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I Was Shot And Raped By An FSU Player. I Still Cheer For The Seminoles.
Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston was in the process of driving the Seminoles 80 yards in 1:06 to win a national championship, and Ashley Witherspoon, class of '91, was getting loud....
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What The Hell Is Going On With Donovan McNabb's Mug Shot? [Update]
The Maricopa County (Ariz.) sheriff's office today released this mug shot of former NFL player Donovan McNabb...and absolutely zero details. Which is a pretty fucking weird thing to do, even in the land of Joe Arapaio....

Players Boycott Return Of Coach Fired For False Child Porn Charges
The story of Todd Hoffner, the former Minnesota State-Mankato football coach who was fired after being falsely accused of possessing child pornography in 2012, took a strange and sad turn today as he attempted to reclaim his old job—and players refused to practice for him....

First-Person Footage Shows Us What It's Like To Play Linebacker
At this year's spring game, the Miami Hurricanes put a camera on linebacker Denzel Perryman's helmet, so as to show the rest of the world what a pain in the ass playing linebacker is....

Everything The Cops Didn't Do In The Jameis Winston Rape Investigation
"I believe that Mr. Winston cannot be convicted," Florida's chief assistant state attorney tells the Times. "I don't necessarily believe that he's innocent." ...

How Nolan Nawrocki Made Himself Into The NFL's Most Infamous Scout
Nolan Nawrocki lives in the nicest house in a tidy neighborhood in Elmhurst, Ill., a western suburb of Chicago. When I visit him a couple of weeks before Easter, the windows are already awash in signage....

NFL Draft Scouting Has Eaten Itself
We're less than a month from the draft, which means we're at the point where front-office personnel have mostly made up their minds and anything said about prospects is likely to make you demonstrably dumber. To wit:...

49ers Linebacker Aldon Smith Detained At LAX After Bomb Mention
San Francisco 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport today, according to multiple reports....

Bo Pelini Leads His Team Out The Tunnel With A Cat
Nebraska football head coach Bo Pelini walked out of the tunnel with a cat for today's spring game. Even if you don't get the inside joke, it's still pretty funny....

ESPN Uses "Street Clothes" Photo Of Kaepernick, Then Decides Otherwise
For some reason, ESPN used a photo of Colin Kaepernick in a backwards hat and regular clothes early Saturday morning while reporting on his "suspicious incident." Usually, a standard photo of him in a uniform would accompany the report. Why the switch?...

Hernandez Associates Indicted On Murder Charges, And That's A Huge Deal
Two of Aaron Hernandez's associates have been indicted on murder charges, a move that has major implications for Hernandez's case. Now, to convict him of murder, prosecutors will no longer have to prove that Hernandez pulled the trigger. ...

Missouri's Dorial Green-Beckham Kicked Off Team
Tigers star WR Dorial Green-Beckham was dismissed from Missouri's football program today, after the release of a police report concerning an allegedly burglary and assault incident from this past weekend. ...


Police: Victim Pressured To Not Press Charges Against Green-Beckham
Columbia police announced today that Missouri star wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham will not be arrested in connection with an incident that occurred this weekend, when Green-Beckham allegedly forced his way into an apartment trying to locate his girlfriend and injured one of the residents. That v...

Chargers Logo Used To Spice Up Synthetic Chemistry Research
In an outstanding sports-nerd move, chemists at the Scripps Research Institute—located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego—have managed to slip the Chargers logo into the research abstract of an upcoming Journal of the American Chemical Society paper. ...

Bitchy Pats Fans Harass Brandon Spikes After He Talks About Winning
Linebacker Brandon Spikes left the Patriots after four seasons to sign with the Buffalo Bills. New England didn't seem to want him back, and the parting seemed amicable. But that won't stop some Patriots fans from overreacting when Spikes talked about beating the Patriots today in the most boring wa...

Gene Chizik Doesn't Look Too Happy About His Daughter's Prom Date
Gene Chizik's got his best disapproving dad pose going on in this prom photo. Hmmm, he's not too sure how he feels about you yet, kid. You better treat his daughter right. Be home by midnight. No funny business....

That Isn't Arian Foster, Ma'am
Some dude is apparently pretending to be Arian Foster, or at least didn't correct this woman when she posed for a photo with him....

Report: The Eagles Seriously Hated DeSean Jackson
Football fans are smarter than teams and media give them credit for. When the Eagles released DeSean Jackson, they could easily have said, "Jackson is a great player, but between his sometimes-spotty play and his occasional inability to get along with coaches and teammates, we don't believe he's wor...

Here's LaMichael James Looking Terrified On A Roller Coaster
Don't know a damned thing about the story behind this photo, other than that it's 49ers running back LaMichael James, back in his Oregon days, being brought nearly to tears by a theme park ride. It was not the only time a roller coaster would do a number on James....