Nike Has Way Bigger Problems Than Lance Armstrong's Doping Scandal (NKE)
Nike ended its contract with Lance Armstrong after overwhelming evidence that he doped through his Tour de France wins. After the announcement, Wall Street analysts buzzed that this was good news for...
View ArticleOh No! Another One Of Larry Ellison's $8 Million America's Cup Yachts Is Wrecked
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, whose team won the America's Cup sailing competition in 2010, has had a string of bad luck in the sailing competition. Yesterday, another one of his $8 million catamarans...
View ArticleRadioShack, Trek, Anheuser-Busch, And Other Sponsors Dump Lance Armstrong
Several more companies have followed Nike in cutting Lance Armstrong loose in the wake of the release of the USADA's doping evidence against him, reports Reed Albergotti, Vanessa O'Connell, and...
View ArticleThis Blocked Shot-Dunk Combo Might Be The Most Amazing 20 Seconds Of...
It's only the preseason, but Utah Jazz forward Jeremy Evans has already turned in one of the best plays of the year. Last night against the Clippers, Evans blocked Ronny Turiaf's shot, dribbled down...
View ArticleSPORTS CHART OF THE DAY: The Wild Card Hurts Baseball's Best Teams
With the Washington Nationals eliminated from the playoffs, it is now just three times in 18 years (16.7%) in which the best regular season team won the World Series. In the 18 prior years, 33.3% (6)...
View ArticleThere's An Interesting Reason Why NFL Kickers Squeeze The Ball So Hard Before...
In one of the strangest football rituals, NFL kickers always seem to be squeezing, denting, and otherwise mangling footballs before kick off. Someone asked about this phenomenon on Reddit this morning,...
View ArticleEvery Team In The NFL Is Bad This Year
Here's the great contradiction about parity in the NFL: it's simultaneously making the league more exciting and more boring. On a game-by-game level, the new order of the NFL — where nearly all 32...
View ArticleDeron Williams Is Tweeting Hilarious Pictures Of His Teammates' Celebrity...
The Nets were accused of being a team with zero chemistry and personality last year. And it looks like Deron Williams is trying to change that. The past couple of days, Williams has been tweeting out...
View ArticleNBA Insiders Think The Lakers Are Going To Try To Get Lebron James In 2014
Opposing NBA executives think the Los Angeles Lakers are setting things up to make a run at LeBron James in the summer of 2014, ESPN's Brian Windhorst reports. Before we go on, realize that this is...
View ArticleKevin Love Broke His Hand Doing Knuckle Push-Ups, Will Miss Up To Two Months
The Minnesota Timberwolves took a massive hit when Kevin Love broke his hand in a non-practice injury yesterday. Today, the detail of how Love got hurt added insult to the injury. It turns out Love...
View Article12 Fantasy Football Tips For Week 7
The NFL's Week 7 begins tonight and it will likely present the season's most daunting challenge for fantasy owners. Six teams will be off this week:Â Atlanta Falcons, Denver Broncos, Kansas City...
View ArticleAustralian Model Says A-Rod Wasn't The Only Yankee Flirting With Her During...
The two girls that A-Rod was reportedly flirting with at Saturday's Yankees game spoke with Inside Edition and revealed A-Rod wasn't the only one trying to talk to them. Kyna Treacy and Kate Quinn told...
View ArticleHere's A Simple Example Of How Kobe Bryant And Dwight Howard Are The Exact...
Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard sit at opposite ends of the pro athlete personality spectrum. Kobe is the hyper-competitor, Dwight is the ultimate jokester. A very simple illustration: Last month, Howard...
View ArticleJerry Sandusky Asks Court To Overturn Child Sex Abuse Convictions
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky asked a judge on Thursday to overturn his child sexual abuse convictions and grant him a new trial, claiming his lawyers...
View ArticleThis Horse Is Worth More Than $160 Million
As Frankel faces his final race, Brian Viner talks to his trainer, Sir Henry Cecil, and others who know the world's greatest racehorse best. Frankel. It is not a name that rolls off the tongue, like...
View ArticleTwo Plays From Last Night's Oregon Game Show You What Football Will Look Like...
The New England Patriots are spearheading a philosophical shift in NFL offenses by using elements of the fast-paced no-huddle popularized by Oregon and coach Chip Kelley in the last few years. They're...
View ArticleHere's The Legalese-Spouting Holdout Sponsor Who Hasn't Fired Lance Armstrong...
Led by Nike, all of Lance Armstrong's sponsors have severed their contracts with him since "insurmountable evidence" emerged that Amstrong had been lying all along about the banned substances he took...
View ArticleThe 49ers Coach Declined To Take Two Free Points And Threw The Gambling World...
49ers coach Jim Harbaugh is the scourge (for some) of the gambling world today after a curious decision at the end of his team's 13-6 win over the Seahawks. The point spread going into the game was...
View ArticleVikings Quarterback Christian Ponder Is Dating ESPN Reporter Samantha Steele
Power couple alert! Minnesota Vikings quarterback Christian Ponder confirmed on Twitter yesterday that he and ESPN sideline reporter Samantha Steele are dating: Samantha Steele took Erin Andrews' spot...
View ArticleEverything You Need To Know About ESPN's New Star Reporter Samantha Steele
News broke today that ESPN reporter Samantha Steele is dating Minnesota Vikings quarterback Christian Ponder. Two fairly new kids on the block are making headlines on sports blogs across the web. We...
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