NCAA Baseball Page 293 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
FAMU + Athletics = Crazy
So this probably needs to be addressed: Florida A&M freshman quarterback Michael Johnson was arrested today after he admitted that he lied about being attacked at gunpoint in his dorm room. And no one is sure why he did it....
Obama Gets His Desmond Howard On
As some of you surely saw yesterday, presidential candidate Barack Obama visited Mack Brown and the Texas Longhorns yesterday. We think this picture is pretty awesome. We hope that this inevitably leads to Mitt Romney, when he runs again in four years, hanging out with Keith Van Horn....
Deadspin Is Your Alls Daddy, So Why Hate?
You may know John Adams as the Founding Father who would one day support author David McCullough and his family for the better part of two decades. But that name also belongs to the current sports editor/columnist of the Knoxville News-Sentinel, John Adams, who has been notoriously critical of Tenne...
The Sad, Confused Teenager That Is Kevin Hart
As we mentioned last night, the sad saga of Kevin Hart and his phantom recruiting has come to an end with his confession that he made it all up. This blew our minds in ways that surprised us....
Kevin Hart Made The Whole Thing Up
We just arrived in Alameda and we're going to spend some time playing Tetris working, but the news just broke: Kevin Hart, the kid who had supposedly been duped by a recruiter into thinking Cal and Oregon wanted him ... made the whole thing up. No: Seriously....
Kevin Hart Was Scammed, Not Pranked
So, there's an update on the Kevin Hart story, and it turns out that the whole thing was more "con" than "prank."...
A Signing Day For Everyone
Dan Shanoff, occasional college football columnist for Deadspin, reflects on college football's signing day today. Email him to let him know what you think....
Kevin Hart Might Not Have Been Recruited At All
The young man in this photo is Kevin Hart. He's a two-star offensive lineman prospect out of Nevada, and he has been trying to decide which college to attend. After talking to their coach repeatedly, he finally settled on California. He called a big press conference to announce his decision: He's go...
Arizona State Quarterback Allegedly Doesn't Like Being Mocked For His Pink Shirt
Apparently, at an Arizona State basketball game the other night, everyone was supposed to wear gold, or something. Sun Devils quarterback Rudy Carpenter, for whatever reasons, decided to wear a pink shirt. Interesting choice, but hey: To each his own. But, according to several witnesses popping up a...
Help The Nailers Shred Rich Rodriguez
West Virginia knows how to throw a minor league promotion; something that Rich Rodriguez should have considered before he bolted to Michigan. Remember baseball's West Virginia Power, and their gala Salute to Indoor Plumbing? Well, the Minor Hockey League Wheeling Nailers — a AA affiliate of the Pitt...
The 2000 Washington Huskies Were Horrible People
If you haven't had a chance yet to dive into the Seattle Times amazing — and ongoing — investigation into the 2000 Washington Huskies, please do so right now. Today's section is about strong safety Curtis Williams — who broke his wife's arm — but we're still absolutely transfixed by the tale of coll...
Fake Tats Are An Excellent Recruiting Tool
In today's smash-mouth world of college football recruiting, desperate times call for desperate measures, and desperate measures call for temporary tattoos. That's just the way it is....
Some LSU Fans Are Disgusting
If you haven't your fill of repulsive behavior from drunken white football fans yet this morning — because apparently that's all the rage now — this video should be enough to take the taco. Warning: You're about to be disgusted. (Seriously: That's a legitimate warning. Turn the volume on your com...
Darren McFadden's Parents Aren't Saying Nothin' About Nothin'
"Yes he is." "No he isn't." "Is too." "Is not." "Shut up." "You shut up." "No, you shut up first." "No, your mom's ugly." There, now you're officially caught up to speed on the ongoing struggle between Darren McFadden's parents and media reports alleging their son is turning pro after his junior yea...
Darren McFadden's Piano Bar Brawl
It has to be kind of boring for a college football phenom, when the bowl games are over, your college career is done and you have nothing to do until the Draft workouts begin. It has to make a man antsy. So we sympathize with Darren McFadden, who got himself arrested early this morning....
Attention Oprah's Book Club: The New Reggie Bush Tell-All Is Here
Not in time for Christmas, darn it, but sure to make for cozy fireside reading nonetheless; the new Reggie Bush book, Don Yaeger's Tarnished Heisman, is here. Is this the Game of Shadows of college football? There's apparently enough evidence of financial impropriety involving Bush at USC to make th...
Nebraska's New Coach Is Quite Handsome
A reader who went to the BCS Championship Game sends in this photo of former LSU defensive coordinator and new Nebraska coach Bo Pelini, rocking the French Quarter at 3 a.m....
The End Of The Bowl Season, At Last
Well, the bowls are finally over, and we thank The Wizard Of Odds for this compendium of amusing screenshots from each bowl. Ah, the bowls: They were over before we even noticed we were supposed to notice....