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Tennis legend Margaret Court has added fuel to her anti-gay controversy by claiming “tennis is full of lesbians” and transgender children are the work of “the devil.” The 74-year-old Court, who won 24 Grand Slam events in her amazing career, made the comments on 20Twenty Vision Christian Radio. “I mean, tennis is full of lesbians, because even when I was playing there was only a couple there, but those couple…

Tennis legend Margaret Court has added fuel to her anti-gay controversy by claiming “tennis is full of lesbians” and transgender children are the work of “the devil.” The 74-year-old Court, who won 24 Grand Slam events in her amazing career, made the comments on 20Twenty Vision Christian Radio. “I mean, tennis is full of lesbians, because even when I was playing there was only a couple there, but those couple…

Tennis legend Margaret Court has added fuel to her anti-gay controversy by claiming “tennis is full of lesbians” and transgender children are the work of “the devil.” The 74-year-old Court, who won 24 Grand Slam events in her amazing career, made the comments on 20Twenty Vision Christian Radio. “I mean, tennis is full of lesbians, because even when I was playing there was only a couple there, but those couple…

Image via Barstool Sports, a blog for dipshits, by dipshits, caught hell Tuesday after senior director of editorial strategy and growth—this does not sound like a real job—Chris Spagnuolo wrote a blog about how Rihanna might be fat. Spagnuolo believed the criticism came because no one read past the headline, which was “Is Rihanna Going To Make Being Fat The Hot New Trend?” Those who read past the headline got…

TIGER WOODS More disturbing images of Tiger Woods emerged in the black-and-white details of police reports, depicting him sound asleep behind the wheel of a car parked awkwardly on the side of a six-lane Florida road with two flat tires, the engine still running and a blinker flashing. When a police officer woke him, Woods was so disoriented that he initially said he had just returned from playing golf in…

An L.A. home owned by LeBron James was the target of a hate crime — someone spray painted the n-word on the front gate and detectives are now investigating, cops tell TMZ Sports. Here’s what we know … multiple LAPD units and a neighborhood patrol vehicle responded to the home early Wednesday morning. We’re told the word was scrawled on the outer gate. We’re told investigators are looking for security footage…

This conceptual drawing shows the stadium district of Rocky Mountain Sports Park, which is proposed for Windsor. WINDSOR — Local developers announced Tuesday their intention to build a sports park in Windsor that would have no rival worldwide. Two years from now, the proposed Rocky Mountain Sports Park will host its first baseball and softball tournaments on its 65 fields, the developers said at a press conference with Windsor officials….

TIGER WOODS More disturbing images of Tiger Woods emerged in the black-and-white details of police reports, depicting him sound asleep behind the wheel of a car parked awkwardly on the side of a six-lane Florida road with two flat tires, the engine still running and a blinker flashing. When a police officer woke him, Woods was so disoriented that he initially said he had just returned from playing golf in…

This conceptual drawing shows the stadium district of Rocky Mountain Sports Park, which is proposed for Windsor. WINDSOR — Local developers announced Tuesday their intention to build a sports park in Windsor that would have no rival worldwide. Two years from now, the proposed Rocky Mountain Sports Park will host its first baseball and softball tournaments on its 65 fields, the developers said at a press conference with Windsor officials….

TIGER WOODS More disturbing images of Tiger Woods emerged in the black-and-white details of police reports, depicting him sound asleep behind the wheel of a car parked awkwardly on the side of a six-lane Florida road with two flat tires, the engine still running and a blinker flashing. When a police officer woke him, Woods was so disoriented that he initially said he had just returned from playing golf in…

CLOSE x Embed x Share A look at the eight inductees into the highest honor for a state of Michigan sports figure. Wochit Buy Photo Mitch Albom speaks during a ceremony where 20 area charities accepted checks totaling more than $1 million from donations raised at Mitch Albom’s with annual S.A.Y. Detroit Radiothon in December 2016 in Detroit on Tuesday, March 21, 2017.(Photo: Romain Blanquart, Detroit Free Press)Buy Photo A…

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TIGER WOODS Tiger Woods attributed an “unexpected reaction” to prescription medicine for his arrest on a DUI charge that landed him in a Florida jail for nearly four hours. Woods, the 14-time major champion who had back surgery five weeks ago, was arrested on suspicion of DUI at about 3 a.m. Monday and taken to Palm Beach County jail. He was released on his own recognizance. An arrest report might…

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Frank Deford in 1984. He would go on to spend another 33 years as a commentator on Morning Edition. Bob Child/AP hide caption toggle caption Bob Child/AP Frank Deford in 1984. He would go on to spend another 33 years as a commentator on Morning Edition. Bob Child/AP Updated at 4:11 p.m. ET Through nearly four decades, at least five presidential administrations and seemingly countless Super Bowls and World Series,…

The Denver Post has cut ties with Terry Frei after the journalist tweeted that he was “very uncomfortable with a Japanese driver winning the Indianapolis 500 during Memorial Day weekend.” Frei posted the comment on Sunday, after Takuma Sato became the first Japanese driver to win the race. On Monday, the Post’s president and CEO Mac Tully and editor Lee Ann Colacioppo published a short statement apologizing for the “disrespectful…

They have popped up in the scablands of eastern Washington and along Lake Michigan. They have come to prominence during the Gilded Age and in the new Millennium. They have all, at one point or another, shocked, dominated or captivated a sport. What made college sports’ one-sport wonders what they are? The typical formula for success dictates that a school build football and basketball into cash machines, with the revenue…

As long as the world has gone nuts — as long as common sense and common decency have become increasingly devalued — perhaps it’s time to toss in the towel. Maybe it’s time to give the other side a shot, to pander a la “Good Investments” Roger Goodell: bad is good, worse is even better. For small example, late Sunday night’s Mets-Bucs on ESPN included a show and tell of…

He said Akif Cagatay Kilic, the sports minister, had already been instructed to carry out the order. “What does arena mean? We don’t have such a thing in our language,” Mr Erdogan added, urging people to examine the “meaning and interpretation” of arenas saying the word was “neither polite nor elegant”. Mr Erdogan’s disdain for the word is thought to stem from Ancient Roman arenas, where gladiators would fight to…

They have popped up in the scablands of eastern Washington and along Lake Michigan. They have come to prominence during the Gilded Age and in the new Millennium. They have all, at one point or another, shocked, dominated or captivated a sport. What made college sports’ one-sport wonders what they are? The typical formula for success dictates that a school build football and basketball into cash machines, with the revenue…