In the wake of University of Missouri football players boycotting team activities to protest purported acts of racism on campus, a Missouri lawmaker proposes to revoke the scholarships of players in state-funded colleges who refuse to play for any reason unrelated to health.
Prayer at Air Force Academy football games is a “putrid example of fundamentalist Christian supremacy,” according to radical atheist Mikey Weinstein, who has worked with President Barack Obama’s administration to purge faithful Christians from the ranks of the U.S. military.
The Naval Academy and its fans are furious at ESPN for removing Navy quarterback Keenan Reynolds from the mainpage of its online Heisman poll despite the fact that the Midshipman topped the survey.
The Edmonton Eskimos defeated the Ottawa Redblacks 26-20 on Sunday to take their first Grey Cup since 2005, but even as fans celebrate the win critics protest the team’s name, calling it “racist” to use the Inuit people as “mascots.”
English football fans took to the streets of London over the weekend to celebrate the ‘evaporation’ of ISIS’s chief executioner, Mohammed Emwazi, widely known as Jihadi John. “Jihadi John he’s f*cking dead, he had a bomb dropped on his head”,
Over the weekend, 32 African-American players on the University of Missouri-Columbia football team joined a strike to protest purported acts of racism on campus saying they would boycott team activities, including games. But that boycott could have cost the school a million dollars for missing the game.
Over the weekend, 32 African-American members of the University of Missouri-Columbia football team joined a group of students staging a hunger strike to protest purported acts of racism on campus.
Down seven and on 4th down with 25 yards to go in overtime, the Arkansas Razorbacks needed a miracle to pull out the victory over the Ole Miss Rebels. Tight end Hunter Henry caught a pass near the sideline shy of
A BACtrack Comsumption Report study has listed fans of the Buffalo Bills as the drunkest fans in the NFL.
A photo of a Mississippi football player praying for his injured teammate has gained over 5,000 shares and 160 likes on Facebook.
ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — A person familiar with the decision says the Detroit Lions have fired president Tom Lewand and general manager Martin Mayhew.
“My All American,” written by the same screenwriter as “Rudy” and “Hoosiers,” is about the short life of “Game of the Century” University of Texas football safety Freddie Joe Steinmark. Steinmark, who died at the age of 22 of cancer, was a member of the 1969 UT National Champion and Cotton Bowl Classic winning football team.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — A person with knowledge of the decision says quarterback Colin Kaepernick has been told he won’t start Sunday for the San Francisco 49ers, replaced by backup Blaine Gabbert.
Two Pittsburg Steelers players have been fined for wearing unauthorized decorations or colors to support personal causes, the NFL reported on Wednesday.
After initially suspending a senior on the high school football team for what it perceived to be a racist remark, the Bloomfield Hills school district reversed its decision after roughly 2,000 people launched a petition to see him reinstated.
A football game between East Mississippi Community College (EMCC) and Mississippi Delta was called off Thursday after an ugly brawl, with EMCC up 48-0 just before halftime.
New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez recently joined Fox Sports as an analyst for the 2015 MLB playoffs. During “Fox NFL Sunday,” the slugger and former stand-out high school quarterback joined the pregame show crew and was asked to show off
A junior football league in Pennsylvania canceled the entire season after bullet casings with the names of league officials written on them were found at a local park.
Milan (AFP) – A former Serie B player with links to a “gypsy gang” that placed illegal bets on Asian betting networks has revealed how he corrupted up to 60 professional players before being snared by police wire taps. Carlo
A high school football player has been suspended from school for “inappropriately touching” his team’s center during a snap in practice, a report says.
UCLA football player Adam Searl was arrested Thursday on suspicion of sexual assault from almost a year ago.
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is mixing his campaign for president with SEC football by announcing a series of tailgate events at Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi State games.
A pee-wee football scrimmage broke into a dance-off in Massachusetts this past weekend. A group of seven-year olds were in the middle of scrimmaging during the halftime of a varsity game when the hit song by Silentó’s “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” started
GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has waded into the controversy over the Washington Redskins name, siding with team owner Daniel Snyder. The billionaire says that the name isn’t offensive.
On Saturday’s “College Gameday” on ESPN, the Stanford football team showed off its use of virtual reality with quarterbacks to help read defenses and pick up blitzes. This technology being used with quarterbacks also allows coaches to get in the
During Friday’s match-up between California high schools Lakewood and Long Beach Millikan, a Millikan player appeared to kick an opponent who was on the ground after losing his helmet. Lakewood running back Victor Bates lost his helmet while being tackled with the football.
According to Stephen Spiewak of MaxPreps, John Krahn has always been big for his age. He was six-foot tall in sixth grade, six-foot-five inches tall as a freshman and six-foot-eight inches tall (and 330 pounds) as a sophomore. And he has just continued to
China has the fastest growing economy in the world, standing second only to the US as a financial powerhouse. Its wealth is building exponentially and the Asian giant is sufficiently advanced to have a space exploration program of its own. Still,
Add another black mark to the litany of high school football incidents as a Tennessee football player has joined in on the unnecessary roughness. Malcolm Easley, who was lined up as a linebacker, blindsided official Kyle Gill on a play near the goal line. Easley
The Minnesota Vikings find themselves in an unusual contract dispute that keeps one of the team’s most cheered performers off the sidelines rather than off the field.
Officials in Santa Clara, California consider a ban on selling alcohol after halftime at the San Francisco 49ers’ Levi’s Stadium after a violent beating of a visiting fan, reports say.
According to CBSNews, a high school football player has been accused of putting his hand in an opponent’s helmet and smearing Icy Hot on his face during the middle of a game. Angel Salazar, a player for La Canada High
The mother of Fritz Moncion, the Linden, NJ high school football player who took the helmet of an opponent and hit him with it, spoke out on her son’s behalf and said the vicious hit, which caused ten stitches, was
With news being made once again over disciplinary troubles in Rutgers University’s football program, Governor Chris Christie has taken time out from his pursuit of the White House to criticize the media for “overhyping” the problems.
Video has surfaced from an incident at a high school football game Friday out of New Jersey between Immaculata and Linden that resulted in one player getting 10 stitches. A Linden defensive lineman pulled off the helmet of an Immaculata
As Sen. Marco Rubio is seeing his presidential campaign dragged down by weakening polling numbers, his campaign is out with a new video alluding to his last big mention in the media: after he hit a child with a football.
Chris Queen’s new book Football, Faith, & Flannery O’Connor: A Love Letter to the South is just what the title promises, a breezy, fast-moving brochure for a somewhat loosely-defined slice of America. One of the most quintessentially Southern things about the South is that it’s not easy to say exactly where it begins and ends.
John Jay High School in San Antonio, TX fell to Marble Falls High School 15-9 on Friday, but what took place at the end of the game is quite alarming. With about one minute left in the game, two players
ESPN reported during Friday’s “College Football Live” that University of Illinois has fired head football coach Tim Beckman just one week before the season opener with Kent State, with University of Illinois Director of Athletics Mike Thomas citing preliminary results of an external review
At a campaign stop in Ankeny, Iowa, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio accidentally hit a kid in the face with a football.
