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It Appears North Carolina Has Published Julius Peppers's Transcript For Some Reason
Little over a year ago the University of North Carolina threw one of its own on the altar of the NCAA, firing head football coach Butch Davis after the school was penalized for, among other things, improper benefits and academic violations. Having dispensed with Davis, the school sought to turn the...
A Competitor In New York's First Ironman Triathlon Died In The Hudson River
During the swim portion of the inaugural New York City Ironman Triathlon, which began 7 a.m. Saturday morning, a 43-year-old man experienced what most are calling "medical distress" or "a medical problem." He was pulled from the water and taken to a hospital, but did not survive. Autopsy results are...
Wait, Did John Feinstein <em>Really</em> Delay A Basketball Game Five Hours For His Book About Selfless Student Athletes?
Tuesday morning, we flagged an article in The Millions called "The Problem with Sportswriting." In it, the author, Sebastian Stockman, having dived 544 pages deep into John Feinstein's navel, resurfaces with a great head-slapper. Stockman writes:...
Report: Some Penn State Trustees Are Appealing The NCAA's Sanctions, And A Federal Lawsuit Is Planned
The Paterno family announced its intention to appeal the NCAA's sanctions on Friday, and the NCAA responded almost immediately to more or less say, "So?" Now here comes a newly elected member of Penn State's board of trustees, who filed an appeal of his own this afternoon, according to ESPN's Don Va...
Columbus Crew Midfielder Kirk Urso Is Dead At 22
Columbus Crew midfielder Kirk Urso is dead, according to a press release from the MLS team. There's no cause announced, and we'll be sure to update as soon as we hear anything else....
Hoosiers Coach Tom Crean Is Sweet-Talking Someone—A Recruit, He Says—And It's Creepy
This strange series of events unfolded on Indiana basketball coach Tom Crean's timeline this afternoon. If our tips line is any indication, that clarification in the second tweet ("That was to a new recruit") was a wise move. The first, weirdest tweet has been deleted. We thought we'd leave it here ...
And Now The Paterno Family Is Appealing The NCAA Sanctions Themselves
Onward State has the complete letter the family sent this afternoon to the NCAA, but here's the gist:...
Errol Morris's Short Film On Sports-Themed Funerals Is Morbidly Cool
One of the best things ESPN has ever commissioned is the fantastic 30 For 30 series, which is now available on Netflix Instant. There are more on the way this fall, but here's a short film done in that vein—directed by Oscar-winner Errol Morris (Mr. Death, The Fog of War, Standard Operating Proced...
NCAA Names Former Sen. George Mitchell As Penn State's "Athletics Integrity Monitor"
The appointment of an Athletics Integrity Monitor (note the capital letters) is part of the oh-so-serious sanctions the NCAA dropped when it smacked Penn State with its shithammer. This is straight from the statement the NCAA issued today:...
The Freeh Group Denies Anyone From The Freeh Group Discussed The NCAA's Use Of The Freeh Group's Investigation Of Penn State
Just got the following in my inbox a few minutes ago, which is a reference to this:...
NCAA Should Have Done Its Own Investigation Before Punishing Penn State, Says Member Of Group That Investigated Penn State
We told you yesterday how Penn State could have fought the NCAA in court over the sanctions it received earlier this week. Our own Drew Magary has also explained that the NCAA levied the punishment it did to pretty much show the world it's doing something because what happened was just so horrible a...
Here Are Your All-Time Vacated Standings For Division I College Football
The NCAA swung its shithammer on Monday, and Penn State had to vacate a staggering 112 victories. Joe Paterno was no longer the winningest coach in college football history. But he became the winningest coach in another college football universe. Here, for the first time, are the NCAA's all-time va...
Neil Reed, Former Indiana Basketball Player Once Choked By Bob Knight, Has Died
That's according to the Santa Maria (Calif.) Times, which cited faculty members at Pioneer Valley High School, where Reed coached basketball and golf:...
How Penn State Could Have Fought The NCAA And Won
The NCAA dropped those "unprecedented" punishments on Penn State on Monday, and they're mighty. There's the usual—scholarship cuts, probation, bowl bans, vacated wins, a fine—but amplified to heretofore unseen levels....
Opposing Coaches Hung Out Today In A Penn State Parking Lot, Hoping To Poach Players
At a press conference on Monday, NCAA president Mark Emmert emphasized that Penn State was being slapped with unprecedented sanctions because "our goal is not to be just punitive, but to make sure the university establishes an athletic culture and daily mindset in which football will never again be ...
The Big Ten Has Piled On Some Punishment Of Its Own For Penn State
The sanctions handed down this morning by the NCAA are not all there is for Penn State. The Big Ten has now tacked on its own penalties: Penn State will not be getting any of the conference's bowl revenue for the next four years, an amount estimated to total $13 million. That money will instead go t...
The NCAA Is Using Penn State To Justify Its Own Horrid Existence
OK, first of all, you people at the NCAA are gutless shitbags. I know you're probably spending this morning in an Indianapolis conference room patting each other on the back and tugging each other's cocks and ordering EXTRA Einstein bagels for everyone for a job well done (why not, you've got $60 mi...
Penn State NCAA Sanctions: Four-Year Bowl Ban, Vacated Wins, $60 Million Fine, Significant Scholarship Reductions
The NCAA has announced its punishment of Penn State at a press conference in Indianapolis: ...
The Deadspin Five-Point Plan To Rescue Penn State Football
It's the day after the Freeh Report and, as you probably could have guessed, sportswriters have begun falling all over themselves to call for the end of Penn State football. Here's Slate arguing for the death penalty. Here's FOX's Jen Engel doing likewise. And Christine Brennan. And, of course, Dan ...
The NCAA Is Making An Example Of UConn Basketball
The NCAA needs to throw out a few numbers every once in a while to make it look like it's serious about the "student" half of the free labor it loves to describe as "student-athletes." For a while, the NCAA would publish graduation rates in accordance with financial aid-related legislation. Then the...