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Two British members of parliament wrote a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell petitioning him not to send the Washington Redskins to London to play a game during the 2016 season.

Lightweight champion Rafael Dos Anjos pulled out of his scheduled UFC 196 bout against Conor McGregor.

Bellator 149 stoked excitement but delivered disappointment.

A 2003 affidavit giving Peyton Manning’s side of the story of an alleged 1996 incident involving a female trainer at the University of Tennessee surfaced this week.

The New York Yankees say they eliminated print-at-home tickets as a crackdown on fraud. The team’s critics call this a fraud.

The Utah Jazz’s D-league affiliate takes the court adorned with the president’s visage upon their shorts in honor of Black History Month.

The proposed Los Angeles Olympics just got a logo to go along with dates and venues. Its sunny disposition points both to the city’s ideal weather and the world’s grim global warming forecast.

Peyton Manning did not get to pick his enemies. But if he did, he couldn’t have imagined a more pathetic bunch than his real antagonists.

In a rare address televised across the Bayou State last night, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards raised the prospect of taking away a diseased nine-year-old boy’s medical coverage and kicking patients off kidney dialysis machines should the state legislature not support his tax increases.

A PPP survey of NFL fans indicates that Roger Goodell remains tremendously unpopular.

On Saturday, CM Punk learned that he faces off with Mickey Gall this summer. On Wednesday, CM Punk underwent back surgery and Gall learned he faces someone other CM Punk in his next bout.

When Beyonce and backup dancers blended Black Panthers with Black Lives Matter at the Super Bowl, they missed their own irony. The NFL in allowing the spectacle on its grandest stage missed, again, its own idiocy.

Cam Newton refused to jump into the pig pile after his own fumble. Then he refused to jump into the media pig pile.

Your rooting passion in Super Bowl 50 likely derives from whether you prefer the possibilities in the story’s opening chapters or a happy ending. At least if you live outside of the Carolinas or the Mountain West it does.

Boston University doctors announce that 1974 NFL MVP Ken Stabler suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

Xbox at the X Games strikes as something out of “The X-Files.” So, when the made-for-ESPN event handed out medals for playing a video game this weekend, a woman who earned an X Game bronze by risking life-and-limb cried foul.

Anthony “Rumble” Johnson made short, violent statement in the main event on UFC on Fox Saturday night in Newark, New Jersey.

UFC on Fox 18 opened with an upset that sends one of the UFC’s most hyped fighters back to the drawing board.

NFL concussions rose in 2015 after several years of decline.

The American Gambling Association estimates that Americans will wager $4.2 billion on the Super Bowl.

Maybe it’s the way he dabs. Perhaps it’s the way he dresses. Whatever it is, there’s something about Cam Newton that people hate—or love.

The UFC boldly scheduled an event for Madison Square Garden in April despite the Empire State’s refusal to sanction professional mixed-martial arts. A federal judge spiking that move earlier this week compels New York assemblymen to demand that their fellow legislators finally join the other 49 states in allowing pro MMA bouts.

Blake Griffin apologized to the Los Angeles Clippers for punching himself out of competition for the next month or so. The man he punched presumably receives his public apology soon.

For the second year in a row, the NFL heads into a Super Bowl investigating one of its most high-profile players.

Fabricio Werdum opted to pull out from UFC 196 just a day after his opponent, Cain Velasquez did the same.

Cain Velasquez pulled out of his rematch with Fabricio Werdum at UFC 196. Stipe Miocic steps in as a substitute with less than two weeks notice.

UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor doubled down on blasphemous speech at a Wednesday press conference promoting UFC 197.

Ed Herman displays his short fuse when it comes to cheaters.

Dominick Cruz explained to Breitbart Sports that he would “absolutely” fight Conor McGregor.

UFC welterweight champion Robbie Lawler says “no frustration here” in fans flocking to fighters whose bark beats their bite.

Dominick Cruz refused to say if T.J. Dillashaw earned the right to a rematch after their bantamweight championship bout at TD Garden that ended early this morning.

The UFC returns to Boston for Dillashaw-Cruz. Breitbart Sports brings you the action live from the front row at the TD Garden.

Two mixed-martial artists boasting spinning-backfist knockouts historically square off tonight despite the UFC’s octagon witnessing just three such fantastic finishes in its history.

Dominick Cruz accuses T.J. Dillashaw of keeping it fake atop calling the champ disloyal, stupid, and a plagiarist of his footwork.

Call Travis Browne and Matt Mitrione late bloomers. The former wandered into MMA at 26 after playing basketball in college; Mitrione debuted in the sport in his thirties after washing out of the NFL.

T.J. Dillashaw endures the names thrown his way by Dominick Cruz stoically or with a smile. He points to wrestling as supplying him with the discipline and respect that makes him a mute at trash talking.