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Report: Aqib Talib Shot At Dallas Nightclub [UPDATE]

Broncos cornerback Aqib Talib has been released from a Dallas hospital after being shot during a nightclub altercation Saturday night, according to the Dallas Morning News....

At Least They Put Their Names On It

Ken Starr Faceplants When Confronted With Email Showing He Was Told About Rape At Baylor

The Ken Starr (yes, that Ken Starr) image rehabilitation tour has begun, with Starr joining the calls for transparency from Baylor’s Board of Regents. He’s urging the regents to release the full Pepper Hamilton report into how Baylor created a culture so blind that administrators believed rape “does...

Mississippi State AD Gets Roasted For Barely Punishing Star Recruit Who Beat Up A Woman

“It’s easy to make a snap decision, which is why we vetted everything we could,” says Mississippi State Athletic Director Scott Stricklin of his decision to allow five-star recruit Jeffery Simmons to join the football team with a tiny one-game suspension. That’s a bold way to lead off a press confer...

Steelers Linebacker Uses Dead Gorilla To Burn Cincinnati

Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Vince Williams has no love lost for Harambe, the gorilla killed at the Cincinnati Zoo last weekend after a child got into his enclosure. After all, Harambe lived in the same city that hosts the Steelers’ divisional rival Bengals....

Thousands Of NFL Players' Medical Records Stolen From Skins Trainer

In late April, the NFL recently informed its players, a Skins athletic trainer’s car was broken into. The thief took a backpack, and inside that backpack was a cache of electronic and paper medical records for thousands of players, including NFL Combine attendees from the last 13 years. That would e...

Report: Ken Starr To Resign As Baylor Chancellor [Update]

According to ESPN’s Joe Schad, former Baylor University president Ken Starr (yes, that Ken Starr), has resigned from his current position as chancellor. He was demoted to chancellor just last week, following the university’s admission that it discouraged women from reporting sexual assaults by footb...

Twitter User Jim Harbaugh Roasts "Amazing" Nick Saban

There’s been a fairly mundane controversy swirling about the college football offseason regarding the legality of satellite football camps (little coaching clinics put on by schools used as a recruiting tactic) and whether or not head coaches should attend. In April, the NCAA banned satellite camps,...

Brad Nessler Will Replace Verne Lundquist In CBS College Football Booth

A CBS sports press release confirms what’s been rumored for weeks: longtime ESPN announcer Brad Nessler is coming to CBS, and after the 2016 season will replace the legendary Verne Lundquist as play-by-play man on “SEC on CBS” games....

Baylor Athletic Director Ian McCaw Has Resigned [UPDATE]

Baylor athletic director Ian McCaw plans to resign, according to Baylor247, making him the third person to leave his position as a result of the sexual assault scandals at the Waco university following head football coach Art Briles’s firing and the demotion of president Ken Starr. Baylor sanctioned...

Baylor has hired former Ohio and Wake Forest coach Jim Grobe as its interim head football coach, according to Baylor247. The rest of the coaching staff is expected to remain intact. ...

Georgia AD Apologizes For Sexy Ludacris Concert Rider

On April 13, Ludacris performed for 13 minutes at Georgia’s spring game, and was paid $65,000 for it. His contract also included a pretty great rider, which you can read it full at the bottom of this post. It included condoms, juice boxes, and a couple of bottle of Ludacris’s own brand of cognac, an...

All Sorts Of People Are Rushing To Defend Art Briles

Art Briles was fired from Baylor today following an investigation into what was, at best, his football program’s systemic negligence regarding repeated sexual-assault accusations. Linebacker Taylor Young mounted a convoluted defense of Briles earlier today, and more have since rushed to wax nostalgi...

Report: Chris Berman Will Retire From ESPN At The End Of The NFL Season (UPDATE)

Chris Berman has been with ESPN for nearly 40 years, but he’ll retire at the conclusion of the 2016 NFL season, per a report from The Big Lead....

Ex-Boise State Football Player Reportedly Charged With Biting Part Of Teammate's Ear Off

Sophomore Dereck Boles was kicked off the Boise State football team on February 27 for an unspecified “violation of team rules.” That violation was him reportedly biting part of a teammate’s ear off....

Baylor Is Full Of Shit

It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Baylor acted like it would come clean and then didn’t actually do so. For about a minute, Baylor made it appear like it was going to open up about how its leaders downplayed or even covered up sexual assault on campus, especially when football players were the ones ...

Baylor Player Jumps To Defend Art Briles, Attempts To Tweet Through It

Baylor junior linebacker Taylor Young is not taking Art Briles’s firing very well. The football player defended his former head coach and even admitted that he was blindly doing so, because college football is all about following the leader....

Baylor Fires Football Coach Art Briles, Demotes President Ken Starr

Baylor University has demoted president Ken Starr, fired head football coach Art Briles, sanctioned athletic director Ian McCaw, and fired unnamed administrative and athletics department staffers, according to a release from the school. The school also said that an independent investigation found a ...

Bills GM Doug Whaley Backtracks From Idea That Humans Shouldn't Play Football

Bills general manager Doug Whaley said today that he used a “poor choice of words” when he expressed his belief on a radio interview that “humans aren’t supposed to play” football, because it’s a bad look for a guy whose job it is to convince men to play football for his team....

Yep, Michigan RB Was Run Over By A Forklift

Michigan running back Drake Johnson was injured under mysterious circumstances last month, with speculation centering around a freak forklift injury, but no one from the program willing to give any details. Now thanks to the Detroit News’ open-records request, we have confirmation: dude got run over...