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Trevor Stewart walks down Power Five in 4x400 relay, shows why NCAT Track is above the rest
Arguably the best HBCU track program of the past decade just made history again....
It’s finally here, folks, welcome to Selection Sunday!
It’s been two years since we got to have an NCAA Tournament, and this one is going to be different, staged entirely in Indianapolis and entirely without Duke and Kentucky. Oh, and even though it’s in one city, that doesn’t mean a pandemic isn’t still happening, so who the hell knows what will happen...
A small school in Georgia is channeling the 1986 Mets in all the best ways
There’s a moment in 1986 Mets: A Year To Remember, the greatest sports year-in-review video ever made, when, as Ray Knight hits a walkoff homer to beat the Astros on July 3, Tim McCarver crows, “They’re spreading the news that they are right now the dominant team in this game — in either league!”...
Joel Embiid's knee woe is dumb fodder for new episode of 'When Meatheads Attack'
Joel Embiid needs an MRI on his hyperextended left knee when the 76ers get back home. This after he just got back from health-and-safety protocols and having to (getting to?) sit out of the All-Star Game....
Can P.J. Tucker still uplift a championship contender? And which one?
P.J. Tucker’s never been a basketball player you could define solely by numbers. ...
Let's see if we can make baseball better by exploiting loopholes in MLB’s rulebook
Major League Baseball’s takeover of the minor leagues has paved the way for the 2021 season to be one of experimentation on the farm, with different rules being tested at different levels in the developmental circuits....
Will the Big Ten’s 21-year national title drought end next month?
On April 3, the national championship trophy inside of the Breslin Center at Michigan State University will be old enough to drink. When that day arrives in three weeks, it will mark 21 years since the Spartans, led by Mateen Cleaves, won their last national title....
Kansas rids itself of another boil on its ass, this time in the shape of Jeff Long
It was the only logical conclusion, probably should have happened weeks ago, but there’s still some spiritual affirmation with the news that Jeff Long was shitcanned as Kansas’ AD....
College athletes: NCAA must act swiftly against states passing transgender discrimination laws
College athletes are challenging the NCAA to stand up for the rights of transgender athletes....
Where would Victor Oladipo make the most sense?
Who wants Victor Oladipo?...
Porto score from Narnia to beat Old Lady
I’ve been dreaming of doing one of these “Old Lady” headlines ever since I started here, so thank you for coming on this journey with me....
NCAA engages in legal circle-jerk over VASECTOMY MAYHEM
It’s only fitting that the NCAA is very concerned with dicks. The NCAA is petitioning to cancel a urology center’s trademark for “VASECTOMY MAYHEM” – which is a phrase that honestly shouldn’t exist and especially shouldn’t exist around the word “vasectomy”– because they’re concerned that people will...
Les Miles’ creepy ass got fired on International Women’s Day, which is poetic
Late Monday night, the University of Kansas announced it had “mutually agreed to part ways” with head football coach Les Miles. The fact that Miles is out as head coach on International Women’s Day is truly a delightful display of life imitating art....
Georgia Senate passes bill to silence voters who look like LeBron
This fight isn’t over. ...
The Exploding Barbed Wire Death Match was the worst thing I’ve ever seen, in all the best ways
They actually went through with it....
Lil Baby should never be allowed to hold a basketball again
Some of the hottest names in the rap game took center stage on Saturday night to show off their hooping skills during the NBA’s All-Star Weekend....
Tuberville tries to slip bigoted trans athletes amendment into COVID relief, allowing Manchin to reveal true self
We already know that Joe Manchin, the Democratic senator from West Virginia, is not really your friend....
Julius Randle is the perfect New York Knick for right now
Kristaps Porzingis was great, but he wasn’t Julius Randle....
SEE IT: Devils’ epic power play whiff showcases pivot to neutral zone crap defense
Call them the New Jersey Evils, because they’ve abandoned any concept of “D.”...
Let's make some NFL free agency predictions
Someone in the NFL league office apparently doesn’t understand that March 17 is St. Patrick’s Day, because they decided to make that the day that free agency begins this year. Thinking about it a little more though, nothing goes together quite like Guinness and top-tier talent changing teams and cau...