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Somehow the 'BuT-tHe-AmATeUR-MoDeL!' NCAA survived the beginning of NIL
We’re approaching the four-month mark since the NCAA officially approved name, image, and likeness rights for student-athletes and, somehow, the apocalypse has not come, the collegiate model has not collapsed, and Dabo Swinney is still coaching (to some extent, at least). As athletes, schools, spons...
Can we please stop discussing parity and playoff expansion in college football?
As a college football fan, I am begging everyone to please stop....
Parity might actually be returning to college football
Parity? Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in years. *Long draw from a cigarette*...
Big Ten… ACC… Pac-12… wyd
You remember that episode of The Office where Jim and Dwight create an “alliance” to combat other alliances around the office? That’s what this feels like. Less than a month after Texas and Oklahoma announced they’d be moving to the SEC, three of the four remaining Power 5 conferences announced they...
A 12-team playoff won’t change the fact that the same schools win every year
Well, ladies and gentlemen, it looks like a 12-team college football playoff format could be on the horizon. ...
College football’s lunge for March Madness-level money is sure to fail
Why can’t we just enjoy the moment anymore?...
NCAA reveals preseason college football Top 25 … oh, nope, wait, it’s the top 16 March Madness seeds
Top-seeded Gonzaga, Villanova (6 overall), and Virginia (9) crashed a gridiron greats (and merely goods) get-together Saturday, as the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee revealed its prospective top 16 seeds for March Madness. A preview in the mold of the pointless weekly College Football Playoff r...
Rose Bowl to be played in ... Dallas
The story of college football in 2020 has been knowing the right thing to do, and completely buckling to do the most idiotic things possible....
NHL inching closer to a 2021 season and COVID mess of its very own
It’s not officially official just yet, but Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet reported that the NHL and NHLPA have a tentative deal for a 56-game regular-season schedule with a Jan. 13 start. So, one way or another, the 2021 hockey season is a go....
2020 showed us why unpaid teenagers can’t be the foundation of college sports anymore
Sooner or later, it all comes crashing down....
Cancel the CFB playoff, nothing will beat BYU - Coastal Carolina
There was only one really exciting matchup on the college football docket on Saturday, and Coastal Carolina-BYU, arranged at the last minute after the Chanticleers’ game against Liberty was canceled, lived up to having the College GameDay crew on hand in Myrtle Beach....
Canucks ice anti-mask anthem singer; Wisconsin falls to Marquette in literal last second
Rich people really can dictate media coverage....
What has this Big Ten season been for, anyway?
Northwestern is the 19th-ranked team in the country and on the way up after taking control of the Big Ten West with a 17-7 win over No. 10 Wisconsin on Saturday. The Wildcats’ remaining games are at Michigan State and Minnesota, and home against Illinois — three teams that have combined to win as ma...
Jim Harbaugh should be fired for turning Michigan into a national disgrace, not a national champion
Jim Harbaugh should be done at Michigan....
These Nits are the pits
Penn State was No. 7 in the preseason AP college football poll. That is not where the Nittany Lions will finish the year....
We're facing a humanitarian crisis, but college football marches on
We are doomed as a society. There is no turning back. There is no shelter to run and hide. (Well, there is — it’s called your house — but seemingly millions of folks don’t want to stay there.) If anything, this pandemic has shown us that some people simply will not believe in science no matter what....
![Wisconsin could run out of quarterbacks soon [UPDATED]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/e39rxlpowmpuvmxvobc0.jpg)
Wisconsin could run out of quarterbacks soon [UPDATED]
The Big Ten wrapped up Week One. Yay! ...
![Florida’s Dan Mullen wants to risk 90,000 lives because he can’t coach under pressure [UPDATED]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/dchvqsiwcfcqaorzppig.jpg)
Florida’s Dan Mullen wants to risk 90,000 lives because he can’t coach under pressure [UPDATED]
It’s clear Florida head coach Dan Mullen doesn’t care about public health....
Daily dose of inspiration: ‘Blue Lives Matter’ car wipes out in rain, places 37th
You don’t often get to see auto racing, especially NASCAR, in the rain, but Saturday’s Xfinity Series race, the finale for the playoff Round of 12, coincided with a torrential downpour on the Roval road course at Charlotte Motor Speedway. It was bad enough that the race was red-flagged for standing ...
Butler does it again — but like, at a whole ’nother level — to extend NBA Finals
If you watched Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Friday night, you know that just watching it was incredible and that not a whole lot needs to be said. The Heat extended everyone’s stay in The Bubble with a 111-108 win, with Jimmy Butler getting the best of LeBron James in a back-and-forth battle for the ...