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Sunday night at the Oscars got a late jolt — as well as one of the most awkward, memorable scenes in TV history — when the wrong card was accidentally handed to the Best Picture presenters. The mixup led to La La Land briefly being named Best Picture, before an insane moment when the speeches were stopped and the audience was informed that it was actually Moonlight that had won.  The auditorium gasped, four…

CLOSE x Embed x Share Tim Tebow address the media after arriving at Mets camp. Chris Pedota/NorthJersey.com Tim Tebow is seen leaving on a golf cart after addressing members of the media.(Photo: Steve Mitchell, USA TODAY Sports) PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Tim Tebow was everywhere Monday at the New York Mets spring-training camp, but nowhere to be found in the actually place that mattered. You could find Tebow jerseys…

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It didn’t take long for the sports world to weigh in on the Oscars best picture award mix-up that occurred late Sunday night. In case you missed it, “La La Land” initially was presented with the coveted award, only for the picture’s cast and crew to learn that fellow nominee “Moonlight” was the actual winner. WATCH: Moment where crew/cast of ‘La La Land’ realizes a mistake had been made and…

The Oscars may have been marred by a historic screw-up at the end of the ceremony, but in terms of historic human errors, remembering these terrible fails in sports may help ease the embarrassment: 1. Seahawks-Packers, 2012 It was the call that ended the NFL officials lockout. In 2012, replacement officials — as it was later widely acknowledged — botched a touchdown call, a moment that was so bad that…

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Welcome to SEC Country’s daily Arkansas Razorbacks podcast with Jason Kersey, Trent Shadid and Eric Bolin. Today, the guys talk about the baseball team’s hot start to the season, the basketball team’s recent winning streak and a few football topics. SEC Country launched the Borderline Erotic Podcast on Aug. 29, 2016. It is named after the colorful way Arkansas football coach Bret Bielema described how he felt…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Long before his virtues as a baseball player prompted both intrigue and amusement within the MLB community, before his swing became a topic of analysis and derision among professional baseball scouts, and before the likelihood of his cracking an MLB roster became cannon fodder for daily sports talk shows, Tim Tebow had already made an indelible mark on the national scene. He…

It didn’t take long for the sports world to weigh in on the Oscars best picture award mix-up that occurred late Sunday night. In case you missed it, “La La Land” initially was presented with the coveted award, only for the picture’s cast and crew to learn that fellow nominee “Moonlight” was the actual winner. WATCH: Moment where crew/cast of ‘La La Land’ realizes a mistake had been made and…

It didn’t take long for the sports world to weigh in on the Oscars best picture award mix-up that occurred late Sunday night. In case you missed it, “La La Land” initially was presented with the coveted award, only for the picture’s cast and crew to learn that fellow nominee “Moonlight” was the actual winner. WATCH: Moment where crew/cast of ‘La La Land’ realizes a mistake had been made and…

This is the fourth essay in our series of 10 Lessons From 10 Years Of The World’s Most Innovative Companies. The National Football League is an amazingly successful enterprise, but these days it’s hard to think of it as a bastion of forward-thinking business practices. The organization’s blindness, or willful denial, of concussion risks could be a case study in mismanagement. Whether the edifice of professional football will eventually crumble…

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — There was a time when Tim Tebow could really hit — and not just on the football field. Back in 2005, when he was a junior outfielder here at Nease High School, just north of St. Augustine, the hulking Tebow came to the plate in the District 7-4A championship game to lead off seventh inning against archrival St. Augustine in the Nation’s Oldest City. Nease…

COLUMBIA, S.C. — When South Carolina football took to the practice field Saturday morning, Brandon McIlwain was getting ready for a Saturday afternoon baseball game against Wright State. The sophomore quarterback currently is a sophomore outfielder with the Gamecocks baseball team, leading him to be at Founders Park and not at the first spring football practice Saturday. Still, in the middle of a busy baseball schedule and academic obligations, McIlwain…

Oakland Athletics ace Sonny Gray hasn’t had much luck lately. In 2016, he posted new full-season worsts in starts (22), ERA+ (70), and strikeout-to-walk ratio (2.24). If 2017 is destined to go better for Gray, then consider this an ominous sign: he will not be permitted to pitch for the United States’ World Baseball Classic team. The reason? Gray was denied insurance coverage for the event, according to Susan Slusser…

COLUMBIA, S.C. — For the second weekend in a row, South Carolina baseball entered Sunday with a chance to sweep an opponent. And for the second consecutive weekend, the Gamecocks fell without much of a whimper offensively in a series finale. The Gamecocks (5-3) recorded eight hits — only three after the fourth inning — and Chad Holbrook was ejected in a 5-1 loss to Wright State on Sunday at…

From now until the World Baseball Classic begins on March 6, we’ll be helping you get to know each team involved in baseball’s global tournament. Today’s entry: Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic has one thing in mind entering the 2017 World Baseball Classic: Repeat. After becoming only the second country to win the Classic in 2013, this well-rounded team has an opportunity to repeat history by joining Japan as back-to-back…

When Adnan Virk was a guest on the Sports Illustrated Media podcast last May, one of the subjects that came up was Virk being the first Muslim anchor to work at ESPN. “There have been trailblazers in other disciplines much more important than me than being the first Muslim sportscaster at ESPN but it is pretty cool when I go to the mosque or when I meet kids and…

Attention, sports team owners – and anyone trying to make a buck off the supposedly ever-growing American thirst to watch athletic events. Game over. TV viewership of sporting events has seemingly reached – at a minimum – a cyclical peak. Ratings for most major professional sports are headed in the wrong direction. And in today’s media-saturated world, this will become a challenge for an industry in…

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series wrecks just kept on coming in startlingly rapid fashion during Stage 3 of the Daytona 500 on Sunday. Within a handful of laps before the final 80-lap segment that was to determine the race winner reached halfway, there were three more huge multi-car accidents on a day that was full of them after a quiet first 60-lap stage. On the…

Denny Hamlin wins the second of the two Can-Am Duels at Daytona International Speedway on Thursday night, giving him a good starting spot for the Daytona 500. Hamlin won the race in 2016. Photo credit: Brian Lawdermilk/Stringer/Getty Images The biggest day in American stock-car racing is here, and you may have noticed that it’s going to look a whole lot different—and more complicated—this time around. Luckily, we’ve got your back….

Photo credit: David Becker/Getty Images NASCAR CEO and chairman Brian France, who usually doesn’t publicly comment on competition issues in his sport, uncharacteristically instructed drivers not to block at the Daytona 500 drivers meeting, reports NBC Sports. The problem is, you have to keep the other drivers behind you somehow in order to win at a restrictor plate track like Daytona International Speedway. That’s…blocking. Advertisement Here’s what France told drivers…