One aspect of Brooklyn's Barclays Center that hasn't gotten much media attention until now is, well, the way it smells. How does it smell?
A familiar set of questions is being asked after a 72-foot catamaran belonging to Artemis Racing capsized in the San Francisco Bay, trapping a British sailor underwater for ten minutes on Thursday afternoon.
In the immediate and very strange aftermath, Boston is coping with tragedy, and America with it, however it can. But, eventually, blessedly, not soon enough, that happiest distraction of all will return: the light touch and emotional balance of sports. Because sports are important. We are waiting for the games to begin again.
Police are investigating a severed goat head that was delivered to Tom Ricketts, owner of the Chicago Cubs, at the iconic Wrigley Field. That's weird right? Not in Chicago. Apparently this has happened before — several times.
The short answer, after he left an Indiana hospital Tuesday to join the Cardinals in Atlanta this weekend, is yes — but not for a while, and the fallout could have been worse for another player.
Apparently bored with conquering the entertainment world, Jay-Z has decided he wants to become a sports agent. Well, he's already got the first lesson down — how to poach clients from bigger agents.
The weird and wonderful world of lucha libre will soon cross the border into the United States, where Americans will almost definitely be fascinated and confused by the high-flying, masked Mexican wrestlers.
Robbie Rogers, who played for the national team in the 2008 Olympics and Major League Soccer's Columbus Crew, revealed that he's gay. He also revealed he no longer intends to play soccer.
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ESPN is piling on an earlier story about Alex Rodriguez and performance enhancing drugs by reporting that the man who allegedly sold A-Rod the products, personally injected them into the slugger.
Concerns over the dangerous feats demanded from X-Games athletes appear justified now that 25-year-old professional snowmobiler Caleb Moore has died following his accident at this year's competition in Aspen, Colorado.
Two new exposés compound the lingering reality that no Hall of Fame snubs or Lance Armgstrong-style admissions may ever stop the larger modern problem in professional or amateur sports.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Headlines blared over the weekend that golfer Phil Mickelson was considering giving up the sport that made him rich, because he feels besieged by higher tax rates. Don't worry: He's not quitting and he never really suggested he would.
Call it the Civil War of football or, as cheesy headline writers prefer, the HarBowl. Either way, the upcoming Super Bowl will be a dramatic one since the two teams are coached by two brothers.
Well, that happened. Lance Armstrong sat down with Oprah Winfrey and admitted mostly everything, as one does when speaking with Oprah. But what does the great Court of Public Opinion (Twitter) have to say about all this?
Oprah Winfrey confirmed this morning that Armstrong has finally fessed up to what everyone already knew, but after a lifetime of angry, vindictive denials of performance enhancing drug use, he's only opened the door to more legal troubles.
Nate Silver has made a life for himself by predicting things. He is not bad at it, either. He is right more often than he is wrong, except when it comes to football.
How are your clothes for meditation? Do you look hot in them? If not, uh oh. You're in trouble. One must dress for success, not just in the office, but in the gym, and in the yoga studio, and wherever you choose to meditate, for that matter.
A post-mortem analysis of Junior Seau's brain tissue has diagnosed the former NFL linebacker with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, a degenerative brain diseased linked to football and head injuries.
The Baseball Writers of America elected no one to the Hall of Fame for the first time since 1996 in what's being largely seen as a rebuke of the "steroid boom" that consumed Major League Baseball and many of its record-holders in the late '90s.
If Robert Griffin III's knee was the first casualty of the Redskins offseason, consider this the second.
The Twitterverse woke up Tuesday morning to NFL player Darnell Dockett virtually trying to woo Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron's girlfriend with the tempting prospect of ... fried chicken wings and a visit to a Miami strip club.
Despite a looming mountain of legal obstacles, Lance Armstrong is considering admitting he doped during his professional cycling career in an effort to restart his career as a triathlete, according to a New York Times report.
The team hasn't used their "Screaming Indian" logo in any capacity since 1989. Today, some 23 years later, they're bringing the offensive Native American imagery back — not that anyone in particular was asking for it.
A new coach can allow the Nets to reach the moderately lofty heights they seemed destined to reach back in the heady days of last month.
So, amazingly, this afternoon the UFC crowned its first women's champion and signed its first openly gay fighter.
Marvin Miller, the man who turned baseball players from lowly seasonal employees into the highest-paid players in all of sports, has passed away after a year-long fight against cancer.
You might only be vaguely aware of it, especially on this weekend full of football, but the NHL is still locked out and there is no sign of an end. We're thankful for this, and we'll tell you why.
Every year the Detroit Lions play the first game of Thanksgiving Day while the rest of America sits at home and eats their delicious turkey dinners and every year for the last nine the city has been left heartbroken by the cold reality of defeat.
The Los Angeles Galaxy just announced that Sunday's MLS Cup will be David Beckham's last game with the club, despite the fact that he has one year left on his contract.
The college sports landscape is witnessing another big upheaval today as Maryland will leave the ACC to join the Big Ten, and is expected to quickly be joined there by Rutgers.
The San Francisco Giants completed a four-game sweep of the Detroit Tigers last night, winning their second World Series in three years and giving troublemakers a perfect excuse to burn down their city.
After 55 years without a professional sports franchise, the borough of Brooklyn just landed two in one month, as the NHL's New York Islanders have decided to move into the brand new Barclays Center, the current home of the former New Jersey Nets.
The International Cycling Union has upheld the lifetime ban given to Lance Armstrong by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency and has agreed to strip Armstrong of his seven Tour de France championships.
Lance Armstrong's week has included new details of a potential doping ring, losing major sponsors like Nike, and even some smaller ones like Anheuser-Busch and Trek bicycles. Add a renewed interest in old race fixing accusations to that list.
After being dumped by Nike yesterday, most of Lance Armstrong remaining sponsors started piling on in the mass effort to distance themselves from his doping scandal.
The walls continue to close in on Lance Armstrong as his biggest sponsor has ended their contract with him and he's stepping down as the head of the charitable foundation that bears his name.
Sports talking heads Dan Steinberg of the Washington Post, ESPN anchor Bram Weinstein, and ESPN commentator Michael Wilbon get in a spat about whether Washington, D.C., is a "terrible" sports town.
The reason you couldn't watch much of the Paralympics live on NBC's many channels is that you didn't really want to.
The NFL and the NFL Referee's Association have come to an agreement on a new, long-term collective bargaining agreement that will even put the real refs back on the field for Thursday night's Baltimore-Cleveland game.
ESPN's Chris Mortensen is reporting that the NFL and its referee union are so close to a new contract that they could be back to work this weekend.
Earlier today golf legend and Ohio native Jack Nicklaus introduced Mitt Romney at a campaign stop in Westerville. Romney returned the favor by calling Nicklaus "the greatest athlete of the twentieth century," a claim that caused a few sports fans to clutch themselves in astonishment.
One consequence of last night's officiating tragedy that was not lost on football fans was that the refs did not just take victory away from one team and give it to another, they also flip-flopped wins and losses for millions of NFL gamblers.
Football fans are beside themselves after a crew of replacement officials — subbing for referees who are locked out by the NFL — took away a victory from the Green Bay Packers with a controversial call on the last play of the game.
Statistics show that the NFL's beleaguered replacement referees may be guilty of home cooking, are definitely guilty of calling more defensive pass interference calls, and have made this season's games longer--and yes, your bookie has adjusted accordingly.
In one of the more disturbing reads this morning, The New York Daily News has an exclusive with a Pennsylvania man who alleges that Sandusky was a member of a tri-state child-prostitution ring involving a football coach at a top-tier Brooklyn private school.
The yoga business can be as cutthroat as any other, and the battle de jour this time is over pants. Specifically, Lululemon is accusing Calvin Klein of having ripped off a signature waistband.
During this U.S. Open, we found out that The United States Tennis Association cut the funding to America's brightest junior tennis star not because she was bad, or that she was losing, but because they thought she was overweight. And now this mistake has caught the eye of one of America's current tennis stars: Serena Williams.
The Paralympics. Those got underway last Wednesday and last until this Sunday (Jay Z is joining Coldplay and Rihanna at the closing ceremony on Sunday), but here in the U.S. few have been paying much attention. Since you might not have seen them, here are some great moments you've probably missed.
In an essay for Outside, Mike Anderson, Lance Armstrong's personal assistant from 2002-2004, tells us just how hard it is to go up against the man, but mostly the myth, of Lance Armstrong.
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