After initially complying, Pittsburgh Steelers players ended up ignoring chairman Dan Rooney’s request to not use the “N-word” in the locker room. Steelers safety Ryan Clark said on ESPN on Sunday that Rooney asked cornerback Ike Taylor to not play
NASCAR’s most popular driver is finally on Twitter. Dale Earnhardt Jr. has said that he would join Twitter if he ever won the Daytona 500 again. And after he won the Great American Race on Sunday 10 years after he
Nighttime proved the right time for Dale Earnhardt, Jr. The Hendrick Motorsports driver finished first in a race that featured downpour delays, multiple crashes, twenty different leaders, and forty-four lead changes. Earnhardt had waited ten years to win the Daytona
Though Fox aired a replay of last year’s Daytona 500 because this year’s Super Bowl in NASCAR was postponed due to rain and tornado warnings, espnW’s twitter account congratulated Danica for having the highest finish “of any woman ever at
Fox News’ Facebook page apologized on Sunday evening for erroneously congratulating Jimmie Johnson for winning this year’s Daytona 500 to its more than 5 million fans. While the Daytona 500 was in a rain delay on Sunday, Fox replayed last
The Brooklyn Nets signed openly-gay center Jason Collins to a ten-day contract on Sunday. The 35-year-old center looks to make his debut at the Staples Center against the Los Angeles Lakers Sunday night. Collins will then become the first openly-gay
As winter Olympians closed out the games in Sochi, summer Olympian Ronda Rousey closed out her fellow medalist Sara McMann in Las Vegas at UFC 170. The bronze-medal-winning judoka made short work of the silver-medal-winning wrestler with a liver-shot knee
The NFL may penalize players 15 yards for racial and homophobic slurs and eject them from the game after a second offense. John Wooten, the head of the Fritz Pollard Alliance, a group that monitors diversity, told ESPN that he
SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Teemu Selanne scored two goals and Tuukka Rask had a 26-save shutout, helping Finland rout the United States 5-0 Saturday to win hockey bronze at the Sochi Games. Selanne, a 43-year-old, six-time Olympian, and Jussi Jokinen
The Sportsman Channel unveiled a promotional video for Sarah Palin’s show, Amazing America with Sarah Palin, which will debut on April 3 at 8 p.m. EST. “America, prepared to be amazed,” Palin says in the video in front of an
The San Francisco 49ers reportedly came close to trading head coach Jim Harbaugh to the Cleveland Browns for multiple draft picks. Both Harbaugh and the 49ers denied the reports. You read that right. ProFootballTalk initially reported that the Browns were
American teenager Mikaela Shiffrin, the 18-year-old some believed would be the breakout star of the Sochi Games, made history on Friday, becoming the youngest woman ever to win gold in the slalom. Shiffrin knocked off a “murderer’s row” of skiing
A petition calling for an open investigation of the women’s figure skating judges and results has been signed by more than 1.7 million people less than 24 hours after South Korea’s Yuna Kim may have been robbed of the gold
American figure skater Ashley Wagner, like many in the figure skating community, was shocked that the judges did not award Yuna Kim a gold medal that nearly everyone believed she had won Thursday night in Sochi. “I am speechless,” Wagner
Their record says “powderpuff.” Their new helmet screams “mean.” The Tampa Bay Buccaneers unveiled their new helmets on Thursday. They’re a lot like the old ones. The pirate-flag logo appears supersized on the new brain buckets. The skull inside that
The Brooklyn Nets may sign Jason Collins to a 10-day contract, which could make him the first openly gay player acknowledged by the media to play in a major American sport. Collins came out last year to much fanfare but
Former Dallas Cowboys and University of North Carolina defensive end Greg Ellis said Michael Sam, the first openly gay NFL prospect who could become the NFL’s first openly gay player, should be careful about patting players on the butt if
A former Japanese Prime Minister criticized figure skating legend Mao Asada for falling in her short program on Wednesday. Yoshiro Mori, the former Japanese Prime Minister who is new chairman for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics’ organizing committee, said that Asada has
UPDATE: Katie Hansen, the U.S. Olympian luger whose pre-game dancing and twerking videos have gone viral and been recognized by the likes of Beyonce, played a prank by posting a YouTube video in which she claimed she may have spotted
NFL general managers enjoy a little more breathing room today. ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports that the $10 billion behemoth will share a little bit more money than expected with players this coming season. The salary cap, pegged at $123 million
A D.C.-based nutrition group blasted former U.S. Olympic figure skater Michelle Kwan for appearing in a Coca-Cola ad for the Sochi Games–and holding a non-diet Coke!–while sitting on First Lady Michelle Obama’s Presidential Fitness and Nutrition Council. The Center for
Members of the Austrian olympic men’s hockey team have apologized to their country for partying until 6 a.m. right before they were run out of the Olympics on Monday. After Austria defeated Norway 3-1 on Sunday, a group of players
The World Cup remains four months away. But London bookies William Hill already have posted odds. They imagine the home team as enjoying the best chance. The odds reflect the amount won based on bet of 100 whatevers (pick your
Call her the Michael Jordan of figure skating. South Korea’s Yuna Kim leads after the short program in her quest to win back-to-back gold medals in women’s figure skating at the Sochi Games. Kim effortlessly scored 74.92, the best score of
The Washington Nationals and the Miami Marlins are using drones to film practices during spring training. Though the Nationals have said that they are using the drones for promotional vides, they may ultimately use the drones to help position their
American figure skater Gracie Gold, who is the country’s best hopeful for the medal that bears her last name, was excited to finally meet and get a picture with South Korean star Yuna Kim, who is called “Queen Yuna” for
An NFL hopeful has quit his job, exhausted his life savings, and is living in a minivan–even while the northeast was hit with bone-chilling temperatures and snowstorms–to pursue his dream of potentially making an NFL roster. Rashid Williams, who last
Jennifer Welter, the first female to play running back in a men’s professional football league, got walloped by men twice her size in a preseason game on Saturday in the Indoor Football League. According to Fox Sports, the 36-year-old Women’s
Is Vladimir Putin’s police Pussy Riots’ oppressors or their press agents? Two members of the Russian punk-rock collective Pussy Riot claim that Russian secret police arrested them and roughed them up on Tuesday. The incident took place in Sochi, just
“Last year is over and done,” World Series-winning manager John Farrell explained as the Red Sox opened spring training last week. Hope springs eternal–even though it’s not quite spring–and fans of every one of the thirty Major League Baseball teams
Fans went to a gay-rights protest Monday night and a hockey game broke out. Authorities in Sochi detained a former Italian legislator protesting at the Olympic Games for homosexual and transgender rights on Monday. Police removed Vladimir Luxuria, a man
Number 23 turns 51 today. After an early present of twins, Michael Jordan received birthday presents from two of the current NBA greats who wanna be like Mike. Last week, LeBron James announced that he’ll be on the basketball Mount
A poster of President Barack Obama golfing that says he is “Sub Par” has been spotted by Breitbart Sports outside the PGA’s Northern Trust golf tournament in Southern California near the Riviera Country Club. The “Sub Par” posters have also
Lyoto Machida hoped for a title shot with a win over Gergard Mousasi. He got the win. His title shot may have to wait. The Brazilian karate black belt put on a prototypical Lyoto Machida performance in Brazil on Saturday
The U.S.’s dramatic victory over the Russians on Saturday in Sochi shattered NBC Sports Network’s ratings records even though the game aired on Saturday morning. The game made T.J. Oshie, who scored all of the U.S.’s goals in the dramatic
The legendary Soviet Union hockey goalie who was pulled in the “Miracle on Ice” game and lit the flame in the opening ceremony for the Sochi Games said that officials correctly disallowed what appeared to be a potentially game-winning goal
When U.S. hockey star T.J. Oshie converted on four of six shootout attempts in overtime to lead the Americans to a victory over the Russians in front of Vladimir Putin on Saturday, fans changed his wikipedia page was to describe
The head of the Russian parliament’s foreign affairs committee in the country’s lower house of parliament was so livid after the U.S. beat the Russians in hockey at the Sochi Games on Saturday that he accused the U.S. of cheating.