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The Deadspin 25 Is Back

It’s time again to vote in the only college football poll that matters! The Deadspin 25 is back....

Two assistant DAs who successfully prosecuted the Sam Ukwuachu rape case write about how Baylor and Boise State attempted to stymie their efforts....

NDSU Effectively Bans Media From Covering Bison Sports Unless They Paid For Rights

North Dakota State is cutting off outlets from covering Bison athletics unless they’ve paid a media rights ransom, according to local Fargo newspaper The Forum....

Guess How Sexist Texas A&M's Event For Female Football Fans Was [UPDATED]

It was pretty damn sexist!...

Court Petition From Fired Baylor Employee Seeks Full Pepper Hamilton Report

In the aftermath of the Baylor sexual assault scandal, the closest thing to concrete information on the university’s institutional failures came in the form of a 13-page, specificity-free summary of Pepper Hamilton’s findings. Baylor has long insisted that’s all the documentation that exists. A cour...

College Football Playoff Caves To ESPN, Sanity; Semifinal Games Move To Weekends And Holidays

The College Football Playoff semifinals are abandoning New Year’s Eve, mostly, after this past year’s disaster that saw ratings plummet 36% and forced ESPN to issue free make-good ads during the national championship game....

Mississippi State's Jeffery Simmons Found Guilty Of Malicious Mischief

Jeffery Simmons, the five-star Mississippi State recruit that was shown beating a woman on a video recording, had his day in court Tuesday. Simmons was found guilty of malicious mischief, pleaded no contest to the charge of simple assault, and had a charge of disturbing the peace dropped....

Washington State Football Players Brawl At House Party<em></em>

Last Friday night, a group of Washington State football players went to a house party near WSU campus in Pullman. According to WSU senior Alex Rodriguez and witnesses interviewed by the Seattle Times, a group of “four of five players” were setting off fireworks in the backyard of the house and throw...

Assault Victim Files Lawsuit Against Oklahoma RB Joe Mixon 

Amelia Molitor, the victim of a 2014 assault by Joe Mixon, filed a complaint against the Oklahoma running back in San Francisco’s U.S. District Court Friday....

Iowa Football Player Playing <i>Pokémon Go</i> Mistaken For Bank Robber, Held At Gunpoint By Police

Faith Ekakitie, a rising senior defensive lineman at Iowa, was minding his own business—he had taken a walk to a park to play some Pokémon Go, as one does. That’s when he was confronted by Iowa City police with guns drawn....

Two Punters Dead In Wisconsin Car Accident

Nebraska punter Sam Foltz and former Michigan State punter Mike Sadler are dead after an an auto accident this weekend in Wisconsin, where the pair were attending a weekend kicking camp....

Ohio State RB Bri'onte Dunn's Girlfriend Calls 911: “My Boyfriend Hit Me Really Bad"<em></em>

Ohio State running back Bri’onte Dunn was dismissed from the team on Monday for an unspecified violation of team rules. According to a report today from the Columbus Dispatch, Dunn’s dismissal followed a 911 call Sunday from his girlfriend in which she told a dispatcher that Dunn hit her in the face...

Jim Grobe Doesn't Think Baylor Has A Culture Problem<em></em>

Given the Baylor sexual assault scandal and its subsequent fallout, Big 12 media days were always going to be the most interesting and anticipated event leading up the college football season. Unfortunately, things have more or less played out exactly how one could and should have expected, with new...

Lou Holtz Is Really Going For It At The RNC

Donald Trump may not have been able to convince any famous athletes to speak at this week’s Republican National Convention, but he did get Lou Holtz’s support, dammit, and Lou Holtz is giving it everything he has....

Jim Harbaugh, Who Is Cool And Smart, Is Doing A Thing

“Who’s got it better than us?” asks Bailey, a Bay Area rapper, as he cavorts about the Big House with Jim Harbaugh. The answer, of course, is Jim Harbaugh, winner of the “Most Insane Coach” award at the prestigious Deadspin Awards. He’s got it better than all of us....

New Baylor AD Says He Will Fix Program Because He Has Daughters, Just Like The Last One

The introduction today of Baylor’s incoming athletics director, Mack Rhoades, included the expected platitudes about change and doing things the right way—less than two months after Baylor admitted it willfully made life hell for students who reported they had been sexually assaulted, especially (th...

Woman Punched By Joe Mixon: "Almost Immediately, I Was Made To Feel Like It Was My Fault"

Amelia Molitor was just another college student at Oklahoma—until Sooners running back Joe Mixon punched her in the face at sub shop Pickleman’s Gourmet Café*, fracturing multiple bones in her face and requiring surgery that left her jaw wired shut. Afterward, she told the Oklahoman that she worried...

Baylor Has Figured Out How To Bury Its Scandal

It remains a stunning display of arrogance, of cynicism, of self-preservation, and of downright evil. Baylor’s conscious decision to not produce a report on its failure to handle multiple sexual assault cases was made with one goal in mind: to protect Baylor. It is not possible to remind yourself to...

Rejoice! The College Football Playoff Is Probably Going To Abandon New Year's Eve

Those running the College Football Playoff wanted to institute a new sports tradition by scheduling the semifinal games on New Year’s Eve. The tradition they inaugurated was slightly different: sports fans not watching the semifinal games because it’s freaking New Year’s Eve and who the hell wants t...

Police Report: Draymond Green Acts Like That In Real Life, Apparently [UPDATE]

Draymond Green was arrested on Sunday for an alleged assault. Details started to trickle out that Green had slapped a taunting fan, who was later rumored to be Michigan State football player Jermaine Edmondson. The incident report came out today, and it confirms that the altercation took place betwe...