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Hawai'i Beats UNLV With Last-Second Touchdown Pass
Ikaika Woolsey's 20-yard touchdown pass to Marcus Kemp on the final play of the game gave Hawai'i a two-game winning streak and a 37-35 win over conference rivals UNLV....
The Warriors Ran A Beautiful Play For An Alley-Oop Last Night
Played well, basketball is a spectacularly beautiful game. Despite having a 9-2 record, the Golden State Warriors offense has frequently been bogged down by careless turnovers. The team has a trigger-happy reputation, but it's actually their defense—tied for best in the league with the Spurs—that ha...
Florida State Keeps Ruining Florida State Losses
I'm starting to think Florida State is just trolling all of us and will get into the playoffs and destroy everybody, 63-0. They have to be doing this on purpose....
"Hey, Coach? Say It, Don't Spray It."
Good ol' cursin' Bo Pelini left a wad of saliva on this guy's face. He didn't seem too happy about it....
Woman Brought To Tears By Tim Tebow Cake
SEC Nation is in Knoxville today, where Tim Tebow is still mostly loathed, but apparently not by this woman who was beside herself after being handed a piece of cake by the Heisman-winner:...
Shadow Boxing: Lessons About Life, Death, And Writing, From <em>Rocky</em>
Originally published in the Georgia Review and later anthologized in the Pushcart Prize XXXIII: Best of the Small Presses....
Fuck The Fade Route
Drew Magary's Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here....
Boxer Facing Olympic Gold Medalist Quits After Taking Single Punch
Middleweight boxer Claressa Shields won Olympic gold in London as a 17-year-old, and her subsequent career has found the Michigan native building a 43-1 record and claiming nearly every title available in women's boxing—save for the AIBA championship, competition for which is currently underway in...
Warning: Doug McDermott Will Just Get All Up In Your Picture
Former Creighton star Doug McDermott hasn't exactly taken the NBA by storm in his first weeks as a pro, but that doesn't mean that he's short on confidence. For example, McDermott has no problem rolling right into a famous-person photo that he definitely wasn't invited to....
Report: Kickboxer Died After Bout Due To Cheap Promoter, Inept Doctors
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel went long this weekend on the death of Dennis Munson, a 24-year-old kickboxer who in March collapsed in the ring following his first amateur bout and died hours later. It's a harrowing read that catalogues a litany of errors that started well before the fight and ...
Kevin Hart Advises Jameis Winston: "You Need To Stop Doing Dumb Shit"
The omnipresent matter known as Kevin Hart had a show planned at Florida State over the weekend, so he took the opportunity to visit the Seminoles' locker room. In a now-deleted Instagram that TMZ saved, Hart gives some advice to quarterback Jameis Winston: "You need to stop doing dumb shit." He a...
Navy SEAL Who Says He Shot Osama Pep-Talks 3-6 Washington
Rob O'Neill, the former Navy SEAL who says he shot and killed Osama bin Laden, went to Washington's team meeting on Saturday and spoke to players. Wide receiver Pierre Garcon was one of the players who took a photo with O'Neill, and he gushed about "listening to a real HERO tonight."...
Wladimir Klitschko Retains Heavyweight Belt With 5th-Round Pulev KO
Wladimir Klitschko's eight-year reign as the world heavyweight champion will continue after making easy work of previously-undefeated Kubrat Pulev in Hamburg tonight, winning with a fifth-round knockout....
Boxer Has Stool Hurled At Head While Celebrating Knockout
Spike O'Sullivan stopped Anthony Fitzgerald today in the first round of a middleweight bout that was ugly before it even started, and the controversy continued after the fight as someone (presumably from Fitzgerald's corner) threw a stool at O'Sullivan's head as he celebrated the win:...
Records Show Cop Visits To Dez Bryant's Home Were Mostly Nothingburgers
On Sunday, NFL.com's Ian Rapoport reported that the Cowboys had some "concerns" over Dez Bryant's off-the-field behavior, and he cited a handful of times the cops were called to Bryant's house. Surely the team's airing of these concerns had nothing at all to do with the fact that the star wide recei...
Report: Scott Boras Came Up With A Wacky PED Excuse For Manny Ramirez
Biogenesis founder Tony Bosch reportedly told DEA agents that agent Scott Boras discussed falsifying medical records and came up with a cover story to explain away client Manny Ramirez's 2009 failed drug test. That cover story? Mistaking testosterone cream for aftershave lotion, which is totally a t...
UNC Athletes Were Steered To School's Sports Ethics Professor
The report on academic fraud in UNC athletics focused mainly on the prevalence of so-called "paper courses"—one-on-one independent study classes requiring minimal work for inflated grades to keep players eligible. The school's student newspaper has examined additional documents, and finds a larger-...