Right off top, here’s something that you need to understand: I’m an R&B dude. Not an R&B thug, not an R&B gangster, not even an R&B soldier. No qualifiers needed here, no faux-machismo terms required so I can try to ma

First of all, let me address something, Gronk. You, Robert James Gronkowski, are not from Pittsburgh. I don't know who was responsible for that stunt on the Sunday night telecast. You grew up in Amherst, a Buffalo suburb. You went to North Wi

In 1982 America was enmeshed in the Reagan Era, Michael Jackson was crowned king upon his release of Thriller, John Elway 

Watching Their Throne

SEC supporters now have even more ammunition.

When the latest edition of the AP poll was released, four of the conference's top teams (Alabama, LSU, Georgia and South Ca

GOOD MORNING

It was a wild weekend in the NFL, with three overtime games and more fun with the replacement referees.

The Titans and Lions went all out on the ridiculousness after

Baseball wasn’t built for cats that, ahem, bust off quick. By design, the grueling162-game season limits a single player’s impact on the overall performance of a team. Yankees closer Mariano Rivera has been the rare exception to this

Admittedly, the replacement referees have been subpar. You could even say incompetent or shaky. Go ahead; say they suck, do it. Yeah, they’re calling ticky-tack stuff and missing obvious no-brainers. There were 24 accepted penalties in last

The problem I have with this piece is that it feels dated and misguided. Crazy dated at that. I don’t care if

"I don't want to tip-toe the lines of anything that's happened with bounties or anything like that, but they were definitely going after me,"

Really?. Those are 

Reality is often trumped by possibility.

Never has this been more evident in sports than with Lane Kiffin, college football's perennial harbinger of youth and future prosperity. It is Kiffin who has been handed much

I knew I liked Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.

For the uninitiated, Chavez Jr. is a boxer and the son of Hall of Fame legend Julio Cesar Chavez. During the early part of his career, he used his famous name to beat up club fighters

Monday, Salon.com ran an excerpt from Wyclef Jean’s memoir, “Purpose: An Immigrant’s Story”. The titillating portion of the excerpt

Some stories are just so distressing that you figure, somehow, it must be a hoax. Until you hear about an arrest and then you shake your hea

We highly suggest this fascinating piece on the di

You can’t be half a gangster.

That’s how Jimmy Darmody left Boardwalk Empire last season and, judging from the opening scenes of “Resolution,” it appears the message was well received.