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Pat Kelsey Ditches UMass Job Half An Hour Before Introductory Press Conference

Winthrop coach Pat Kelsey led his team to a Big South championship and an NCAA tournament appearance this season, and even though they lost in the first round, it was a successful campaign for the Eagles. As the college basketball coaching rodeo whirls to life and bushels of schools look for new fac...

by Patrick Redford|

|Fri Mar 24 2017

The Sweet 16 Teams That Are Worth Rooting For

Despite what ESPN and the like would have you think, there are no Cinderellas left in this year’s NCAA tournament—the real Cinderellas were offed by programs designed to chew up teams with limited talent and depth. ...

by Nick Martin|

|Thu Mar 23 2017

I Can't Believe Georgetown Actually Fired John Thompson III

After two consecutive losing seasons, public calls for his dismissal, and multiple player transfers and early departures, Georgetown has fired John Thompson III after 13 seasons. ...

by Laura Wagner|

|Fri Mar 24 2017

By Design, The Sweet 16 Is Once Again Cinderella-Free

With Rhode Island’s three-point loss to a short-handed Oregon squad on Sunday night, the NCAA locked in its third consecutive mid-major-free Sweet 16 (Gonzaga is a national powerhouse and has been for 20 years, they don’t count.) Believe it or not, the last underdog, no-name team to break through t...

by Nick Martin|

|Thu Mar 23 2017

Appeals Court Overturns Sexual Assault Conviction Of Ex-Baylor DE Sam Ukwuachu [Updated]

A Texas appeals court has overturned the sexual assault conviction of former Baylor football player Sam Ukwuachu—whose 2015 criminal case began a process that ultimately ended with Baylor admitting it had for years made the lives of students who reported they were raped a living hell. Ukwuachu was f...

by Diana Moskovitz|

|Fri Mar 24 2017

Report: Oklahoma State To Interview... Doug Gottlieb?

According to a report from ESPN, soon-to-be FOX Sports radio personality and serial deleter of bad tweets Doug Gottlieb got the call from Oklahoma State to interview for the school’s men’s basketball head coach opening. ...

by Nick Martin|

|Thu Mar 23 2017

Gymnast Explains Why She Felt Nobody Would Believe She Was Sexually Assaulted

Disgraced former gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar already has been criminally charged with sexually abusing nine gymnasts, put in jail, and fired from his job at Michigan State. The university, which cleared Nassar in a 2014 complaint, also went ahead this year with another investigation—this from a c...

by Diana Moskovitz|

|Fri Mar 31 2017

Ex-Baylor TE Tre'Von Armstead Charged With Sexual Assault From 2013

Former Baylor tight end Tre’Von Armstead was arrested today in Port Arthur, Texas, and charged with three counts of felony second-degree sexual assault, per ESPN and the Waco Tribune-Herald. The Tribune-Herald first broke the news tonight that Armstead was indicted last week for an alleged sexual as...

by Patrick Redford|

|Thu Mar 23 2017

Texas Tech's New Practice Facility Caught Fire

The biggest news that Texas Tech football made this offseason was their bizarre inclusion in a tortured analogy during the FBI’s Russia hearing. That is, until this afternoon, when a fire broke out at their football stadium. The school is in the process of constructing a new athletic facility right ...

by Patrick Redford|

|Wed Mar 22 2017

Former Penn State AD Testifies Against Former President In Child Endangerment Case

Last week, former Penn State athletic director Tim Curley, along with former senior vice president Gary Schultz, pleaded guilty to child endangerment charges stemming from their part in the school’s purported cover-up of Jerry Sandusky’s serial molestation of children. Today, Curley testified agains...

by Billy Haisley|

|Wed Mar 22 2017

We Got Jim Harbaugh’s Itemized Expenses And They’re Kind Of Lame

We all know big boy Jim Harbaugh loves a tall glass of whole milk. Questions remain. Some, like How much does he love milk? are perhaps unanswerable. Others, though, like How much does the highest-paid public employee in the state of Michigan’s milk lust cost taxpayers?, aren’t. In an attempt to fin...

by Bill Bradley|

|Wed Mar 22 2017

Nick Saban Sure Was Cranky About A Lot Of Things Yesterday

Jim Harbaugh prefers Twitter as the space to hold court on matters he’s pissed off about; Nick Saban is old-fashioned—a presser with an eager reporter will do just fine....

by Nick Martin|

|Wed Mar 22 2017

Three Minnesota Football Players Cleared In University Sexual Assault Case

Three football players who were recommended for suspensions as part of a University of Minnesota sexual assault investigation have had those punishments overturned, lawyers for the players announced yesterday. After this latest round of appeals, so far four of the five recommended expulsions in the...

by Diana Moskovitz|

|Tue Mar 21 2017

Jim Harbaugh Freakin' Loves Twitter

Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh sat down with GQ to talk about peanut butter, treating his eight-year-old kids like his football players, and some other stuff—you can read the full interview here. What really jumped out from the piece, though, was the fact that the Wolverines head coach really, rea...

by Nick Martin|

|Tue Mar 21 2017

Lonzo Ball's Second-Half Performance Was Worth Staying Up For

Sunday was the fourth straight day with nothing but back-to-back great basketball games on the tube, with the slate kicking off at noon (if you’re on the East Coast) and finishing about 12 hours later, when UCLA put down Cincinnati to claim the final spot in the Sweet 16. If you tapped out before th...

by Nick Martin|

|Mon Mar 20 2017

Duke Is Dead And The East Region Is Suddenly Wide Open

When eight-seed Wisconsin exposed Villanova’s fatal flaw—the Wildcats had no big man to dissuade the large Badger boys from pounding the paint—the East suddenly became America’s new nightmare: it was officially Duke’s to lose. The Blue Devils had a clear (not easy) path to the Final Four, made all t...

by Nick Martin|

|Mon Mar 20 2017