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The NFL Wants Two Teams In Los Angeles
The Los Angeles stadium game is getting serious: this week, NFL owners will hear two different proposals for new stadiums in L.A. And as the Los Angeles Times revealed yesterday, each stadium would be designed to hold two different NFL teams....

Rick Pitino Says Players Should Be Allowed To Skip College
It's only been since 2006 that high schoolers were banned from jumping straight to the NBA, so it's not as if the current system—which has mainly supplied a series of one-and-dones—has inertia on its side. But basketball programs want more: the Pac-12 presidents have pitched the Power Five on making...

March Madness Broadcast Menaced By Man With Popcorn Bag
Get a load of this jabroni, wavin' his damn popcorn bag in front of the camera, thinkin' he's some kind of merry prankster. ...


Winnipeg Found A New, Crotchpunchingly Painful Way To Lose
If you are a Winnipeg fan, you are used to things not going your way. So please don't be surprised when the Jets miss out on the postseason by a point or two, and this game-losing goal from the neutral zone with a minute left amounts to the difference....

Report: Eagles Trade Nick Foles To Rams For Sam Bradford
The Eagles are close to getting themselves themselves another quarterback, acquiring Sam Bradford from the Rams in exchange for Nick Foles, with unspecified draft picks changing hands, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter....

Moron <i>USA Today</i> Columnist Thinks The Cardinals Poop Vanilla Sprinkles
You know, we usually wait until October here to dump on the Cardinals and have the entire city of St. Louis send us polite death threats. But Bob Nightengale … oh, Bob Nightengale … you forced my hand early, you abominable fucking hack. I guarantee, right now, that there won't be a worse piece of ...


AEG Invokes Terrorism In Bid To Halt Rival Inglewood Stadium Project
Sports conglomerate AEG has pursued the construction of an NFL stadium in Los Angeles for over a decade, and it has become clear that they'll resort to a hilariously deplorable campaign of dirty tricks to ensure that a competitor's stadium doesn't get built. ...

Louisville's Chris Jones Charged With Rape
Louisville guard Chris Jones, who was suspended, reinstated, and finally dismissed from the team in the span of five days, faces charges of raping one woman and sodomizing another. A warrant has been issued for Jones's arrest....

Inglewood Decides Not To Let Public Vote On Rams' Stadium
"We need to do the will of the people and we need to do it tonight," said the mayor of Inglewood, Calif., moments before fast-tracking approval for construction of a football stadium for the Rams so that the people will never get to vote on it....

Report: Dismissed Louisville Basketball Player Threatened Girlfriend
Louisville basketball player Chris Jones—who was suspended from the team, reinstated, and finally dismissed yesterday—allegedly threatened to hit his girlfriend last week, according to a University of Louisville Police Department report obtained by Insider Louisville via an open record request. The ...

Louisville Basketball Player Dismissed Days After Being Reinstated
Louisville announced the dismissal of point guard Chris Jones today, two days after the starter was reinstated, and six days after Jones was originally suspended....

Let's Enjoy Kris Letang's Hip Check On David Backes
To be clear, Marc Methot's hip check is much smoother than Kris Letang's effort on David Backes, but the Penguin got the job done....

The Chargers And Raiders Threaten To Move To Los Angeles Together
The Los Angeles bogeyman has always served the NFL well; its mere invocation has been enough to earn many a team a publicly funded stadium. But now we're finding out what happens when too many teams make a play for that leverage at the same time: chaos....

This Louis Van Gaal-Sam Allardyce Long Ball Beef Is Really Stupid
Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal shrugs off most criticisms with a sneer and a reminder of his groaning trophy shelf. "What can you possibly tell me," his look says, "Louis the Great?" But don't, for the love of God, impugn his tactics. For that offense, he will pull out all the stops to pro...

Louisville's Strength And Conditioning Coach Is Uncomfortably Intense
This is Ray Ganong, the strength and conditioning coach for the Louisville men's basketball team, and he a goddamn maniac....

Bobby Petrino Is Still Scum
Bobby Petrino's coaching career has been a series of escapes. Not even one year after signing a 10-year extension with Louisville, he jumped to the Atlanta Falcons; bailed on the NFL after 13 games; went to Arkansas, where got the boot after wrecking his motorcycle with his mistress on the back; hop...

I Can't Stop Watching This Psycho Local Ad About Heroin
This advertisement is an attempt to warn viewers of the dangers of heroin, and it aired during the second local break of tonight's Super Bowl broadcast in St. Louis. The Drug War fails again; this ad makes me want heroin really bad right now. Anybody else?...

Rick Pitino Looks Terrific!
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