Shawn Johnson East and her husband Andrew East announced in an emotional YouTube video posted on Saturday that Johnson East had a miscarriage just two days after the couple found out they were pregnant. “Today’s video is a little bit sensitive,” Johnson East, 25, said at the beginning of the video. “It’s not the happiest […]
The Chicago Cubs have made some extra preparations for their decisive Wednesday night World Series game, tweeting out a template for “super official excuse notes” for fans to miss work. The note asks employers to excuse fans from their duties as the Cubs face a Game 7 showdown with the Cleveland Indians to try and […]
Many fine storytellers have lost their livelihoods. On Wednesday, ESPN said that the company would “implement changes in our talent lineup,” and one by one, ESPN writers, anchors and TV reporters announced on Twitter that they’d been laid off. Veteran NFL reporter Ed Werder. Former NFL quarterback and studio analyst Trent Dilfer. Respected baseball writer […]
LeBron James was honored Monday at the SI Sportsperson of the Year awards show and delivered an honest, touching and funny speech while accepting his award. James was named Sportsperson of the Year by Sports Illustrated last week, becoming the second athlete to win the award multiple times. During his acceptance speech, James spoke about […]
Over the weekend, following President Trump’s continued criticism of athletes choosing to protest by kneeling during the national anthem, NFL players across the country were faced with the question of what to do while “The Star-Spangled Banner” played before the game. More than 200 players chose to sit or kneel. But how did the national […]
As the NCAA basketball tournament kicks off this week, LaVar Ball, the outspoken father of UCLA freshman star Lonzo Ball, is primed to take his place alongside Richard Williams and Earl Woods in the pantheon of overzealous sports dads. Ball has already taken shots at Charles Barkley and said his 19-year-old son is a better […]
Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett says he was restrained and had a gun pointed at him by officers of the Las Vegas Police Department last month for no reason other than being black and being at the “wrong place at the wrong time.” Bennett posted a message on social media describing the incident. Bennett […]
The long and nightmarish saga of Deflategate is finally over for the New England Patriots, but you can bet Tom Brady won’t be forgetting about it anytime soon. In a new commercial promoting Foot Locker’s Week of Greatness, the 39-year-old quarterback — who received a four-game suspension as punishment for the 2014 AFC Championship controversy […]
The culmination of another chapter in Bud Light’s viral “Dilly Dilly” campaign is here just in time for Super Bowl 2018. In the minute-long commercial — which will air during the second quarter of Sunday’s game between the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles — the beer giant introduces the Bud Knight just in time […]
Quarterback Colin Kaepernick now has the highest-selling jersey among his San Francisco 49ers teammates, according to multiple reports. Kaepernick was the 20th best-selling jersey on the official team’s website a few weeks before he started protesting during the national anthem before games. Kaepernick has decided not to stand for the national anthem during the preseason […]