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Former BYU Coach LaVell Edwards Is Dead At 86
Former BYU coach LaVell Edwards died Thursday at the age of 86 after suffering complications following a broken hip, according to the Provo Daily Herald, which spoke with Edwards’s wife, Patti....
Dillon Brooks Nails Second Coolest Three-Pointer Of His Career
Through 14 games, Oregon forward Dillon Brooks has taken a step to the side or backwards in nearly all major offensive categories—his long ball is hitting just 30 percent of the time. Still, as he has throughout his career, the third-year player from Ontario has focused on basketball’s fundamental t...
Jim Harbaugh Got A New Big-Boy Glove And He Loves It
Christmas has come early for Michigan’s prized son, Jim Harbaugh....
Western Kentucky Busted Out The Trick Plays And Gave Us A Fat Guy Touchdown
With 40-odd bowl games to sit through, you have to appreciate Western Kentucky’s efforts to spice up a game between the AAC West’s fourth-best team and the Conference USA champions....
Thank God, <i>Rogue One</i> Made Darth Vader A Proper Villain Again
Rogue One: A Star Wars Movie is a very good blockbuster—does it provide an apt commentary on the modern state of warfare or secure every loose end George Lucas left untethered in his two runs at the helm? No. The plot is fine, I cared about the characters I was supposed to care about, the robot is G...
Christian McCaffrey, Leonard Fournette Wisely Choose To Skip Exhibition Games
Two of the nation’s top running backs will be on the sidelines come their respective bowl games, and they’re smart as hell for sitting. ...
Princeton, WashU Suspend Men's Teams For Misogynistic Comments
Two more universities have suspended men’s teams after they found misogynistic messages being sent by the players. Princeton suspended its men’s swimming and diving team late Thursday night after the team’s online listserv, with racist and misogynistic comments, made its way in front of university a...
North Carolina GOP Uses Hurricane Relief Session To Undercut Incoming Governor's Powers
Since everything went to shit, partial solace has been found in the belief that, even if your party of choice failed to win The Big One, there’s plenty that can be done in all levels of government to induce progress. The shitty flip side to this line of thinking is that the same principle applies to...
Suspended Morehead State Coach Sean Woods Charged With Battery
Morehead State coach Sean Woods has been charged with battery after two players reported him to campus police for physically abusing them during a November basketball game....
Lane Kiffin Got What He Deserved
The new FAU head coach said it best during his introductory press conference: “You don’t get what you want, you get what you deserve.”...
Lonzo Ball's Long Ball Is One Of The Best Things In College Basketball
It’s hard to be your program’s savior when six players are averaging double-digit scoring numbers, so for now, UCLA point guard Lonzo Ball will have to make due with being one of head coach Steve Alford’s very dope stars....
Amherst Suspends Men's Cross Country Team After Publication Of Racist, Misogynist Emails
In statements from the school president and athletic director issued Monday, Amherst College announced the suspension of all team activities for its men’s cross country team. The announcement comes one day after the student magazine, The Indicator, published a report that found members of the team b...
Report: Two Louisville Football Players, One Student Shot At Heisman Party
Two Louisville football players, James Hearns and and Henry Famurewa, and an unidentified female student were shot early Sunday morning at an off-campus party celebrating Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson’s Heisman Trophy victory. The shooting took place around 2:00 a.m. in the Retreat apartment ...
In Defeat, Jim Harbaugh Turns To Sir Andrew Barton<em></em><em></em>
Two weeks ago, Jim Harbaugh and his Michigan Wolverines suffered a double-overtime loss at the hands of rival Ohio State; afterwards, the Milkman remarked he was “bitterly disappointed” with the officiating in the game, specifically railing against the refs for giving Ohio State a crucial first down...
Notre Dame Fans Take Out Full-Page Meme In Student Paper Calling For AD's Job
No matter how you look at it, Notre Dame’s football team sucked, and it seems fans are roughly three steps away from the acceptance stage....
Luke Kennard Is Playing Like A Star, And Duke Is Suddenly Terrifying
Luke Kennard was never supposed to be the star of this year’s Duke team, but the sophomore shooting guard had another monster game against Florida last night, and, well, here we are. All you “Dook” haters might be fucked....
Former Heisman Winner Rashaan Salaam Dead At 42
Rashaan Salaam, winner of the 1994 Heisman Trophy and former Chicago Bears running back, was found dead outside a Boulder, Colo. park Monday night. He was 42....
Baylor Hires Temple's Matt Rhule As New Head Coach
After reports trickled in all morning, Baylor made the announcement of their new football head coach official. God speed, Matt Rhule....
Amar'e Stoudemire Flattened This Jamoke
At 34 years old, Amar’e Stoudemire doesn’t flex the same explosive, ladder-climbing athleticism he did early on in his NBA career; he’s still fun and destructive on the court, just in a different way....
Harvard Places Men's Cross Country Team On Athletic Probation For Misogynistic Spreadsheets
Another Harvard men’s athletics program has been disciplined for creating and maintaining a spreadsheet used to evaluate sexually their female counterparts; unlike the men’s soccer team, the men’s cross country team cooperated with the investigation, leading to a lighter punishment....