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New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady claimed “no knowledge” of deflated balls in the AFC Championship Game.

“I didn’t walk around beating people up because karate taught me discipline,” Uriah Hall told Breitbart Sports. “It made me more assertive and less aggressive. But I taught kids. The greatest gift you can give any kid is confidence. I taught kids confidence—to believe in themselves, to stand up for what’s right and for others.”

Jim Norton cites success and sponsors as reasons Comedy Central became more politically correct.

Deflate-gate hasn’t quite hit the White House. But the resident of the United States Naval Observatory has an opinion about it.

A stoic Jose Aldo appears indifferent to the antics of upcoming opponent Conor McGregor. Fight fans, on the other hand, are anything but indifferent.

“If it was the wrong call,” Jim Norton tells Breitbart Sports about the infamous incomplete-pass call on Dez Bryant. “I probably would have hung myself.”

Conor McGregor gave Dennis Siver the finger to start their fight. He gave him his fist to end it.

Bostonian John Howard broke Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s nose and sent him down on a body shot in a sparring session. He felt bad about it at the time. He doesn’t now.

UFC welterweight John Howard let Breitbart Sports in on “a little secret.”

Irishman Conor McGregor tells Breitbart Sports that relying on welfare “can drain a man’s mind.” He knows firsthand.

“I own almost 55 weapons,” Cowboy Cerrone divulged to Breitbart Sports.

Donald Cerrone tells Breitbart Sports he would fight “as many times as they’d let me.”

Colin McGregor is blowing up. And it comes just when the UFC superstar shrinks down to make the 145-pound featherweight limit.
Breitbart Sports caught up with the phenomenon to ask whether his confidence crosses the line to disrespect.

“Tell Jose I want that belt spit-shined when he comes to Ireland,” featherweight Conor McGregor shouted at his open-workout on Thursday.

As the FBI looks to pressure the New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to tap out in a corruption investigation, the UFC sees an opportunity for its sport to finally receive approval and regulation from the last holdout against mixed-martial arts (MMA) in America.

It’s called “The B.S. Report.” But ESPN’s Bill Simmons never bothered to call B.S., or even ask a challenging question, during his hour-plus interview with “Girls” star and “Not That Kind of Girl” author Lena Dunham.

Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao has a date, a venue, and a purse split. It just lacks the approval of one of the combatants.

Race-car driver Kurt Busch testified in court that he believes his ex-girlfriend works as an assassin.

They tried to make Jon Jones stay in rehab. But he said “no, no, no.”

More than four decades after Muslims slaughtered seven people in a home he purchased, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar argues at Time that blaming Islam for the Charlie Hebdo murders says more about our ignorance of Islam than it does about the shortcomings of the religion itself.

ESPN had the narrative all ready to go. The Heisman Trophy-winner versus the third man on the depth chart just proved too much of a mismatch. Unfortunately for the Worldwide Leader in Sports, the six-point underdogs refused to cooperate.

A protest organized by Black Lives Matter Boston stopped an MBTA commuter rail train en route to Gillette Stadium on Saturday. Protestors delayed the train, picking up fans in Dedham, by jumping on the tracks with a banner saying “white silence = violence.”

When Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh said of one of the offensive formations run by New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, “It’s not something that anybody has ever done before,” he didn’t mean it as a compliment.

The 12th Man brings the noise. Does he make the ground shake?

The Justice Department has intervened in the case brought by the Washington Redskins against the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

The best weekend in football arrives in time for the worst weekend in weather. Some fans will drink on added layers and hover over parking-lot burn barrels. Other, smarter fans will wear a blanket on the couch.

The NFL can’t stop Rob Gronkowski. And it can’t stop A Gronking to Remember, either.

Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, appointed by the NFL as a special investigator to look into the Ray Rice affair, reports that he discovered nothing to substantiate charges that the league viewed video of Ray Rice knocking out his fiancée prior to meting out punishment.

Donald Cerrone says that he accepted a fight with former UFC lightweight champion Benson Henderson scheduled two weeks and a day removed from his UFC 182 victory because he thinks he can win and, more importantly, because he’s a “s#!+-bat loon.”

Nike celebrates Black History Month by selling black sneakers. Surely the folks at Converse bang their Chuck Taylors against their foreheads for not coming up with this idea the world has patiently waited 4.6 billion years for.

The woman alleging that Jameis Winston raped her filed a Title IX lawsuit against Florida State University on Wednesday.

UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones tested positive for cocaine a month prior to his UFC 182 title fight with Daniel Cormier.

Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone, fresh off accepting a fight with Benson Henderson that will occur just 15 days after his victory over Myles Jury, tells Breitbart Sports that the UFC’s agreement with Reebok that removes all other sponsors from fighter gear in the octagon actually helps bottom-card mixed-martial artists.

Donald Cerrone amazingly sparred for several rounds with Pat Healy immediately before his victory over previously undefeated Miles Jury at UFC 182 on Saturday night. For an encore, he has agreed to fight Benson Henderson for a third time just two weeks and a day after his decision victory over Jury.

Allie Sherman, the diminutive Giants head coach, passed away Monday in Manhattan at 91.

Jon Jones would appear in that Michael Jordan mid-1990s zone, a place where an elite athlete finds boredom in competition because competition simply doesn’t exist. He’s not.