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Here Are Your All-Time Vacated Standings For Division I College Football
The NCAA swung its shithammer on Monday, and Penn State had to vacate a staggering 112 victories. Joe Paterno was no longer the winningest coach in college football history. But he became the winningest coach in another college football universe. Here, for the first time, are the NCAA's all-time va...
How Penn State Could Have Fought The NCAA And Won
The NCAA dropped those "unprecedented" punishments on Penn State on Monday, and they're mighty. There's the usual—scholarship cuts, probation, bowl bans, vacated wins, a fine—but amplified to heretofore unseen levels....
Matt Barkley Did A Reddit AMA, And Had A Strong Opinion On Impermissible Benefits
For two hours yesterday afternoon, USC quarterback Matt Barkley dropped in on the college football subReddit, and held forth on every subject under the Southern California sun. He seems like a personable, down-to-earth sort of guy, and while much of the Q&A wasn't groundbreaking (His favorite In-N-O...
Opposing Coaches Hung Out Today In A Penn State Parking Lot, Hoping To Poach Players
At a press conference on Monday, NCAA president Mark Emmert emphasized that Penn State was being slapped with unprecedented sanctions because "our goal is not to be just punitive, but to make sure the university establishes an athletic culture and daily mindset in which football will never again be ...
Here's Today's Spam From The Paterno Family
The NCAA has spoken, and the Paterno family was ready. This is the latest finger-wagging mass email they fired off this afternoon:...
The Big Ten Has Piled On Some Punishment Of Its Own For Penn State
The sanctions handed down this morning by the NCAA are not all there is for Penn State. The Big Ten has now tacked on its own penalties: Penn State will not be getting any of the conference's bowl revenue for the next four years, an amount estimated to total $13 million. That money will instead go t...
The NCAA Is Using Penn State To Justify Its Own Horrid Existence
OK, first of all, you people at the NCAA are gutless shitbags. I know you're probably spending this morning in an Indianapolis conference room patting each other on the back and tugging each other's cocks and ordering EXTRA Einstein bagels for everyone for a job well done (why not, you've got $60 mi...
Penn State NCAA Sanctions: Four-Year Bowl Ban, Vacated Wins, $60 Million Fine, Significant Scholarship Reductions
The NCAA has announced its punishment of Penn State at a press conference in Indianapolis: ...
The Deadspin Five-Point Plan To Rescue Penn State Football
It's the day after the Freeh Report and, as you probably could have guessed, sportswriters have begun falling all over themselves to call for the end of Penn State football. Here's Slate arguing for the death penalty. Here's FOX's Jen Engel doing likewise. And Christine Brennan. And, of course, Dan ...
Prestigious University Penalized For "Lack Of Institutional Control" In Athletics Program
Yeah, it's not the one you're probably thinking of. Today, the NCAA brought the hammer down on the California Institute of Technology's athletics program for allowing "30 ineligible student-athletes in 12 sports to practice or compete during four academic years." How does that even happen at a major...
The NCAA Is Reading The Freeh Report Very Closely
Is the Penn State scandal an NCAA matter? We are a lot closer to finding out. The official statement, released earlier today:...
Texas A&M Made A Really Sad Video Because They Just Want The SEC To Like Them
First day of school's coming up, isn't it? You've picked out that new JanSport, some Keds, and a nice binder. You just want to fit in. We all do....
Don't Expect A Catchy Name For The College Football Playoff
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Bill Hancock suggests the "College Football Championship."...
College Football Announces Plan To Make More Money
A four-team playoff is officially a go. This is a huge improvement over the old "two-team playoff," model, twice as good if you're counting participants, and three times as good if you're counting meaningful games. It could have been better, but progress is progress....
The NCAA Is Making An Example Of UConn Basketball
The NCAA needs to throw out a few numbers every once in a while to make it look like it's serious about the "student" half of the free labor it loves to describe as "student-athletes." For a while, the NCAA would publish graduation rates in accordance with financial aid-related legislation. Then the...
The BCS Name Is On Its Way Out
Here's a deceptively tricky question: Just what is the BCS? It's a series, of some kind, or an organization. That exists inside a computer, maybe? A magic computer that spits out teams and those teams have to play each other in a BCS game, which is just a regular national championship game, but it's...
Kent State Head Coach Scott Stricklin Is Really, Really Excited That <em>SportsCenter</em> Is Coming Up Next
The Kent State Golden Flashes continued their improbable postseason run, knocking off the NCAA Tournament's No. 1 overall seed Florida and remaining alive in the College World Series with a 5-4 win in Omaha yesterday....
NCAA Mistakenly Sends FCS National Championship Banner To Rival School
What's the difference between North Dakota and North Dakota State? Fuck if the NCAA knows. North Dakota State won the FCS title in January, but the NCAA accidentally mailed the championship banner to North Dakota, even going so far as to address it to North Dakota's athletic director by name. But ge...
Women's College Basketball Player Quits School To Pursue Professional Modeling Career
Krystal Forthan had transferred from LSU to West Virginia just last month, after only one season in Baton Rouge. She's a 6-foot-4 former high school All-American, so her arrival in Morgantown was hailed as a coup for Lady Mountaineers coach Mike Carey. But before Forthan even enrolled at WVU, she ch...
The Single Worst Thing We've Ever Read In A Student-Athlete's Homework
Former Memphis DE Dasmine Cathey took a four-week mass communication course in the summer of 2010....