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Cold-Blooded Andrew Nembhard Winner Helps Florida Knock Off LSU
Florida and LSU had split a pair of overtime games in the regular season, so it’s no surprise their battle today in the SEC Tournament went down to the wire. The teams traded clutch shots in the final minute before the Gators came out on top, 76-73....
Where Do The Rape Allegations Against Corey Maggette And Justin Fairfax Go From Here?
On February 11, Deadline.com reported that Corey Maggette had been taken off the air by Fox Sports West, where he works as a commentator for Los Angeles Clippers games....
Bangladesh National Cricket Team Narrowly Escapes New Zealand Mosque Shooting
The Bangladesh national cricket team is on tour in New Zealand and had just arrived outside a mosque in Christchurch when they heard gunfire erupt inside. The mosque was one of two targeted in the right-wing terrorist attack that left 49 dead in what Prime MinIster Jacinda Ardern has called “one of ...
Phil Mickelson And Joe Montana Swear They Did Not Partake In Any College Scamming When They Hired The College Scam Company<em></em>
The FBI recently busted a bunch of rich assholes who were trying to get their unsuspecting children into college the only way they knew how: by throwing money at the largely superficial roadblock life had put in front of them until it went away. At the center of this operation was an organization kn...
Tony Ferguson's Wife Files Restraining Order Following Multiple Incidents With Police
Cristina Ferguson, wife of UFC lightweight fighter Tony Ferguson, filed a request for a temporary restraining order yesterday against her husband in Orange County Superior Court. Online court records didn’t provide many details about why Christina Ferguson requested the order, but police reports ob...
Browns Fan Got So Excited About Odell Beckham Jr., His Neighbor Called The Cops
The latest reminder that the brains of sports fans function quite differently than those that belong to more well-adjusted individuals comes from Cleveland. Robert Stewart, a young Browns fan, got so excited his team traded for Odell Beckham Jr. that he started running up and down his neighborhood w...
The Innocent Man Freed From Prison Because Of His Golf Artwork Is Making A Career Out Of It
Valentino Dixon tells a story in front of a packed house for his first solo art show, and the crowd is enraptured. He went to prison in 1992, and after he was released in 2018, his daughter bought him his first smartphone....
Tim Miles Was So Excited To Beat Rutgers He Tumbled On His Way Off The Court
The Nebraska Cornhuskers got a truly monumental revenge win tonight in the Big Ten Tournament, erasing the bitter memory of their 76-69 loss to Rutgers back in January by beating the Scarlet Knights 68-61 in yet another installment of this classic Big Ten rivalry....
Get To Know The Rich Assholes Charged With Paying Millions In Bribes To Get Their Kids Into College
Parents obsessing over their kids getting into good colleges is nothing new, but committing actual crimes to make it happen would seemingly require a particular mindset and financial position. When the Justice Department announced yesterday charges and indictments in an absolutely batshit college ad...
IMG Academy Director Who Took Students' Tests Didn't Cheat, Was Just Smart
A total of 50 people have now been charged with various crimes stemming from the FBI’s extensive investigation into college admissions fraud. The alleged mastermind of the scheme is William Rick Singer, the Edge College & Career Network founder who’s accused of facilitating millions in bribes on beh...
Cristiano Ronaldo And Juventus Got Exactly What They Were Looking For<em></em>
Cristiano Ronaldo’s decision to leave Real Madrid last summer was a bet on himself. It was a bet that for as unstoppable a force of nature he’d become, as perfectly complementary a supporting cast he’d found, and as much fame and adulation and trophies and awards he’d won at the most famous and succ...
An Embarrassing Collapse And A Bad Whistle Might Keep Clemson Out Of The NCAA Tournament
Two NCAA Tournament candidates right on the fringe of the field of 68 faced each other on Tuesday afternoon in a second-round ACC Tournament match-up that possibly doubled as a play-in game, and it was NC State who came away victorious. Markell Johnson made a pair of free throws with 2.6 seconds rem...
On Second Thought, Breshad Perriman Would Like To Go To A Team That Might Use Him
Sometimes, it’s best to be realistic. Browns receiver Breshad Perriman, who hasn’t done much in three healthy seasons but showed a little promise in Cleveland last year, decided Tuesday afternoon that he’d be fine sticking with a team that was trending up, even if he’d have to compete with Jarvis La...
Dumbass Causes Gnarly Bike Crash By Just Walking Into The Middle Of A Race
Tirreno-Adriatico, one of the better stage races of the early cycling season, kicked off today with its traditional seaside team time trial. Racing road bikes in the first half of March in Italy is not without its hazards, and while wet roads made for a rather slippery course, the most dangerous imp...
Who Is We?
This past December, the New York Times ran a perfectly anodyne post promoting a new episode of The Daily, its popular podcast, and found itself mildly embarrassed. The problem wasn’t the actual substance of what it had published, a straightforward accounting of how the national-security establishmen...
Atlético Madrid Stuck To The Atlético Way, And Failed
Heading into yesterday’s second leg of their round of 16 matchup against Juventus, Atlético Madrid looked like solid favorites to progress to the quarterfinals, or at least as solid as any team could be going up against the Europe’s most complete team, featuring the best Champions League player ever...
Dear USC, Please Give Us Scholarships As We Also Did Good At Sports
The FBI documents on the massive college admissions bribery scandal suggest that we can improve our odds of being accepted into elite colleges and also the University of Southern California by submitting photo evidence of us playing sports. Some of the Deadspin staff would like to take advantage of ...
These Are The College Coaches Accused Of Turning Rich Kids Into Fake Athletic Recruits<em></em>
By now you should be aware of the hilariously far-reaching college admissions bribery scandal unveiled after today’s FBI bust. If not, you’ve been missing out. College coaches and administrators were crucial to carrying out the scheme, falsely representing applicants as athletic recruits to boost th...
Sportscaster Warner Wolf Says Charges For His Righteous Vandalism Have Been Dropped
Longtime sportscaster Warner Wolf, who was arrested in February on criminal mischief charges for vandalizing the entrance sign outside of his gated community, said today that all charges were dropped and the case was dismissed. Wolf was initially arrested for removing letters that spelled the word “...
Here Are All The Incredible Details From The College Admissions Bribery Scandal<em></em>
Surely by now you have read about the hilarious FBI bust on and subsequent dismantling of The Edge College & Career Network (aka The Key), and its nefarious efforts to get the underachieving sons and daughters of the rich into colleges they either didn’t deserve to attend on merits or couldn’t bribe...