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Football writer Peter King says that he won’t let 90 percent of Native Americans change his decision not to use the word “Redskins.”

A New Orleans Pelicans guard lost his life early Saturday morning after a man shot him after the player broke into his apartment.

The U.S. Senate passed a resolution without objection supporting equal pay for the men and women’s national soccer teams.

Engineers and physicists at MIT, Penn, Stanford, Michigan, Berkeley, and several other campuses filed an amicus curiae brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in support of Tom Brady’s case against the NFL.

The Pac-12 announced punishment for up to $100,000 meted out against schools whose fans storm the field or court.

A report by congressional Democrats charging the NFL with tampering in the granting procedures of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has collapsed after revelations that nearly half of the NFL money already allocated by the federal agency went to the group the league supposedly sought to blackball.

The widow of Tony Gwynn, and his two adult children, filed a wrongful death suit against various corporate tobacco interests and individuals associated with the industry on Monday.

Congressional investigators working under Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) never spoke to a scientist they accuse of wrongdoing in a report accusing the NFL of attempting to manipulate the grant giving of the National Institutes of Health.

ESPN made charges against the NFL, which led to Congressional Democrats investigating the league, which led to ESPN receiving a scoop on the results of that investigation, which led to the Congressional Democrats receiving gushing coverage from ESPN because of the investigation.

Tom Brady files an appeal in the Deflategate case today, and the gridiron winner does so adding a courtroom winner as a teammate.

The Texas Rangers look to break ground on a new ballpark despite opening up their current venue just 22 years ago.

How corrupt is boxing? No alphabet-soup sanctioning organization recognizes the lineal middleweight champion as its titlist.

The longtime voice of the San Francisco 49ers has filed suit against the team for age discrimination.

Rougned Odor’s punch landing flush on Jose Bautista comes about as common for baseball as hitting for the cycle does for boxing. Not since Nolan Ryan placed Robin Ventura in a headlock and slugged him has a punch in a sport not known for them sparked so many conversations.

Matt Bush, the number-one pick in the 2004 MLB Draft, finally arrives in the big leagues tonight in Texas.

Max Scherzer tied the Major League Baseball strikeout record for a nine-inning game by fanning 20 batters Wednesday night.

The owners of the UFC may be on the verge of selling their business.

Muhammad Ali fought a football player, hockey goon, and professional wrestlers. Floyd Mayweather looks to fight a mixed-martial arts champion.

Dwyane Wade practiced shooting and not “true patriot love” over the weekend during the Canadian national anthem. Canadians who “stand on guard for thee” let him know about it.

Curt Schilling’s politics got him fired from ESPN. Abby Wambach’s politics didn’t prevent her from getting hired.

Fox Sports 1 declined to make ESPN’s loss its gain.

ESPN labels it purely coincidental that it chose to cut Curt Schilling’s bloody sock victory out of a documentary on the historic comeback of the Boston Red Sox to defeat the New York Yankees for the 2004 American League pennant. Some things are harder to believe than a team winning a playoff series down 0-3 to the hated “rival” that big brothered them for the bulk of the previous 86 years.

Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Leonard, ad Muhammad Ali couldn’t stay retired. Floyd Mayweather looks like he lost in his bid to remain out of the ring, too.

Laremy Tunsil just a few weeks ago hoped to go first in the NFL Draft. Last night he did not even go first at his position.

The Sacramento Kings failed to give their fans a playoff berth during the last decade. But today they give a limited number of their devotees tattoos.

Jon Jones fights Daniel Cormier for the light-heavyweight championship at UFC 200.

From the investigator touting as truth the opposite of the testimony of the AFC Championship Game referee on the matter most salient to Deflategate to the league admitting ignorance of the Ideal Gas Law to Roger Goodell hearing the appeal

Conor McGregor says he’s back headlining UFC 200 after his refusal to commit to media events forced him off the card last week.

Two judges ruled that the “minimum legal standards,” not “perfection,” dictated the NFL’s disciplinary response to Deflategate. A third judge, the chief justice of the 2nd Court of Appeals, labeled Roger Goodell’s process in meting out a four-game suspension to Tom Brady as arbitrary.

A federal court overturned Judge Richard Berman’s ruling from late last summer invalidating NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s four-game suspension of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady over the “Deflategate” affair.

A Chicago Cubs fan who jumped the fence to celebrate with Jake Arrieta after the righty pitched a no-hitter in Cincinnati calls the experience “worth every penny.”

Conor McGregor says that did not retire from fighting, just promotion—even though his temporary retirement from PR continues to generate massive publicity.

It’s still called football. But the National Football League works feverishly to ensure that the game less resembles its name.

ESPN fired baseball analyst Curt Schilling for maintaining that males don’t belong in the women’s room and females don’t belong in the men’s room.

Johnny Football’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad offseason continues on its downward trajectory.

UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor announced his retirement from mixed-martial arts on Twitter Tuesday.