What the World Got Wrong About Kareem Abdul-Jabbar – The New York Times
In the sleek, cold lobby of the Langham Place hotel in Midtown Manhattan, one of those thoroughly designed spaces in which one cannot find a right angle, much less a comfortable chair, the...
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How ESPN’s Fear Of The Truth Defeated “Black Grantland”
Last month, The Atlantic published an 18,000-word article by Ta-Nehisi Coates called “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration.” It was the second epic piece in what appears to be a series in...
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Pentagon Paid Sports Teams Millions For ‘Paid Patriotism’ Events : The...
Paid advertisement? A soldier holds an American flag before the first half of a 2013 NFL football game between the Atlanta Falcons and the New England Patriots in Atlanta. David Goldman/AP hide...
View ArticleStupid Nike Uniforms Wreaking Havoc On Colorblind NFL Fans
Nike introduced some stupid new uniforms for tonight’s Bills-Jets game, and the color-on-color combination is especially bad for people with colorblindness, who are taking to Twitter to let the NFL...
View ArticleJohn Feinstein: Media Being Pushed Further Away From Sports « CBS Sports Radio
AddThis Button Begin I am sitting in Maryland’s basketball arena at 8:20 p.m. on Tuesday night and the arena clock says there are still 47 minutes before player introductions begin. That means the...
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White man in the photo is the ‘third hero’ that night in 1968 | SF Globe
This last October marks the ninth anniversary of Peter Norman’s passing. Most people don’t know Norman. Pictured below, Norman is perhaps “the third hero of that night in 1968,” writes Italian writer...
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Bill Simmons is partnering with publishing platfom Medium – Business Insider
YouTubeBill Simmons.Media superstar Bill Simmons is starting a new site called The Ringer. While Simmons and his team have talked a bit about the new site, several key details have been kept secret....
View ArticleDefensive Lineman Crashes Out Of NFL Combine 40-Yard Dash Due To Dick Falling...
Mississippi State defensive lineman Chris Jones had trouble staying upright as he finished his 40 attempt today at the NFL combine, and replays revealed why: his genitals came flying out of his shorts...
View ArticleDiCaro: Erin Andrews & The Devaluing Of Women In Sports Media « CBS Chicago
AddThis Button Begin By Julie DiCaro– (CBS) If you want proof that women remain second-class citizens in the world of sports media, look no further than the revelations emerging from the Erin Andrews...
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As Sexual Assault Rumors Swirl, Yale Basketball Team Continues to Support...
Yale guard Nick Victor (21) and teammates, celebrating their Saturday win against Columbia, raise 4 fingers in reference to recently expelled captain Jack Montague. (Image via Bryan R. Smith/AP) The...
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A Female Journalist Dared to Ask Peyton Manning a Serious Question and She...
A Female Journalist Dared to Ask Peyton Manning a Serious Question and She Was Called a “Cunt” and “Bitch” For It On Monday, Super Bowl-winning quarterback Peyton Manning held a PRESS conference to...
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March Madness means money – it’s time to talk about who’s getting paid
The NCAA men’s basketball tournament starts Tuesday. From then until the final on April 4, CBS Sports and Turner Broadcasting will bring you every game, focusing on the buzzer beaters, the Cinderella...
View ArticleSerena Williams says Raymond Moore’s comments were offensive “not only to a...
The unfortunate views on women’s tennis expressed yesterday (Mar. 20) by the CEO of the Indian Wells tennis tournament, Raymond Moore, set off a firestorm, with perhaps the most powerful response...
View ArticleRaymond Moore: Indian Wells CEO steps down amid outrage over sexist remarks |...
Raymond Moore, the CEO of the Indian Wells tennis tournament, has resigned from his role, one day after saying that the women’s tour “rides on the coat-tails” of the men’s game. Moore was roundly...
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New York Times Responds To NFL’s Demand For Retraction, Unleashes The Burns
This week, NFL lawyers sent a letter to The New York Times demanding that the Times’s recent investigation into the league’s bogus concussion studies be retracted. It was so limp that it demanded a...
View ArticleOpen Season on Jeremy Lin? In Video, Fan Highlights Hard Fouls – The New York...
“Throughout Lin’s six years in the N.B.A., we have continuously witnessed Lin as the recipient of numerous hard fouls with unnecessary and excessive force by other players,” the letter reads. “In...
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Battle of the Baddest Women on Earth – Narratively
Most of the time, they live out nine-to-five routines as psychologists, accountants, mothers, hairdressers and kindergarten teachers. But on nights and weekends they become Bettie Rage, Cheerleader...
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Man Discovers Hockey, Loves It
Photo: AP The NHL convinced one more person to please like its sport last night. A man on Twitter tuned into Game 7 of Blackhawks-Blues, the first hockey game he had ever seen. He tweeted as he...
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Hot Single Athletes Are Using Tinder In Your Area Right Now
Photo: AP ESPN The Magazine’s Sam Alipour published a story about athletes using online dating today, and though the trend piece seems six months too late, the timeliness can be forgiven because of...
View ArticleIn a Times Square Boxing Bar, Glasses Raised to ‘a King Among Men’ – NYTimes.com
Just past midnight on Saturday, Jimmy Glenn slumped into a small wooden chair in the back room of his bar in Times Square, his face aglow before a cable broadcast. The bar, a 45-year-old sanctum of...
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