Undefeated lightweight world champion Gervonta “Tank” Davis was arrested Tuesday on a domestic violence charge less than two weeks before his fight with former super featherweight Hector Luis Garcia on January 7 in Washington, DC.
New Hampshire police arrested a homeless woman Monday for allegedly misleading police to the location of a baby boy she reportedly had given birth to and left in the woods, where temperatures were around 18 degrees Fahrenheit.
Miles Bridges is in talks with the Charlotte Hornets for a contract extension after he avoided jail time on a felony domestic violence charge for an alleged attack on his then-girlfriend this year, sources told ESPN on Friday. Bridges will face what some have predicted as a “lengthy suspension” if he rejoins the NBA, as the league is still investigating his case.
MMA veteran Jake Shields brawled with fighter Mike Jackson on the floor outside the Octagon at the UFC Performance Institute (PI) in Nevada on Friday, after Jackson called Shields a Nazi on Twitter.
Louis van Gaal, head coach of the Netherlands national soccer team, made a sweet proposition to his wife, Truus, on the practice field Tuesday, which was caught on camera by reporters.
The University of Tennessee (UT) football is asking for donations to replace the goalpost that Volunteer fans ripped down in celebration after Saturday’s 52-49 victory over the Crimson Tide at Neyland Stadium.
WNBA player Brittney Griner is concerned after living in a Russian prison for nine months that she may have to serve the entirety of a nine-year sentence, and that the Biden administration may not be able to negotiate her early release.
NASCAR truck racer Jordan Anderson credited “God’s hand” for protecting him through a frightening accident during Saturday’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Race at Talladega, in what he called the “scariest moment of my racing career so far.”
Three-time coach of the year, and current LSU women’s basketball coach Kim Mulkey declined to comment on the “situation” with WNBA’s Britney Griner on Monday.
Olympic hurdler and media sensation Michelle Jenneke has faced injury setbacks in recent years, but is back on track after competing in the women’s 100m hurdles at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham this month.
Luke Knox, 22, a Florida International University (FIU) linebacker and younger brother of Buffalo Bills tight end Dawson Knox, died on Wednesday.
L.A. County Sheriff’s Department deputy Michael Russell revealed during the Kobe Bryant photo trial Tuesday that he sent photos of the helicopter crash scene to another deputy during a Call of Duty video game party.
“I think it’s BS,” said tennis great John McEnroe of the CDC vaccine mandate that continues keep Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic from playing in the United States, potentially including the upcoming U.S. Open. McEnroe also insisted that Djokovic “is perfectly entitled to make the decision” for himself whether to vaccinate or not, according to a video from Outkick.
Kevin Costner gave a beautiful tribute to Ray Liotta as part of the Field of Dreams game in Dyersville, Iowa, on Thursday, just three months after the actor died at age 67.
“I want [Brittney Griner] to return back home. … [but] we cannot trade that horrible human being for her. It’s just not a fair trade,” professional basketball player Enes Kanter Freedom said during a Friday appearance on Fox News’ The Story with Martha MacCallum.
The American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA) will host its national convention in Cleveland, the home of Brown’s quarterback Deshaun Watson, this month. Watson’s future in the NFL is unclear after 24 women, mainly massage therapists, have brought sexual misconduct complaints against him.
The National Organization for Women (NOW) accused the NFL of “enabling sexual misconduct, assault, and violence” against women on Monday following the league handing down a 6-game suspension to Cleveland Brown’s quarterback Deshaun Watson, who made headlines after 24 women accused him of sexual harassment during massage sessions in 2020 and 2021.
A referee at a youth basketball game stopped a fan with a knockout punch during a heated brawl on the court of an AAU game near Oklahoma City on Saturday, according to videos posted to social media.
Formula One racer Lewis Hamilton called out retired three-time world champion Brazilian racer Nelson Piquet after Piquet allegedly used a racial slur against him during an interview last year. The interview, on a Brazilian pod
The principal golf tour in Europe, the DP World Tour, has penalized players with more than $105,000 in fines for their participation in a LIV Golf event, and has excluded them from three upcoming PGA events. The move comes on the heels of the PGA Tour suspending 17 of their pro golfers who played in the Saudi Arabia-backed LIV this month.
MLB fans were treated to an adorable act of thievery Tuesday night when the Houston Astros took on the New York Mets at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas.
The NRA Annual Meeting at the George R. Brown convention center in downtown Houston, Texas.
Cherelle Griner believes that President Joe Biden is the “one person” who can bring back her wife, WNBA player Brittney Griner, from Russia, where she has been detained for 96 days after officials allegedly found drugs in her luggage at a Moscow airport. Cherelle also believes that things would be different if Brittney was an NBA player.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced Tuesday that the league is working with “hostage negotiators” and “every level of government” for the release of WNBA center and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner. The WNBA star has sat for nearly four months in a Russian prison after being charged with drug trafficking.
There is no question that basketball is China’s most popular sport. “Roughly 800 million people in China tuned into an NBA game. … That’s more than twice the population of the United States,” NBC News reported in 2019. That was before Daryl Morey sent his simple tweet, “Fight for Freedom, Stand with Hong Kong,” in October of 2019 and started a firestorm that would shake the NBA to its core and begin a nearly 18-month-long ban on NBA games aired on Chinese television.
Tempers and fists flared during Friday night’s NASCAR Xfinity Series Race at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia when drivers Ty Gibbs and Sam Mayer got into a pit row brawl following a collision that knocked both drivers out of the running for a $100,000 bonus.
The Milwaukee Brewers are bringing hope and healing to their community five months after the Waukesha parade tragedy by inviting a 12-year-old survivor to throw the first pitch at the team’s home opener against the St. Louis Cardinals on April 14.
In a move of extreme hypocrisy, former NFL quarterback and anthem-kneeler Colin Kaepernick, who has not played in the NFL since 2016, the same year he began kneeling, seems to be imploring the NFL to let him back into the league less than six months after likening the NFL combine to a mid-1800’s slave auction.
YouTube personality and boxer Jake Paul issued his most recent taunt to MMA star Conor McGregor, saying he will knock him out in round one, and called the Irishman “selfish” for not taking up Paul’s goal of imploring UFC president Dana White to raise fighters’ salaries.
MMA legend Chael Sonnen faces 11 counts of battery after allegedly fighting with six people during a December 18 incident in Las Vegas. Chael allegedly strangled one man during the brawl, which will be classified as a felony.
NFL star Tom Brady attempted to help out a fan this week who paid $518,628 for Brady’s “final touchdown pass” football March 12, hours before the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback announced his unretirement, instantly plummeting the ball’s value.
“We think everyone should play sports fairly,” a women’s sports group that is working to preserve biology-based eligibility told the New York Post on Saturday, and stressed the movement is not specifically aimed at Lia Thomas, the transgender male collegiate swimmer currently competing as a woman, but is actually “pro-women.”
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement Sunday the U.S. is ready to “provide every possible assistance” to seven-time All-Star WNBA center Brittney Griner.
Joe Rogan offered strong words of support for former two-time UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez, who was arrested in February after attempting to shoot a man accused of molesting a child in his family, according to a report.
Former women’s soccer forward Carli Lloyd criticized the “culture” of the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT) as the “worst she’s ever seen,” during a Wednesday podcast appearance on Hope Solo Speaks.
World Taekwondo condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “brutal attacks on innocent lives in Ukraine” on Sunday, and as a result will take back an honorary black belt given to the Russian leader in 2013, and also will no longer allow the display of Russian and Belarusian flags and the playing of their national anthems at future events.
Former New York Jets running back Zac Stacy has been arrested and sits in Orlando County jail after video allegedly showed him brutally assaulting the mother of his 5-month old baby Saturday.
Russian MMA fighter Akmal Khozhiev is charged with murder after he choked and stabbed to death a doctor during an argument over coronavirus vaccines in his home November 7, according to police.
The Loudoun County school board can not take any further action against Byron “Tanner” Cross, the Leesburg Elementary School gym teacher who was suspended in May for criticizing a newly adopted school district Policy 8040, which requires trans students to be addressed by their preferred pronouns, and gives students who believe they are the opposite sex access to school facilities, groups, and sports teams of their biological counterparts.
Pittsburgh Steelers rookie running back Najee Harris bit back at an ESPN announcer, who claimed Harris used to sleep on his dorm room floor while attending the University of Alabama after growing up homeless because “he’s just more comfortable, more used to that.”
