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2025 Heisman Watch: John Mateer’s Injury Opens Door for New Contenders
With Oklahoma QB John Mateer sidelined, Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza, Oregon’s Dante Moore, and Ohio State WR Jeremiah Smith headline the 2025 Heisman race....
Three Overrated College Football Teams Headed Into 2025
It's difficult to sustain success in college football, and these three teams are expected to be among the most overrated in the country heading into the 2025 season....
Indiana's Curt Cignetti Learned Valuable Lesson in Keeping Your Mouth Shut
Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti did a lot of talking all season long, but when the lights were the brightest, he learned that he needs to keep his mouth shut....
The sports figures we lost in 2023
Here is where we look at some of the athletes and sports figures we’ve lost in 2023. That list includes football legends Jim Brown, and Dick Butkus, basketball HoFer Willis Reed, former men’s college basketball coach Bob Knight, hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Hull, Heisman Trophy-winning running back Ch...
After last night, John Calipari has a new name: Can’t-Coach Cal
It’s official: John Calipari can’t coach....
Big Ten screws over Indiana, rewards COVID-y team with not enough wins
Full disclosure: I went to IU. Historically, we are a basketball school, though even that has fallen in shadow after the glory days of the 80s and early 90s. My point is, we are not, and have never been, a football school....
Rutgers laterals their way to, well, a huge loss after crazy 'touchdown' is called back
There should be a rule in sports that if a play is so awesome, you won’t see anything like it for the rest of the decade, then it counts. No replay review. No overturns. No complaining from the other team, because they know how cool it was, too....
Here's A Look At Some Of The Most Loaded Campuses In Sports History
With commencement ceremonies taking place in some form all over the country this weekend, we decided to look at some notable college campuses that had quite the array of athletes and personalities inside their athletic departments at the same time. From the hardwood to various playing fields, these ...
Someone, Please, Banish Rutgers Football To The Shadow Realm Where It Belongs
Can you guess how many passing yards Rutgers had Saturday against Indiana? This is a trick question, because Rutgers did not have passing yards. They had passing yard. Just the one. However much TV money the Big Ten Network is making from the New York-New Jersey market, I would personally pay them m...
Deadspin Idiots Present The Bobby Knight Memorial Chair Throwing Competition
As college basketball takes center stage in the sports world during March Madness, we here at Deadspin got to reminiscing about one of college basketball’s most legendary, infamously psychopathic incidents which involved one of the game’s most legendary, infamously psychopathic figures. We are speak...
Report: Georgia Hires Tom Crean
Exceedingly loud former Indiana Hoosiers head coach will take over at Georgia, per Adrian Wojnarowski....
A Trip To The Big Ten In New York City, The Conference Basketball Tournament Everyone Hates
The Big Ten’s first trip to New York City has not been well received....
Indiana Knocks Off Notre Dame In Overtime Finish That Left Gus Johnson Hoarse
We’re used to Gus Johnson unleashing Gusgasms, but Indiana’s overtime comeback to beat Notre Dame that improved their season record to 6-5 and knocked off the 18th-ranked Irish took the Fox announcer to another level....
Indiana Lost Money Playing In Its Bowl Game
The number of postseason college football bowls has steadily ballooned from a sensible number of games featuring only the best teams in the nation to the stultifying monstrosity we have today, where 82 teams (including several with losing records) play each other in increasingly irrelevant games spr...
Body Found In River Identified As Former NFL Receiver James Hardy
James Hardy was a second-round pick out of Indiana who spent two seasons with the Bills before leaving the NFL in 2011. Hardy was reported missing a week ago, and yesterday afternoon, the Fort Wayne (Ind.) Police Department announced that they had found a dead body lodged against a dam in the Maumee...
Indiana's New Policy On Violent Athletes Is Useless And Joe Mixon Is The Proof
In a few days Joe Mixon will hear his name called, join his new NFL team, and smile as dozens of publicists set about selling the story of how football—glorious, all-American football—is giving Mixon a second chance at becoming a new and better man. There is, of course, no way of knowing if that’s t...
Indiana Fires Tom Crean Right As NCAA Tournament Starts
Fresh off a thoroughly embarrassing end to their campaign, Indiana has fired men’s basketball coach Tom Crean after nine seasons. Crean guided the Hoosiers to three Sweet 16 appearances in his tenure, but the team only earned a futile NIT first-round exit this season, after at one point being ranked...
Indiana's Season Ends Quietly After Dumb NIT Stadium Controversy
The Indiana Hoosiers began the year ranked No. 11 in the country, and at one point, got as high as third. They beat both Kansas and UNC in the first month of the season, two huge signature wins for when the Hoosiers inevitably submitted their resume to the NCAA Tournament. All was well in Bloomingto...
Bob Knight On Former Indiana Bosses: "I Hope They're All Dead"
Legendary former Indiana men’s basketball coach Bob Knight coached Indiana for 29 seasons until he was fired by the Hoosiers in 2000 over allegations that he was being an abusive asshole to his players. Knight’s dismissal was famously contentious, and Indiana students burned effigies of university l...
Yogi Ferrell Fucked Around And Earned Himself A Two-Year Contract
Yogi Ferrell, formerly a righteous Hoosier, is now a righteous Dallas Maverick. ...