Ryan Brennan

You’ve heard Jim Nantz say “Hello, friends” before the Masters, the Super Bowl, the Final Four — basically every massive sporting event on CBS for more than two decades. And if you assumed it was just a slick TV catchphrase, get the tissues ready. Because the real story behind those two words is going to […]

Joey Raccuia, a freshman baseball player at Radford University and the son of former Radford head baseball coach Joe Raccuia, has died following a single-vehicle wreck in Radford, Virginia. He was 19 years old. The accident occurred at around 11:20 a.m. on Wednesday, February 26, on East Main Street, not far from the university’s baseball […]

Soccer superstar Lionel Messi got more than he bargained for during a friendly match in Puerto Rico on February 26, when a fan who rushed the field bear-hugged him so aggressively that security’s attempt to intervene sent both the fan and Messi crashing to the turf. The chaos erupted in the 88th minute of Inter […]

A new 28-foot mural honoring the bond between Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani and his dog Decoy just went up in Los Angeles, and it’s giving us all the feels. The artwork, created by artist Alex “Ali” Gonzalez, captures the moment that melted every baseball fan’s heart: the high-five between Decoy and Ohtani after the pup […]

If your feed has been flooded with clips of Alysa Liu beaming on the podium in Milan Cortina, you may have noticed something besides the gold medal: a tiny flash of metal in her smile. That little glint? It’s called a smiley piercing, and it’s become almost as talked-about as her historic free skate. But […]

A behind-the-scenes clip from a 2022 episode of Hard Knocks In Season: The Arizona Cardinals has gone viral again — and this time, the football world can barely get through it. The footage captures a quiet sideline exchange between J.J. Watt and then-teammate Rondale Moore during a Wednesday practice. When it first aired, it was […]