Most seventeen-year-old ball players worry about whether they will make the varsity nine or not. Julio Urias strives to start on the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Mexican teenager threw nine strikes in fourteen pitches in the first inning of a
UFC 171 rebounded from several dud cards by awarding fans excitement in its action-packed main event, passing the torch to new stars Tyron Woodley and Miles Jury, and putting the “art” in mixed-martial arts in Ovince Saint Preux’s obscure submission
Robbie Lawler and Johny Hendricks delivered in twenty-five minutes what Georges St. Pierre failed to produce in six years as welterweight champion: a competitive, action-packed, back-and-forth battle that left ringside observers split on a victor but unanimous on the excitement.
Manny Pacquiao sings when not boxing. Bob Dylan boxes when not singing. So when the pair’s paths crossed earlier this week, it was either destiny or a dream. Could there be two more dissimilar dudes with similar interests? Bob Dylan
LeBron James endorses McDonald’s, Sprite, and Powerade. Is his product pitch to get young people to sign up for health insurance through the federal government’s exchanges then a kind of penance? Barack Obama has enlisted the Miami Heat forward to
It’s not the size of the beer. It’s the shape of the cup. That’s the pricing philosophy that has governed beer sales at Boise’s CenturyLink Arena. As expected, hockey enthusiasts were too drunk to notice. But two fans–Heath Forsey and
Floyd Mayweather faces Marcos Maidana on Cinco de Mayo weekend in Las Vegas. A few weeks ago, if a TMZ report can be believed, the undefeated welterweight participated in an unsanctioned handicap match that witnessed two of his employees suffer
The free-agent wide receiver class works as a metaphor for the position: soft. How weak? Its standouts include a former college quarterback (Julian Edelman) who emerged as a starting NFL receiver just last season and a Giants pass catcher (Haseem
The Indiana Pacers sit atop their conference. According to the team boss, they also rank first in complacency. Before defeating the Boston Celtics last night, Larry Bird’s Indiana Pacers boasted just a .500 record over the previous month. Despite their
Breitbart Sports caught up with Dan Leberfeld, longtime publisher of Jets Confidential and co-host of “Press Coverage” on Sirius XM’s NFL Radio every Saturday at 11 a.m. Eastern, to get a sense of this year’s NFL free agents. Given Leberfeld’s
Show me the money! That’s the rallying cry of NFL free agents. But the cruelties of the open market mean that many Rod Tidwells shouting “Show me the money!” instead get shown the door. NFL free agency, like the NFL
An expert scholar on mass shootings labels the NFL’s edict banning off-duty cops from carrying weapons inside stadiums “completely crazy” and suggests the league may be unnecessarily exposing fans to dangers by transforming stadiums into gun-free zones. “Banning off-duty law-enforcement
The American president golfs as the Russian president plays Risk. An NFL owner’s death shows that in football, winning remains the preferred currency. And a Minnesota state rep down in the NBA hates on the players–and the game. Welcome to
A Minnesota Republican whose tweet dismissing the NBA as unpopular and dissing its players as thugs tells Breitbart Sports that the outrage directed at him serves as an instance of killing the messenger. The quip elicited hundreds of retweets and
DerekSanderson was made in Canada. The biopic on his life will be too. Bruinsdevotees of this most improper Bostonian are none too pleased with theannouncement. The filmmakers weren’t keen on Beantown location costs. “Bostonwas too expensive for this independent production,”
The most revolutionary figure in modern pitching died yesterday. His name wasn’t Randy Johnson, Bob Gibson, or Pedro Martinez. Fans never chanted his name. His visage appears neither on a baseball card nor on a Cooperstown plaque. In fact, Dr.
Vitali Klitschko thought he knew corruption from boxing. Wooed by Don King, the Klitschko brothers were wowed when they heard the fight promoter gracefully play parts of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” on his piano. King’s worldliness especially captivated Vitali, a PhD
Martin Brodeur played in his 1,250th NHL game–all with the New Jersey Devils–on Tuesday. It may have been his last night in the net in Newark. The face of the franchise, who hadn’t played in the previous seven games before
Arizona Coach Rich Rodriguez mocks the proposed college football “slowdown” rule in a three-minute movie called, appropriately enough, Speed. The YouTube spoof co-stars Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, whose clips from the original film are interspersed with dialogue from Rodriguez
Was that LeBron or the Lone Ranger? Didn’t Julio Cesar Chavez retire? Nick Saban doesn’t support the “Saban” Rule? Really? The Sports Hangover makes sense of the wild weekend in sports. Would ‘Fisting’ Be a Technical Foul or Merely a
When Brooklyn Nets center Jason Collins presented the parents of Matthew Shepard with a jersey after his team’s victory over the Denver Nuggets last week, the kind gesture, like the cruel crime endured by Shepard more than fifteen years ago,
Mark Cuban made his money broadcasting NCAA games over the internet. Now he wants to put the 109-year-old entity out of business. The Dallas Mavericks owner advises young basketball players using higher education as a stepping-stone to the pros to
Jimmer Fredette, who negotiated his release from the Sacramento Kings earlier this week, cleared waivers and will join the Chicago Bulls. ESPN Chicago’s Nick Friedell first reported the agreement. After Friday night’s impressive win over the Mavericks, the Bulls improved
To tank or not to tank? That is the question the Celtics, Lakers, and ’76ers ponder in the home stretch of the 2013-2014 regular season. Once proud franchises that competed for NBA championships now race to the bottom for privileged
Must one pass a political litmus test, or fail a logic quiz, to gain employment as an ESPN talking head? On ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption, Tony Kornheiser, former columnist with the Washington Post, likened a bill passed by both houses
The Nevada State Athletic Commission announced a ban on testosterone-replacement therapy for boxers, mixed-martial artists, and other participants in state-sanctioned contests today. The announcement comes on the heels of George St. Pierre’s hiatus from the UFC. The promotion’s former welterweight
An ESPN poll of Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) coaches reveals that nearly three out of four of them oppose the proposed ten-second delay before offenses can snap the ball. The proposed rule finds support from slightly less than one in
Jimmer Fredette won the Wooden Award, the Oscar Robertson Trophy, the Naismith Award, the Adolph Rupp Trophy, and the Associated Press and National Association of Basketball Coaches player-of-the-year honors. Three years later, the Sacramento Kings eagerly negotiate a buyout with
The NFL Scouting Combine came to a conclusion yesterday, and with it so did the first-round hopes of numerous pro prospects. Breitbart Sports caught up with Dan Leberfeld, who covered the events in Indianapolis, to gain a sense of the
The three-point shot, a shot clock, and ditching the jump ball after every basket once appeared anathema to basketball purists. But the sport evolves, and if it can add a point for long-range shots why can’t it add one more
Was the fight of the century the fix of the century? Fifty years ago today, Cassius Clay, as Muhammad Ali was then known, and Sonny Liston, the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, squared off in Miami Beach. Joe Louis
Michael Sam, the University of Missouri defensive end who publicly proclaimed his homosexuality earlier this month, hoped his performance at the NFL Combine would silence doubters. Instead, it only created more doubters. The AP’s SEC defensive player of the year’s
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. likes a man with a slow hand. He picked one with two of them for his next opponent. The undefeated welterweight scheduled a fight with Argentina’s Marcos Maidana for Saturday, May 3. Was Henry Bruseles booked that
The 23-day weekend in Russia has mercifully come to an end. The conclusion of the once-in-a-four-year-lifetime event puts us back to business as usual: March Madness, the NFL Combine, spring training, NASCAR, and after nearly a month’s respite, the NHL.
The Soviet Union imprisoned Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in the gulag after World War II, suppressed his writings during the Brezhnev years, and finally expelled him from his homeland in 1974. Forty years later, at the Sochi Winter Olympic Games, Russia celebrated
The United States placed first for third-place finishes at Sochi. We’re #1–at being #3. It was a bronze medal kind of Olympic Games for Team USA, good but not great. Sochi featured twelve more events than Vancouver. Americans won nine
Ronda Rousey fights Sara McMann in Las Vegas tonight. The combatants seek to settle the question of who is the best Olympian on the UFC’s female roster, silver-medal winning wrestler McMann or bronze-medal winning judoka Rousey. They fight for claims
When your last name morphs into a verb or an adjective, it’s generally a bad sign. “So, you want to talk about the ‘Saban Rule’?” South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier asked an inquirer from USA Today. “That’s what I call
Maybe Charles Barkley was right. Kids shouldn’t look up to athletes. They’re bound to let them down. One of the latest heroes to fall is accused serial rapist Darren Sharper, a five-time Pro Bowler, Super Bowl champion, and, until his
The punk-rock group called Pussy Riot tried to film a music video for its song, “Putin Will Teach You to Love the Motherland,” in Sochi today. Instead, journalists filmed a clash between the anti-Putin musical troupe and uniformed security forces.
