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Former Tennessee Player: Butch Jones Called Me Traitor For Helping Alleged Rape Victim
In a sworn affidavit, then-Volunteers football player Drae Bowles says he was attacked and threatened by teammates for helping a woman who told him she had been raped by players A.J. Johnson and Michael Williams, and told by head coach Butch Jones that he had “betrayed the team.” ...
Dada 5000's Camp Calls Joe Rogan's "Fried Chicken And Orange Soda" Comment "Overtly Racist"
Saturday’s Bellator fight between Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson and Dhafir “Dada 5000" Harris went from farcical to concerning after reports came out that Harris’s heart had stopped after the bout. ...
Lawsuit: Cole Hamels Paid Agency $70K For Victoria's Secret Fashion Show VIP Tickets, Got Nothing
Texas Rangers pitcher Cole Hamels has sued an entertainment agency, and accused it of taking his money and not getting him VIP access to the 2015 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in return....
Dante Fowler Apologizes For Watching Two Women Brawl
Jaguars defensive end Dante Fowler apologized today for his role in a fight between who TMZ describes as his girlfriend and the mother of his child, which was captured on surveillance video footage from the building....
D-Backs Pitcher Josh Collmenter Teaches Physics To Teammates
Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Josh Collmenter is using his free time during spring training in a productive way: classes for his teammates. Today, the players learned about physics....
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Court Rules Video Of Joe Mixon's Assault Should Be Public Record
The Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals ruled today that surveillance video which shows Sooners running back Joe Mixon punching a woman in the face is considered part of the public record and must be released when requested, because the recording is part of the court file on Mixon’s case. However, it wi...
Tiger Woods's Agent Disputes Claim That Tiger Woods Is Old And Fucked Up
Tiger Woods hasn’t played in a golf tournament since August. The 40-year-old still has no timetable for his return, and his back is admittedly in depressingly bad shape. Over the weekend, a couple of tweets claimed to have details on his health, and the purported details were bleak....
Jonathan Papelbon Is Back With The Nationals, And Not Choking Anyone (Yet)
After Nationals closer Jonathan Papelbon choked out his teammate Bryce Harper in the team’s dugout during a game last September, it seemed certain that he wouldn’t be on the team in 2016. And yet, despite putting his hands around the Nationals’ best player, Papelbon’s still on the roster and part of...
Former NFL QB Max Hall Says He Was An Alcoholic And Drug Addict
Former BYU and Arizona Cardinals quarterback Max Hall says his arrest for shoplifting and cocaine possession in 2014 forced him to deal with his addictions to Oxycontin, cocaine, and alcohol....
Minnesota's Joey King Breaks Down After Upset Over Maryland
The Minnesota Golden Gophers toppled No. 6 Maryland Thursday night with a 68-63 win, earning their first conference win of the season. With a 7-19 record, the team has been a punching bag for most of its opponents, but after the game, senior forward Joey King turned into a tearful mess as he was int...
Markieff Morris Doesn't Look Back, Even After He Slips Off His Hoverboard
The Suns traded Markieff Morris to the Wizards today, in what was the most significant trade during a dull NBA trade deadline. The forward, who openly said in August that he wanted to be traded, went through the parking lot on a hoverboard....
OHL Suspends Team Owner After He Fires Coaching Staff For The Second Time This Season
Normally the owners of OHL teams wouldn’t be of note, but Flint Firebirds owner Rolf Nilsen’s handling of his team has been so poor that the league stepped in and took control away from him....
Police: Montee Ball Threw His Girlfriend Into A Table
NFL free-agent running back Montee Ball threw his girlfriend into a table in their hotel room before he was arrested and charged with battery, according to a Madison (Wisc.) PD report....
Bill Simmons's New Site Has A Name And Some New Hires
Bill Simmons’s new website will be called The Ringer, CNN’s Brian Stelter reported today. It’ll also bring in a bunch of people from Grantland....
Bernie Sanders Used A Lot Of Elbows In His Pickup Basketball Games
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders showed off his basketball skills as he awaited the New Hampshire primary results last week, and it became clear that he had a devastating set shot. The Guardian’s Les Carpenter dug into Sanders’s hoops history and found that the politician had been part...
Dog Attends <i>Sports Illustrated </i>Swimsuit Fan Fest
The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is out, and while it surely offers 34 revolutionary new angles from which to display underboob, the more interesting development took place at the Fan Fest held in Manhattan today. To be specific, someone noteworthy showed up at the Fan Fest....
Hockey Player's Brother Hits Referee In Dick And Balls With Can
Alexandre Perron, the older brother of Rouyn-Noranda Huskies winger Francis Perron, was so incensed about a roughing minor against his brother in a Feb. 11 game that he threw a can at QMJHL referee Dominick Bédard. The projectile hit Bédard right in the crotch, and he doubled over on the ice....
Red Sox Fan Pleads With Giants Manager Bruce Bochy To Take Back Pablo Sandoval
Pablo Sandoval’s first season with the Red Sox was a horrid disaster. He accrued a career-low .292 on-base percentage, got in trouble for using Instagram in a bathroom during a game, swung at practically anything, and just couldn’t run the bases by the end of the season, forcing the team to shut him...