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Four College Basketball Coaches Charged With Bribery And Fraud [Updated]

Four college basketball coaches have been arrested after being charged by the Manhattan U.S. Attorney with various counts of bribery and fraud. The arrests resulted from a nearly two-year investigation that examined the shady links between college basketball coaches and outside businesses, including...

Saquon Barkley Slayed The Demons Of Kinnick Stadium

We all thought we had seen this game before. A Big Ten program playing better than they had in generations, heading into Iowa City as a favorite in a night game, sees their entire team slip into neutral under the lights at Kinnick Stadium. Everything that can go wrong for the visitors does go wrong,...

Penn State Stays Undefeated With Touchdown Pass On Game's Final Play

Iowa’s dreams of upsetting Penn State came crashing down as Trace McSorley completed a 65-yard two-minute drill with a touchdown pass to Juwan Johnson on fourth down and with no time remaining on the clock....

Sparty No

We appreciate LJ Scott’s interpretative dance themed around ESPN’s ombudsman, but we feel Michigan State fans would have appreciated him performing it outside of live game action....

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Donald Trump Continues To Go After Outspoken Black Athletes

This morning, we can be fairly sure, Donald Trump was watching the teevee and saw a Fox & Friends report about how star Golden State Warriors point guard Steph Curry wants to not go to the White House if the team is invited there to celebrate their recent championship. He punched a message into Twit...

Draymond Green On Kevin Durant's Twitter Behavior: "I Laughed In His Face"

Last summer, Draymond Green accidentally posted a photo of his penis to his Snapchat story. This summer, Kevin Durant was busted while seemingly attempting to use a burner account to argue with a Twitter troll, trashing his former coach and teammates in the process. ...

Stephen Jackson Has "No Respect" For Kevin Durant After His Deeply Lame Twitter Behavior

Some people feel that Kevin Durant’s sneak-dissing of his former Thunder teammates and coach through the apparent attempted use of a dummy Twitter account to argue with Twitter randos shows Durant’s humanity, his normalcy, his relatability. Others, like former NBA star Stephen Jackson, have correctl...

Kevin Durant Says It Was "Childish" And "Idiotic" To Rip Former Coach And Teammates

Yesterday, Kevin Durant, a tall, expensive shoe who gets revenge on the haters by boasting about how you join them if you can’t beat them, got caught talking shit about his former Thunder coach and teammates on Twitter. It was mean of Durant to slag his old team by claiming he could have never won a...

Kevin Durant Trashes Former Coach, Teammates On Twitter

Thanks to the eagle eye of Twitter user @harrisonmc15, we get to enjoy these since-deleted tweets from Golden State Warriors star Kevin Durant:...

New Mexico Quarterback Lamar Jordan Struggles Off Field After Brutal Hit

New Mexico quarterback Lamar Jordan had to be helped off the field tonight against Boise State, after taking a horrific hit from defensive tackle Chase Hatada. Jordan was taken out of the game—stumbling off the field and struggling to walk on his own—and replaced by backup Coltin Gerhart. Meanwhile,...

Steubenville Rapist Ma'lik Richmond Sues Youngstown State After Being Kicked Off Football Team, Cites "Anti-Male Bias"

After being told that he could not play on the Youngstown State football team this season, Ma’lik Richmond—who was found guilty of rape in juvenile court as a high schooler in the 2013 Steubenville, Ohio, case—is suing the university....

Kirk Herbstreit Smarms On Ohio State Recruit, Who Responds By Calling Him A Sheep

Last weekend, offensive lineman and five-star recruit Jackson Carman visited Ohio State. On Monday, he made the fairly benign comment that he would like to see Dwayne Haskins, Jr. get some playing time. On Tuesday, Kirk Herbstreit chided him for it and doubled down when someone suggested that footba...

Kevin Durant Has Never Been Less Mad, And He Has The Shoes To Prove It

Kevin Durant earned himself a lot of haters last offseason when he left the Oklahoma City Thunder and joined the Golden State Warriors. Now he’s an NBA champion and a Finals MVP, so he’s definitely not still sore about all those mean things people said about him. He’s definitely not still mad about ...

Oklahoma QB Baker Mayfield Issues Weak-Ass Apology For Badass Flag Planting

At the end of the Oklahoma Sooners’ 31-16 victory over Ohio State in Columbus, Baker Mayfield taunted the crowd in one of the coolest possible ways: He planted an Oklahoma flag at midfield....

Hello Pac-12 After Darkness, My Old Friend

Like any great, late college football match-up involving a Pac-12 team, last night/this morning’s Washington State-Boise State battle went well beyond the bounds of acceptable football watching time, with triple overtime wrapping up after 2:30 a.m. on the east coast. Folks, this game had everything:...

Report: Joe Paterno May Have Admitted To Knowing Of Jerry Sandusky's Earlier Abuses

CNN has obtained a Pennsylvania state police report that suggests that Joe Paterno had knowledge of at least one prior act of sexual abuse committed by Jerry Sandusky when Paterno met with whistleblower Mike McQueary in 2002. This version of events would seriously undermine a long-held belief among ...

Urban Meyer Hits Tom Herman With The Classic Scoreboard Burn

With one week and one embarrassing loss in the books, it seems about right that college football fans already have to listen to some Texas coaches squirm and blame-shift....