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Why Title IX Has Failed Everyone On Campus Rape<em></em>
It registers less as news and more as routine when another Title IX lawsuit arises against a college or university for failing to meet its obligations to address sexual violence. The same is true when the claims made in these suits bear out. Earlier this year, Florida State announced it would pay $9...
Coastal Carolina's College World Series Title Was As Thrilling As It Was Unlikely
Until this afternoon, Coastal Carolina had never won a national championship in a team sport, the Big South Conference had never had a national champion, and no College World Series participant had won the title in their first appearance in the finals in 60 years. The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers m...
Report: USC AD Pat Haden Funneled Scholarship Foundation Money To Himself, Trojan Athletics
Pat Haden, who will officially step down as USC’s athletic director on June 30, used his position on a foundation to enrich himself and his family while he also funneled a vast majority of scholarship money towards USC and away from other schools, according to an investigation by the Los Angeles Tim...
All Sorts Of People Are Rushing To Defend Art Briles
Art Briles was fired from Baylor today following an investigation into what was, at best, his football program’s systemic negligence regarding repeated sexual-assault accusations. Linebacker Taylor Young mounted a convoluted defense of Briles earlier today, and more have since rushed to wax nostalgi...
Baylor's Silence On Its Sexual-Assault Scandal Is Deafening And Sadly Legal
The reports slowly piled up yesterday, all bearing the same news—university president Ken Starr was out at Baylor. The news wasn’t shocking and spread quickly because it fit the moment, following on months of reports that portrayed Baylor leaders as ambivalent to reports of sexual assault, especiall...
Missouri Softball Team Playing Game Under Protest
The fourteenth-ranked Missouri softball team is playing today’s game against South Carolina under protest after players claim an “unjust investigation” is taking place against the program....
Report: NCAA President Mark Emmert Still Owes Former Employer $49K
Mark Emmert is the man at the helm of the scam that is the NCAA. He oversees an organization that made over $1 billion in revenue in 2014, and for his troubles, he gets a $1.8 million salary (and that was as of 2013; he’s almost assuredly making more now). The athletes who make him his money are pro...
Villanova's Title Win Was Beautiful, Quiet, And Weird As Hell
I got to my seat for Monday’s college basketball national championship game with 14 minutes left in the first half like a classic harried nerd, carrying a pair of binoculars that it turned out I didn’t need. I was worried about watching a basketball game from the sixth floor of a football stadium, b...
Man, Southern Miss Was Flagrantly Breaking NCAA Rules
Anybody who follows college sports even semi-closely is inured to scandal. These guys are taking sham classes, those ones are getting free dealership cars, that one is getting money slipped under the table by an agent. But even beyond the sheer mind-numbing quantity of “scandals,” the NCAA is an imm...
Sources: CBS, Turner, NCAA Agree To Extend March Madness Broadcasting Contract
The NCAA has agreed to extend their 14-year, $10.8 billion March Madness television contract with CBS and Turner Sports, according to multiple sources close to the process, though they caution that no announcement is imminent. The original deal, signed in 2010, lasts through the 2024 tournament. The...
Stadium Blacks Out Ribbon Boards To Fix Horrific TBS Glare
Massive viewer complaints about glare from the Final Four venue ribbon boards on TBS’s broadcast led to the lights being blacked out late in the first half of tonight’s Oklahoma-Villanova semifinal....
DraftKings And FanDuel Suspend College Sports Contests
DraftKings and FanDuel have reached a voluntary agreement with the NCAA to cease all college sports daily fantasy contests, reports ESPN....
Hallelujah, A College Football Coach Has A Sensible Position On Transfers
There is a litany of asinine and unfair NCAA rules, but perhaps the most blatantly unfair are the transfer rules. With limited exceptions, college athletes playing football, basketball, baseball, and men’s hockey must sit out a year of competition when they transfer schools. Even more onerous, coach...
The NBA Is "Deeply Concerned" About North Carolina Anti-LGBT Law
The NBA released a statement tonight criticizing the recently signed North Carolina House Bill 2, and implicitly throwing Charlotte’s hosting of the 2017 NBA All-Star Game into doubt: ...
As Usual, John Calipari Pushes An NCAA Rule To Its Limit
In a tweetstorm this afternoon, Kentucky coach John Calipari revealed his latest plan to lay bare the machinations of the NCAA. Here is a lightly edited transcript of his tweets:...
Third Successive Court Smacks NCAA Down, Allows Todd McNair's Lawsuit To Proceed
The California Supreme Court ruled against the NCAA, declining to review the 2nd District Court of Appeal’s December decision allowing former USC football assistant coach Todd McNair’s lawsuit against the NCAA to proceed. McNair is likely to win at least a part of his lawsuit, which in its course wi...
Former Yale Basketball Captain Plans To Sue University Over Sexual Misconduct Expulsion
An attorney representing Jack Montague, the former captain of the Yale University men’s basketball team who was expelled for sexual misconduct last month, has issued a statement claiming that Montague was wrongfully punished by the university. The statement refers to Montague as a “whipping boy,” an...
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Is EA Sports' <i>NCAA Football</i> Game Making A Comeback? [UPDATES]
EA Sports has not released an edition of its popular NCAA Football game after litigation between former players and the NCAA led to a $60 million settlement to pay players whose likenesses had been represented in the series. EA’s announcement of the game’s death came in 2013; today, on its Facebook ...
The New Case Against Bill Cosby Is Mostly Based On Evidence Authorities Had All Along
Bill Cosby was charged yesterday with three counts of aggravated indecent assault by authorities in Montgomery County, Pa., for what happened back in 2004, when Andrea Constand said Cosby invited her over to his home, drugged, and assaulted her. At the time, Constand was the director of operations f...
College Athletic Departments Blow Millions On Fancy Stickers
The cooked books of big-time athletic departments show that schools barely break even at best on their athletics budgets. This is often used as evidence that paying athletes is untenable. What it conveniently glosses over is the unbelievable amount of already-existing money being more or less set on...