A Muslim teammate of LeBron James calls reports that he skipped the national anthem at Wednesday’s game “a big misunderstanding” after initially telling reporters he bowed out for religious reasons. “It’s because of my religion,” Dion Waiters told Cleveland.com of
The University of Alabama-Birmingham has, according to TMZ, opened up a point-shaving investigation into Chris Rabb, an associate of Jameis Winston who plays on UA-B’s football team. Rabb allegedly placed a $5,000 bet on the Louisville-Florida State game last week.
A Pennsylvania public official instrumental in the firing of Joe Paterno now says that Penn State “probably” shouldn’t have axed their longtime coach. “They probably shouldn’t have fired him,” Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett told the Philadelphia Inquirer in their Thursday
President Obama fired back at Michael Jordan’s characterization of him as a “hack” golfer. Jordan “wasn’t very well informed about this” the president told Earl Stokes of Milwaukee’s WJMR regarding the NBA Hall of Famer’s ridicule of him as a
Jameis Winston’s lawyer named his accuser in a November 4 tweet. The social-media posting remains on David Cornwell’s account despite public outcry. The tweet juxtaposed the quick approach of the November 17 school disciplinary hearing faced by the Seminoles quarterback
The College Football Playoff rankings lost an SEC team in its fab four and gained a Pac-12 team in the wake of the weekend’s slate of games. The four team’s at the top of the rankings at season’s end will
Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson has reached a plea deal in his child abuse case, ESPN reports. The agreement puts a reckless assault misdemeanor charge on the running back’s record. The charge to which Peterson pleads guilty makes no
A Big Ten school elicited charges of smallness for refusing to give their opponents five. The captains of the University of Maryland football team refused to shake hands with their counterparts for Penn State at the coin toss of Saturday’s
Did he mistake a Peyton Manning “Omaha” for a “Pueblo”? A missing Denver Broncos fan has been found 112 miles from Mile High. “He said he had his fill of football and that he likes to walk and wander,” Pueblo
The 2014-2015 NBA season started where the 2013-2014 season left off: with the Spurs winning. But Vegas Insider sees the season ending differently: with the Cavaliers, a team that has missed the playoffs for four straight years, winning it all
In his NBA debut, Julius Randle, the first-round pick of the Los Angeles Lakers, broke a leg–literally. Sad moment, watched Kobe Bryant cradle Julius Randle’s head, as Randle said to Kobe, “[expletive] hurts man. It hurts” — Serena Winters (@SerenaWinters)
Chivas USA joins the Chicago Stags, Cleveland Spiders, and Montreal Maroons as an answer to a trivia question about defunct teams. Chivas USA, Major League Soccer’s second Los Angeles franchise and a little brother affiliate to a Guadalajara team, couldn’t
CNN’s Don Lemon thinks that Charles Barkley has a point about successful African Americans enduring the slings and arrows from less successful African Americans. Discussing the controversy over Russell Wilson’s Seattle Seahawks teammates allegedly dubbing him insufficiently black, and the
Seattle Seahawks safety Earl Thomas called the story that his teammates consider quarterback Russell Wilson not authentically black “an insult to our race.” “Russell is the ultimate competitor,” Thomas told Peter King’s MMQB. “He always works as hard as anyone,
The NFL has evolved from holding one game a year at London’s Wembley Stadium to two games in 2013 to three games this season. A report from the Daily Mail contends that the NFL already has five games in the
A St. Louis Cardinals outfielder who launched his major-league career by launching a home run in his first game won’t be able to fulfill the promise he showed during his 2014 rookie season. Oscar Taveras died in a single-car crash
Charles Barkley told a Philadelphia radio station that “one reason [black people are] never going to be successful as a whole is because of other black people.” The Hall of Famer’s words came in reaction to reported criticisms of Seattle
The Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa will appear a sea of red on Saturday at 7 p.m. in honor of the two soldiers killed in separate incidents of terrorism on home soil this week. Wednesday’s shootings at the Canadian parliament
Is that the orange uniform issued by the Denver Broncos or the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Department? The Denver Broncos released practice-squad safety John Boyett after a bizarre series of events Wednesday morning that culminated in his arrest. The Colts cut
The UEFA has awarded Serbia a 3-0 victory in their game with Albania halted by a bizarre, drone-flown banner. Earlier this month, chaos ensured in Belgrade when a drone flying a “Greater Albania” flag hovered over the field in the
The Denver Broncos beat the San Diego Chargers by a comfortable 14 points on Thursday night. But Peyton Manning isn’t comfortable with the performance–of the scoreboard operator. The Sports Authority Field at Mile High big-board operator riled fans up when
Russell Wilson quarterbacked the Seattle Seahawks to a Lombardi Trophy. But he reportedly isn’t black enough for unnamed teammates. “My feeling on this–and it’s backed up by several interviews with Seahawks players–is that some of the black players think Wilson
The Dallas Cowboys released Michael Sam on Tuesday. The move enabled the Cowboys to sign linebacker Troy Davis to the practice squad. The defensive end, signed to the Cowboys practice squad after the Rams cut him during the preseason, thanked
An Indian soccer player lost his life earlier this week after suffering injuries from a celebration flip after a goal. Bethlehem Vengthlang FC midfielder Peter Biaksangzuala, a defensive-minded player known more for keeping balls out of his net than kicking
The Florida State Seminoles enjoy a bye week. There’s no respite for Jimbo Fisher on Jameis Winston questions. “We’re moving on with Louisville and talking about the other things,” Fisher responded in Belichickian fashion to an inquiry about his beleaguered
In Kansas City, the average house can be had for about $186,000. It costs $963,000 to buy the median house for sale in San Francisco. Despite the differences in income between the fan bases for the Royals and Giants, Fall
Six-year-old Kansas City Royals fan Noah Wilson has undergone 12 rounds of chemotherapy and 28 rounds of radiation to cure his cancer, which hit at about the same time that the Kansas City Royals started their season. A different dose
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed legislation Friday establishing a sports book in the Garden State. “As I’ve said all along, I am a strong proponent of legalized sports wagering in New Jersey,” the Republican explained in a prepared statement.
The Seattle Seahawks have traded multifaceted offensive weapon Percy Harvin to the New York Jets. Seattle picked up the receiver in a trade with the Minnesota Vikings in 2013 for first-, third-, and seventh-round picks. He comes considerably cheaper for
The arrests of Aaron Hernandez, Ray Rice, and Adrian Peterson have reinforced the perception of the NFL as the National Felons League. But police actually arrest NFL players at about one-eighth the clip of the rate for comparable men in
What do you do for an encore after winning the NLCS MVP award? Dump six Budweisers on your face and down your throat, of course. San Francisco Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner, after pouring four beers on himself after the Giants
Jeff Banister played in one major-league game, batting 1.000 on his career. The Texas Rangers liked that track record of success, and his 29 years in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization as a player and coach, enough to hire him as
How to stop as pervasive and destructive a problem as domestic violence? Public-service announcements, of course. The same powerful force that ended the nation’s drug problem through a fried-egg visual in the ’80s and abolished pollution through the arresting image
The New York Giants, a few days removed from a shutout loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, face the daunting task of traveling to Dallas to play the Cowboys, fresh off a road-dog win over the defending Super Bowl champions. The
Soccer games broke out in No Man’s Land during World War I’s Christmas Truce. A war nearly broke out during yesterday’s soccer game between Albania and Serbia in Belgrade. A drone flying a “Greater Albania” flag hovered over the pitch
The NBA embraces a cardinal rule of show business this weekend: leave the audience wanting more. When the Brooklyn Nets and Boston Celtics play on Sunday, the game will be four minutes shorter, each team will be without one regular
The Dallas Cowboys come off the high of defeating the defending Super Bowl champions in their home stadium. Nevertheless, fans just knocked them off their throne as “America’s team.” A Harris Interactive poll found that Americans root for the Denver
Does poverty cause crime or does crime cause poverty? Frisco, Texas, police arrested Dallas Cowboys running back Joseph Randle for shoplifting at a Dillard’s on Monday. Surveillance video allegedly captures the backup swiping underwear and a bottle of cologne. Randle
The judge presiding over the Adrian Peterson child-abuse proceedings refused to recuse himself on Monday. The request came at the behest of a prosecutor ostensibly upset that Judge Kelly Case called prosecution and defense lead attorneys “media whores.” Prosecutor Brett
Why doesn’t anyone tweet out the wager receipt when they lose? Boxer Floyd Mayweather pocketed $32 million in guaranteed pay from a night’s work in Las Vegas last month. Yesterday, he snagged $1.4 million from the casinos of Sin City.
