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Mark Aguirre Was Never Going To Fail
This feature originally appeared in the March 31, 1981 edition of Inside Sports. It appears here with the author’s permission....
Indiana Fires Tom Crean Right As NCAA Tournament Starts
Fresh off a thoroughly embarrassing end to their campaign, Indiana has fired men’s basketball coach Tom Crean after nine seasons. Crean guided the Hoosiers to three Sweet 16 appearances in his tenure, but the team only earned a futile NIT first-round exit this season, after at one point being ranked...
The NCAA Tournament Teams That Can Actually Pull Off Some Upsets
This is the second of three posts that will preview the NCAA tournament. This one is for people who want to know which sleeper teams have the best shot at making some noise. ...
Jim Harbaugh Is Ready For That Butt Work
Colon cancer is a serious issue, and the American Cancer Society recommends everyone over the age of 50 should be getting a colonoscopy every 10 years. If that applies to you but you are feeling squicky about a doctor putting stuff in your butt, please draw inspiration from Jim Harbaugh:...
Pentagon Warns Employees Not To Stream NCAA Tournament
Today is the day when you will get very little done at the office. In that it is much like every other day, except today you have the supremely valid excuse of NCAA tournament first-round games on all day. The military-industrial complex, which is no doubt rooting for Duke, knows what’s up....
Mike Francesa Previews Nonexistent NCAA Tournament Matchup<em></em>
Who you got in tomorrow’s Florida State-Maryland matchup in the NCAA Tournament? You know, the one that is not happening but still made Mike Francesa think hard enough to let 35 seconds of silence tick away on his radio show today....
NFL Draft Prospect Jourdan Lewis Charged With Domestic Violence
Former Michigan football player Jourdan Lewis was charged with misdemeanor domestic violence in Washtenaw County this afternoon. An Ann Arbor police detective told MLive that police received a 911 call from Lewis’s girlfriend around 1 a.m. this morning. The woman who called told police that Lewis ha...
Missouri Just Poached Cuonzo Martin And They'll Probably Nab The Country's Best Recruit Too<em></em>
Outgoing Cal basketball coach Cuonzo Martin spent three seasons in Berkeley, where he put together a middling-to-good run. He won 62 of his 101 games and went 2-4 in three years worth of rivalry games against Stanford. Martin’s greatest accomplishment was recruiting Ivan Rabb and Jaylen Brown to com...
Some Things To Know About The Best NCAA Tournament Teams
This is the first of three posts that will preview the NCAA tournament. This one is for people who just want to know which teams have the best shot at winning it all....
Why Your Tourney Feel-Good Story Sucks: Northwestern
Some people are fans of the Northwestern Wildcats. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Northwestern Wildcats. This 2017 Deadspin tourney preview is for those in the latter group. This will be the only one. Don’t ask me to do the other 67 asshole teams....
New Orleans Player Chokes Teammate, Gets Benched
UNO lost by one (which I swear is not intended as a pun) in their NCAA Tournament play-in matchup against Mount St. Mary’s, and there were precisely two highlights, both involving New Orleans’s junior forward Travin Thibodeaux....
Indiana's Season Ends Quietly After Dumb NIT Stadium Controversy
The Indiana Hoosiers began the year ranked No. 11 in the country, and at one point, got as high as third. They beat both Kansas and UNC in the first month of the season, two huge signature wins for when the Hoosiers inevitably submitted their resume to the NCAA Tournament. All was well in Bloomingto...
Football Prospect Announces College Decision With Glorious, Special Effects-Heavy Video
Tahj Rice, a four-star defensive lineman prospect from Kentucky, has refused the traditional hat-donning ceremony when announcing which college he’ll be taking his talents in the fall, and instead has made his decision known in much more imaginative fashion. ...
Yes, Really, Another Baylor Football Official Has Been Fired
Another member of the new Baylor football staff—the one that was supposed to help college football fans forget the university’s ongoing sexual-assault scandal—has been fired. KWTX reported late tonight that Baylor has fired new associate director of football operations DeMarcko Butler, with an athle...
Ex-Baylor Player Tre'Von Armstead Arrested For Battery, Kicking Out Police Car Window
Ex-Baylor football player Tre’Von Armstead was arrested by Las Vegas police this afternoon and charged with first-degree domestic battery, resisting arrest, and damaging a police vehicle. TMZ first reported the arrest, and an LVPD spokesperson confirmed this evening that officers witnessed Armstead ...
Here Is The Women's NCAA Tournament Bracket
The women’s NCAA tournament bracket is set. Here’s a printable PDF for you to download....
Unsurprisingly, Jim Harbaugh Is A Hardass When It Comes To Family Pickup Basketball<em></em>
On the latest episode of The MMQB Podcast, Peter King talks to Ravens head coach John Harbaugh about his relationship with his brother, Jim. The older Harbaugh shares a story about a pick-up basketball game the two brothers played with their families while on vacation, and it sounds like Jim had an...
Two Former Penn State Officials Plead Guilty To Child Endangerment
Former Penn State senior vice president Gary Schultz and former athletic director Tim Curley have both pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of a child....