After the shocking-but-not-really news about Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz getting outed as two of the positive tests in the “anonymous” MLB steroid tests of 2003 (can we get a list of all “lawyers with knowledge” and out them, by the way? This leaking is kind of shady.), it seems like Boston’s eager to make […]

This year’s Buick Open, which is sponsored by one of the lamest car brands on the planet and which needed to be given unholy amounts of money just in order to stay in existence, was won by Tiger Woods over a group of golfers that nobody has ever heard of.

(Tiger, seen here hitting a ball […]

It’s fair to say that LenDale White has been a rather, ahem, easy target for jokes. And tacklers. And paint balls. LenWhale, as he was affectionately known, routinely tipped the scales at over 260 pounds; though he was an effective goal-line option, his low yards per carry had many people thinking “bust.”

(”You’re looking good, […]

Generally, when someone is under oath in a court of law and avows that she was given use of a credit card to steer her son to play for a specific college football team, that’s bad news bears. NCAA commences frowning, heads roll, etc.

But when that same person’s own lawyer backtracks on those statements in […]

Our justice system is far from perfect. It’s overworked, understaffed, and too often those with the means to pay high-priced lawyers end up seeing a very different version of justice than their poorer counterparts. Mistakes get made and details overlooked. But compared to much of the rest of the world, the vast majority of our […]

Last summer, when Michael Phelps dominated the news from the 2008 Beijing Olympics with his record 8 gold medals, who would have possibly guessed that he would still be a celebrity today? In our 24-hour news cycle world, celebrities are made and forgotten seemingly overnight, and really, who cares about competitive swimming, anyways?

Yet, here we […]

Despite what marketers and sportswriters want you to believe, professional athletes are not usually that different off the court than the general population. OK, sure, there’s the whole “millions of dollars” thing that lends itself to a different lifestyle than we live, but as people, athletes have the same different personalities and interests as anyone […]

One of the greatest misconceptions about sports in this country is that Americans don’t like soccer. Vocal contrarian sportswriters love to perpetuate that misconception from their columns, and xenophobic Americans follow suit, ever skeptical of things “not from around here.” Admittedly, it’s not always easy to follow the sport’s top leagues from halfway around the […]

Go ahead and take a good look at the picture below for a second. You’re looking at the face of professional boxer and Ricky Hatton sparring partner Rob Newbiggin. At first glance, a couple of things really stand out about this picture. First, the quality - it’s a screen capture from an MSNBC profile of […]