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Report: FAU Falsely Reported Title IX Numbers By Counting Dozens Of Non-Existent Athletes

FAU falsely reported the number of women playing for its athletic programs on its 2017 report to the Education Department, according to the Palm Beach Post....

D-III Closer Gets Final Three Outs After Puking On The Infield

Rhodes College beat Franklin College 4-2 on the opening day of D-III regionals today, but it wasn’t without a ninth inning pitching performance that gave new meaning to the phrase “gutting it out.”...

It Sure Seems Like Nobody Running Any Sports Team Knows How To Run A Basic Background Check

The Luke Heimlich redemption tour carried on this week, cresting with the full Sports Illustrated feature treatment. There are thousands of words, a serious-faced cover photo, an alliterative headline, randomly capitalized words (“the era of Too Much Information” comes up twice), and all the fancy o...

Report: Trump-Signed Alabama Football Caused White House Drama, And Now Nobody Knows Where It Is

In a performance that had many praising its avant-garde catchphrase stylings, President Trump welcomed the national champion Alabama Crimson Tide football team to the White House last month and proceeded to speak for approximately three hours about, I assume, how he’s actually glad he didn’t win the...

Archangel Didn't Always Assign The Most Thrilling Missions<em></em>

Condoleezza Rice Claims NCAA Commission, Which Failed, Wasn't A Failure

Two weeks after Condoleezza Rice and the Commission on College Basketball were lambasted for spending six months to come up with a largely useless set of recommendations for how to fix the sport, the former Secretary of State is trying to save face. ...

Nigel Hayes Has Some Pretty Great Ideas About How To Fix The NCAA

The NCAA turned to Condoleezza Rice and a committee with no players or professors to fix college basketball; it should have just turned to Nigel Hayes....

Police Say Parents Pretended Their Kid Had Cancer So He Could Meet Syracuse Football Team

The world—okay, people on the internet—okay, some people in and around Syracuse—were touched by the story of C.J. LaFrance, a 9-year-old with Hodgkin’s lymphoma who was able to visit the Orange football team last August and hang out at practice. Police now say parents Martin and Jolene LaFrance fabr...

MLB Prospect Luke Heimlich Denies Molesting His Niece, Blames Guilty Plea On Bad Legal Advice

Oregon State pitcher Luke Heimlich sat down with the New York Times, just five weeks before the MLB Draft, to provide his first lengthy, candid interview on the matter of his pleading guilty to molesting a child when he was 15 years old....

Kylia Carter's Speech Against The NCAA Model Got Right To The Point

On Monday, the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics hosted a series of panel discussions focused on the NCAA’s amateurism model. While important names like Jay Bilas and Tom Yeager served as headliners, the most refreshing comments of the morning came from the mother of former Duke standou...

Brandon Williams, Who Recently De-Committed From Arizona, Commits To Arizona

Top high school player Brandon Williams de-committed from Arizona back in early March, citing the “current climate surrounding U of A” in the wake of ESPN’s report of Wildcats coach Sean Miller being caught via FBI wiretap offering money to then-recruit DeAndre Ayton. The climate must’ve changed, be...

Rowdy Laxbros Fight As Only 30 Dudes Named Braden Can

Oh dear. The Herefords and the Darbys are brawling again. Do ask the butler to close the shutters, will you?...

Missouri Outfielder Leaves Field On Stretcher After Crashing Into Brick Wall At Full Speed

Missouri’s Cade Bormet tumbled into an unpadded brick wall during the Tigers’ home game against Georgia tonight while trying to field a foul ball, causing the freshman outfielder to be removed from the field on a stretcher by emergency personnel. ...

Former Arkansas Running Back Sues Insurance Firm For Wriggling Out Of His Million-Dollar Policy<em></em>

Former Arkansas running back Rawleigh Williams III is suing Lloyd’s, a major British insurance firm, and claims it purposely slowed the processing of his insurance paperwork and then retroactively wrote in a preexisting condition clause. Now, with Williams’s football career over after a neck injury,...

Nigel Hayes Says That He And Wisconsin Teammates Discussed Boycotting 2016 Game To Protest NCAA

At a panel discussion on college sports this week, as reported by USA Today, basketball player Nigel Hayes said that he discussed boycotting a 2016 game with his Wisconsin teammates to protest the NCAA’s failure to properly pay its athletes....

After Scoring Key Transfer, Jim Harbaugh Drops Some Bad Ideas On College Transfers<em></em>

Following months of waivers and appeals, Shea Patterson, the former quarterback at Ole Miss, was allowed by the Rebels, the NCAA, and Michigan (his new team) to transfer and play immediately for the Wolverines. Naturally, this was preceded by Patterson and his lawyer essentially daring Ole Miss and ...

Oklahoma Softball Scores Unconventional Run

The third-ranked Oklahoma softball team beat the Texas Longhorns by a score of 7-1 today. The win featured a grand slam, but the highlight of the game is this here example of extremely creative base-running, by senior catcher Lea Wodach, who scored the go-ahead run in extremely unconventional fashio...

Condoleezza Rice's Useless Commission On College Basketball Gives Useless Recommendations

Condoleezza Rice and her fellow members of the Commission on College Basketball stood on stage in Indianapolis Wednesday morning and announced to the world their plan to fix college basketball—aside from a few bright spots, it was a largely disappointing, half-hearted attempt at pushing back the ine...

College Athletes Are Doomed For As Long As These Clowns Keep Running The Show

A new report states that just one out of every four athletic directors are in favor of giving athletes the ability to make money off their name based off their athletic abilities....

Arkansas Women's Tennis Team Schedules Six Matches In One Day Against Cupcake Opponent To Earn Tournament Eligibility [Update]

Arkansas women’s tennis had a surprisingly strong run in the SEC Tournament last week, making it all the way to the semifinals despite finishing 11th in regular season conference play. It was enough of a run to give the school hopes of an at-large bid in the upcoming NCAA tournament, if not for one ...