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Larry Nassar Pleads Guilty To More Sexual Abuse Charges

For the second time this month, former Michigan State and USA Gymnastics physician Larry Nassar has pleaded guilty to criminal sexual conduct charges. Nassar pleaded guilty today to three counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct charges in Eaton County, admitting that he sexually abused young ...

Larry Nassar Pleads Guilty To Sexual Abuse

Just one day after 2012 Olympic all-around champion Gabby Douglas said that former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar had sexually abused her during her athletic career, Nassar pleaded guilty to seven counts of criminal sexual conduct in Michigan....

It's Finally Time For Gabby Douglas To Tell Her Story<em></em>

Last year in Rio, Natalie Hawkins, Gabby Douglas’s mother, gave an interview to Reuters about the online bullying her daughter had been subjected to during the Olympic Games. Everything Douglas did—or didn’t do—was cause for criticism. She was attacked for not holding her hand over her heart while t...

Gabby Douglas Says She Was Also Abused By Larry Nassar [Updated]

Last week, Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas responded to teammate Aly Raisman’s announcement that she’d been abused by former team doctor Larry Nassar by saying “it is our responsibility as women to dress modestly and be classy. dressing in a provocative/sexual way entices the wrong crowd.” Douglas qui...

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper Is In A Bit Of A Pickle

It’s a story almost perfectly crafted to drown in the current news stream. A group of North Carolina farmworkers—pickle and cucumber workers mainly comprised of H2-A workers from Mexico, to be specific—have been systematically attacked by the North Carolina General Assembly, which is attempting to s...

USF Football Player Charged With Felony Sexual Battery

A wide receiver with the South Florida Bulls has been arrested and charged with one count of felony sexual battery on a woman over the age of 18. Kevaughn Dingle, 18, was arrested on Friday and released from jail on bond the next day. Coach Charlie Strong said today that Dingle is suspended from the...

Shitty Male Apologies From This News Cycle, Ranked

Deadspin ranks things—cereals, planets, board games—fairly often. It’s our house style to file these rankings to “Underexplained Lists” and then to live up to that descriptor: there’s no point to explaining the list, because the process is secondary. The list is the point. The stupid list, with all ...

Ohio Supreme Court Justice Bill O'Neill Wants You To Know He Has Fucked

The last time we saw Ohio Supreme Court Justice and prolific Facebook user Bill O’Neill around these parts, he was taking the “draft dodging millionaires” of the Cleveland Browns to task for kneeling during the national anthem. O’Neill is self-evidently a man of many passions, but mostly he loves to...

Report: NFL Is Investigating Jameis Winston After Uber Driver Said He Groped Her [Update]

According to a report from BuzzFeed News, the NFL is looking into an Uber driver’s claims that Bucs quarterback Jameis Winston grabbed her crotch while in her car in March 2016. BuzzFeed reports that NFL investigator Lisa Friel, most recently seen at the center of the Ezekiel Elliott case, sent a le...

Aly Raisman Shines A Light On USA Gymnastics' Culture Of Abuse<em></em>

In the year since the Olympic Games in Rio, more than 140 women and girls have come forward and said that Larry Nassar, the former team doctor for the U.S. women’s gymnastics team, had sexually abused them under the guise of medical treatment. On Sunday night, Aly Raisman went on 60 Minutes and anno...

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Employees Accused Arizona Coyotes Of Union Busting, Failure To Pay Staff [Updated]

The Arizona Republic uncovered federal records showing that the Arizona Coyotes have been the subject of two investigations by the National Labor Relations Board since October 2016. In the documents are claims that the Coyotes failed to properly pay its employees, spied on employees, threatened them...

John Wall Has The Nutmegging Of The Night

There are 11 games on tonight’s NBA schedule, several of which have yet to begin and none of which is yet even into the second half, but I still feel quite confident proclaiming this John Wall masterpiece in transition as the nutmegging of the night, because goddamn this is good:...

Report: Former USA Gymnastics Doctor Larry Nassar To Plead Guilty In Sex Abuse Cases

Larry Nassar—who has been accused by more than 140 women and girls of sexually abusing them under the guise of medical treatment while he was a doctor with USA Gymnastics and Michigan State—is scheduled to plead guilty in two of his criminal cases, the Lansing State Journal reported today. According...

Hope Solo Says Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter Groped Her At Awards Show

In an interview with Portuguese paper Expresso, former USWNT keeper Hope Solo says she was sexually harassed by former FIFA president Sepp Blatter before the two presented an award together at the 2013 Ballon d’Or ceremony....

Lonely Man Contemplates Arvydas Sabonis

Creighton Employees "Under Review" After Criticizing Basketball Coach

Two employees of Creighton University’s Violence Intervention and Prevention Center are “under review” and could potentially be disciplined after writing an op-ed in the student paper criticizing the conduct of basketball coach Greg McDermott. McDermott recently posted a photo of himself handing out...

Aly Raisman Says Larry Nassar Sexually Abused Her

In an upcoming interview with 60 Minutes, six-time Olympic medalist Aly Raisman reveals that she was sexually abused by Larry Nassar, the former physician for the U.S. women’s gymnastics team for nearly two decades....

Russian Media Refuses To Believe Tatiana Gutsu When She Says She Was Raped<em></em>

Last month, 1992 Olympic all-around gymnastics gold medalist Tatiana Gutsu said that Vitaly Scherbo, the 1992 Olympic all-around champion, had raped her in 1991. Gutsu was just 15 years old at the time....

Against Allegedly

There’s a word, and it’s quite short, for how the vast majority of information in this world is conveyed: Said. A person can say something. Multiple people can, together, say something. Old-timers in the newsroom will tell you that a document can’t say something because paper can’t talk, but that’s ...