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
A regional director of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled Wednesday that scholarship athletes should be considered “employees” with rights to unionize under federal law. The decision stems from an attempt by the Northwestern University football team to form
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
Navy running back Will McKamey, who was airlifted to a hospital after collapsing during spring practice on Saturday, died on Tuesday. The 19-year-old freshman from Tennessee, according to the Associated Press, “died at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center
Heisman Trophy winner Jameis Winston, who is also a pitcher on Florida State’s baseball team in addition to being Florida State’s quarterback, was involved in a benches-clearing brawl against rival Florida on Tuesday in the eighth inning. The brawl started
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) campaign just could not get the simplest of ads right on Tuesday. The campaign embarrassingly put out a web ad that mistook players from Duke’s 2010 championship team for Kentucky players three days before
J.J. Redick, the former Duke basketball star who is now with the Clippers, reportedly harassed his former girlfriend after she signed an abortion contract with him to abort his child in the second trimester of pregnancy. Last year, MediaTakeOut
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
Kevin Connolly, one of the stars of the much anticipated Entourage movie, broke his leg last week while playing football on the set of the film with Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, who will make a cameo in the movie.
In what could be an unprecedented move, Brooklyn Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov, who ran against Vladimir Putin for president in 2012, plans to move his U.S.-based company, which runs the basketball team, back to Russia after the U.S. levied sanctions on
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
David Ortiz finishes strong. The Boston Red Sox ensured this weekend that their star designated hitter would finish with the organization. Ortiz signed a contract extension that pays him $16 million for the 2015 season and gives the club options
It started differently than their epic first fight. And it ended quite differently, too. But the same man felt his hand raised. Dan Henderson endured several onslaughts by Maurcio “Shogun” Rua in the first and second round to finish the
The CEO and co-founder of the organization that arranged for Dennis Rodman to travel to North Korea to meet with dictator Kim Jong-un and train the country’s basketball team says that Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen rejected offers to travel
Michael Vick signed a one-year, $5 million contract this weekend to play quarterback for the New York Jets. Geno Smith, who will be competing with the former Eagle and Falcon for the starting spot, reacted with an “awesome,” noting that
On Saturday, President Obama tweeted the Dayton Flyers and congratulated Devin Oliver after the No. 11 Flyers shocked No. 3 Syracuse. Congrats to the @DaytonFlyers on a huge upset win! Devin Oliver, I may need to take you up on
Americans are evenly split on whether college athletes should be able to unionize. According to a Washington Post-ABC News poll, 47 percent support it and 47 percent oppose. The poll found that 66 percent of non-whites supported “the idea but
A new national poll finds Americans are overwhelmingly against paying college athletes. According to a Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted Feb. 27 to March 2, 33 percent support paying college athletes while 64 percent oppose. In addition, 47 percent are “strongly
No. 10 Stanford is still dancing, though not yet in the spirit of Mark “Mad Dog” Madsen during the Cardinal’s improbable Final Four run in 1998. The Cardinal upset a more talented No. 2 Kansas squad, with highly touted freshman
The UFC fired a fighter on the day of his scheduled match-up after Bleacher Report revealed a past domestic violence conviction. UFC Fight Night 38 featured Will Chope tangling with Diego Brandao in a featherweight fight tonight. But after the
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
Before Sunday’s MLB game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks in Australia, Major League Baseball honored slain Australian college baseball player Chris Lane, who was tragically killed last year in Oklahoma by teenagers who allegedly killed him
Miami Heat superstar Dwyane Wade joined teammate LeBron James and Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant in promoting Obamacare during March Madness. The White House has been trying to partner with professional athletes, especially NBA teams, to promote Obamacare before the March
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
When No. 11 Dayton upset No. 3 Syracuse on Saturday night in a Round of 32 battle in the South Regional, Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim became the first coach in history to have six NCAA tournament losses to double-digit
The No. 11 Dayton Flyers, considered a bubble team that some thought should not even be in the tournament, shocked No. 3 Syracuse on Saturday night in a South Regional Round of 32 battle in Buffalo when Syracuse’s Tyler Ennis
After the Round of 64 games, there are no perfect brackets in ESPN’s bracket challenge out of more than 11 million entries. March Madness, indeed: If a friend says they have a perfect bracket in @ESPNFantasy, they’re lying. ZERO of
TNT play-by-play announcer Andrew Catalon apologized on the air twice and in person to Gonzaga center Przemek Karnowski after referring to him as a “polack” during Friday’s telecast of the Gonzaga-Oklahoma State West Regional Round of 64 game. “Polack” is
Jason Collins divulged to the New York Daily News Thursday that he endured taunts from one on-court opponent since revealing his homosexuality. Collins refused to reveal the “knucklehead” responsible for the verbal prods. “One player, one knucklehead from another team,”
After No. 14 Mercer shocked No. 3 Duke on Friday 76-68 in the Round of 64 in the Midwest regional, Mercer’s Kevin Canevari literally went dancing, busting out the Nae Nae dance: Caneveri had no points and an assist, but this
John Junker, the CEO who expensed to the Fiesta Bowl everything from bullion to strip-club meetings, received a sentence of probation in Arizona state court on Thursday for his involvement in reimbursing Fiesta Bowl employees who donated to politicians. Earlier
Duke legend Grant Hill, whom former Michigan “Fab Five” member Jalen Rose accused of being an “Uncle Tom,” said that Duke’s basketball team is vilified and hated because the school has had many successful white basketball players. “The funny thing is, I
A trade involving minor league players doesn’t usually make the news–except when the players are the sons of Angels manager Mike Scioscia and NHL legend Wayne Gretzky. According to ESPN, the “Chicago Cubs traded minor league outfielder Trevor Gretzky to
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
With a lot of money to spend and few new players to show for it, the Oakland Raiders awarded their long-suffering fans a blast from the past on Thursday by re-signing Charles Woodson. The 37-year-old cornerback and former Heisman Trophy-winner
On The Dan Patrick Show on Wednesday, Kobe Bryant said he thought the Lakers were so bad this year that even President Barack Obama could play for them. Seriously. Bryant, who is recovering from multiple injuries, said he got a
Conservative Nebraska Senate candidate Ben Sasse, who has been surging since being labeled the anti-Obamacare candidate, has released a “Constitutional Madness” bracket to highlight the lawlessness of the Obama administration. “Which is President Obama’s worst constitutional violation?” the bracket says.
A Texas urologist claims that March Madness does wonders for his vasectomies business. It’s not exactly clear whether he means men undergo the surgery at higher rates during the NCAA basketball tournament or if the hype surrounding the tournament affords
Hours before the 2014 NCAA tournament kicked off on Thursday, President Barack Obama appeared on an ESPN U program to promote Obamacare and claimed, without evidence, that more than five million people have already purchased Obamacare. Obama’s interview on The Herd
