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Fight In Arrowhead Stadium Parking Lot Leaves One Man Dead
Two suspects are in custody after a man was killed in a fight in the Arrowhead Stadium parking lot during today's Broncos-Chiefs game....
Police: Hawai'i Running Back Drowned While Wading On Beach
Hawai'i running back Willis Wilson was found dead off of a beach in O'ahu Saturday after being reported as missing earlier in the day....
The Bronx Is Burning
But that doesn't mean you should stop playing. ...
NAIA Rule May Force Thunder Fan To Give Up $20K From Halfcourt Shot
This is BULLSHIT. ...
Jameis Winston Isn't The Only Problem Here: An FSU Teacher's Lament
We love the game. We love the players, too, even when they scare us....
Free Diver From Brooklyn Dies Trying To Set American Record
Nicholas Mevoli, a 32-year-old free diver from Brooklyn, N.Y., died over the weekend while trying to complete a 72-meter dive in the Bahamas....
The NCAA Was Shamed Into Overturning Another Dumb Eligibility Ruling
After tons of public pressure and negative media attention, the NCAA has reversed its stance and will allow BYU runner Jared Ward to compete for his senior season. Good job, everyone!...
Pot Isn't Life And Death, And Tyrann Mathieu Isn't A Redemption Story
Tyrann Mathieu smoked some weed in college. If we're going to play this brain-dead association game, let's start by being clear about what he actually did. He smoked some weed, somehow got vilified for it, was thrown off his football team, went to rehab for weed, and now plays for the Arizona Cardin...
Mike Krzyzewski Thinks Tanking NBA Teams Are Un-American
Someone asked Mick Krizilonski what he thought about NBA teams potentially tanking the season in order to get a better shot at drafting someone like Jabari Parker or Andrew Wiggins. His response was peak Coach K....
NCAA Declared Student Ineligible For Entering Costume-Optional Fun Run
It's clear now that the NCAA uses public opinion as its final appeals process. It ruled former marine Steven Rhodes ineligible to play football at Middle Tennessee State because he had played in a military rec league. It ruled Colgate basketball player Nathan Harries ineligible because he had played...
NCAA DQs Colgate Kid For A Year For Playing Church-League Hoops
The NCAA has truly been on a run of first-rate justice lately. It penalized reigning Heisman winner and shirtless mugshot male model Johnny Manziel 30 minutes of playing time for maybe just maybe getting paid cash money for signing autographs. It spelunked around the University of Miami's most sordi...
NCAA To Oregon Basketball Players: Leave The Money-Making To Us
Yesterday, on the day its basketball team flew to South Korea for Friday's season opener against Georgetown, the University of Oregon announced that two of its players did not make the trip. Point guard Dominic Artis and forward Ben Carter, both sophomores, have been suspended indefinitely. Their of...
Missouri Southern State Football Coach Shot, Killed At Movie Theater
Derek Moore, a first-year offensive line coach for Missouri Southern State, was shot and killed Friday night outside of a movie theater in Joplin, Mo. He was 37 years old....
How Miami Got Away With It: 125 FBS Teams, Ranked
Each week during college football season we put the conventional polls to shame by ranking every FBS team from 1-125, by whatever standard we see fit. As always, last week's rankings were not consulted....
This Is What It Looks Like When The NCAA Loses
The NCAA's long, dirty investigation of Miami's booster scandal has puttered to an end without any further postseason ban. In addition to the Hurricanes' self-imposed penalty that saw them sit out the last two bowl seasons, Miami will lose nine football scholarships and three basketball scholarships...
Why The BCS Mattered
Sunday night, the first edition of the Bowl Championship Series standings was released for the last time, to the usual fanfare and to at least one bewildered case of Stockholm Syndrome. Is it really possible, after years of railing against the incompetence, inconsistency, and tortured existence of ...
49ers Team Doctor Found Dead, Was Suspect In Criminal Probe
Dr. Daniel Garza, the 49ers team physician and a professor of orthopaedic and emergency medicine at Stanford University, was found dead in his home Wednesday. It is being treated as a possible suicide and, according to KRON-Channel 4, he was being investigated for alleged "inappropriate behavior" wi...
Raiders Superfan Dr. Death Returns, Speaks At City Council Meeting
Dr. Death is back, and this time he's got a banner and a wolfman to go along with his knife helmet, face paint, and passion for Oakland Raiders football....