The Detroit Lions lent the Buffalo Bills Ford Field. The Bills gave the Lions chicken wings and pizza. Thank you @buffalobills for delivering a win and some wings this week! https://t.co/lO68arA4R4 — Detroit Lions (@Lions) December 16, 2014 The real
Jon Gruden remains with Monday Night Football through 2021. Brother Jay stays with the Washington Redskins next year. Gruden the Older signed a contract extension with ESPN to call games for the next seven years. Broadcast partner Mike Tirico announced
Police in Auburn, Alabama, have arrested 22-year-old Markale Deandra Hart for the murder of redshirt freshman Auburn University football player Jakell Lenard Mitchell. The authorities hold the Camp Hill, Alabama, man on $150,000 bail. Hart allegedly shot Mitchell repeatedly as the
Michael Sam last week appeared to dismiss the idea of working with the Oprah Winfrey Network again. The cable channel this week announced a holiday-season documentary on the out-of-work football player followed by an interview with Oprah herself. On December
The Boston Red Sox, in need of starting pitching after losing out on Jon Lester, traded the hitter they traded Lester for to obtain starting pitching. The Boston Red Sox shipped Yoenis Cespedes to the Detroit Tigers for righty Rick
Jon Lester beat cancer. Now the Chicago Cubs expect him slay the Curse of the Billy Goat. The former Red Sox ace agreed to a six-year, $155 million deal with the Cubs overnight–the largest in franchise history. A vesting option
Time has named Roger Goodell as one of its finalists for “Person of the Year.” The magazine announces its selection on Wednesday. The NFL commissioner managed such crises in the past year as the settlement of the concussion lawsuit against
LeBron James donned an “I Can’t Breathe” shirt in pregame warmups for the Cleveland Cavaliers game against the Brooklyn Nets on Monday night. The phrase refers to the repeated pleas of Eric Garner, a Staten Island “loosie” cigarette salesman killed
A rapper killed a television star and then himself–and the most famous boxer on the planet allegedly witnessed it on FaceTime. Rapper Earl Hayes allegedly murdered wife Stephanie Moseley on Monday in Los Angeles. Moseley, a beautiful and talented dancer
The NFL fined Chris Kluwe a few years back for wearing a patch supporting Ray Guy for the Hall of Fame and Jim McMahon a few decades back for mocking the commissioner with a “Rozelle” headband. But with the league
The College Football Playoff Selection Committtee issued its final regular-season rankings on Sunday afternoon. Condi Rice, Tom Osbourne, and the big wigs on the committee left some fans longing for the decision making of the Bowl Championship Series’s computers. The
A 29-year-old man searching for golf balls in a lake lost his life in a crocodile attack in South Africa. The 13-foot reptile attacked Jacques Van der Sandt at Skukuza Golf Course, a nine-hole course at Kruger National Park, on
Michael Sam, hectored by TMZ’s cell-phone video paparazzi, says he doesn’t believe his place on the couch instead of the field speaks of his football abilities. The pass rusher cut by the St. Louis Rams and the Dallas Cowboys, noting
The Baltimore Orioles declined the option on Nick Markakis’s contract. The Atlanta Braves decided to offer the outfielder a deal. The Braves signed the two-time Gold Glove-winner to a four-year deal north of $40 million. Markakis hit 14 home runs
Jameis Winston declined to testify at his Florida State University student conduct hearing. The Heisman Trophy-winner did submit a graphic and descriptive statement outlining his version of events on the night when a woman alleges he raped her. Winston says
Columbus, Ohio, police have discovered the body of a missing Ohio State football player. Cops discovered the dead body of Kosta Karageorge in a Columbus dumpster. The lineman displayed a gunshot wound to the head. The police also found a
The Oakland A’s went all-in in 2014. They look ready to hit the reset button for 2015. The A’s traded all-star third basemen Josh Donaldson to the Toronto Blue Jays. Oakland received third baseman Brett Lawrie, pitchers Kendall Graveman and
Ray Rice has won the appeal of his indefinite suspension from the NFL. The former Baltimore Ravens running back can sign with any team immediately. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell initially suspended Rice for two games for a violent assault on
A day after Chicago Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau expressed frustration over Derrick Rose’s frequent absences from the court, the former MVP pulled himself from a game. Rose, scheduled to make $19 million this season, said he felt “tired.” “Just tired
The Buffalo Bills trounced the New York Jets 38-3 in their rescheduled game Monday night. The Bills announced overcoming a much more formidable triumph in the wake of their victory in Detroit. Ralph Wilson Stadium, then and now. pic.twitter.com/xYO1uKWU17 —
Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose missed the 2013 playoffs when a doctor told him he didn’t need to and has skipped eight games this young season. His frequent absences have clearly frustrated his coach. “Oh I don’t know, Jesus,” Tom
Reggie Bush didn’t play football this weekend. But he jumped into the action on Twitter surrounding the Missouri grand jury’s decision not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. The only Heisman Trophy winner compelled to give back the award
The grand jury in the case of Darren Wilson killing Mike Brown handed down its decision not to indict on Monday night. Athletes on social media handed down their ruling on the ruling shortly thereafter. As a society how do
Nothing good happens after 2 a.m. A zealous Cleveland Browns fan–Is there any other?–allegedly sparked a brawl by seeking a hug from Johnny Manziel at The 9 hotel in Cleveland on Friday. “I’m the biggest Browns fan ever,” Chris Gonos
After the NFL fined him $100,000 for refusing to speak to the media last week, Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch opened up to the Fourth Estate on Sunday. Kinda. Sorta. “After the game, Lynch may have avoided another $100,000
Jeff Taylor, the Charlotte Hornets small forward suspended 24 games by NBA commissioner Adam Silver, won’t appeal. Yahoo Sports reports that the Swedish-American player will accept the remaining 13 games of his suspension after sitting for the last 11. The
Papa John’s launched a Philadelphia-area “76ers Win, You Win” deal on pizza in October. But nobody won. The promotion offered fans 50% off an online pizza order the day after a 76ers win. The 76ers couldn’t keep their end of
The Buffalo Bills scheduled eight home games at Ralph Wilson Stadium this season for the first time since 2007. Mother Nature had other plans. The NFL rescheduled the Bills-Jets Sunday 1 p.m. game for Monday. The Bills will now host
The NFL Players Association has asked Roger Goodell to recuse himself from the appeals process of Adrian Peterson as he seeks reinstatement in the league. “The NFL is making up the process and punishment as it goes–a blatant violation of
The Buffalo Bills still plan on playing this Sunday. New York’s Governor says the game would “jeopardize public safety.” The Buffalo area endured three-to-six feet of snow in recent days. The storms left eight dead and hundreds of motorists stranded.
Jason Collins, the first up-front homosexual competing in one of North America’s big four professional sports leagues, has announced his retirement. The Brooklyn Nets celebrate Collins at Wednesday night’s game against the Milwaukee Bucks at the Barclays Center. Collins struggled
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell suspended Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson for at least the remainder of 2014 on Tuesday morning. The indefinitely-long exile comes in the aftermath of Peterson’s plea deal in his child-abuse case. The agreement put a
The NFL Players Association decried Roger Goodell’s indefinite suspension of Adrian Peterson as unfair. The commissioner indefinitely suspended the Minnesota Vikings running back on Tuesday morning. Peterson’s hiatus, according to the league, will last at least the rest of this
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) crashed NFL games on Sunday to search for narcotics. The DEA questioned team medical staff and inspected bags in an effort to determine whether teams illegally distribute drugs to players. The San Francisco 49ers and
“I’d decided I was going to kill myself,” Brenda Tracy confessed to The Oregonian. The 40-year-old woman says that on June 24, 1998, four football players, including two Oregon State athletes, gang raped her. Sixteen years after declining to pursue
Two Southern California baseball stars claimed MVP awards from the two big leagues on Thursday. Mike Trout won a unanimous vote of the Baseball Writers Association of America to snag his first MVP award after finishing as the runner-up the
A familiar ace, and an unfamiliar face, won the National and American Cy Young Awards on Wednesday. Clayton Kershaw won his third National League Cy Young Award. The Dodgers ace went 21-3 allowing an anemic 1.77 earned runs per game
“If y’all came here for an education, you should have gone to Harvard.” Tydreke Powell maintains that his former football coach Butch Davis said this to him when he entered the University of North Carolina. Powell, who called in to
The Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) unanimously voted Chicago White Sox first basemen Jose Abreu the American League Rookie of the Year. The Cuban smashed 36 home runs, accumulated 107 RBIs, and hit .317 in his inaugural campaign. No
WNBA star Brittney Griner chronicled the bizarre knife attack on her and a teammate last week in Shenyang, China, in a conversation with ESPNw. A Chinese man chased Griner, who plays on the Beijing Great Wall team, on a team
