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Monday night’s NFL game between the Los Angeles Rams and Kansas City Chiefs was an instantly legendary matchup, as two of the best teams in the league went back and forth with touchdowns. The Rams’ 54-51 victory was the highest-scoring game in the history of Monday Night Football, and the third-highest scoring in NFL history. […]

A Division I NCAA Cross Country runner from Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, was disowned by her family earlier this year after she came out to them as a lesbian, telling her parents before the start of the school year that she had a girlfriend. Emily Scheck, a 19-year-old sophomore at the Catholic school, […]

The Washington Redskins are the latest National Football League team with a glaring need at the quarterback position that won’t consider filling it with controversial free agent Colin Kaepernick. Alex Smith, Washington’s quarterback, suffered a gruesome injury in Sunday’s game against the Houston Texans, according to ESPN. The broken fibula and tibia, which required immediate […]

Let’s just get this out of the way: A referee was banned for using rock paper scissors in a game. But it is not nearly as bad as it sounds. Consider the fact that hundreds of referees stood behind the banned ref. The BBC provides more details. “Hundreds of referees have risked being charged with […]

Two of the world’s best darts players are locked in a major feud — over which one of them farted on stage during a match in England. Dutch player Wesley Harms complained after losing a match to Scotland’s Gary Anderson at the Grand Slam of Darts that his opponent tried to smoke him out with […]

If there’s one thing we’ve seen from Ronda Rousey, it’s that UFC competitors can do well in the world of sports entertainment. Potentially hoping to follow in the footsteps of Rousey, Paige VanZant has expressed interest in a WWE run after her UFC career wraps up. A meeting with chief brand officer Stephanie McMahon leads […]

After allowing Zimbabwe to win their first Test cricket match in Bangladesh in 17 years as the Inquisitr reported, the Tigers behind stand-in Test captain Mahmudullah Riyad head to Dhaka where they have played more home matches than anywhere else, as they look to avoid what would be a disastrous whitewash in the two-match Test […]

The Flemington track in Melbourne today hosted its biggest event of the year: The Melbourne Cup. Sadly, as the guests reveled on and millions watched around the globe, one horse suffered a life-ending injury early on in the race. Irish horse The Cliffsofmoher broke his shoulder in the opening stages, according to ABC, and immediately […]

Horse racing fans who want to watch a livestream of the 2018 Melbourne Cup will be in luck, with options on how to watch live on a host of different devices including tablets and laptops. The race will start at 3 p.m. local time in Melbourne (11 p.m. ET/4 a.m. GMT) and attracts worldwide attention […]

Floyd Mayweather Jr. unveiled plans to return to the fight game, over the weekend, with a cryptic photograph that he posted to social media after announcing the upcoming event via a press conference aired live from Tokyo. ESPN reports that undefeated Japanese kickboxing sensation, Tenshin Nasukawa, will be Mayweather’s opponent in a December 31 showdown […]

For the first time since 2015, according to ESPN, India will play a cricket match with both of their most iconic stars — Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni — missing out. And while Kohli is simply being rested, rumors that the selectors’ choice to omit Dhoni indicate that the former captain is on his way […]

The Breeders’ Cup 2018 results are in, and Accelerate lived up to his name with a late charge that helped erase a rocky start. After a slow start before the race even began — including a wide draw and some hesitation getting into the gate — Accelerate was able to come on strong in the […]

The last time Zimbabwe won a Test cricket match in Bangladesh, the host nation had only recently been admitted to the exclusive club of Test nations, and was playing in only its seventh match in the game’s longest and most trying format, as ESPN reports, back in November of 2001. But with the Sylhet stadium […]

The baseball world is mourning the loss of all-time great Willie McCovey, who passed away from what is being reported as a “long battle with ongoing health issues,” on Wednesday afternoon, October 31. He was 80-years-old. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that McCovey had been hospitalized at Stanford University Medical Center since late last week. […]

No one-day international cricket team has defeated India twice in a series in more than two years, but West Indies have a chance to do just that, as CricInfo reports. They face the world-second-ranked ODI side on Monday in the fourth match of a five-game series that will live stream from Mumbai, India. To find […]

In one of the most tragic moments in recent sports history, the private helicopter of British soccer club Leicester City’s owner, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, crashed moments after his team’s Premier League game against West Ham on Saturday night, reports BBC. Srivaddhanaprabha, one of the richest men in Thailand, took over the ownership at Leicester in 2010 […]

Zimbabwe dropped the first two matches of their three-game, one-day international cricket series against Bangladesh, bringing their losing streak in the 50-overs format to 12 matches. But with nothing on the line, they will be playing with abandon, according to a CricBuzz report, and with Bangladesh Captain Mashrafe Mortaza planning changes to his XI, the […]

Zimbabwe will open a three-match one-day international cricket series against host Bangladesh on Sunday, with the African nation looking for a rare victory on the Tigers home turf. The win would be Zimbabwe’s first in the ODI format there since 2010, in a 50-overs match that will live stream from Dhaka. Zimbabwe failed to qualify […]

Chelsea’s Eden Hazard is implementing the same tactics used by Cristiano Ronaldo when he plotted a move from the Premier League in England to Real Madrid. This observation was made by the former teammate of Ronaldo, Wes Brown, as reported by Express. Hazard looked like he was close to a move to Madrid over the […]

Floyd Mayweather Jr. has confirmed that he wasn’t pulling anybody’s leg when he accepted an informal fight challenge that Khabib Nurmagomedov recently issued to him over social media. Mayweather made his intentions to come out of retirement for the scrap known during a run-in with TMZ, saying that he is “absolutely” committed to doing whatever […]

The monsoon rains threatening Sri Lanka may be the country’s best hope to avoid yet another one day international cricket defeat, after suffering 31 losses in their last 41 ODI matches, according to ESPN, but England has a plan to combat not only their opponents but the weather as well in the third match of […]

Floyd Mayweather, Jr. gave fans reason to believe that they may not have seen his last days in the ring after all on Monday, October 15, when the boxing great took to social media to share that he has received a challenge directly from the mouth of Khabib Nurmagomedov – and that he is totally […]

Steve Hansen has on Monday revealed an unusually large number of players will be involved in the All Blacks’ end-of-year tour this time around, with a total of 51 players named on the squad. As reported by Stuff, Hansen was criticized last week for saying that the government could help to pay for the large […]

UFC superstar Conor McGregor likely will not be trying to play football anytime soon after his awkward pass Sunday at AT&T Stadium before the Dallas Cowboys played the Jacksonville Jaguars was mocked mightily on social media. The Irish fighter was the guest of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and was invited to the field to give […]

Rachel McKinnon, a transgender female, won the women’s cycling championship for the 35-39 age bracket in Los Angeles on October 14. McKinnon — who represents Canada — beat out biological females Carolien Van Herrikhuyzen of the Netherlands and Jennifer Wagner of the United States to win the 2018 UCI Masters Track Cycling World Championships, the […]

Olympic champion Simone Biles disrupted the welcoming of Mary Bono to the USA Gymnastics president and CEO position on Saturday, October 13, with a tweet that appeared to question the former conservative politician’s qualifications for the role given her criticism of Nike for endorsing Colin Kaepernick. The New York Times reports that Biles quote-tweeted a […]

England and Sri Lanka will not only battle each other in their second one-day international cricket match on Saturday, but also the possibility of a monsoon sweeping through the Emerald Isle after their first ODI was washed away with just 15 overs in the books. As CricInfo reported, England batted and scored 92 runs while […]

While Conor McGregor has dominated the news in the past several days, albeit not for the reasons that he likely intended, those who can’t get enough of the Irish MMA fighter can look forward to an upcoming Netflix documentary where his mega-fight against Floyd Mayweather is the subject, as reported by Sport Bible.The documentary is […]

Colin Kaepernick supporters may soon be able to find merchandise or come across summer camp brochures bearing his image and know that the money they put up to bring that item home or to enroll their child in that program, will be going directly to the professional athlete-turned-activist. ESPN reports that Kaepernick filed paperwork to […]

Next year will see the inception of the first all-female racing series launched in May, with the aim to encourage more women to get into motorsport and provide them with a route to a Formula 1 seat. According to CNBC, the W series has the support of some big names in the industry, including those […]

All Black’s flanker Sam Cane departed the field on Saturday during the Kiwi side’s fixture against the Springboks after a clash with South African loose forward Francois Louw. He seemed to be in obvious pain after the collision. It was later shared that Cane had suffered fractured vertebrae in his neck as a result of […]

England, the world’s top-ranked one day international cricket side per the ICC rankings, play their first match since taking two of three from visiting India in July, when they travel to Sri Lanka to face a struggling team coming off a disastrous Asia Cup tournament, in a 50-over day-night match that will live stream on […]

Oregon sophomore Justin Gallegos was recently surprised with a professional contract from Nike. While Nike contracts aren’t the rarest thing in the world, they’re not exactly common. But what makes this even more impressive is Justin was born with cerebral palsy, a muscular disorder that leads to poor coordination, stiff and weakened muscles, and difficulty […]

The All Blacks may have walked away with the Rugby Championship trophy — and all the individual trophies on offer against South Africa, Australia, and Argentina as well — but Steve Hansen’s men were less than their usual convincing selves this season. As The Guardian reports, New Zealand have firmly cemented their position at the […]

The Carolina Panthers officially welcomed safety Eric Reid to their 2018-19 campaign for an NFC South title on Sunday, October 7 — and the former Pro Bowl star predictably brought his long-standing national anthem protest along with him, ABC News reports. Thanks to the heroics of kicker Graham Gano and his record-tying 63-yard field goal […]

Sam Cane, the flanker for the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team will be on the bench for months after fracturing his neck in a game against the Springboks. Luckily the 26-year-old was able to walk off the field on his own steam, but neck injuries can always be tricky. NewsHub says that Cane collided […]

Nike has spoken out about claims that Cristiano Ronaldo raped a woman in 2009, calling them “disturbing,” Sky News reported. The sportswear company, which has sponsored the soccer star since 2003, released a statement after a woman filed a lawsuit, accusing the Portugal star of raping her almost 10 years ago. “We are deeply concerned […]

Although the New Zealand All Blacks have already lifted the Rugby Championship Trophy as they took the 2018 title following their victory against Argentina in Buenos Aires last week, there is still one match to go for the season. This weekend the All Blacks will face up to their age-old rivals in Pretoria, South Africa, […]

The 2018 Asia Cup cricket championship all comes down to this — a rematch of the 2016 final, pitting Bangladesh against defending champions India. India is a team that has dominated the Tigers in Asia Cup play throughout the years, winning the 2016 title, played in the T20 format, by eight wickets, as CricBuzz recounts. […]

With one half of the Asia Cup cricket championship final set, with defending champions India already qualified — and coming off a thrilling tie with Afghanistan, per CricInfo — arch-rivals Bangladesh and Pakistan will face off in what has now become a knockout match that will live stream from Abu Dhabi, with the winner gaining […]

Rugby players with a passion for body art have been asked to be a little discreet about brandishing their tattoos at the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan, reports the BBC. Or to put it bluntly, they’ve been asked to keep their colorful and creative ink covered up at all times so as to not […]

India and Pakistan, after going without facing each other on a cricket ground for more than a year, square off for the second time in five days as they play a crucial Asia Cup Super Four match with the winner taking a guaranteed spot in Friday’s championship final. India would appear to have the edge […]

Chicago Cubs shortstop Addison Russell will be put on administrative leave after his ex-wife, Melisa Reidy, posted a link to a blog on her Instagram page, according to a September 21 report by USA Today. The top of the page reads, “you no longer have a secret, you have a story.” The blog post talks […]

Thanks to the heroics of No. 1 overall draft pick Baker Mayfield, the Cleveland Browns won their first game in 635 days with a rally from behind to defeat the New York Jets by a score of 21-17 on Thursday night, September 20. For the diehards who held onto hope inside of FirstEnergy Stadium and […]

The Bangladesh Tigers will need to overcome fatigue, playing 50-overs cricket matches on back-to-back days in two different cities, when they face Asia Cup defending champions India in the opener of the tournament’s Super Four stage. The Tigers took a drubbing from Afghanistan on Thursday in Abu Dhabi, as ESPN reported. But Bangladesh rested two […]

In what was supposed to be a match that would decide the winner of Group B in the Asia Cup 50-overs cricket competition, Afghanistan and Bangladesh will square off on Thursday. As the Dhaka Tribune reports, thanks to some last-minute finagling by the Asia Cricket Council, the game is now a meaningless “dead rubber,” that […]

When Anthony Prince laid down a bet on the Broncos vs. Raiders game on Sunday, he had a feeling what he was seeing might be too good to be true. What he saw was the odds for the Broncos to win being posted at 750-1 underdogs. At the time the live odds he was betting […]

The greatest rivalry in cricket, and some would say in all of world sports, renews for the first time in 15 months on Wednesday when India faces Pakistan in 50-overs Group A match at the 2018/2019 Asia Cup. The Inquisitr covered the history of the momentous rivalry, which has its roots in the 1947 partition […]

Miami Marlins manager and former Yankee’s star first baseman Don Mattingly is not a fan of the rule allowing rosters to expand in September, and wants to see it changed to preserve what he refers to as competitive balance. This is despite the fact that Mattingly, who was a September call-up in 1982, is rated […]

His fellow athletes at his training camp call him the “boss man.” Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge proved that he truly is in charge by shaving more than a minute off his previous record marathon time. It’s impressive to shave any time off a marathon race, but especially that much. The Guardian reported that Kipchoge completed the […]