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UNC In Trouble With Its Accreditor After NCAA Report On Academic Scandal [Updated]
After the NCAA’s final report on UNC’s academic scandal revealed discrepancies with what the university previously told its accreditor about the situation, the accreditor will again begin investigating. ...
Vin Scully Returns To Dodger Stadium For First-Pitch Ceremony
If there’s been anything wrong with the Dodgers’ otherwise near-flawless season so far, it’s only that Vin Scully hasn’t been in the booth to call it. While the legendary announcer is hopefully enjoying his long-deserved retirement, the crowd at Dodger Stadium was understandably thrilled to see him ...
Soccer Fan Travels Halfway Around The World To Visit Tiny Club He Plays On <i>Football Manager</i>
You’d think that Runcorn Linnets, the name of an English soccer club currently competing in the North West Counties League a whopping eight divisions below the Premier League, wouldn’t hold much importance outside of the tiny pocket of ostensible fans tucked away in northern England. You’d be wrong....
NCAA's Three-Year Investigation Into Fake Classes At UNC Ends With A Whimper
After three-and-a-half years of investigating fake classes in North Carolina’s African and Afro-American Studies department that dated back over 18 years, the NCAA announced on Friday that it does not have the jurisdiction to charge the university with violations of either academic fraud or providin...
Jaguars Junction: Week Five
Something quite remarkable happened in Pennsylvania yesterday....
Jaguars Junction: Week Four
The Jaguars were on television in New York City yesterday. It was one of the three biggest days of the year in New York City, the other two being the anniversary of 9/11 and Super Bowl Sunday—when the Jaguars will also likely be on television in New York City. ...
Jaguars Junction: Week Three
“Taking a knee?” Yes—in the end zone among other places. ...
Don Ohlmeyer Aired An NFL Game Without Announcers And The World Wasn't Ready<em></em>
“All the stuff I’ve done in my career,” Don Ohlmeyer once told an ESPN interviewer, “and that’s what I’m going to be remembered for. It serves me right.”...
Chauncey Billups Says He Passed On The Cavs Because Their Future Is Grim
Earlier this summer, former NBA star and current TV analyst Chauncey Billups interviewed for the Cavaliers’ GM job but later pulled out, saying that the “timing wasn’t right.” The Cavs eventually promoted Koby Altman into the position, and the team is in the midst of a disastrous offseason with Kyri...
Report: Just Some More Evidence That Dan Gilbert Is Truly, Grossly Cheap
Cleveland Cavaliers owner and predatory lending magnate Dan Gilbert has shown repeatedly that he is nothing if not miserly. It’s been widely rumored and loosely reported for weeks now that his stinginess was to blame for letting the team’s former general manager, David Griffin, walk last month; a ne...
Late Lunch Is Horseshit<em></em>
I was on a plane last week and I was sitting behind a mom traveling alone with two tiny kids. For the last half hour of the flight, the toddler was screaming her head off. Now, that’s not the interesting part. Toddlers scream on airplanes all the time, which is why most people bring along headphones...
Jaguars Junction: Off Season Check-In
The national football schedule hasn’t even started and already the Jaguars are in the news. It says here that QB Blake Bortles is “sick and tired of being below average.” ...
I Can't Decide What To Get David Brooks For His Wedding
I mean obviously the first and most important point is: Mazel tov! After a few years of harrowing personal crisis for America’s Foremost Moral Decay Diagnostician, our boy David Brooks has at last found love, and gotten married (to his 23-years-younger former research assistant)!...
French Rugby Player Flattens Referee, Turns His Fury Towards Opponents
Benjamin Casty, the brother of French rugby star Remi, was officiating a French junior cup match between Toulouse and Saint-Esteve last weekend when he sent off an overly fired up Saint-Esteve player. Our man was not ready to leave the field, but he was prepared to pop Casty with a vicious right cro...
Duncan Keith Sends Viktor Arvidsson's Helmet Flying <em></em>With Brutal Check
With a 4-1 loss to the Predators tonight, the Blackhawks were swept out of the playoffs. But not before Duncan Keith could deliver an intense check that sent Viktor Arvidsson’s helmet flying before he even hit the ice:...
Maryland President: "I Would Think" UNC Will Get The "Death Penalty"
While the NCAA and UNC have spent the past three years shifting the blame for the university’s fake-class scandal between academics and athletics, public speculation from academia and college athletics officials has been scarce. Monday night, Maryland president Wallace Loh became the most prominent...
Wine Magnate Confesses To Defrauding Tim Duncan Out Of Millions
Charles Banks is a 49-year-old wine executive who runs Terroir Capital, an investment firm that’s put some $200 million into a variety of California wineries. Banks also invests in hotels and owns half of Mayacamas Winery, a 128-year-old winery in Napa, California. Banks met Tim Duncan in 1997 and D...
The Referees Didn't Want You To Have Any Fun Last Night
Everyone expects to see a certain number of lifeless offensive possessions and back-rimmed jumpers in any college basketball game, basically for the same reason you don’t expect to see the most crisply-turned double plays at a minor league ballgame, and it’s really not surprising to see more of thos...