The Founder of StockX Turned His Hobby Into a Billion-Dollar Business in 3 Years. Then He Turned Over the Reins. Now What? Josh Luber built sneaker marketplace StockX to be a ‘stock market of things.’ It worked. Then, he got replaced and decided to stick around. BY SHEILA MARIKAR, CONTRIBUTING WRITER@SHEILAYMContinue Reading
Nascar failed to fight racism for 72 years. Don’t praise its support of Bubba Wallace yet Nascar If Nascar hadn’t been so keen to take the path of least resistance in the past, its only black driver would never have been forced down his hard road Andrew Lawrence @by_drew TueContinue Reading
NEW YORK — Serena Williams was let down by her serve at times but not by her nerves Sunday in the U.S. Open women’s final. Coming from behind in the third set, Williams won her fourth U.S. Open championship and her 15th Grand Slam title. After trailing 5-3 in theContinue Reading
Director Ice Cube explores the unlikely marriage between the NFL’s rebel franchise, the Raiders, and America’s glamour city, Los Angeles. In 1982, Raiders owner Al Davis beat the NFL in court and moved his team from Oakland to Los Angeles. With a squad as colorful as its owner, the RaidersContinue Reading
“I’m in pro football to win, to have the Raiders dominate, to have the Raiders global, and we’re not going to be able to do that with a half-filled stadium.” This quote, in my eyes, describes Al Davis in a nutshell. He showed an undying commitment to winning, put hisContinue Reading
Al Davis, the irascible owner of the Oakland Raiders whose feuds with the National Football League reshaped professional football over the last half century and helped spur its rise to pre-eminence in the landscape of American sports, died Saturday morning. He was 82. The Raiders said he died at hisContinue Reading
Mining 10,000 rolls of film, Guts and Glory: The Golden Age of American Football collects the finest work by American sports photographer Neil Leifer. Best known for capturing a towering Ali over the fallen Sonny Liston, Leifer’s football photographs are among his finest… and are those closest to his heart.Continue Reading
“I guess you have to be under 7ft to be considered the greatest basketball player of all time.” Kareem writes open letter to Pippen about LeBron, Jordan Everyone has climbed all over Scottie Pippen in recent days for putting LeBron James on the same pedestal with Michael Jordan, calling JordanContinue Reading
PITTSBURGH — Rashard Mendenhall has created a stir with comments made on his official Twitter page regarding Osama bin Laden’s death. The Pittsburgh Steelers running back on Monday tweeted: “What kind of person celebrates death? It’s amazing how people can HATE a man they have never even heard speak. We’veContinue Reading
By Jerry McDonald – NFL Writer Bill Parcells often relays the story of the most important thing he learned from Al Davis. “Nobody cares,” Parcells told Bay Area media. “Nobody cares about your injuries or your problems. All they want to know on Monday is if you won.” It’s aContinue Reading
2K Czech’s Top Spin 4, with its fancy TV-style cut-scenes, accurate play style animation for some of the sport’s greatest players and scarily well-captured oohs and aahs from the crowd at matches, takes a different route from most tennis games. While Wii Sports distilled the game down to its basicContinue Reading
Model with football players, 1939. Photo credit: Conde Nast Archive. It’s a fact of American life that practically the entire nation is devoted to professional football. Each Sunday during the fall and winter months, millions of people from all across the country plant themselves in front of the television orContinue Reading
Kobe as Iron Man? Dwight Howard as Wolverine? Michael Jordan as Nick Fury? Marvel artists teamed up with ESPN to create a series of comic book cover-style art of NBA stars. If you’re a Cavs fan, it has to suck to be you. via:theawesomor source: ESPNContinue Reading
Most guys have to downgrade after a divorce – but Tiger Woods obviously isn’t most guys. The golfer, who divorced on August 23, is preparing to move into a sprawling 10-acre ocean front estate in Florida, complete with its own backyard golf course. And despite giving his ex-wife an estimated $100millionContinue Reading
Longtime New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner died Tuesday morning, his family confirmed in a statement. “It is with profound sadness that the family of George M. Steinbrenner III announces his passing. He passed away this morning in Tampa, Fla., at age 80,” the family said in a statement. “HeContinue Reading
WIMBLEDON, England — Serena Williams swept Vera Zvonareva in straight sets Saturday to win her fourth Wimbledon title and 13th Grand Slam championship, extending the Williams family dominance at the All England Club. The top-ranked and defending champion American overwhelmed the 21st-seeded Russian 6-3, 6-2 in a one-sided final thatContinue Reading
Government would have “absolute power” to seize control of the world wide web under Lieberman legislation. Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, June 16, 2010 The federal government would have “absolute power” to shut down the Internet under the terms of a new US Senate bill being pushed by JoeContinue Reading
Tough guy Artest lives up to the hype The other night, following the Lakers’ ignominious loss to the Clippers, a defeat that brought their season’s disappointing second half to a merciful conclusion, I found myself among the makeshift assembly at Ron Artest’s locker. Having just twisted an ankle, he wasContinue Reading
