The recent mass layoffs at ESPN has re-ignited a contentious debate on just how much politics has led to the downfall of the formerly “Worldwide Leader in Sports.” What’s not debatable, however, is ESPN’s continued left-ward lurch.
Despite the recent move of the Raiders from California to gambling mecca Las Vegas, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has reaffirmed the league’s stance against gambling.
LGBTQ groups are signaling to Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner John Swofford not to get too excited about new legislation designed to upend North Carolina’s HB2 law which mandates that people use the bathroom according to their biological sex in public schools and government buildings.
National Basketball Association Commissioner Adam Silver has put North Carolina on notice that the league is not quite done extorting the state over its bathroom law.
National Basketball Association Commissioner Adam Silver doubled down on the league’s activist support of transgender rights last week saying that the NBA will continue to look for ways to punish states that adopt a transgender bathroom bill.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver calls it a “missed opportunity” if the league refuses to send members to celebrate the NBA Championship to the White House under President Donald Trump.
Speaking on the conduct he expects from his players during the national anthem presentation, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said he hopes to see his players on their feet.
The NBA has decided upon New Orleans as the site of its 2017 All-Star Game after pulling the annual exhibition from Charlotte.
The Republican governor of North Carolina says he struck a deal with the NBA to keep the 2017 All-Star Game in Charlotte but blames members of his own party in the legislature and a Democrat running for his office for killing the agreement.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver citing the league’s “business judgment,” rather than a high-minded civic purpose, as the reason he pulled the All-Star Game from Charlotte provoked a rebuke Thursday from 17 House members.
The NBA launched a marketing campaign for 30 shirts bearing rainbow-colored team logos to benefit a controversial homosexual-advocacy group.
The commissioner of the NBA says that parity will never exist in his league the way it does in the NFL, and that’s a good thing.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver put his foot down on Thursday, asserting that for the 2017 All-Star Game be held in Charlotte, it is “necessary” that North Carolina change its law mandating people use only public restrooms corresponding to their biological sex in government buildings.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver addressed rumors that the NBA could move its 2017 All-Star game out Charlotte, NC to protest the controversial North Carolina bill that requires public school and university students to use public bathrooms according to their biological sex.
Six U.S. senators call on NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to move the All-Star Game from Charlotte because of a law forbidding individuals from using the multiple-person bathrooms of the opposite sex at government facilities.
The NBA just did it.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver appears reluctant to radically revamp the NBA playoff system, but gave signs on Thursday that he may be up for modifying it to some extent.
David Letterman hosted NBA commissioner Adam Silver on CBS’s Monday night broadcast of “The Late Show with David Letterman” and asked him where the league stands on players protesting things by either turning their pregame warm-ups inside out in protest
Arizona Senator John McCain says we need a debate about sports gambling.
“The NBA owners know it’s a lot more than the TV contract that brought the values up,” an NBA team source tells Breitbart Sports, “It’s the sports betting.”
Following the Tim Donaghy scandal David Stern worked passionately to restore the integrity of the NBA by assuring fans that gambling by a referee on games he officiated was simply an isolated incident. But less than a decade later, Stern, his successor, and league owners look to collect.
A few years removed from allegations of a referee fixing games, the NBA has taken an if-you-can’t-beat-em-join-em approach to sports gambling. The results may ultimately prove more profitable than the league’s lucrative television contract.