RIO de JANEIRO – When, oh when, will everyone learn to stop riling up Michael Phelps? As the U.S. swim star Natalie Coughlin put it Tuesday night on Twitter, “Don’t poke the bear.” In the latest ...

Aaron Rodgers made his unofficial Jets debut on Saturday, and the 39-year-old certainly brought some fire to the preseason finale. The latest episode of "Hard Knocks" featuring the Jets showed a ...

Well-known jokes suggest you don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't mess with Texas and you don't poke the bear. Comedian Dave Chappelle put it another way during a segment of his former television ...

Wednesday’s game between the San Antonio Spurs featured perhaps the most bizarre moment of the regular season thus far, as Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich grabbed the arena microphone to tell Spurs ...

Deandre Ayton didn’t like how Scottie Barnes fouled him midway through the third quarter Monday night. A little stare down. A little chatter. A little separation between the two. Ayton was more than a ...

ARLINGTON - Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has a penchant for phrasing things in an entertainingly odd way. But following his attempt to be careful in previewing next week's showdown with the rival ...

Don’t poke the bear. This idiom summed up an American strategy that argued, essentially, that the West should avoid antagonizing Russia, lest it enrage the beast. After the invasion of Ukraine, the ...

Bear-baiting was popular in 16th and 17th century England. A bear would be led into an arena and chained to a stake. Then a pack of bulldogs or mastiffs would be released into the arena to torment the ...