http://d.yimg.com/nl/yahoo%20sports/site/player.swf Since the day the great coach George “Papa Bear” Halas begged Sid Luckman to leave behind a job in sales and join the Chicago Bears, the NFL has been a game that has revolved around the quarterback. As the NFL playoffs get set to start, this season is no different, particularly as the league […]
The NFL announced its full 2011 playoff schedule on Sunday night, with wild-card weekend highlighted by a rematch of last year’s AFC championship game. The New York Jets and Indianapolis Colts will face off in primetime on Saturday night, 50 weeks after Peyton Manning(notes) led his team to an AFC title over Rex Ryan and […]
Golf Digest has released its annual list of the top-50 earners in golf for 2010, and the name at the top of the list isn’t exactly a surprise. What’s shocking is the fact that he took a $48 million pay cut and still led the pack. [Related: Tiger loses another big endorsement deal] In 2009, […]
Conservative FOX News commentator Tucker Carlson thinks that Michael Vick(notes) should have been executed for running an illegal dogfighting ring. Carlson made the stunning comment while guest-hosting Sean Hannity’s show on Tuesday. The topic was Barack Obama’s phone call to Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie: That seems rational. It’s the old “eye for an eye, […]
Few NBA players have been as committed to charity over the past year than Ron Artest(notes). The former bad boy and current goofball, most recently seen bounding into the Miami Heat bench during Saturday’s game, has devoted much of his time to raising money for mental health awareness, specifically to get more mental health workers […]
A little more than a month ago, Kevin Garnett(notes) raised the ire of the basketballing community when he called Charlie Villanueva(notes) — who has alopecia — a “cancer patient” while trash-talking during a game. It was a messy moment for one of the game’s loudest on-court players, a point at which his insane competitiveness was […]
Some years the Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year is an easy choice. Michael Phelps in 2008, the U.S. women’s soccer team in 1999, Cal Ripken Jr. in 1995. Other times the choice is so uninspiring that you can practically feel the editor’s hand-wringing. (Dwyane Wade in 2006?) This was one […]
did enough with the football in his hands to deserve a game ball on Sunday. It was what else he did with those hands that will make his postgame reward controversial. The Houston Texans receiver was awarded a game ball from coach Gary Kubiak despite getting ejected during the game for engaging […]
We know that LeBron James(notes), when firing on all cylinders, is the best player in basketball. We know that Kobe Bryant(notes) is the cruelest, the most devastating when he has to be, that Chris Paul(notes) can affect the game differently than any small man, and that Dwight Howard(notes) can absolutely dominate […]
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will be taking his talents to Nashville. Despite his lack of production, boorish behavior and the fact that his on- and off-field antics forced two teams to part ways with him in the span of 26 days, Moss was deemed an acceptable risk for Jeff Fisher and the Titans, who claimed […]
