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Referee John Higgins Sues Kentucky Sports Radio Over Trolling
Men’s college basketball referee John Higgins is suing Kentucky Sports Radio, accusing the show’s hosts of sharing his personal information and encouraging angry Kentucky fans to come after him for his officiating in the Wildcats’s Elite Eight loss to North Carolina....
Kentucky Governor On NCAA Scandal: Pay The Players Already
With one of his state’s most well-known universities once again embroiled in a national recruiting scandal, Kentucky governor Matt Bevin took time in an interview with radio station WKYX to address Louisville’s latest missteps and, opposed to his hollow, bullshit statements on gun control, addressed...
Coach K Is Just Bewildered By The FBI's College Basketball Investigation
Once again, the loathsome Duke Blue Devils are expected to be one of the best teams in the country. Remember compulsive tripping artist Grayson Allen, a preening dingus whose Very Serious suspension lasted until Duke had an important ballgame? Not only is he back, but he’ll be the captain this year ...
LSU Is Stuck With Ed Orgeron For A While, Unless They Want To Pay Up
LSU football is 3-2 after losing at home to Troy, 24-21. The Tigers snapped their 49-game non-conference home winning streak with the defeat, and now they get to run a gauntlet of SEC opponents. Canning head coach Ed Orgeron might be consolation for this dismal start, but it would be quite expensive...
Fuck You Guys, Central Florida Might Be Good Now
Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, ...
Stanford's Bryce Love Is The Real-Life Road Runner
With the loss of Heisman finalist and all-purpose record-breaker Christian McCaffrey, it seemed safe to say that Stanford’s running game would take a step back in 2017. In the first month of the season, however, junior running back Bryce Love has one-upped McCaffrey, as he’s built up a collection of...
Notre Dame's Tony Jones Dazed By Hit To Head That Ruined Helmet
Notre Dame’s playing Miami U. tonight, for some reason, and the Fighting Irish found themselves without running back Tony Jones after he took a blow to the head that left gold pieces flying in every direction. Completely healthy, surely....
Rick Pitino Releases Statement Right As Louisville Announces His Replacement
In what is almost certainly a coincidence and not at all a product of a notoriously calculated, petty former head coach being calculated and petty, Rick Pitino released a lengthy statement Friday afternoon regarding Louisville’s decision to fire him, minutes before the Cardinals announced his replac...
FBI Docs Show The NCAA's Grisly Sausage Factory At Work In Arizona<em></em>
Paying for a top college basketball recruit can be expensive. Documents from the FBI’s investigation into the shadowy world of college basketball uncover a web of corruption, and no single transaction is more interesting than the general negotiations around how much players get paid and who pays the...
Tulsa Lost Its Quarterback And Its Luck
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Report: FBI Looking Into Nike's "Grassroots Basketball" Division
According to reports from sports lawyer Darren Heitner and ESPN, the federal prosecutors looking into college basketball corruption have now turned their focus to Nike. The FBI’s New York field office and the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York reportedly served a subpoena t...
Alabama Basketball Admin Who Previously Worked In NCAA Enforcement Resigns After FBI Sting
The fallout from the FBI’s NCAA sting has claimed another job: that of Alabama director of basketball operations Kobie Baker, who came to the school from a position with the NCAA as its assistant director of enforcement for basketball development. Yep....
Louisville Has Now Lost Their Two Top Recruits
Only hours after Rick Pitino was effectively fired, basketball recruits are beginning to flee Louisville, and why wouldn’t they? Pitino is finished, and that will likely be just the start the Cardinals’ struggles. Nobody really knows what the full scope of consequences of the FBI’s sting on recruiti...
The NCAA Finally Got The Lawsuit It Deserved, And The One It Wanted
“The schools are, in a way, the victims.”...
The FBI's NCAA Sting Has Already Cost Auburn A Five-Star Recruit
The fallout from the this week’s FBI crackdown on shady college basketball recruiting tactics is only just beginning. Several college coaches, basketball-adjacent businessmen, and Adidas employees were charged with fraud and bribery on Monday, and the hammer has yet to truly drop on many of the prog...
Report: Louisville Fires Rick Pitino After One Too Many Scandals
Louisville fired Rick Pitino Wednesday, according to ESPN, shortly after letting go athletic director Tom Jurich, who reportedly refused to fire Pitino himself. The axing follows yet another scandal for the Cardinals head coach, this one involving payments made to a recruit by Adidas officials in ex...
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Four College Basketball Coaches Charged With Bribery And Fraud [Updated]
Four college basketball coaches have been arrested after being charged by the Manhattan U.S. Attorney with various counts of bribery and fraud. The arrests resulted from a nearly two-year investigation that examined the shady links between college basketball coaches and outside businesses, including...
Slowly But Surely, Willie Fritz Is Turning Tulane Around
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Temple's Two-Year Run Is Starting To Look Like A Flash In The Pan<em></em>
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Saquon Barkley Slayed The Demons Of Kinnick Stadium
We all thought we had seen this game before. A Big Ten program playing better than they had in generations, heading into Iowa City as a favorite in a night game, sees their entire team slip into neutral under the lights at Kinnick Stadium. Everything that can go wrong for the visitors does go wrong,...