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Rutgers is the Cinderella that the NCAA Tournament needsCHICAGO — In just a few days almost every American will be doing the same thing — filling out a bracket. And as people decide on which 12 over 5 upset they’re going to pick, or what team could make a deep tourney run out of nowhere, I’m here to tell you that the first game of the day on Friday at th...

When it comes to Juwan Howard and Greg Gard, why is the Black coach the only one suspended when the white coach started it?Whiteness wins again. ...

If America’s racial reckoning were real, violent lunatic Gregg Marshall would already be firedA few months ago, white athletes and coaches were marching and standing alongside their Black teammates and players in unity. They had supposedly seen the light. It was finally time for change....

The Coach Who Exploded

Jonathan Mahler's latest for the Times Magazine is about basketball coach Mike Rice:...

Mike Rice Is Trying To Become A Real Human Being

In The New York Times, our pal Jonathan Mahler has a great profile of disgraced ex-Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice. You probably remember Rice as the crazy guy in this video, the one firing basketballs at his players' heads and calling them faggots. Now, Rice is on the well-trod path that every d...

"He's A Greedy Fucking Pig": Listen To Eric Murdock Rant On Mike Rice

On June 29, 2012, his next-to-last day at Rutgers, Scarlet Knights assistant Eric Murdock stormed into the athletic department and unleashed a profane, frustrated, 11-minute rant against head coach Mike Rice. Rice remained in his office with the door shut....

The Rutgers Search Advisory Team Is A Disaster

As we near the end of Day Five of this easily-avoided train wreck in New Jersey, the Rutgers search committee is trying to convince itself that it did not completely fuck this hiring up six ways to Sunday. ...

Rutgers Really Did Close To No Vetting Of Its New AD

The bunker mentality has arrived in earnest at Rutgers: The embattled RU president Robert Barchi is standing behind even-more-embattled AD Julie Hermann and New Jersey governor Chris Christie is trying to stay as far away from the mess as humanly possible....