NCAA Baseball Page 95 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Georgia Southern QB Has Charges Dropped After Cops Mistook Bird Poop For Cocaine
Georgia Southern starting QB Shai Werts was charged on July 31 for misdemeanor cocaine possession after cops in Saluda County, South Carolina pulled him over for speeding and then tested a white substance on the hood of his car. If you’re wondering why anyone would have cocaine on the hood of their ...
Navy Football Drops "Load The Clip" As Team Motto In Wake Of Insensitivity Claims
The Naval Academy announced on Friday that the football team would be changing the team motto for the upcoming season from “Load the Clip” to “Win the Day,” according to a report from Chase Cook of the Capital Gazette. The change was made after reporters raised questions during the motto’s official ...
From "Win The Moment" To "He Said She Said" To "Tuff Perception World": How Urban Meyer And Ohio State Reacted To The Zach Smith News
Ohio State released more than 2,000 pages of records on Friday related to its investigation of former head football coach Urban Meyer and what he and others on his staff knew about the repeated reports to authorities over the years by Courtney Smith that she had been abused by her then-husband and t...
Report: Michigan State Paid $1.2 Million To Settle Lawsuits Related To Keith Mumphery's Sexual Misconduct Case (Update)
Michigan State University paid a combined $1.2 million to former Spartan and Houston Texans football player Keith Mumphery and a woman he allegedly sexually assaulted, known as Jane Doe, according to settlement documents from May reported on by ESPN on Wednesday. The payouts—$725,000 for Mumphery, ...
Former Florida Gator Tony Joiner Charged With Murdering His Wife
The Fort Myers News-Press is reporting that Tony Joiner, former standout football player at the University of Florida, has been arrested and charged with murdering his wife....
Report: Coaches Wasted 25 Minutes Before Calling Paramedics In Heat Stroke Death Of Junior College Football Player
Football coaches at Garden City Community College, a prominent junior college program in Kansas that has played in two of the last three NJCAA championship games, reportedly delayed for 25 minutes before contacting paramedics after finding 19-year-old Braeden Bradforth collapsed outside his dorm las...
Zach Smith Arrested Again
Zach Smith, Urban Meyer’s disgraced former wide receivers coach at Ohio State, was arrested again Thursday in Delaware County, Ohio, for violating the terms of a civil protection order filed by ex-wife Courtney Smith. The arrest reportedly took place at Scioto Ridge Elementary School, when Zach show...
Former Notre Dame Running Back Cierre Wood Charged With Murder In Connection With 5-Year-Old Girl's Death
Former Notre Dame and NFL running back Cierre Wood, 28, was arrested Wednesday and is facing charges of child abuse, child neglect, and murder, according to the Las Vegas Metro Police Department. ...
Texas Suspends Cannon-Firing Spirit Group For Six Years After Investigation Into Member's Death Uncovers Hazing
The University of Texas has suspended the Texas Cowboys, the fellows who fire the cannon at football games, for six years following an investigation into the circumstances of the death of a new member during a group retreat back in September. The investigation found that the retreat included a lot o...
Tragic Death Of Player Naturally Turns Georgia Tech Coach's Mind To Recruiting
Georgia Tech senior defensive lineman Brandon Adams passed away suddenly on Saturday. Police said the 21-year-old collapsed near campus, and was taken by friends to a local hospital, where he died. Tributes to the young man poured in, and you can read many of them here, from his teammates and coache...
Former Athletic Department Intern Accuses Cal Football Players, Coaches Of Sexual Harassment
A former sports medicine intern in the UC Berkeley Athletic Department named Paige Cornelius has accused Cal football coaches and players of sexual harassment, in a public Facebook post written on Wednesday....
Former Baylor Star Shawn Oakman Found Not Guilty Of Sexual Assault
Almost three years after being indicted on second-degree sexual assault charges, former Baylor defensive end Shawn Oakman was acquitted by jurors in Waco’s 19th State District Court yesterday. Oakman was accused of raping a Baylor graduate student on April 3, 2016, at his apartment, an encounter he ...
Former Baylor Star Shawn Oakman Found Not Guilty Of Sexual Assault
Almost three years after being indicted on second-degree sexual assault charges, former Baylor defensive end Shawn Oakman was acquitted by jurors in Waco’s 19th State District Court yesterday. Oakman was accused of raping a Baylor graduate student on April 3, 2016, at his apartment, an encounter he ...
<i>Last Chance U </i>Coach Who Told German Player "I'm Your New Hitler" Resigns, Blames Newspaper For Reporting It
Independence Community College head football coach Jason Brown, who was featured on the Netflix show Last Chance U, said early this morning that he would be resigning from his position after he texted “I’m your new Hitler” to German player Alexandros Alexiou. Oh, was that too much?...
<i>Last Chance U</i> Coach Told German Player "I'm Your New Hitler" In Texts About Discipline
A German student at Independence Community College is accusing head football coach Jason Brown of referring to himself as “your new Hitler” through a text exchange. Alexandros Alexiou, the student in question, posted a screenshot of the texts on social media which included Brown cutting Alexiou from...
Mike Leach Is Taking The Football-As-War Metaphor To The Classroom
People in football love to compare the sport to war. Look at all the shared terminology—“in the trenches,” “field general”—the similar sense of ritual bluster, the contrived partnerships between the NFL and the military, the cynical propagandizing of Pat Tillman, and, of course, Kellen Winslow’s spe...
Former Minnesota Coach Jerry Kill Goes On The Radio To Grumble About Current Coach P.J. Fleck
Jerry Kill left his position as head coach of the University of Minnesota football team in 2015, citing health reasons. He’s kept a pretty low profile since then, serving as the offensive coordinator at Rutgers for one season before starting an administrative career at Kansas State and Southern Illi...
Clemson QB Trevor Lawrence Gets Decidedly Unchill During Intramural Basketball Game
The effort-to-reward ratio for intramural sports is woefully off and will always be this way. There’s never anything more valuable than a free T-shirt on the line, and yet every game is filled with econ majors who take things far too seriously. In a recent intramural hoops game, one player managed t...
Ole Miss Responds To Vacated Wins With A Giant Shrug<em></em>
Ole Miss football has been complete garbage for most of the last six years, at least according to the NCAA’s latest, useless sanctions. College football’s governing body finally handed down a ruling in a long disciplinary process against the Rebels, and the school now has to vacate 33 of the team’s ...