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“In the end, truly, Tony Gwynn’s greatest achievement was not that he was so admired or emulated, but that he was so loved,” wrote Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times. San Diego and Padres icon Tony Gwynn, affectionately known

ESPN reports that Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s estranged wife, Shelly Sterling, is scheduled to appear Thursday in court to argue that her husband and his attorneys have threatened, intimidated, and harassed witnesses scheduled to testify in the July

Group play hasn’t even ended, but the World Cup has already shattered online-video streaming records.  According to Variety, the World Cup has “already broken the record for peak amount of online-video streaming bandwidth as delivered by Akamai Technologies, and also

The United States men’s soccer team’s thrilling World Cup victory over Ghana in their World Cup opener on Monday evening drew the highest-ever rating for a World Cup game on ESPN.  The match “averaged a 7.0 overnight rating” and, according to

The Sports gods delivered the World Cup, a US Open, a new keeper of the Stanley Cup, and an old, familiar champion in the NBA this weekend. Popovich Rules the World The San Antonio Spurs lack a representative in the

The prophecy tattoo didn’t come true for Eric Hartburg and Mitt Romney. It nearly worked for Tyler Austin Black and the University of Kentucky basketball team. For Tim Connors and the Seattle Seahawks, a preseason prediction of a Super Bowl

An anonymous Associated Press source has revealed that Donald Sterling’s lawyers have given a six-figure budget to private investigators to dig up “dirt” on NBA commissioner Adam Silver, former commissioner David Stern, and the other 29 NBA owners. According to

Did FIFA ask the United States to get ready to host the 2022 World Cup if Qatar is stripped of it? As soon as Jorge Ramos of ESPN Deportes reported on Thursday that FIFA had asked the United States delegation

Hours before the start of the World Cup, police and protestors clash in Sao Paulo. The conflict injured at least five people. According to The Associated Press, 100 people gathered in the city. Though smaller than what most expected, the

USA coach Jurgen Klinsmann said to not expect the United States to win the World Cup in Brazil. “You have to be realistic. Every year we are getting stronger,” Klinsmann told reporters in Brazil. “We don’t look at ourselves as

Brazil still might encounter a subway worker strike in Sao Paulo during the World Cup. The workers suspended the strike on Monday, but threatened to start again by Thursday–the first day of the tournament–if 42 fired workers are not rehired.

World Cup 2014 in Brazil has its very own psychic animal! A 25-year-old loggerhead turtle named Cabeção, or Big Head, picked Brazil to beat Croatia in the opening game on Thursday. From The Associated Press: At the Praia do Forte

“Et tu, Brute,” former Georgetown coach John Thompson said of Big East rivals who fled the conference on ESPN’s “A Requiem for the Big East.” “It’s just that simple.” He didn’t mention Syracuse. He didn’t have to. The rivalry between

Brazil has called up 170,000 security forces to handle crazy World Cup soccer fans, but also because of protest threats by those unhappy that Brazil spent billions on the tournament and not the citizens. President Dilma Rousseff told the army

On the first day of trial in a case that could reshape college athletics, former UCLA Bruins superstar Ed O’Bannon reportedly said high school athletes and Little Leaguers should also be paid if their games are televised. O’Bannon is a

The World Cup kicks off on Thursday, June 12 in soccer-crazy Brazil. But due to unfinished projects, promised money not paid, corruption, and poor public transportation, the country is not very excited. Brazil learned the hard way it is not

Before Rashad McCants dated Khloe Kardashian (pictured) at the end of his 4-year NBA career, he was in the top 2% of all college basketball players while at UNC. He managed to win an NCAA title and–according to him–get several

Manu Ginobli and Tony Parker may have grabbed the spotlight last night in San Antonio. But entering the NBA Finals, the top three performers in the playoffs have been: 1. LeBron James, 2. Tim Duncan, and 3. Dwyane Wade. The

Since 1971, the NFL has been using classy Roman Numerals on its Super Bowl logos. But the league is just going with “Super Bowl 50” instead of Super Bowl L, the Roman Numeral for 50, for the 2015 season’s final

Johnny Manziel brings the fans. Unfortunately, on Wednesday, he brought the rain, too. The Cleveland Indians invited Manziel to throw out the first pitch for Wednesday night’s game. The city’s fans gobbled up tickets as though it were 1999. The

Major League Baseball suspended Red Sox pitcher Brandon Workman on Tuesday for six games for throwing a pitch close to Evan Longoria’s head on Friday. They meted out no punishment to Tampa Bay Rays pitcher David Price, who beaned David

College football legend and NFL outcast Tim Tebow is about to launch his debut as an analyst for ESPN’s new SEC Network in August. Yet, the former Heisman Trophy winner would rather be launching spirals for an NFL franchise and

Floyd Mayweather, prize fighting’s king of prizes, has dumped Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions. The move comes in the immediate aftermath of chief executive officer Richard Schaefer’s resignation from the company. “After more than 10 years with Golden

It would take an unlikely Finals sweep to argue that the Miami Heat’s current run was better than Shaquille O’Neal’s 2000-2002 LA Lakers, Larry Bird’s 1984-87 Celtics, George Mikan’s 1952-54 Minneapolis Lakers, or the smash mouth 1988-90 Pistons as the

A week before the Brooklyn Nets signed openly-gay center Jason Collins in February of this year, then-Golden State Warriors coach Mark Jackson reportedly said that Collins was not welcome in his locker room.  That may have been a reason why

A week before the Brooklyn Nets signed openly-gay center Jason Collins in February of this year, then-Golden State Warriors coach Mark Jackson reportedly said that Collins was not welcome in his locker room.  That may have been a reason why

Donald Sterling bought the San Diego Clippers for $12.5 million. But, according to a report by ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne, he had very little to do with selling the Los Angeles Clippers for $2 billion to former Microsoft executive Steve Ballmer. 

In another example of Manny Being Manny, former Boston Red Sox Star Manny Ramirez finally apologized in person for a 2008 incident in which he threw a much older Jack McCormick to the ground in a dispute over game tickets.

On Tuesday, Donald Sterling’s lawyer said Sterling would “fight to the bloody end” against the NBA’s attempts to force him to sell his team. He also said that Sterling “disavowed” anything his wife, Shelly Sterling, is doing to sell the

Miami Dolphins center Mike Pouncey, implicated in the Miami Dolphins bullying scandal by the Wells Report, revealed he hasn’t undergone psychological testing as ordered by the NFL as a precondition to playing this season. Roger Goodell announced the requirement in

In a rematch of the 2010 lacrosse finals, #1 seed Duke looks to capture its second straight NCAA Division 1 Lacrosse title, and their third since 2010, as they square up against the streaking #6 seed Notre Dame Fighting Irish

Duke faces a tough challenge in their quest for back-to-back lacrosse championships. The Blue Devils square off against a scrappy Denver team in a final four match up on Saturday. One of those teams will face the winner of the

A racehorse died at Kentucky’s Churchill Downs racetrack, killed by a freak accident after being startled, the owner says, by the track’s new sound system. Trainer Kenneth Wirth reported that Never Tell Lynda, a five-year-old mare, was near the paddock

Checkmate.  Disgraced Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has agreed to sell his team, according to numerous reports. Should the NBA force a sale of the team, Sterling would enable his wife to negotiate a sale. The team could fetch

On Wednesday, Mark Cuban said he would cross the street if he saw a “black kid in a hoodie at night on the same side of the street” or a “white guy with a shaved head and lots of tattoos”

Mark Cuban has already decided whether he will vote to oust NBA owner Donald Sterling from the league–and he fears he may have to be a “hypocrite” to cast it. According to the Sporting News, Cuban did not reveal how he