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Is A New Mexico Basketball Player Getting Death Threats, Or Not?
University of New Mexico men’s basketball coach Craig Neal asserted last week that his son, redshirt sophomore point guard Cullen Neal, was receiving death threats from Lobos fans. Via the Daily Lobo:...
Former Russian Anti-Doping Chief Dead At 52
Nikita Kamayev, the former head of the Russian anti-doping agency RUSADA, died on Monday at the age of 52. “Presumably, the cause of death was a massive heart attack,” wrote RUSADA in a press release....
Players Keep Complaining About Maryland's Under Armour Balls
Here’s a stupid fact about college basketball: The million-dollar sponsorship deals that schools sign with various apparel companies has created a sport in which there is no universal game ball. Nike schools use Nike balls, Adidas schools use Adidas balls, and so on....
Two Teens Die After Sneaking Onto Olympic Bobsled Track And Trying To Sled On It
Last night, eight teens snuck into Calgary’s Canada Olympic Park (where the 1988 Winter Olympics were held) with a sled, and crashed while trying to take it down the bobsled track. According to emergency services personnel, they crashed into a wall separating the luge and bobsled tracks, and two twi...
BMX Legend Dave Mirra Dead At 41 Of Apparent Suicide
Dave Mirra, BMX biker and 24-time X-Games medalist, was found this afternoon dead in his truck of an “apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound” in Greenville, North Carolina. He was 41 years old....
Mercer Guard Jibri Bryan Shot And Killed In Convenience Store Parking Lot
Mercer University guard Jibri Bryan was shot in the head and killed in a convenience store parking lot Tuesday afternoon, according to police. Bryan, who was 23, was shot while sitting in his car. The Telegraph (Macon) has the details:...
Orioles Prospect Ramon Ramirez Dies After Motorcycle Accident In The Dominican Republic
Baltimore Orioles prospect Ramon Ramirez died yesterday near his hometown of La Romana, Dominican Republic after a motorcycle accident. He was 23 years old. ...
Kirk Herbstreit Has Bad Opinions About The <i>NCAA Football</i> Video Game
SEC Country just released part of an interview with college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit that was conducted back in November. In it, Herbstreit makes a stink about the continued absence of the NCAA Football video game, which was shelved by Electronic Arts after Ed O’Bannon sued the NCAA for prof...
Jon Chait Can't Stop Wringing His Hands Over Paying College Athletes
New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait, who has been humping the increasingly ridiculous argument that college athletes should not be paid for years, is running out of ideas....
Mizzou Basketball Agrees To Pretend 2013-14 Season Didn't Happen
The University of Missouri men’s basketball program is the latest sacrifice to be offered at the NCAA’s altar. An internal investigation has revealed that the university violated multiple NCAA bylaws, and the men’s basketball team will have to forfeit an entire season’s worth of wins as a result....
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Lawrence Phillips Dead In Suspected Suicide [Update]
Lawrence Phillips, a former running back who played at Nebraska and in the NFL, was found unresponsive in his cell at Kern Valley State Prison in California today, according to a press release from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Phillips was taken to a hospital and pron...
Former Butler Basketball Player Andrew Smith Dies Of Cancer
Andrew Smith, who played basketball at Butler from 2009 to 2013, died today of cancer. He was 25. His wife, Samantha Smith, broke the news....
Tom Brady's Agent Makes The Case For Alabama And Clemson Players To Boycott National Title Game
In a very good, lengthy, well-researched editorial for the Washington Post, Donald Yee digs into the economics of college sports, makes the case for paying college football players, examines the racial lines along which this injustice is served, and suggests that a boycott of tomorrow’s national cha...
College Athletic Departments Blow Millions On Fancy Stickers
The cooked books of big-time athletic departments show that schools barely break even at best on their athletics budgets. This is often used as evidence that paying athletes is untenable. What it conveniently glosses over is the unbelievable amount of already-existing money being more or less set on...
College Football Coaches Are Making Millions Off A Useless Metric
As a part of a project helmed by HKM and Deadspin, we have retrieved and reviewed the contracts of every Division I public university head football coach. In this space, we will look at the academic incentives within these coaches’ contracts and how they were brought upon by the NCAA’s focus on the ...
Chowderhead ADs Bemoan How College Athletes Choose To Spend Their Own Money
Those in charge of college athletics attempting to exert incomparable levels of control over the athletes they barely pay is nothing new. But even by the very low standards by which athletics directors should be held, Alabama’s Bill Battle and North Carolina State’s Debbie Yow said some some dumb sh...
Man Convicted Of Killing Adrian Peterson's Son Sentenced To Life In Prison
A South Dakota judge sentenced Joseph Patterson to life in prison without the possibility of parole Thursday, the mandatory minimum sentence. Patterson was convicted of second-degree murder in September for the death of Adrian Peterson two-year-old son, Tyrese Ruffin. Peterson learned that Ruffin wa...