Joe Torre spoke for nearly triple his allotted time at the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday. He still forgot to thank his old boss. Torre thanked bench coach Don Zimmer. He thanked Yankees fans. But he forgot to express
Steroid cases already had a tough trek to Cooperstown. Now completing the journey appears all the more difficult. The Baseball Hall of Fame has limited the years a player remains eligible for enshrinement from fifteen to ten. The Baseball Writers’
He can be Johnny Football. He can be the starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. He can’t be both. That’s the message from Mary Kay Cabot’s lengthy report at Cleveland.com. Head coach Mike Pettine initially looked to have an open
Stephen A. Smith starts conversations for a living. On Friday’s First Take, he started a shouting match. Talking domestic violence in the wake of the NFL’s two-game suspension of Ravens running back Ray Rice, the ESPN host called abusers “wrong”
San Francisco Giants starter Tim Lincecum has no-hit the Padres twice since last July. An assortment of Chicago Cubs pitchers eight-hit San Diego in the sixth inning of Thursday’s game. Fifteen Padres players stepped to the plate in the inning,
Andrew Wiggins is not in Kansas anymore. He may not be in Cleveland for long, either. The swingman has signed a four-year deal with the Cavaliers. The contract gives the first pick in last month’s draft the rookie maximum at
Patrick Cote finished his NHL career with 377 penalty minutes and just three points. If his life were a novel, readers might call this foreshadowing. A Canadian judge sentenced the former NHL goon to thirty months in the penalty box
The Sox remained the same. The player didn’t. David Ortiz homered twice in the Red Sox rout of the Blue Jays on Monday night. The long balls, Ortiz’s 452nd and 453rd of his career, move him pass Carl Yastrzemski and
Michael Sam can sack a quarterback. He can sell a jersey, too. Save for Johnny Manziel, the openly-gay defensive end outdid all other rookies, including fellow pass rusher Jadeveon Clowney, in jersey sales. Sam, selected with the 249th pick in
Kobe Bryant reveals in a forthcoming Showtime documentary that he’s “scared” about his post-basketball future. He might have another sports career waiting for him on the diamond in retirement. The Los Angeles Lakers great homered at Richard Sherman’s softball game
The Boston Celtics unveiled a brand new alternative logo. It’s a lot like their very old main logo. #Celtics to debut alternate logo. My story in today’s @BostonGlobe: http://t.co/aIoHjXSGvv pic.twitter.com/oQU9CsWuUO — Baxter Holmes (@BaxterHolmes) July 20, 2014 Lucky the Leprechaun,
The NFL may become a landlord in Los Angeles ahead of the city potentially gaining back at least one football team. According to a Los Angeles Times report, “the NFL is considering financing and owning a stadium in the Los Angeles area”
Tiger Woods may have come back early from back surgery to make the Ryder Cup team. And after an auspicious three-under start to this year’s British Open, Woods finished the tournament five shots worse than 64-year-old Tom Watson, who happens
Rory McIlroy won $1.66 million for winning the British Open on Sunday, but his father–along with three of his buddies–won over $340,000 for a bet they placed ten years ago on McIlroy to win the British Open by the time
In the 1970s, they ran on the field naked. In 2014, they do it clothed to take a selfie. A courageous, elusive, fleet-footed, and inebriated–one hopes–man invaded the playing area at Chase Field in Phoenix on Friday. It turns out
A Native American tribe straddling the Arizona-California border has refused grant money from a charity associated with the Washington Redskins. The Original Americans Foundation’s proposed donation to the Quechan Tribe would have funded a skate park and anti-suicide programs. A
If it weren’t for bad luck, the Houston Astros wouldn’t have any. The club watched its secret trade talks go online for all to see last month. This month, as they suffer through yet another abysmal season, Houston lost its
She was born sixty years before the birth of the Padres, when less than 40,000 people lived in San Diego and William Howard Taft occupied the Oval Office. On Sunday, 105-year-old Agnes McKee throws out the first pitch at Petco
What do you do for an encore after threatening to move your franchise and telling a fan not to come to games if he doesn’t like losing? For Colorado Rockies owner Dick Monfort, you blame the team’s troubles on the
First, the 49ers moved from San Francisco digs to a new stadium in Santa Clara. Will the Oakland Raiders be moving south next? “They have to make that determination, whether they’re in a new stadium in Oakland or whether they
Forbes has released its list of the fifty most valuable franchises in sports. Football teams dominate the top spots–European football teams. Real Madrid ($3.4B), Barcelona ($3.2B), and Manchester United ($2.8B) wins, places, and shows. The Steinbrenners’s New York Yankees ($2.5B),
An article in a terrorist publication encourages readers to kill spectators at the U.S. Open tennis tournament. The article, “Car Bombs Inside America,” provides readers instruction in how to make explosive devices. The al Qaeda-published Inspire magazine encourages readers to
Derek Jeter plays in his fourteenth and final All-Star Game tonight at Target Field in Minneapolis. Nike pays its respect to the retiring 20-year veteran with a moving commercial during the Midsummer Classic. Set to a stark piano soundtrack sans
After Phil Mickelson took one step closer to winning the career Grand Slam when he won the British Open last year, he celebrated by drinking a $40,000 bottle of wine out of the Claret Jug. According to Golf Channel, “one
The college football national champion under the new playoff system will receive a new trophy. It’s tall. It’s gold. And it looks like a cross between an ice-cream cone and the Olympic torch. The group behind the new college football
All-Star Game festivities get under way tonight in Minneapolis with the annual home-run derby. Yoenis Cespedes of the Oakland A’s attempts to repeat as champion. In addition to Cespedes, the American League roster consists of captain Jose Bautista (Blue Jays),
Even football broadcasters keep depth charts. Pam Oliver no longer finds herself atop of Fox’s rankings of sideline reporters. The familiar face finds herself bumped by Erin Andrews, the blonde beauty famous for winning the attention of a creepy peephole
On Saturday, President Barack Obama golfed with ESPN host Michael Wilbon in Maryland. The foursome at the TPC Potomac Golf Club in Montgomery County, Maryland included Glenn Hutchins, and Marvin Nicholson. Obama has previously golfed with Wilbon in addition to his
In 2010, Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert labeled LeBron James’s exodus “cowardly” and “narcissistic.” Four years later, James returning to Gilbert’s employ has added nearly a half-billion dollars to the value of his franchise. Then, Gilbert felt the pain in
Cleveland loves the return of LeBron; Las Vegas, even more so. In the course of a few hours, the Cleveland Cavaliers changed from a team that hasn’t sniffed the playoffs since 2011 into the franchise favored over all others to
The Houston Rockets have traded Jeremy Lin and a future first-round pick to the Los Angeles Lakers for cash. The deal shifted Lin’s $15 million salary–with about $8 million counting against the cap–off Houston’s books for 2014-2015, allowing the team
The NFL visits London three times this season, fueling speculation that the games will serve as the advance party for a full-fledged football invasion of the United Kingdom. In Week 4, the Oakland Raiders play the Miami Dolphins. In Week
Cleveland Cavaliers quarterback Johnny Manziel and LeBron James are friends. They share a management team. And now they’ll share a city after James announced on Friday that he would be returning to his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers. Manziel, in a Tweet
After infamously trashing LeBron James in a letter when James made the “decision” to leave his hometown franchise four years ago, Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert welcomed James back with open arms on Friday. James announced that he would be
The Brooklyn Nets will pay an NBA-record $90.57 million in luxury-tax penalties to the rest of the NBA teams for their gargantuan 2013-2014 payroll. Team owner Mikhail Prokhorov boasts a net worth exceeding $10 billion. Based in large part on
A day after describing his wife as so gentle as not to harm a fly, Donald Sterling continued to invoke the animal kingdom in court on Wednesday in reference to his bride. “Stay away from me, you pig,” Sterling angrily,
The surgeon’s knife awaits Penguins captain Sidney Crosby, reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. An injury to the lefty-shooting Crosby’s right wrist allegedly impaired his play–stellar, nevertheless–for parts of this season, particularly during the playoffs. It is unclear when the injury occurred.
Germany inflicted a historic 7-1 rout on hosts Brazil on Tuesday to reach the World Cup final as Miroslav Klose became the all-time leading scorer in the history of the tournament. Brazil have never suffered such a big defeat in
Germany was crushing Brazil so badly in the World Cup semifinals on Tuesday that Brazilian fans were seen sobbing throughout the stadium. Brazil, which has five World Cup titles, had not lost an international soccer match at home since 1975,
A massive thunderstorm in Rio de Janeiro knocked out ESPN’s power just after Germany shellshocked Brazil by scoring five goals in 18 minutes in the first half. “Our studio has gone dark much like Brazil,” host Mike Tirico said. He
