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USF Goes 84 Yards For TD On Game's First Play; FSU Goes 75 On The Second
Today’s Florida State-South Florida game in Tampa is 29 seconds old, and the score is already 7-7 after each team scored a touchdown on its first offensive play—the first, an 84-yard touchdown catch by Rodney Adams, and the second a 75-yard rush by Dalvin Cook:...
Tebow Jokes: Your Knoxville <i>College GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
Good afternoon. Here’s the best, and worst, of today’s College GameDay signs from Knoxville—with some help from SEC Nation:...
Utah Drives 93 Yards In Final Five Minutes To Beat USC
USC’s woes continued tonight as the Trojans allowed Utah to drive 93 yards while eating up nearly all of the 5:37 remaining on the clock on the way to a Troy Williams touchdown pass to Tim Patrick, the fifteenth play in a remarkable series that featured two fourth downs and multiple penalties....
Peaceful Student Protest Marches On Eastern Michigan Field As Game Ends
Eastern Michigan students protesting that university’s response to white supremacist graffiti that appeared on a campus dorm this week occupied an area behind an end zone during tonight’s game against Wyoming before marching onto the field upon the game’s completion in a display that, remarkably, CB...
Another Night, Another Ejection For Targeting
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Kevin Garnett Retires, Makes The NBA A Little More Sane And A Lot Less Fun
Kevin Garnett’s 21-year NBA has come to an end. The 40-year-old power forward, who spent last season playing sparingly for the Minnesota Timberwolves, announced his retirement on his Instagram page....
Mariners Catcher Steve Clevenger Suspended Without Pay For Tweets
The Seattle Mariners responded to backup catcher Steve Clevenger’s dogshit dumb tweets about protesters by suspending him without pay for the remaining 10 games of the season. Here is the relevant part of the statement released by general manager Jerry Dipoto:...
Reports: Chris Bosh Fails Physical Due To Complications From Blood Clotting
According to various local reports, Chris Bosh failed a pre-training camp physical after instances of clotting were discovered in his blood work. Per the Miami Herald’s Barry Jackson, the clotting is “believed to be related to one of two previous blood clot episodes” that forced Bosh to stop playing...
You Already Know What Mike Ditka Thinks Of Colin Kaepernick, So Let's Just Laugh At His Big Dumb Head
Mike Ditka, a racist porcupine with a perpetual sunburn, has weighed in on the Colin Kaepernick situation. You really don’t need me to tell you exactly what he had to say about Kaepernick, because you already know that Ditka is a rotten old fuck who has been muttering, “If you don’t like America, yo...
It's Time To Once Again Help Prove That Average Fans Are The Best Scouts In Baseball
One of the best off-field developments in baseball this year was MLB bringing in pseudonymous saberist Tom Tango to work with their Statcast data, the product of player-tracking technology that promises to unlock such mysteries of the game as the relative values of positioning and reaction time, and...
Greg Schiano Hit A Cyclist With His Car And Sent Him To The Hospital
Greg Schiano, world-historic asshole coach, is working for Ohio State in his first coaching job since getting shitcanned by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers three years ago. Everyone hated him in Tampa, but his tenure with the Buckeyes has been nice and quiet so far. Until this morning, that is, when he ran...
Thanks To Draymond Green, NBA Refs Will Be Cracking Down On Hits To The Dick And Balls
Draymond Green was the loudest, brashest, most dick kicking-est player on the NBA Finals-losing Golden State Warriors, and he has already secured a legacy of sorts for himself: starting next season, NBA referees will be making a point to spot and penalize strikes to the dick and balls, or what the A...
Chip Kelly Backs Colin Kaepernick, Terrible Columnist Fusses Like A Baby
Press Democrat columnist Lowell Cohn is one of the very worst sportswriters in the business—he’s the dude who once compared PED users to murderers—so it’s no surprise that he has a problem with Colin Kaepernick. In fact, ol’ Lowell is so steamed about this issue that he felt it necessary to lecture ...
Baseball Men Won't Stop Standing For The National Anthem
Sure, you love this country, but do you remain-at-attention-to-the-detriment-of-the-game love it like this pair of immigrants? That’s Venezuelan-born José Martínez for the Cardinals and Dominican-born Carlos Estévez of the Rockies before Wednesday’s game in Colorado....
Text Messages Show Ex-Auburn Football Player Saying "I'm Sorry" To Woman Who Said He Raped Her
Two weeks ago, Auburn tight end Landon Rice left the football team due to what coach Gus Malzahn said were “personal reasons.” Those reasons, it turned out, were actually a rape investigation by police and a request for a restraining order filed by the woman who said Rice raped her. Rice’s lawyers r...
The Ongoing NFL Conspiracy You Don’t Know About<em></em>
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Who To Start? Who To Sit? Fantasy Football Advice For Week Three Is Here.<em></em>
Week three of the NFL season is upon us, and if you’re one of the 75 million fantasy football players in the world, you’re probably wondering who to start and who to sit. Our weekly fantasy football advice column is here to answer all of your questions....