HOUSTON (AP) — After the Philadelphia 76ers tied an NBA record with their 26th consecutive loss, one of their youngest voices spoke loudest. Michael Carter-Williams, one of six rookies on the NBA’s youngest team, delivered a pep talk after James
With just one race completed in this year’s Formula 1 schedule, new sweeping “green” mandates for the race cars are causing major problems for drivers, promoters, and fans. This year’s revisions are among the most substantial in F1 history, and
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
They’ve played at halftime of NFL games. They’ve even opened for Lynyrd Skynyrd, Steppenwolf, Kansas, Weezer, and Toby Keith. But now they’re opening for former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The most patriotic band in America has created an original theme song
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
Conrad Dobler was Richie Incognito before Richie Incognito. Dubbed “Pro Football’s Dirtiest Player” on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1977, the St. Louis Cardinals guard intimidated massive defensive linemen and, if you can believe his enraged opponents, clawed, eye-gouged,
Jared Allen, twelfth on the NFL’s all-time sack list, departs Minnesota after six seasons. He’s not, to the dismay of Vikings fans, departing the NFC North. The prolific pass rusher signed with the Chicago Bears early today. Allen, 32, agreed
Ralph Wilson, the only owner the Buffalo Bills have known for its entire 54-season existence, passed away today. He was 95. Wilson started the franchise with $25,000 in 1959. The Bills approach $1 billion in value today. He helped orchestrate
Can Mike Pouncey pass a Rorschach test? What will John Jerry tell a psychiatrist about his childhood? What kind of psychotropic drugs could transform Richie Incognito into a mild-mannered human being? The NFL is about to find out. Asked at
The Sports Hangover explores mid-majors majoring in basketball, a football coach who does not play well with others, a 43-year-old who likes to punch younger men to sleep, and the passing of Oderus Urungus, who came to America from Scumdogia
The Rams and Raiders left Los Angeles after the 1994 season. Rumbles out of both franchises indicate that they might want to return to America’s second-largest media market. Absence makes the heart grow fonder–or at least the absence of a
Tampa Bay wide receiver Mike Williams was hospitalized on Sunday after being stabbed in the thigh at his gated home. Police suspect his “brother, Eric Baylor, stabbed him with a kitchen knife,” and a “warrant has been issued for his
The impulse to transform what’s special into what’s normal doesn’t make special the norm. It makes special less special. Heavy metal bands with Cookie Monster vocalists discover that loud loses its effect when not juxtaposed with quiet. Brats who enjoy
Michael Sam signed autographs on Saturday. ESPN sent a reporter to Missouri to document Sam’s autograph signing on Saturday. Which of the two is the more newsworthy item? ESPN, which recently highlighted openly-gay Brooklyn Nets player Jason Collins checking in
Chris Kluwe, the former Minnesota Vikings punter who has made more of a name for himself as a gay-marriage advocate, now believes the NFL should allow players to wear Google Glass to help reduce concussions. He made his comments at a
The New York Jets thought so highly of Mark Sanchez that their general manager traded up to the fifth pick to draft him in 2009 and their coach tattooed his jersey onto his body. But, despite leading the Jets to
The Pontiac Silverdome, which served as the home of the Detroit Lions from 1975-2001, is auctioning the urinals for die-hard fans that don’t mind that they have been used before by hundreds of thousands of fans over 27 NFL seasons.
Can we enjoy sports for sports’ sake? The question, considered obliquely by ESPN ombudsman Robert Lipsyte earlier this week, evokes a similar debate over the arts informally held more than seventy years ago. Albert Maltz, a Communist writer tired of
Antonio Cromartie’s wife is upset. And it’s not because her husband has twelve kids with eight different women or that he can’t have any more with her because he underwent a vasectomy a few years back. It’s because the New
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected another product with “Redskin” in the name, the latest sign that it might rule against the Washington Redskins in an ongoing trademark case. The agency said Monday that “Washington
The NFL’s competition committee won’t create a new rule to weed out uses of the n-word and other abusive language from the field. Instead, referees will rely on an existing rule to clean up the nasty talk. “We do have
Richie Incognito had a bad February. He’s looking to rebound in March. The beleaguered free-agent guard emerged from treatment three weeks after he took a baseball bat to his defenseless black Ferrari. He retains a sense of humor about the
An NFL lineman who abruptly retired midway through last season because of concerns over the game’s effect on the brain was arrested in Chicago over the weekend on drug possession charges. Police in Cook County, Illinois arrested John Moffitt after
Sri Lankan rapper M.I.A. flashed her middle finger–to offend or signify her one U.S. hit, she has never explained–during the 2012 Super Bowl halftime show. The NFL has been quietly pursuing restitution ever since. The Hollywood Reporter reveals that the
