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The Philippine Basketball Association has ejected an African American player from their league after he ridiculed the skills of boxer-baller Manny Pacquiao, with a team official comparing the criticism of the national hero to going to the United States and insulting Martin Luther King.

Outfielder B.J. Upton batted .208 last year for the Atlanta Braves after batting .184 the season before. Others might change their swing or their stance. Upton opts to change his name. B.J. now goes by Melvin Upton Jr.

Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao have agreed to a May 2 bout in Las Vegas.

Wednesday’s UFC press conference dropped a bombshell on the mixed-martial-arts world by revealing a new regimen of random, out-of-competition testing, comprehensive in-fight testing, and a push for “career ending” penalties. But the promotion dropped other bombshells unheard over the big one.

The UFC revealed a stringent new protocol for testing performance-enhancing drugs during a Wednesday press conference.

An epidemic of window jumping afflicts the Athens of America. Ninety-six inches of snow can have that effect on an Improper Bostonian.

On the day that a federal judge handed his former steroids dealer to four years in prison, Alex Rodriguez issued a handwritten apology to the fans.

Horse racing may be the sport of kings. Presidents prefer football.

Major League Baseball explores the possibility of reducing its strike zone, an area traditionally defined more expansively in the rulebook than on the field. But with pitch-tracking technology shaming umps into calling strikes for pitches they once called balls, the imaginary cuboid above the plate has ballooned. Stats wizards blame that growing strike zone for a relatively barren period offensively.

The Akron RubberDucks, a double-A affiliate of the Cleveland Indians, host “Brian Williams’ Pants-on-Fire Night” on April 27, aka National Tell a Story Day.

Buster Douglas scored the biggest upset in boxing history 25 years ago today.

Jerry Tarkanian, who parlayed commuter school coaching gigs into positions at four-year colleges before turning those unheralded programs into powerhouses, has died in a Las Vegas hospital at 84.

Malcolm Butler knows last-minute, goal-line interceptions. Now he knows a Chevy Colorado because of such 11th-hour heroics.

Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather are drumming up a lot of publicity for two guys without a fight on the docket.

“Our biggest challenge right now is where to put it all,” John Hill, a spokesman for the city of Worcester, tells Breitbart News. “By the end of this current storm we will be close to seven feet of snow in the last sixteen days.”

New York Knicks owner James Dolan told a poison-pen-pal fan to root for the Brooklyn Nets instead of his team.

Dean Smith, the legendary coach of the University of North Carolina Tar Heels, has died at 83.

Bad boy offensive lineman Richie Incognito reached an agreement to return to the NFL in 2015 after sitting out all of the 2014 season and half of 2013.

Amanda from Tacoma, Washington, really, really, really dislikes the way the New England Patriots celebrated their victory over her Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl. Her open letter questions whether the Patriots took the “Patriot Way” after their triumph.

America’s annual protest against burkas hits newsstands in four days.

New England Patriots running backs LeGarrette Blount and Brandon Bolden added insult to Seattle’s injury during the team’s victory celebration in Boston on Wednesday.

We know everything there is to know about Deflate-gate, which means we know nothing.

Anderson Silva, considered by some the greatest mixed-martial artist in the sport’s short history, tested positive for anabolic steroids prior to his UFC 183 matchup.

A reporter asked Bill Belichick about giving the hook to Tom Brady earlier this season. Belichick didn’t answer. He glared.

The New England Patriots, portrayed as the Super Bowl villains by the national media as a result of Deflate-gate, traded their black hat to the Seattle Seahawks at some point during Sunday night’s game. The good guys won, or, if you’re from Baltimore, New York, or any of the 28 other NFL cities and can’t quite admit that, just concede that the bad guys lost.

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft brushed off talk of Deflate-gate after his team’s fourth Super Bowl victory by stressing the importance of winning.

Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll simultaneously defended and took blame for the goal-line passing play that ended his team’s hopes for a second-consecutive Super Bowl victory. Some of his players blamed him, too.

Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll defended the play call that turned a dramatic win into an even more dramatic loss on Sunday night.

The New England Patriots came back from ten points down in the second half to win the Super Bowl in one of the most dramatic, and wild, finishes in the game’s history.

Football, as the first Sunday in February again proves, brings Americans together like nothing else. But for several years, the journalists who profit off the game have strangely tried to tear the goalposts down—and not in celebration of the sport.

Not since Jackie Moon defused an explosive situation on a team bus between Ed Monix and Downtown “Funky Stuff” Malone has roundball witnessed such tension between two teammates as the Iowa Energy did on Tuesday night.

Tom Brady’s dad wouldn’t let him play football until he was 14. Now he laments his son’s plans to play past 40.

Reports of reports have been greatly exaggerated.

Patriots owner Bob Kraft wants an apology if the NFL can’t back up with facts the innuendos leaked from the league when Ted Wells concludes his investigation.

Anthony “Rumble” Johnson knocked Alexander Gustafsson down with a big right and followed it up with a series of uppercuts to a face-down Swede to spoil the early-morning homecoming fight for the massive Stockholm crowd.

“I would 100 percent fight him,” UFC middleweight Cathal Pendred tells Breitbart Sports about a rumored matchup with CM Punk.