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South Carolina Women's Basketball Team Declines White House Invite To "Focus On The Season Ahead"
The South Carolina women’s basketball team, last season’s champions, have declined an invitation to visit the White House tomorrow due to what coach Dawn Staley described as a scheduling conflict and a desire to focus on their current play:...
NCAA Rules Braxton Beverly Immediately Eligible To Play For NC State
Four-star freshman point guard Braxton Beverly has spent the past month in basketball purgatory, but today, the NCAA did something reasonably logical for once when it reversed its initial ruling and made Beverly immediately eligible to play for NC State....
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UNC In Trouble With Its Accreditor After NCAA Report On Academic Scandal [Updated]
After the NCAA’s final report on UNC’s academic scandal revealed discrepancies with what the university previously told its accreditor about the situation, the accreditor will again begin investigating. ...
Robert Kraft Among Sports Team Owners Who Appear In The Paradise Papers
The offshore holdings of New England Patriots’ owner Robert Kraft, along with those of several other American sports owners, have been discovered in the Paradise Papers—the millions of leaked documents that detail the international financial data of some of the world’s largest corporations and wealt...
Braxton Beverly: "I Was Shocked" That NCAA Rejected Appeal
A week after the NCAA denied Braxton Beverly’s appeal to play for N.C. State this season, the freshman point guard has shared his perspective on the whole debacle in an essay. ...
Nobody Tell Cam Newton What Happened To The <i>Titanic</i>
It was a big Sunday for the Panthers, who beat the Falcons 20-17 and stayed a half-game back of the Saints for the NFC South lead. It was also the first game without WR Kelvin Benjamin, who was surprisingly shipped to the Bills last week. Cam Newton rolled with it, and compared it to something like ...
Everyone Failed Braxton Beverly<em></em>
On the same day that NCAA president Mark Emmert told a crowd at the Knight Commission that allowing schools to dictate a college athlete’s ability to transfer “never made any sense” to him, the NCAA denied N.C. State guard Braxton Beverly’s appeal to play for the 2017 season. Wolfpack head coach Kev...
Annoyed Cam Newton Walks Out Of Press Conference After Question About Big Plays
After laughing at a female reporter and skipping a conference entirely earlier this month, Cam Newton suddenly left today’s Q&A after he initially responded, “Next question,” to a question about big plays....
UNC Star Joel Berry II Loses Video Game, Punches Door, Breaks Hand
Anyone with a True Gamer’s Heart knows the soul-shattering frustration of getting owned. It is only through sheer force of luck that what happened to North Carolina guard Joel Berry II hasn’t happened to us all. Berry, the Most Outstanding Player of the 2017 Final Four, was apparently playing video ...
Mitch Trubisky Completed Four Passes And The Bears Won<em></em>
A vintage defensive performance from the Chicago Bears and a complete lack of trust in their rookie quarterback were enough to soundly beat the Carolina Panthers today, 17-3. Chicago achieved a win with a pair of Eddie Jackson defensive touchdowns, while QB Mitchell Trubisky threw only seven passes,...
Dan Fouts Helpfully Identifies Idiot On The Field
With Chicago up on Carolina 17-3 late in the fourth quarter today, an impending Bears win faced a slight delay when, just before a Panthers punt, an idiot ran out onto the field. While the broadcast cameras barely caught a glimpse of him, the CBS announcing team kindly alerted the audience of the sc...
The NFL Will Investigate Why Cam Newton Skipped His Press Conference Today
NFL rules stipulate that star players must hold court with the press each week before games. Cam Newton skipped out on his press duties this afternoon, and the NFL has apparently decided to investigate, according to a spokesman for the league. Neither the Panthers nor coach Ron Rivera said why Newto...
Lindsey Horan's Goal Gives Portland The NWSL Championship
An emphatic Lindsey Horan finish off a long Emily Sonnett free kick proved to be the decisive blow in Saturday’s NWSL Championship Game, as the Portland Thorns defeated the North Carolina Courage 1-0....
Lovely Act Of Kindness And Sportsmanship Marred By Bullcrap Football Game
Tennessee and South Carolina played an ugly, low-wattage football game today, combining for one touchdown, six field goals, and a botched extra point, in a contest that didn’t even have the decency to include a couple goddamn turnovers. The Gamecocks came out on top after scoring 12 unanswered secon...
These 24 Seconds Are Filled With More Terror Than Whatever Scary Movie You Plan On Watching
Star North Carolina State defensive end Bradley Chubb suffered a finger injury during the Wolfpack’s game at Pitt today, but his grotesquely misshapen digit is only the start of this horrifying half-minute of video. Gah!...
Sucker-Punching Panthers Fan Arrested And Charged With Assault
Shortly after video of Kyle Adam Maraghy punching out an older fan during last night’s Panthers-Eagles game began circulating today, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg PD confirmed that they were looking into the case. This afternoon, they announced that they’d arrested Maraghy and charged him with simple as...
N.C. State Freshman Braxton Beverly Ruled Ineligible For Going To School
After Thad Matta abruptly left Ohio State this summer, incoming freshman Braxton Beverly was granted his release by the Buckeyes and he transferred to N.C. State. The four-star point guard recruit (who once scored 70 points in a single high school game) hadn’t played for the Buckeyes or anything, an...
NCAA's Three-Year Investigation Into Fake Classes At UNC Ends With A Whimper
After three-and-a-half years of investigating fake classes in North Carolina’s African and Afro-American Studies department that dated back over 18 years, the NCAA announced on Friday that it does not have the jurisdiction to charge the university with violations of either academic fraud or providin...
Luke Kuechly Is In Concussion Protocol Again
Panthers linebacker Luke Kuechly, who has missed parts of each of the last two seasons after suffering concussions, left last night’s game against the Eagles in the second quarter. The hit that knocked Kuechly out of the game looked like it may have hurt his shoulder, but afterwards it was revealed ...
Panthers Fan Sucker-Punches Old Man
Here is an Instagram video from last night’s game between the Eagles and Panthers in Charlotte, in which a raging bro in a Cam Newton jersey punches an old man in the face:...