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Texas A&M Assistant's Twitter Rant About Losing One Recruit Chased Away Another (UPDATED)
One of the grossest things in all of sports is big-time college football recruiting: educational institutions groveling and begging high schoolers to attend, adults directing slush funds towards 17-year-olds, college graduates harassing kids on social media to consider their alma mater. And last nig...
Here's Laremy Tunsil Admitting He Took Money At Ole Miss Before Getting Abruptly Hustled Off Stage
After Laremy Tunsil fell to #13 in the draft, texts purporting to show conversation with Ole Miss staffers about them paying his rent popped up on his Instagram. The posts were deleted, along with Tunsil’s account, and given when they were posted, it’s highly unlikely that he posted them himself....
Oakland A's Farmhand Sean Murphy Dies At 27
Sean Murphy, a pitcher in the Oakland A’s minor league system since 2010, died in Arizona on Monday. He was 27....
Former Wrestling Star Chyna Dead At 45
Former pro wrestling star Joanie “Chyna” Laurer was found dead in her home today, according to her manager. She was 45 years old. Her official Twitter and Facebook accounts both confirmed the news:...
Report: NCAA President Mark Emmert Still Owes Former Employer $49K
Mark Emmert is the man at the helm of the scam that is the NCAA. He oversees an organization that made over $1 billion in revenue in 2014, and for his troubles, he gets a $1.8 million salary (and that was as of 2013; he’s almost assuredly making more now). The athletes who make him his money are pro...
MMA Fighter Joao Carvalho Dies 48 Hours After Fight
Portuguese MMA fighter Joao Carvalho died last night, two days after suffering a third round TKO to Irishman Charlie Ward. Carvalho and Ward fought in Dublin, Ireland, under the Total Extreme Fighting promotion....
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. ...
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:...
Villanova's Title Win Was Beautiful, Quiet, And Weird As Hell
I got to my seat for Monday’s college basketball national championship game with 14 minutes left in the first half like a classic harried nerd, carrying a pair of binoculars that it turned out I didn’t need. I was worried about watching a basketball game from the sixth floor of a football stadium, b...
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...
Welcome To Baseball: Spring Training Memories In Sunny Orlando
A mother sparrow emerges from her nest atop a newly visible grave, a grave that had been buried in the cruel, gray snow until this afternoon. It is not yet officially spring, but the days are slightly warmer, and a trickle of water—melted snow—snakes past the sparrowess’ home. For months, to hydrate...
UNC's Blatantly Fake Classes Were The Best Thing For Athletes
The NCAA is expected to complete its investigation into claims of long-running academic fraud at North Carolina within the next few weeks, and given the size and scope of what’s alleged, major sanctions are a distinct possibility. But Roy Williams isn’t sweating it. He believes the basketball progra...
Put These Shameful Conference Commissioners Right In The Toilet
You would hope that if someone were to make an argument against paying college athletes in the year of our Lord 2016, that this someone would dig up with a few ideas that were at least slightly less mendacious, self-serving, and paternalistic than the ones that originally founded the amateurism scam...
Pro Cyclist Antoine Demoitié Dies After Getting Hit By Motorcycle During Race (UPDATE)
Twenty-five year old Belgian cyclist Antoine Demoitié was racing at Gent Wevelgem for Wanty-Groupe Gobert this morning, when he was hit by a race motorcycle after crashing. He was taken to the ICU at a nearby hospital in Lille, France, where his team announced that his condition was “extremely serio...
Hallelujah, A College Football Coach Has A Sensible Position On Transfers
There is a litany of asinine and unfair NCAA rules, but perhaps the most blatantly unfair are the transfer rules. With limited exceptions, college athletes playing football, basketball, baseball, and men’s hockey must sit out a year of competition when they transfer schools. Even more onerous, coach...
As Usual, John Calipari Pushes An NCAA Rule To Its Limit
In a tweetstorm this afternoon, Kentucky coach John Calipari revealed his latest plan to lay bare the machinations of the NCAA. Here is a lightly edited transcript of his tweets:...
How To React To A Bad Person's Death
People die every day; famous people die over the course of many days. Those left behind watch as the internet floods with earnest RIPs and dewy-eyed takes and angry ripostes toward anyone with the gall to joke or critique At a Time Like This. In some instances, some otherwise empathetic people cut s...
Third Successive Court Smacks NCAA Down, Allows Todd McNair's Lawsuit To Proceed
The California Supreme Court ruled against the NCAA, declining to review the 2nd District Court of Appeal’s December decision allowing former USC football assistant coach Todd McNair’s lawsuit against the NCAA to proceed. McNair is likely to win at least a part of his lawsuit, which in its course wi...
Oklahoma City Thunder Part-Owner Dies In Car Crash One Day After Being Indicted
Thunder part-owner and former Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon died in a car crash this morning in Oklahoma City, a day after being indicted on charges that could have put him in prison for decades....
