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Texas: We Haven't Officially Decided To Fire Charlie Strong Yet<em></em>
Hours after the Austin American-Statesman reported today that Texas officials had decided to fire head football coach Charlie Strong, the university released a statement dismissing the “rumors.” But their statement didn’t express support for Strong either, saying they would “evaluate the body of wor...

Jaguars Junction: Week 11
The city of Detroit has been through a hell of a lot. ...

Charlie Strong Is Probably Done At Texas And He Knows It
Texas boosters were reportedly pressuring the school to fire head football coach Charlie Strong earlier this week, since his third season at the school has followed the same rocky pattern as the first two. There was at least potential for modest improvement—if the Longhorns had won out, with Kansas ...

They Won 31-3
Nick Saban wasn’t pleased with his team’s first-half performance tonight against Chattanooga. Can you tell?...

Snow Day
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Oregon Knocks Off Utah With Late Touchdown Pass, Replay
Oregon stunned 12th-ranked Utah in Salt Lake City today as Justin Herbert found Darren Carrington in the end zone with two seconds remaining on a play officials initially declared an incomplete pass before overturning the call upon a lengthy video replay....

Florida Claims SEC East After Goal-Line Stand As Time Expires
Today’s hurricane make-up game between Florida and LSU went the Gators’ way after the Tigers were unable to find the end zone despite having first down at the UF seven-yard line....

Yale Students Get Naked As Bulldogs Beat Harvard For First Time In 10 Years<em></em>
Yale has only beat Harvard in football once this century, in 2006, but they didn’t come to mess around today. After starting off the second half with a successful onside kick, the Bulldogs took a 14-7 lead. At this point, Yale fans who had made the trip to Cambridge were getting excited—excited enou...

College Football Coaches' Taste In Music Is Exactly As Bad As You Think It Is
On this fine college football Saturday, ESPN has provided for our reading pleasure a list of every FBS head coach’s favorite musical artist. As you’d expect from any survey of largely middle-aged white men who love football, there’s a lot of the Eagles and a lot of Kenny Chesney. Bruce Springsteen i...

UTSA's Josh Stewart Makes Incredible Touchdown Grab
Frank Wilson proved himself to have the best musical taste among FBS head coaches when he named Trombone Shorty his favorite act, and the UTSA head coach had to be jazzed when Josh Stewart hauled in this one-handed grab to narrow heavy favorite Texas A & M’s lead....

Greg Jennings Put The Team On His Back: Kalamazoo <i>College GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
Most expected College GameDay to be in Morgantown today for the Oklahoma-WVU game—but ESPN switched everybody up for its second-ever MAC visit, in Kalamazoo. Here are your WMU-y GameDay signs....

Hot Fucking Stove: May I Interest You In News About The Houston Astros?
Folks, the Hot Stove is as cold as a popsicle being licked by Dick Cheney. There has been minimal baseball news to speak of this week, with the exception of one team. You heard about these Astros?...

Oh My God, This Might Be The Best Block I've Ever Seen
Remember Anthony Randolph, that dude who for a brief moment in time looked like he was going to be a real NBA star? Well, he’s still playing ball in Europe, and he just made one of the most incredible defensive plays I’ve ever seen....

Mark Cuban And Chandler Parsons Were Boys For Life Until Shit Got Hella Twisted<em></em>
ESPN’s Tim MacMahon has a fascinating story about Chandler Parsons and Mark Cuban up today. The story is essentially a timeline of all the behind-the-scenes events that led to Parsons leaving the Mavericks for Memphis this offseason, but what it is really about is the death of a bromance....

Report: Aaron Rodgers Hasn't Talked To His Family In Two Years
The most useful aspect of Jordan Rodgers’s appearance on The Bachelorette was the revelation that he apparently has no relationship with his brother, NFL star Aaron. Now, a new story published on Bleacher Report adds new details to the Packers quarterback’s supposedly strained relationship with his ...

The Blazers Are Going Through Some Growing Pains
The Portland Trail Blazers were the unquestioned surprise of the 2015-16 NBA season. Prognosticators had them missing the playoffs in the wake of LaMarcus Aldridge ditching Cascadia for Texas, and ESPN’s season preview said they were “rebuilding.” Terry Stotts had a roster full of untested and misun...

Tom Thibodeau Hasn't Changed
If you’re a Timberwolves fan, you no doubt enjoyed watching your team flex on the hapless Sixers on national TV last night. Karl-Anthony Towns undressed Joel Embiid multiple times, Andrew Wiggins hit shots from all over the floor, and the future once again looked bright. But if you watched the blowo...

Indiana Supreme Court Rules Against ESPN, Says Notre Dame Cops Can Keep All The Secrets They Want
Indiana’s Supreme Court ruled against ESPN and Outside the Line’s Paula Lavigne earlier this week, saying that Notre Dame police could refuse releasing any records it damn well pleases, including police reports requested by ESPN. In doing so, the court reversed an appeals court decision in favor of ...