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Request To Remove Judge From Larry Nassar Case Denied
The chief judge of Ingham County Circuit Court denied today a request by defense lawyers for Larry Nassar to have judge Rosemarie Aquilina disqualified from one of the disgraced former doctor’s criminal cases. Nassar’s lawyers had argued that they believed Aquilina’s statements in court showed that ...
Deadspin Up All Night: It Could All Be So Simple<em></em>
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Courtney Smith's Protective Order Detailed How She Told The Court Zach Smith Terrorized Her<em></em><em></em>
On July 20 of this year, Courtney Smith asked the court in Delaware County, Ohio, for a domestic violence civil protection order against her ex-husband, then-Ohio State assistant football coach Zach Smith. She already had made statements concerning his abuse in her 2015 petition for a divorce; that...
Kellen Winslow Jr. Charged With Raping Unconscious Teenager
Former NFL player Kellen Winslow Jr., currently charged with multiple counts of forcible rape and kidnapping, got the feature treatment recently from USA Today and the San Diego Union-Tribune. Buried in those stories were some important updates on the criminal case filed against Winslow—he’s now cha...
Deadspin Up All Night: Street Fighter Mas
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If You Think Urban Meyer's Career Is Over, You Underestimate The Power Of Winning<em></em>
Would it be too much to say that winning feels like great sex? The rush of adrenaline, the euphoria, the permission to scream and yell and do whatever you want in the dark of night. The sense that you are invincible and, better yet, unique and special. The scientific term for feeling as if your team...
Two Ex-Ohio State Wrestlers Say Coach Asked Them To Backtrack On Jim Jordan Accusations
NBC News reported tonight that former Ohio State wrestling coach Russ Hellickson sent text messages to two former wrestlers—who both have said they believe Rep. Jim Jordan knew about the sexual abuse done to them by their team doctor—asking the men to take back their stories and start defending Jord...
The Roberto Osuna Case Has Turned Baseball Reporters Into Psychics And Sermonists
Here is what’s known publicly about what happened on May 8 in Toronto. That day, according to Toronto police, Roberto Osuna, 23, of Toronto was charged with assault. News reports added that the victim was a woman. Police said Osuna was scheduled to appear in court in June. Since then, the only upda...
Deadspin Up All Night: Dancing Like Your Name Sade
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Lawyers For Larry Nassar Say Judge Was Biased, Ask For Resentencing
Defense lawyers for disgraced former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State doctor Larry Nassar have asked that he get a new sentencing hearing in one of his criminal cases because, the lawyers believe, the judge who oversaw it made numerous statements that showed she had made up her mind beforehand. The...
Deadspin Up All Night: <em></em>Can't Wait 'Til It Ends<em></em>
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SafeSport, The USOC's Attempt To Stop Child Abuse, Is Set Up To Fail—Just Like It Was Supposed To
As he was questioned by lawyers in 2015 over and over again about what he did and did not know about sexual abuse suffered by Olympic athletes, then-U.S. Olympic Committee lawyer Gary Johansen made a choice. No matter the question, no matter which lawyer asked it, Johansen did not say “child abuse,”...
Deadspin Up All Night: That's All I Gotta Say
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Ohio State Report: Diving Coach Accused Of Sexually Abusing Teen Said It Was Just Flirting
Ohio State released today its investigative report into what happened when multiple people told the university in 2014 that then-assistant diving coach William Bohonyi was having a sexual relationship with a teenage diver. The documents goes over the multiple people who reported what they had heard,...
Police Reports: Woman Hired To Host LeSean McCoy "Family Barbeque" Claimed Someone Absconded With $50,000 Worth Of Her Jewelry
In 2015, according to police reports, a woman went to police in New Jersey saying that LeSean McCoy had hired her to help him host a party but that, when she arrived, it ended up being more of a family barbecue—and afterward McCoy refused to pay. The woman also told police that she was forced to lea...
Amid Sex Abuse Crisis, USOC Hires Another Marketing Guru
The U.S. Olympic Committee announced its new CEO yesterday—Sarah Hirshland. She previously was an executive with the U.S. Golf Association and, before that, spent several years at Wasserman Media Group, a giant sports marketing agency whose CEO, Casey Wasserman, helped bring the Olympics to Los Ange...
Audio: Delicia Cordon Told 911 Dispatcher She Believed LeSean McCoy Had Someone Attack Her
Police in Milton, Georgia have released the 911 audio of Delicia Cordon, LeSean McCoy’s ex-girlfriend, calling to report she had just been beaten up by a man demanding back jewelry that McCoy had given her. The caller’s name is taken out of the audio, but previously released dispatch records said it...
Records Show That Delicia Cordon Believed LeSean McCoy Was Behind The Burglary Early On
Police in Milton, Georgia, released today the dispatch log for the call reporting the burglary at home of Delicia Cordon, LeSean McCoy’s ex-girlfriend. What they show is that the account Cordon released yesterday through her attorney—that her attacker entered the home with no sign of forced entry, d...
Deadspin Up All Night: BlackPink
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Here's The Police Report From The Burglary At LeSean McCoy And Delicia Cordon's Home
Police in Milton, Georgia, have released the incident report for the robbery at LeSean McCoy’s home, where his ex-girlfriend, Delicia Cordon, lived. Cordon said yesterday, through her lawyer, that a man broke into her home, demanded she give him jewelry that McCoy had given her, and beat her up, lea...