Skiing down a massive slope with an avalanche on your heels is the stuff of storybooks and great action films.  But add a leap off a cliff at the end of the run and you’ve got an amazing video.  According to Aol Travel:
It’s the stuff James Bond films are made of. A lone skier perched [...]

Former Arizona Cardinals defensive back Pat Tillman died seven years ago today.  He was killed in what was eventually declared “friendly fire” in Afghanistan.  Tillman was looking down the pipe of a very prosperous NFL career but decided to give it all up to join the Army after 9/11.  The National Football Post’s Andrew Brandt [...]

Look, when it’s time to lift the trophy, it’s time to lift the trophy.  When it’s time to party it’s time to party.  Two totally different times, people.  Someone should have told that to Real Madrid’s Sergio Ramos.  Check out Serg as he drops the prized Copa Del Rey Trophy and watches it roll under [...]

Bud Selig announced today that Major League Baseball will begin making payments to former players who weren’t in the league long enough to qualify for a pension, yet “contributed to the history” of the game.  The New York Times reports:
Commissioner Bud Selig’s office and the players union announced Thursday that players who played between [...]

Jered Weaver is on a roll.  Wednesday night he struck out eight Texas batters on the way to a six hit, one run performance.  It was also a complete game for Weaver and his fifth win of this early MLB season.  The Angels beat the Rangers 4-1.  According to NBC Sports:

The complete game was the [...]

Major league baseball has just become a HUGE Los Angeles Dodgers fan.  MLB Commissioner, Bud Selig, announced today that the league will appoint a trustee to take over the team’s operations after he expressed “deep concerns” over the teams’ finances.  Amazing.  Dodgers owner Frank McCourt takes out a few $30 million loans to cover payroll [...]

There are a lot of divas in the sports world.  It’s often hard to even consider some of today’s sports figures in the same league as the tough-as-nails athletes of yesteryear.  However, professional athletes choosing family over team over a game does not a diva make.  In fact, it’s a quality we should celebrate.  But [...]

The reigning Stanley Cup Champion Chicago Blackhawks were hoping to avoid a first round sweeping by the Vancouver Canucks in the NHL Playoffs.  Tuesday, Chicago scored enough goals to win Game 5 as well.  Too bad that’s not the way it works.  In a 7-2 thrashing of the Canucks, the Blackhawks guaranteed themselves one more [...]

Ohio State may be regretting the slap on the wrist it gave head football coach, Jim Tressel, for failing to comply with NCAA rules by not reporting on e-mails he’d known about for over eight months.  However, it’s not that the $250,000 fine the university levied against Tressel is too much, but too little…too little [...]

Former University of Virginia athlete, George Huguely, has been indicted by a grand jury in the murder of his ex-girlfriend, a member of the women’s lacrosse team.  USA Today reports:
Besides first-degree murder, 23-year-old George Huguely of Chevy Chase, Md., faces felony murder, robbery, burglary, statutory burglary and grand larceny charges in the May [...]