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N.C. State Announces It Will Fire Mark Gottfried, Just Not Yet<em></em>

After denying reports it planned to fire head coach Mark Gottfried at the end of the season, N.C. State announced Thursday that it plans to fire head coach Mark Gottfried at the end of the season. ...

Michigan State Police Conclude Sexual Assault Investigation, File Warrant Requests

According to an email from Ingham County Prosecutor’s Office spokesperson Scott Hughes, Michigan State police submitted warrant requests regarding the recent sexual assault investigation involving three Spartan football players and one football staffer. ...

Colorado State Recommended Firing Larry Eustachy Three Years Ago After Investigation

A university investigation conducted three years ago found evidence that Colorado State men’s basketball coach Larry Eustachy verbally and emotionally abused his players, and created a culture of fear and intimidation. The investigators recommended that Eustachy should be fired, a move the school pr...

Warriors Prove Their Basketball Strength By Bludgeoning Kings With Insane Third-Quarter Run

The Sacramento Kings went into halftime of tonight’s game against the Golden State Warriors with a three-point lead, all the momentum, and 24 minutes of Draymond Green-less basketball ahead of them. Instead of DeMarcus Cousins leading a valiant repeat victory, they ended up crammed in the dang toile...

Draymond Green Criticizes James Dolan's "Slave Master Mentality"

The pissing match between Charles Oakley and James Dolan’s Swollen Ego has mercifully ended, and now the Knicks’ moribund season can float away on an ice floe and die in peace. The fallout from the extremely public spat, however, isn’t over....

Kansas State President To Students: Please Stop Chanting "Fuck KU," We're On TV

Richard Myers, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President George W. Bush, is in his first year as Kansas State president, and it would seem that some of the finer points of college sports fandom have been lost on the 74-year-old military man. ...

Michigan State Band Director Was Suspended One Week For Sexually Harassing Student<em></em>

Thanks to some hard-nosed student journalists, a recent sexual harassment case involving the Michigan State marching band director has come to light 10 months after the school attempted to address the matter internally....

Michigan State Gymnastics Coach Resigns After Lawsuit Claims She Ignored Sexual Assault Scandal [Update]

Kathie Klages, Michigan State’s women’s gymnastics coach of 27 years, stepped down from her post Tuesday, according to MLive, one day after she was suspended by the university for being involved a Jane Doe lawsuit filed against team physician Larry Nassar, Michigan State, and USA Gymnastics....

Michigan State Suspends Football Staffer; School Police Continue Sexual Assault Investigation

Michigan State spokesperson Jason Cody confirmed that the football team’s director of college advancement and performance Curtis Blackwell was suspended with pay as of Tuesday afternoon....

The Warriors Were No Match For The Mighty Nuggets' Historic Three-Point Barrage

The Golden State Warriors, former NBA Finalists, traveled to Denver to play a depleted Nuggets team tonight. The Dubs were without Klay Thompson and Shaun Livingston, but the Nuggets were short five players of their own due to a series of injuries and short one Mason Plumlee on account of he just go...

Jerry Sandusky's Son Charged With Child Sexual Assault [Update]

Jeffrey Sandusky, the 41-year-old adopted son of former Penn State football coach and convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky, has been charged with sexually assaulting a minor, among other counts....

77-Year-Old Bill Snyder Plans To Coach Through Throat Cancer Treatment

Bill Snyder, Kansas State’s 77-year-old head coach, announced on Monday morning that he’s been receiving treatment for throat cancer for the past three weeks. In a statement, Snyder said he plans to continue coaching the Wildcats while he undergoes treatment. ...

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Draymond Green Scored 4 Points Last Night And Got A Triple-Double Anyway

About a year ago, we published a blog asking for someone to name the rare stat line that Draymond Green had pulled off multiple times that season—a triple-double with perfect shooting from the field....

Report: Disgraced Former Baylor President Ken Starr Is The Frontrunner For A Post In Trump Administration

Ken Starr (yes, that Ken Starr) served as president of Baylor University until the summer of 2016, when he was ousted in the wake of Baylor’s sexual assault scandal. Starr claimed to have no knowledge of the series of alleged sexual assaults committed by football players, and even as he tried to sav...

Three Michigan State Players Suspended While Police Investigate Sexual Assault Allegations

Michigan State suspended three football players and one staffer Thursday afternoon, revealing in a press release that the four unidentified team members are currently being investigated by the university for a sexual assault reported in “late January.” The school police department is currently headi...

Steph Curry Calls Trump An Ass, Voices Opposition To Under Armour CEO's Pro-Trump Takes

Under Armour’s been in the news a lot lately, first for a huge one-day drop in the value of the company and yesterday for CEO Kevin Plank’s remarks that Donald Trump’s presidency would be a “real asset” for the country. Plank engaged in some jargon-heavy triage (subject: UNDER ARMOUR STATEMENT - PRO...

Michael Jordan Dunked On The Warriors' Trophy-Humping Owner

Warriors owner Joe Lacob is precisely the kind of Silicon Valley-bred dipshit who deserves to have his ego deflated whenever possible. Thankfully, NBA legend and pettiest human on earth Michael Jordan is here to do just that. ...

DeMarcus Cousins Was His Best Self And The Kings Took Down The Warriors

What should have been an easy win for the Warriors became an overtime upset, courtesy of DeMarcus Cousins and the Kings....