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Come late April, UFC President Dana White may be thinking: “We’re not in Vegas anymore.” The long-delayed matchup between UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones and challenger Glover Teixeira finally has a solid date and an unusual venue. The fight will

Technology enables the Florida Panthers to make ice in Miami. But it can’t make the Miamians watch the Florida Panthers make hockey on ice. The beleaguered franchise has asked Broward County for $70 million in concessions to its existing arena

Bill Belichick doesn’t smile much. It is what it is. The New England Patriots won twelve games this year, including unforgettable comebacks against New Orleans, Denver, and Cleveland. But not much gives the Patriots head coach reason to show his

Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson praised Dennis Rodman’s visit to a prison-state devoid of civil rights as “illuminating” in a Wednesday television interview. “Why are we discussing North Korea today?” Jackson asked CNN’s Don Lemon. “Because of Dennis Rodman.” The

Dan Snyder remained faithful to his tradition of hiring big-name coaches. Though “Gruden” may rank with “Spurrier,” “Schottenheimer,” and “Gibbs” as a high-profile name in the coaching ranks, the Gruden Snyder hired is not the Gruden normally associated with head-coaching

When friends Daniel Jorge Correia de Abreu and Safiro Teixeira Furtado fell victim to a drive-by shooting in Boston on July 15, 2012, their deaths made local headlines but no sense. Now that police have identified Aaron Hernandez as a

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has rejected a trademark application for a product associated with the Washington Redskins because the agency regards the team nickname as offensive. “Registration is refused because the applied-for mark REDSKINS HOG RINDS consists

The mother of Jovan Belcher, the NFL linebacker who killed his girlfriend and then himself on December 1, 2012, has brought a lawsuit against the Kansas City Chiefs. The wrongful death complaint, filed in Independence, Missouri, lays blame at the

Florida State’s Jameis Winston capped off a Heisman Trophy-winning season by orchestrating a come-from-behind, last-minute victory over Auburn at the BCS title game at the Rose Bowl Monday night. But the postscript added to the perfect end to his perfect

It’s unanimous. Ken Gurnick shouldn’t be allowed to vote. The Baseball Writers’ Association of America announces the results of its vote for the 2014 Baseball Hall of Fame class on Wednesday. Debate has surrounded the players–Curt Schilling, Jack Morris, Craig

The NBA retirees on Dennis Rodman’s “dream team” playing basketball in North Korea to celebrate strongman Kim Jong-un’s birthday have largely led nightmare lives since departing the league. There’s no word on how much North Korea will pay the players,

A professional mixed-martial artist killed one home invader, put another in the hospital with facial injuries, and sent two more fleeing on New Year’s Day in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The four assailants, reputedly all gang members, allegedly forced their

Will a lack of demand force scalpers to eat tickets to tonight’s Florida State-Auburn game? ESPN reports that some tickets in the secondary market for tonight’s BCS National Championship are priced below face value. The median price paid for the Florida-State-Auburn

In the parallel universe created by the Sports Gods, Lance Armstrong didn’t win the Tour de France seven times, Joe Paterno isn’t the winningest coach in college football history, and Mike Tyson didn’t beat Andrew Golota. Each of these iconic

Welcome to the Sports Hangover, the weekly Monday ritual of making sense of the wild week now fading into memory. Did we really watch the Colts come back from 28 down in the second half? Was Andy Reid suffering from

Richard Sherman is a big-play cornerback with a big mouth. So, given Seattle’s bye week, the third-year player figured to get attention one way or another. He’s done so with a column at MMQB–he writes one there weekly–in which he

The Marine Corps has delayed implementation of its new fitness plan requiring women do three pull-ups because a majority of female recruits failed to pass the standard. Why not delay the roll out of women in combat instead? “I don’t

George Lynn Cross, the longest serving president of the University of Oklahoma, famously answered a skeptical state legislator’s query about why the school needed a boost in allocations by explaining, “I would like to build a university of which the

Green Bay, already host to four of the ten coldest games in NFL history, prepares for what may become the most frigid contest in the league’s 94 years of existence. Sunday’s game between the Packers and ’49ers, scheduled for 3:40

Chris Kluwe, the former Minnesota Vikings punter who used his platform to promote gay marriage, believes that his beliefs cost him a job in the NFL. To rectify this injustice, Kluwe wants a Vikings coach who holds views opposed to

Will Johnny Manziel, the most hyped college football player since Tim Tebow, also soon find himself experiencing the NFL on his couch rather than on the gridiron? The pair appears at first glance as an odd couple. The former is

Bill O’Brien helped Penn State escape from the scandalous end of the previous regime. But Bill O’Brien’s only escape from the previous regime was to escape State College. Insight to this mindset of the new Houston Texans head coach comes

Ann Arbor, Michigan more than doubled in population on New Year’s Day as the NHL took over Michigan Stadium in its sixth Winter Classic. In doing so, the Big House set an all-time hockey attendance record. The estimated crowd of

The man who helped State College move on from Jerry Sandusky will attempt to make Houston forget the Texans’ terrible 2-14 campaign. According to ESPN, the Houston Texans will announce Bill O’Brien as the team’s new coach by the end

Prior to the NFL season, rumors of a homosexual player coming out of the closet abounded over the internet. What team did he play for? Who was it? Would several players make a safety-in-numbers announcement? For anyone waiting with baited

Naval Academy football players have suffered worse. Midshipman Earl Wilson lost his life after attempting an awkward tackle of a Villanova player in 1909 and Jonas Howard Ingram survived the Battle of Veracruz a few years later to win a

The Veterans Committee unanimously elected managers Joe Torre, Bobby Cox, and Tony La Russa to the Baseball Hall of Fame earlier this month. But many prognosticators believe that when the Baseball Writers Association of America announce their selections in early

The least surprising thing about Dan Snyder firing Mike Shanahan on Monday was that two other NFL clubs canned their coaches before the Redskins had canned theirs. Even if he hadn’t lost his last eight games, Shanahan would still be

The NFL playoff seedings are set. So is the 2014 draft order–at least for most of the twenty teams that failed to make the playoffs. Baltimore and Dallas flip a coin to determine the sixteenth pick by virtue of their

Are you suffering from withdrawals from this weekend’s action? Is the room spinning? Do you need a glass of water? Then you’re in the right place. Welcome to the Sports Hangover, a Monday ritual in which we try to piece

For Chris Weidman, the best offense was a good defense. The UFC middleweight champion again defeated Anderson Silva in controversial fashion on Saturday night. This time, there likely won’t be a rematch. Just more than a minute into round two,

The NFL regular season ends Sunday, and so do the head coaching careers of several familiar faces patrolling on the sideline. Breitbart Sports carts out its job-o-meter to gauge who sets down his headset. What hot-seat head coaches can put

There are few boxers bigger than Vitali Klitschko. But there is something bigger for Vitali Klitschko than boxing. The six-foot-seven Ukrainian heavyweight has retired from the ring to focus on his homeland. Kinda. Sorta. “At the moment, I cannot officially

The stakes in the UFC’s Saturday night middleweight championship bout couldn’t be higher. Chris Weidman merely fights to retain his newly won middleweight belt. Anderson Silva competes to determine whether his remains the name fans speak most often when the

Football takes its ball from rugby. Occasionally, it takes its players from the sport, too. The Detroit Lions signed speedster Carlin Isles to its practice squad today. Isles is a member of the United States Sevens Rugby, which plays Scotland,