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Judge Blocks Gag Order Forbidding All "Potential Witnesses" Against Larry Nassar From Speaking
A federal judge in Michigan has temporarily blocked a gag order banning “all current and potential witnesses” in a criminal case involving disgraced gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar from speaking out. In her ruling today, U.S. District Court Judge Janet Neff said she was approving the request for the ...

Gymnasts Who Say Larry Nassar Abused Them Sue To Stop A Judge From Silencing Them
Less than a week after a Michigan circuit judge told all “potential witnesses” against disgraced gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar to stop talking, several women who said Nassar sexually abused them are fighting back. Rachael Denhollander, Lindsey Lemke, and Jamie Dantzscher, as well as the “more than ...

Judge Tells All "Potential Witnesses" In Larry Nassar Case To Shut Up
One day after several women testified before Congress about how disgraced former gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar sexually abused them, the judge overseeing one of the related criminal cases issued an order restricting what can be said. On Wednesday, Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Rosemarie Aquilin...

What Does Mike Pence Think Happens At Restaurants?<em></em><em></em>
Here is a deeply weird thing:...

Texas State Senators Ripped Into A Stammering Baylor Interim President<em></em>
As Baylor continues to insist that everything is just fine after admitting to making life miserable for women who reported they were raped, while simultaneously claiming it does “not have a legal duty to protect their students from harm caused by other students,” Texas lawmakers are considering a ...

High School All-American Dishes Out Around-The-World Alley-Oop
Colin Sexton is heading to Alabama next year to play for the Crimson Tide, but not before he lights it up one last time at the high school level. He’s playing in the All-American game tonight, and he’s spending his time creating outrageous highlights, such as this gyroscopic alley-oop assist....

Baylor Files Motion To Dismiss Lawsuit Claiming 52 Rapes By Football Players In Four Years
Lawyers for Baylor University filed yesterday a motion to dismiss the Title IX lawsuit that said no less than 31 football players committed 52 rapes between 2011 and 2014, under then-head coach Art Briles. The motion, filed in U.S. District Court in Texas, claims that “as a general rule, universiti...

Reports: Second Ex-Baylor Football Player Arrested In 2013 Sexual Assault Case
Former Baylor linebacker Shamycheal “Myke” Chatman was arrested today in connection to a 2013 sexual assault case, in which a woman has said she was gang raped by two football players, according to multiple reports. The Waco Tribune-Herald and local TV station KWTX both reported that Chatman was arr...
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Appeals Court Overturns Sexual Assault Conviction Of Ex-Baylor DE Sam Ukwuachu [Updated]
A Texas appeals court has overturned the sexual assault conviction of former Baylor football player Sam Ukwuachu—whose 2015 criminal case began a process that ultimately ended with Baylor admitting it had for years made the lives of students who reported they were raped a living hell. Ukwuachu was f...

Gymnast Explains Why She Felt Nobody Would Believe She Was Sexually Assaulted
Disgraced former gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar already has been criminally charged with sexually abusing nine gymnasts, put in jail, and fired from his job at Michigan State. The university, which cleared Nassar in a 2014 complaint, also went ahead this year with another investigation—this from a c...

Ex-Baylor TE Tre'Von Armstead Charged With Sexual Assault From 2013
Former Baylor tight end Tre’Von Armstead was arrested today in Port Arthur, Texas, and charged with three counts of felony second-degree sexual assault, per ESPN and the Waco Tribune-Herald. The Tribune-Herald first broke the news tonight that Armstead was indicted last week for an alleged sexual as...

Three Minnesota Football Players Cleared In University Sexual Assault Case
Three football players who were recommended for suspensions as part of a University of Minnesota sexual assault investigation have had those punishments overturned, lawyers for the players announced yesterday. After this latest round of appeals, so far four of the five recommended expulsions in the...

War Machine Found Guilty On 29 Of 34 Charges Of Violence And Sexual Assault
A Las Vegas jury found former MMA fighter War Machine (born Jon Koppenhaver) guilty today on 29 charges for when he brutally beat ex-girlfriend Christy Mack and her male friend Corey Thomas back in 2014. The jury deliberated for a day and a half before finding War Machine guilty of most of the charg...

Lawyer: Three Purdue Football Players Expelled After University's Sexual Assault Investigation
The lawyer representing the family of an alleged victim in the Purdue football sexual assault case has announced that three of the football players involved have been dismissed from the team and expelled....

USA Gymnastics CEO Steve Penny Resigns Amid Sexual-Abuse Scandal
USA Gymnastics CEO and president Steve Penny resigned today, following weeks of people demanding he leave as the details of how USA Gymnastics protected coaches and trainers accused of sexual abuse continue coming out. A trove of documents unsealed by a Georgia court last week revealed even more de...

Here Are Two Very Good Turtles<em></em>
At 6:32 p.m. EDT, Deadspin received a tip from reader Brad, subject line “I like turtles.” He promised a video of his aunt’s turtles, and boy did he deliver....

Baylor President Says The University Has Done Its Christian Duty
Baylor president David Garland spoke to the Chronicle of Higher Education about his school’s ongoing sexual assault scandal. It feels like every week there is a new development that makes Baylor look somehow worse than it already did, but Garland just can’t seem to understand why folks haven’t moved...

Six Months Later, Michigan State Notifies Female Athletes About Its Sexual Assault Scandal
Six months after the Larry Nassar sexual assault scandal broke, and after hearing from current and former female athletes, Michigan State announced on Tuesday that the school sent a mass email from athletic director Mark Hollis to all female athletes that played for the Spartans over the past 20 yea...

Report: Kansas Punished Women's Basketball Player, Not Josh Jackson, For Role In Bar Argument
The Kansas City Star continues to highlight the male-first atmosphere that appears to embody Kansas athletics, reporting on Friday that women’s basketball player McKenzie Calvert was barred from Allen Fieldhouse for two days after her was car vandalized and she was accosted by a star member of the m...

Report: Court Records Show How Little USA Gymnastics Did To Stop Sexual Abuse
A Georgia judge released today thousands of pages of administrative files showing how USA Gymnastics handled reports of sexual abuse by coaches, with some not banned “until years after they were convicted of crimes against children,” according to the Indianapolis Star. The files were released due to...