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Former Detroit Lions wide receiver Titus Young was arrested twice within 15 hours on Sunday. First he was arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence and then arrested again 15 hours later for trying to steal his car back from a tow yard. Earlier this year the Detroit Lions released their NFL calendar featuring Titus…

On Monday morning, Jason Collins became the first active male player in a major team sport to come out. “I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay.” I didn’t set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since Iam, I’m happy to start the conversation.…

On Monday night of NFL Draft week, Alabama offensive lineman D.J. Fluker, a projected first-round draft pick, tweeted that he took money while in college.   Fluker quickly claimed that his account was hacked and that he absolutely did not send the tweet. Looking at his timeline it’s actually a somewhat believable claim. The wording and language…

Unless you were living under a rock this weekend, you witnessed Kobe Bryant live-tweet his Lakers’ first round NBA Playoffs match-up against the San Antonio Spurs. The Lakers lost 91-79 in Game 1 of this series, but Kobe’s tweets were definitely #winning (unless you ask Lakers Head Coach Mike D’Antoni…)       While majority…

The Sabres defeated the Bruins 3-2 in a shootout at TD Garden Wednesday night. The Bruins clinched a spot in the playoffs after earning a point from the shootout loss, but the hockey game wasn’t even the main event last night. This was the first sporting event to take place in Boston after the Boston…

If the Indianapolis Colts reserve quarterback Chandler Harnish (who wore No. 8 last season) makes a half court hoops shot, newly signed Colts backup quarterback Matt Hasselbeck pays him $8,000 in exchange for the No. 8 jersey Hasselbeck has worn since 2001. Harnish makes the shot in one try, and it’s a win-win.  Hasselbeck gets No. 8…

Kobe Bryant injured his Achilles tendon against the Golden State Warriors Friday night. By Saturday, the worst was confirmed when Bryant took to social media himself to spread word that he had infact tore his Achilles Tendon. He has been giving us the medical play-by-play on social media since Friday night when a Vicodin-ed Bryant took…

Oh Peyton Manning, you are such a hoot! Manning has been working out with Wes Welker, Demaryius Thomas and Eric Decker at the Duke University facilities this week,  training  with one of Manning’s former coaches, David Cutcliffe.  At dinner last night, Peyton Manning decided to pull a prank on wide receiver Eric Decker. Manning presented Decker…

Bubba Watson’s Masters Club Dinner menu on Tuesday night was not nearly as flashy as his Hover Craft or Golf Boy’s rap videos. In fact, it was about as simple as a fancy dinner could get. Bubba’s Masters Club Dinner started off with a Caesar salad. The main course was grilled chicken breast  complete with…

Just days after news was released that the NFL would be mandating cameras in all team locker rooms to enhance the game-day experience for stadium fans, the AFL had a foreshadowing halftime locker room camera glitch. Ricky Henderson of The Adelaide Crows was in his teams locker room during half time of Saturday’s match against…

Rutgers men’s basketball coach Mike Rice was fired Wednesday after a video was released of him physically and verbally abusing players during practices. The school released a statement that read : Based upon recently revealed information and a review of previously discovered issues, Rutgers has terminated the contract of Mike Rice.”   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbaYqcMMZ6A (Watch Video Here)…

Fabian Cancellara won yesterday’s Tour of Flanders cycling race, but the runner-up, Peter Sagan, is the one grabbing all of the headlines (pun intended).   Sagan pinched the rump of one of the podium girls while they were posing on the podium and chaos ensued.  Many cried out about how disrespectful Sagan was to do such a thing,…

April Fools Day is upon us, and with the ever evolving use of Twitter, it’s as foolish and confusing as ever. It’s noon on the East Coast and already two NFL players have fooled millions of their followers and news outlets with one simple tweet. Behold the power of twitter…     Nick Barnett started…

STOP THE PRESSES! Johnny ‘Football’ Manziel has decided to quit twitter, for the time being. The Texas A & M Heisman Trophy winner has over 30,000 twitter followers and his spring-breaking, party boy twit-pics have been making headlines for weeks. He was slowly but surely turning into the college football version of the always partying…

Kobe Bryant isn’t popping his $20,000+ bottle of Dom Perignon until his Lakers win a title. According to the New York Post, Bryant received the bottle as a gift  at the London West Hollywood for being named the latest brand ambassador for Hublot. After being presented with a  Black Gold Jeroboam of 1998 Dom Pérignon — of which…

Evidently, birds of a feather really do flock together from time to time…According to twitter, two controversial, young, party-boy college athletes have become bro’s… Texas A&M’s Heisman winner Johnny Manziel recently reached out on twitter to lend some support and “hater advice” to Ole Miss basketball star, Marshall Henderson. Henderson replied with appreciation & hopes of a…

Kobe Bryant has made quite the twitter name for himself for someone so new to the game…And we actually really like him on Twitter. He’s pretty funny, entertaining, speaks his mind, and even makes fun of himself sometimes… He first took the internet by storm a couple weeks ago when he “live-tweeted” a replay of…

Jose Canseco’s twitter account is admittedly one of our favorite guilty pleasures these days. You just never know what you’re going to get with that guy…. He covers everything from the principles of gravity to ‘hugs’ for the new pope. Most recently though, the infamous baseball player/steroid user has made headlines challenging Shaq to an MMA…

Kobe Bryant attempted a game-winning baseline fadeaway jumper against Hawks’ forward Dahntay Jones during Wednesday night’s Lakers- Hawks game.  The Lakers ended up losing the game 92-96, but on top of that,  Bryant came down on Jones’ foot during the play and left the game with a severe sprain. Kobe was ruled out ‘indefinitely’ with a…

I think it’s fair to say that NO ONE saw this coming… Last night, the usually reserved NE Patriots Head Coach Bill Belichick held a spur of the moment Q & A session on twitter via his girlfriend, Linda Holliday’s,  twitter account. Guess there really is a first time for everything… There were some typical…

One twit-pic of Michael Jackson’s daughter, Paris, cheerleading for her high school and the girl’s already got job offers… Must be nice! Barbara Zaun, Director of Cheerleading for the Philadelphia Eagles cheerleading squad told TMZ that Paris would make a great Eagles cheerleader… We think Paris will make a great Eagle cheerleader…We thought she had a…

It appears we’re going to be seeing a lot more of  Terrell Owens whether we like it or not.  The 39 year-old six-time Pro Bowler has reportedly signed with the Los Angeles branch of global modeling agency Next Management.   This news broke on twitter early this morning when Owens re-tweeted a congratulatory tweet from his former assistant, Adrienne Williams.…

Michelle Beadle is quite the WWE enthusiast, so she was thrilled to have Real World star-turned-wrestler Mike “The Miz” as a guest on the show yesterday. In honor of his appearance, we asked our twitter followers to dub Beadle with a proper wrestling nickname. And boy did you all tweet! We narrowed it down to “Beadle…

Because it might not be one… Vince Young’s NFL career couldn’t have started out any better. He went from being a two year starter at Texas (first player in NCAA I-A history to pass for 3,000 yards and rush for 1,000 yards in the same season), to the No. 3 overall pick of the 2006…

Golfers…rapping about other golfers… in a music video… for charity. Win-win-win-win. The Golf Boys are back again! The PGA’s Ben Crane, Bubba Watson, Rickie Fowler and Hunter Mahan released their second music video “2.Oh” on Monday. As I write this (Tuesday afternoon), their youtube video has 795,082 views. The witty lyrics in “2.Oh” were written by Ben…