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A Houston attorney has filed a $50 million lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in U.S. District Court in Texas on behalf of a former Longhorns football player. Julius Whittier, an attorney who broke the gridiron colorline at

Fans tuning-in to Game Seven of the World Series witnessed an astronomical phenomenon as much as a sporting event. Madison Bumgarner, who won two games, saved the finale, and boasted a .43 earned-run average against the Kansas City Royals, became

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are ‘It might have been.’–Kurt Vonnegut Kansas City Royals fans will debate for years whether third-base coach Mike Jirschele should have flashed green instead of red. Like Red Sox fans

Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner, GM Brian Sabean, and manager Bruce Bochy all acted like they had been there before (because they had). Rikk Wilde, evidently, hadn’t. The “all-new, 2015 Chevy Colorado” can have that effect on a man. Rikk Wilde,

Sunday witnessed a tale of three NFL celebrations thoroughly denigrated on Monday.  Buffalo Bills receiver Sammy Watkins appeared on his way to an 89-yard touchdown after catching a Kyle Orton pass. But the rookie transformed six points into a mere

On Thursday, PGA of America President Ted Bishop compared English golfer Ian Poulter to a “little school girl squealing.” On Friday, the PGA of America ousted Ted Bishop. After Poulter treated Nick Faldo and Tom Watson harshly in his book

The underwear police, aka the Department of Homeland Security, raided Birdies Panties in Kansas City earlier this week. The store’s offense? Selling underwear with a K connecting with a C on the rear. The Kansas City Royals also embrace such

A long-awaited report by former federal prosecutor Kenneth Wainstein alleges that thousands of student-athletes at the University of North Carolina took easy-A, no-show classes in the school’s African and Afro-American Studies Department (AFAM) over an 18-year period. The UNC-authorized report

A spectre is haunting baseball–the spectre of the Kansas City Royals deposing baseball’s royalty. The Karl Marx theory of the World Series wouldn’t see diamond have-nots rising up against the diamond haves until the passage of a revenue-sharing revolution. What

Cain Velasquez has pulled out of his UFC 180 heavyweight championship bout with Fabricio Werdum citing a meniscus injury. The heavyweight champion’s departure from the main event deals a major blow to the promotion. The November 15 card represented the

“Why doesn’t anyone tweet out the wager receipt when they lose?” we asked last week. Floyd Mayweather apparently reads. The undefeated welterweight finally posted a sports-book defeat. After grabbing close to $800,000 on the Cardinals over the homedog Raiders on

Mathew McConaughey partied with Earl Campbell at the University of Texas. The Green Bay Packers drafted his dad. And don’t forget that he once held a joint subcommittee meeting on the 50-yard line with Lee High’s star quarterback Randall “Pink”

If you could drive a DeLorean three decades into the past, you’d likely stumble upon a dark hall full of Americans captivated by the idea of driving a DeLorean three decades into the past. You would also find a small-market

ESPN’s College GameDay came to Tallahassee. And Tallahassee told College GameDay to go back to Bristol. Before Florida State beat Notre Dame, Florida State’s fans beat up ESPN. Seminoles fans, citing bias in ESPN’s coverage of embattled quarterback Jameis Winston

WORCESTER, MA–“Courage,” trainer Carlos Garcia says of what separates light heavyweight Edwin Rodriguez from his peers. “He doesn’t give up. He has what you call the ‘cojones.’” A year after taking a beating in a decision loss to Andre Ward,

“Ignorant,” “moron,” and “idiot” read as a few of the printable words applied to Cincinnati Bengals Head Coach Marvin Lewis in the wake of his “lingering” concussions comment. But newly-published scientific researched actually supports the coach rather than his critics.

War Machine, who preferred sleep to submission in his three losses by choke, attempted to tap out on life in the Clark County, Nevada, jail at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday by strangulation.  The caged fighter reportedly tied one end of a

Unemployed, facing a new mouth to feed, and burdened with two house payments, I made the perfectly defensible decision, at least in the eyes of boxing die-hards, to spend $50 to order the Roy Jones-Joe Calzaghe pay-per view six years

Matt Hughes owns victories over cage-fighting legends Royce Gracie, Georges St. Pierre, B.J. Penn, Sean Sherk, and Matt Serra. Dan Hardy occupies a lower place on the mixed-martial-arts foodchain, which might explain his spirited defense of zebras, lions, elephants, and

Dan Snyder watched his Redskins play the Cardinals on Sunday alongside Ben Shelly, president of the Navajo Nation, and his wife Martha. Snyder’s team lost the game on the field as they won a public-relations victory in the visiting owner’s

What happens on bye week doesn’t always stay on bye week.  Dolphins defensive end Derrick Shelby won’t lace up his cleats this weekend. He allegedly didn’t wrap up another part of his body his last weekend.  Broward County cops arrested

Katy Perry has agreed to play the Super Bowl halftime show according to numerous reports.  The event takes place at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on February 1.  “I would be honored, of course,” Perry told ESPN’s GameDay

Jason Miller has defeated the likes of Robbie Lawler, Kazushi Sakuraba, and Tim Kennedy. But the cage fighter proved no match for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. They put him in their cage. The former star of MTV’s Bully Beatdown

Media hype surrounding sports concussions harms athletes enduring the injury and the promise of litigation payoffs results in prolonged reporting of symptoms, says a new article in a medical journal. “Research has shown that compensation and litigation factors are the

It took 2,567 days for Jermain Taylor to regain the middleweight title that he lost to Kelly Pavlik in 2007. Bad Intentions knocked down Sam Soliman four times last night to regain the IBF’s share of the crown that once

Two groups, one might call them the St. Louis Cardinals and the St. Louis Browns, clashed outside of Busch Stadium. The latter group protested the August killing of a teen; the former group puzzled over an October baseball game serving

Last year’s football media meme mated with this year’s to produce pack journalism’s dream child. “It’s more than fair to ask if the NFL’s two most troubling issues, domestic violence and head trauma, are linked,” writes Time‘s Sean Gregory. The

Betty Friedan sought to liberate women from the kitchen by dubbing the home a “comfortable concentration camp.” Amelia Bloomer conspired to imprison women’s beautiful legs in ugly pants by decrying the “the burden of long, heavy skirts.” Abby Wambach tells

“I hereby grant you unconditional permission to play on the third Eleven,” Theodore Roosevelt wrote his namesake wishing to continue to compete on the Groton gridiron after breaking his collar bone. “Now do not break your neck unless you esteem

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced the body’s consideration on Tuesday of censoring the word “Redskins” on the public airwaves.   “There are a lot of names and descriptions that were used over time that are inappropriate

On Monday Night Football, referees penalized Husain Abdullah for sliding on his knees in the end zone. By Tuesday morning, the excessive celebration penalty became a punished-for-praying flag.  The Kansas City Chiefs safety glided on two knees in the end

Boxing promoter Bob Arum recently suggested that Floyd Mayweather fears a fight with client Manny Pacquiao. The powerful southpaw thinks his nemesis on in the sports pages but not, as of yet, in the ring should fear someone else. “He

Pitching is the new hitting. The season-ending statistical leaders demonstrate the degree to which the game of baseball has shifted in just a few seasons. A drug-policy that metes out 25-game suspensions on first-time offenders will have that effect on

“I know what happened,” a soft-spoken Tony Stewart told the media Monday morning. “I know it was an accident.”   Cutting a sharp contrast to the fiery figure seen on the racetrack, a subdued Stewart spoke to the news media

An action-packed UFC 178 witnessed a rude welcome for a highly-touted newcomer, a championship-caliber performance by a returning former champion, and a coming-out party for one of the most sensational mixed-martial artists on the promotion’s roster. And all that happened