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The Citi Field faithful let Chase Utley know how they feel about him. So did the the scoreboard operator and public address announcer.

California politicians want Major League Baseball players to quit chewing tobacco so badly that they made the decision for them.

Just in time for Indigenous Peoples Day, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill prohibiting the use of the Redskins nickname for teams affiliated with California public schools.

A football fan endured a gunshot wound to the head outside of the Cowboys-Patriots game Sunday evening despite the NFL’s well-publicized efforts to make their venues gun-free zones.

Bill Belichick doesn’t do smiles. And he doesn’t do SnapFace, either.

In his first 21 years Carlos Correa hit 22 big-league home runs, heard his name called first in the MLB draft, and made millions of dollars. But until Tuesday night, he never tasted beer.

Before things fell apart for the Miami Dolphins on game day for the Miami Dolphins this past weekend, they fell apart on the practice field.

Whoever said that becoming the story serves as the journalist’s worst nightmare forgot to tell the female reporters who turned a two- to three-minute delay in entering the locker room of the Jacksonville Jaguars into fifteen minutes of fame.

Daniel Cormier gives up six inches of height and nine inches of reach to Alexander Gustafsson. But the Olympic wrestler says he does not fear standing with the Swedish striker at UFC 192.

For the first month in six years, the police arrested not a single NFL player. Hooray?

The man who sued ESPN, announcers John Kruk and Dan Shulman, the New York Yankees, and Major League Baseball for $10 million left court empty handed.

The Toronto Blue Jays destroyed the Baltimore Orioles 15-2 in the first game of Wednesday’s doubleheader to clinch the American League East.

“I’m glad the drug testing is more stringent,” UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier tells Breitbart Sports. “Maybe we’ll stop seeing so many guys look like Superman and they’ll start looking like me.”

Last fall, locals protested the police outside of Busch Stadium. This fall, St. Louis denizens ask for more police outside of Busch Stadium.

Jon Jones, the most accomplished fighter in UFC history, pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident on Tuesday in connection to a hit-and-run smash-up in Albuquerque earlier this year.

The UFC boldly scheduled a mixed-martial arts (MMA) card for Madison Square Garden next year despite the state’s attorney general dubbing the sport unlawful in New York.

The two light heavyweights that fans most want to watch fight clash this Saturday at UFC 192. Daniel Cormier and Alexander Gustafsson just don’t clash with the man that fans want to see them fight.

WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder made his network television debut with a victory over a game Johann Duhaupas in perhaps the stiffest test of the Bronze Bomber’s career.

Lance Berkman, who played college ball at Rice before manning the outfield and first base for the Houston Astros, dodges high heat thrown by sports journalists outraged over his opposition to a spaced-out Space City law giving transsexual “women” access to the ladies’ room.

A calf injury forced lineal heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko to postpone his October 24 bout with Tyson Fury. “Dear fans,” the 64-3 Klitschko says in English in an Instagram video, “I am sorry to inform you that I have had

The last time the Kansas City Royals clinched a division title Back to the Future reigned at the box office. The team, which won the World Series in 1985, hopes to go back to the future by doing it again.

Wladimir Klitschko regularly deals with jokers. For the first time in his career, he encountered the Batman.

The man who played in more World Series games and said more of the familiar quotations in Bartlett’s than any other baseball player has died. Yogi Berra, catcher, inspiration for an anthropomorphic bear, World War II veteran, wordsmith, passed away last night precisely 69 years since his debut in the majors.

ESPN’s College GameDay does fun. Feminists do fake outrage. They make as odd a couple as Mike Ditka and Catharine MacKinnon sharing one milkshake with two straws.

A 34-year-old woman died running the Montreal Marathon on Sunday. In addition to the American woman dying, a Canadian man required resuscitation after a heart attack.

Fedor Emelianenko, arguably the greatest mixed-martial artist in the short history of the sport, announced a return to action on Saturday night.

Boston’s Baby Doe discarded in a garbage bag found on Deer Island was conceived in an Occupy Boston tent on the Rose Kennedy Greenway.

Bellator goes back to the future tonight on Spike TV with four men facing the prospect of two fights in one night, a Glory kickboxing card in the same San Jose arena, and a first-generation UFC competitor hoping to party like it’s 1999 by again scrapping for a championship belt.

Floyd Mayweather sold 4.4 million pay-per views in May. In September, his fight with Andre Berto attracted about a tenth of that number.

Tom Brady called a potential Donald Trump victory in his presidential run as “great” on Wednesday.

We like our boxers punch drunk, impoverished, and ugly. That’s why we hate Floyd Mayweather.

On Monday, the Silver State’s combat-sports overseeing body (and, in effect, the world’s overseeing body) suspended UFC fighter Nick Diaz for five years for testing positive for marijuana. His January adversary, Anderson Silva, popped positive for a pharmacopia of steroids. He received a one-year suspension.

Moses Malone wore Nikes before Michael. He won three MVP awards before Larry and Magic did. He went to the pros straight from high school before King James, the Black Mamba, or even Chocolate Thunder.

Miss America put herself in the “not sure” category before declaring Tom Brady “definitely cheated.” It’s a woman’s prerogative to change her mind.

Bill Belichick is in his opponents’ heads. Is he in their headsets, too?

The Pittsburgh Steelers encountered mysterious communications issues in Gillette Stadium to start their NFL season.