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Well, here it is. Actual football after all the madness of this week. Let's discuss it like rational adults down below, yes? If you're behind, catch up on all our Penn State coverage here. More »
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A Nittany Lions football game is going to happen tomorrow, whether we're ready for it or not. It was never going to not happen, no matter how hyperbolic the calls for death penalties both literal and figurative. It would be nice if there could be more clarity to a murky situation by game day, but courts and massive public universities just don't work that fast. More »
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Big Ten Media Days in Chicago just wrapped up, and for the most part it was the same boring old questions, asked 100 times by 100 different reporters from across the Midwest. So it takes something special to stand out. Ed Littler, Sports Director at News 5 in Nebraska, you are something special. More »
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Tipster Mike sends us a nice little "Where Are They Now" update on Kellen Huston, the former Nebraska corner who threw the above roundhouse at a Mizzou player in 2003. More »
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Yesterday afternoon, La Salle University announced that Nebraska sophomore Christian Standhardinger would be transferring. A couple hours later, they said "you know what, never mind." All because of a shirtless, pantsless romp in the park after dark. More »
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Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day. More »
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The controversy over Nebraska defensive coordinator Carl Pelini pushing TexAgs.com co-owner Brandon Jones after Saturday's game is reaching a fevered pitch. We covered this yesterday, but new video has surfaced that's pretty conclusive proof Pelini pushed Jones. More »
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The Cornhuskers' official online auction website has about 158 jerseys up for bidding, all from their October 16 loss to Texas. Opening bids start at $250. I wonder how Georgia's A.J. Green feels about this. More »
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Please cast your eyes to the crotch of Coach's pants, which appear to be running a spread offense of their own. [ESPN, H/T Bryan C.] More »
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Things you should do with your child: play with them, read to them, keep them clothed and fed. Things you should not do: get high and tape them to the wall for your own amusement. Good job, teenage Lincoln couple. More »
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From time to time, we'll select stories — old and new, sports and otherwise, relevant and merely sublime — that we urge you to read for one reason or another. Today: Dan Jenkins on the 1971 Nebraska-Oklahoma "Game of the Century." More »
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So Lou Holtz finally wants Notre Dame in The Big 10. I never took him for a bandwagoner, but his assessment that the conferences are eventually going to split into a few mega-conferences isn't lacking for evidence. More »
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It only took six years, but USC is finally getting called to the NCAA principal's office. Postseason ban, loss of scholarships, games and possibly that 2004 national title. You know, now sounds like an excellent time to join the Pac-10. More »
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Suh announced he'll donate $2.6 million to Nebraska once he signs an NFL contract. A little presumptuous to assume he'll even get drafted, don't you think? [Lincoln Journal Star] More »
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Nebraska's defensive tackle is the new sentimental favorite to win the Heisman Trophy, a famous award given annually by the media to whichever name they've written over and over again in their Hello Kitty diary. More »
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Two Marines got in a "friendly scuffle" while talking about the outcome of Big 12 Championship Game. Unfortunately, one of them forgot to put down his gun and now the other one is dead. [Sun Journal] More »
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The ex-CEO of TD Ameritrade wants to be a D1 football coach. I don't think any SEC coaches are willing to switch jobs with him, as being a Fortune 500 CEO would mean a pay cut for them. [Omaha World-Herald] More »
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An 89-year-old Lincoln man emerged from a coma to fulfill his last wish - to watch Nebraska play Missouri before dying. The worst part - he lost consciousness before NU's fourth quarter comeback. [World Herald] More »
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"Outside The Lines" took a closer look at Nebraska's wrestling program (spoiler: it's corrupt) after last year's uncomfortable gay porn scandal, and somehow everyone involved ends up looking like the bad guy. Go figure! More »
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Remember those Nebraska wrestlers who occasionally liked to take their clothes off for gay porn sites? It turns out that they also like to wrestle! One of them is pretty good at it, too. More »
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Big things were expected of running back Thunder Collins when he arrived at Nebraska in 2000 from East Los Angeles Junior College, where he was an All-American. But things never turned out the way he had hoped, either on the football field or in his personal life. As a runner he turned out to be one-dimensional; a grinder without much elusiveness. Off the field he gained a reputation for making trouble. He left Nebraska without earning a degree, but returned earlier this year to finish his studies, determined to steady his life and give the NFL a try. But late Wednesday Collins was arrested nearly 24 hours after a shooting left one person dead and another seriously wounded, Omaha television station KETV reported. More »
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In today's smash-mouth world of college football recruiting, desperate times call for desperate measures, and desperate measures call for temporary tattoos. That's just the way it is. More »
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A reader who went to the BCS Championship Game sends in this photo of former LSU defensive coordinator and new Nebraska coach Bo Pelini, rocking the French Quarter at 3 a.m. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=343223&view=rss&microfeed=true We haven't really said much — okay, anything — about the upcoming tell-all book where embattled Nebraska coach Bill Callahan calls Nebraska A.D. Tom Osborne a "crusty old fuck." So here's the obligatory half-graph. "Wow, I can't believe he said that!" [The Wizard of Odds] More »
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I have no idea how you guys watch all of this college football action AND the NFL. Seriously. My retinas are shot and my back is effin' killing me. And it's only Saturday! Gah! You guys must be machines! (Well, that, or really, really fat.) More »
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An old George Carlin comedy routine had a good time mocking California's "Three Strikes And You're Out" policy of jailing three-time felons for life; Carlin pointed out that the writing of laws for the incarceration of our citizens should perhaps not be based in cute and funny baseball terms. But as far as we know, no athlete has ever actually notched one of the real-world trifectas. More »
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Because we've fallen into the strange rut about writing about the groin areas of men in our late-day posts of late ... here's another one! More »
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If you've ever been around a light source in the middle of an expanded Midwestern landscape of soybeans and chubby cows, you know you've got to be wary of Them Bugs. Them Bugs will attack you in intense droves, and they will do so without warning. A bug zapper will help, but just a little: There's not much artificial light in the Midwest, and what little there is, Them Bugs will find it. More »
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Somewhere, Lynn Swann is sweating a little: Yesterday, former Nebraska coach Tom Osborne, who had rocketed up Nebraska's political ladder the last few years basically by showing up at events and saying, "Go 'Huskers!", lost the state's Republican primary for governor to incumbent governor Dave Heineman. Osborne's loss probably ends his political career, and not just because he lost to a guy named "Heine." More »
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Inspired by our discovery of the Ryan Leaf For Heisman Web site we found yesterday, a few people sent us to Eric Crouch's old Web site. The former Heisman Trophy winner/NFL repeat burnout has an old site that we encourage you to visit with the sound on. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=168204&view=rss&microfeed=true • #5 Florida 90, Georgia 72. Gators push it to 14-0 by hammering the Bulldogs. Currently, there's not a ranked team on Florida's schedule other than Kentucky, and I'm not sure if they should count. More »
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You wake up to the light in your eyes. Blinking, you try to adjust. The man with the light is very authoritative, and more than a little pissed. You must have been asleep for a while. Jesus, what time is it? More »
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OK, we're going entirely from memory here, since we haven't been able to find anything else about the exchange on the Web, but that's fine, we'd like to take credit for seeing it anyway. It will reveal just how puerile we really are. More »
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Thanks to The Mighty MJD, who directed our attention to this: ABC sportscaster Brent Musburger More »
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For anyone who might have forgotten, Packers running back Ahman Green had some trouble with the law early this year; namely, he and his wife had a scuffle that started with a bunch of hollering and ended with some broken plaster and a visit from the 5-0. (Three days after the incident, Green filed for divorce, which was a nice touch.) More »
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