by Matt Yoder | Sep 14, 2014
The greatest challenge of Gus Johnson’s career is over. Just a little over a year into Fox’s grand experiment to transform Johnson into the nation’s voice of soccer, it has come to an abrupt end. As revealed by Richard Deitsch at Sports Illustrated,...
by Sean Tomlinson | Sep 14, 2014
Roger Goodell is essentially the CEO of the NFL. And when someone in that position approaches a serious issue like domestic abuse with blatant negligence, the result is confusion at first, and then anger. A whole lot of anger. And at three stadiums today it will be...
by Sean Tomlinson | Sep 14, 2014
Roger Goodell is essentially the CEO of the NFL. And when someone in that position approaches a serious issue like domestic abuse with blatant negligence, the result is confusion at first, and then anger. A whole lot of anger. And at three stadiums today it will be...
by Zach Reynolds | Sep 14, 2014
Which 12 players would be chosen if the World Cup were an U-23 event? In 2012, former NBA Commissioner David Stern made headlines when he proposed Olympic basketball shift to an U-23 model. In a situation similar to soccer, many of the NBA’s top stars would have been...
by Zach Reynolds | Sep 14, 2014
Which 12 players would be chosen if the World Cup were an U-23 event? In 2012, former NBA Commissioner David Stern made headlines when he proposed Olympic basketball shift to an U-23 model. In a situation similar to soccer, many of the NBA’s top stars would have been...
by Ken Fang | Sep 14, 2014
Throughout its 35 years of existence, ESPN has been looking for ways to remain relevant with sports fans. Whether it’s streaming online or producing its own products (remember the ESPN phone?), the Alleged Worldwide Leader keeps looking ahead and not behind....
by Matt Zemek | Sep 14, 2014
You’ve probably never heard this idea before, but college football is pretty darn complicated. Saturday’s supposedly dead slate of nothingburger games produced a lot of entertainment, especially in the night window, with USC getting knocked off by Boston...
by Bart Doan | Sep 14, 2014
It’d seem since the ball wasn’t snapped and the play clock was at 0, Florida should be assessed a delay of game penalty, right? It was fourth down, and that didn’t happen. Mark Stoops was angry. Florida converted for a touchdown in overtime....
by Tim Starks | Sep 13, 2014
Floyd Mayweather did one of the things Saturday night that makes him the best in the world, which is to figure out what his opponent does well and neutralize it. It was enough to win by a wider margin this time against his fiercest recent foe, Marcos Maidana, than...
by Matt Zemek | Sep 13, 2014
Todd Gurley recalled Marcus Allen from Super Bowl XVIII in 1984. Gurley’s third-and-16 run in the third quarter of Saturday’s Georgia-South Carolina game might not have been as historically resonant as O.J. Simpson of USC in 1967, cutting back against the...
by Kevin Causey | Sep 13, 2014
After the finish to the Georgia/South Carolina game, I thought I had seen just about everything in college football. Not so fast my friend….. UCLA won the coin flip to start the game and they chose to defer to the second half, which gave them the right to choose...
by Kevin Causey | Sep 13, 2014
After the finish to the Georgia/South Carolina game, I thought I had seen just about everything in college football. Not so fast my friend….. UCLA won the coin flip to start the game and they chose to defer to the second half, which gave them the right to choose...
by Phillip Bupp | Sep 13, 2014
In a report from The Sunday Times in England, an investigation conducted by them discovered that three members of the FIFA Executive Committee including US Soccer President Sunil Gulati, Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein of Jordan and Moya Dodd of Australia refused $25,000...
by Phillip Bupp | Sep 13, 2014
In a report from The Sunday Times in England, an investigation conducted by them discovered that three members of the FIFA Executive Committee including US Soccer President Sunil Gulati, Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein of Jordan and Moya Dodd of Australia refused $25,000...
by Joe Lucia | Sep 13, 2014
Pete Rose is starring in a new Sketchers commercial, with plenty of tongue in cheek references about “the hall”. From the moment the commercial begins, you know exactly what’s going on, but that doesn’t make it any less effective....
