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My name is Dennis, and I’m not an alcoholic. That’s the message NBA Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman gave to ESPN upon his emergence from three weeks in a New Jersey treatment facility. “I needed to decompress from all the

President Barack Obama announced on Friday that Billie Jean King, who had to skip the opening ceremony in Sochi due to her mother’s illness, will be in the presidential delegation to the closing ceremony of the Sochi Games on February

On Friday, CNN host Don Lemon, who is gay, said that Johnny Weir’s flamboyance could turn people off because nobody likes “a gay minstrel show.” Weir, the former American Olympian and figure skater who is now an NBC analyst at

An NFL report released on Friday about the Richie Incognito-Jonathan Martin bullying scandal also revealed that Incognito, Mike Pouncey, and John Jerry repeatedly slurred and harassed the Dolphin’s assistant trainer who was born in Japan.  Incognito, who has a history

The independent investigator the NFL hired to investigate the Jonathan Martin-Richie Incognito incident released his report on Friday, and it found that Martin admitted to having a history of depression and mental issues since high school and contemplated suicide on

Though Richie Incognito traded text messages with another Dolphins player in which they joked about about owning weapons to shoot black people, an NFL report released on Friday regarding the Jonathan Martin-Incognito “bullying” scandal determined that the jokes were just

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Team USA House on Friday at the Sochi Olympics. According to USA Today: Putin’s visit had been kept low-key, and visitors at the U.S. Olympic Committee headquarters in the Olympic Park were stunned when he appeared

Sports Illustrated unveiled its anticipated cover for its 50th anniversary edition of its famed swimsuit issue. It features Nina Agdal, Lily Aldridge, and Chrissy Teigen on the cover. The issue features the likes of Kate Upton, Emily Ratajkowski, and other

After Yankee Captain Derek Jeter announced that he will retire after the end of the season, ESPN’s SportsNation released a Derek Jeter dating diamond.  Hannah Davis, the swimsuit model Jeter recently dumped, is at the “1” fielding position at the

Matt Lauer, who on Thursday said he could not continue double-duty shifts and host the Today show and NBC’s primetime coverage of the Olympics, said he would sleeping during Friday’s primetime coverage after NBC announced that Meredith Viera would sub for

Former Today show co-host Meredith Viera will host NBC’s primetime coverage of the Olympics on Friday, filling in for Bob Costas and an exhausted Matt Lauer, who had been doing double-duty shifts while filling in for Costas, who has infections in both

Matt Lauer, who has barely gotten any sleep the last three days, says he cannot sustain hosting the Today show and NBC’s primetime coverage of the Olympics for much longer.  He does early-morning location shooting for “Today,” and heads to

NBC host Bob Costas will be sidelined for a third consecutive night in primetime because of eye infections in both eyes. Matt Lauer will again sub for Costas, who has anchored NBC’s primetime coverage of the Summer and Winter Games

Olympians are using the warm temperatures in Sochi, which usually has balmy temperatures during the winter due to its southern location, to call for action on climate change from global leaders. They are politicizing the Olympics to ask world leaders

Syracuse led on three occasions against Pitt Wednesday night. The first lead came when C.J. Fair made the opening bucket. The final Orangemen advantage came with no time left on the clock. The #25 ranked Pittsburgh kept Syracuse on their

Due to the storm that devastated the South and the Carolina region, Wednesday’s scheduled basketball game between Duke and North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been postponed. The game will be played on February 20.  More from the Associated Press: 

Richie Incognito struck a conciliatory tone last week upon the Miami Dolphins reinstating him. “I support @ J Martin71 100% in his return to football in 2014,” he Tweeted last Tuesday. The accused bully changed his tune dramatically on Thursday.

For the second night in a row, Bob Costas has called Matt Lauer out of the bullpen to sub for him during NBC’s primetime coverage of the Olympics. Costas is suffering from eye infections in both eyes. Doctors told him

U.S. Olympic gold medalist Jamie Anderson received what she said was “the most precious” letter from an elementary school student named Leanne. It even had a lucky penny for Anderson to rub for good luck.  Leanne sent the letter on

The father of Michael Sam, the SEC football star who came out publicly on Sunday and may become the first openly gay NFL player if he is drafted and makes a roster, is uncomfortable with a gay player in the

President Barack Obama will attend a fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee next month at the home of Miami Heat and Georgetown legend Alonzo Mourning.  The March 20th fundraiser will also feature House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and

The Flying Tomato crashed hard. Shaun White entered the Sochi games primed to be the first American to win gold at three straight Winter Olympics. He’ll leave Russia without any new hardware. Switzerland’s Iouri Podladtchikov landed a 1440 jump on

NBC Sports host Bob Costas will sit out Tuesday’s primetime coverage on NBC with what appears to be eye infections in both eyes. Costas started the Olympics with an infection in his left eye, and now the pink eye seems

Lolo Jones, the U.S. track star who made the women’s bobsled team for the 2014 Sochi Games, had to be quarantined for a couple days because of cold and flu-like symptoms got out of quarantine on Monday and said she

American ice dancer Charlie White is not dating his partner Meryl Davis. In fact, he’s actually dating an NBC analyst who will be calling his skating events.  White, 26, is paired with Davis, but he has been dating Tanith Belbin, 29,

The International Olympic Committee has banned Olympians from wearing stickers on their helmets to honor Sarah Burke, the late Canadian freestyle skier and pioneer who was responsible for getting the superpipe event into the Olympics. Burke died in 2012 at

The Russian woman who lit the Olympic flame during the opening ceremony of the Sochi Games now claims that her Twitter account tweeted a racist photo of the Obamas because it was hacked. She also apologized for how she handled

The cost per athlete at the Sochi Winter Olympic Games is nearly $19 million.  As Global Post noted (see infographic below), the Sochi Games ($51 billion) are seven times more expensive than the last 2010 Winter Games ($7.4 billion) in Vancouver

A journalist in Sochi found a message on his bed warning him that his hotel would charge him for the use of a second bed if he put any of his belongings on it.  Sochi: The hotels strike back: http://t.co/Uht6vzBWb9

Russian President Vladmir Putin brought one of his dogs when he visited with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe this weekend amid the outrage over the company that Sochi officials hire to kill stray dogs before the Winter Olympics.  Putin’s dog

The U.S. Ambassador to Russia refused to deny on Sunday whether hosting the Winter Olympics in Sochi was a mistake.  Appearing on Fareed Zakaria GPS on Sunday, Mike McFaul was asked whether it was “a mistake to hold the games

Johnny Quinn, the U.S. bobsledder who gained instant fame when he tweeted a photo was what was left of his bathroom door in Sochi after he had smashed it to escape it when the door would not unlock, has now gotten

On Sunday, Russian speedskater Olga Graf nearly flashed the crowd–and the television audience–after she forgot that she was not wearing anything underneath her skin-tight swimsuit.  Graf, 30, was not expected to medal in the women’s 3,000 meters event but she ended

After Russian snowboarder Alexey Sobolev put his cellphone number on his helmet during the slopestyle event on Saturday, he got so many naked photos from women around the world that his iPhone crashed.  “Yeaaaaah,” he reportedly said said while pointing

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants the Windy City to host the Super Bowl and the NFL Draft.  “I would say that there are two things in pro football I would love to see in Chicago, either one of them or