It is Super Bowl Sunday, the day football fans all over America will invite friends over, put out their favorite snacks, settle into their sofas early in the day, and … watch an English Premier League match between Manchester United and Chelsea?
Soccer's quest for new fans kicks off with mega-match.
INDIANAPOLIS (MainStreet) -- Super Bowl Sunday is a melange of full-contact sport, carpet-bombed advertising and pizza/wing/chip-fueled gluttony for the more than 110 U.S. million viewers who tune in. For the rest of the country, it's just Sunday. The NFL, NBC and dozens of advertisers and retail outlets really want America to believe that the world grinds to a halt on Super Bowl Sunday and any ...
There may have been more media hoopla for Cain Velasquez vs. Junior dos Santos. With the heavyweight title on the line, there may have been a greater bounty up for grabs. But as it pertains to the future of the sport as well as the UFC brand's health, Saturday's second UFC on Fox event is significantly more important than the first. There are two basic reasons for this claim. The first deals ...
Three-time Olympic champion Jackie Joyner-Kersee was among three new members of the USA Track and Field board of directors announced on Monday by the national sport governing body.
CHICAGO and BOCA RATON, Fla., Jan. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Incapital announced plans today to sponsor Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) All-American middleweight contender Chris Weidman on Saturday ...
A Warwick couple and their dogs were attacked by foxhounds on New Year's Day. The woman said it was "just terrifying."
Fox Sports commentator John McEnroe says "hunger" is the key to reinstalling America as the dominant force in world tennis.
He played in an era when Ted Williams was baseball's finest hitter, the era of Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Henry Aaron, Stan Musial, Al Kaline and Joe DiMaggio.
This past weekend's UFC on FOX 2 event, which featured three main-card bouts, averaged 4.7 million viewers and a 2.6 household rating. MMAjunkie.com today confirmed the figures with industry sources. Overall, the Jan. 28 event - which ran two hours and 19 minutes - scored a 3.21 rating among men 18-49 and a 3.21 among men 18-34. It's tied for the second-highest-rated UFC event in U.S. television ...
From fingerless AFL star Daniel Chick to armless golfer Jack Newton, Fox Sports lists nine amputees who have inspired in sport.
Judy and John Cox were walking their dogs in the woods behind their Meetinghouse Road home at about 2 p.m. on New Year's Day when they saw people on horseback across the Neshaminy Creek. Some of them
By Jason Davis - WASHINGTON, DC (Jan 19, 2011) US Soccer Players -- Fox, the national broadcast network that counts iconic properties like The Simpsons and the National Football League among its assets, blazed a new trail by airing a live English Premier League soccer match on Sunday. Soccer getting the full televised sports treatment on a network that isn’t an opt-in premium purchase, but a ...
Peyton Manning illustrated last week why football is like anything else in entertainment. He has a future that is essentially unknowable, but storms of speculation swirled around him in a way that was curious because we’re not so good in sports at accepting “I don’t know” as a correct answer to a question, especially not in the soap-opera-for-males world of sports. This led to Yahoo! reporting ...
A list of the Oklahoma high school athletes who have signed to play a sport in college.
Judy and John Cox were walking their dogs in the woods behind their Meetinghouse Road home at about 2 p.m. on New Year's Day when they saw people on horseback across the Neshaminy Creek. Some of them
Tim Goodman It's football. And I get it now. read more
During last week’s thrilling overtime win by the New York Giants over the San Francisco 49ers, Fox kept showing ads for the popular TV show “American Idol.” After about the 10th commercial, I started to wonder: What does a reality show like “American Idol” have to do with football? But the more I thought about it, the more I realized how much sports and reality TV have in common. Read full ...
Another round of ads custom-made for Super Bowl Sunday have hit the web with teaser campaigns in anticipation of the 100 million viewers watching the big championship American football game, February 5.
(Reuters) - He won't be in this Sunday's Super Bowl and his Denver Broncos are already 50-to-1 longshots for next year's National Football League title, but if Tim Tebow swapped the pigskin for politics, he just might be a shoo-in for the White House. Asked which NFL playoff quarterback they would choose for president of the United States in the coming election, more than one in four voters go ...
