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Twenty years ago today, the United States Marine Corps saved me from O.J. Simpson. O.J. didn’t try to knife me or steal back his trophies. Like Tonya Harding, Rob Lowe, and Pee Wee Herman before him, O.J. attempted to steal

Do these argyle pants make me look fat? The United States Golf Association (USGA) grouped Kevin Stadler, Brendon de Jonge, and Shane Lowry together for a trio Thursday afternoon at the US Open. Tipping the scales at a combined weight

Rik Mayall called himself the “People’s Poet” on the iconic ’80s comedy series The Young Ones. But the funnyman employed a wordsmith more revered by actual people to pen the lines of “Noble England.” Just days after Mayall’s fatal heart

Chael Sonnen, in the wake of a failed drug test in the lead up to his UFC 175 bout, has called it a career. Sonnen owns notable wins over Yushin Okami, Jason “Mayhem” Miller, Michael Bisping, and Shogun Rua. But

Chael Sonnen has been removed from the UFC 175 card after testing positive for banned substances. The news adds to the soap-opera quality of a main-card bout that appears doomed. The original plan pitted the light heavyweight against rival Wanderlei

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver responded to Donald Sterling’s lawsuit to block the sale of the Los Angeles Clippers in a halftime interview during Game 3 of the NBA Finals. “It’s so unfortunate that that’s what we’re talking about,” Silver held.

“Et tu, Brute,” former Georgetown coach John Thompson said of Big East rivals who fled the conference on ESPN’s “A Requiem for the Big East.” “It’s just that simple.” He didn’t mention Syracuse. He didn’t have to. The rivalry between

Chris Weidman has gone from undercard nobody to headlining the UFC’s biggest annual event in his four-plus years in the promotion. As the UFC middleweight champion prepares to solve the vexing problem that is Lyoto Machida at UFC 175, Weidman

NEW YORK–The HBO Cotto-Martinez pay-per-view card immediately gave viewers their money’s worth in an exhilarating brawl with a stunning finish in the first fight of the main card.  John Jackson dropped Irish Any Lee with a massive right hook in

NEW YORK–Miguel Cotto entered the ring in silence and darkness. He exited it bathed in the limelight and saluted by the roar. Miguel Cotto knocked Sergio Martinez down four times en route to punishing the champion into a defeat on

NEW YORK–Madison Square Garden plays host tonight to a pay-per-view middleweight championship bout between titlist Sergio Martinez and challenger Miguel Cotto.   More so than the aging boxers, the venerable venue appears less about now than nostalgia. The Garden supplied

NEW YORK–An energized crowd of thousands of Miguel Cotto supporters packed the Theater at Madison Square Garden on Friday afternoon for the weigh-ins for the Cotto-Martinez pay-per-view card tomorrow evening in the main arena. With spotlights gyrating to the Puerto

Christiano Ronaldo enjoys the highest salary of any soccer player on the planet. But his millions, and the Western medicine that accompanies it, prove no match for the sorcery of a Ghanaian witch doctor.  “I know what Cristiano Ronaldo’s injury

Don Zimmer was more baseball than you. For the last six-and-a-half decades, he had been playing or coaching baseball–in the U.S., Japan, Mexico, and wherever teams would pay him to do so. From 18 to 83, he worked on the

Ken Stabler sued the NFL over brain injuries. So did Jim McMahon. But Troy Aikman, a posterchild for enduring concussions during his halcyon days in the 1990s, refrained from joining the litigation joined by more than 4,000 fellow former players.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver meets today with Al Sharpton for a talking to on what the league must do to combat racists from owning NBA teams in the future. Why not hold a summit with David Duke? Sharpton was, of

A day after news surfaced that Dan Marino had filed suit with fourteen other players against the NFL last week, the Hall of Fame quarterback intends to withdraw from the legal action, the South Florida Sun-Sentinal reports.  “It was never

Floyd Mayweather, prize fighting’s king of prizes, has dumped Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions. The move comes in the immediate aftermath of chief executive officer Richard Schaefer’s resignation from the company. “After more than 10 years with Golden

One plaintiff in the new lawsuit against the NFL made it all the way to the Hall of Fame. Several of his co-plaintiffs never even made it into an official game.  Dan Marino played seventeen seasons in the NFL, setting

The weekend settles the Stanley Cup and NBA Finals matchups. The coming weekend may give us a Triple Crown winner, a new middleweight champion, and French Open victors. Procul Harum Good, Boko Haram Bad I much prefer Procul Harum to

As their crosstown counterparts did in the NFL’s May draft, the Houston Astros select first in Thursday’s Major League Baseball draft. Unlike the Texans, the Astros can’t count on a sure thing or trade the pick if they get cold

Media critic Neal Gabler calls the NFL a league for white males. Did he intend to hit the “H” on his keyboard instead of that “F” two buttons away?  “It isn’t a coincidence that the rise of the National Football

Do believe the hype. Warlley Alves employed a diverse arsenal of strikes, takedowns, and ground-and-pound to dominate Marcio Alexandre Jr. in a battle of undefeated middleweights at The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil finale. Alves followed up a massive overhand right with

Are all those women saying Ernests Gulbis is “sexy” or “sexist”? I can’t quite make it out.   When 17th-ranked Ernests Gulbis takes the clay against Roger Federer–a man he labels “boring”–on Sunday in the fourth round of the French

Barack Obama said yesterday at the White House Healthy Kids and Safe Sports Concussion Summit that he’s “sure” he endured concussions playing on the gridiron as a kid. We knew he grabbed a lot of “interceptions.” Who knew he played

When you brazenly cheat on your wife, make racist comments about African Americans, and oversee one of the most consistently pathetic franchises in sports, you’re not going to win any popularity contests. A new survey by E-Poll Market Research found

Pacers guard Lance Stephenson scored last night by blowing air into LeBron James’s ear on national television. LeBron James scored just seven points. Has Stephenson invaded LeBron’s head as he seems to have invaded everybody else’s? “No, it’s just buffoonery,”

Chael Sonnen repeatedly, and some would say bizarrely, claimed that Wanderlei Silva would find a way to worm out of their long-awaited fight. It turns out that the American Gangster knew his opponent better than the fans did. The Nevada

Clean-cut Chris Weidman doesn’t much look like an outlaw. But that’s how his home state treats competitors in the undefeated UFC middleweight champion’s profession. New York, once a mecca for fight fans, now shoos those fans away in its ban–the

Johnny Football and Renan Barao surely feel a bit groggy in the wake of Memorial Day Weekend. Welcome to the Sports Hangover. Johnny Vegas Johnny Manziel partied by the pool with Rob Gronkowski and DJ Pauly D and a bunch

If jocks were a race or sports were a religion, it would be easy to see Elliot Rodger’s murder spree as a hate crime.   “I don’t know why you girls aren’t attracted to me, but I will punish you

On a night when T.J. Dillashaw shocked the mixed-martial arts world by upsetting Renan Barao for the bantamweight belt, UFC 173 witnessed two blasts from the promotion’s past head in different directions on the fight’s main card.   Dan Henderson

T.J. Dillashaw shocked the mixed-martial arts world with a dominant performance that ended with an exclamation point. The Team Alpha Male product followed up a fifth-round head kick with hammerfists to put an end to Renan Barao’s reign as bantamweight

The commissioner of Major League Baseball owes the very existence of his office to the insistence of the first man to hold it that the game needs a single person outside of it and above its internecine disputes to preside

“Three men have changed the face of baseball,” 288-game winner Tommy John tells Breitbart Sports. “The three men are Jackie Robinson, for breaking the color barrier; Marvin Miller, for creating free agency; and Dr. Frank Jobe for Tommy John surgery.

Marshawn Lynch goes into Beast Mode on the gridiron. Everywhere else he pretty much goes into Meek Mode.  The Seattle Seahawks running back skipped the team’s obligatory visit to the White House yesterday. “No particular reason was given to me,”