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Major League Baseball (MLB) is requiring all teams to implement TSA-like screening at all stadiums, guaranteeing that all venues will be gun-and-weapon-free zones by 2015. This screening must either be done “with hand-held metal detection or walk-through magnetometers.” According to

Well, here we go again. Get ready for a Super Bowl week filled with more of the inevitable comparisons between Peyton Manning and Richard Sherman. There’s no better headlines: Good vs. evil. Humble vs. loudmouthed. The well-groomed quarterback vs. the

Controversy does indeed create cash.  Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman is set to make more from his 15-second rant heard loudly around the world than he has made in salary during his three years in the NFL.  Sherman makes about

On Friday, representatives from the Oneida Indian Nation, which has been calling for a Redskins name change, will meet with top officials from the United Nations Human Rights Council concerning the “racist” name.  Ray Halbritter of the Oneida Nation will

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said he is not “cheering” for the type of post-game smackdown that Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman delivered after he helped secure a trip to the Super Bowl for his team last Sunday.  “It’s an emotional

Billionaire Warren Buffett said in a recent interview that he dreamed of buying the Washington Redskins when he was a kid when he was a water boy for the team. “You know, when I was a kid, I thought if

If you want journalists to mock you, say aloud that chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) has “an unknown incidence” among football players and that “a cause and effect relationship has not yet been demonstrated between CTE and concussions or exposure to

As the character played by George Segal hysterically put it on a recent episode of The Goldbergs while watching his awkward teen grandson rap, “What’s happening?”  I feel the same bewilderment when it comes to the curious case of Richard

Richard Sherman made a lot of enemies with his outburst following the Seahawks Sunday win over San Francisco. NFL sacks leader Michael Strahan isn’t one of them. The former New York Giant relayed on a Fox Super Bowl conference call

Former Giants defensive lineman Michael Strahan and former Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw don’t always agree in their picks on Fox’s Sunday NFL pre-game show. But on Peyton Manning, the duo sees things the same way: Don’t retire. Reports that the

Ahead of what is being dubbed the first-ever Marijuana Bowl–between the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos–NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said the league may allow players to use medicinal marijuana to treat concussions if medical experts approved the treatment.  “I’m not

Don’t call Terry Bradshaw a company man. As his Fox bosses celebrated their broadcast in ten days as the “biggest, boldest, and coldest Super Bowl,” the Hall of Fame quarterback offered a reality check that he acknowledged was politically incorrect.

Erin Andrews, the FOX reporter who “interviewed” Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman when he went on what has been described as an “epic” post-game rant, said was not scared or frightened and that Sherman is one of her favorite players

Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman said Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning is the “best quarterback in the world” and that to be the best the Seahawks have to beat the best.  He said he and the Seahawks “respect the heck

Does Roger Goodell forget that the organization he leads calls itself the National Football League? “The extra point is almost automatic,” Goodell observed on the NFL Network in floating the idea of eliminating extra-point kicks. “I believe we had five

“Let it Snow!” read the press release from the NFL announcing a media event at MetLife Stadium for today at 11 a.m. But with a blizzard blanketing the northeast, dropping over a foot of snow outside Philadelphia and dropping the

She’s not Whitney Houston. But she’s not chopped liver, either. The NFL and Fox announced the “Star-Spangled Banner” performer for Super Bowl 48 today. She is world-renowned opera singer Renee Fleming. Actress Amber Zion, and thankfully not that expressive man

On Monday, Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman apologized to his teammates for inadvertently taking the attention away from their spectacular performance in the NFC title game against San Francisco.  “I apologize for attacking an individual and taking the attention away from the

The NFL will consider getting rid of the extra point after touchdowns. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told the NFL Network that the league will consider proposals to abolish the extra point in the offseason.  “The extra point is almost automatic,”

The NFC title game between the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers got massive ratings, with nearly 56 million viewers tuning in what was the highest-rated NFC title game since 1997. Denver-New England drew the second-highest AFC title game rating

Did that really happen? The Sports Hangover arrives to help those inebriated from the weekend’s action to see reality through the haze. Betters Rebel Against Bookies Seattle opened as a 2-point Super Bowl favorite only to have early action flip

After his crazed post-game interview with FOX’s Erin Andrews, Richard Sherman wrote a column for Peter King’s MMQB in which declares he is not a villain and that his feud with 49ers wide receiver Michael Crabtree goes back to something

New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick said Denver wide receiver Wes Welker’s hit on Patriots defensive back Aqib Talib was a “deliberate” attempt to “take out” the star defensive back during Sunday’s AFC title game that the Broncos won.