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High School Football Brawl Broken Up By Cops With Pepper Spray
A brawl broke out at the end of Basic High School’s homecoming game Friday night, after the Wolves lost to the Canyon Springs Pioneers. These teams apparently do not like each other very much—the Las Vegas Review-Journal says there were 35 penalties and four ejections over the course of the game—but...
UConn Is Going Back To Square One And That's A Good Thing
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Houston NBC Station Cuts Off End Of Texans Game To Report Result Of Texans Game
Fans in Houston watching last night’s Texans-Bengals game on KPRC missed its wacky final play—one punctuated by local hero J.J. Watt demolishing a poor offensive lineman—because the NBC station cut off the end of the broadcast in a rush to report the game’s not-yet-final score....
Don Ohlmeyer Aired An NFL Game Without Announcers And The World Wasn't Ready<em></em>
“All the stuff I’ve done in my career,” Don Ohlmeyer once told an ESPN interviewer, “and that’s what I’m going to be remembered for. It serves me right.”...
The Final Play Of Tonight's NFL Game, As Called By Wrestling Legend "J.R." Jim Ross
Tonight’s Thursday Night Football game between the Texans and Bengals was, with a few exceptions, your typical awful weeknight NFL action. The Aussie rules-style final play, and its equally down-under level game-ending tackle by J.J. Watt, though, deserved our closer attention....
New Mexico Quarterback Lamar Jordan Struggles Off Field After Brutal Hit
New Mexico quarterback Lamar Jordan had to be helped off the field tonight against Boise State, after taking a horrific hit from defensive tackle Chase Hatada. Jordan was taken out of the game—stumbling off the field and struggling to walk on his own—and replaced by backup Coltin Gerhart. Meanwhile,...
Steubenville Rapist Ma'lik Richmond Sues Youngstown State After Being Kicked Off Football Team, Cites "Anti-Male Bias"
After being told that he could not play on the Youngstown State football team this season, Ma’lik Richmond—who was found guilty of rape in juvenile court as a high schooler in the 2013 Steubenville, Ohio, case—is suing the university....
Detroits Lions Ban Racist Fan From Stadium
A Lions fan who recently posted a Snapchat video of two black fans who sat for the national anthem during the Lions’ home opener with the caption “ignorant niggers” has relinquished his season tickets, per the Detroit News. ...
LenDale White Estimates He's Suffered 20-30 Concussions
The Los Angeles Times published a pretty tragic profile of LenDale White, catching up with everything that’s happened to the former USC star running back since he left college....
Two <i>Last Chance U </i>Players Charged In Stabbing Death
Isaiah Wright and Camion Patrick were arrested this week in connection with the death of Caleb Thomas Radford, who was stabbed to death on July 25 in Alcoa, Tennessee. Patrick was arrested in Bloomington, Indiana by IU campus police and will be extradited to Blount County soon, while his younger bro...
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Offensive Lineman T.J. Lang Has Some Issues With Pro Football Focus [Updated]
Pro Football Focus has consistently ranked Lions guard T.J. Lang as one of the best offensive linemen in football. This doesn’t seem to have curried any favor with Lang, who went on 97.1 The Ticket yesterday and called the site “absolute garbage.”...
The Pieces Are Slowly Coming Together For Maryland
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Kirk Herbstreit Smarms On Ohio State Recruit, Who Responds By Calling Him A Sheep
Last weekend, offensive lineman and five-star recruit Jackson Carman visited Ohio State. On Monday, he made the fairly benign comment that he would like to see Dwayne Haskins, Jr. get some playing time. On Tuesday, Kirk Herbstreit chided him for it and doubled down when someone suggested that footba...
The Texas A&M Regent Who Called For Kevin Sumlin's Firing Spent $600K On A Bigass Tank
Remember Tony Buzbee, the lawyer on the Texas A&M Board of Regents who recently called for Kevin Sumlin to be fired? He just blew a “little over $600,000" on an M4 Sherman tank that was used during World War II....
Report: UNM Football Coach Bob Davie Under Investigation For Player Mistreatment
Bob Davie, head football coach of the New Mexico Lobos, is being investigated by the university following allegations of player mistreatment and questions about the integrity of the team’s drug-testing program, according to NMFishbowl.com....
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Wrong Steve Smith Nominated To Pro Football Hall Of Fame [Updated]
Steve Smith Sr. was one of the best receivers of his generation. In a long, illustrious career for both the Panthers and the Ravens, he racked up nearly 15,000 receiving yards, over 1,000 receptions, and 81 touchdowns. He was consistent, exciting, and productive for longer than almost any other NFL ...
USC Pretends Like It Didn't Lose The 2006 Rose Bowl
The 2005-06 USC Trojans were an unholy powerhouse that went on an 12-0 romp through college football only to be upended in the 2006 Rose Bowl by Vince Young and the Texas Longhorns. The Trojans later had to vacate all 12 wins from that season due to the Reggie Bush scandal, but, as Austin sports anc...
Bob Ley Admonishes "Trolls" Who Made Fun Of Sergio Dipp
Last night, ESPN reporter Sergio Dipp, who primarily works with ESPN Deportes, delivered a sideline report in his first gig on Monday Night Football. English isn’t Dipp’s first language, and even if he struggled a bit with the precise wording, he gave his report with professionalism....
Can A New-Look Houston Live Up To The Past Two Years?
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The 49ers' Stadium Is As Empty As It Deserves To Be
In the last few seasons the 49ers played at Candlestick Park, I got into the gate for roughly $50 per game. The swarms of ushers and ticket-checkers customary at modern professional sports games were conspicuously absent at the old concrete bowl, and so by the end of the 2013 regular season, I’d fou...