NBCSports Network’s multi-year sponsorship run of the Shooting, Hunting andOutdoor Trade Show (SHOT Show)–“the largest show of its kind in theworld”–is over.According to an NBC Sports spokesperson, the decision was business-based: “Ourlevel of sponsorship has varied each year, and this
On Thursday, police in Wilmington, Delaware charged a 21-year-old Pennsylvania man with second-degree assault in the unprovoked attack of a Marine veteran. According to police, surveillance video “that captured the incident” was a key piece of evidence and corroborated that the
A 26-year-old U.S. Marine veteran, who for the past 325 days has been running across America to raise awareness and support for veterans and their families, suffered a concussion along with a bloodied and bruised face after a stranger assaulted
In a recent column, conservative commentator and economist Walter E. Williams confronts the patronizingly low academic standards inflicted on black students by progressives and explains why he believes sports may offer an antidote to combat such destructive “kid glove” treatment. Asserting
On Thursday, ESPN columnist Scoop Jackson announced that he plans to “stand his ground” and boycott all Florida sports. Jackson, reacting to the Florida jury’s acquittal of charges against George Zimmerman over the death of Trayvon Martin, wrote that he
Steven Rhodes, a 24-year-old former Marine sergeant and current Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) freshman, is perhaps the most famous walk-on in college football since Notre Dame’s Rudy Ruettiger. A week ago, however, Rhodes was practically unknown–his story untold. In
Intentionally or not, President Barack Obama poked the far left bear during Tuesday’s White House ceremony honoring the 1972 Miami Dolphins when he used what many of his liberal base consider a racist, derogatory, and patently offensive term: Redskins. By doing
The George Soros-funded Think Progress is providing sports fans with a playbook on how to reduce the “tremendous impact” their spectating and viewing preferences have on the environment. Citing a recent study by Carbon Trust, a London based “environmental advocacy group,” Think
When Donald Trump was asked Monday night if Major League Baseball’s all-time hits leader, Pete Rose, should now be in the Hall of Fame, The Donald answered, “absolutely,” and elaborated on why he feels “Charlie Hustle” deserves a plaque in Cooperstown.
Truth Wins Out (TWO), a nonprofit organization fighting anti-LGBT extremism, is “strongly urging” that NBC add to its 2014 Sochi Olympic Games primetime broadcasting lineup a “special human rights correspondent” who would provide viewers with “hard-hitting pieces exposing the reality
One might say President Barack Obama set the tone for his administration on “The Tonight Show” in March 2009 when he “joked” that the 129 he had rolled in the White House bowling alley was “like the Special Olympics, or
In a speech on the House floor this week, Democrat Delegate Eni F.H. Faleomavaega (D-American Samoa) argued that the Redskins name change campaign is not a “popularity contest” nor is it about “sports,” but a “moral issue.” He proceeded to reference
The Arizona Diamondbacks have a hot tub, the Kansas City Royals have a waterfall, and soon the San Francisco Giants will have in their centerfield an organic vegetable garden. According to The San Francisco Chronicle, the “ambitious project, dubbed the
Last week, NASCAR said goodbye to ESPN and entered into a new lucrative 10-year agreement with the up-and-coming NBC Sports Network. According to the Sports Business Daily, the “landmark” deal, which gives NBC the exclusive broadcasting rights to 20 Sprint Cup Series
Transgender student athletes in California’s public schools may soon be the first in the nation to be afforded the expressed legal right under state law both to participate on athletic teams and to be given open and unrestricted access to
The Lahser High School football team’s 11-year tradition of taking a knee in post-game prayer is now history. According to Click on Detroit, The Bloomfield Hills, Michigan School District, after receiving a letter from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
ESPN caved on its “long-standing” social media policy last March when in a special exemption, it permitted its employees to make personal political statements relating specifically to the Trayvon Martin case. Initially, on Friday March 23—the same day that
ESPN Senior Writer Howard Bryant used a recent column to question and express concern over what he perceives as the now permanent and inextricable relationship between American sports and patriotism. In Bryant’s view, the “sports-military-patriotism alliance” post 9/11 has co-opted sports from
Comparing the unfair advantage of the IRS targeting conservative groups to professional athletes taking illegal steroids, James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal believes Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign deserves the mark frequently associated with sports’s most dubious record breakers:
As thousands of out-of-town guests arrived by car and plane in Dallas, Texas for the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, one Marine Corps veteran, Brendan O’Toole, arrived by a less conventional route. So unconventional, as it happened,
CNN.com reporter Moni Basu took an opportunity last week to confront and challenge Robert Griffin III, the Washington Redskins quarterback who had tweeted about “the tyranny of political correctness,” with a set of race-related questions. “Is the R-word is as
D.C. City Council may soon take its turn to “officially” run with a familiar beltway political football: the Washington Redskins “name change” issue. According to The Washington Post, D.C. council member David Grosso, who believes the Redskins name is both “derogatory”
Al Jazeera, the Qatar-financed media network which in January bought Al Gore’s Current TV, now is interested in acquiring the Tennis Channel. A source close to the New York Post said, “the Tennis Channel is in play and the Qataris are looking hard.”
Alarmed by “human-caused” warming, 75 Winter Olympic and X-Game athletes sent President Barack Obama a letter last week “asking” for executive action. Specifically, they requested the president to: 1) “Issue standards under the Clean Air Act that cut carbon pollution from
Recreational hunters be warned because according to the People for the Ethical Treatment for Animals (PETA), the far-left group “is planning to acquire a drone…to spy on hunters and catch them in the act as they terrorize animals and break game
Recreational hunters be warned. According to the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the far-left group “is planning to acquire a drone…to spy on hunters and catch them in the act as they terrorize animals and break game laws.”
Stephanie Wimmer, a Windham, New Hampshire School Board member who voted recently to implement a district-wide ban on “human target games” (dodgeball), could have used innumerable examples to rationalize her decision, but instead chose to evoke a national tragedy: Sandy
A House Democrat on Wednesday offered a “solution” to the Redskins name change controversy: The Non-Disparagement of American Indians in Trademark Registrations Act of 2013. According to The Hill, the legislation “would prevent the term ‘Redskins’ from being trademarked” and is “a
Our analysis ranked the Liberty Flames as the worst team in the NCAA tournament this year with a rating of 5 out of 50, but the school founded by the Rev. Jerry Falwell was relentless in taking North Carolina A&T
In 1995, wrestling legend and GOP supporter Ric Flair, contemplating a trip to North Korea, called good friends Senators Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms and both offered the same advice: “Don’t Go.” The allure, however, to headline “a spectacular one
Harvard is headed back to the NCAA Tournament after rolling past Cornell 65-56 and Brown defeated Princeton 80-67. As Ancient Eight champions for the third consecutive year and set for a second consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance, Harvard has been revitalized
Measuring 5’3″, Tyrone ‘Muggsy’ Bogues (pictured with Michael Jordan) is the shortest NBA player of all time. At 4’5″, Julian “Handles” Newman is perhaps not only the shortest high school basketball player in the country, but also the youngest. This dual
Is it “fair” that illegal immigrants and foreign exchange students are allowed to play high school football on Friday nights and to participate in extra curricular activities at public schools, while many of their peers, who are legal US citizens
On Thursday, the National Museum of the Native American in Washington, D.C. is playing host to a conversation on “Racist Stereotypes and Cultural Appropriation in American Sports.” Given the recent war of words and calls for a Redskins name change,
Gun shops like the one pictured in Seattle will not be able to run commercials on ESPN like this one that ran for five months for a South Carolina gun shop before being dropped by ESPN. What changed? ESPN senior communications director
The “Tebow bill”–much like the New York Jets quarterback himself–has a rap: it can’t seem to pass. The bill, offered since 2005, has thus far failed to become law in Virginia. Now, however, it has been reintroduced and at some
What do the National Football League (NFL), the Professional Golf Association (PGA), and the National Hockey League (NHL) have in common with charitable groups? According to a report released by Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn (R), “Seeing the advantage in operating largely
In 1980, only 5.7% of all children six to seventeen years of age were overweight, but that number has tripled since then. Efforts have been made to get children eating healthier diets, but the other part of any fitness effort
