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Disease Outbreak Forces Duke Students To Abandon Flu-Riddled Tent City

Even in the best of conditions Krzyzewskiville, the tent city erected by Duke students before the North Carolina game in a performative tribute of extreme fandom, does not sound like a charming place to be. Getting drunk in a tent is a time-honored pastime, though since this particular gathering is ...

Here is a wonderful interview with Vitaliy Raskalov, the Ukrainian daredevil famous for climbing skyscrapers and other landmarks like the Eiffel Tower and Rio’s Christ The Redeemer statue....

There Are No Remaining Undefeateds In Men's College Basketball

Villanova, Arizona State, and TCU entered their Saturday games as the sole undefeated teams in men’s college basketball, and one after another, they all lost that honor. Tenth-ranked TCU went down in a 90-89 thriller against Trae Young and Oklahoma, the number-one ’Nova Wildcats got beat up in India...

Adam Henrique's New Jersey Homecoming Featured A Beautiful Goal And The "Pads Of Seduction"

When the Devils and Ducks swapped center Adam Henrique for defenseman Sami Vatanen on Nov. 30, it was a quintessential dealing-from-strength move for both teams. New Jersey had a plethora of forwards and was weak in the back, and injury-riddled Anaheim had blueliners but needed scoring. ...

Both Of Herm Edwards's Coordinators Have Left After It Was Announced They'd Stay<em></em>

When Arizona State hired Herm Edwards to coach their football team earlier this month, they planned to retain both offensive coordinator Billy Napier and defensive coordinator Phil Bennett from the previous staff. It was an unusual move, since most coaching changes involve entire staffs turning over...

Evil Duke Defeated By Underdog Boston College

The Duke men’s basketball team, ranked number one overall and undefeated entering Saturday, was toppled this afternoon by Boston College in their first conference game of the season. Eat it, Blue Devils!...

Herm Edwards Flabbergasted By Small Football Jersey

Herm Edwards hasn’t been a professional football coach since 2008, and he hasn’t worked for a college team since the 1980s. Fashions and customs have certainly changed since then, apparently to Edwards’s surprise....

College Basketball's Best Coaches Don't Have The Answers

In a piece published at CBS Sports on Tuesday, reporter Matt Norlander chatted up several of college basketball’s top coaches, hoping to find a path inside the minds of these titans, these innovators. The main question being posed is the one that’s been vexing the sport since the FBI fucked everyone...

New Arizona State Coach Herm Edwards Had A Bizarre First Press Conference

Herm Edwards, who hasn’t coached football since 2008, is now in charge of the Arizona State Sun Devils. The school’s athletic director and Edwards’s former agent Ray Anderson is convinced that this will be a successful idea. Try to parse this press release while keeping in mind that it is about a m...

Presenting The Al Pacino Matrix

In a lot of ways, getting old is fine. Your body starts doing a bunch of crazy new gross things, first little by little and then all at once, which is especially fun if you’re a fan of Franz Kafka or David Cronenberg. Old habits downshift into dorkier but less damaging obsessions, and you discover t...

Duke Is ... Actually Kind Of Fun?

The Indiana Hoosiers played the absolute best game they could against Duke last night. They shot 50.8 percent from the field against the No. 1 team in the country, limited themselves to nine turnovers, and got a promising career-best game from sophomore big man De’Ron Davis....

Marvin Bagley III Leaves Court After Getting Poked In The Eye [Update]

The number-one recruit in the country, Duke freshmen Marvin Bagley, took a freakish injury in the first half of his team’s game against Michigan State tonight. As Bagley went up for a rebound on a Spartan shot, teammate Javin DeLaurier caught him in his right eye with some force....

Brian Boyle Scores Emotional First Goal Since Leukemia Diagnosis

Center Brian Boyle got his New Jersey Devils a 1-0 lead with a goal early in the first period of tonight’s game against the Oilers. And it felt pretty damn good: because it ended a 29-game scoreless streak, sure, but chiefly because it was his first goal since being diagnosed with leukemia in Septem...

Softball Coach's Son, Accused Of Harassing Auburn Players, Violated Rules At Arizona State

Before coaching softball at Auburn—where he was accused of subjecting players to sexualized attention from his son—Clint Myers coached the same sport at Arizona State; public records released Friday to Deadspin reveal that Myers’s son, Corey, was the center of an investigation there, too, into his i...

Coach K Is Just Bewildered By The FBI's College Basketball Investigation

Once again, the loathsome Duke Blue Devils are expected to be one of the best teams in the country. Remember compulsive tripping artist Grayson Allen, a preening dingus whose Very Serious suspension lasted until Duke had an important ballgame? Not only is he back, but he’ll be the captain this year ...

Duke Athletics Graciously Offers Full-Time Job That Will Pay Exactly Nothing [Update]

Would you like to work in college athletics? Do you want to be around an elite college basketball team?? Do you have an aversion to earning currency in exchange for your labor??? Boy, do we have a job for you....

Duke's Grayson Allen To Return For Senior Season

On Tuesday, Duke guard Grayson Allen announced his decision to once again forgo the NBA draft and return to Durham. ...

You Wanna See A Pretty-Ass Goal?

The Penguins beat the Devils 7-4 in Newark to clinch the second spot in the Metropolitan, and, crucially, home-ice advantage for their first-round matchup against the Blue Jackets. Pittsburgh got goals from seven different skaters, but the highlight of the night was, without question, an assist....

Apparel Company Picks Stupid Fight With Law Firm Over Dumb Grayson Allen Tripping T-Shirt

Smack Apparel—the brilliant minds behind this t-shirt and others of its ilk—has decided to say some very dumb stuff to defend an equally dumb shirt about Grayson Allen’s tripping tendencies. ...

South Carolina Does Nation Favor, Eliminates Duke

Duke was unable to handle the Gamecocks as South Carolina eliminated the second-seeded Blue Devils, 88-81....