NASCAR driver Travis Kvapil’s No. 44 car was missing Friday after somebody thieved the hauler that contained the vehicle while it was parked at a hotel parking lot located on the outskirts of Atlanta. Unfortunately, the No. 44 Team Xtreme had to remove itself from the weekend Atlanta race since the car wasn’t located before […]
St. Louis Cardinals manager Mike Matheny didn’t know what to say about the unexpected Sunday death of one of the team’s players… Oscar Taveras. Taveras, 22, was in the Dominican Republic and died Sunday in an automobile accident. At the time of the accident, the roads were wet, but the investigation is still ongoing and […]
Rob Bironas, a former kicker for the Tennessee Titans, died following an overnight car wreck in Nashville. Metro police said Birona, 36, got into a one-vehicle accident around 11 p.m. Saturday after he lost control over his speeding SUV. The vehicle left the roadway and hit many trees before it landed upside down in a […]
Minnesota Vikings deactivated Adrian Peterson from its Sunday game against the New England Patriots after he was accused of reckless or negligent injury to a child in Texas. However, this deactivation of the running back could extend beyond the Sunday game. According to Ian Rapoport, an NFL media insider, a Vikings source said the outcome […]
Brett Favre, quarterback for the Green Bay Packers, may soon be given a high honor. According to the Green Bay Press Gazette, the Packers are expected to announce his induction into their Hall of Fame, retiring his No. 4 jersey. The paper stipulates the induction will take place in 2015 with the uniform-retirement occasion happening […]
There are multiple reports that Jimmy Graham and the Saints are nearing a contract agreement that will make Graham the highest-paid NFL tight end, although no terms have been revealed as of yet. Jimmy Graham recently put in an appeal for an arbitrator’s ruling that said Graham was a tight end, not wide receiver and […]
As Brazil played Germany in the first semi-finals of the FIFA World Cup, sparks were expected to fly as two of the most potent teams clashed in a grueling chase for glory. Sparks did fly – and that too on many occasions – but just from the Germans as they battered, bruised and utterly humiliated […]
Chuck Noll, the legendary Pittsburg Steelers coach who won four Super Bowls, died Friday night at his home in Pittsburgh. Noll was 82, and according to the medical examiner in Allegheny County, he died of natural causes. Noll coached the Steelers from 1969 until 1991 and had a 209 -156 – 1 record, which includes […]
There are 89 countries and territories competing in this year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, after the International Olympic Committee reinstated India after a one-year ban. India’s athletes can now compete under the country’s flag. According to a statement written by the IOC, it’s the first time ever that a National Olympic Committee suspension is […]
Across the globe television viewers saw the opening of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia on Friday evening with a festive ceremony. President Vladimir Putin made the declaration for the games to begin. The opening ceremony did not go perfectly as planned however. The standout glitch was the display of five snowflakes that were […]