In the Women’s World Cup, the USA soccer team took the championship against Japan on Sunday—just not with their pocketbooks. In fact, they are being paid 40 times less than their male counterparts.
Sean “Diddy” Combs is facing serious charges for allegedly assaulting his son’s UCLA football coach on Monday.
A nation of dudes wiped off their dried up Entourage spittle and tuned in to the premiere of HBO’s Ballers, which stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as Spencer Strasmore, a retired Miami Dolphins player turned financial advisor. Broke athletes, with a side of tits, is what it is, and it’s likely to be every football…
The brands have spoken, and they want you to know that domestic violence and sexual assault are bad. In fact, the brands not only think they’re bad, but have a theory as to why they persist: the issues of domestic violence and sexual assault don’t have a strong enough brand. So, to help get America talking about these…
As long ago as it now seems, it was only this past July when Roger Goodell decided to suspend Ray Rice for two games after the Baltimore Ravens running back cold-cocked his future wife in an Atlantic City casino elevator. There was outrage, but not enough to change the NFL commissioner's mind. He needed to see the…
A bill introduced on Thursday by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez would give professional cheerleaders in California employee rights and benefits. Because that is something that we, as Americans, do not in this present day believe they deserve.
Cory Batey and Brandon Vandenburg have been found guilty of all charges relating to the gang rape of a fellow Vanderbilt student in the summer of 2013. A guilty verdict in a rape case. Would you look at that.
Josh McNary, the Colts linebacker known for being a U.S. Army lieutenant before joining the NFL, has been charged with felony rape in Indianapolis, according to documents filed today in a Marion County court. Overall, McNary is charged with one felony count of rape, one felony count of criminal confinement, and one…
The coach of the Oregon Ducks says several of his players will be disciplined for celebrating their New Year's Day Rose Bowl win by chanting "No means no" at Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston, who was accused of rape by a fellow student in 2012.
Jameis Winston, the Florida State University quarterback accused of sexually assaulting a fellow student in 2012, has been cleared of charges that he violated FSU's student conduct code. A lawyer for the woman who accused him of assault told reporters in a statement yesterday, "At some point we have to recognize that…
A Texas high school football team is very sorry if anybody misunderstood their hilarious team t-shirts, which read: "We take what we want — Shhhhhh just let it happen." The Warriors, the footballing youths of Martin High School in Arlington, say that the joke is definitely not an allusion to rape, and they're not sure…
The NFL has teamed up with No More, a domestic violence and sexual assault organization and Mariska Hargitay's Joyful Heart Foundation to create a new anti-domestic violence PSA campaign to be aired during football games.
Two former NFL wives talked to the Washington Post about why they stayed in abusive relationships, and both describe in the story published Friday how the league, the union, coaches, and even cops encouraged them to stay silent. They say not to expect the newfound focus on domestic violence to make a meaningful…
18-year-old Tyler Smith has been charged with the rape of two women. He is scheduled to face trial in December, but in the meantime is continuing to play on the football team of Hoquiam High School in Washington state. One might expect this to be yet another story of a winning football team being more important than…
The dreaded Pinktober Pinkout Pinktacular is almost here, and NFL Shop already is emailing the ladies telling us to buy pink, pink, pink. But there's a good chance football fans will see less pink this time around, according to Uni Watch.
Uncool: standing in line for hours to purchase an iPhone. Cool: standing in line for hours to exchange your Ray Rice jersey for the jersey of a Baltimore Ravens player who hopefully did not beat his wife.
The NFL launched a "social responsibility" team that will help address its massive nightmare of issues with women. Meanwhile, CBS has permanently axed Rihanna, actual survivor of domestic violence, from her plum gig singing the Thursday Night Football theme song.
Comedian Megan MacKay has come up with one of the best responses to the NFL and its completely shitty handling the domestic violence incident involving Ray Rice.
There are only two things that could get me to care about high school football. One is an episode of Friday Night Lights. Two is a group of real life vandals who sneak onto a high school football field and burn a giant dick into the grass with weed killer. Friday Night Lights is sadly over, but the story of the…
The worst human beings in the world gathered to support one of their own last night, showing up to the Baltimore Ravens' home game proudly sporting their beloved Ray Rice jerseys as a show of support for the man who was caught on elevator surveillance video knocking his wife out with a punch to the face.
