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Florida State Fan Learns The Hard Way What Happens When You Use A Mirror To Put On Your Face Paint
Go Seminoles! Beat the srotaG! Paint your face like a champion today, or something. (It's a good game, you should be watching it.)...

What Was Up With ABC's Soundtrack For The Michigan-Ohio State Game?
Ohio State completed its undefeated, ineligible season by defeating Michigan 26-21 in college football's best rivalry game today, but viewers seemed consumed as much by ABC/ESPN's choice in bump music as they were the action happening on the field. We're not sure what prompted the eclectic mix, but...

Say This For Newly Former Arkansas Head Coach John L. Smith: He Screwed Only Himself, Never The Help
The University of Arkansas will not be renewing the contract of interim coach John L. Smith, the university announced today, confirming what everyone and his sister knew the minute then-No. 8 Arkansas lost in Little Rock to Louisiana-Monroe on Sept. 8. Smith's team cliff-dove out of the polls, then ...

Deadspin NBA Shit List: Don Nelson, Drunk On His Own Genius (And Scotch)
A celebration of the NBA's most infuriating players, both past and present. Read other NBA Shit List entries here....

College ShameDay: Who Embarrassed Themselves On Saturday (Besides Kansas State, Of Course)?
Our weekly college football shame index. ...

Losses By Oregon, Kansas State Ensure All-SEC Title Game
Welp, it happened. Kansas State, once thought unbeatable†, loosed the SI-cover-jinx-aided mother of all bedshits Saturday. Call it the revenge of the Southwest* Conference: Texas A&M downs the No. 1 Crimson Tide last week, Baylor (editor's note: LOL) conks the Wildcats this week. This is agonizingly...

Kansas State Gets Blown Out By Baylor And Oregon Falls To Stanford At Home As The Top Two BCS Teams Get Their First Losses On The Same Night
A week from college football's end-of-season reckoning and Kansas State and Oregon, ranked first and second respectively in the BCS standings going into today's games, have taken their first losses of the season. The defeats likely pave the way for a new BCS leader in (gulp) Notre Dame, a 38-0 win...

Reports: The Big Ten Wants Maryland And Rutgers
Pat Forde and ESPN are reporting that serious talks are afoot to fold Maryland and Rutgers into the Big Ten. Not only would that create a 14-member conference that'd surely be the biggest Ten in the world, it would reopen the scabby wound of major conference realignment. The ACC, the Terps' current ...

Boston College Suspends Women's Soccer Player For Tweeting Penn State Sandusky Jokes
Boston College is scheduled to play at Penn State tonight in the second round of the NCAA women's soccer tournament. Stephanie McCaffrey, a sophomore and a second-team all-ACC forward who had scored a goal in BC's first-round win over Hofstra, prepared for the trip to State College by tweeting a bun...

Deadspin NBA Shit List: Antawn Jamison, Captain Of Failure
A celebration of the NBA's most infuriating players, both past and present. Read other NBA Shit List entries here....

Deadspin NBA Shit List: Andris Biedrins, The Man Who Forgot How To Shoot
A celebration of the NBA's most infuriating players, both past and present. Read other NBA Shit List entries here....
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The Official NCAA Online Store Stopped Selling Penn State Gear Today. Why? [UPDATE]
As first discovered by Centre County Report, the PSU College of Communications' news program, the NCAA Shop this morning took down all Penn State merchandise from their site. The Nittany Lions aren't listed among the teams available, and a search for Penn State turns up no results....

After Blown Call And Ensuing Freakout, One Journo Wonders If Penn State Football Should Have Received The Death Penalty
I think you'd probably have to call Chris Otto brave. Not because the sports editor of the York Daily Record is taking a principled stand, or because his opinion is correct, but because he's doing it knowing exactly what the public reaction would be. (Take a look at his Twitter mentions for a taste....

The Tackling Technique Roger Goodell Says Will Make Football Safer. (It Won't.)
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The Washington State Fan Chugging Fireball Whisky At Saturday's Game Deserves Our Acclaim
Fireball is a so-called "cinnamon whisky." You can tell it comes from Canada because the word whisky is missing an "e" and they don't adulterate their whisky in Scotland....

Marquess Wilson Exits Washington State With A Letter Alleging Mental And Physical Abuse From Mike Leach's Coaching Staff
Marquess Wilson, suspended indefinitely from an underperforming Washington State team by head coach Mike Leach this past week, is leaving the team. He was second-team All-American last year and tops the Cougars' all-time receiving yards list. Here's the letter he gave to the Visalia Times-Delta, in ...

Deshazor Everett's Name And His Interception To Beat Alabama Are Equally Fantastic
As subplots go, the Alabama-Texas A&M game had an unexpected one from the end of the first quarter through the tense final minute: an errant extra point. Up until the decisive few seconds, when a Bama penalty on an Aggies punt killed the dregs of game clock, there lingered the question of whether...

Welcome Back, College Basketball: Two Games Ended In Excellent Buzzer Beaters On The First Night Of The Season
It wasn't all imperiled basketball players and disappointed veterans on college basketball's first night back. Above, Alabama and South Dakota St. were tied at 67 going into the final possession when Trevor Lacey got the ball and—well, you should just watch it. Spoiler alert: they didn't go into o...

Your College Football Open Thread
Three weeks of regular season college football left! The process by which teams go from "disappointing start" to "wait-a-minute-are-we-even-going-to-make-a-bowl-game" was set in motion months ago, but this is when everyone notices, so there should be some excellent temper tantrums across university ...

Silas Redd And The Different Types Of Losing
When star running back Silas Redd transfered from Penn State to USC in July, it seemed like an eminently reasonable decision. Redd had come to Penn State when its football program was known for its immense fan base, for Joe Paterno, and for its recent resurrection after a few down years—in the five ...