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Lawyer: Derrick Rose Said He Doesn't Know What Consent Means

The woman who says Derrick Rose and two friends raped her in 2013 spoke to reporters again Thursday, a day after granting interviews to the Associated Press, New York Daily News, and Think Progress. Alongside her lawyers and activist Katherine Redmond Brown, Jane Doe answered many questions about th...

Deadspin 25: Don't Be Fooled, Maryland Still Sucks 

Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, ...

Grandstanding NWSL Owner Plays National Anthem Early To Avoid Megan Rapinoe's Protest [Update]

Megan Rapinoe’s Seattle Reign traveled to Washington D.C. to play the Washington Spirit tonight. It’s the Reign’s first game since Rapinoe knelt in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick last weekend. She expected to kneel again tonight, but she didn’t get a chance to, as Washington played the national an...

Megan Rapinoe Joins Colin Kaepernick, Kneels During National Anthem

Sunday night in Chicago, U.S. Women’s National Team star Megan Rapinoe kneeled during the national anthem before a NWSL game between her Seattle Reign and the host Red Stars. It was, she confirmed after the game, exactly what it appeared to be: a show of solidarity with San Francisco 49ers quarterba...

Santa Clara Cops Say Colin Kaepernick Hurt Their Feelings, Threaten To Quit Working Games

Santa Clara police are threatening to cease serving and protecting the 49ers unless the team takes action against Colin Kaepernick, according to a letter sent by police union officials....

Report: USC Football Player Raped Woman Twice, Snapchatted Videos To Her Ex<em></em>

USC linebacker Osa Masina was suspended by the school on Tuesday amid two separate sexual assault investigations. Both the Cottonwood Heights Police Department and the Los Angeles Police Department are investigating Masina for assaults that allegedly took place in July in California and Utah. TMZ re...

Going up for auction are the archives of Charles M. Conlon, more than 7,000 baseball photographs taken between 1904 and 1942. [NYT] ...

High School Athlete Charged With Sexually Assaulting Two Unconscious Women Gets Probation<em></em>

In April, East Longmeadow High School senior David Becker was charged with sexually assaulting two of his classmates at a party while they were unconscious. Prosecutors recommended that the three-sport athlete be found guilty, MassLive.com reported, on two counts of indecent assault and battery. The...

The Case For Violent Imagery

Before I could read, I was mesmerized by the pictures. I would flip through pages of magazines and newspapers that were sprawled across the coffee table in my parents’ living room. They were crumpled, old editions of the Atlantic, the Boston Globe, the Daily News of Newburyport, and the like. In my ...

Serial Rapist Darren Sharper Sentenced To 18 Years In Prison

Serial rapist and former NFL star Darren Sharper was sentenced today to 18 years in prison for raping, drugging, and/or attempting to rape 16 women in four different states. Sharper was sentenced in federal court by Judge Jane Triche Milazzo, who previously rejected a global plea deal that would hav...

The Story Behind The Perfect Photo Of Olympic Pain

What does it feel like to have your lifelong dream dashed in an instant? How would you react?...

Florida Gators' Top Receiver Cleared In Sexual Assault Case Adjudicated By Booster

Last Friday, it was revealed the University of Florida would allow Jake Schickel, a Jacksonville lawyer and UF football booster, to serve as the third-party counsel for the Title IX sexual assault case being heard against wide receivers Treon Harris and Antonio Callaway. Today, Callaway was cleared ...

Lawsuit: Kansas "Encouraged" Rowers Raped By Football Player To Cheer At Games

Kansas is currently being sued by two former rowers who say they were raped by the same football player. The player was investigated and expelled, but in their lawsuits both women say the university still violated Title IX in many ways. They claim that they suffered retaliation from the rowing coach...

Armenian Weightlifter Suffers Horrifying Elbow Injury [Graphic]

Andranik Karapetyan is the reigning European champion in 77 kilogram weightlifting, but his hopes for an Olympic medal ended when he suffered a disgusting elbow dislocation while trying to lift 195 kilograms (430 pounds)....

That Man From HBO's <i>The Night Of</i> Is Also A Rapper

Riz Ahmed, best known for playing a college student named Nasir Khan in the The Night Of and Jake Gyllenhaal’s tragic peon in Nightcrawler, has rapped for over a decade under the name Riz MC. Did you know that? Neither did our staff....

Florida Hired Football Booster To Oversee Hearing For Player Accused Of Sexual Assault

The mysterious “student conduct violation” that kept WRs Antonio Callaway and Treon Harris away from the Gators all spring was revealed by ESPN to be an accusation of sexual assault by a female University of Florida student. But that’s just the start of the news today....

Report: Baylor Coerced Rape Victims Into Silence By Threatening To Punish Them For Drinking

Baylor rape victims say the university told women who attempted to report their assaults that their parents would be informed of their alcohol or drug use under the student conduct code and in some circumstances were themselves charged with code violations, according to the Associated Press....

DeMar DeRozan Almost Pulled Off A 360 Dunk Over A Defender

If DeMar DeRozan had managed to stuff this dunk in on this poor Chinese national teamer, it would have been one of the coolest dunks in the history of jams. As it stands, DeRozan finished just shy. The USA bench got a technical foul for their reaction, which seems unfair given that they just nearly ...

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...

Maybe The World Is Finally Starting To Take Online Harassment Seriously

Law enforcement is notorious for not taking online harassment—of which women are often the targets—seriously. The frightening futility of bringing reams of threatening evidence to the police or even the FBI has been painstakingly documented by numerous female writers, but even women who don’t make t...