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Is a large-scale over-reaction every time an NFL player or coach uses the word kill in discussing intentions in a violent game really the method we want America to take to address player safety? Here's a newsflash: Word choice isn't going to fix a...

Jane McManus and Julie Foudy join Prim Siripipat to discuss Johnny Manziel's recent troubles on Twitter....

Jane McManus and Julie Foudy join Prim Siripipat to discuss Johnny Manziel's recent troubles on Twitter....

Buffalo Bills defensive end Mario Williams has clarified his comments that defensive coordinator Mike Pettine ever used the word 'kill' when discussing the club's defense.

The word "popularity" trumps a word like "retread" six days of the week. It did in the case of Quinton Jackson -- the popular, yet polarizing, former UFC champion who just became Bellator's latest acquisition, according to a Spike TV press release. "...

David "Deacon" Jones, a Hall of Fame defensive end credited with terming the word sack for how he knocked down quarterbacks, has died.

From rumor to reality, in just less than a week! This weekend, Dan Harmon confirmed the word on the street: NBC wants him back on the meta-monster he'd created, nurtured, and then been so unceremoniously tossed from. While hosting his "Found Crap...

Well, the season is two weeks over and just as we thought we could take a breath and enjoy (loosest sense of the word) England v Ireland, it all starts again. Yes, not only have I already completed my first 2013-14 season preview questionnaire, bu...

The word "momentum" gets used over the course of a playoff series for good reason. It can carry a team from one game to the next, and to an upset series victory in some cases. Other times the favorite can ride it even when things aren't going smoothl...

Heavyweights are now a staple of Memorial Day weekend. Last year, UFC 146 was to be a heavyweight extravaganza like none we'd ever seen. The whole main card was heavyweights, so the word "unprecedented" was being thrown around pretty dramatically. An...

CHICAGO -- With the way the word "adversity" was thrown around Sunday morning, you'd think the Chicago Blackhawks were down 3-1 to Detroit, didn't get their Sunday New York Times delivered and had their rookies forget the coffee and doughnuts. I c...

The Blackhawks know you can throw out the seedings against the Red Wings.

CHICAGO -- Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon didn't do the chicken dance when asked about Notre Dame's decision to stop the annual series with the Wolverines after 2014. "I'm not sure I would have used the word chicken," Brandon told ESPN.co...

Hawaii's athletic department is scrapping a plan to drop the word "Rainbow" from its men's teams' nicknames.

The average collegiate softball player draws a walk every eight at-bats. The average leadoff hitter walks even more frequently. Natalie Hernandez is not average. In any sense of the word. Exactly 167 times during the regular season, Hernandez s...

Natalie Hernandez has been on a hot streak at the plate for the Illinois-Chicago Flames, and the inspiration for her focus comes from her mother, who is struggling in a battle against cancer.