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St. John's Breaks 11-Game Losing Streak By Beating No. 4 Duke
St. John’s opened its Big East schedule by dropping all eleven games so far this year—even losing to lowly DePaul—but today’s visit by Duke to Madison Square Garden turned things around for Chris Mullin’s squad as the Red Storm knocked off the fourth-ranked Blue Devils 81-77....

Airport Security Will Need To Check Your Super Bowl Program Separately
MINNEAPOLIS — Travelers for the Super Bowl continue to stream into Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport. They’re being greeted by a sign that informs them of the dangers of the Super Bowl program....

The Drew Magary Super Bowl Chili Recipe, Now With Video!<em></em>
Every year I post this recipe for the Super Bowl. But this year, we decided to go one step further and make it on camera for you. Drool on your keyboard at all the hot, meaty, food porn you are about to witness herein. Roth’s scallion chopping game is not to be denied. We added a guest meat to the r...

What Time Does 'What Time Does The Super Bowl Start?' Start?
Time is a social construct cooked up by humankind to impose some modicum of order onto an otherwise chaotic existence. But with that said, Super Bowl 52 will kick off this weekend. At some point. Who will win “the big game”? That’s not for me to say. What time does it start? Now there’s a good quest...

The NFL's Women Summit Was The Mindless Pandering It Always Was Meant To Be
First, let’s get this out of the way: The NFL and its franchises are a corporate enterprise. They exist to make money. They don’t exist to do anything else. They do not exist to make this a better world. They do not exist to uplift anyone. They do not exist to enact change on inequality or ending po...

How An NFL Contract Negotiation Goes Down
NEW ORLEANS — Back and forth they went, both sides snapping off data points and counterpoints in a careful effort to leverage whatever they had. They were so into the task at hand that neither the thunderclaps from outside nor the 10-minute warning could interrupt their banter. They were teams of la...

Washington State Gives Community Service Award To Player For Completing Court-Ordered Service
A hearty congratulations to Washington State linebacker Logan Tago for being awarded the Fall 2017 CCE Community Involvement Award! Tago notched an impressive 240 hours in the community during the fall semester. ...

Rejoice: Red Panda Has A New Custom Unicycle, Courtesy Of The Warriors
Our brief, basketball-halftime-centric national nightmare is over. ...

Players Are Getting Angrier About MLB's Frozen Free-Agent Market
With scarcely a week and a half until pitchers and catchers report, there are more than 120 MLB free agents—including big names like Yu Darvish, J.D. Martinez and Jake Arrieta—who remain unsigned. It’s obvious that teams are operating differently this year, even if a singular reason for why is not. ...

Just Watch Thunder-Nuggets Front To Back Like A Movie
By now you must be familiar with the finale, which is worth watching and rewatching and watching, with good reason. ...

Report: Jeffrey Loria Takes One Last Dump On Miami
Former Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria, who seemingly did everything in his power to cripple the city of Miami when he managed to scam the city into spending billions of dollars to build him a new baseball stadium, has found yet another way to be a disgusting rich person....

Blake Griffin Looked Extremely Worth It In His Pistons Debut
Despite barely knowing his new team’s offense, Blake Griffin’s Pistons debut went as well as he or Detroit could have hoped. Griffin had arrived in town only the day before, and after the game, he noted that coach Stan Van Gundy had implemented just five go-to plays in the unfamiliar team’s arsenal....

May Steven Adams' Ankles Rest In Peace After Their Brutal Murder At The Hands Of Jamal Murray
Steven Adams has been embarrassed before. There was a time, not so long ago, when he made the decision to walk around with this terribly creepy mustache in a failed attempt to look like Tom Selleck: ...

East Lansing Columnist: ESPN Is The Real Irresponsible Party In MSU's Sexual Assault Scandal
The Lansing State Journal, overall, has done a fantastic job covering the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal, as well as Michigan State’s basketball and football teams’ problems with reporting sexual assault and violence against women. Their editorial board was calling for MSU president Lou Anna Simo...

Bring Back Bullpen Carts
The MLB commissioner’s office has brought a new proposal to the table in the outgoing pace-of-play discussions between the players and the league. As reported by Ken Rosenthal: no changes this year, except for a cap on mound visits, but if players don’t get the average game length down to 2 hours an...

Former TCU Receiver Kolby Listenbee Sues School, Big 12 For Being "Pressured And Threatened" To Play Through Injury
Former TCU wide receiver Kolby Listenbee claims that he was pressured to play through injury in a lawsuit filed against the school, head coach Gary Patterson, athletic director Chris Del Conte, and the Big 12, among others. ...

Tonight's <i>Jeopardy!</i> Contestants Knew Absolutely Nothing About Football
Football is, admittedly, a somewhat complicated sport with a byzantine rulebook. However, tonight’s trio of Jeopardy! contestants fell incredibly, woefully short of answering a single question in the whole football category correctly, which is honestly kind of impressive....

Cameraman Threatens To Knock Other Cameraman "The Fuck Out" During Kevin Durant Interview
A squabble over space during a media scrum led one cameraman filming Kevin Durant to threaten another cameraman filming Kevin Durant. “I will knock you the fuck out,” said one cameraman. “What we doing?” asked Kevin Durant....

One Video Of Tom Brady And His Son
One video of Tom Brady and his son, who asks to check his fantasy team, but not before he gives his Super Bowl-winning father a kiss....

Disease Outbreak Forces Duke Students To Abandon Flu-Riddled Tent City
Even in the best of conditions Krzyzewskiville, the tent city erected by Duke students before the North Carolina game in a performative tribute of extreme fandom, does not sound like a charming place to be. Getting drunk in a tent is a time-honored pastime, though since this particular gathering is ...