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Coming Soon To Seattle-Area High School Football: Satanic Invocations (UPDATE)
The legal position on prayer in public school in America is, generally, settled. Across decades of cases, the Supreme Court has held that religion may not be included in school-sponsored activities, but that students may independently gather for religious purposes. But a high school football coach i...

Sammy Watkins Is Sorry For Calling His Detractors Losers
Bills wide receiver Sammy Watkins is injured, which means it’s time for unbalanced fans to go on Instagram and yell at him for not being tough and strong enough to play. Watkins got fed up with those comments this morning, and posted the now-deleted screed above to his Instagram account....

Minnesota Head Coach Jerry Kill Announces Retirement At Emotional Press Conference
Minnesota head football coach Jerry Kill announced his retirement this morning, a decision he made due to lingering health issues. Kill, a survivor of kidney cancer, has been dealing with seizures for the last few years, and they have finally become too much for him to deal with while also coaching....

UCLA Quarterback Denied God-Given Right To Have A Hot Tub In His Dorm Room
This is a story about injustice....

Shirtless Eagles Fan Gives Deeply Uncomfortable Pregame Speech
This Eagles fan, who is somehow a real person and not a character from It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, gave a pregame speech for the ages before the team’s Week 6 game against the Giants. Things are about to get weird!...

Gene Upshaw's Wife Says She Gave Up Her Entire Family To Marry Him
When I was growing up in Oakland in the 1990s Gene Upshaw’s heyday had long since passed, but he was still beloved by Raider Nation and seemingly everybody involved in football. Ten, fifteen, twenty years after his Hall of Fame career he was still feted by Al Davis and the entire Raiders organizatio...

Baylor Loses Quarterback Seth Russell For The Season
Baylor, 7-0 and the second-ranked college football team in the country, announced today that quarterback Seth Russell will miss the rest of the season. Russell injured his neck during Saturday’s win over Iowa State, and will soon have surgery that is expected to keep him out around six months....

DeAndre Hopkins Is The NFL's Hardest-Working Receiver
Texans wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins only caught six balls for 50 yards during yesterday’s blowout loss against the Dolphins. Normally, that’s the kind of stat line you’d expect a No. 1 receiver with a bad quarterback to put up in a game where the entire team fell apart around him. But Hopkins has b...

ESPN's <i>College Football Final</i> Gets Live Sex Soundtrack
Beagle-eared and possibly insomniac reader Steve caught this moment on ESPN’s College Football Final around 3 a.m. Sunday morning, in which sex sounds mysteriously pop up into the broadcast. In ESPN’s defense, Stanford’s offense makes me horny too. ...

It Just Keeps Getting Worse For The Colts
It’s possible that an optimistic Colts fan could have found some hope in yesterday’s 27-21 loss to the Saints, which featured the Colts nearly coming back from a 27-point deficit before running out of time. But that would require one to ignore the first half, as well as the “heated conversation” tha...

Al Golden Has Been Fired By Miami
Twenty four hours after Al Golden’s Miami Hurricanes got the everliving shit kicked out of them by Clemson 58-0 for the worst loss in program history, the school has fired him. He went 32-25 in his four and a half seasons with the Canes. Golden recruited reasonably well, netting top-20 classes every...
![Here's How The Miracle Blocked Field Goal Return Sounded On Georgia Tech Radio [UPDATE: Now With FSU Radio]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/Image_Not_Found_1x_qjofp8.png)
Here's How The Miracle Blocked Field Goal Return Sounded On Georgia Tech Radio [UPDATE: Now With FSU Radio]
Georgia Tech shocked unbeaten Florida State tonight when Lance Austin returned a blocked field goal for a game-winning touchdown on the final play of the game. Here’s how Yellow Jackets announcers Brandon Gaudin and Sean Bedford called the play on GT radio flagship WCNN....

Georgia Tech Shocks FSU With Blocked FG Touchdown On Game's Final Play
Florida State is no longer among college football’s undefeateds after Georgia Tech shocked the Seminoles by blocking a 56-yard field goal attempt by Roberto Aguayo and returning it for a winning touchdown on the final play of the game....

Syracuse QB Eric Dungey Takes Brutal Helmet-To-Helmet Hit, Comes Back In The Game
#25 Pitt beat Syracuse today on a last-second field goal in the Carrier Dome thanks to two rushing touchdowns by RB Qadree Ollison, who has the best name in college football. In the first play of the second half, Syracuse quarterback Eric Dungey was laid out with this vicious helmet-to-helmet hit fr...
![Four Dead After Car Runs Into A Crowd At Oklahoma State's Homecoming Parade [UPDATING]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/1488742498178789189.jpg)
Four Dead After Car Runs Into A Crowd At Oklahoma State's Homecoming Parade [UPDATING]
According to News On 6 out of Stillwater, Oklahoma, at least two people died this morning after a car ran into a crowd gathered to watch the Oklahoma State Homecoming parade. Several other people are reportedly injured. The incident occurred towards the end of the route, at Hall Of Fame and Main Str...

Lee Corso Does Butt Chugs: Today's James Madison <i>College GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
College GameDay made its annual FCS site visit, this time to Harrisonburg for today’s James Madison-Richmond matchup. The signs... are mostly regrettable....

Chicago High School Football Player Dies After Hit
On the last play of the game between Bogan High School and Chicago Vocational High on Thursday night, Bogan senior Andre Smith took a hit, then collapsed after walking off the field. Smith was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center, where he died early yesterday morning. He was 17 years old. ...

Down Goes The Camera Op
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Junior College Game Suspended Before Halftime Due To "Violent Ejections"
East Mississippi Community College, which just a few weeks ago found itself involved in an incident where a referee got ejected, did not even make it to halftime in its game against Mississippi Delta Community College before the game was canceled due to a massive onfield brawl....