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The AP reported — and a tanned portrait, complete with dapper summer hat, on the Florida International University sports site confirms — that former CNN anchor Rick Sanchez has been hired to be the radio voice of the FIU Golden Panthers football team. Sanchez has two sons at FIU. More »
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2010 ESPY Award nominee, Garrett Wittels, owner of the second-longest hit streak in college baseball, has been arrested along with several of his friends after some shenanigans with teenage girls apparently took a wrong turn. Messy. [Miami Herald] More »
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A profile in courage from Florida International University: Running back A'Mod Ned, the injured Panther who heroically joined the fray of the infamous Miami-FIU brawl from a month or so ago despite, you know, being on crutches, is expected to return to practice this week and could be able to return to action this week for FIU's epic battle with Louisiana-Monroe. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=213413&view=rss&microfeed=true Welcome to Brawlgate, Day 4, as fallout continues from Saturday's melee between the Hurricanes and Golden Panthers. The Atlantic Coast and Sun Belt Conferences handed out 31 one-game suspensions late Sunday — 18 for Florida International, 13 for Miami — but, as they say, a new wind was about to blow. At Miami on Monday, Anthony Reddick's one-game suspension (for wielding his helmet, Braveheart style, into a bunch of FIU noggins) was increased to an indefinite suspension by the school. More »
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