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Now UNC's Basketball Team Is Declining Their Invitation To Meet With Basketball-Colored President

The Trump White House is being denied visits from basketball teams left and right, these days. First the great doofus had to hastily pretend to disinvite the NBA champion Golden State Warriors, and now the 2017 NCAA champion North Carolina men’s basketball team will be declining their own invitatio...

Northern Illinois Capitalizes On Nebraska's Charitable Offense To Pull Upset In Lincoln

Northern Illinois used a pair of pick-sixes to leap out ahead of Nebraska, and used another interception to seal the end of an upset over the Cornhuskers today in Lincoln....

Florida Cancels Game Against Northern Colorado Due To Hurricane Irma 

The University of Florida has canceled its home game against Northern Colorado this Saturday due to the incoming Hurricane Irma....

Sage Northcutt Claims To Have Been Hacked [NSFW]

Relentlessly positive UFC golden boy Sage Northcutt has had a rough time of it lately, what with losing two of his last three and having had his most recently scheduled bout called off due to injuries to him and his opponent. Earlier tonight, though, Twitter user Zombie Prophet revealed a discovery ...

North Carolina Isn't Ready For This, But The GOP Was

Monday night in Durham, well-intentioned protestors tore a testament to the Confederacy down from its perch, sending it tumbling 15 feet to feebly fold over. It was glorious, if long overdue. It was also a glimpse at what the future holds for similar pro-CSA statues littered around North Carolina, t...

Dennis Rodman Is Back In North Korea For Some Reason

Former Jordan sidekick Dennis Rodman, last seen palling around with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and offering some quarter-baked thoughts about protestors, is back doing what he does best, which is wedging himself back into the spotlight in the most moronic way possible. Rodman has visited Nort...

Cam Johnson Granted Release From Pittsburgh, Eligible To Play For UNC Next Year

After going public with a damning critique of the NCAA’s transfer system, shooting guard Cam Johnson has been granted his full release by Pittsburgh and will be eligible to play for the University of North Carolina next season, per news that his father gave to reporters....

Cam Johnson Commits To UNC, Calls Out Pittsburgh For Blocking His Transfer

Shooting guard Cam Johnson, a summa cum laude graduate of Pittsburgh, announced on Tuesday that he will be taking his talents to Chapel Hill to play for the Tar Heels during his final two years of eligibility; the question now—the question that’s been unanswered for months—is whether the Panthers wi...

North Carolina Baseball's Secret Weapon Is This Dog

The North Carolina Diamond Heels went 47-12 and earned the second overall seed in the NCAA tournament, which starts on Friday. They’ll get to host tournament games until they are eliminated or make the College World Series and travel to Omaha. One may assume that this is because they are stocked wit...

NBA Accepts Weak HB2 Repeal, Will Bring 2019 All-Star Game To Charlotte

The NBA announced on Wednesday that Charlotte will host the 2019 All-Star Game, fulfilling the league’s initial plan to return the event should North Carolina modify or repeal House Bill 2. Charlotte was initially slated to host this year’s All-Star event, but the NBA pulled the high-profile exhibit...

Northwestern Suspends Football Player Xavier Washington After Cocaine Arrest <em></em>

Northwestern junior defensive end Xavier Washington has been indefinitely suspended from the football team after he was arrested for possession of a controlled substance early Sunday morning. ...

Mark Emmert Admits NCAA Accepted The "Absolute Minimum" In Its Return To North Carolina<em></em>

In speaking with the Associated Press sports editors at their annual meeting with commissioners on Thursday night, NCAA president Emmert acknowledged that HB 142 was “the absolute minimum” the North Carolina legislature could have done to earn back the NCAA men’s basketball tournament and other post...

A Second Northcutt Appears

The professional MMA world will soon be blessed with a second Northcutt....

North Dakota Women's Hockey Player: We Only Learned On Twitter That The School Was Cutting Our Team

The University of North Dakota did not tell women’s hockey players that their program would be cut before the news leaked to the media, forcing players to wait hours for a chance to hear from the school after initially finding out via Twitter....

Unlike The NCAA, Some States And Cities Didn't Bite On North Carolina's Weak HB2 Repeal

The NCAA released the sites of its upcoming postseason events through 2022 Tuesday afternoon, and as was expected, the governing body of college sports made its return to North Carolina official, announcing the Tar Heel state will host 36 men’s and women’s tournaments and postseason competitions. In...

Former NFL Agent Pleads Guilty To Paying Three Ex-UNC Football Players

Terry Watson, an ex-NFL agent who represented Cortland Finnegan and a handful of other players, agreed to a plea deal in a North Carolina court this afternoon and was sentenced to a suspended jail sentence of six-to-eight months for providing three NFL-bound UNC players with money in 2010. Because h...

HB2 Is Over, But The North Carolina Legislature Continues To March Backwards<em></em>

Since the start of the year, members of the North Carolina House have caused several small public-relations crises by way of historically inaccurate and bigoted Facebook posts, which pair nicely with a swath of proposed bills that would grant the state the right to secede, outlaw gay marriage, block...

Craven North Carolina Legislators Threaten ACC Over Future Boycotts

After North Carolina kinda-sorta-not-really repealed HB2 last month under pressure from a handful of powerful sports bodies, the NBA and NCAA let the state back into their good graces. Despite the fact that the repeal kept many of HB2’s heinous facets in place, NBA czar Adam Silver said that Charlot...