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Is This The Worst Division I College Basketball Team Of All Time?
See that video up there? That's two-plus minutes of highlights from Cleveland State's 92-49 victory over Grambling State on Nov. 9. Put another way: It's two-plus minutes of lowlights from the first game of what's shaping up to be the worst Division I college basketball season in history. ...
How Bad Does Hockey Hazing Have To Be To Get An Entire Women's College Team Suspended?
Last week we brought you the news that Dalhousie University, in Halifax, is shutting down it's women's hockey team for the rest of the season, after suspending 19 of its 24 members for their participation in a freshman hazing incident in September. We wondered just how bad the hazing was to qualify ...
Women's College Hockey Team Shut Down For Hazing
Dalhousie University, in Halifax, wasn't having a great season. The Tigers were 2-8-2, good for last in their division. They're probably not going to climb out of that hole since the team forfeited all their remaining games, after all but a handful of players have been suspended for their roles in f...
Here's The Bitchy Sign An LSU Strength And Conditioning Coach Used To Embarrass Motivate His Players
This photograph (via @SEC_Logo) of a sign posted in the LSU training room. It reads:...
Forbes's 2012 List Of The Most Valuable Teams In College Football Reads A Lot Like The 1936 AP Poll
Forbes's latest best guess at the most valuable college football programs is out, and if you're a Texas fan, congratulations: Your slavering devotion to the Death Star of the Big 12 has paid off once again. You're number one! Granted, you're in the "also receiving votes" category in the AP's poll of...
Cincinnati And UConn Said To Ponder Starting Yet Another Geographically Absurd Conference
With the Big East in full meltdown mode, two of the traditional basketball powers are considering a move to the ACC—or, barring that, UConn and Cincinnati will take their ball and go start their own conference, according to The Sporting News. The only flaw in this plan is that the new conference wou...
Torii Hunter Seems A Little Bitter About That Josh Hamilton Contract
Torii Hunter should be feeling good these days. He's coming off of a terrific season and he just signed a two-year, $26 million contract with the AL champion Detroit Tigers. Not bad for a 37-year-old outfielder!...
"Dese Coaches Run A Train On Arkansas State": A Player Ponders Gus Malzahn's Departure
We're almost reluctant to out a certain Don Jones II as a master of Twitter, because we all know that s̶t̶u̶d̶e̶n̶t̶s̶ athletes who exhibit true voice on social media scare the thin liquid shits out of university athletics officials. But what the hell....
A Skeptic's Guide To The 2012 Heisman Trophy
Remember the lullaby afternoons of September, when we all figured we'd see a Heisman winner who merited the award? Maybe a Geno Smith, slinging the ball all over the yard, or even a Matt Barkley, who despite being named after Big Bird's dog had the right pedigree and weaponry (Robert Woods and Marqu...
Jim "Jimbo" Leyland Was The Most Popular Boy At His High School 50 Years Ago
Jim Leyland held court for the media today at baseball's winter meetings, and by all indications, he put on quite a show. Craig Calcaterra over at Hardball Talk has all of the highlights—Leyland on the World Baseball Classic: "I support it because the Commissioner gets mad when I say I don't support...
The Honey Badger Is Headed To The NFL
After being thrown off of the LSU football team due to multiple failed drug tests and getting sent to John Lucas's anti-drug gulag, Tyrann Mathieu has decided that he's had enough of the NCAA. A few hours ago he released a statement with his intention to declare for the 2013 NFL draft and sent out ...
Bucket-Hat Clemson Bro Flipping The Double Bird Is Mesmerizing
Clemson lost to in-state rival South Carolina again tonight 27-17, making it four Palmetto Bowls in a row for the SEC's Gamecocks. While the Tigers had a rowdy Death Valley pushing them to what looked like a possible win, they were simply overpowered in the end—leaving coach Dabo Swinney searchin...
College ShameDay: Who Embarrassed Themselves On Saturday (Besides Kansas State, Of Course)?
Our weekly college football shame index. ...
"There Is No Such Thing As Flop!": Watch Les Miles Angrily, Then Happily, Then Jokingly, Praise His Team After A Narrow Victory
Les Miles goes through an emotional spectrum here that surpasses even the most skilled practioners of the dramatic arts—it's forceful, angry, instructive, happy, endearing, eloquent, then a little angry again, then back to happy—some of these feelings are just plain unidentifiable. They are feelin...
Odell Beckham, Jr.'s 89-Yard Punt Return Tied Things Up For LSU Against Ole Miss
In a run that reminded old-timers of Billy Cannon's feat against the Rebels in 1959, LSU's Odell Beckham, Jr. sprinted 89 yards on a punt return to tie things up between the Tigers and Ole Miss this afternoon and lending life to a seventh-ranked team that had up to that point left a usually "Deaf"...
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The Baseball Writers' New VP Pulled The Ol' Switcheroo With His American League MVP Vote [UPDATE]
On September 30, LaVelle E. Neal III, the Twins beat writer for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, wrote an impassioned summation of why Angels super-rookie Mike Trout should be considered the clear favorite for American League MVP. It's short, but it's actually a good, quick defense against the old-scho...
Eat It, Nerds: Miguel Cabrera Won The American League MVP, And It Wasn't Even Close
Miguel Cabrera, the Detroit Tigers' big third baseman, hit for the triple crown—.330 batting average, 44 home runs, 139 RBI—in 2012. His triple crown was baseball's first since Carl Yastrzemski's in 1967. Impressive! But it probably wasn't the league's best offensive season, and it assuredly wasn't ...
College ShameDay: Who Embarrassed Themselves On Saturday (Besides Sad, Sad Tennessee)?
Our weekly college football shame index. ...
Auburn Has A Private Security Firm Enforcing Players' Nightly Curfews
College football players are men. They're at least 18, so they can vote, they can serve in the armed forces, they can smoke, and they can roam the streets of America until all hours, doing whatever it is college kids do, so long as they don't do anything illegal. But not at Auburn, where the program...