If an elephant is in the room, you have two choices: address it or ignore it. When you’re the NFL, you have a third one: Remove it. Worst Darkness Retreats of the Week In an unprecedented move that feels like it’s something straight out of Donald Trump’s playbook, Roger Goodell and the NFL have moved…
Saudi Arabia has already invested heavily in several sports. Now, the nation plans to make headway into women’s tennis and host the 2024 WTA Finals — if a deal can be reached. Being a Tennis Gladiator like Roger Federer | Bear Grylls’ Ultimate Sports Fantasy “As everyone knows, we are working through a process to…
You are who you know — a truism forcefully demonstrated this week when Kristin Juszczyk, who happens to be married to the San Francisco 49ers fullback, Kyle Juszczyk, signed a deal with the N.F.L. to use its logos on the football jersey-like puffer jackets she designs. That agreement, first reported by Sportico, came on the…
The first major acquisition of the Boston Red Sox offseason is…Theo Epstein? According to ESPN’s Jeff Passan, the former Red Sox general manager who helped break the “Curse of the Bambino” is joining Fenway Sports Group as a senior advisor. While Epstein is not in charge of personnel decisions, he is expected to “carry enormous…
Former slugger Gary Sheffield claims MLB tried to force him out of the sport in the 1990s after he spoke out about the growing steroid scandal. Kyle Schwarber did something that’s only been done 11 other times in MLB history | Stats That Will Blow Your Mind “I was the first guy to bring up…
The doctor is in. So is the yogi. A sharp shift in health care is taking place as more than one-third of American adults now supplement or substitute mainstream medical care with acupuncture, meditation, yoga and other therapies long considered alternative. In 2022, 37 percent of adult pain patients used nontraditional medical care, a marked…
A joint study by the NFL and NFLPA found that lower-extremity injuries occurred at nearly identical rates on synthetic and natural turf, according to ESPN. 5 Richest active NFL players | Money Mondays The report examined all games over the course of the 2023 season, defining injuries that could be attributed to playing surface as…
The Los Angeles Lakers earned their most impressive win of the season Thursday night, while the Boston Celtics arguably ceded their worst loss. With LeBron James and Anthony Davis sidelined with injuries, Austin Reaves and Co. handed a fully staffed C’s team their third home defeat of the season, 114-105. Joe Mazzulla sat Jaylen Brown,…
With its streamlined curves and glow-in-the-dark sound system, the silver Lamborghini Huracán Performante was the stuff of teenage fantasy: $350,000 of aerodynamic metals and lightweight upholstery, packed into a taut and powerful body. Ben Armstrong loved it dearly. When he started shopping for a Lamborghini, Mr. Armstrong, a cryptocurrency evangelist with more than one million…
You — yes, I am talking to you — are getting old. I might have pointed at my own face in the mirror and said that when Xwitter informed me that Thursday was the 20th anniversary of the infamous Nipplegate halftime show. What does this Pitch Perfect star really think of last year’s Super Bowl…
