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Bubble Dumb: College Football Coaches Are The Last People Who Should Be In Charge
It’s long been a truth to college football coaches that any problem can be solved by making sure players study their playbooks more. Creating a “bubble,” as they see it in their mind, is actually utopia to pretty much every college football coach. An environment where all a player can do is stay in ...
Amid Racism & Abuse Claims, Did 'Depressed Fan' Sniff Out Colorado State Coach's Twitter Burner Account?
It’s been a rough week for Colorado State football, as the program has been shut down while the school investigates allegations of racism and verbal abuse, in addition to a report from the Coloradoan that the team was telling players to hide coronavirus symptoms so that practices could continue....
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NCAA athletes can keep scholarships with opt-out [UPDATED]
The NCAA will allow students to opt-out of the season due to concerns over COVID-19 and still honor athletic scholarships, it was reported Wednesday....
Pac-12 Football Players Use Their Platforms To Promote #WeAreUnited Message, Demand Better Treatment
Since the #WeAreUnited letter released via the Players’ Tribune, Pac-12 players have come out to publicly support the letter written by a collection of conference athletes....
Unity Movement's Kassidy Woods Cut from WSU to Avoid 'Mixed Messages'
John Woods Jr. has been in his son’s shoes....
Floodgates Should (But Won't) Open Behind First NCAA Football Player to Opt-Out
Virginia Tech starting cornerback Caleb Farley, a projected first-round pick, decided he could end his monetarily abusive relationship with the NCAA a little earlier than scheduled. Farley became the first college football player to opt out of the 2020 season due to concerns surrounding COVID-19....
Racist College Coaches Are Getting Exposed by Their Players, and it's Awesome
Oklahoma State’s Mike Gundy was just the tip of the iceberg....
K-State Football is Latest Example of College Athletes Recognizing Their Power
You’ve heard of Black Power....
NCAA & SEC Hit the State of Mississippi Where it Hurts the Most
Allegiance to the Confederate flag is starting to become costly....
Mike Gundy and White America Can Save Their Apologies
Most apologies are fake....
Brett Favre Took a Million Dollar Payout for a PSA and We Want to Know Why
Last month, Brett Favre found himself tied to a scandal in which $1.1 million meant for needy families in Mississippi instead wound up in the bank account of the Hall of Fame quarterback in exchange for one public service announcement and three speeches he never made....
MLB’s Milquetoast-Ass Protest Statement Is Infuriating, But No Surprise
Major League Baseball took until Wednesday to finally join the parade of somber plain-text public relations statements acknowledging that racism is, in fact, bad....
Kendrick Perkins Is Right: Harden Is Better Than Curry
It’s been a while since we’ve seen a live NBA game. But Monday NBA Twitter was acting like it caught amnesia when the topic on the table was determining who was better: Steph Curry or James Harden....
Draymond Green Is Right About Kevin Durant. But He's Also Dead Wrong
Draymond Green is right....
ASU Recruit Josh Christopher Part Of New Wave Of Socially Conscious College Athletes
We’re seeing a new generation of NCAA athlete....
Lynching Jokes Don't Fly In Mississippi And Mike Leach Doesn't Deserve The Benefit Of The Doubt
Mike Leach isn’t gonna make it....
Is There Any Big Ten Program That <i>Doesn't</i> Have a Hideous Sex Abuse Scandal Lurking In Its Past?
Once is a mistake, twice is a coincidence, three times is a pattern....
If Only Kevin Durant Had Beaten The Shit Out Of Draymond Green
Golden State Warriors fans are in the process of suffering through a rotation anchored by the legendary Eric Paschall, the even more legendary Omari Spellman, and the beyond legendary Ky Bowman. Stephen Curry (out indefinitely with a Rice Krispie’d hand) and Klay Thompson (waiting for various knee l...