by Matt Zemek | Jul 30, 2015
The NBA’s first-ever game on the African continent takes place this Saturday in Johannesburg, South Africa. The exhibition between Team Africa (comprised of first- and second-generation African players) and Team World (comprised of non-African NBA notables who...
by Joe Lucia | Jul 29, 2015
Earlier tonight, news began to break about a trade between the Mets and Brewers that would send Carlos Gomez from Milwaukee to New York. Hell, we even wrote about it, and we generally don’t do that until something is official. Naturally…this trade fell...
by David Rogers | Jul 29, 2015
The 2016 Winter Classic has been officially announced. Though it’s been known for quite some time that the Boston Bruins would host the Montreal Canadiens for the 2016 Winter Classic inside Gillette Stadium, the NHL made things official during a recent press...
by Joe Lucia | Jul 29, 2015
So, it’s come to this in Miami – the Marlins went from giving the Washington Nationals no background music during batting practice on Wednesday to giving them fart sounds. Yes, fart sounds. Marlins giving Nats the silent treatment for BP, so Harper brought...
by Andrew Bucholtz | Jul 29, 2015
The history of the ESPN ombudsman is a remarkable one, with people from exceptionally different backgrounds serving in the role plus long periods where the job was held by no one. Robert Lipsyte most recently held the role, serving an 18-month term from April 2013 to...
by Andrew Bucholtz | Jul 29, 2015
The history of the ESPN ombudsman is a remarkable one, with people from exceptionally different backgrounds serving in the role plus long periods where the job was held by no one. Robert Lipsyte most recently held the role, serving an 18-month term from April 2013 to...
by Phillip Bupp | Jul 29, 2015
Some headlines just write themselves. Like art imitating life, The Mob Museum in Las Vegas is going to open permanent exhibit about FIFA and the various corrupt dealings they have been a part of. The exhibit, titled “The Beautiful Game Turns Ugly,” opens in...
by Phillip Bupp | Jul 29, 2015
Some headlines just write themselves. Like art imitating life, The Mob Museum in Las Vegas is going to open permanent exhibit about FIFA and the various corrupt dealings they have been a part of. The exhibit, titled “The Beautiful Game Turns Ugly,” opens in...
by Liam McGuire | Jul 29, 2015
The Miami Marlins are a bloody mess. The team today announced they’re trading pitcher Mat Latos, outfielder Mike Morse and a compensation pick (no.34) to the Los Angeles Dodgers for three prospects and cap relief per the Miami Herald’s Clark Spencer....
by Evan Massey | Jul 29, 2015
Robert Griffin III is one of the quarterbacks that will be playing for his job during the 2015 season. The Washington Redskins selected him with the number two overall pick in the 2012 NFL Draft, and were hoping that he could be the franchise quarterback that they had...
by Kevin Causey | Jul 29, 2015
On this weeks edition of The Student Section college football roundtable, we focus in on the Big Ten Conference. TSS Associate Editors Bart Doan and Terry Johnson join staff writer Kevin Causey and special rotating guests in our weekly roundtable discussing all things...
by Kevin Causey | Jul 29, 2015
On this weeks edition of The Student Section college football roundtable, we focus in on the Big Ten Conference. TSS Associate Editors Bart Doan and Terry Johnson join staff writer Kevin Causey and special rotating guests in our weekly roundtable discussing all things...
by Ian Casselberry | Jul 29, 2015
Rob Lowe is out, Eli Manning and Tony Romo are in. OK, DirecTV already replaced Lowe back in the spring with model Hannah Davis and a talking horse. But the spirit of the series of ads depicting the best version of a person watching television through DirecTV versus a...
by Matt Zemek | Jul 29, 2015
Let’s start this piece with two acknowledgments, in defense of the Memphis Grizzlies (pun intended): First, the Western Conference is unfair. The defending champions from Oakland, the Golden State Warriors, didn’t make any moves because they didn’t...
by Ian Casselberry | Jul 29, 2015
Television executives are always looking for new trends and so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that transgender shows are popping up all across the cable landscape. And this summer, Big Brother features its first transgender contestant, Audrey Middleton. It’s not the...
