In a country with limited opportunities for girls and women, a non-profit has set up a Skateboard School. The school combines learning to skateboard with education initiatives. Girls make up forty percent of the enrollment...
The Green Bay Packers were dealt a devastating blow last week when star wide receiver Jordy Nelson tore his acl. And now Packers fans watched as number 2 wide receiver Randall Cobb suffered an AC joint...
Remember Curt Schilling? The MVP baseball pitcher and World Series winner? Perhaps you remember him more recently as the man who used social media to demean gay people, Muslims, and transgender people to the point...
Bruce Maxwell taking a knee (image courtesy Santiago Mejia, The San Francisco Chronicle)
When Donald Trump declared that any NFL player who took a knee during the national anthem was a "son of a bitch," he didn't just succeed in angering virtually every player in the NFL. He...
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell (from Atlanta Falcons' Flickr feed)
Early Monday morning, TMZ released video showing Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice leveling his then-fiancee, Janay Palmer, with a roundhouse left in the elevator of an Atlantic City casino. Within hours of its release,...
According to multiple media outlets, the NFL plans on hiring its first woman official, Sarah Thomas. Though the NFL has not officially confirmed Thomas? hiring, an anonymous source told the Los Angeles Times that with...
Mack Breed, assistant coach at John Jay High School (courtesy San Antonio Express-News)
Earlier this year, two football players at John Jay High School in San Antonio deliberately hit an official in the late stages of a game. It later emerged that they did so on orders from the...
My kids are obsessed with basketball, so I'm a little bit "in the know" about at least some of the biggest stories (and players) going on in the game, but this time I was able...
putting green
President Donald Trump has made the headlines again. This time it is for breaking a 'cardinal' rule of the game of golf. Trump drove a golf buggy right up onto the putting green, and this has...
We have been closely following the reactions to San Francisco Quarterback Colin Kaepernick's decision to stay seated during the playing of the national anthem. He chose this controversial form of civil disobedience as a means...
Tracy Claeys at his first press conference as Minnesota's head coach in 2015 (image courtesy Tim Nelson, Minnesota Public Radio)
The 2016 college football season began with a textbook case on how not to handle sexual assault at a major university. You may recall that Baylor was all but forced to fire head coach Art...
Donald Trump's hateful rhetoric is costing him a lot of opportunities. The Professional Golf Association (PGA) is changing the location of one of their tournaments. After deciding not to have the event at Trump's Doral Resort...
No matter what he does, who he insults or how many women he grabs by the genitals, President Trump can always count on the intellectually-challenged dullards at Fox News to have his back. After spending most...
The NCAA is sending a clear message to any potential host cities for its numerous sporting events: no LGBT discrimination. In fact, they want to ensure it by sending a survey to all cities bidding...
UT coach Butch Jones needs to understand that supporting rape culture is wrong. According to ESPN, Jones verbally assaulted WR Drae Bowles, for helping a sexual assault victim. Football players are named as the attackers...
There's something different about this year's Cincinnati Bengals, The Bengals are 4-0 They have the second-ranked offense They have scored the most offensive touchdowns They sit atop the league's most competitive division Let's go beyond these bullet points and break...
A rape kit evidence bag from the woman who accused Chicago Blackhawks star Patrick Kane of sexual assault was placed on her mothers doorstep Tuesday morning. But when the mother found the bag at around...
Cincinnati Reds ace Johnny Cueto found himself in a tough situation last night after he was told he had been traded. Cueto learned of this only minutes before his start versus the Colorado Rockies, yet...
Fox Sports 1 sportscaster Katie Nolan is mad as hell, and she's not going to take it anymore. And that's a good thing. Way too many sports websites give the NFL a relative free pass when...
Allen West speaking at the 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference. (courtesy Wikimedia Commons)
If you've followed football at all over the years, you'll know there's a debate raging over how to get a handle on the recent rash of traumatic head injuries. Well, former Congressman Allen West thinks...