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Temple Basketball Player Celebrates 21st Birthday By Getting Busted For Allegedly Soliciting A Prostitute
Depending on the traffic, Atlantic City, N.J., is a little more than an hour from Philadelphia by car, which makes it the perfect sort of getaway for college students from the city looking for some harmless mini-Vegas bacchanalia. Temple guard Khalif Wyatt, who turned 21 over the weekend, probably h...
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Reports: Three Dead, Including Two Former Football Players, After Shooting At Auburn Off-Campus Party [UPDATE]
Details are still sketchy, but it appears a shooting took place at an Auburn University off-campus housing complex that is reportedly home to many Auburn athletes. The shooting took place at a party at the complex at some time around 9:30 p.m., according to police chief Tommy Dawson. A press confer...
Pat Summitt Hit A Hole-In-One Yesterday
Pat Summitt, the recently retired Lady Vols legend, has apparently been practicing her golf game with all that new found free time. She and her foursome, which included "former player Lisa Reagan, Billie Moore, who coached Summitt at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, and ESPN analyst Debbie Antonelli," w...
Women's College Basketball Player Quits School To Pursue Professional Modeling Career
Krystal Forthan had transferred from LSU to West Virginia just last month, after only one season in Baton Rouge. She's a 6-foot-4 former high school All-American, so her arrival in Morgantown was hailed as a coup for Lady Mountaineers coach Mike Carey. But before Forthan even enrolled at WVU, she ch...
The Single Worst Thing We've Ever Read In A Student-Athlete's Homework
Former Memphis DE Dasmine Cathey took a four-week mass communication course in the summer of 2010....
Dick Vitale Weighs In On The Death Of Al Qaeda's No. 2
Dipsy-doo drone-a-roo, baybee! [Twitter]...
Twitter Banned From Jerry Sandusky Trial, Which Starts Next Week
Jury selection will begin tomorrow in Jerry Sandusky's trial, after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court denied Lawyerin' Joe Amendola's latest motion to postpone proceedings. That leaves opening arguments on track for next week. But John Cleland, the presiding judge, made a pair of rulings today will hav...
Idaho State Hoops Gets Its Own Pay-For-Play Scandal
Something very strange and secretive is going on in Pocatello. NCAA investigators have swarmed Idaho State's campus to see if a whistleblowing former coach is right, and a booster has been paying off recruits and JuCo coaches to play basketball for the university....
Looking To Burn $5,000? The University Of Colorado Has You Covered
Right now on something called Higher Ed Surplus—a division of Public Surplus, which is like eBay for public agencies looking to get rid of their shit—the University of Colorado is auctioning off its 16-year-old basketball (and volleyball) court for the low, low price of $5,000. Now you can personall...
Muhammad Ali Is Still The Greatest
The NCAA tournament came to Louisville Tucson this weekend, and the GOAT decided to take in last night's Arizona-UL game in his hometown retirement refuge. Unfortunately, his Cardinals were trounced by the Wildcats, but that's not the most regrettable aspect of the evening. ESPNU's cameras lingered...
AP Discovers That SEC Schools Do Not Take Marijuana Use As Seriously As The NCAA
The Associated Press has a really long article about all this research they did with regard to smoking pot in the SEC. The long and the short of it is this: different schools police themselves differently and they all are much more lenient on their own stoner scholar athletes than the NCAA....
Florida's Jonathon Crawford Threw The First Postseason No-Hitter In 21 Years Last Night
#1 Florida's opening-round NCAA tournament game against Bethune-Cookman proved history-making, as sophomore pitcher Jonathon Crawford no-hit the Wildcats for the Gators' first solo no-hitter since May 23, 1991—when John Burke kept Furman hitless....
Your Lee Corso Inflatable Duckie Photoshop Roundup
We have said this before: You guys are the best. So very talented and warped and idle in ways we can't even imagine. Yesterday we showed you a wonderful photo of College Gameday's Lee Corso riding a large inflatable duck, and told you to have fun with it. You did, and these are some of our favorites...
Ohio State Fans Continue To Scare Everyone On Twitter
Just a few weeks after convicted sex offender Eric Waugh pinged some Ohio State Football recruits on Twitter—which cost the university a prized linebacker prospect—another overzealous Ohio State fan has left the yard....
The Joe Paterno Tribute Song The World Has Been Waiting For
This isn't the first song honoring Joe Paterno, but it's totally the best. Coming to us from Joey Welz, "The Boogie Woogie King of Rock 'n' Roll" and his Casio synthesizer, I so very proudly give you his latest single, "Tribute To Joe Paterno."...
Pissed-Off College Student Leaves Greatest Voicemail Ever
If you've ever attended school at any level, you know how infuriating it can be when some dipshit administrator screws up your paperwork and sticks you in the wrong class. Or even worse, when they actively try to prevent you from switching out of that class into the class you wanted. Well, one br...
Break Out The Photoshop, It's Lee Corso On A Big Inflatable Duckie!
ESPN's College GameDay crew is out at USC, shooting some commercials. One of the behind-the-scenes photos is Lee Corso, wearing a 1920s swimsuit and riding a big yellow duck raft. Click the picture to enlarge, and please make some photoshops of this. Put them in the comments, and we'll feature the b...
Vanderbilt Football Coach Will Not Hire Assistants Until He's Seen What Their Wives Look Like
Ah, Vanderbilt. A refined, enlightened place. "The Harvard of the South," it's called. So it's not without reason that its football coach, James Franklin, seems like the Larry Summers of the South:...
The Odds Ever Favor The Truly Regional NCAA Baseball Bracket
The NCAA has just announced its baseball championship bracket, to approximately one billionth of the fanfare that its annual orgy of uneducated guesswork, the basketball championships, engenders. But take a moment to appreciate the symmetry, and the humble nature of the appropriately named Regionals...
Vanderbilt Pulled Off The Rare Triple Steal
SEC baseball rivals Vanderbilt and Florida always produce excitement when they match up (no, really, they do!) and tonight's five-run ninth-inning Vandy rally featured one of the rare times you'll see a triple steal anywhere in baseball. A double steal usually means someone on the defending team i...