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Iowa Basketball Coach Fran McCaffery Loses His Shit, Berates Refs And Players, Slams A Chair
Your morning roundup for Jan. 11, the day we learned Siberia saved the animals. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
College Football Is Willing To Discuss Talking About Having A Playoff, Maybe
The commissioners of the 11 FBS conferences, plus Notre Dame's athletic director, gathered together today in New Orleans to talk about where to go next with the game's postseason structure. According to the New York Times, there was much more "openness" to the idea of a four-team playoff than there...
Obie The Orange Bowl Mascot Leaves The Hospital, Probably With A Really Intense Painkiller Addiction
It's been nearly a week since Obie was destroyed by WVU's Darwin Cook, and he (she!) is in for a lifetime of physical therapy and never-ending pain. But, baby steps. The Orange Bowl tweeted a photo of Obie leaving the hospital this afternoon, with a message for Cook....
Chronicling Brent Musburger's "Honey Badger" Obsession: A Video Compilation
Brent Musburger was oddly enamored with LSU safety Tyrann Mathieu's nom de guerre, uttering it a mystifying 14 times during tonight's broadcast of the BCS title game on ESPN. (He had the over.) Here are all of Brent's "Honey Badgers" for your.. enjoyment?...
A Touchdown Was Scored In An LSU-Alabama Game. Here's The Proof.
It took 115 minutes (not counting overtime) of playing each other this season, but a touchdown has finally been scored between Alabama and LSU. You can thank Trent Richardson. [ESPN]...
There's A Four-Letter Word On The Four-Letter Network At The 3-D Party
Well that's unfortunate....
This Is Not Actually The Halftime Score, ESPN
I mean, it is, but that team should have that much and that team should have that much. Close enough. The production truck's only half paying attention; field goals will do that....
Uncivil: How Paul Finebaum Keeps The SEC's Dixie Aroused
The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is the brawniest thing in college football right now, and a scrawny man, Paul Finebaum, sits atop it....
Todd Bozeman Is In Trouble Again, This Time For (Maybe) Hitting One Of His Players
That would be the same Todd Bozeman whose once-promising coaching career hit a snag when he was at Cal in the mid-1990s because he admitted he had paid a recruit's family $30,000. The affair kept Bozeman away from the college game for 10 years after the NCAA slapped him with a show-cause penalty, b...
Holly Rowe's Been In The Interview-Muscle Racket For Years
We brought you video last week of Holly Rowe giving the Worldwide Leader's Elbow to an as-yet-unidentified reporter after the Sugar Bowl. It's no secret Rowe can be aggressive in protecting her employer's interests (ESPN uses its own monetary muscle to shut out other media outlets from the best po...
Harvey Updyke Jr. On Bourbon Street, Where There Are No Trees For Him To Poison
Your morning roundup for Jan. 9, the day we learned another way to open a beer bottle. Photo via @IzzyGould. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
Watch The Republican Presidential Field Try And Fail To Pretend They Know When The College Football Championship Is Played
Last night's Republican presidential debate moderators, in a gesture of cruelty posing as kindness, asked the candidates to wrap up by saying what they'd rather be doing with this Saturday night, giving them a chance to show off their human sides. If any of these people were human a year ago, thou...
University Of Kentucky Freshman Hits $10,000 Half-Court Shot—But Will The Contest Sponsor Pay Up? [UPDATE]
UK freshman Vincent Swope is notorious in the Wildcats student section for dressing up like a referee, but his half-time half-court shot for $10,000 is making him a folk hero....
Here's How To Snap Your Femur Playing Football
SMU's Jared Williams suffered a break of the largest bone in the human body in the fourth quarter of the Mustangs' BBVA Compass Bowl matchup against Pitt. The snap was loud enough to be heard on the sidelines (and, thus, ESPN's field mics) and left Pitt defender Andrew Taglianetti emotionally deva...
Despite Losing The National Championship Game, A Sam Houston State Player Still Says He's "#1"
Congratulations to North Dakota State on their first Division I FCS football champions, even if this unknown BearKats player disagrees. [ESPN2]...
Even The Trains In New Orleans Dislike Tom Rinaldi
Blanche: What you are talking about is brutal sappiness—Sappiness!—the name of that tear-jerking streetcar that bangs through the third hour of College GameDay, up one old narrow street and down another, accompanied always by soft piano music. [ESPN]...
East Carolina University Will Not Abide Dong On Front Page Of Student Paper, Fires Innocent Man
Two months ago, John Sieglinger of Raleigh removed his raiment and ran across the field at halftime of the East Carolina University-Southern Miss football game. Three days after that, The East Carolinian student paper published uncensored photos of Sieglinger's Streak on its front page and its websi...
Western Kentucky Fires Head Basketball Coach Hours After He Loses Power Play Game To ULL
Western Kentucky canned men's basketball coach Ken McDonald this morning after the Hilltoppers' 72-70 OT loss last night to Louisiana-Lafayette, who scored the winning basket with six players on the floor. [Bowling Green Daily News]...
Campaign Donation To Craig James Contains Hidden Message About Dead Hookers
Craig James for Senate has taken off with the force of a thousand suns. Texans, and people from all over the world, have donated literally tens of dollars to the James Train. Can anything stop this force of nature, besides unfounded but stubborn allegations from his past about dead prostitutes found...
Top Football Recruit Makes College Decision On Live Television, Much To His Mother's Visible Displeasure
Landon Collins is the top football recruit from the state of Louisiana, and the defensive back was heavily recruited by top college programs. Having narrowed his commitment decision to LSU and Alabama, he chose the Crimson Tide live during ESPN's broadcast of the Under Armour high school all-star ...