Usain Bolt once took on actor Mickey Rourke in an early-morning race, the Olympic gold medalist said. Bolt told the story to TIME recently when asked about people who challenge him to a race. “Mickey Rourke was of the biggest ones,” Bolt told TIME. “One night in London, I saw him and he was like: […]
Mac Jones, a third-string quarterback for the University of Alabama, was arrested Friday morning and charged with DUI after allegedly driving under the influence. The 19-year-old Alabama football player was arrested after performing a field sobriety test following a minor car crash, ESPN reported. Jones was also charged with improper identification of a minor for […]
In the decades since the event was first held, Paralympic Games has grown dramatically from its origins as an archery competition among 16 wheelchair-bound British World War II veterans. That first contest took place on July 29, 1948, at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital, about an hour east of Oxford. The event was the brainchild Sir […]
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is taking heat for the second time in recent weeks after images surfaced of him during practice wearing socks that featured cartoon pigs in police hats. He first made headlines when he refused to stand during the national anthem before a game on Friday in protest of the treatment […]
The live tiger mascot for Louisiana State University has died after suffering from cancer for four months. Mike VI was 11 years old and was euthanized after veterinarians found his spindle cell sarcoma had spread and he could only live for one or two more months, the school announced Tuesday. The tiger had lived in […]
The New England Patriots won Super Bowl LI on Sunday night, besting the Atlanta Falcons in the first overtime game in the tournament’s 51-year history. The score was 34-28. At halftime, it looked like the Falcons’ game. Atlanta had scored three touchdowns to bring the score to 21-3, but the Patriots pulled ahead in the […]
The “buts.” Gonzaga University, a small Jesuit school out in Spokane, Wash., that will play for the NCAA men’s basketball championship on Monday night against North Carolina, can’t stop hearing the “buts.” Gonzaga’s a good basketball team, but … the Bulldogs play in the West Coast Conference, a league that toils outside the football-driven “Power […]
Mindy Reed has been in love with the NFL for more than 50 years. As a kid in Connecticut, she wore a Bart Starr jersey and bonded over the game with her dad. Fandom helped Reed break into the old-boys’ club as she climbed the corporate ladder at Dell and connect with football-mad Texans when […]
And so it has finally come to pass. The baseball team epitomized by climbing vines—pruned every autumn, regrowing every spring—has survived October for the first time in 108 years, turning a natural cycle into something supernatural, as when hell freezes over. Fans of the Chicago Cubs may be forgiven for now wondering: Is this the […]
President Trump has urged football fans to boycott NFL games because of the recent player protests — but so far, ticket sellers have not seen an impact, according to SeatGeek. The site, which aggregates secondary ticket sales, or tickets that are resold closer to game time, said this week’s sales are consistent with previous weeks. […]