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Mayhem hit downtown Philadelphia on Sunday night as fans celebrated their team’s first-ever Super Bowl victory. Enraptured Eagles fans flipped over at least one car, shattered some storefronts and attempted to climb grease-slicked utility poles in the City of Brotherly Love after the Philadelphia Eagles won 41-33 over the New England Patriots – according to […]
Jake LaMotta, the former middleweight boxing champion who died Wednesday at age 95 from complications from pneumonia, handed Sugar Ray Robinson, the man that many sweaty scholars of the sweet science consider the best pound-for-pound fighter of all-time, his first-ever loss. His bouts with Robinson defined boxing in the 1940s and 1950s, an era when […]
Not even the most blindly loyal Philadelphia Eagles fan saw this coming. After quarterback Carson Wentz tore his ACL in December, Philadelphia’s hopes for its first Super Bowl title rested on backup Nick Foles, a once-promising starter whose career seemed destined for journeyman status. Now, after Philadelphia’s thrilling 41-33 win over Tom Brady and the […]
The Chicago Cubs knew what was at stake Sunday night. Sure, the team has won its first pennant in 71 years: an historic accomplishment. But an early World Series exit, at the hands of the underwhelming — on paper, at least — Cleveland Indians, would permanently mar an ecstatic season. A team that won 103 […]
LeBron James gave a group of children from Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital for Rehabilitation a day to remember after he personally presented them with their own pair of easy-entry sneakers at the Cleveland Cavaliers practice facility in Independence, Ohio, on Monday. James helped design the Nike’s new LeBron Soldier 10 FlyEase sneakers—footwear which features a […]
Jurgen Klinsmann has been fired as the head coach and technical director of the U.S. men’s national soccer team, U.S. Soccer announced Monday. No replacement was announced, and details on that are expected to be released on Tuesday. The decision comes less than a week after the U.S. lost 4–0 to Costa Rica in a […]
University of Minnesota football players are boycotting the sport after 10 of their teammates were suspended. A statement put out Thursday by the boycotting players said they met with their athletic director and “wanted answers but received misleading statements,” so “the boycott will remain effective until due process is followed and suspensions for all 10 […]
(NEW YORK)—NASCAR was hit with a $500 million lawsuit accusing the auto racing body of racial discrimination for preventing black-owned teams and drivers from competing, including in the Sprint Cup Series. Terrance Cox and his company, Diversity Motorsports Racing LLC, filed a lawsuit late on Friday in U.S. district court in Manhattan against NASCAR, its […]
Animal activists have come down on the National Hockey League after real penguins were released on ice and appeared “terrorized” by pyrotechnics at a Pittsburgh Penguins pregame show earlier this week. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) penned a letter Thursday to the hockey team, slamming its use of the live animals at […]
Completing the Boston Marathon — the pinnacle of marathon running for many — is quite a feat. But some finishers of Monday’s race have taken issue with a congratulatory email sent by Adidas, the sponsor for the 121st annual race. “Congrats, you survived the Boston Marathon!” an email sent by Adidas to 2017 Boston Marathon […]