Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Yasiel Puig was smuggled out of Cuba, and baseball officials and authorities are concerned that those who may have been threatening his life could also endanger his teammates and baseball fans. Los Angeles Times columnist Bill
Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Yasiel Puig was smuggled out of Cuba, and baseball officials and authorities are concerned that those who may have been threatening his life could also endanger his teammates and baseball fans. Los Angeles Times columnist Bill
With Wall Street concerned that Disney’s sports network goliath, ESPN, may be negatively impacted from increasing operating costs and competition from Fox Sports 1, Disney CEO Bob Igor unleashed a barrage of upbeat statements about it during Thursday’s investor meeting
Oscar Robertson famously averaged a triple-double during the 1961-62 season. Jason Collins finishes his much-celebrated 2014 campaign not even averaging a triple-single. The openly-gay center ranks 454 of 482 NBA players in scoring for the 2013-2014 season. He averaged just
If boxing is dead, why did Floyd Mayweather, Jr. earn $73.5 million for just two fights last year? Money, as the boxer aptly goes by, tops ESPN’s list of the world’s highest paid athletes. Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, two
Herb Kohl, former senator from Wisconsin, sold the Milwaukee Bucks team to two hedge-fund billionaires. Marc Lasry and Wesley Edens bought the team for $550 million, $145 million more than what Forbes assessed the value of the Bucks. Forbes magazine
WASHINGTON (AP) — Entertainer and entrepreneur Sean Combs will deliver Howard University’s commencement speech this year in Washington. The school announced Tuesday that Combs will be among five people who will receive honorary degrees as trailblazers in their fields. Combs
The Sports Hangover recovers from a Masters without Tiger, wonders if team mixed-martial arts represents a sign of the apocalypse, and thinks “what might have been” re: Manny v. Floyd. Bubba, Tiger, and the Ratings Collapse After ESPN’s coverage of
Twenty-two-time Olympic medalist Michael Phelps returns from retirement to swim in a meet at Mesa, AZ on April 24-26. But his coach Bob Bowman remains cautious and refuses to call it a comeback. Bowman said Phelps is not quite back
South Carolina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney won’t be running up and down a field for NFL suitors anytime before draft day. Peter King reports at MMQB, “He still will visit teams and interview with coaches and GMs, but his next
Tiger Woods skipped this year’s Masters. So has a huge chunk of the television audience. The Masters dropped television viewers from last year’s event for the second day in a row. ESPN suffered through a 1.8 rating with 2.5 million
The New York Yankees beat the defending World Series champions Boston Red Sox 4-1, but everyone is talking about Yankees pitcher Michael Pineda. It is not because he won his first game since July 2011. Instead, people are talking about
The totalitarian rules strike again in the NBA as Dallas Mavericks public-address announcer Sean Heath is suspended for two games for having the nerve to criticize the officiating during the Mavericks and Golden State Warriors on April 1. How dare
University of Massachusetts basketball player Derrick Gordon is the first openly gay player in Division 1 history. He told his teammates on April 2. I am the first Division 1 male basketball player to come out and not the last.
Tyler Black has a great Kentucky Wildcats 2014 National Champions tattoo on his calf. But there is only one problem. Kentucky lost to Connecticut on Monday night, 60-54. People are gonna hate, but I still got faith @TrillGeta15 @AaronICE2 @DrewRoc5
On the day that Breitbart California launched, Andrew Breitbart’s beloved Los Angeles Dodgers beat the hated San Francisco Giants 6-2 to prevent getting swept after losing the first two games of the home stand. “In our hearts we’re Angelinos and
Northwestern football coach Pat Fitzgerald urged his team on Saturday to vote against forming a union later this month. “I believe it’s in their best interests to vote no,” Fitzgerald said on Saturday, according to ESPN. “With the research that
Arsenio Hall Show: Stephen A. Smith just got off the phone with Kobe Bryant, so he’s able to speak to the controversy surrounding Kobe’s comments about Trayvon Martin, and the role of facts versus emotions…
A.J. McCarron better pray that Brent Musburger doesn’t try to reenact a scene from The Graduate at his upcoming wedding. Katherine Webb announced her engagement to quarterback A.J. McCarron last night on Twitter. Webb claims McCarron helped design the gaudy
The Detroit Tigers rewarded Miguel Cabrera with the biggest baseball contract in history. The 10-year, $292 million contract is $17 million more than the contract the New York Yankees gave Alex Rodriguez in 2007. The new contract includes the current
Big risk, big reward. Never boring. And always defying doubters. Johnny Manziel was Johnny Manziel again at Pro-Day on Thursday. In front of a media circus that included former President George H.W. Bush, Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel, described by
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady witnessed the nine-alarm fire that took the lives of two Boston firefighters on Wednesday. It was only four doors down from his home, and Brady said it was one of the scariest experiences of
Former President George H.W. Bush and Texas Gov. Rick Perry attended Johnny Manziel’s pro-day workout on Thursday at College Station. Bush is an Aggie fan, and his presidential library is at the university, which is also Perry’s alma mater. Bush
In an appearance on NewsMax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show” on Tuesday, University of Virginia Center for Politics director Larry Sabato dismissed ESPN’s Nate Silver’s projection that the Republican Party had a 60 percent chance of taking control of the
They start a $68 million outfield. Their highest paid pitcher earns more than the entire staffs of the Marlins and the Astros. They boast ten players boasting ten-figure salaries. For the first time since 1998, when the Baltimore Orioles outspent
