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The NCAA Is Not Going To Tolerate Excess Education
Originally published at Bloomberg View....
Finding Gillooly: What Happened To Figure Skating's Infamous Villain?
"Twenty years," said Jeff Stone, standing at the door of his home in Clackamas, Ore. "Is that what it is?"...
The Truth According To Shoeless Joe
As told to Furman Bisher for Sport magazine back in 1949:...
Penn State: $59.7 Million In Settlements With 26 Sandusky Victims
Penn State announced on its website this afternoon that it reached settlement agreements with 26 of Jerry Sandusky's victims to the tune of $59.7 million. That dollar amount more or less matches the $60 million figure that had been reported over the summer by the Philadelphia-based Legal Intellige...
NCAA Eases Up On Some Penn State Sanctions, Acts Like A Dick About It
The NCAA announced today that it will gradually start restoring some of the football scholarships it took away from Penn State in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal. Beginning next season, the Nittany Lions will get an additional five scholarships back per year, allowing the program to return to...
Franco Harris Has His Tiananmen Square Moment
About 150 people gathered for what was called a March for Truth today outside the Penn State board of trustees' meeting in State College, Pa. Speeches were given. A life-sized cardboard cutout of Joe Paterno showed up. Franco Harris stood near a van carrying several of the trustees....
Was The DA Who Didn't Prosecute Sandusky Killed By A Hells Angel?
Among the alluring storylines just after Jerry Sandusky's November 2011 arrest was the mystery surrounding Ray Gricar, the former Centre County (Pa.) district attorney who went missing in 2005. The case had long gone cold, and Gricar was declared legally dead six years later. But get this: the Altoo...
Orange Pride Member: "Never One-On-One With Recruits"
Sports Illustrated's tortured exposé into the Oklahoma State football program took another hit Friday. A former member of the Orange Pride hostesses—a group accused of using sex (or of being used themselves) to entice recruits into the drug-infested and academically-helpful den of iniquity that is a...
Infographic: How Should I Feel About The Latest Sports Scandal?
You can't pick up a magazine or turn on the radio these days without hearing about a new scandal in the world of sports. This player's career was a front for a massive interstate drug smuggling operation; that league's games were fixed for the benefit of gamblers; players and owners from that other ...
Blindsided
Michael J. Mooney's a good one. I remember liking this GQ story he did a couple of years ago:...
The Most Important Part of <em>SI's</em> Oklahoma State Shamestravaganza
Beneath all of the handwringing and pearl clutching that is laced throughout Sports Illustrated's story on Oklahoma State's pay-for-play schemes is this, the final paragraph:...
Prosecutor From Sandusky Trial: Joe Paterno Not Involved In Cover-Up
Had he lived, would Joe Paterno have been charged with a crime for allegedly covering for Jerry Sandusky's serial sex crimes against children? One of the prosecutors who worked to convict Sandusky last summer said the answer is no....
And Now, Bob Ley Saying "Hashtag: A-Hole" On Television
We owe this special moment to Antonio Bastardo's use of PEDs, and former relief pitcher Dan Meyer's pathetic bitterness. Thanks, fellas....
A-Rod Now Has To Listen As Religious Zealots Harangue Him On The Field
Don't worry too much about A-Rod, you guys. According to his former third-base coach's wife, he's ready to be saved by God, or something....
Bud Selig Poses With A Kid Wearing An “A*Roid” T-Shirt
Reader Adam sends along this photo, which was snapped at a Fanfest event before the 2009 All-Star Game in St. Louis. It's a fitting picture, despite the fact that old man Bud probably didn't notice what was on Adam's shirt before agreeing to pose. ...