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Notre Dame-Arizona State First Half Highlights, As Called By Jim Ross
Notre Dame gave up 34 points to Arizona State in the first half today. Here's all the highlights, as called by pro wrestling legend Jim "J.R." Ross....
Darren Rovell Is A Damned Snitch
Here's ESPN's Darren Rovell's take on the adorable, potentially post-coital selfie of Notre Dame receiver Justin Brent with famed adult actress Lisa Ann:...
FSU Beats Notre Dame Thanks To Penalty On Winning Irish Touchdown
Notre Dame did everything right to beat Florida State in Tallahassee tonight, except for the part where they ran an illegal play for what would have been the winning touchdown....
Notre Dame Sneaks By Stanford With Late Touchdown On Fourth-And-Long
Tons of craziness in the afternoon games today, and the top-15 matchups didn't disappoint. In the lone, non-SEC West top-15 battle of the day, Notre Dame and Stanford played a relatively quiet game until the fourth quarter. ...
ESPN Declares Big Ten, ACC "Not Power Five Conferences"
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Man Dropped With Single Punch In Brawl At Notre Dame-Syracuse Game
A brawl broke out in the stands at Saturday's Notre Dame-Syracuse football game. Why? Who knows. Anyway, at about the :40 mark, one man took a few punches, then popped up and knocked another guy over with one swing....
Geronimo!
Washington's giving the Illini a thorough stomping, but Illinois has at least one shining moment: this fingertips catch by Geronimo Allison, upheld by replay....
Angry Michigan Fan Calls Radio Station, Loses His Damn Mind
Michigan got the shit kicked out of it by Notre Dame last weekend, to the tune of a 31-0 blowout. This did not sit well with one Michigan fan in Toledo, who called into Ann Arbor radio station WTKA and let loose a tidal wave of impotent rage....
Notre Dame Was Never Special And Never Will Be
Leave it to Notre Dame to take a cheating scandal (if the skylarking of college athletes can even be called a scandal anymore) and somehow use it to buff its own halo. No one does exceptionalism and shabby gentility quite like the Domers, who were always less exceptional and a little shabbier than t...
Academic Fraud Investigation Underway At Notre Dame
Some shit appears to be going down at Notre Dame. Earlier today, rumors about four Notre Dame players being expelled and the entire 2012 season being vacated began to swirl on message boards, Twitter, and Reddit. We still don't know exactly what is happening, but Yahoo's Pat Forde is reporting that ...
Russian MMA Card Features Armored Knights Battling With Swords
We're ... not entirely sure what this is, but we watched, rapt, after learning it was happening via Twitter user @grabakahitman. This battle took place on the undercard of a show being held today by M1, a more or less reputable (?) Russian fight promotion, and features dudes in armor battling with s...
Jon Jones Trolls The UFC, Fans, The World
Last year, Jon Jones, the best fighter alive, defended his light heavyweight title against Alexander Gustafsson. It was great! The Swede couldn't pull out the win, but he became the only challenger ever to give Jones real trouble. Everyone wanted to see a rematch....
Amateur MMA Fighter Taps Out Against Opponent He Was Beating Handily
An amateur MMA fight put on by the Prison City Fight League (uh, what?) ended strangely when flyweight Mike Pantangco tapped out while in the midst of laying a beating on opponent Jeremy Rasner. ...
Hemingway On Bullfighting
Choice find by the good people at Longform: Ernest Hemingway's 1930 story on bullfighting for Fortune:...
MMA Fighter Blacks Out In Corner, Sent Right Back In To Fight More
Last night, Matt Manzanares and Junior Maranhao fought for the Resurrection Fighting Alliance flyweight title at an event in Cheyenne, Wyo. The bout was going along normally enough after four rounds when Maranhao suddenly collapsed, falling off his stool and onto his face....
The UFC Has A Human Rights Problem
One curious fact about the UFC of which a lot of people aren't aware is that the repressive government of Abu Dhabi owns a substantial minority stake in it. With the promotion staging a fight card there tomorrow, Bloody Elbow's Brent Brookhouse rightly figured it would be a good time to remind fans ...
Team MMA Is Somehow A Real Thing Now, And It's Fucking Great
Holy shit. Holy shit!...
If MMA Doesn't Change, Someone Is Going To Die
No one needed to see Marlon Moraes continue beating on Josh Rettinghouse. Moraes had outclassed his opponent in every facet of the game for 15 minutes, piling on abuse and bludgeoning his lead leg. Rettinghouse could barely support his own weight, let alone continue to defend himself, and as he hobb...