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Lawsuit: Text Messages Show How Baylor Coaches Turned Football Program Into Disciplinary "Black Hole"
Earlier this week, former Baylor football assistant Colin Shillinglaw filed a lawsuit against the school, alleging that his firing in the fallout from Baylor’s massive sexual-assault scandal was unjust. Shillinglaw sued Baylor for libel and slander, just like former coach Art Briles did in his recen...
Art Briles Drops Lawsuit Against Baylor Because He "Wants Some Peace In His Life"
Two months ago, former Baylor head coach Art Briles sued Baylor for libel and conspiracy, claiming that school officials lied when they claimed that Briles knew about a suite of rape and sexual assault complaints against football players. Briles also insisted that Baylor officials have actively work...
Lawsuit: Baylor Football Players Committed 52 Rapes In Four Years Under Art Briles
Baylor football players committed 52 rapes in four years, the majority at off-campus parties hosted by football players, including five gang rapes; the university paid off one woman who said she was raped by giving her free tuition; and football staff arranged for women to have sex with recruits on ...
Bill Self Discusses "Distraction" Of "Very Serious Alleged Allegation" Of Rape At Men's Basketball Dorm<em></em>
Kansas men’s basketball head coach Bill Self spoke with the media for the first time since reports broke Wednesday of a rape investigation currently being conducted by the Lawrence Police Department that lists five Jayhawk players as witnesses....
Police Investigating Report Of 16-Year-Old Girl Raped At Kansas Men's Basketball Dorm
According to multiple reports, police in Lawrence, Kan., are investigating a report that a 16-year old girl was raped in McCarthy Hall—an all-male dorm at the University of Kansas that houses 38 students, including the Jayhawks men’s basketball team. The report is currently under investigation by th...
Another Title IX Official At Baylor Says She Quit Because Working There Was Hell
A second woman whose job at Baylor was to investigate reports of rape has spoken to ESPN’s Outside the Lines. Like Patty Crawford, the previous Title IX official who talked after leaving Baylor, Gabrielle Lyons describes a bleak situation, one that made her so paranoid she dreamed about rape. Lyons ...
Jameis Winston Sexual Battery<em></em> Lawsuit Formally Dismissed
This morning, a U.S. District Court judge dismissed two lawsuits involving Jameis Winston, finally ending a four-year legal saga. A sexual battery lawsuit filed by Kinsman against Winston in 2015 and an earlier suit filed by Winston against Kinsman for defamation were both dismissed. The pair settle...
Texas Defends Hiring Ex-Baylor Assistant Casey Horny Despite His Support For Art Briles
Last week, Texas hired Baylor assistant Casey Horny to work as a special teams assistant under incoming coach Tom Herman. Horny is a Texas alum and spent three years as a graduate assistant in Austin, but he worked at Baylor for nine years before coming back to Texas. Horny was part of the group of...
Tracy Claeys Has No Idea What He's Talking About
The Tracy Claeys redemption tour has begun and, as this particular sort of redemption tour tends to, it’s already revealing more about how ridiculous it is for football coaches to be seen as righteous educational and intellectual leaders than anything else. On Tuesday, Claeys was fired—in part, admi...
Joe Mixon Will Reportedly Declare For The NFL Draft
Oklahoma running back Joe Mixon will skip his junior and senior seasons in college and head straight to the NFL draft. According to ESPN and The Oklahoman, Mixon told his Sooners teammates that he planned to go to the draft this afternoon....
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Minnesota Fires Coach Tracy Claeys [Updated]
The Golden Gophers have fired football coach Tracy Claeys, according to several reports out of Minnesota. None of the reports offer anything official about why he was fired, but the move does follow a bowl game win—and the program getting criticism for when the players threatened to boycott the game...
Prosecutor Says No Charges For Gopher Football Players, Again, After Minnesota Wins Its Bowl Game
The Hennepin County (Minn.) District Attorney’s Office announced today, for a second time, that it had reviewed the evidence against the group of Golden Gophers football players accused of raping a fellow student and decided there was not enough to bring a criminal case. But before going into what p...
Michigan Wide Receiver Grant Perry Charged With Criminal Sexual Conduct, Assaulting A Police Officer
Michigan wide receiver Grant Perry was arraigned yesterday on charges of criminal sexual conduct and assaulting a police officer. The charges follow Perry being accused of “sexually assaulting (by touching)” a woman on Oct. 15 while waiting outside a bar, according to the East Lansing Police Departm...
How Two Investigations Into Minnesota's Sexual-Assault Scandal Reached Two Very Different Conclusions
It was in the early morning hours after the Golden Gophers’ victory—in their September season opener, no less—that the student said she was sexually assaulted by multiple football players. She gave a statement to Minneapolis police a day later, going into detail about how she had sex with two guys a...
Minnesota Football Team Ends Boycott Over Suspensions, Will Play Bowl Game
Two days after Minnesota football players announced they would boycott all football activities—including their upcoming bowl game—to protest the school’s suspension of 10 players, they have declared their boycott over. ...
Florida Finds Title IX Official Had Conflict Of Interest; Won't Say How, Why<em></em>
The University of Florida released its investigative report today into a fired Title IX official, Chris Loschiavo, who was last known for being removed from the Antonio Callaway student-conduct case and replaced by a lawyer and football booster (who found him not responsible for sexual assault). The...
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Minnesota Football Players Say They'll Boycott Bowl Game In Protest Of Mass Suspensions [Update]
A few days after 10 Minnesota Golden Gophers football players were suspended from the team’s upcoming trip to the Holiday Bowl, the rest of the team has responded. The Star Tribune reported this afternoon that the team will threaten to boycott the game in protest of the suspensions. The players’ “de...
Minnesota Suspends 10 Football Players For Alleged Involvement In Sexual Assault
In two weeks, Minnesota will head to San Diego to take on Washington State in the Holiday Bowl, but they’ll go without 10 of their players, including several starters in their secondary. The Star Tribune reported on the suspensions this evening, which apparently stem from an incident in September. F...
Father Of High School Football Player Arrested For Sexual Assault: It Was Consensual, Lots Of Girls Want My Son
The father of a California high school football player arrested on suspicion of sexual assault has tried to defend his son by saying that everything was consensual, as the girl “basically chased my son down.”...
Baylor Regent: Getting A Full Report Would Have Cost Us Money
Members of the Baylor University Board of Regents have avoided discussing why they never commissioned, received, nor released a full, detailed written report from outside investigators at Pepper Hamilton on how their institution made life a living hell for women who reported they were raped (especia...