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No sooner did players start coming back to team facilities, than the 8th Circuit granted the league’s request and issue as temporary stay of the injunction ending the lockout. “The purpose of this administrative stay is to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the merits of the motion for a stay pending appeal,” the [...]
President Obama sees the golf course as the only place to escape the pressures of the job.
Via Jonathan Turley, a name from the past and a ten year old kid with a heart: Perry won’t say what happened to his Super Bowl XX ring, whether he misplaced it, if it was stolen or if he sold it to pay medical bills. But he was recently contacted by the family of a [...]
With the Draft only 27 days away, multiple lawsuits pending, and the lockout only in force for a few weeks, the NFL announced that an agreement on a new CBA had been reached with players.
President Obama shouldn’t be criticized for picking his NCAA tourney brackets during wartime. But he shouldn’t get much credit, either.
The federal government has spent seven years and some six million dollars pursuing Barry Bonds. Why?
If you believe Minnesota Vikings’ Running Back Adrian Peterson, the NFL is a modern-day plantation and he’s a slave.
Players from the Los Angeles Clippers chipped in to pay for the surgery of assistant coach Kim Hughes back in 2004. It’s been a secret until now.
President Obama is once again catching flak for his leisure activities.
Iran doesn’t like the logo for the London Olympics and is threatening to boycott if it isn’t changed.
Players have taken control of the NBA from the owners. That’s bad for fans. But probably a good thing.
The Wall Street Journal is joining the modern era and dropping the practice of referring to people as “Mr.” and “Ms.” But only on the sports pages.
Democratic Congresswoman Betty McCollum has received death threats after questioning the wisdom of the U.S. Army sponsoring a NASCAR Sprint Cup team to the tune of $7 million a year.
The Toomer’s Corner trees were poisoned by a rabid Alabama fan.
Sports Illustrated is trying to force subscribers to pay for a bundle of web and print services. Bad idea.
Larry Granillo of Baseball Prospectus decided to see if he could figure out if the Wrigley Field scenes in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off took place at an actual Cubs game: The scene finally shifts to Wrigley Field, where Ferris and company are sitting near the leftfield foul pole. Off in the distance, we can see [...]
Another year, another record: Interestingly, each of the last four Super Bowl’s ranks in the top five, and there’s now only one non-sports program in the top five. However, the M*A*S*H finale still remains at the top of the list in terms of percentage of households who were tuned in.
Politico has the menu for President Obama’s Super Bowl party: Here, according to the White House, is the menu for Sunday’s party: “Bratwurst, Kielbasa, Cheeseburgers, Deep Dish Pizza, Buffalo Wings, German Potato Salad, Twice Baked Potatoes, Snyders Potato Chips and Pretzels, Chips and Dips, Salad, Ice Cream. Beverages including the following beers: Hinterland Pale Ale [...]
The Holy Grail of sports film has apparently been found: Football fans know what happened in Super Bowl I. The game, which was played on January 15, 1967, was the first showdown between the NFL and AFL champions. It ended with the Green Bay Packers stomping the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10. Unless they were one [...]
The Pittsburg Steelers and the Green Bay Packers are the 2nd and 5th most popular teams in the NFL. The Dallas Cowboys are number one and the St. Louis Rams bring up the rear at 32.
Mike Tanier of Football Outsiders explain why Aaron Rodgers’ ranking as the best quarterback in NFL history is absurd.
Apparently the Bears loss to Green Bay on Sunday is a sore subject in Chicago: With Chicago reeling from Sunday’s painful playoff loss, Monday morning probably wasn’t the best time for car salesman John Stone to share his love for the Green Bay Packers with co-workers and customers. But Stone, 34, proudly showed up for [...]
NYT public editor Arthur Brisbane explains how it came to pass that his paper reported as fact the erroneous news that Gabrielle Giffords had been killed.
While I support a college playoff, there’s an argument to be made for the integrity of the regular season.
So reports ESPN: Andrew Luck staying at Stanford "I am committed to earning my degree in architectural design from Stanford University and am on track to accomplish this at the completion of the spring quarter of 2012," Luck said in a statement. If that is what he wants to do, it is certainly his right [...]
Rush Limbaugh argues we’re seeing “the Chickificiation of America” because of a delayed ballgame: All I could think about was the Donner Party. You know the story of the Donner Party. A bunch of pioneers heading out to California got trapped in a blizzard in the Sierra Nevada mountain range out there near Lake Tahoe [...]
Sitting in for Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson asserted, regarding Michael Vick and his animal cruelty (including the killing of dogs): “I think, personally, he should have been executed for that.” Look, Michael Vick did some pretty heinous things. However, he served his time and appears to have made amends. Beyond that, are we really going [...]
President Obama was correct to commend the Eagles for giving Michael Vick a chance to redeem himself.
The National Football League’s decision to postpone last night’s Eagles-Vikings game due to weather is receiving a lot of criticism, but they made the right choice.
Two Ohio congressional districts are taking their talents to South Beach.
Geno Auriemma and his UConn Huskies should rightly be enormously proud of their accomplishments. But comparing them to John Wooden’s is embarrassing.
After the Dallas-Washington game, FOX showed bonus coverage of the exciting Philadelphia-New York Giants game. But, they warned us, “due to NFL rules,” they’d have to abruptly cut away at the quarter hour. The quarter hour struck, naturally, at a critical juncture in a 31-31 game. Curt Menefee comes back and says, deadpan, “We’d loved [...]
I read the AP headline and story (Minn. Metrodome roof collapses in Midwest blizzard), but didn’t really didn’t get the full impact of it until I saw the video. See it here: NFL on FOX: Metrodome collapse. UPDATE (James Joyner): As if I needed another sign that I was getting old, my initial reaction to [...]
Via the DMN: Legendary Cowboys, SMU quarterback Don Meredith dies. Don Meredith, the Dallas Cowboys and SMU quarterback and Monday Night Football icon, died Sunday evening in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 72. Meredith died at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, a hospital spokesman confirmed this morning. The Meredith family’s attorney, Lisa Fine Moses, [...]
While the University of Oregon’s athletic programs are flourishing in a seas of green, its academic programs are woefully underfunded.
The NFL’s “especially mercenary” push to extract new stadia from cities–even where the stadium’s practically brand-new.
Too many copyright owners are stupidly invoking their rights to keep short clips off of YouTube and other services, losing potential customers in the process.
As widely rumored, Fredi Gonzalez has been hired to manage the Atlanta Braves, following the retirement of the beloved Bobby Cox.
New Cleveland Cavaliers coach Byron Scott wore a swastika tie to media day. Given that there are good reasons to doubt Scott has Nazi sympathies or is a covert member of the Aryan Brotherhood, we’ll chalk this up to an honest mistake.
Dwayne Jarrett’s career with the Carolina Panthers: 1 touchdown, 2 DUIs.
Boston University and Northeastern have found that there is life after football. Shouldn’t most schools follow their lead?
