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Caitlin Clark is cleaning up in NIL, but college athletes still aren’t getting close to what they deserveSome money is better than no money until you realize how much more money you should be getting....

Being a fired college football head coach is the best job in AmericaBeing a coach is a tough and thankless job. It’s a profession where everybody thinks they can do your job better than you, which often leads to a high turnover rate — especially when you’re the head coach of a Power Five college football team. But, being fired isn’t so bad when you have a million-do...

Deion Sanders’ first year at Colorado proved how gullible people can beBefore the 2023 season started, ESPN’s Tom Luginbill said that Colorado might have the worst roster in college football. By the end of the 2023 regular season, Deion Sanders was strictly focused on the future, given that he had failed at the present....

Coaching HBCU football is a stepping stone for Deion Sanders, but a brick wall for his peers

The spotlight Deion Sanders has brought to historically black college football programs has been unparalleled. Interest is at an all-time high and Sanders has championed multiplying exposure for the talent at HBCU programs. Sanders was specifically referring to the players, but the same sentiments c...

Those seeking College Football Playoff clarity this weekend should think again

This year more than others in recent memory seems to have a lot of standout teams. It feels like the top 10 squads have evaded missteps that they might normally fall prey to. We saw the Tide escape against Texas A&M, Georgia overcome a brain fart against Mizzou, USC barely get by Oregon State, the V...

I know just the coach for Auburn

The writing is on the wall for Bryan Harsin at Auburn, to the point where Paul Finebaum is openly speculating about Hugh Freeze coming in from Liberty — after five years of SEC exile — to take the Tigers job....

Someone get the Canucks an editor stet… err, stat!

When Alex Chiasson played for the Vancouver Canucks in their season opener on Wednesday night in Edmonton, his name was spelled correctly on the back of his jersey....

Tonga's Olympic Luger Is An Underwear Marketing Stunt

To be clear, Bruno Banani deserves to be here. He qualified with a 28th-place finish at a World Cup race in December. But everything about him—from his background to his biography to his very name—is the whole-cloth creation of an underwear company....

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Francisco Liriano Gives Zero Fucks About Having To Hit

Francisco Liriano threw a four-hit complete game last night, helping the Pirates end a four-game losing streak. His performance kept scores of nervous Yinzers, panicked at the possibility of another late-season Pirates collapse, from racing to the Roberto Clemente Bridge and ending it all. Liriano t...

by Dom Cosentino|

|Mon Aug 19 2013

Chuck Pagano Returned To Coach The Colts This Morning

The Indianapolis Colts have been the feel-good story of the NFL this season, what with their turnaround from the league's worst team to the AFC's fifth seed while head coach Chuck Pagano stepped aside to battle leukemia. Today, three months since his diagnosis and two months since he learned his can...

by Dom Cosentino|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

The Tongan Olympic Luger Who Turned Out To Be An Underwear Marketing Scam

Imagine if the events surrounding 1988 Jamaican bobsled team that inspired the film Cool Runnings happened today, in the age of the internet and 24-hour sports coverage. Now imagine one of those athletes, by pure chance, had been named Calvin Klein. And after his emergence on the international scene...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

NBA Talks Break Off; Players Will Disband Union; Everything Is Awful

Billy Hunter says the players have rejected the league's latest offer, which he called "extremely unfair," and says the association is "prepared to file antitrust action against the NBA." They're also beginning the process of disbanding the union. From Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski [sic'd]: "The chance...

by Emma Carmichael|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

I'm not sure how I feel about the full-body columnist photo, which replaces the column mug. Seems to take up a lot of space. And hey, Trent, thanks for dressing up. [Cincinnati Enquirer]...

by rickchand|

|Tue Jun 18 2013

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