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UW-Milwaukee Basketball Play-By-Play Guy Quits, Burns Every Single Bridge On Way Out
Bill Johnson, who has been the radio play-by-play guy for UW-Milwaukee basketball for the past 16 seasons, announced on Instagram last night that he was retiring. Accompanying his announcement was a blistering broadside against the UW-Milwaukee athletic department, calling department executives “a t...

Baylor Player Dismissed For "Team Rule Violation" Was Subject Of Rape Investigation
When former tight end Tre’Von Armstead was dismissed from Baylor’s football team last year, the team said it was because he violated team rules. A report today by Paula Lavigne for ESPN’s Outside the Lines shows that the dismissal happened a week after Baylor began an investigation for possible sexu...
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Former Baylor Defensive End Shawn Oakman Arrested On Sexual Assault Charge [Updated]
According to the Waco Tribune-Herald, former Baylor football player Shawn Oakman has been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a fellow student on April 3, 2016....

Entitled Asshole Gets Undeserved Raise
Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney, whose team lost 45-40 to Alabama in this year’s national championship game, just got a raise. His new contract will pay him more than $30 million over the next six years. ...

"Kirby's Law" Will Make It Harder To Report On Georgia Athletics
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed into law yesterday legislation that will give state university athletic departments an unprecedented right to delay responding to open records requests. This is good news for that state’s biggest programs—new UGA football coach Kirby Smart personally lobbied lawma...

Almost Literal Babies Console Tar Heels After NCAA Championship Game Loss
For an exercise in learning compassion, a Durham, N.C. transitional kindergarten teacher had her class write letters to members of the North Carolina men’s basketball team, who lost the national championship in spectacular fashion. A good idea for a lesson, but more importantly, The News & Observer ...

Cardale Jones Calls Out "Insane And Unfair" NCAA; Darren Rovell Rushes To Defend It
Former Ohio State quarterback Cardale Jones, who is currently preparing for the NFL draft, took some parting shots at the NCAA today. His criticisms have gotten much more pointed since “we ain’t come to play SCHOOL,” but the spirit is the same:...

Seth Beer, Clemson's Freshman Dynamo, Will Be The First Beer To Play In The Majors
Many, many people have played professional baseball, and as math would have it, a few of them have names that sounded like the sport’s favorite drink. Back in ’48, a Clarence Beers pitched most of one inning, badly, for the Cardinals. More recently, a Scott Beerer kicked around the minors for most o...

Man, Southern Miss Was Flagrantly Breaking NCAA Rules
Anybody who follows college sports even semi-closely is inured to scandal. These guys are taking sham classes, those ones are getting free dealership cars, that one is getting money slipped under the table by an agent. But even beyond the sheer mind-numbing quantity of “scandals,” the NCAA is an imm...

Tyler Summitt Resigns As Louisiana Tech Women's Hoops Coach After Inappropriate Relationship
Tyler Summitt, 25-year-old son of Hall-of-Fame coach Pat Summitt, has stepped down as head coach of the Louisiana Tech women’s basketball team after cryptically admitting to an inappropriate relationship. Speculation immediately and logically ensued that the relationship in question was with one of ...

Cal Assistant Coach Who Was Fired For Sexual Harassment Drops Appeal And Resigns
Cal Bears assistant basketball coach Yan Hufnagel was fired from his post last month after a university investigation found that he had sexually harassed a reporter. The investigation report indicates that he tried to leverage her reliance on him as a source into a sexual relationship, and the claim...

Records: Baylor's Shawn Oakman Under Investigation For Sexual Assault Accusation (Updated)
Another former Baylor football player, recent defensive standout Shawn Oakman, is under investigation for a reported sexual assault over the weekend. The story was broken by the Waco Tribune-Herald, which did not identify the player “because he had not been arrested.” However, it did extensively quo...


Breanna Stewart Is A Woman Of Her Word
To nobody’s surprise, the UConn women’s basketball team finished its perfect season with an 82-51 victory over Syracuse in last night’s national championship game. If you’re the kind of jerkass who is constantly looking for reasons to slag women’s college basketball, you could point to UConn’s wire-...

Sources: CBS, Turner, NCAA Agree To Extend March Madness Broadcasting Contract
The NCAA has agreed to extend their 14-year, $10.8 billion March Madness television contract with CBS and Turner Sports, according to multiple sources close to the process, though they caution that no announcement is imminent. The original deal, signed in 2010, lasts through the 2024 tournament. The...

Security Guard Has Fantastic Reaction To Kris Jenkins's Buzzer-Beater
Every now and then, you see some shit so crazy that you momentarily forget where you are and what you’re supposed to be doing. We’ve all been this security guard before:...

Jim Nantz, A Tremendous Weirdo, Gave His Tie To Ryan Arcidiacono
Imagine you are Villanova guard Ryan Arcidiacono, a senior who just helped your team win one of the greatest championship games in NCAA history. You’re sweaty, you’re euphoric, and you’re covered in confetti. You want to scream and hug your teammates and find your family. You turn toward the crowd, ...

Villanova Students Got A Little Crazy Last Night
It’s been a long while since the Main Line had a championship to celebrate, but Villanova students more than made up for it. The party spilled out of the Pavilion and onto the streets and ran through the early morning, and saw numerous injuries and arrests, including two for, um, assaulting a police...

Jay Wright Barely Reacted To Villanova's Buzzer-Beater
When Kris Jenkins hit his buzzer-beating three, everybody lost it. Villanova dogpiled on the court, fans in Houston screamed, people in bars across America went crazy, and even Charles Barkley jumped for joy....

Villanova's Buzzer-Beater Required A Mop And A Choice
Past results do not guarantee future performance, the SEC forces funds to tell investors. It’s good advice. But in a final two games in which Villanova shot an unreal 63-of-97 from the field, if it came down to one shot—if it came down to Kris Jenkins with an open look—the Wildcats had to feel prett...