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Ex-Baylor DE Shawn Oakman's Trial To Be Postponed After Unpaid Lawyers Withdraw From Case
The Waco Tribune-Herald reports that the trial of former Baylor defensive end Shawn Oakman, originally scheduled to to begin Aug. 22, will now likely be postponed. Court officials informed the paper of the delay after the former Bears star’s lawyers, Russ Hunt and Michelle Tuegel, filed a motion on ...
Proposed Trump Budget Would Cripple The Overworked Office Enforcing Title IX
The federal office that investigates universities accused of discriminating against female students—including reports that schools are intentionally ignoring or downplaying allegations of sexual violence—is poised to lose 46 full-time employees under the proposed Trump administration budget, or 8 pe...
Lawyers Call Bullshit On Baylor's Withholding Of Investigation Records
Lawyers for 10 women suing Baylor for allegedly downplaying and ignoring reports of sexual assault are demanding that the university turn over records given to the private law firm hired to investigate the scandal. As part of that, lawyers on Wednesday filed a motion outlining how Baylor appeared to...
Yet Another Lawsuit Says Baylor Officials Did Nothing After Report Of A Gang Rape By Football Players<em></em>
A lawsuit filed today by a former Baylor volleyball player says the former Baylor athlete was “brutally gang raped by at least four and, according to some reports, as many as eight, Baylor football players.” According to the Waco Tribune-Herald, it is the seventh Title IX lawsuit filed against the h...
Open Up, Motherfucker, Bear's Here
According to local Hartford, Conn., news anchor Dennis House, this picture was sent to him by an Avon resident named Bob Belfiore, whose neighbor was confronted by a hungry black bear while she was making brownies....
Cal Rugby Player Paralyzed After Suffering Spinal Injury In National Championship Game
The California Golden Bears have dominated the college rugby scene for decades. They’ve brought 27 of the past 37 national 15s titles back to Berkeley, including this year’s crown. However, the team’s dominant 43-13 victory over Arkansas State was undercut by a tragic injury suffered by sophomore Ro...
Report: Jay Cutler's New Job May Involve Apathetically Watching Football Games
Jay Cutler’s bare ass is still a free agent, but maybe not for long. The ex-Bears quarterback is reportedly interested in working as a broadcaster....
The Bears' Mitch Trubisky Pick Keeps Looking Worse And Worse
I made the mistake of going outside this weekend instead of turning off my lights, pulling my curtains, and binging on schadenfreude from the Bears’ shocking draft decision to give up two thirds and a fourth to move up one spot to grab QB Mitchell Trubisky, whom they could’ve had at No. 3 overall an...
Why Did The Bears Give Up So Much For Mitch Trubisky?
Nobody was more surprised at the Chicago Bears’ decision to send four draft picks to the San Francisco 49ers for the right to move up one spot and draft Mitch Trubisky than Trubisky himself. That’s because, according to Trubisky, the Bears only worked him out once, and never communicated with him in...
Last Night's Winner Was This Packers Fan At A Bears Draft Party
Last night, Chicago traded up to take North Carolina quarterback Mitch Trubisky with the second overall pick, enraging Bears fans but absolutely delighting this Packers fan who turned up at the draft party to, presumably, mock his conference rivals....
Bears Trade Up To Take Mitchell Trubisky With Second Pick
The Browns started tonight’s NFL draft by following through on rumors that they would take Texas A&M defensive end Myles Garrett first. Then things got weird....
Minor League Hockey Teams Knock The Stuffing Out Of Each Other
The ECHL’s Orlando Solar Bears and Florida Everblades broke out into a line brawl in the last minute of Game 4 of their divisional semifinals Saturday. The result was hectic and loud, like every facet of minor league hockey....
Baylor Hires Linda Livingstone As Its President
Baylor University has hired Linda Livingstone as its first woman president, the school announced today. The move comes amid several lawsuits against the university over its mishandling of sexual assault cases on campus, which included downplaying women’s allegations, failing to properly report accus...
Rape Charge Against Ray McDonald Dropped
The rape charge against former San Francisco 49er and Chicago Bear Ray McDonald was dismissed today after the woman told a judge that she just wanted to put the case behind her, according to the San Jose Mercury News. The woman also reached a financial settlement with McDonald, the Mercury News repo...
Dave Bliss Resigns In Disgrace After Baylor Murder Scandal Doc Airs
Southwestern Christian University men’s basketball coach Dave Bliss announced his resignation this evening just a few days after Showtime premiered a documentary on the murder of former Baylor player Patrick Dennehy by then-teammate Carlton Dotson in 2003. Bliss was the Bears’ coach at the time, and...
Oh, Look, More Disgusting Shit From The Loathsome Art Briles Apology Tour
Three weeks after former Baylor football coach Art Briles wrote the public a mewling letter promising that he’s really a stand-up guy, he’s continuing on his quest to repair his image and lock down a new coaching job. Briles was a guest speaker at yesterday’s Birmingham Football Coaching Clinic, say...
Texas State Senators Ripped Into A Stammering Baylor Interim President<em></em>
As Baylor continues to insist that everything is just fine after admitting to making life miserable for women who reported they were raped, while simultaneously claiming it does “not have a legal duty to protect their students from harm caused by other students,” Texas lawmakers are considering a ...
Baylor Files Motion To Dismiss Lawsuit Claiming 52 Rapes By Football Players In Four Years
Lawyers for Baylor University filed yesterday a motion to dismiss the Title IX lawsuit that said no less than 31 football players committed 52 rapes between 2011 and 2014, under then-head coach Art Briles. The motion, filed in U.S. District Court in Texas, claims that “as a general rule, universiti...