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Ray Lewis said he has never failed an NFL drug test and said a report that he used a spray made from deer antler extract that contained a banned substance to recover from his torn triceps injury was stupid. Speaking

Sporting his signature red shirt that he wears in the “final round” of golf tournaments, Tiger Woods opened the 2013 PGA Tour season with a resounding four-shot win at the Farmers Insurance Open tournament at Torrey Pines on Monday. He

In a recent interview with the left-leaning New Republic, President Barack Obama targeted college football, rather than the NFL, as the area most in need of rule changes to “reduce violence”: I tend to be more worried about college players

Victoria Azarenka won her second consecutive Australian Open title by defeating Li Na 4-6, 6-4, 6-3. Azarenka, of Belarus, is the top-ranked player in the world and was the tournament’s top seed. Li, of China, was the tournament’s 6th seed. 

CNN will debut a sports program during the weekends that former ESPN reporter Rachel Nichols will anchor.  Jeff Zucker, in his fourth day in his official capacity as network’s president, announced the hiring. Nichols is Zucker’s first official hire at the

Former Notre Dame head coach and ESPN college football commentator Lou Holtz sent a text message to House Speaker John Boehner after watching President Barack Obama’s inauguration and complained “the country’s over with” and that he never wanted to see

On Tuesday, a UCLA study that found evidence of brain damage in five living retired NFL players was published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.  The study used positron emission tomography (“PET”),  a new patented scanning technology, to detect images

Three days after golfer Phil Mickelson publicly said California’s high tax rate may force him to make “drastic changes” to his career or consider leaving the state he loves for financial reasons, he was bullied into apologizing for what Mickelson said

ESPN writer Rick Reilly, joining other writers who immediately started to mock Phil Mickelson for speaking out against California’s high taxes, made fun of Mickelson on Twitter on Tuesday, even creating a “#MickelsonProblems” hashtag. Reilly tweeted that Mickelson’s “private jet”

For an explanation of the Value Add basketball rankings, you can always click on this post from the bottom of the www.valueaddbasketball.com database.  I must thank Sports Illustrated, ESPN, NBC Sports and all of the other outlets who have covered Value Add. 

Last night ESPN ran comments by two Baltimore Ravens players – traditional marriage advocate Matt Birk, and same-sex marriage advocate Brendon Ayanbadejo. The difference is that they quoted Birk on how great Ray Lewis is, and they featured Ayanbadejo for

When Baltimore Ravens safety Bernard Pollard tackled New England Patriots running back Stevan Ridley early in the 4th quarter of Sunday’s AFC Championship game, the Patriots were down 21-13, still only one possession out of contention. But the brutal head-to-head

The NFL may seek to expand the “Rooney Rule” to coordinator vacancies, forcing NFL teams to interview minority coaches for offensive and defensive coordinator vacancies. According to an ESPN report: No decision has been made, but the NFL likely will

Yahoo! Sports columnist Michael Silver wrote that because all of the newly-hired coaches in the NFL happen to be white, the NFL “seems to be regressing” and “going backward” as American society, in his eyes, is “getting increasingly progressive when

The owners of the Sacramento Kings (the Maloof family) have sold the team to an ownership group that will move the team to Seattle. The Kings will become the Sonics, the name of Seattle’s old team before the team relocated

Professional golfer Phil Mickelson, who is nicknamed “lefty” because of his left-handed swing, said he is not sure if he can afford to live in California and will have to make some “drastic changes” after the federal government and the

Just like the mainstream media in politics, the old media that failed to unearth the Manti Te’o fake girlfriend hoax is petulantly trying to denigrate an outlet that scooped them. The Boston Globe, which is owned by the the New

In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Lance Armstrong said he felt he could accuse Betsy Andreu of telling lies–when she was not–simply because she said Armstrong called her “fat.” Armstrong insisted he never said Andreu was “fat.” When Betsy Andreu

Manti Te’o on Friday denied he was involved in a hoax involving his nonexistent girlfriend who supposedly died of leukemia and said he was not sure his “girlfriend” never really existed until hours before the Deadspin story was published on

Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o is conducting an off-camera interview with ESPN’s Jeremy Schaap on Friday night. ESPN’s public relations department tweeted out a photo of the interview that was in progress.  On Wednesday, Deadspin revealed that Te’o’s girlfriend, who

Todd McShay, ESPN’s young alternative to their draft statesman Mel Kiper, stated when the Manti Te’o story broke that he did not see a scenario where Te’o would fall out of the first round. He has since gone on to

On Thursday, the NBA announced the starters for this year’s All-Star game. Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant received the most votes and made his 15th-straight All-Star appearance. Reserves will be announced next Thursday. The game will be played in

ESPN executives at the “top of the food chain” reportedly found out that Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o’s dead girlfriend was a hoax on January 6th, which was one day before the BCS title game between Notre Dame and Alabama the

Top-ranked golfers Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods released a new Nike commercial this week that was reminiscent of the classic Larry Bird-Michael Jordan commercials in which the two superstars one-upped each other with trick shots.  Except the golfers did not shoot the