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College Basketball's Best Coaches Don't Have The Answers
In a piece published at CBS Sports on Tuesday, reporter Matt Norlander chatted up several of college basketball’s top coaches, hoping to find a path inside the minds of these titans, these innovators. The main question being posed is the one that’s been vexing the sport since the FBI fucked everyone...
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Oklahoma Running Back Rodney Anderson Accused Of Sexual Assault In Protective Order [Update]
According to ESPN, a protective order has been filed against Oklahoma running back Rodney Anderson. The woman who filed the order says that Anderson sexually assaulted her on November 16....
LaVar Ball Says He Has Pulled LiAngelo Ball From UCLA
LaVar Ball has pulled his middle son, LiAngelo Ball, out of his freshman year at UCLA, according to a report from TMZ, which was then confirmed by ESPN. ...
New Arizona State Coach Herm Edwards Had A Bizarre First Press Conference
Herm Edwards, who hasn’t coached football since 2008, is now in charge of the Arizona State Sun Devils. The school’s athletic director and Edwards’s former agent Ray Anderson is convinced that this will be a successful idea. Try to parse this press release while keeping in mind that it is about a m...
What I Learned At Phil Knight's Big Basketball Birthday Party
PORTLAND, Ore.—Here is a story from Swoosh: The Unauthorized Story of Nike, J.B. Strasser and Laurie Becklund’s 1993 book about about the company’s early days. In 1975, Nelson Farris, Nike’s first employee—he still works there, “Chief Storyteller” or some such thing—went to a women’s track meet to s...
Miami And Clemson Fans Body Slam Each Other To Hell In Gory Brawl
Clemson demolished Miami yesterday in the ACC Championship, in Charlotte. You can imagine, a blowout like that generally leads to unhappy fans of one side or another. This being football we’re talking about, there is a very great chance that unhappy fans will wind up punching and kicking each other ...
Texas A&M Rolls Out Actual Red Carpet To Welcome Jimbo Fisher
Jimbo Fisher arrived today at College Station, Texas, as the new head football coach at Texas A&M. He was greeted on the tarmac at Easterwood* Airport by a marching band and a literal red carpet, as happens in a sane world with a healthy appreciation for amateur sports:...
The Hashmarks For Vikings-Falcons Are In The Wrong Spot
The Atlanta Falcons’ stadium hosted the SEC championship game Saturday night. A crew spent all night repainting the field in order to have it ready for today’s Vikings-Falcons game. They did a nice job, with one exception: The hashmarks were in the wrong spot....
Alabama Beats Out Ohio State For Final College Football Playoff Slot
The first three teams announced for the college football playoff were no surprise. Clemson was number one, after their savage beatdown of Miami last night, and they were followed by Big 12 champion Oklahoma and SEC champs Georgia, who will play each other in the Rose Bowl....
Penn State Football Commit Charged With Robbing Philly Wawa Of $13,600
If you asked me to guess how much money a person could make from robbing a Wawa, under no circumstances would I guess anything close to $13,000. But I am told, in this report from the Inquirer, that that is more or less the score allegedly taken by young Isheem Young, a Penn State football commit, w...
Give It Up, Blake Bortles
You’re never going to win one of these:...
TCU's John Diarse Lays Out For Spectacular One-Handed Touchdown Grab
Third-ranked Oklahoma jumped out to a 17-0 lead over TCU after just four total possessions this afternoon, and very much looked poised to run away from the Horned Frogs. A nine-play TCU touchdown drive made it 17-7, and, after a missed Oklahoma field goal, the Horned Frogs got right back to work, us...
SCSU-NCSU Game Delayed After Bulldogs Player Collapses On Bench, Is Given CPR<em></em>
South Carolina State senior guard Tyvoris Solomon collapsed on the bench during a timeout in today’s game against N.C. State, triggering a terrifying sequence where EMT responders performed CPR on Solomon as he lay on the floor near the S.C. State bench:...
Georgia Tech Lost On A Last Second Own-Basket
Oh man. Georgia Tech spent the final ten minutes of their game Friday night against underdog Grambling State scrambling back from a 16-point deficit, finally grabbing a one-point lead on a Jose Alvarado three-pointer with 1:02 left on the game clock. The teams traded free throws over the next 30 sec...
NCAA Hits Ole Miss With Two-Year Postseason Ban
The NCAA finally wrapped up its investigation into the Ole Miss recruiting scandal, and the resulting punishment is pretty harsh: a two-year postseason ban, scholarship reductions, and a handful of show-causes for various assistants and administrators....
Jimbo Fisher Job Watch: Christmas Tree Trashed
Update (1:25 p.m. ET): Wayne McGahee III, who reported on Jimbo Fisher’s Christmas tree, is now reporting that Fisher has accepted the job at Texas A&M. Wayne knew....
College Football Message Board Owner Turns Out To Be Hateful Moron
Montana Grizzlies football fan Lisa Davey didn’t want the school to bring back Bobby Hauck as head coach. Hauck left for UNLV after the 2009 season, and his last few years with the Grizzlies featured a number of his players and recruits being arrested for various crimes, and his stonewalling of the ...
Tennessee's Week-Long Faceplant Continues
Friday morning, after returning from yet another meeting with another prospective head coach, Tennessee athletic director John Currie was canned. It was quick, kind of expected, and, really, just another blip in what’s been a teeth-grinding shitshow for the folks in Knoxville and a comical treasure ...
Miles Bridges Dunks Over His Own Poor Teammate
Being dunked on, in any capacity, is humiliating; being posterized so fiercely that you fall on your ass is even more so. And being posterized that fiercely by your own teammate? Nick Ward suffered quite the ego bruising tonight at the hands of Michigan State teammate Miles Bridges during tonight’s ...
Rick Pitino Files $35 Million Suit Against Louisville For Breach Of Contract
After getting fired by the University of Louisville in October, Rick Pitino has filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing the University of breach of contract. Pitino is asking for damages of over $35 million, which he says is the full remaining unpaid amount on his contract that ran until 2026....