tom-ley Page 89 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights

Daniel Cormier Betrayed By Talk Show Host
UFC light heavyweights Daniel Cormier and Anthony Johnson went on a Canadian morning show yesterday to promote their upcoming bout at UFC 206 in Toronto. Everything was going fine until the host accidentally fed Johnson some intel about his opponent....

The NFL And NFLPA Remind Us How Meaningless The League's Brain Damage Protocols Are
The NFL and NFLPA have released a joint statement explaining why Cam Newton wasn’t removed from the game to be evaluated for symptoms of brain damage after taking multiple blows to the head in Week 1. What the statement says, essentially, is that the things that millions of people saw happen to Newt...

Canucks Fans Bail Out Anthem Singer After His Mic Cuts Out
Affable old blues man Jim Byrnes was in Vancouver last night to sing “The Star Spangled Banner” and “O Canada” before a game between the Blues and the Canucks, but everything went wrong right as he reached the end of the first song....

NFL Owners I'd Party With, Ranked
Pro Football Talk described Colts owner Jim Irsay as a guy who “gives off a distinctly counter-culture vibe,” which is a weird thing to write but also got us thinking about which NFL owners would be the most fun to party with. Here is a list....

The Texas Rangers' Ballpark Scam Is Even Worse Than We Thought
Back in June, WFAA-TV took a close look at the Texas Rangers’ proposal to build a new stadium in Arlington, which the city and team insist would be built with a 50-50 split of private and public money. WFAA-TV discovered an unprecedented clause in the proposal that proved the 50-50 promise to be hor...

NFL Looking Into Yet Another Dirty Play By Vontaze Burfict
It was reported yesterday that the NFL will be reviewing the low hit Bengals linebacker Vontaze Burfict put on Patriots tight end Martellus Bennett during Sunday’s game, and today brings news that the league is looking at another incident involving Burfict from that very same game....

Sean McDonough Didn't Want To Watch That Shit, Either
A bad football game happened last night. The Cardinals beat the Jets 28-3 in a game that saw 23 penalty flags thrown onto the field. There were 13 penalties in the first half alone, and by the third quarter play-by-play man Sean McDonough was fed up:...

Cleveland Didn't Even Need A Starter Last Night<em></em>
Losing your starting pitcher two outs into a playoff game is supposed to be a nightmare for any manager, but all it meant for Terry Francona last night was that he got to put the game into the hands of a bullpen that has yet to fail him....

Report: MLB Wants To Screw Over International Amateur Free Agents
According to ESPN’s Buster Olney, MLB wants to make life even harder on international amateur free agents by implementing an international draft in the new CBA....

Mike Gundy Says Those Doggone Cell Phones Have Increased Parity In College Football
Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy, who gets his hair cut like that on purpose, was asked a question about parity in college football during his weekly press conference today. Instead of issuing a boring answer, Gundy took the question and ran with it:...

Junior League Hockey Player Suspended After Concussing Flyers Prospect
Pascal Laberge was selected by the Philadelphia Flyers in the second round of this year’s NHL draft, and currently plays for the Victoriaville Tigres in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. During Saturday’s game against the Moncton Wildcats, he took a vicious hit from Zachary Malatesta....

The AFC South Is This Year's Poop Division
It’s my favorite time of the year! That time when the leaves start changing, the air gets crisp, and we all get to point at one division in the NFL and say, “Holy shit! All those teams are ass!”...

What The Hell Is Jose Bautista On About?
The Toronto Blue Jays are down 2-0 in the ALCS after scoring just one run on 10 hits through 18 innings. If you were to ask any baseball fan with two eyes why that is, they’d tell you it’s because the Jays have been dominated by the Indians’ pitchers, particularly Andrew Miller and the rest of the ...

ESPN's Keith Law Calls Tim Tebow A Farce And An Imposter
ESPN baseball writer Keith Law, who has spent a good chunk of his adult life scouting and evaluating minor league baseball players, finally made it out to the Arizona Fall League to get a good look at Tim Tebow. He was not very impressed with what he saw....

Good Bird Chases Good Dog
I’m not exactly sure what this bird was planning on doing if he ever caught up to his dog buddy, but I admire his grit as well as his moxie. ...

Curt Schilling Went On The Radio To Defend His Right To Think Young Girls Are Attractive
Curt Schilling, who yesterday went on TV to defend Donald Trump’s ogling of a preteen girl and to let everyone know that he himself has noticed and remarked upon the beauty of his daughter’s friends, refuses to log off....

Dusty Baker Panicked
Dusty Baker had a choice to make heading into the seventh inning of last night’s NLDS finale, and both options would have been defensible. Nobody would have blamed him for keeping Max Scherzer, who had thrown 99 pitches and worked himself through some high-stress situations at that point, on the ben...

Curt Schilling Ties Himself In Knots <em></em>Defending Donald Trump's Lust For A Young Girl
Who the hell knows why future Hall of Famer and current meme aficionado Curt Schilling was on Fox Business today, but he was there to defend the reputation of Donald Trump, who once bragged about sexually assaulting women and stands accused of doing just that....

Colin Kaepernick's Contract Just Went From Bad To Worse
When Colin Kaepernick signed his “$126 million” contract with the San Francisco 49ers in 2014, he was already giving them a remarkable amount of concessions for how successful he was at the time. Now that he’s reworked the terms of his contract, as was reported by ESPN’s Adam Schefter last night, hi...

Hue Jackson Has Turned To Art Briles For Answers
Hue Jackson’s first season as head coach of the Cleveland Browns is not going so well. The team is off to an 0-5 start, and while other teams in the league are enjoying success behind talented rookie quarterbacks that the Browns failed to draft, the Browns’ quarterback situation remains a a game of ...