Two people familiar with the negotiations have told The Associated Press that a deal has been reached by NFL owners and players to end the four-month lockout.
The players’ executive board and team reps signed off Monday on the terms that had already been approved by the owners.
Alzheimer’s disease has long been a medical mystery, but new research may point to at least one cause for the debilitating condition.
After a study involving 300,000 veterans aged 55 and up, scientists at the University of California-San Francisco learned that older people who’ve experienced a traumatic brain injury — or TBI — during their lives have more than twice the risk of developing dementia.
Mr. 3000 is also Mr. Popularity.
Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter topped The Harris Poll’s annual ranking of America’s favorite sports star, edging Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning. Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan tied for third place.
Jeter was up two spots, compared to last year, and Manning jumped from fifth to second. Also notable was
Lil Wayne: Film star, entrepreneur, multiplatinum recording artist, and…hall of fame bowler?
The Bowling Proprietors Association of America (BPAA) thinks so — they’ve nominated the rapper for inclusion in the International Bowling Hall of Fame, along with Kim Kardashian, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, and Michael Jordan.
Tennis player Bethanie Mattek-Sands, the self-proclaimed Lady Gaga of the women’s tour, wowed spectators at Wimbledon when she showed up in a jacket adorned with fringe, studs, and tennis ball-halves.
The brainchild of British designer (and Gaga fashion collaborator) Alex Noble, the jacket even adheres to Wimbledon’s all-white rule for court attire. Mattek-Sands didn’t actually wear it to play, but rest assured, she did make quite an entrance.
