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Florida State Defensive Backs Play Hangman On The Sideline
Florida State creamed Syracuse 59-3 yesterday, and at some point, when the game was apparently out of hand, defensive backs P.J. Williams and Terrence Brooks used the whiteboard to play Hangman....

Kansas Snaps Big 12 Losing Streak; Fans Toss Goalpost Into Lake
The Kansas Jayhawks had lost 27 straight conference games before beating West Virginia 31-19 yesterday. After the win, fans took down a goalpost and chucked it into a lake. The video's best part is the guy proudly holding the small piece of goalpost. So content with himself....

Eric Ward's One-Handed TD Catch Sparked Your Most Recent Gusgasm
We don't cover Gusgasms much these days, and we've sort of come around to editor emeritus's viewpoint about Fox's top college announcer. But when Gus Johnson goes overboard, we have an obligation to highlight it....

LeBron James Was Straight Wrecking Fools Last Night
For some reason I think LeBron remembers what happened in the 2011 Finals. Of course, you can never tell with him. Sometimes he goes for 39-6-4 just because he can....

Watch An Oklahoma Idiot On The Field Get Leveled By State Trooper
"Take it off!" ...

Michigan State Students Force Two Consecutive Shot-Clock Violations
In the final minutes of Friday night's win over Columbia, the Michigan State student section provided a new counter to the ball-controlling, time-eating Princeton offense: chant a phony countdown that forces a shot-clock violation....

Falcons Fullback Allegedly Tries To Eat Marijuana After Traffic Stop
Oh, Jason Snelling....

How The Sexual Battery Investigation Of Jameis Winston Became A Story
Matt Baker of the Tampa Bay Times was the first reporter to contact the Tallahassee Police Department to inquire about case No. 12-32758. He was acting on a tip he got back on Nov. 6 from a trusted source, who told Baker that a woman had brought some sort of sexual abuse complaint to police last Dec...
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Cliff Alexander Fakes Out Illinois, Commits To Kansas Instead [Updates]
Cliff Alexander, a 6'8" forward from Chicago, gave Illinois fans one last hilarious kick in the balls as he faked pulling on an Illini cap before switching to his actual selection, Kansas....

Kentucky's "Perfect Season" Marketing Blitz Didn't Work Out
The thing with talking about (let alone selling merchandise hyping) a 40-0 season is that perfect seasons very rarely work out. It's exceedingly more likely that you'll lose, then everyone will point out the fact that you sold t-shirts, and you'll become a punchline. Like those shirts over there! ...

Your Hockey Gear Is Foul. Clean It, Or Else.
Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist. She'll be here every other week helping to answer your filthiest questions. Are you dirty? Email her....
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College QB Beaten Up By Opposing Players Day Before Game [Update]
Rudy Johnson, quarterback for D-II Winston-Salem State, was reportedly assaulted and hospitalized by five members of the Virginia State team this afternoon, according to the Winston-Salem Journal....


In 1984 Epyx Sent A Commodore 64 Copy Of <em>Summer Games</em> To The Soviets, Who Couldn't Play It Because They Only Had Ataris
Thirty years ago, we didn’t have fancy PS4s to drool over. No, we had to type in things like “LOAD”*”,8,1 to play games, and those games were real. One of the best, of course, was Epyx’s Summer Games, which let you take part in such Olympic competitions as swimming, diving, sprinting, and gymnastic...

Never-Before-Seen Color Footage Of 1965 Baseball Is Incredibly Cool
This is an absolute treat for baseball fans and television history buffs. It's the last three innings of Reds pitcher Jim Maloney's 10-inning no-hitter on Aug. 19, 1965 at Wrigley Field....

NBA League Pass Broadband 2013-14: Still Shitty, You Should Not Buy It
Last year we gave you a heads-up about the poor quality of NBA League Pass Broadband, the NBA's shady auto-renew system for its online video offering, and the league's non-existent customer service. Has the league finally gotten its act together for this season's edition? After several weeks of atte...

How Branch Rickey Invented Modern Baseball
Excerpted from Dollar Sign on the Muscle, named by Sports Illustrated one of the top 100 sports books of all time; postscript by Sam Miller. You can read more about the new Baseball Prospectus edition of the book here, or buy it in paperback or as an e-book....

Candy
Here's Gary Cartwright's classic 1976 Texas Monthly story on Candy Barr:...

Kari Lehtonen Is Chill; Tyler Seguin's Got This
Stars goalie Kari Lehtonen had no problems resting his feet late in a 7-3 laugher in Calgary. If by some miracle the Flames had made it closer, Jamie Benn would have just set up Tyler Seguin for another goal or two....
