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Watch This Sideline Reporter Almost Get Smoked By A Baseball
On another day, this story would've been an obituary. Well...that's a little hyperbolic, but on another day this story would've been about how Brewers sideline reporter Sophia Minnaert has to spend the next couple of months in a cast after getting a few metacarpals broken, or at least bruised. But t...
Andrew Wiggins Commits To Kansas
We finally know where Andrew Wiggins will be tearing shit up next year. Maple Jordan announced this morning that he will be playing basketball for the Kansas Jayhawks next season....
Derek Boogaard's Family Is Suing The NHL For Wrongful Death
Almost two years ago to the day, Derek Boogaard died in his Minneapolis apartment. Late Friday afternoon, his family filed suit in Circuit Court of Cook County (Illinois) for his wrongful death. ...
Infographic: Is Your State's Highest-Paid Employee A Coach? (Probably)
You may have heard that the highest-paid employee in each state is usually the football coach at the largest state school. This is actually a gross mischaracterization: Sometimes it is the basketball coach....
How Ed O'Bannon's Lawsuit Would Dismantle The NCAA
Originally published in Bloomberg View....
The QB Class Of 2010 Shows College Loyalty Is A Myth
The knock on professional athletes is that they'll readily abandon their fans for a bigger contract. Not so for college players, who–ostensibly free from financial temptations–supposedly have true connections to their schools. So why can't colleges hold on to their top recruits?...
The New College Football Playoff Thumbs Its Nose At The NCAA
ESPN's Brett McMurphy landed himself an outwardly banal but actually notable scoop today: The new four-team college football playoff, the one emerging from the BCS's ashes after the 2014 regular season, will call itself the College Football Playoff. (We hope the marketing consultants billed at a dis...
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Charged With Using A Weapon Of Mass Destruction
That's according to a statement issued this afternoon by the U.S. Department of Justice, which reads in part:...
<i>The Daily Show</i> Takes On NCAA, Leaves Smoking Crater
The Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi ventured into our familiar waters last night with a lengthy piece that delved not just into Minnesota wrestler Joel Bauman's NCAA-verboten singing career but Ed O'Bannon's megaton lawsuit....
What Being A Coach Should Mean In The 21st Century
Rutgers gave athletic director Tim Pernetti the boot on Friday after Mike "50 Hot Ones Comin' At Ya!" Rice was shitcanned for turning basketball practice into his own dodgeball refresher course. But because the only thing he did that was truly anathema to the big-time sports hivemind was to get caug...
Millionaire College Football Coach Thinks His Unpaid Players Get Paid Plenty
For some reason, Sporting News decided that it would be a good idea to ask University of Oklahoma head football coach Bob Stoops for his opinion on whether or not college football players should be paid. Stoops's sneering thoughts on the matter were exactly what you'd expect to hear from a member of...
Central Figure In Selena Roberts's Nothingburger Auburn Story Pleads Guilty
Mike McNeil, the central figure in Selena Roberts's much-bruited story about the University of Auburn football program, has pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery. He will serve at least three years in prison, nothing like the 21-years-to-life sentence he'd faced on the original charges. That brings...
What The Hell Is Going On In Selena Roberts's Auburn Story?
Welp. In the wake of the big, ugly story that Selena Roberts dropped on the Auburn football program yesterday, several of the players quoted in the report are now rowing furiously backward and claiming they were misquoted. ...
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Louisville Claims It Didn't Profit From Sale Of Kevin Ware Tribute Shirt, Shirt Disappears From Team Store [UPDATE]
Yesterday, we told you about the Kevin Ware-inspired Adidas shirts that were for sale in the Louisville athletics team store, and we told you why you shouldn't buy one. The idea of Louisville and Adidas profiting from Kevin Ware's injury caused a bit of a stir on the internet, prompting the universi...
Former Auburn Football Players Accuse Program Of Racism, Bribery, And Numerous Other Violations
Two years ago, four Auburn University football players—Antonio Goodwin, Shaun Kitchens, Mike McNeil and Dakota Mosley—were arrested and charged with armed robbery. Almost immediately, all four players were dismissed from the team by then-coach Gene Chizik, and everyone got on with their lives. Now, ...
Predictably, Louisville And Adidas Are Now Trying To Profit From Kevin Ware's Injury
The shirt you see above is currently available for purchase in the Louisville basketball team store for the price of $24.99. "Rise to the Occasion" is a slogan that has appeared on Louisville gear before, but this version is infused with Kevin Ware's jersey number, a move that is specifically design...
Mark Emmert Is The NCAA's Teflon Don
Since taking over as president of the NCAA in 2010, Mark Emmert has overseen the unjust railroading of the Penn State football program in the aftermath of the Jerry Sandusky scandal, as well as the shoddily run investigation into the University of Miami, which only succeeded in revealing the NCAA to...
Do McDonald's All-Americans Believe Student-Athletes Should Be Paid?
Chicago Side's Daniel Libit, who wrote about future former UCLA coach Steve Alford for Deadspin yesterday, spoke to the McDonald's All-American boys' players in the Windy City this week and asked them about compensation for NCAA athletes....
Doctors Say Kevin Ware's Injury May Have Been Exacerbated By Undetected Stress Fractures
After getting over the initial shock and horror that came from watching Kevin Ware snap his leg in half last night, many people were left wondering how suffering an injury as gruesome as Ware's on such a seemingly innocuous play was even possible. Yes, he landed awkwardly, but it's hard to imagine h...
What Really Makes Us Sick About The Kevin Ware Injury
There isn't a lot known about the details surrounding Kevin Ware's injury, but there's already been a rush to discuss its place in the grander scheme of NCAA athletics. In short: college athletics is a scam....