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Outgoing Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson confirmed that star Wayne Rooney has handed in a transfer request due to frustration at being substituted in recent matches. The 27-year-old forward has been with United since 2004 and now wants out, but Ferguson insists the club has no plans to let him go.
Every Thursday from here on out, I will highlight a moment from the past in WWE that was memorable, and one that deserves to be talked about in the present. It is Throwback Thursday. Get excited. This week’s inaugural edition, focuses on an event that did not happen too long ago. October 8, 2012 was [...]
Floyd Mayweather and Robert Guerrero face off tonight in a welterweight title fight. Coverage kicks off at 9 p.m. eastern, be sure to join us!
After the 2013 UEFA Champions League semifinals, Germany has become the obvious choice to win the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) lawyer Bill Bock said earlier this week that, had Lance Armstrong cooperated with the organization’s investigation, the cyclist only would have been stripped of two of his record seven Tour de France titles. In August, the USADA charged Armstrong with performance-enhancing drug use, banned him from competition in any sport [...]
What happened Tuesday and Wednesday nights in the first legs of the semifinals of CONCACAF Champions League confirmed what many pundits already thought: Mexico’s First Division, Liga MX, is a higher quality soccer league than MLS.
Hercules Gomez, the rising U.S. National Team star, booted in the only goal of the game to help his club, Santos (Laguna) of the Mexican 1st Division, win the first leg of its Semifinal in CONCACAF Champions League.
Both the Sounders and Galaxy were able to put to rest last year’s disappointing losses as favorites in the quarterfinals round of CONCACAF Champions League play with impressive aggregate wins in this year’s quarterfinals round over rivals Tigres of Mexico and Heredia of Costa Rica.
What effects are all the fitness boxing and kickboxing classes having on participation and on spectatorship? It would seem women are a demographic open for exploration in these sports.
Gareth Bale is a spectacular talent, but soccer fans are deprived of seeing him at his best more often because of arcane rules that could use some tweaking.
On Friday night, in the semi-final round of the Lafayette Jefferson sectional tournament in Class 4A, another miraculous basketball moment bounced its way into the rich history and tradition that is Indiana high school basketball.
Fortunately, the terrifying crash at the end of Saturday’s race was not the Daytona 500 with packed stands. But how long does NASCAR continue to play with fire?
David Beckham’s MLS tenure was the perfect storm for MLS, as the league grew by teams, attendance, and publicity. Beckham brought amazing goals and assists, and he topped things off by winning. Now, it’s Thierry Henry’s turn.
Football may be over, but that doesn’t mean there are not good wagering investments to be made this weekend. That’s because the Daytona 500, the Great American Race, is also the World’s Greatest Crapshoot.
That’s because the Daytona 500 is the Great American Race and the World’s Greatest Crapshoot.
Just don’t call it ‘NASCAR’s Super Bowl’, it’s more like baseball’s Opening Day if anyone else, merely the first of 36 Cup races on the schedule. If the NFL were truly like NASCAR, they would let all 32 teams on the field at once, with the game somehow ending with the Oakland Raiders winning.
43 drivers take the green flag, and the majority of the field has a chance to win if the cards play out right.
Without the Olympic Games, maybe wrestling can pick up a more dynamic marketing idea to brand the sport better.
