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"What Is The Future Of College Football At Your Institution?"
That is the question one man posed to each of the presidents of Ohio's Division 1-A public universities. In the context of increased concussion-related litigation and the skyrocketing cost of attendance that many schools use to fund athletics, each president was given one month to answer a very simp...

SMU Ties Rutgers With Minute Remaining On Insane Two-Point Conversion
Somehow, today's Rutgers-SMU battle in Dallas is a conference game, and the two teams (okay, mostly the Mustangs) are doing their best to make it a worthy matchup. SMU tied it with a bit more than a minute left thanks to this two-point conversion they had absolutely no business completing....

Aubrey Plaza Meets Chris Bosh, Is A Total Weirdo About It
Last Thursday, Chris Bosh had a quick cameo as a high school baller in Parks & Recreation. Aubrey Plaza plays the murderously surly April on the show and is apparently obsessed with Chris Bosh. She was really pumped up about getting to meet Bosh but didn't have any scenes with him. So, she went the ...

'Bama Fans Made An Elephant-Float Out Of A Volkswagen
Warren: Hey Joel, know what I think I'm gonna do?...

ESPN Cameras Catch Nebraska Player Appearing To Relieve Himself
Can't a guy get a little privacy/patriotic whizzing?...

Jerry Kill Has Another Seizure, Will Miss Michigan Game
Jerry Kill suffered a seizure this morning—his second of the season—and will miss game action for the fourth time since joining the Gophers. The Gophers head coach was not feeling well Friday and did not accompany his team to its hotel in Dearborn, Michigan. He planned on traveling Saturday to join...

Old-Time College Football Booster Gets Wistful About Paying Players
Roy Adams, an infamous booster in SEC country, thinks the game has changed of late and that the players and boosters don't have the same relationship. He thinks the players want too much money. Don't get Adams wrong, he'd probably still give it to them and brag about it, but it's just not as quaint ...

UVA Scores Three Last Week, Doubles It Right Here
UVA struggled to get any kind of offense going last week and lost 14-3 to Pitt. This week, against Ball State, it's an offensive smorgasbord—they currently lead 17-10 just inside the second quarter—including this diving and tumbling effort at the end of a 27-yard run from quarterback David Watford. ...

How To Make A Lasagna And Prepare For Hibernation
Time was, as summer rounded into autumn, you kept an eye out for that first cool, dry weekend after the leaves started to turn, when the air remained genuinely chilly in the shade all day long, and then you tilted back your floppy coppola hat, hooked your thumbs into your suspenders, gazed thoughtfu...

The Goon Show: A Life In Letters
Mike Fox on "The Africa Project," 1966...

David Pollack Doesn't Want Women On College Football Playoff Committee
David Pollack only wants people familiar with college football and capable of evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of each team to be part of the selection committee responsible for the playoff system beginning in 2016. And he doesn't think women can be involved because they haven't played the g...

Show Us Your Tats: Northwestern-Ohio State <i>GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
The nerds near Chicago are hosting Ohio State tonight and also ESPN's College Gameday this morning. Be sure to grab your dictionary and the, uh, the-other-one-with-the-different-words-that mean-the-same-thing-ary. You'll need them both to get most of these signs....

Texans Fans Support Matt Schaub With All Kinds Of Weird Headwear
This is a three-minute clip that aired during a news broadcast in Houston. Some people in Houston may hate Matt Schaub and may want him traded to Football Purgatory for a wide receiver and third round pick, but these are not those people. ...

Deadspin Up All Night: Maybe In Another Life
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. The usual band of miscreants will be here to keep you company over the weekend....

The Injury History Of Everyone On The Field When Jake Locker Got Hurt
Four seconds into the play above, Jake Locker took an awkward double hit from Muhammad Wilkerson and Quinton Coples and had to be carted off the field with a hip injury. If anyone could sympathize, it was, well, everyone else on the field....


"TRUDAT 420" Is The Only Customized Jersey That Matters
Meet the intersecting portion of the "Juggalos/baseball fans" Venn diagram. ...

Albert Pujols Will Sue You If You Say He Used PEDs
In what is surely a distant second in sexiness among today's baseball lawsuits, Albert Pujols is suing former radio host Jack Clark for claiming he knew "for a fact" that Pujols used steroids in St. Louis....


Pittsburgh Babies Born Into Life Of Indentured Pirates Fandom
There is every possibility that this playoff appearance isn't a fluke, that a Pirates dynasty could be in the making. Perhaps one day you will resent these children with the vitriol reserved for Yankees, Heat, and United fans. Or perhaps, like a generation of Yinzers before them, they have emerged f...