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Geno Auriemma tests positive for COVID, will miss first round of tournament
Hours before the Women’s Basketball selection show, UConn announced that head coach Geno Auriemma tested positive for COVID-19. According to the school, the coach received a positive test result on Sunday. As far as we know, he did not come into contact with anyone since Friday, March 12. All Tier I...
Getting fired is sure to induce March Madness of a sort
It’s March Madness for coaches, too....
Which football powerhouse could cut down nets at the Final Four?
The Madness is finally back, and the matchups are finally set for what will be one of the strangest NCAA tournaments in recent history. Not only will COVID-19 likely have an impact on the games within the Indiana “bubble,” but this year we are missing some of the most storied programs in all of coll...
Rick Pitino and Will Wade in the NCAA Tournament proves the FBI’s college basketball probe was a joke
Almost four years ago, the FBI dropped a bomb on college basketball. It turned out to be more like a janky firecracker....
The 10 best men’s college basketball national champions from 1990-1999
If you lived through the ‘90s then you understand just how important and historic that decade was. And if you didn’t, someone who did has probably tried to explain it to you over, and over, and over again....
March Madness, the NCAA’s biggest moneymaker, is back
You know that saying about how you should never put all your eggs in one basket? Well, that’s the only way the NCAA knows how to operate.....
Drew Brees retires, dashing hopes of one more season with the Saints
Drew Brees has announced his retirement 15 years to the day that he joined the New Orleans Saints. Brees posted a video on his Instagram of his four kids breaking the news. ...
Man lived in The Vet, somehow didn’t die of leprosy, was maybe good luck charm for Phillies and Eagles
Tom Garvey’s story, captured in his autobiography that has made the headlines in the past couple days, should make for some wild, inconceivable reading. Because no one much wanted to even attend games at Philadelphia’s Veteran’s Stadium, and that was only a stay of a matter of hours. An afternoon or...
Trevor Stewart walks down Power Five in 4x400 relay, shows why NCAT Track is above the rest
Arguably the best HBCU track program of the past decade just made history again....
Caris LeVert’s Pacers debut tonight after overcoming kidney cancer is rare 2020-21 bright spot
When James Harden was traded to the Nets on January 14, one of Brooklyn’s prized outgoing pieces was rising swingman Caris LeVert. ...
When will we see Jack Eichel again? Who knows, it's Buffalo
This season has been a great big ball of suck for the Buffalo Sabres. They’re stuck in the loaded East Division, have played 25 games, won an NHL-worst six, and they don’t exactly have a lot of hope for the future....
A small school in Georgia is channeling the 1986 Mets in all the best ways
There’s a moment in 1986 Mets: A Year To Remember, the greatest sports year-in-review video ever made, when, as Ray Knight hits a walkoff homer to beat the Astros on July 3, Tim McCarver crows, “They’re spreading the news that they are right now the dominant team in this game — in either league!”...
Tom Brady takes less money again? How is that possible? Oh now I remember
I feel like Bill Murray in Groundhog’s day....
Tom Izzo, Michigan State cross advertising rubicon in a banner week for the NCAA
In the same week that the NCAA disclosed that they don’t really have a plan if anything goes sideways at their Indiana NCAA Tournament, and Les Miles and Jeff Long showed what kind of people are really in charge, Michigan State may have taken the cake. That is, if the cake were sponsored by Betty Cr...
Let's predict where this batch of high-profile quarterbacks will end up next year
We are in the throes of NFL speculation season. So much so that, as I’m writing, I feel as though it’s entirely possible I will have to scrap this entire article because Russell Wilson may have been traded to the Bears. Seriously – Chicago Bears Reddit is literally tracking a private jet flight from...
Basketball should be ashamed by Meyers Leonard’s slap on the wrist
The NBA has decided that using an antisemitic slur is worth the same fine as violating COVID protocols or violating anti-tampering rules....
The day it all fell apart: Deadspin talks to journalists all over the sports world about what they remember when everything shut down
A year ago today was our last “normal” day. At least in the beginning. Only we didn’t know it....
Will the Big Ten’s 21-year national title drought end next month?
On April 3, the national championship trophy inside of the Breslin Center at Michigan State University will be old enough to drink. When that day arrives in three weeks, it will mark 21 years since the Spartans, led by Mateen Cleaves, won their last national title....
Kansas rids itself of another boil on its ass, this time in the shape of Jeff Long
It was the only logical conclusion, probably should have happened weeks ago, but there’s still some spiritual affirmation with the news that Jeff Long was shitcanned as Kansas’ AD....
College athletes: NCAA must act swiftly against states passing transgender discrimination laws
College athletes are challenging the NCAA to stand up for the rights of transgender athletes....