With the Houston Astros in position to clinch the 2017 World Series on Tuesday, the Internet was forced to come to terms with Game 6 of the MLB championship falling on Halloween night. We now know that the Oct. 31 matchup was not the final one of the series, as the Los Angeles Dodgers forced […]
With his threat at the United Nations this past week to “totally destroy” North Korea if necessary, and his labeling of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as a “Rocket Man” on a “suicide mission,” President Donald Trump escalated his war of words with a country flirting with a nuclear strike. Few world leaders at the […]
Following the lead of 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, every member of a high school football team in San Francisco took a knee during the national anthem at their game last Saturday. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that before the game, Mission High School team captain and starting quarterback Niamey Harris said he told the team, […]
A thrilling overtime victory at the College Football Playoff National Championship Monday night just wasn’t enough for this Alabama offensive lineman. While celebrating the latest in Alabama’s many recent national championships, Crimson Tide player Bradley Bozeman got down on one knee on the field and proposed to his girlfriend, former Alabama basketball player Nikki Hegstetter. […]
The men’s basketball team from Bucknell University, a private liberal arts college with some 3,600 students in Lewisburg, Pa., has enjoyed a run of success over the past 12 years. On Thursday, the 13th-seeded Bison will make their fifth NCAA tournament appearance since 2005 when they take on West Virginia, a No. 4-seed, in the […]
The winners of Super Bowl LII — who, in 2018, will be either the New England Patriots or the Philadelphia Eagles — will be rewarded with a supersize check and a supersize ring. The Super Bowl rings are a tradition as old as the Super Bowl itself but, as the television era increased the profile […]
With no participation from the National Hockey League and a women’s team vying for gold, Team USA announced its rosters for its ice hockey teams competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics. The highly anticipated rosters were announced January 1 at an intermission during the 2018 Winter Classic and come ahead of the first Winter Olympics […]
British Ryder Cup golfer Danny Willett has apologised for an article written by his brother, in which he called American golfing fans “cretins” and “pudgy, basement dwelling irritants.” Peter Willett wrote the article for golfing magazine National Club Golfer to coincide with the start of the tournament, which runs from Sept. 27 – Oct. 2 […]
“If I was walking down the highway with a quarter in my pocket and a briefcase full of truth, I’d be so happy.” – Muhammad Ali, Sports Illustrated, Feb. 19, 1968 Colin Kaepernick made his truth known when he first decided not to stand for the national anthem. He had a lot of football left […]
PowerBar believes in giving Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte a second chance at a victory lap. Lochte generated headlines for all the wrong reasons in 2016. He won just a single gold medal at the Rio Olympics, a much smaller haul than what he pulled in the prior three Olympics. And then there was ” Lochtegate”—Lochte […]