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School Self-Reports NCAA Violation After Golfer Washes Her Car With "University Water"
The West Coast Conference held its meetings this week, and one item of interest came out via Portland basketball coach Eric Reveno: one school self-reported an NCAA violation because an athlete washed her car on campus....

Want To Buy Doug Flutie's House? It Has A White Piano And Pink Carpet
Former Boston College and NFL quarterback/folk hero Doug Flutie and his wife just put their Natick, Mass., estate on the market for $1.7 million. The house was built in 1995, and hoo boy does its age show....

The American Athletic Conference Reveals Its Logo
The American Athletic Conference (or "the American," as the cool kids say) unveiled its new logo this morning. The member schools are said to be thrilled, at least after their first choice of logos was turned down....

Nathan Fielder's Newest Text-Message Prank Is A Relationship-Killer
We've covered the text-message-based exploits of Nathan Fielder here before when he told followers to text their parents about drugs. This time the prank is a whole lot more personal and it has a huge cliffhanger element. ...

Guys Who Taped Call Between NFL GMs Charged With Federal Crime
A little over two months ago, we published a recording of a phone call between Bills then-general manager Buddy Nix and Buccaneers GM Mark Dominik. A couple of 20-year-olds had shared with us the fruits of their ingenious prank, wherein they called the Bills' switchboard as Dominik (looking to speak...

Rob Gronkowski Needs Another Goddamned Surgery
Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski will have yet another surgery, this time on his back, and is expected to miss part of training camp. That's the best-case scenario....

Panthers Lineman Hits Cam Newton With A Fantastic Videobomb
Usually, the mark of a good videobomb is its subtlety, but Panthers lineman Jordan Gross is proof that the art form can also be deployed with a more overt sensibility. Gross's frantic jig was enough to get Cam Newton to forget the question that he had just been asked, so we'll call this videobomb a...

Former Division II Quarterback Found Dead In Michigan Woods
Cullen Finnerty, a former quarterback for Grand Valley State University and a three-time Division II national champion who was briefly a member of the Baltimore Ravens, was found dead Tuesday night by rescue workers who had been looking for him since he went missing on Sunday. Finnerty's body was fo...

Saints Receiver Joe Morgan Busted For Alleged DWI
The Earhart Expressway is a pretty damned busy highway. It's three lanes in either direction, and runs from New Orleans to the suburbs, and sometimes a Saints receiver passes out in his car in the middle of the road on a Saturday night....
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Maurice Jones-Drew Allegedly Punched Out A Bar Staffer [UPDATED]
Jacksonville Jaguars running back and back-to-UCLA student Maurice Jones-Drew has been charged with battery after he allegedly punched and knocked out a bar staffer over the weekend at a beach bar in St. Augustine, Fla., according to police....

Down on the Corner, Out in the Street
From the SI Vault, check out Gil Rogin's 1964 story, "Confessions of a Stoop Ball Champion":...

MLB Network Is Just Inventing New Statistics Now
If only my dog could shit with at least a .275 average....

Where Do Singers Screw Up The National Anthem?
Earlier this month, before the first game of the Canadian Hockey League's Memorial Cup, singer Alexis Normand joined a long list of people who have brutalized the U.S. national anthem in front of a large, tense crowd....

Ángel Pagán's Walk-Off Inside-The-Park Home Run Was Just Foolish
So this is what the San Francisco Giants do. Sort of. They lead the majors with seven walk-off home runs already this year, so we guess that they found a way to win at home to the Rockies even when they were down 5-4 in the 10th inning shouldn't be too much of a surprise. This, though, wasn't just a...

The Pacers' Paul George Has Gradually Exploded All At Once
After two games in Miami, it's no longer assured that the Heat — reigning champs, winners of 27 straight in the regular season, top seed in the Eastern Conference, proud owners of fans like these — are going to dispatch the Indiana Pacers quickly, or for that matter, at all. The series is tied at a ...

Trope-Recycling Bill Simmons Has Bill Simmons Syndrome
Bill Simmons this week mused on the fate of Dwight Howard, who appears to be the NBA's equivalent of plutonium: a potential world-beater but perilously radioactive. To characterize the gap between Perceived Dwight Howard and Actual Dwight Howard, the founder of Grantland and ESPN spittling-head did ...
