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Texas Assistant Coach Major Applewhite Was Disciplined For "Inappropriate, Consensual Behavior With An Adult Student" Four Years Ago
Former University of Texas quarterback and current UT co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Major Applewhite (that's his first name, not his rank) was disciplined in 2009 by the University of Texas for an infraction now being described as, if we're accurately connecting the very clear dot...
ESPN Misreads Matt Barkley Quote, Causes Confusion For USC
Here's ESPN's Arash Markazi, writing about a radio interview former USC quarterback Matt Barkley did earlier today (emphasis ours):...
Virginia Tech's Kicker Pepper-Sprayed A Buffalo Wild Wings Last Week
"Stuff like this happens," Cody Journell said. And he's right. Who hasn't been in a restaurant pleasantly minding one's business only to have to rush outside all of a sudden because some dipshit suddenly released the trigger on a can of pepper spray? Like Journell said, it happens. He ought to know....
The Deadspin 2012-2013 Fantasy Football Awards
A few months ago, we compiled a Fantasy Football Almanac of results from 1970 to 2011. Now we're ready to update the almanac for the 2012 season, with awards for the best players and some new data as well. Take a look, then add your comments, analyses, quibbles, and rants in the discussion below....
Dan Marino Fathered A Love Child With A CBS Production Assistant
Today's New York Post features a story about former NFL quarterback and current CBS football analyst Dan Marino impregnating a former CBS Sports production assistant. Marino, who has been a CBS pregame analyst since 2003, had an affair with Donna Savattere at some point in 2004, which led to Savatte...
Signing Day Is Next Week, But The Nation's Top Recruit Already Has His Announcement Scheduled
Defensive end Robert Nkemdiche is probably the most sought-after recruit in the nation. Any college football program that matters has made him an offer, and Tennessee too. But Nkemdiche can't officially make his choice until National Signing Day, which is next Wednesday. It's going to be a made-for-...
Chris Ault Wanted To Convert Colin Kaepernick To Free Safety
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Ault wasn't impressed when he first met Kaepernick at Nevada....
Help! Get! This! Ravens! Cheerleader! To! The! Super! Bowl!
The first thing you'll notice about this petition is that it contains a great deal of exclamation points. Why are there so many exclamation points? Who knows. Maybe it's a rhetorical strategy that we aren't familiar with, or perhaps the cheerleader who presumably wrote the petition embodies her pep...
Louie Anderson Nearly Drowns In The Most Pathetic Way Possible, Is Saved By Ndamukong Suh
Splash is a British-import reality show on which celebrities have to execute dives into a pool. That's it. That's the whole show. The American version is set to begin airing this March....
President Obama Talks Football And The NCAA
The New Republic has an interview with President Obama where the newly re-minted commander-in-chief discusses, among other things, violence in football. The President makes some reasonable observations about the sport and the changes he foresees—less exciting for us, safer for the players—which I th...
Steve Spurrier Gave Reporters Envelopes Full Of Cash Today, For Some Reason
Old weirdo and known media manipulator Steve Spurrier had an improptu chat with reporters at halftime of the Arkansas-South Carolina basketball game today, and did one somewhat odd thing, followed by one extremely odd thing: He asked the reporters a college football trivia question—a self-serving on...
Tom Brady's New House Literally Has A Moat
Above, Tom Brady's new $20 million California home, which, besides being sunken into what looks like an un-traversable valley, also has a moat—literally, a moat. You can't really see it from the above angle because the massive house is blocking our view, but here's another view, where you can the m...
Terrifyingly Mean Ravens Safety Bernard Pollard Refuses To Wear Pants
That's according to the New York Times, which today published a brief profile of Bernard Pollard that may have been the result of an unpleasant encounter between Bernard Pollard and the author of the profile. Though the piece is at pains to point out that Pollard is "confident" and, according to a f...
Redskins OL Trent Williams Will Miss The Pro Bowl Because A Nightclub Patron Tasered Him And Cracked A Bottle On His Head
Yesterday, the Vikings announced that Matt Kalil would be taking over for Redskins offensive lineman Trent Williams in this Sunday's Pro Bowl. The Vikings couldn't supply any details and, as the Pro Bowl is an especially inessential exhibition, some speculated that Williams was merely resting from i...
Someone Actually Gave Adrian Peterson An Orange Peanut
In case you missed it last week, Bad Lip Reading put together a pretty funny video dubbing over some NFL players. One of the highlights was Adrian Peterson—full of childlike wonder—asking Pam Oliver for an orange peanut. You can check out that moment here....
Texas Football Players Accused Of Sexual Assault Will Not Face Charges
The Bexar County (Texas) district attorney's office has made it official: Quarterback Case McCoy and linebacker Jordan Hicks, both juniors, will not be criminally charged for an incident in which a 21-year-old woman alleged that one of them had sexually assaulted her while the other looked on in a S...
Darelle Revis Is Not Happy About Those Trade Rumors That The Jets Refuse To Address
The Jets, man. They just can't stop themselves from Jetsing. The latest bit of melodrama plaguing the organization involves rumors that that Jets owner Woody Johnson, the same guy who recently claimed that he never wanted Tim Tebow in the first place, wants to trade all-pro cornerback Darelle Revis...
What Did Lou Holtz Text John Boehner After Obama's Inauguration?
Buried down at the bottom of this standard "Republicans in peril" MSNBC post (courtesy of reader @DSwedler) is a strange anecdote from House Speaker John Boehner about former Notre Dame coach and current ESPN in-house saliva factory Lou Holtz:...
Lawyer: Hoaxer Ronaiah Tuiasosopo Pretended To Be "Lennay" During Phone Calls With Manti Te'o
According to his lawyer, Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the man behind the Manti Te'o dead-girlfriend hoax, was the person who posed as "Lennay Kekua" during phone calls with the Notre Dame linebacker. Skeptical? Well, don't worry. Tuiasosopo's attorney, Milton Grimes, has a pretty airtight explanation for how...
"I Do Not Fit The Mold You Would Expect": Meet The Pharmacist, The FedEx Courier, And Other Dreamers Who Applied To Coach Wisconsin Football
On Dec. 4, the University of Wisconsin's football coach, Bret Bielema, bolted for Arkansas. The school advertised the job opening on its human resources website, allowing an assortment of dreamers to submit their applications online. A bachelor's degree was required; "5 years of successful college f...