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Louisiana High School Coach Bans Nick Saban From Campus For "Not Being Ethical"
LSU head coach Ed Orgeron rode out a potential boycott last week and got himself back into the good graces of New Orleans-area football coaches. Now, it’s Nick Saban’s turn to get on the wrong side of a high school coach....

Peter King Profiles Tom Brady, Who Drinks Salt And Smiles And Therefore Is A Genius
Of all the clichés of the hack celebrity profile, perhaps the most overdone is the one where the writer opens with an observation of the famous person’s eating or drinking behavior from across a table. You’ve encountered this countless times, I’m sure: the bombshell sex-symbol tearing lustily into a...

Small-Time Bookies: The 2016 NFL Season Was Not Kind To Us
Overall—and I’ll spare you the details—my football gambling track record isn’t pretty, so when I ended the 2016 regular season well in the black, I knew something was off. And after reaching out to a bookie on the West Coast, my suspicions were confirmed. No, I had not finally cracked the football g...

Former Saints WR Robert Meachem Jailed Over Nearly $400,000 In Unpaid Child Support
On Monday, former NFL wide receiver Robert Meachem was sentenced to 30 days in jail over his failure to pay almost $400,000 in child support. The New Orleans Advocate first reported Meachem’s sentencing. ...

Jim Harbaugh Hired The Parent Of A Top Recruit Again
Recruiting college athletes is an unpredictable process in which players can change their minds at the literal drop of a hat. ...

Michigan State Suspends Football Staffer; School Police Continue Sexual Assault Investigation
Michigan State spokesperson Jason Cody confirmed that the football team’s director of college advancement and performance Curtis Blackwell was suspended with pay as of Tuesday afternoon....

Tom Brady Is A Cockroach
Zoo Atlanta and Rhode Island’s Roger Williams Park Zoo made a cheesy Super Bowl bet, in which the losing zoo would have to name a baby animal after the winning team’s quarterback. Since the Patriots won, meet Tom Brady, a baby Madagascar hissing cockroach:...

SB Nation Writer And Former NFL Player Denies Child-Abuse Allegations
Last week, the Tampa Bay Times ran a story about Kendrick Morris, who faces sentencing for two rapes he committed in 2007 and 2008, when he was 15 and 16 years old. During a sentencing hearing, a doctor who examined Morris testified that Morris felt remorse for his crimes and could be rehabilitated....

Steve Young Insists He Gives A Crap About His ESPN Job
Steve Young is in damage control mode, apologizing to ESPN after participating in a profile that sure made it look like he’s not that into the NFL or his Monday Night Football analyst job, and even seemed to imply his MNF job is merely a means to bolster his private equity firm. ...

77-Year-Old Bill Snyder Plans To Coach Through Throat Cancer Treatment
Bill Snyder, Kansas State’s 77-year-old head coach, announced on Monday morning that he’s been receiving treatment for throat cancer for the past three weeks. In a statement, Snyder said he plans to continue coaching the Wildcats while he undergoes treatment. ...

Michael Bennett Withdraws From Group Of NFL Players Touring Israel Due To Human Rights Concerns
Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett has decided not to accompany a group of NFL players touring Israel next week, citing human rights concerns....

We Talked To Marshall Faulk About Retirement, Donnel Pumphrey, And Angry Pats Fans
Marshall Faulk picked in an inopportune time to dredge up his 2002 Super Bowl beef with New England. The Hall of Fame running back and NFL Network Analyst insisted that Tom Brady’s claim as the greatest quarterback ever should come with an asterisk on the same day that Brady and the Pats pulled off ...

Bruce Irvin And Skyler Howard Argue About When WVU Football Was Better
Sound the beef alarm, assuming you own one. We have a tiff between former West Virginia football player and current Oakland Raider Bruce Irvin, and ex-WVU QB and draft prospect Skyler Howard....

Four More Patriots Plan To Skip White House Visit
Since New England Patriots Devin McCourty and Martellus Bennett voiced their intentions to skip a ceremonial visit to the White House, four more of their teammates have said they’ll also pass on the trip. Not all of them are doing it because of Donald Trump’s existence, however....

Woman Punched By Joe Mixon Says Argument Was Incited By Mixon Using A Gay Slur
A few months before Joe Mixon will likely be selected in the NFL Draft, Norman (Ok.) police released video of an interview that Amelia Molitor gave in July 2014. Molitor was punched in the face by Mixon that summer, and even though Mixon was done being formally disciplined for the punch after the 20...

Report: Disgraced Former Baylor President Ken Starr Is The Frontrunner For A Post In Trump Administration
Ken Starr (yes, that Ken Starr) served as president of Baylor University until the summer of 2016, when he was ousted in the wake of Baylor’s sexual assault scandal. Starr claimed to have no knowledge of the series of alleged sexual assaults committed by football players, and even as he tried to sav...

Three Michigan State Players Suspended While Police Investigate Sexual Assault Allegations
Michigan State suspended three football players and one staffer Thursday afternoon, revealing in a press release that the four unidentified team members are currently being investigated by the university for a sexual assault reported in “late January.” The school police department is currently headi...

The Broncos' New Special Teams Coach Seems Cool
Brock Olivo, a former running back who played four seasons for the Detroit Lions, is the new Denver Broncos’ special teams coach. He was formally introduced Wednesday, and he somehow achieves a vibe that is simultaneously chill and intense....


Tennessee Department Of Transportation Clowns Lane Kiffin With Winter Hype Video
Lane Kiffin’s tenure as Florida Atlantic’s head football coach got off to a rocky start when he brought all the enthusiasm of a teen being forced to mow the lawn to his role in an official hype video. ...