Ronda Rousey wants to perform her own stunts in the movies. She believes she participates in not mere cage fighting but in a “cultural revolution.” She says that fans crowding into bars or onto couches to catch her fights are “watching history.”
The NFL Players Association seeks correspondence pertinent to Deflategate between the NFL and the law firm that employs Ted Wells. Roger Goodell refuses to hand it over, citing attorney-client privilege.
Roger Goodell doubled down on dumb. The commissioner consistently plays bad hands this way. People losing the house’s rather than their own money often do.
The NFL announced on Tuesday that Roger Goodell has upheld the four-game suspension meted out to Tom Brady over Deflategate.
Floyd Mayweather decided upon an opponent for his forty-ninth and final fight. It’s not Amir Khan, Keith Thurman, or Timothy Bradley. It’s not even Shawn Porter.
Fedor Emelianenko, the name mentioned most in the discussion as the best mixed-martial artist in history, announced a comeback last week. He told a Russian-language publication, “I feel that it is time to return to the ring.”
The Tour de France’s owner of the yellow jersey received a yellow jacket on Saturday.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. has decided to shorten its name to Jr. Jr.—not that Dale Earnhardt Jr., the driver, had anything to do with Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., the band, altering its moniker.
Bruce Jenner won the Male Athlete of the Year Award from the Associated Press in 1976. Last night, Jenner won ESPN’s Arthur Ashe Courage Award as a female. Confused? Siri’s not.
History happened in a no-need-for-editing highlight reel in Las Vegas on Saturday night.
Robbie Lawler retained his UFC welterweight strap in perhaps the greatest title fight in the division’s history.
Conor McGregor put an exclamation point on perhaps the most spectacular main card in mixed-martial-arts history with a come-from-behind TKO of Chad Mendes at UFC 189.
Breitbart Sports asked former UFC greats Bas Rutten, Matt Hughes, and Frank Trigg what current fighters remind them of themselves on the conference call for their induction this weekend into the promotion’s Hall of Fame.
“You could say it’s all his mouth but the guy does have skills,” Chad Mendes told Breitbart Sports about Conor McGregor this spring. “His standup is crisp. He’s a southpaw. He’s long. He’s lanky. His style is exciting to watch.”
“The weight cut is the fight,” Conor McGregor told Breitbart Sports earlier this year. “The fight is freedom.”
ESPN’s two-year experiment of becoming MSNBC has ended. The network has cancelled Olbermann. MSNBC, even when it appears on ESPN, apparently still does cable-access ratings.
“When you look into a man’s eyes—look him dead in the eye—you can see straight into his soul,” Conor McGregor maintained on the UFC 189 conference call last week. McGregor said that when he looked into Jose Aldo’s eyes, the Brazilian’s soul informed him: “This mother—er doesn’t want to be here.”
Pop princess Ariana Grande has pulled out of Major League Baseball’s free All-Star Game weekend concert.
Former UFC welterweight champion Matt Hughes concedes that some mixed-martial artists perceived as great by fans gained their reputations through outlawed chemicals.
Bas Rutten, Matt Hughes, and Frank Trigg win induction into the UFC Hall of Fame this weekend. They talked about the honor with Breitbart Sports.
The Think Progress headline reads: “FIFA Will Pay U.S. Women’s Championship Four Times Less Than Men’s Team That Lost in the First Round.” The article that appears below it nowhere explains that the inequality in ratings, ad revenue, and attendance between the men’s and women’s World Cup accounts for the inequality in prize money.
“Death at the Ballpark: More Than 2,000 Game-Related Fatalities of Players, Other Personnel, and Spectators in Amateur and Professional Baseball, 1862–2014” will change the way you watch baseball.
The Terminator loves King Conor. And King Conor loves him right back.
“Four minutes into the first round he will be unconscious,” Conor McGregor promises of his UFC 189 opponent. Chad Mendes vows to end McGregor’s night a minute earlier.
An injury has knocked out the most hyped fight in UFC history. But the replacement bout appears as a consolation prize not lacking in its own excitement.
“We’re going to start trying to control the uncontrollable,” UFC President Dana White told Breitbart Sports this spring regarding injuries derailing cards. The remarks ironically came backstage at a presser promoting UFC 189, whose main event appears in jeopardy after a rib injury to featherweight champion Jose Aldo.
UFC middleweight Yoel Romero lived up to his “Soldier of God” moniker at UFC Fight Night 70.
Last weekend, Zack Hample caught A-Rod’s 3,000th hit, a home run to the short right-field porch in Yankee Stadium. The media attention Hample received nearly overshadowed the designated hitter’s feat. A-Rod owns merely 3,000 or so hits. Zack Hample boasts snagging more than 8,000 major-league balls. Breitbart Sports caught up with the Willie Mays of ballhawks to find out why he won’t give back the A-Rod ball, how to increase our chances of snagging souvenirs, and which parks favor the ball-hunting fans.
Conor McGregor-Jose Aldo, perhaps the most aggressively marketed fight in UFC history, almost ended with a whimper before either featherweight could end it with a bang.
The zebra in the room, actually stampeding through Roger Goodell’s office, today is the inconvenient truth that the NFL chose to disbelieve its own referee in the Wells Report. Worse still, the NFL repeatedly chose to disbelieve its own referee on the most crucial matter pertaining to Deflategate after repeatedly accepting his memory without question elsewhere in the report.
UCLA campus police arrested Sean, “Puff Daddy” Combs on an assault with a deadly weapon charge on Monday afternoon.
“My father served as an example,” Royce Gracie tells Breitbart Sports. “He wouldn’t tell people what to do. He would get up and do it himself.”
Alex Rodriguez collected his 3,000th hit on Friday night at Yankee Stadium, and he did so in style.
Chris Singleton, a sophomore baseball player at Charleston Southern, mourned his mom Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, who died in the mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Thursday, in a eulogy showing amazing composure and filial love.
Ken Shamrock and Kimbo Slice, boasting a combined 92 years, fight this Friday night in a battle for of the ages on Bellator MMA’s Friday night Spike TV broadcast.
Salem State University paid New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady $170,000 for his speech at the school last month. All the money stuffed in the Super Bowl MVP’s pocket could not get the quarterback to open his mouth much on the subject on everybody’s mind.
Four years after the Boston Red Sox blew a playoff berth during a stretch in which pitchers ate fried chicken and drank beer during games, Pablo Sandoval has been caught “liking” pictures of a woman on Instagram. The offense came during the seventh inning of last night’s game against the Atlanta Braves as Sandoval awaited a turn in the batting order that never came that frame.
Harrison Barnes spent his first 23 years and 17 days on planet earth without imbibing a sip of alcohol. The forward’s drought ended alongside Golden State’s on Tuesday night.
Brandon Spikes sells his 2011 New England Patriots AFC Championship Ring on eBay.
The Chicago Blackhawks won their third Stanley Cup in six years. And for the third time in the last six years, young citizens of Hinsdale, Illinois, converged upon coach Joel Quenneville’s home to celebrate.
