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Play video content TMZSports.com Stunning revelation from New York Giants legend Lawrence Taylor … the former NFL MVP tells TMZ Sports he straight-up does not follow his ex-team anymore. The 62-year-old unveiled the shocking fact about his life on a call with former Giants star Ottis Anderson … asking his ex-teammate (and current business partner)

Play video content TMZ.com Nikola Jokic is having an insane season, but Kenny “The Jet” Smith says the Nuggets superstar won’t get his second-straight MVP if his team keeps losing … telling TMZ Sports the award needs to go to one of the best players on the best teams. Jokic is balling the hell out

Tristan Thompson is in the throes of what could become a paternity dispute, but the newborn’s mother isn’t waiting for a judge to decide whether he’s the daddy … she’s already given the baby his last name. Waiting for your permission to load the Instagram Media. Maralee Nichols posted of photo of the baby, with

Play video content TMZSports.com The chef who told the NFL that Antonio Brown faked his COVID vaccine card is now planning to sue the Buccaneers star … saying the wide receiver still owes him $10,000. Steven Ruiz spelled it all out to TMZ Sports this week … saying after the NFL ruled he wasn’t lying

Play video content TMZSports.com Great news! UFC president Dana White is officially COVID-19 free … telling TMZ Sports he tested negative for the virus, and he’s crediting Joe Rogan‘s suggested treatment plan of monoclonal antibodies, NAD drip, vitamins, and Ivermectin for the swift recovery. “I feel incredible! Today is day 5 since testing positive for

Tiger Woods says the only lift he was able to do following his horrific car crash earlier this year was bench press — and he claims he hit it so hard, he was able to put up 255 pounds!! The golf superstar made the revelation to Golf Digest this week … saying in the weeks

12:32 PM PT — The Detroit Lions will also honor Myre and the other victims of the tragic shooting … with head coach Dan Campbell revealing the team will wear t-shirts, hats and a helmet decal during their Sunday game vs. the Minnesota Vikings. Oxford High football player Tate Myre — who died heroically attempting

Play video content TMZ.com Kemba Walker getting benched isn’t his problem, it’s his coach’s … so says Kenny “The Jet” Smith, who tells TMZ Sports the guard is a Ferrari and Tom Thibodeau doesn’t know how to drive it. The 31-year-old hooper was removed from the Knicks rotation earlier this week … as he’s been

Senator Ted Cruz is blasting the NBA — and heaping praise on the WTA — for the stark difference in both sports leagues’ approaches to human rights violations perpetrated by China. “I’ll tell ya something right now,” Cruz said, “The Women’s Tennis Association has bigger balls than the NBA. And I’d like to see courage

Play video content TMZSports.com Nate Diaz says he is NOT fighting Khamzat Chimaev — regardless of who wants to see them scrap — telling TMZ Sports the Chechen fighter is a “rookie” who flat-out just ain’t on his level. We talked to the UFC superstar at Brickhouse boxing gym in North Hollywood … and we

Play video content TMZSports.com Tiger Woods might not be healthy enough to play a full round of golf — but his leg is certainly feelin’ good enough for him to bro down on the range with Bryson DeChambeau!! TMZ Sports has obtained video of the two golf superstars goofin’ around with a football on a

Robert Griffin III says he was the victim of sexual harassment while a member of Washington’s NFL team … and the former Pro Bowl quarterback says he will expose the organization in an upcoming book. The 31-year-old free agent signal-caller announced Surviving Washington will be dropping next year … and promised to shed light on

Play video content Atlanta Braves star Marcell Ozuna had his hand aggressively wrapped around his wife’s neck just minutes before his arrest last May … new police video, obtained by TMZ Sports, shows. The incident all went down on May 29 in Sandy Springs, GA., after cops say they were called to a residence regarding

Play video content Dallas Cowboys safety Damontae Kazee told a cop he had been with Dak Prescott and Ezekiel Elliott hours before his DWI arrest … saying he had partied with the two just before getting behind the wheel. It’s all in new police video, obtained by TMZ Sports, which reveals Kazee name-dropped his two

4:10 PM PT — TMZ Sports has learned … LeBron James tested positive for COVID-19 this afternoon using a lateral flow test. James was given a follow-up PCR test to confirm the diagnosis. However, that test came back negative. LeBron was then given a third tie-breaker test … which came back positive. We’re told the

Former UCF football star Otis Anderson Jr. reportedly died on Monday night … after he was shot during an altercation in Florida. He was just 23 years old. According to News4JAX, Anderson Jr. was shot during a domestic dispute that went down at around 9:30 p.m. in Jacksonville — and he later died at a

Play video content TMZSports.com Tyreek Hill says he’s still gunning to race Usain Bolt … telling TMZ Sports he’s so confident he’ll beat the track legend, he’s down to put his Super Bowl ring on the line!! “Me and you can just meet at a local high school,” Hill said in a message to Bolt.

NBA forward and sneakerhead P.J. Tucker is honoring fashion icon Virgil Abloh with his shoe choice for Monday night’s game … rocking a pair of Off-White Jordan 5s with a special tribute. The Heat baller showed off the kicks prior to taking the court against the Denver Nuggets … which have messages etched in Sharpie

Play video content @jlin7 / Instagram Imagine having a wide-open layup … and missing it. That’s the equivalent of what Jeremy Lin‘s Beijing Ducks teammate did on Chang Lin‘s big day this week … winding up from point-blank range to beam the player with a birthday cake — and he hilariously airballed it!! The ex-NBA

Play video content TMZSports.com Oscar De La Hoya planned to fight this year, but COVID-19 had other ideas … yet the Golden Boy is still determined to return to the ring next year, and the fight he wants most — Floyd Mayweather!! TMZ Sports talked to 48-year-old De La Hoya — along with his GF

Play video content TMZSports.com “Do I think he can win it? No. I know he can win it!” That’s LaVar Ball telling TMZ Sports he knows his son, LaMelo, can win NBA’s MVP this season … which would make him the youngest player to ever win the award. The 20-year-old is already a star —

Play video content TMZSports.com Ja’Marr Chase is NOT a lock to win the NFL’s Offensive Rookie of the Year award … so says Chargers D-lineman, Justin Jones, who tells TMZ Sports his L.A. teammate, Rashawn Slater, could easily rip away the trophy!!! Jones made the claim to us at a Thanksgiving charity event earlier this

Play video content TMZSports.com With Cam Newton back in Carolina, Olivia Culpo‘s feeling a Super Bowl coming … telling TMZ Sports the QB and her BF, Christian McCaffrey, can now easily win a ring this season! We got the model — who’s been dating McCaffrey for about two years now — out in L.A. …

LeBron James took it in the crotch Friday … and it cost him $15k. LeBron was in Indiana with the Lakers, and after making a pretty awesome shot, he grabbed his crotch. Now there’s a backstory here. Two Indiana fans had just been ejected for grabbing their crotch — presumably taunting LeBron and it apparently

Floyd Mayweather may not be WBC champ anymore … but his face will forever be part of the organization’s famous green championship belt, ’cause TMZ Sports has learned the undefeated fighter’s portrait was permanently added to the strap. WBC prez Mauricio Sulaiman tells us the World Boxing Council has permanently added Mayweather’s portrait to every

Play video content TMZSports.com Should the Miami Heat retire Udonis Haslem‘s jersey?? Dwayne Wade says it’s a matter of when, not if — telling TMZ Sports he knows his former teammate’s jersey will hang from the rafters in Miami one day. Haslem — who was drafted by Miami in 2002 — has spent his entire

Play video content TMZSports.com Frank Mir‘s daughter Isabella is an MMA fighter … but it wasn’t (only) her former UFC champion dad who inspired her to fight in a locked cage — that honor belongs to Ronda Rousey. TMZ Sports spoke to Frank about his 18-year-old daughter … and while he admits to initially being

LeBron James seems furious he was booted from a game and then suspended, saying he never intended to bloody an opponent. LeBron calls, “bulls***” on officials who took action against him, for elbowing Detroit Pistons forward Isaiah Stewart last Sunday. The injury was gnarly, and Isaiah went after LeBron, sending both men back to the

Play video content TMZSports.com Iman Shumpert might’ve been focusing on mirror balls more than basketballs recently, but the NBA champ says he’s NOT done hooping … telling TMZ Sports he’s got a lot left in his tank. We caught up with the 31-year-old fresh off winning the 30th season of “Dancing With the Stars” this

Tom Brady assiduously avoids caffeine, sugar, dairy, tomatoes, eggplant, even mushrooms … but on Thanksgiving day … f*** it!!! Tom and Oprah had a chitchat, but this one was different because it was Tom mostly asking the questions. O jumped on Tom’s SiriusXM show, “Let’s Go,” and it was only a matter of time before