BOSTON–The Only Game That Matters really, really mattered this year. A full house of 31,062 at Harvard Stadium, $30 tickets peddled for $120 by guys in track suits boasting neither Harvard nor high school degrees, and ESPN’s College GameDay trekking
Curt Schilling fought the Law–and the Law lost. ESPN has strangely suspended baseball commentator Keith Law from Twitter after he ridiculed critics of evolution, including the former pitcher, on his account. The network contends that the timeout has nothing–“absolutely nothing,”
NFL Week 12 is here, and with just two more weeks to go until fantasy playoffs start, this Sunday’s matchups are critical. This week’s action kicks off with an AFC West showdown between the Kansas City Chiefs and the winless
The Buffalo Bills still plan on playing this Sunday. New York’s Governor says the game would “jeopardize public safety.” The Buffalo area endured three-to-six feet of snow in recent days. The storms left eight dead and hundreds of motorists stranded.
On Wednesday, Adam Silver, the commissioner of the NBA, handed out a 24-game unpaid suspension to Charlotte Hornets small forward Jeffery Taylor for an incident in September for which Taylor pleaded guilty to misdemeanor domestic violence assault. Last month a
A road trip for a women’s basketball team in New York turned into a nightmare when the team bus became stranded in the snow in Western New York on Monday. Ultimately, the storm stranded the team for 26 hours. The
Give a professional golfer an opportunity to lift, clean, and place his ball in a preferred lie on the fairway and very good things can happen to a scorecard. Just ask John Hahn. He shot 58 in those conditions on
After Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston was criticized for possibly being paid to sign nearly one thousand items for an autograph dealer, it turns out the validity of the items are in question because an authentication service concedes no one
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An ESPN executive brought to NBC to take charge of the “Today” show is exiting after less than three months. According to a staff memo Monday from NBC News President Deborah Turness, she and Jamie Horowitz
Hefty tax breaks enjoyed by sports franchise owners allows for the new Los Angeles Clippers proprietor Steve Ballmer to save about 50% of his recent purchase price. Ballmer bought the Clippers after Donald Sterling was relieved of his duties in
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) crashed NFL games on Sunday to search for narcotics. The DEA questioned team medical staff and inspected bags in an effort to determine whether teams illegally distribute drugs to players. The San Francisco 49ers and
On Sunday, federal drug agents raided National Football League medical staff from the Seattle Seahawks to the San Francisco 49ers in the search for illicit drugs. For literally decades, players have talked about the ease of obtaining illicit performance-enhancing drugs
On Thursday NBA players’ union executive director Michele Roberts made waves with new criticism of the NBA’s salary cap despite a long-time agreement on the policy between players and owners. During her wide-ranging criticism of the league with ESPN, Roberts
NFL Week 11 arrives with tonight’s matchup between AFC East division rivals Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins in Miami at 8:25 ET. Another week, another six-touchdown performance. This time, it was Aaron Rodgers who roasted NFC North division rival Chicago
On a day when ESPN’s Outside the Lines exposed more than two-dozen cases since 2000 of NFL players guilty of domestic violence not missing a down in the league, the four-letter network earlier this week hired retired cage fighter Chael
The College Football Playoff Committee released its rankings Tuesday night. Mississippi St. remains atop the rankings, Oregon jumped ahead of Florida State into second, FSU drops to third after numerous unimpressive wins, and TCU–not Alabama–jumps into fourth after Auburn’s loss
You can get very hungry throwing for 332 yards and two touchdowns. Mark Sanchez satiated that hunger by devouring two cheesesteaks, one each from legendary Philadelphia eateries Pat’s and Geno’s. Making his first start since December 20, 2012, Sanchez led
A Muslim teammate of LeBron James calls reports that he skipped the national anthem at Wednesday’s game “a big misunderstanding” after initially telling reporters he bowed out for religious reasons. “It’s because of my religion,” Dion Waiters told Cleveland.com of
WNBA star Brittney Griner chronicled the bizarre knife attack on her and a teammate last week in Shenyang, China, in a conversation with ESPNw. A Chinese man chased Griner, who plays on the Beijing Great Wall team, on a team
Even as he defiantly moves to unilaterally grant legal status to millions of people inside the U.S. illegally, President Obama’s State Department is making sure that such special favors are not meant for everyone. The State Department’s unexplained refusal to
Ray Rice’s appeal of his indefinite suspension got a boost on Thursday as Baltimore Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome testified that on June 16 he heard Rice tell NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell that Rice had struck his then-fiancée, Janay. Newsome’s
On Wednesday, comedian Arte Lange made a career-altering decision to go off on a sexually explicit Twitter tirade about what he wants to do to ESPN reporter Cari Champion. The tweets got him banned from ESPN and fired from his
Jameis Winston’s lawyer named his accuser in a November 4 tweet. The social-media posting remains on David Cornwell’s account despite public outcry. The tweet juxtaposed the quick approach of the November 17 school disciplinary hearing faced by the Seminoles quarterback
Week 10 NFL action is here, kicking off with Thursday’s matchup between the Cleveland Browns and the Cincinnati Bengals in Cincinnati at 8:25 ET. Make sure you’ve got Bengals running back Jeremy Hill in your lineup. Those who read last
Until racially-tinged Twitter jokes aimed at ESPN First Take host Cari Champion caused an uproar,comedian Artie Lange was scheduled to appear on Comedy Central’s @Midnight. He will now be sitting home Thursday night. Lange tweeted a sexual fantasy involving himself as
