The Cleveland Cavaliers took their nickname from England. They grabbed their new coach from Israel. The Cavaliers have hired Dave Blatt, according to Yahoo! Sports. The four-year deal reportedly could award the NBA rookie coach $20 million. Blatt led Macabbi
On Thursday NCAA President Mark Emmert said in court that converting college sports teams from being played by amateurs to being played by paid athletes would cause many colleges to drop sports entirely. Emmert was called as a witness to
As you may have heard, the IRS claims Lois Lerner’s emails are gone forever. Apparently Lerner was storing her archived email on her local drive when it crashed and could not be recovered. I’m certainly not the first to suggest
FIFA, at the behest of corporate sponsor Sony, has ordered Beats by Dre headphones off the ears of competitors in World Cup stadiums. Sony had paid FIFA to sponsor the tournament. They even provided their portable music players to the
Israel fears that a jihadist offensive that has conquered large areas of Iraq may prompt American concessions to arch-foe Iran, reports Israel National News. “If Washington needs Tehran’s help to solve the Iraq crisis, the United States will need to be more flexible in
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After Yahoo revealed that only 6% of its employees are black and Hispanic and women are outnumbered by the men who represent 85% of its tech workers and 77% of its leadership, the company released a defiant and unapologetic statement:
It’s tough to keep a trio together. Larry and Moe had to go through Shemp Howard, Curly Howard, and Joe Besser before finally ending up with Joe Derita. Jack and Janet had the change from Suzanne Sommers to Jenilee Harrison. So,
The not-so-funny joke in Hollywood is that the industry is plum out of original ideas and relies increasingly on sequels, remakes and reboots. One disgruntled film student thinks the industry can’t even insert fresh concepts into its sequels. Former LAFS
Superhero News: DC Release Schedule, ‘Amazing Spider-Man 3’ Delayed to 2017 According to Nikki Finke’s first scoop in her reboot, below is the DC film release schedule through 2018. The company is about 7 years behind Marvel but there’s no
Not content with causing major instability with deadly attacks and mass kidnappings, Boko Haram is targeting the World Cup. Viewing centers set up in northeastern Nigeria have canceled screenings of Nigerian World Cup matches after Boko Haram threatened to bomb
Behind the conservative’s dream-come-true victory of tenure laws and union contracts for California’s public schools teachers being ruled unconstitutional Wednesday by a Los Angeles Superior Court, is an organization called Students Matter. The group is led and funded by Silicon Valley
Demonstrative enthusiasm for European football stands as a popular passive-aggressive way that Americans announce their superiority vis-à-vis the rubes next door. Like smallpox, Nazism, and Cliff Richard, soccer is something that Europeans should have kept to themselves. We’ll instead take
Tens of thousands of Basques held hands in a 76-mile long human chain on Sunday in a demonstration to demand the Spanish government allow let them to vote to break away and form their own country, according to an AFP
Former Philadelphia Eagles stand-out wide receiver and current Washington Redskins speedster DeSean Jackson filed papers contesting an arbitration decision that ordered him to pay $516,000 to his former agent Drew Rosenhaus. According to Deadspin.com, Jackson alleges that he was bribed
On Monday, California Chrome co-owner Steve Coburn tearfully apologized two days after his post-race rant heard around immediately after his horse missed out on a chance to win the Triple Crown at the Belmont Stakes like twelve other horses before
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told parliament Monday that he was committed to restarting Japan’s controversial commercial whale hunting program, despite the UN denouncing the policy and demanding Tokyo stop the killings immediately. The UN International Court of Justice (ICJ)
On June 4 a New Kensington, Pennsylvania first grader was suspended and faces possible expulsion after turning himself in for accidentally bringing a toy gun to school in his backpack. 7-year-old Darin Simak is a first grader at Martin Elementary
When California Chrome finished fourth at the Belmont Stakes on Saturday and lost his Triple Crown bid to Tonasil, co-owner Steve Coburn said Tonasil’s owners took the “coward’s way out” by not racing Tonasil in the previous two legs of
Before Rashad McCants dated Khloe Kardashian (pictured) at the end of his 4-year NBA career, he was in the top 2% of all college basketball players while at UNC. He managed to win an NCAA title and–according to him–get several
CNN recently announced the promotion of “Crossfire” producer David Chalian as its new political director — the same David Chalian fired by Yahoo News in 2012 for saying that the GOP was “happy to have a party with black people
In response to From “swift boaters” to “psychopaths”: It should come as no surprise that the HUD flack who trial-ballooned the Bergdahl “Platoon long on psychopaths” narrative on Twitter, is a former Votes Vets operative who participated in an anti-Rush
Rugged quarterback Colin Kaepernick signed a lucrative contract extension with the San Francisco 49ers that could bring him as much as $126 million (an average payout of $21 million per year or roughly $1.3 million per game) over a six
General Stanley McChrystal was in charge of operations in Afghanistan when, according to those who served with him, Bowe Bergdahl walked off his camp towards the Taliban. Despite ordering soldiers to engage in dangerous efforts to find him, McChrystal warns
Chester Nez, one of the 29 original Navajos who were recruited to help the American military transfer information in a code the Japanese military could not break, passed away today at 93. Their efforts in developing a Navajo-based code to
U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl’s hometown of Hailey, Idaho canceled the rally that was planned for later this month to celebrate his release from five years of Taliban/Haqqani captivity. The cancellation comes in the wake of serious allegations made by former
