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Florida Gulf Coast Somehow Wins Game Despite Finishing With Three Players
Florida Gulf Coast University, aka Dunk City, defeated the Providence Storm this afternoon down in the Bahamas. As you’ll notice the box score below, FGCU picked up the 92-89 comeback win despite five of their eight players fouling out. The Eagles finished the game with just three players, coming in...
Tim Kaine, A Mizzou Grad, Roots For The Kansas Jayhawks
In a more perfect world, our national leaders would be judged by the content of their character, the way their strong wills contest against their empathy in difficult situations, and their willingness to do what was right as opposed to what would get them re-elected. But that’s just the plot of Mr. ...
Oklahoma State Basketball Player Tyrek Coger Dies After Collapsing Following Team Workout
Oklahoma State University announced that 21-year-old basketball player Tyrek Coger died this evening after he collapsed during a team workout. Coger transferred to the Cowboys this month after last playing for Cape Fear Community College in North Carolina....
George Washington Basketball Players Accuse Coach Mike Lonergan Of Verbal And Emotional Abuse
The George Washington men’s basketball program has seen 13 players transfer out of the school in the last five years. According to accusations made by current and former players in a thorough Washington Post investigation, players keep transferring because head coach Mike Lonergan is a nutjob that n...
Duke-Albany Game Canceled Over North Carolina's Anti-LGBT Law
The Nov. 12 game between Duke and Albany is off the schedule, thanks to New York’s policy banning certain types of official travel to North Carolina in the wake of that state’s anti-LGBT HB2 law. ...
Virginia Tech Basketball Coach Is A Purveyor Of Dank Memes
Today, Virginia Tech men’s basketball coach Buzz Williams tweeted (and then deleted) the above meme, which a) is very perplexing, in terms of what it means, but also b) fucking rules so hard....
Why Title IX Has Failed Everyone On Campus Rape<em></em>
It registers less as news and more as routine when another Title IX lawsuit arises against a college or university for failing to meet its obligations to address sexual violence. The same is true when the claims made in these suits bear out. Earlier this year, Florida State announced it would pay $9...
Longtime ESPN Executive To Become New Syracuse Athletic Director
ESPN executive vice president John Wildhack, who has been with the network since its inception and was one of president John Skipper’s top lieutenants, has been named the new athletic director at Syracuse University....
Former Basketball Players Share Their Pat Summitt Stories<em></em>
Over the course of her 38-year basketball career at the University of Tennessee, Pat Summitt coached and met an incredible number of athletes. In the wake of her death, some of those women shared stories about the winningest coach in NCAA basketball history....
Pat Summitt Made Her Sport
The story of women’s basketball is so incomplete without Pat Summitt, it’s almost not worth telling. Not just the winningest coach in D1 history, Summitt is the modern game, her success mirroring its rise, her ascendancy propelling the sport out of obscurity. And now she’s gone....
Pat Summitt's Family Asks For Prayers After Reports Coaching Legend Moved To Hospice
Pat Summitt’s family is asking for prayers after reports surfaced the Hall of Fame basketball coach had moved into hospice care and was facing “serious health concerns.”...
An Incomplete, Amateurish NBA Draft Preview
The NBA Draft is Thursday, which feels way too soon given that a few Cavaliers are probably still drunk from post-Game 7 festivities. The best perk of a Finals going seven games is a short refractory period between the best actual basketball of the year and the best imaginary basketball of the year....
Police Found Kentucky Basketball Player Passed Out Next To His Car
Kentucky Wildcats basketball player Derek Willis was arrested for public intoxication last weekend, according to WCPO, which got the dashcam video. Police arrived at the scene and found the 20-year-old passed out next to his car on the side of the road....
Here's A Fantastic New Angle Of Kris Jenkins's Tournament-Winning Buzzer-Beater
A nice reader sends us this amazing shot of Villanova forward Kris Jenkins’s game-winning buzzer-beater from the end of the NCAA championship game. We’ve all seen this shot from a dozen or so angles, but I don’t think this one has been out there yet....
Dayton Center Steve McElvene Dies At 20
Dayton men’s basketball player Steve McElvene reportedly died at his family’s home today. He was 20....
Report: Former Michigan State Basketball Player Brought Loaded Rifle To Strip Club
Former Michigan State point guard Keith Appling was arrested Sunday after he brought a loaded gun to a strip club in Dearborn, Mich., according to a report from Detroit ABC affiliate WXYZ....
Ex-Iowa State Basketball Star Details Years Of Racial Discrimination In Lawsuit Against Coach
Former Iowa State Cyclones star Nikki Moody filed a lawsuit against her former coach Bill Fennelly late last week for racial discrimination, on the grounds that he had repeatedly called her a “thug” and verbally abused her throughout the course of her career. She also names the school and the state ...
Fired Cal Coach Who Asked Reporter For Three-Way Gets Nevada Job, Releases Docs Which Prove Nothing
Yann Hufnagel was fired less than a month ago from his job as an assistant basketball coach at Cal for violating the school’s sexual harassment policy, yet he’s already landed on his feet with a similar job at the University of Nevada. Hufnagel is a brilliant recruiter, so he was always going to get...
Loyola University Chicago Investigating Head Coach Sheryl Swoopes After Mass Transfers
Basketball legend Sheryl Swoopes has been coaching the Loyola University Chicago women’s basketball team since 2013. After the 2014-15 season, five players transferred to different programs. This year, 10 of the team’s 12 returning players have transferred or requested a release from their scholarsh...
Newly Hired UNLV Coach Jumps Ship For Texas Tech
Less than a week ago, UNLV’s regents formally approved the hiring of Arkansas-Little Rock’s basketball coach Chris Beard to fill the same position for the Runnin’ Rebels. Yesterday afternoon, Texas Tech announced that they had hired Beard to coach their basketball team next season. After Tubby Smith...