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Michigan Off To Italy To Spend Some Money, Practice Some Football<em></em><em></em><em></em>
Michigan announced Monday it will fly its football team to Rome this coming April (after finals, of course), where the players will conduct three of their 15 spring practices at the facilities of AS Roma, including an open scrimmage....
College Coach Who Fudged His Résumé Complains About "Fraudulent" Society
“We’re a fraudulent society from top to bottom,” said Steve Masiello, coach of the struggling Manhattan College men’s basketball team, at the outset of a screed that blames the team’s performance on his players and the doggone social-media-infected world they inhabit. “Nothing is interactive. Nothin...
Arizona Showed Us What A Complete Team Can Do To UCLA
Arizona downed then-No. 3 UCLA 96-85 Saturday evening, handing the Bruins their second loss of the season and further cementing the Wildcats’ place among college basketball’s fluid and fun-as-hell top-10. Sean Miller’s squad has spent all season building its case as a legitimate Final Four team (as ...
Another Title IX Official At Baylor Says She Quit Because Working There Was Hell
A second woman whose job at Baylor was to investigate reports of rape has spoken to ESPN’s Outside the Lines. Like Patty Crawford, the previous Title IX official who talked after leaving Baylor, Gabrielle Lyons describes a bleak situation, one that made her so paranoid she dreamed about rape. Lyons ...
Conference Investigating Wild, WWE-Style Brawl In DII Game<em></em>
Most basketbrawls get mopped up shortly after they start. Refs and coaches intervene before things boil over into a full-blown free-for-all and the perpetrators are quickly subdued. Most never escalate to the point that a fan takes a chair to the head of a player who is currently being, but that’s e...
Allonzo Trier's Indefinite Suspension Is The Result Of A Bullshit NCAA PED Rule
Why is Allonzo Trier not playing basketball? This question has been asked repeatedly by media members and basketball fans alike for the past three months, and all that time both Arizona and the NCAA remained silent. Late Wednesday night, an answer finally came....
Oklahoma Cornerback Arrested For Alleged Role In Three Armed Robberies
Freshman Oklahoma corner Parrish Cobb was released from McLennan County jail on $90,000 bond Wednesday morning after turning himself in to police Tuesday night. Cobb was charged with three counts of aggravated robbery, a first-degree felony. According to KWTX, a second man, Ayorinde Gibson, was als...
Look At All These Good Buzzer-Beaters
A quiz: Who had the best buzzer-beater tonight?...
Jameis Winston Sexual Battery<em></em> Lawsuit Formally Dismissed
This morning, a U.S. District Court judge dismissed two lawsuits involving Jameis Winston, finally ending a four-year legal saga. A sexual battery lawsuit filed by Kinsman against Winston in 2015 and an earlier suit filed by Winston against Kinsman for defamation were both dismissed. The pair settle...
Ole Miss Player Rasheed Brooks Hospitalized After Suffering On-Court Seizure
Shortly after halftime of this evening’s Ole Miss-Tennessee game, Ole Miss senior Rasheed Brooks collapsed in front of his team’s bench. He was carted off the court shortly after and Ole Miss eventually won the game. The school announced that he’d suffered a seizure and had gone to the hospital....
Newly Hired Oregon Strength Coach Suspended For A Month After Workout Hospitalizes Players<em></em>
The Oregon Ducks announced this evening that new strength coach Irele Oderinde would be suspended for a month without pay after intense offseason workouts sent three players to the hospital late last week. Two players remain hospitalized as of Tuesday night and one was released earlier today. Oderi...
Coach Goes Through Handshake Line Alone After Wild Brawl At The End Of Siena-Rider Game
Sportsmanship is about putting aside petty differences, respecting your opponents, and, sometimes, shaking hands with a bunch of ghosts. Siena beat Rider tonight in some hot MAAC action, and at the end of the game, things got real feisty real quick. Rider guard Anthony Durham landed a nasty jab and ...
Texas Defends Hiring Ex-Baylor Assistant Casey Horny Despite His Support For Art Briles
Last week, Texas hired Baylor assistant Casey Horny to work as a special teams assistant under incoming coach Tom Herman. Horny is a Texas alum and spent three years as a graduate assistant in Austin, but he worked at Baylor for nine years before coming back to Texas. Horny was part of the group of...
New Broncos Coach Vance Joseph Left University Of Colorado After Being Accused Of Rubbing His Erect Penis On A Woman
The Denver Broncos named Vance Joseph as their new head coach last week, returning him to the state where he started out his coaching career with the University of Colorado Boulder—and abruptly left under unexplained circumstances....
Wait A Second, Where The Hell Is Perry Ellis?
Folks, it’s time to address the elephant in the room. For the past three months, I’ve remained silent on this issue, foolishly thinking, hoping, that the NCAA would right their clear-as-day mistake and fix college basketball. But no. It’s January 17, three weeks into conference play, and I have yet ...
Report: UConn Dicks Recruit Over, Pulls Scholarship Two Weeks Before Signing Day
Ryan Dickens, a 17-year old senior linebacker at Raritan High School in Hazlet, N.J., is the subject of a report from NJ.com, which details his experience of being played by UConn and the big business of college football. Cases like this come up every year, but Dickens is unique because the Huskies ...
Report: Three Oregon Ducks Players Hospitalized After Grueling Workouts
The Oregonian is reporting at least three Oregon Ducks football players are in the hospital following a series of “grueling strength and conditioning workouts” last week at the university. Multiple sources told the paper that players had to finish the same workout this week, with one witness saying...
Tom Crean Loses His Shit After Players Attempt Last-Second Alley-Oop
Indiana flattened Rutgers on Sunday, beating the Scarlet Knights 76-57 in a mostly unremarkable game. There was one attention-grabbing moment after the final buzzer, when Indiana head coach Tom Crean ripped into one of his players for throwing a lob pass in the final seconds:...
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Colorado State Player And New Mexico Coach Get Into Postgame Screaming Match
New Mexico defeated Colorado State 84-71 behind Elijah Brown’s 25-point performance, bringing the Lobos to 3-3 in Mountain West place, good for fourth place behind the third-place Rams. The game was described as “chippy ” by a CSU student journalist; after an alleged incident in the postgame handsha...