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Judge Awards Mike McQueary Additional $5 Million In Whistleblower Lawsuit
Penn State chose not to stand by whistleblower Mike McQueary when he brought forward allegations of child sex abuse and later served as a witness in the case against Jerry Sandusky and the university. Now, the school is paying the price. ...
Fuck Whoever Made This Sign
The bar for college football fans is really low, and yet, this joke about the water crisis in Flint, Mich., wiggles under it....
I Mean, You Shouldn't Fuck With Jabrill Peppers When He's Happy
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Ohio State Takes Down Michigan In Double Overtime
No. 2 Ohio State defeated no. 3 Michigan for their fifth straight victory in The Game, winning 30-27 in two overtimes. ...
Michigan Does Butt Stuff: Your <i>College GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
College GameDay was an insufferable five hours long today, a duration that allowed for the University of Texas to fire its head coach and hire a new one during the same broadcast. Here are some signs Bucknuts brought to the Oval....
Michigan-Ohio State <i>Tecmo Super Bowl</i> Simulation Is Live!
It’s time for a CPU vs CPU simulation of The Game. Will Michigan win? Can Urban Meyer lead the Buckeyes to a huge victory? Find out, LIVE:...
NCSU & UNC Launch Bench-Clearing Brawl
North Carolina State and North Carolina brawled in the second quarter today after a play eventually ruled an incompletion after video replay....
Steph Curry Nailed This Shot From Goddamn Mars
I’m not sure Steph Curry is ever truly out of shooting range, and he should be deputized to chuck from wherever he damn well pleases. Tonight, he tossed off a double-pump heave from two-thirds court or so, and he swished it. Sadly, it didn’t count....
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Michigan State Holds On Against FGCU After Incredible Clock Operator Blunder [Update]
Michigan State claimed its second win of the year after the 13th-ranked Spartans beat Florida Gulf Coast thanks in part to a clock blunder on the game’s final play that officials decided to let stand....
NBA Fines Steve Kerr $25,000 For Offer To "Literally Put Together A Blooper Reel" Of Bad Calls
Following Wednesday’s win over the Toronto Raptors, Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr shared his thoughts on NBA officiating with the Bay Area’s KNBR 680:...
Zaza Pachulia Is A God-Awful Dancer
A totally open jumper in the third quarter of a blowout is not usually cause for celebration. But Warriors center Zaza Pachulia was feeling it on Friday night, goddamnit, and after hitting a mid-range jump shot to put Golden State ahead by 28, he wanted to dance. If “dance” is the appropriate term...
Got That Midrange Jumper Swag
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The USMNT Got The Ass Whooping They Deserved
The United States Men’s National Team is in a bad place right now. A few days after losing the opening game of the final round of World Cup qualifying 2-1 to Mexico, they traveled down to Costa Rica and got played off the pitch by Los Ticos from the first whistle. Costa Rica are a perfectly fine tea...
What It's Like To Wake Up And Find Yourself Working For Donald Trump
Career civil and foreign service employees in the U.S. government woke up last week to the prospect of having to work for Donald Trump. What are all these (publicly discreet) professionals actually thinking right now? We have a small glimpse....
Gifts For Golden State Warriors Fans
The Golden State Warriors went 73-9 during the 2015-16 NBA regular season, only to see their championship aspirations dashed in the Finals, where they blew a 3-1 lead to LeBron James’s Cleveland Cavaliers....
Warriors And Suns Enact Humanity's Doomed Search For Meaning<em></em>
The Warriors beat the Suns 133-120 tonight, but the game wasn’t entirely the display of offensive efficiency suggested by that final score. Here’s a sequence of abject futility and a metaphor for the human condition in 2016—saved, as we are always, by Stephen Curry....
Kadeem Allen Goes Coast-To-Coast To Beat Michigan State<em></em>
Arizona’s Kadeem Allen went coast-to-coast to score the winning basket that knocked off 12th-ranked Michigan State and give Arizona a win in the season-opener. Spartans, what are you doing?...
Steve Kerr Rips Donald Trump And The Whole Damn Election
The Warriors ran the Mavericks 116-95 in Oakland last night, but way more interesting and important were Golden State coach Steve Kerr’s pregame comments on the campaign and the new President-elect: “The man who’s going to lead you has routinely used racist, misogynist, insulting words. That’s a tou...
Report On Voter Intimidation Interrupted By Very Insistent Skateboarder
Tonight Columbus’s WSYX reported live from the scene of where witnesses say Trump supporters outside a polling station have been threatening OSU students with rape if they vote for Hillary Clinton. That would prompt what you’d expect to be a very serious conversation, except for the skateboarder who...
Steph Curry Hits 13 Threes, Breaking Single-Game Record
One game after failing to make a single three-pointer for the first time in 157 games, Steph Curry went crazy on the Pelicans and broke the single-game record by hitting 13 threes. He shot 13-for-17 from three on the evening, and ended up with 46 points in the Warriors win....