One longtime Chicago Cubs fan movingly marked the team’s historic win with his late father — who did not live to see it. Wayne Williams drove from North Carolina to Indiana on Wednesday to listen to Game 7 of the 2016 Major League Baseball World Series with his father, a Cubs superfan who died more […]
The Georgia Dome, former home of the Atlanta Falcons, collapsed Monday morning in a scheduled (and meticulously-controlled) explosive demolition. The stadium’s 250,000 cubic yards of concrete needed 480,000 pounds of explosives (that’s 240 tons) to take it out. Watch the video above to see the 71,250-seat, concrete stadium get flattened in just 12 seconds, according […]
Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps will test his speed in the water — and perhaps his courage — by racing a great white shark. Phelps, who has 23 Olympic gold medals and 39 world records under his belt, will compete against a shark in an upcoming Discovery program during “Shark Week,” the cable channel said in […]
The NCAA ended its six-month ban on holding championship events in North Carolina following the state’s repeal of parts of its controversial “bathroom bill.” In a statement on Tuesday, the NCAA said its board of governors “reluctantly voted” to lift the ban after North Carolina legislatures repealed House Bill 2 (HB2) and replaced it with […]
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is a notorious sleep fanatic. He has said he aims to get to bed by 9 p.m, even 8:30 p.m during the season. All that shut-eye seems to help. In 2016, despite missing the first four games of the regular season because of the Deflategate scandal, Brady, 39, went […]
Click:to avoid About 10 minutes before San Francisco’s Mission High School football team was about to unload for an away game on a recent Saturday, the captain made a suggestion to everyone on the bus. “Are you crazy?” teammates replied. “Are you really gonna do that?” He was. And though no plans were set for […]
Four spectators were removed from a Boston Red Sox baseball game on Wednesday night after unfurling a black banner that read ‘Racism is as American as Baseball’ as the team hosted the Oakland Athletics at Fenway Park. The huge banner appeared during the fourth inning but was removed at the request of the umpires after […]
As its cities lay in ruins and millions of its citizens continue to suffer the horrors of a vicious civil war, Syria has its eyes on a bright and unexpected goal this week: a long-sought World Cup spot. An underdog Syrian squad, ranked 75th in the world, has claimed credible draws with regional heavyweights like […]
New York Knicks great Charles Oakley compared team owner James Dolan to former Clippers owner Donald Sterling, who was forced to sell the team in 2014 after he was caught on tape making racist comments. Oakley, who was arrested following an altercation at Madison Square Garden last week and subsequently banned from the arena, made […]
Former Georgetown Hoya Patrick Ewing is going back to his home turf to serve as the head coach of the men’s basketball team, ESPN reports. Ewing, 54, played at Georgetown from 1982 until 1985. In 1984, he led the Hoyas to a national championship. When the NBA Hall of Famer was last at Georgetown, he […]