Chi-town soccer player Toma Dobrosavljevic edges softball star for “Biggest Loser” title
Toma Dobrosavljevic needed to register a weight loss of 170 pounds to be named this season's "Biggest Loser" — he went one pound better [...]
Gridiron guru Pete Carroll shares wisdom with Matt Lauer
Pete Carroll's unique approach to coaching has been well documented — in particular, he focuses attention on cultivating optimism, mindfulness and gratitude among his [...]
Aaron Rodgers chills out with kids from Camp Hometown Heroes
Aaron Rodgers (not Tom Wrigglesworth) won his second career NFL MVP award last week after leading the Green Bay Packers to an 11-3 record. [...]
Patriots escape Seahawks, but animals win 2015 Super Bowl ads battle
The Seahawks may have lost a heartbreaker on the field of Super Bowl XLIX, but animals dominated the commercial breaks. From the requisite puppy, [...]
Battle of the Marshawn Lynch and Richard Sherman spoofs
Three storylines dominated the news leading into Super Bowl XLIX: 1) Marshawn Lynch's reticence with the media, 2) Richard Sherman's loquaciousness with the media, [...]
Top Ten Fan Cards — February 7, 2015
This week's Top Ten Fan Cards chart sees a soccer card back in the top spot. The card tally by sport has football and [...]
Teddy Bear the Porcupine picks the Super Bowl XLIX winner… corn!
For years now, animals have been commissioned to pick the Super Bowl winner with varying degrees of success. For fans of analytics, the tradition [...]
Saints quarterback Drew Brees is a human pressure guage
Saints quarterback Drew Brees visited with Conan O'Brien this week and the topic of deflategate came up. Conan was curious to know if Brees [...]
Red Sox third baseman Pablo Sandoval can hoop it up from his posterior
When the San Francisco Giants lost their star third baseman to the Boston Red Sox, they couldn't have possibly known they were losing a [...]
Starr Cards Infographic: Chasing the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls’ 72-10 season record
With Michael Jordan back in the lineup after a stint with the White Sox' minor league affiliate, the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls were, as they [...]
Buckeyes-Ducks CFP championship game revisited with bad British commentary
What would happen if a British sports announcer were to call the play-by-play for an American college football game? No need to wonder, as [...]
Saturday Night Live and Bill Nye weigh in on deflategate
As the NFL closes in on a scapegoat to blame for deflategate, Saturday Night Live and Bill Nye weighed in over the weekend on [...]
Top Ten Fan Cards — January 31, 2015
This week's Top Ten Fan Cards chart sees a baseball/anime card in the top spot for the first time. The card tally by sport [...]
Take a spin inside Sidney Crosby’s skates with GoPro
GoPro is partnering with the NHL to give hockey fans a unique first-person perspective into the fastest game on ice. The first fruit of [...]
Great deflategate debate won’t abate on Twitter
The case of the mysteriously underinflated footballs is almost a week old, but the twittersphere remains as obsessed with the controversy as ever. Take [...]
Duke provides a peek inside Coach K’s family album ahead of his 1,000th win
The Duke Blue Devils 79-65 win over Pitt left Mike Krzyzewski (aka Coach K) just one win shy of one thousand for his career. [...]
Three-time softball Olympic gold medalist Lori Harrigan ousted on “The Biggest Loser”
Three-time softball Olympic gold medalist Lori Harrigan was edged out for one of the final four spots NBC's The Biggest Loser reality show by [...]
Remembering NBA color barrier busters on MLK Day
Baseball gets well-deserved kudos for breaking the color barrier with Jackie Robinson, but no league has been as proactive at eliminating the barrier altogether [...]