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Larry Nassar's Former Boss, William Strampel, Charged With Sexual Misconduct [Updated]

William Strampel, the former dean of the osteopathic medical school at Michigan State University, has been charged with criminal sexual conduct by the Michigan attorney general’s office. Strampel supervised convicted sex offender Larry Nassar while both were employed by MSU....

Dr. William Strampel, Former Michigan State Boss Of Larry Nassar, Arrested

Dr. William Strampel—the former boss of convicted serial sexual abuser Dr. Larry Nassar and dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine at Michigan State—was arrested this evening on undisclosed charges....

Lawyer: Michael Bennett "Never Touched" Paraplegic Stadium Worker

Michael Bennett appeared in a Houston courtroom today and posted bail on his felony charge of injury of the elderly. The charge was filed last week when prosecutors said that, in a rush to get onto the field at Super Bowl 51, Bennett pushed through a crowd and hurt a paraplegic security worker. Toda...

Deadspin Up All Night: I Done Had Enough Of Them

Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Can’t stop, won’t stop....

Four Idiots On The Field Invade Portugal Match; One Tries To Kiss Cristiano Ronaldo

At one point during today’s Portugal-Netherlands friendly match, there were three Idiots On The Field who tried to share a moment with Cristiano Ronaldo. One of them went so far as to attempt to lock lips with the Portugal captain:...

"I Like The Whimpering": Deadspin Editors Mock Innocent Child Cheering For Duke

On Sunday, Duke lost to No. 1 seed Kansas. Depending on your loyalties—more precisely, depending on if you’re one of the North Carolinians that overpaid for your undergraduate education or one of the Northeastern private schoolers that couldn’t make the cut at Yale—you took this one of two ways....

<i>New York Times</i> Vows Column Includes Charming Anecdote About Groom Being Assaulted By FSU Fans

True love! It comes for all of us, if we’re lucky, and if we’re wise enough to recognize it when it does. Usually it’s identifiable only in hindsight. Go ask any happily married couple, and they’ll eagerly and wistfully tell you about the moment when they realized their partner was The One. Oh, that...

Loyola-Chicago's Been Here Before

Loyola-Chicago punched its ticket to the Final Four on Saturday by handing out its first decisive ass-kicking of the tournament after all those heart-stopping wins. If you saw them thrash Kansas State, 78-62—or if you’d seen them eke out one win after another en route to the Elite Eight—you know the...

A White Sox groundskeeper who spent 23 years in prison for a gruesome crime he didn’t commit is now back at his old job after DNA evidence exonerated him. [Chicago Tribune]...

Junior Hockey Team Stunts On Blowout Victims With Sick Goals

The OHL’s Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds took a 2-0 series lead on Saginaw yesterday, earning a win in both a stylish and maybe kind of over-the-top fashion. With a 6-0 lead in the third period, the Greyhounds were ... let’s say, unrestrained as they played out the final minutes....

Albert Belle Charged With Indecent Exposure And DUI After Arrest At Spring Training Game [Update]

Former MLB player Albert Belle was arrested Sunday at a Diamondbacks spring training game at Salt River Fields in Scottsdale, Ariz., as reported by FOX 10. According to arrest records from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, Belle was charged with two counts of indecent exposure and two counts of ...

Steph Curry Will Miss At Least The Start Of The Playoffs

Steph Curry’s knee injury could have been much, much worse, which is just about the only good thing you can say for the Warriors. It was diagnosed as a Grade 2 MCL sprain, and we won’t see Curry again in the regular season and for at least part of the playoffs. “There’s no way” he returns earlier th...

Stormy Daniels. Stormy Daniels. Stormy Daniels. 

Deadspin Up All Night: Wild Is the Wind

Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. How certain are you that there has ever been a greater song than this one?...

Villanova Cruises Past Texas Tech For Second Final Four Trip In Three Years

Villanova used balanced scoring and a flat-out unfair advantage on the boards to cruise past third seed Texas Tech, 71-59, and advance to their second Final Four in three years, and third trip during head coach Jay Wright’s tenure....

Stormy Daniels's Lawyer Once Handed Jerry Jones His Own Ass In Open Court

Last week Jack Dickey of Sports Illustrated published a neat look at the history of Michael Avenatti, the lawyer representing porn actress Stormy Daniels in her suit against President Trump. I recommend reading it, as it’s been a strange route to this moment of sudden cultural prominence for Avenatt...

Australian Men Caught Cheating In That Sport We All Understand So Well, Which Is Cricket

We’ve got a major cricket scandal, folks. A young Australian player was caught more or less red-handed doctoring up the ball, so obviously and egregiously that his team’s captain was forced to come clean and cop to a plot among the team’s leadership. This is from a Sport 24 report:...

Leonard Hamilton Treats Dana Jacobson Like Shit For Asking Totally Legitimate Question [UPDATE]

Florida State allowed Michigan to walk away with tonight’s win, choosing not to foul despite being down only four points and multiple teams this month winning while facing similar game scenarios. CBS’s Dana Jacobson asked Seminoles head coach Leonard Hamilton after the game to explain his decision, ...

Deadspin Up All Night: Midnight Sun

Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. The daffodils are back, my friends....

As Bad News Goes, Steph Curry's Injury Update Is Good News

The alternate headline for this blog is “As Good News Goes, Steph Curry’s Injury Update Is Bad News”—you can choose for yourself whether to be a glass-is-half-full sort on this. At any rate, the update on Steph’s busted knee is in:...