s lawyers have given a six-figure budget to private investigators to dig up “dirt” on NBA commissioner Adam Silver, former commissioner David Stern, and the other 29 NBA owners. According to
The World Cup opener between Brazil and Croatia set TV ratings records in the United States, with a 3.2 overnight rating on ESPN and another 5.1 million viewers on Univision, the spanish-language station. According to Deadline, the game drew a
Did FIFA ask the United States to get ready to host the 2022 World Cup if Qatar is stripped of it? As soon as Jorge Ramos of ESPN Deportes reported on Thursday that FIFA had asked the United States delegation
Hours before the start of the World Cup, police and protestors clash in Sao Paulo. The conflict injured at least five people. According to The Associated Press, 100 people gathered in the city. Though smaller than what most expected, the
USA coach Jurgen Klinsmann said to not expect the United States to win the World Cup in Brazil. “You have to be realistic. Every year we are getting stronger,” Klinsmann told reporters in Brazil. “We don’t look at ourselves as
Brazil still might encounter a subway worker strike in Sao Paulo during the World Cup. The workers suspended the strike on Monday, but threatened to start again by Thursday–the first day of the tournament–if 42 fired workers are not rehired.
World Cup 2014 in Brazil has its very own psychic animal! A 25-year-old loggerhead turtle named Cabeção, or Big Head, picked Brazil to beat Croatia in the opening game on Thursday. From The Associated Press: At the Praia do Forte
“Et tu, Brute,” former Georgetown coach John Thompson said of Big East rivals who fled the conference on ESPN’s “A Requiem for the Big East.” “It’s just that simple.” He didn’t mention Syracuse. He didn’t have to. The rivalry between
Brazil has called up 170,000 security forces to handle crazy World Cup soccer fans, but also because of protest threats by those unhappy that Brazil spent billions on the tournament and not the citizens. President Dilma Rousseff told the army
On the first day of trial in a case that could reshape college athletics, former UCLA Bruins superstar Ed O’Bannon reportedly said high school athletes and Little Leaguers should also be paid if their games are televised. O’Bannon is a
The World Cup kicks off on Thursday, June 12 in soccer-crazy Brazil. But due to unfinished projects, promised money not paid, corruption, and poor public transportation, the country is not very excited. Brazil learned the hard way it is not
Before Rashad McCants dated Khloe Kardashian (pictured) at the end of his 4-year NBA career, he was in the top 2% of all college basketball players while at UNC. He managed to win an NCAA title and–according to him–get several
Manu Ginobli and Tony Parker may have grabbed the spotlight last night in San Antonio. But entering the NBA Finals, the top three performers in the playoffs have been: 1. LeBron James, 2. Tim Duncan, and 3. Dwyane Wade. The
Since 1971, the NFL has been using classy Roman Numerals on its Super Bowl logos. But the league is just going with “Super Bowl 50” instead of Super Bowl L, the Roman Numeral for 50, for the 2015 season’s final
Johnny Manziel brings the fans. Unfortunately, on Wednesday, he brought the rain, too. The Cleveland Indians invited Manziel to throw out the first pitch for Wednesday night’s game. The city’s fans gobbled up tickets as though it were 1999. The
Major League Baseball suspended Red Sox pitcher Brandon Workman on Tuesday for six games for throwing a pitch close to Evan Longoria’s head on Friday. They meted out no punishment to Tampa Bay Rays pitcher David Price, who beaned David
