Football Page 987 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Texas A&M's Playoff Hopes Sink With Upset To Mississippi State
A few days after Texas A&M was given the No. 4 spot in the year’s first College Football Playoff rankings—ahead of Washington, who is undefeated, and Louisville and Ohio State, who each matched A&M’s 7-1 record—they made sure they lost it, falling to unranked Mississippi State....
Baylor's Sexual Assault Scandal: Still No Report, Still Few Answers
Baylor’s board of regents is sharing details of the university’s sexual assault scandal with select media outlets after months of staying publicly silent. A group of regents spoke anonymously with the Wall Street Journal last week, and two days ago an interview with four regents—Ron Murff, James Gra...
Baylor Players Deny Report Their Black Uniforms Are In Protest Of Art Briles's Firing
Individual Baylor football players have stood up for ex-Bears head coach Art Briles in the months since he was fired for his role in the school’s sexual assault scandal; now, according to ESPN’s Brett McMurphy, the entire team will join the ill-fated movement....
Alabama Students Charged With Breaking Into LSU's Stadium, Trying To Deface Midfield Logo, Failing
ESPN’s Marty Smith reports LSU police charged two Alabama students with criminal trespass after a 3 a.m. call reported suspects could be found at midfield of Tiger Stadium. Smith published photos of an apparently very-weakly-attempted defacing of the midfield logo, something easily patched-up by the...
How The Falcons Are Getting The Most Out Of Matt Ryan
“It feels like everybody’s open at the same time,” Julio Jones said after the Falcons finished wiping their feet with the Buccaneers Thursday night. He wasn’t exaggerating, and this wasn’t some one-off. Through nine games, Atlanta’s offense is the best in the NFL, and it’s making a run at history....
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Ken Stabler's Family: Hall Of Fame Won't Give Us A Gold Jacket Or Ring [Updated]
Ken Stabler is finally getting inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, a year after his death, but his daughter says his family won’t get the hall’s iconic ring and gold jacket. ...
Here's The List of Defense Lawyers Penn State Handed Out To Its Football Players
College football fans know that when a player gets in trouble, it won’t be too long before that player retains legal counsel—and usually very good counsel. At Florida, it’s Huntley Johnson. At Florida State, it’s Tim Jansen. At Tennessee, players got a list of six defense lawyers with ties to the at...
Falcons-Buccaneers, <i>Thursday Night Football</i>, LIVE
It’s time again to let the Tecmo Super Bowl computer duke it out to simulate tonight’s Atlanta-Tampa Bay game. Who will win? Tune in to find out, LIVE: ...
Department Of Education Fines Penn State $2.4 Million For Child Sex Abuse Scandal
The U.S. Department of Education announced Thursday the conclusion of its investigation into the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. Upon review, the department found 11 instances in which the university violated the Clery Act. ...
Oregon Linebacker Arrested After Allegedly Punching A Woman
Oregon Ducks linebacker Eddie Heard was arrested on Wednesday and charged with fourth-degree assault and harassment after allegedly punching a woman outside of a bar in Eugene, Oregon on Oct. 30, according to The Oregonian. The team announced this morning that Heard has been suspended....
Former Baylor AD Reportedly Asked For Immunity For Football Players Under Investigation
Since turning down a $1.5 million settlement from Baylor, Patty Crawford has been on quite the media tour. She rejected the money because it would have prevented her from speaking publicly about what happened at Baylor over the past two years, and since she left the school less than a month ago, she...
What's Going On With Alex Smith?
The Kansas City Chiefs are making a change at quarterback: the team will start Nick Foles over Alex Smith for Sunday against the Jaguars. Tyler Bray will be the backup; Smith won’t even dress. Is Smith still suffering the effects of brain trauma from Sunday’s game against the Colts? The Chiefs aren’...
NFL Network Suspends Brian Baldinger Six Months For Promoting Bounties
The NFL Network has suspended analyst and former NFL player Brian Baldinger six months without pay, Sporting News reports. On Friday Baldinger went on the radio with Philadelphia’s 97.5 The Fanatic, and recommended that the Eagles put a bounty on and attempt to injure Cowboys running back Ezekiel El...
Vikings Replace Norv Turner, Still Can’t Fucking Block
First they came for the teddy bears, and now the Vikings have sacrificed offensive coordinator and man-eating-alone-at-the-diner Norv Turner. ...
New Report Details How Baylor Suppressed Reports Of Sexual Assault<em></em>
A report tonight from Showtime’s 60 Minutes Sports revealed a series of new details about Baylor’s failures to handle reports of sexual assault, especially (although not exclusively) those involving football players. The package, reported by Armen Keteyian, details how Waco police kept details of re...
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Oklahoma RB Joe Mixon Suspended For Being A Dick To Parking Lot Attendant [Update]
Oklahoma’s star running back Joe Mixon was suspended for the team’s upcoming game against Iowa State for the always-nebulous crime of “violating team rules.” According to his lawyer, who spoke to The Oklahoman, Mixon received a parking ticket this morning, then “tore the ticket up in front of the pa...
Washington Got Hosed
Rampant anti-wolf mascot bias, per usual....
On Eve Of 60 Minutes Sports Report, Baylor Starts Website Called "The Truth"
This afternoon, the URL www.baylor.edu/thetruth went live; no, the URL and website names are not the worst part....
Will You Remember Andre Johnson?
Yesterday afternoon, Andre Johnson walked away from the NFL. It’s the second such abrupt retirement by a one-time star of the Houston Texans who was living out the twilight of his career with a downtrodden franchise, and like Arian Foster, Johnson was, at best, a bit player on his new team in Tennes...
Cam Newton Is Right To Be Pissed
After he took a hit to his knee that wasn’t flagged on Sunday, Cam Newton went off on the NFL. “At times I don’t even feel safe,” Newton, the reigning league MVP, said at the start of an extended rant about calls he frequently doesn’t get. “And enough is enough.”...