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Are You Ready To Hate Lane Kiffin Again?
There’s a good chance that you haven’t spent much time thinking about Lane Kiffin over the last three years, during which he had been serving as Alabama’s offensive coordinator. Not that the OC job at Alabama is particularly low profile, it’s just hard to get noticed when Nick Saban and scores of Al...
Autopsy Reveals That Rashaan Salaam Shot Himself In The Head
Former University of Colorado and NFL running back Rashaan Salaam was found dead in a park in Boulder, Colo. on Dec. 5, 2016. According to an autopsy report released today by the Boulder County Coroner’s Office, Salaam died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head....
Princeton, WashU Suspend Men's Teams For Misogynistic Comments
Two more universities have suspended men’s teams after they found misogynistic messages being sent by the players. Princeton suspended its men’s swimming and diving team late Thursday night after the team’s online listserv, with racist and misogynistic comments, made its way in front of university a...
Report: Rashaan Salaam Died By Suicide
Police have yet to give an official cause of death for Rashaan Salaam, the former Heisman winner who was found dead in a park in Boulder, Colo. yesterday, but Salaam’s mother has told USA Today that police suspect that suicide was the cause of death....
Oregon To Investigate Athletic Department For Response To Reports Of Violence By Football Player Pharaoh Brown
The University of Oregon’s president has called for an investigation of “free-speech policy violations” by the school’s athletic department—two weeks after department officials threatened to pull credentials from the student newspaper for an article on reported acts of violence by a football player....
Harvard Releases Player Health Recommendations That The NFL Will Likely Ignore
Harvard University wants the NFL, the NFLPA, and everyone complicit in the NFL industrial complex—all the way down to media and fans—to take steps toward policies that will “protect and promote” the overall heath of football players. ...
Visiting Coach Scolds Arkansas Basketball Fans For Not Being Loud Enough
Barry Hinson’s Southern Illinois Salukis traveled to Fayetteville to take on the Arkansas Razorbacks on Monday night. Hinson’s squad got crushed 90-65, but that didn’t stop him from going in on the home crowd during his postgame presser....
Police Kick Out Fan For Photographing Pro-Art Briles Shirts At Baylor Tailgate
Five months after Baylor head football coach was fired for his role in the university’s sexual assault scandal, fans are selling #CAB t-shirts outside today’s game against Texas Christian to show their support for Coach Art Briles. A TCU fan who attempted to take a picture of the shirts was reported...
Baylor's Sexual Assault Scandal: Still No Report, Still Few Answers
Baylor’s board of regents is sharing details of the university’s sexual assault scandal with select media outlets after months of staying publicly silent. A group of regents spoke anonymously with the Wall Street Journal last week, and two days ago an interview with four regents—Ron Murff, James Gra...
Rick Pitino Denies Responsibility For Louisville Prostitution Scandal, Once Again Invokes 9/11
Last year, a book written by a self-described madam detailed allegations that the Louisville basketball program provided strippers for team parties within the dorms, and that some of the strippers were paid to have sex with athletes, as a means of attracting recruits. Former graduate assistant Andre...
Baylor Homecoming Parade Float Sweeps Things Under The Rug
The past six months at Baylor have seen an independent investigation reveal the university’s repeated flaws in responding to sexual assault accusations against its football players, leading to the firing of head football coach Art Briles and the resignation of Chancellor Ken Starr....
Derek Jeter Sends Michigan Players Shirts And Letters Rife With Misspellings
The University of Michigan continues to expose its football players to the most aggressively uninteresting personalities in sports. First there was Michael Jordan serving as the team’s honorary captain for the season opener against Hawaii at the Big House; two weeks ago, Tom Brady returned from exil...
Abdi Abdirahman Still Wins The Party
Abdi Abdirahman said he is “way more relaxed” at 39 than he was when he was younger, causing me to experience a mutifying, brow-furrowing dissonance....
Ken Starr Believes Art Briles Is The True Victim In Baylor's Sexual Assault Scandal
Former Baylor chancellor Ken Starr (yes, that Ken Starr) praised the character of ousted head football coach Art Briles, saying he felt Briles had been the object of a “grave injustice,” in a Saturday interview with the Texas Tribune....
Saint Louis University's New Mascot Is Hungry For Your Soul
Saint Louis University’s mascot is the Billikens. No, a billiken is not a type of lake, an airplane, or an offbrand big cat. It’s a “mythical good-luck figure who represents ‘things as they ought to be’” according to the school’s website. Things apparently ought to be horrifying, because the updated...
George Washington Fires Men's Basketball Coach After Investigating Verbal Abuse Claims
Two months after the Washington Post reported verbal and emotional abuse in the men’s basketball program—and two weeks before the first practice of the season—George Washington University has fired head coach Mike Lonergan. ...
Lawsuit: University Of Arkansas Tried To Wait to Expel Olympic Athlete Until He'd Graduated
A former tennis player at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville filed a lawsuit August 22 alleging the university mishandled a Title IX investigation and subsequent expulsion of a fellow student-athlete and one-time Olympian whom she says sexually assaulted her on campus in 2014. ...
Jim Harbaugh Offers Some Muddled Thoughts On Colin Kaepernick
At a press conference today, Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh, who used to coach 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in San Francisco, was asked to give his thoughts about Kaepernick’s refusal to stand for the National Anthem. Harbaugh offered this:...
Jim Harbaugh Doesn't Like Those Questions
During his media availability yesterday, Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh was asked about three players who were not present at the official team photoshoot earlier this month. What’s the deal with those guys? Are they suspended?...
Baylor Offensive Lineman Arrested For Allegedly Stalking Ex-Girlfriend
Baylor offensive lineman Rami Hammad was arrested yesterday on a third-degree felony stalking charge, three weeks after a Baylor professor called 911 because he allegedly wouldn’t leave his ex-girlfriend alone, according to the Waco Tribune....