David Whitley is a national columnist for FanHouse. Previously, Whitley had been an award-winning columnist at the Orlando Sentinel for 10 years. He's also worked at the Tampa Tribune, San Antonio Light and Tallahassee Democrat.
NEW YORK -- Geno Auriemma made coaching history Sunday. Great, now would somebody please give him a real job?
Not that coaching UConn women's team isn't legitimate employment. It's just that no ... More »
Fabulously named soccer king Sepp Blatter (right) apologized Friday for joking about gays refraining from being gay if they want to attend the 2022 World Cup.
So when does FIFA's president ... More »
On a beautifully miserable Minnesota winter day long ago, Bill Brown ran out of the Vikings locker room, rolled up his sleeves and started rolling around on the frozen grass at Metropolitan ... More »
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Florida unveiled its new head football coach Tuesday, and the world learned at least one thing.
The guy can talk.
As for the rest of the job requirements, we'll see. I ... More »
Brett Favre is the greatest Ironman in sports history. If you disagree, you probably have Favre to thank.
As soon as his streak of consecutive starts ended at 297, Favre's website started hawking ... More »
All good things must come to an end. Then there was Brett Favre's streak, which was a good thing that should have ended before Monday night.
After 297 consecutive starts, the NFL's only living ... More »
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Urban Meyer has resigned. Please don't stop if you've read this before.
This time he means it. But since he was the coach who cried wolf last year, it's only natural to ... More »
Have you received your Christmas card yet from LeBron James? I'm not certain, but I think it's a panorama of reindeer relieving themselves over the Cleveland skyline while Santa sits in his sleigh ... More »
The voters have spoken. The Heisman trophy will need a lie-detector device strapped to its stiff arm.
I'd have just one question for Cam Newton: Are you as clueless as you appear to be?
... More »
TAMPA, Fla. -- If the NFL were a police lineup, Atlanta could mug everybody. Nobody would notice the Falcons because they're too short.
So feel free to overlook Atlanta's 28-24 win over Tampa Bay. ... More »
TAMPA – Dave Teggart swung his right leg and kicked a pie right into the face of the BCS on Saturday night.
He kicked four field goals to lift UConn to a 19-16 win over South Florida. The ... More »
TAMPA, Fla. -- And in Thursday night's Non-LeBron basketball news, the UConn women's team moved within three games of breaking Julio Cesar Chavez's record of 87 straight wins.
I realize Chavez was ... More »
So you think you have financial worries? Just be thankful you're not a pro athlete.
Whatever they make is never enough to allow a good night's sleep. The latest to face a money crunch is ... More »
Say it ain't so, Tom.
The world's most accomplished quarterback is not really in the market for hair plugs, is he? Why not just go ahead and start carrying a blow dryer into the huddle?
It's not ...
The news improved for Derek Jeter on Monday. Of the 250,000-plus secret government documents released by WikiLeaks, none mentioned a romance between Hal Steinbrenner and a goat.
If such ... More »
ORLANDO, Fla. -- With North Korea threatening to start World War III, unemployment almost 10 percent and TSA agents groping millions of Americans, the president weighed in on a matter of real national ... More »
SEATTLE – The Schwartz family can barely recall this Thanksgiving. Not the American one on Thursday, but the Canadian one last month.
The daughter was near death. About all Mandi Schwartz ... More »
We usually wait until the New Year for predictions. But according to the Tiger calendar, this one will arrive Friday at 2:33 a.m. when the ball drops at Isleworth.
It will be out with the old ... More »
She is identified by her real name now, Hillaire. But after almost 21 months she still can't bring herself to say somebody else's.
Hillaire was a cheerleader, yelling for her high school basketball ... More »
The most private person in the world is on a charm offensive. Tiger Woods is on the radio, writing magazine pieces and starting a Twitter account.
At this rate, he'll be doing the Tango with ... More »
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