north Page 25 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights

Enough
Have something you think we should know? Email us at [email protected], or contact our writers directly, or use our SecureDrop system. You can also follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, and sign up for our newsletter!...

Goal-Scorer Crushed
Drake Caggiula opened the scoring of tonight’s NCAA tournament game between Michigan and North Dakota, and his reward was getting drilled by an official. That’s two minutes for roughing....

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: ...

UNI Blows A 12-Point Lead: The Supercut
We’re still all trying to figure out how UNI blew a 12-point lead in 44 seconds, but in the meantime here’s the entire sequence compressed into less than a minute of painful, painful video. (Unless you’re an Aggies fan, that is, or one of those insufferable people who cheer for “the SEC.”)...

The Greatest Comeback In The History Of College Hoops Is Still Unthinkable
“I wish I could get some time back,” said Northern Iowa’s Paul Jesperson, but the problem for the Panthers wasn’t really that there was not enough time, was it? Up 12 points on Texas A&M, 44 seconds remaining, a Sweet 16 berth within view, just about every metric and every win probability calculator...

Kyle Snyder Wins NCAA Heavyweight Battle Of Champions In Overtime
Ohio State’s Kyle Snyder won the NCAA heavyweight wrestling title Saturday night in an overtime match that was billed as the biggest bout in that weight class in more than 60 years....

Northern Iowa's Incredible Half-Court Buzzer-Beater, As Called On UNI Radio
It’s almost twelve hours later, and we’re still pinching ourselves in disbelief that Northern Iowa’s Paul Jesperson made the half-court buzzer-beater to down Texas last night. Here’s how Panthers Radio play-by-play man Gary Rima called it live on KXEL in Cedar Rapids....

Northern Iowa Advances On Half-Court Buzzer-Beater
Paul Jesperson’s half-court desperation heave found the bucket and delivered the Northern Iowa Panthers to the NCAA tournament’s second round, erasing a game-tying basket with two seconds remaining by Texas’s Isaiah Taylor and eliminating the Longhorns....

Brice Johnson's Full-Court Buzzer Beater Goes In, Fails To Beat Buzzer
If there is a perfect Deadspin highlight, it’s the extraordinary athletic play that achieves the impossible but has no impact on the game’s result. So here’s North Carolina’s Brice Johnson casually launching the ball the length of the court after the first half buzzer of the Tar Heels’ home game aga...

Scrappy Upstart Duke Upsets North Carolina, Is Probably Good Again
Twentieth-ranked Duke knocked off fifth-ranked North Carolina 74-73 in Chapel Hill, as North Carolina inexplicably couldn’t win a game they probably should’ve....

Shaq Is The Ultimate Soccer Hipster
You can’t swing a dead cat in Brooklyn without hitting an Arsenal-scarf-wearing, artisanal-coffee-in-a-mason-jar-sipping soccer fan, and you don’t even have to look too far these days to find Swansea City, Sunderland, and Fulham fans in the U.S....

Roy Williams "OK" After Collapsing During Game
UNC coach Roy Williams says he’s “alive and kicking” after a bout with vertigo that forced him to leave the Tar Heels’ eventual 68-65 win over Boston College with 15 minutes remaining. It was a scary moment: though Williams has had vertigo all his life, he had never before been forced out of a game....

Reports: Oklahoma High School Wrestlers Charged With Sexually Assaulting Teammates On The Bus
Four Norman (Okla.) North High School junior varsity wrestlers have been charged with “rape by instrumentation” for their roles in a pair of alleged sexual assaults that occurred on January 9. An 18-year-old, two 17-year-olds, and a 16-year-old are charged with having attacked a 16-year-old teammate...

UFC Golden Boy Sage Northcutt Loses By Submission
We’ve previously illustrated here how UFC has positioned weird robot Sage Northcutt as the future of the franchise, but the blond teenager’s rise up the MMA ranks appears to be retarded a bit after he lost by submission to Bryan Barberena—a fighter of whom you’ve probably never heard, and whose obsc...

Wow, Larry Brown Is Older Than I Thought
Have something you think we should know? Email us at [email protected], or contact our writers directly, or use our SecureDrop system. You can also follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook....

North Dakota State University Is Your True College Football National Champion
The North Dakota State Bisons put a royal whooping on the Jacksonville State State Gamecocks to win their record fifth consecutive FCS national championship. They dominated the game, with over 40 minutes of possession and almost twice as many total yards....

"What In The World Just Happened There!?" Maryland & Northwestern Combine For Wild Sequence
Northwestern is sporting its best men’s basketball team in years—maybe ever, given that the Wildcats have never, ever made the NCAA tournament—and Maryland’s fourth-ranked Terrapins are in Evanston tonight looking to darken those bright Chicago skies (heh, heh)....

One Of ESPN's "Hot Topics" Is A Football Game That Does Not Exist
Midway through tonight’s Russell Athletic Bowl, ESPN’s Mike Patrick introduced a sponsored segment intending to highlight the biggest stories in college football. One of these, strangely, was a game that did not happen....

Texas Shocks North Carolina On Javan Felix Buzzer-Beater
#3 ranked North Carolina went down to Austin with a 7-1 record and a heap of momentum after beating Maryland and lost to the Longhorns on a last-second, buzzer-beating jumper from Javan Felix....