"I'm better at life than you." Bold, huh? Those were the words Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman hurled at ESPN's "First Take" television host Skip Bayless on one of the show's episodes last week.
Following Bayless' comments that the Stanford product wasn't in the "same class" as Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis, the Bayless-Sherman on-air debate was circled on the calendar...
"I'm a 34-year-old NBA Center. I'm black. And I'm gay." Simple, poignant and daring words. Jason Collins, a 12-year NBA veteran, became the first man to acknowledge being gay while still active in one of America's four major professional sports. But Collins' statement was much more than words, it was a small shift in American sports popular culture: the...
Over the past week, UC Riverside Athletics announced that it would send its lovable mascot Scotty the Bear all around the city on RTA buses to select one rider every month as a prize package winner, which includes four tickets to an athletic event, four T-shirts, a parking pass and pre-game hospitality. Functioning as an effort to get the...
It’s slow, slippery and arduous: the red clay of Roland Garros. It brings out unpredictability on the women’s side and complete dominance from a special Spaniard on the men’s. Over the weekend, the second grand slam of the tennis season began in the city of love with 128 players competing for the championship in each field, but who will...
Where will Dwight Howard land next season? Will he erase the memories of a disastrous campaign in Los Angeles and re-sign with the Lakers? Or is a trip to the good ol’ state of Texas on the table? The mystery that swirls around Howard’s thought process throughout free agency is frustrating for fans and teams alike. The latest rumours...
It's the dance that has been sweeping the nation and even our own university campus. Now add the Miami Heat to the Harlem Shake craze. The NBA's best team recently released a video of their own ode to the gyrating shimmy, but not without media criticism. Whispers of a lack of focus and intensity have surfaced this past week,...
With Michael Jordan's 50th birthday and Lebron James' historic performances fueling the sports headlines last week, the age-old debate of who is the greatest of all time has been reignited.
As the sports contingent focused primarily on Lebron vs. MJ last week, thousands of miles away in Rotterdam, Netherlands, one of the greatest champions in professional sport quietly declared her...