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Baylor Player Dismissed For "Team Rule Violation" Was Subject Of Rape Investigation

When former tight end Tre’Von Armstead was dismissed from Baylor’s football team last year, the team said it was because he violated team rules. A report today by Paula Lavigne for ESPN’s Outside the Lines shows that the dismissal happened a week after Baylor began an investigation for possible sexu...

Former Baylor Defensive End Shawn Oakman Arrested On Sexual Assault Charge [Updated]

According to the Waco Tribune-Herald, former Baylor football player Shawn Oakman has been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a fellow student on April 3, 2016....

"Kirby's Law" Will Make It Harder To Report On Georgia Athletics

Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed into law yesterday legislation that will give state university athletic departments an unprecedented right to delay responding to open records requests. This is good news for that state’s biggest programs—new UGA football coach Kirby Smart personally lobbied lawma...

Records: Baylor's Shawn Oakman Under Investigation For Sexual Assault Accusation (Updated)

Another former Baylor football player, recent defensive standout Shawn Oakman, is under investigation for a reported sexual assault over the weekend. The story was broken by the Waco Tribune-Herald, which did not identify the player “because he had not been arrested.” However, it did extensively quo...

Troy Smith Tells Cop He Graduated "With A Degree In Bachelors" During Traffic Stop

Troy Smith, the 2006 Heisman Trophy winner and former communications major at Ohio State, was arrested overnight Sunday on suspicion of being intoxicated behind the wheel and on certainty of being a consummate fuckup during a traffic stop....

Spring Breaking Iowa State Football Players Save Woman From Drowning

Finally, something good comes from college students on spring break....

Lawsuit: Baylor Took No Action To Investigate Rape Involving Football Player

A former Baylor student is suing the university, saying that it took no action on her report that a football player raped her. That former player, Tevin Elliott, is serving 20 years in prison for his 2014 conviction for sexually assaulting her. The lawsuit also asserts that the university already kn...

Report: Cops Called Butch Jones Before Searching Home Where Two Players Allegedly Raped A Woman

Phone records obtained today by the Tennessean show the flurry of calls made and received by Tennessee Volunteers head coach Butch Jones on the day in 2014 when a woman said she was raped by two members of his football team....

Five-Star Mississippi State Recruit Apologizes After Video Emerges Of Him Allegedly Beating A Woman

Mississippi State football signee Jeffery Simmons apologized in a Facebook post after video turned up that appears to show the five-star recruit attacking a woman....

Penn State Coach James Franklin Destroys Easter Bunny Piñata With Flying Tackle

Happy Easter everyone!...

Jim Harbaugh Burns Ohio State AD Gene Smith

Fresh off beefing with Georgia coach Kirby Smart and the SEC, Harbaugh got into it today with a more natural enemy: Ohio State....

Is The Longhorn Network Killing The Big 12?

Five years into the grand experiment, and the Longhorn Network is kind of a disaster. It’s losing money hand-over-fist: reportedly $48 million since its launch, with annual losses hovering in the millions. Subscriber fees are painfully low, and ESPN is locked into this thing for another 15 years. An...

Report: Akron Football Player Shoots Teammate After Mistaking Him For A Burglar

Akron football player Scott Boyett shot his teammate Andrew Pratt on accident early this morning after mistaking him for a burglar, per a report from the Akron Beacon Journal. Apparently Pratt and Boyett are neighbors, and Pratt entered Boyett’s apartment without notice, so his friend shot him, mist...

Report: Former Mississippi State QB And NFL Draft Prospect Dak Prescott Arrested For DUI

Dak Prescott and his Mississippi State teammates held their pro day late last week down in Starkville. The former Bulldogs quarterback was projected to be one of the first five or so QBs off the board in next month’s NFL Draft, but according to a report from the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, Prescott was ...

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Illinois Football Fires The Coach They Just Hired (Update: Lovie Smith Will Reportedly Replace Him)

Remember back in late November, when the Illinois Fighting Illini had just lost to Northwestern to wrap up a 5-7 season, and the school announced it had signed interim coach Bill Cubit to a two-year, $2.4 million deal? At that time—right after they’d hired him!—interim AD Paul Kowalczyk told reporte...

Penn State Running Back Saquon Barkley Is Young And Strong 

Here is Saquon Barkley, freshman running back at Penn State, lifting a great deal of weight like it’s no big deal:...

Tennessee Lawsuit Reveals Details Of Unprosecuted Rape Case

On April 13, 2013, Tennessee coach Butch Jones announced that football player Marlin Lane was suspended for “disciplinary reasons.” More than a year later, via reporting by the Tennesseean, it was revealed that those “disciplinary reasons” involved a police investigation into if Lane had raped an 18...

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.” ...