Ilya Shapiro asks, “If luxury stadiums were hugely profitable, why would the savvy businessmen who own the teams let the politicians in on the windfall?”

The Oklahoma City Thunder is making their first trip to the Western Conference finals after ousting the Los Angeles Lakers in five games. Naturally, rioting and gunplay ensued.

It’s been 34 years since the world of Thoroughbred horse racing had a Triple Crown winner, since then 11 horses have won the first two legs of the test only to fall short at the Belmont. This year, a horse with a name that  appeals to bar patrons everywhere has a chance: The 2012 Preakness [...]

Uni-watch is holding a contest for a redesign of the uniforms for the NFL’s Washington Redskins.

Larry Bird has been named NBA Executive of the Year. Is there any basketball-related honor he hasn’t won?

An object lesson in the problems with our intellectual property laws

The man who developed more than one of the American auto industry’s most famous high-performance sports cars has passed away at the age of 89: Carroll Shelby, a Texas chicken farmer turned hot-rodder who went on to build innovative sports cars like the Cobra that challenged Europe’s longtime dominance of road racing as well as [...]

The United States Football League, which last played a game on July 14, 1985, is returning: FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — The USFL is back in business. Well, almost. A reincarnation of the league, with an entirely different business model, plans to kick off in March. On Thursday, it included Hall of Fame receiver Fred Biletnikoff [...]

Former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal now holds a Ph.D., and it’s not an honorary one: The former N.B.A. star Shaquille O’Neal received his doctoral degree in education from Barry University alongside 1,100 other students during commencement ceremonies in Miami Shores, Fla. (…) O’Neal compiled a cumulative grade point average of 3.813 while completing 54 credit [...]

College football will get a four-team playoff. What it’ll look like is anyone’s guess.

Junior Seau, who went to the Pro Bowl twelve times over a 20 year career in in which he played with the Chargers, Dolphins, and Patriots, was found dead in his home earlier today of an apparent suicide: Former longtime NFL linebacker Junior Seau committed suicide today at his Oceanside, Calif., home. San Diego Chargers [...]

Another potential scandal in New Orleans.

You’ve likely heard that Alabama’s 2011 football championship trophy was accidentally smashed last weekend by the father of one of the players. Now, as Paul Harvey would have said, for the rest of the story.

Pat Summitt’s predecessor stepped down as head coach to work on her doctorate.

This weekend, Fenway Park will celebrate it’s 100th birthday with the 2012 renewal of one of the most bitter rivalries in sports. Before the Yankees arrive in town, though, a donation to Scott Brown’s campaign is stirring up passions on both sides: U.S. Sen. Scott Brown may be rooting for the Red Sox [team stats] [...]

Pat Summitt, arguably the greatest women’s basketball coach of all time, is stepping down to deal with Alzheimer’s .

Well, it would have been interesting to see the London Olympics organizers pull this one off: Organizers of the London Olympics approached the Who’s manager to inquire about having Keith Moon play at an Olympics event despite the drummer being dead for nearly 34 years, the Sunday Times reports. “I emailed back saying Keith now [...]

If you’re going to be the manager of a sports team in Miami, one of the things you don’t do is praise Fidel Castro: The Miami Marlins announced Tuesday morning that manager Ozzie Guillen has been suspended for five games due to his positive comments about Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Guillen told Time magazine that [...]

It’s a Presidential election year, The Master’s Tournament started yesterday,  women’s issues have been playing a prominent role in the public debate, and the Augusta National Golf Club is seeing another round of controversy about its policy that excludes women from becoming members. So, it was probably inevitable that we’d see the candidates for President [...]

The student-athlete fairytale is true. Except where you would reasonable expect it to be a lie.

With the Master’s Tournament just around the corner, there’s speculation that the venerable August National Golf Club may be about to break a long-standing and controversial tradition: If the Augusta National Golf Club keeps with tradition, Ginni Rometty would be its first female member, according to a report Wednesday by Bloomberg News. Since its founding [...]

Reebok is rushing to sell Tim Tebow merchandise before its NFL rights expire. Nike is crying Foul.

With the deal to bring Peyton Manning to Denver now official, the Denver Broncos wasted no time at all in getting rid of Tim Tebow: Unusually quiet in recent weeks, the New York Jets shattered the calm Wednesday by completing a trade for polarizing quarterback Tim Tebow, the team confirmed. The Jets will send a [...]

The NFL fined the team two draft picks and suspended the head coach a full year and the GM 8 games.

Tebow on the block.

Headline:  “Nolan is 1st DFLer to take on Bachmann“ Reaction:  this video. (And please note:  I am not at all suggesting that Nolan Ryan should brawl with Michele Bachmann, it is just that the words “Nolan” and “take on” automatically takes my mind to this event (which is why it is a “headline reaction.”  This [...]

CBS Sports’ Mike Freeman takes a new look at New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton’s bestseller Home Team in light of the bounty scandal that broke yesterday.

President Obama talks sports with Bill SImmons.

The iconic “Homer at the Bat” episode of The Simpsons aired two decades ago. Deadspin (The Making Of “Homer At The Bat,” The Episode That Conquered Prime Time 20 Years Ago Tonight): On Feb. 20, 1992, more American homes tuned into The Simpsons than they did The Cosby Show or the Winter Olympics from Albertville, France. A foul-mouthed cartoon on [...]

Tony Manfred at Business Insider reports on some statistics from the NCAA on the likelihood that a college athlete will become a professional athlete: Even if your kid is good at sports in high school, gets a scholarship, and excels in college, there’s almost no way they are going to go pro. Scott Soshnick of [...]

For the third year in a row, the Super Bowl was the most-watched television program in history: NEW YORK—For the third consecutive year, the Super Bowl set a record as the most-watched television show in U.S. history. The Nielsen Co. said Monday that an estimated 111.3 million people watched the New York Giants beat the [...]

The NFL and NBC probably thought that hiring a headliner for the halftime show who was born before the Super Bowl even existed would keep the controversy to a minimum, but they were wrong: The NFL and a major television network are apologizing for another Super Bowl halftime show. There was no wardrobe malfunction, nothing [...]

As long as I can remember, George Will’s response to any question about the Super Bowl on ABC’s This Week has been some variation on pointing out that baseball season is just around the corner. Given that Will has written several books on the game, and has been a regular presence at Nationals games since [...]

The last 14 coin flips in the Super Bowl have been won by the NFC.

Time to end a 41 year tradition?

After a depressing and sad end to a storied career, Penn State’s legendary JoePa has passed away.

College football coaching salaries jumped 35 percent last year and 55 percent in the last six.

Tim Tebow has been at the center of a culture war battle, but he seems to have a more balanced view of the whole thing.

Republican candidates have reached out to Tim Tebow for an endorsement. Desperation?

There’s no perfect system for choosing a champion but we can do better than this.

The Panthers rookie is having a historic season. Were doubts that he could succeed colored by race?

Mark Richt, head football coach of the University of Georgia Bulldogs, inadvertantly broke NCAA rules by paying coaches and other employees extra money out of his own pocket.

For the first time, the NFL is making the Super Bowl available online: NEW YORK (AP) – The biggest draw in television is going mobile. The Super Bowl will be streamed online and to phones for the first time, the NFL said Tuesday. NBC’s broadcasts of wild card Saturday, the Pro Bowl and the Super [...]

Despite winning the AFC West last year, Todd Haley was fired today after the team’s 37-10 loss to the Jets dropped the Chiefs to 5-8. Haley’s fractious relationship with GM Scott Pioli was not exactly a secret, so the unsportsmanlike conduct penalty Haley caught in yesterday’s game was especially stupid. And, in the least-surprising NFL [...]

Penn State Assistant Coach Mike McQueary is, as far as we know, the only independent witness to the alleged child abuse committed by Jerry Sandusky. In the Grand Jury Testimony that led to Sandusky’s first arrest, McQueary describes seeing Sandusky naked in the showers at the PSU athletic facilities with a young boy, also naked, [...]

Former Penn State Assistant Coach Jerry Sandusky was arrested for a second time this morning at his home after two new men accused him of having abused them when they took part in the Second Mile program: The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office has filed new charges against Jerry Sandusky, 67, as part of an investigation [...]

The final BCS rankings won’t be out for a few hours yet, but Alabama is still number two in the sportswriters’ and coaches’ polls: AP Poll; Coaches’ poll. I’m biased, but I hope Alabama keeps the number two spot and beats LSU in the championship.

Reacting to Monday’s news that The Ohio State University had hired former Florida Gators coach Urban Meyer to be the new Buckeye’s Head Coach and given him a 6-year contract worth $26,000,000 not including benefits and bonuses, Bill Press is rather obviously upset: I’m sorry, but no football coach, no matter how successful, is worth [...]

The NBA strike/lockout is apparently on the verge of being over: NBA owners and players reached a tentative agreement early Saturday to end the 149-day lockout and hope to begin the delayed season on Christmas Day. Neither side provided many specifics but said the only words players and fans wanted to hear. “We want to [...]

Greg Halman, an outfielder for the Seattle Mariners baseball team, was stabbed to death in his native Holland. His brother is the chief suspect.