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Report: Ex-Baylor Title IX Coordinator Rejected Huge Settlement Offer To Be Able To Go On TV
Former Baylor Title IX coordinator Patty Crawford resigned yesterday, per a university press release that noted that she was, “disappointed in her role in implementing the recommendations” of the Pepper Hamilton investigation that ripped Baylor officials for their incompetence and malfeasance in han...
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Local ESPN Radio Station To Drop ECU Game After Band Protest [Update]
Members of the East Carolina marching band took a knee during the playing of the national anthem prior to Saturday’s game between the Pirates and visiting Central Florida. In addition to being booed and heckled throughout the game, the band and football team are being boycotted by a local ESPN radi...
Root For The Baltimore Orioles In The Playoffs
The Baltimore Orioles gave up their chance at a glorious regular season in fits and starts, but mostly in one four-day span from Sept. 19-22, when they hosted the first-place Boston Red Sox at Camden Yards for a four-game series in which they were swept, losing by scores of 5-2, 5-2, 5-1, and 5-3. W...
The NFL Clearly Has No Idea What Taunting Is
Toward the end of Washington’s victory over Cleveland on Sunday, Skins cornerback Josh Norman intercepted a pass and was penalized for taunting. Norman’s infraction? As referee Jeff Triplette memorably intoned, it was 15 yards for “shooting a bow and arrow.”...
The Identity Of A Famous Person Is News
We are in the midst of one of those periodic collective uproars that demonstrate that a surprising number of people employed in the field of journalism are not actually all that in favor of reporting. ...
Baylor Title IX Coordinator Resigns; Two More Women Join Class-Action Lawsuit
Baylor Title IX coordinator Patty Crawford resigned from her post Monday, according to a university press release. Crawford had been with the school as the head coordinator since 2014—the position was vacant for over three years prior to her hiring, and from 2008-2011, the school reported zero sexua...
How Long Until The NFL's Hard-On For Personal Fouls Ruins A Game?
Even if you believe that Odell Beckham Jr.’s tendency toward emotional outbursts has rightfully earned him extra scrutiny from NFL referees, the unsportsmanlike conduct penalty he was hit with last night was pretty confounding:...
Ravens Fan In Critical Condition After Fight With Raiders Fans
Joseph Bauer, a 55-year-old Ravens fan from the Baltimore suburb of Jessup, is in critical condition at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center after he sustained a head injury during a fight with a pair of Raiders fans at the Ravens Stadium this weekend. The Baltimore Sun first reported on t...
Joe Biden Annihilates Trump For Saying Soldiers With PTSD Aren't "Strong"<em></em>
While speaking at a campaign event for Hillary Clinton in Florida this evening, Joe Biden addressed Donald Trump’s recent comments regarding veterans and mental health. Trump said that military personnel who develop mental health issues after returning from war are not “strong” and “can’t handle it....
HBO's <i>Westworld</i> Is Violent, Philosophical, And Somehow Tons Of Fun
There’s this moment in the premiere of HBO’s Westworld, the network’s latest drama offering and one of its most expensive since Game Of Thrones, when two characters come across a robbery in progress. You’ve watched this scene play out in hundreds of Westerns; the white hat kills the black hats, sav...
Penn State Kicker Opens Up About Eating Disorder
Having laid out both Kent State’s Kavious Price and Michigan’s Jourdan Lewis, Penn State kicker Joey Julius has commanded his fair share of attention this season. Monday, the kicker used his new heightened public profile talk about how an undiagnosed eating disorder recently affected him, encouragin...
A Complete-ish History of Donald Trump's Obsession With His Ideal Woman, His Own Daughter
Earlier today, the Associated Press published a report detailing accusations that, in the course of making The Apprentice, Donald Trump had serially demeaned, belittled, and harassed women involved in the making of the show. The anecdotes were creepy and familiar—rating “female contestants by the si...
Root For The Red Sox In The Playoffs
The Red Sox have barreled their way into yet another postseason after finishing last in the AL East in the two seasons since they last won the World Series. The Sox crashed their way to the third seed in the AL on the strength of an 11-game September winning streak, involving three straight series s...
LeBron James Endorses Hillary Clinton In Op-Ed
LeBron James is endorsing Hillary Clinton in an op-ed published today at Business Insider and appearing tomorrow in the Akron Beacon-Journal, saying that the Democratic candidate “will build on the legacy of my good friend, President Barack Obama.”...
Blue Jays, Orioles, Giants Win; Disturbed Fans Who Anticipated Tiebreaker Games Lose<em></em>
Baseball’s postseason is set after a day that brought promises of excitement like we saw on the final day of 2011's regular season but delivered the most predictable and boring result as all three teams that controlled their own destiny won, shutting out the pretenders that hoped to force tiebreaker...
Donald Trump Wants To Write Your Tweets<em></em>
Apparently, Donald Trump’s devout army of Russian Twitter trolls isn’t getting the job done. What with so many people checking “facts” and “thinking critically about the words coming out of Trump’s mouth,” it can be hard to stay ahead of the mainstream media’s filthy lies. But that, my friends, is w...
Cam Newton Earns Taunting Penalty
Cam Newton will have to keep his nose clean for the rest of today’s game against the Falcons after earning a first-quarter taunting penalty. NFL rules call for a player to be ejected after his second unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, and there’s still 55 minutes of football to get through. ...
Lamar Jackson Got Choked, Lost, And Still Had An Amazing Game
Deshaun Watson and the Clemson Tigers beat Louisville 42-36 Saturday night, but Cardinals QB Lamar Jackson drew the most attention. Determining a Heisman winner this early into the season is foolish, so I won’t, but even the “bad” version of Jackson was fantastic....