A short time from now in a state far, far away from most of the others, a baseball team will don Chewbacca uniforms. The world has waited 37 years for this moment. @PhilHecken Portland Sea Dogs (AA Red Sox affiliate)
It rarely ends well when you get a tattoo on your face. Richard Magnan sports many of them. The one on his forehead announcing “F— the World” may just emerge as the prosecution’s exhibit A in his upcoming trial. Perhaps
Luis Suarez, meet Mike Tyson. The retired 50-6 boxer commented Tuesday on the Uruguayan striker suspended from the World Cup, and all soccer-related activity for the next four months, for biting Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini in front of an audience of
The UFC flunks math–and vocabulary. The UFC announced on Tuesday the derailment of UFC 176, the Staples Center card scheduled for August 2 featuring Hanford High School graduate and Cal Poly product Chad Mendes fighting in front of fellow Californians
How did Donald Sterling do on the witness stand? It depends on who you ask at ESPN. Sterling talking in circles, doesn’t understand questions, challenging Fields to ”stand up and be a man”…no longer funny, just sad — Bill Plaschke
A liberal blogger and campaign manager for Democratic candidates has resigned his position as blogger for the Washington Redskins less than two weeks after his hiring. Ben Tribbett had come under attack from former political allies for his job defending
What Dark Lord Sauron snatched Jim Brown’s NFL championship ring? Lelands auction house lists the three-time Associated Press NFL MVP’s 1964 Cleveland Browns championship ring on its website. But the football and lacrosse Hall of Famer maintains he never sold
Bronson Arroyo may have more free time to pick up a guitar over the next year. He won’t be able to pick up a baseball anytime soon. Arroyo, one of the most durable pitchers in the major leagues over the
You can’t be umpire and fan, no matter how much the latter tries. At Target Field, you can be bartender and drinker. ESPN’s Darren Rovell reports that the four-year-old field has unveiled self-serving beer stands just in time for the
B.J. Penn, one of two–along with Randy Couture–two-division UFC champions, retired from mixed-martial arts (MMA) on Sunday night. The MMA legend called it a career after taking a beating from Frankie Edgar in their featherweight fight. Penn retires with
Madonna may have moved on from a Midwestern accent to adopt a British one. But her recent donation to help save Detroit’s Downtown Youth Boxing Gym shows she still has love in her heart for Michigan. Boxing in Detroit, like
How do you solve the defensive riddle that is Lyoto Machida? How do you stop the diverse and potent offensive arsenal that is Chris Weidman? The fighter that correctly answers the question about his opponent leaves the octagon as UFC
Ronda Rousey puts the “art” in mixed-martial arts. The Olympic bronze-medal-winning judoka, who takes on Canadian Alexis Davis tonight at UFC 175, infuses a sport of savage strikes and bone-splintering contortions with beautiful throws. Fight fans habituated to punches, kicks,
They booed “The All-American” on the Fourth of July. UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman and challenger Lyoto Machida weighed in Friday night for their UFC 175 scrap. The Brazilian looked especially cut and thin at 184.5 pounds. The champion, who
For Americans searching for a patriot this Fourth of July, they needn’t look back to 1776. This week will do. On Wednesday, Louis Zamperini, U.S. Olympic track star and World War II hero, died at 97. It wasn’t the first
Even Tim Howard couldn’t save this conversation. “Man, I just wanted to call and say you did us proud,” President Barack Obama told the goalie and his teammate Clint Dempsey in an Oval Office phone call. The president said that,
Americans hear a familiar refrain: this World Cup will finally conquer America for soccer. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, old enough to remember Pele’s 1970s swansong with the New York Cosmos sparking such bold declarations, isn’t buying it. In an article at Time,
Mario “Il Falco” Ferri wasn’t as daring as Fan Man or as visually arresting as Morganna. But for putting the spectacle in spectator sport, he deserves the praise of the planet. In his latest stunt, Ferri raced onto the field uninvited
What’s in a name? More than $5 million for Jimmy Graham. An NFL arbitrator ruled that the Saints stud plays as a tight end and not a wide receiver today. By applying the franchise tag on the lanky hybrid as
The UFC holds its biggest event of 2014 in the midst of the biggest global sporting event of the year. So on the conference call promoting UFC 175, the World Cup naturally came up. “I like watching the World Cup,”
The U.S. makes it to the knockout round in Brazil, Americans get knocked out at Wimbledon, and the national pastime returns to normalcy. Soccer Evangelists The United States plays in the most important soccer game in the nation’s history today.
The UFC has squeezed some of this year’s most anticipated fights–Weidman-Machida, Edgar-Penn III, Rousey-Davis–into Fourth of July weekend. But it’s the fight not taking place–the drug-doomed Sonnen-Silva clash–that Breitbart Sports asked B.J. Penn and Lyoto Machida about on the UFC’s
Georges St. Pierre calls a letter he signed in support of a convicted drug trafficker a “mistake” and apologized “unconditionally” to any offended. The former UFC welterweight champion has long been a loud voice against the use of performance enhancing
Philadelphia’s nickname conjures up the city’s past. Its roster moves evoke the future–the distant future. Sometimes the Philadelphia 76ers confuse themselves for the Delaware 87ers, their D-League affiliate. The 76ers seem to be always developing, never arriving as the finished
The Florida Panthers selected defenseman Aaron Ekblad with the first pick in the NHL Draft on Friday night. “We are thrilled to have selected Aaron with the No. 1 pick,” declared Florida general manager Dale Tallon. “He is a strong,
Doctors killed Isaiah Austin’s basketball career last week by diagnosing him with Marfan syndrome. They also likely saved the Baylor star’s life. Last night at the NBA Draft, league commissioner Adam Silver, in a moment that overwhelmed the emotions, recognized
The Cleveland Cavaliers selected Kansas shooting guard/small forward Andrew Wiggins with the first pick in the NBA Draft. The Canadian player–the second year in a row that Cleveland has taken a Great White North product first–averaged 17.1 points a game
Nearly seventy years ago, America and its allies demanded unconditional surrender from Germany. Today, America and its allies hope for a draw against Germany. Many partisans of the U.S. soccer team would regard even a loss, provided by not too
The NFL and roughly 4,500 former players suing the league have reached a new settlement in the brain-injury lawsuit against the gridiron behemoth. The owners have agreed to lift a $675 million cap on funds paid out directly to former
Michelle Wie plays hard. “I definitely cleaned up the cup,” Michelle Wie confessed on CNN Newsroom with Carol Costello of the trophy she drank from after winning the U.S. Women’s Open this weekend. “Who knows what liquid was in there
LeBron James has informed the Miami Heat that he will exercise the option to terminate his contract, ESPN’s Chris Broussard reports. The superstar becomes an unrestricted free agent on June 30. James looked to make $20 million next year with
Soccer dominates the sports world once every four years. It’s rarer than a blue moon. Enjoy it while it lasts. If the United States manages to last in the World Cup, the game’s limited time in the limelight may not
Senator Rand Paul said that the name of a professional football team isn’t a legitimate concern of the federal government on Meet the Press Sunday morning. “I’m not much for the government getting involved in the NFL,” the Kentucky Republican
The back story of why Cleveland Browns head coach Mike Pettine alleges that Bill Belichick obtained the defensive playbook of the New York Jets may be more interesting than how the Patriots coach may or may not have obtained the
John Kerry occasionally graced the Fenway Faithful with his presence in the lower box seats during his time as a United States senator from Massachusetts. Now that Kerry serves as secretary of state, he confesses that small talk with big
The Seattle Seahawks received their Super Bowl rings last night in a ceremony the team dubs “private.” But the public that supported the franchise receives ample acknowledgement in the jewelry. The two openings of the ring feature “12” atop the
Bill Belichick owns a 7-4 record against the Jets since Rex Ryan assumed head coaching duties in 2009. Cleveland Browns coach Mike Pettine, a former assistant to Ryan, thinks he knows the secret of Belichick’s success. “We know in places
When the reigning Super Bowl champions travel to Landover, Maryland in week five of the upcoming NFL season, don’t expect the team’s hometown newspaper to acknowledge their opponent by name. The sports editor of the Seattle Times vows to censor
Chael Sonnen predicted that Wanderlei Silva wouldn’t step into the octagon with him. He later reported that the Axe Murderer had run from an emissary of the Nevada State Athletic Commission seeking to test him for banned substances. t turns out
BOSTON–Red Sox rookie Brock Holt borrowed Fred Lynn’s glove, Dave Roberts’s cleats, and Wade Boggs’s bat (along with his number) to spark a victory over the Twins Tuesday night at Fenway Park. Holt scored a run after a Dustin Pedroia
