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How Will Muschamp And Florida Sold Their Disastrous Season
I wasn't yet in Gainesville for the first press conference, held immediately after the season opener. Will Muschamp's Florida Gators had just demolished Toledo in a tune-up, an easy victory foreseen by just about everybody. The Gators had gone 11-1 the previous regular season, and only BCS politics ...
Fresno State Cuts Into USC Lead With Flying TD On Interception Return
Fresno State now trails by only 18 early in the fourth quarter of the Royal Purple Las Vegas Is This Enough Words In The Name Of A Bowl? Bowl. ...
Police Arrest Prankster Who Offered Tony Dungy The USC Job
When last we met Ken Tarr, he was riding high off the Dungy-to-USC prank and planned on offering Will Muschamp a middling position at a middling program just to "see if he gets insulted or not." Now he's in a Los Angeles jail, on suspicion of felony eavesdropping. ...
If You Talk Shit About USC's AD, His Nephew Will Smarm Your Ass To Death
USC's athletic director, Pat Haden, has been taking some heat lately. With his school's football program still reeling from the Lane Kiffin disaster, Haden gave the head coaching job to University of Washington's Steve Sarkisian, whose career Pac-12 winning percentage is .539. Kiffin's was .586. Und...
DeMarcus Cousins Continues Strict No-Handshake Policy Against Clippers
The LA-Sacramento handshake feud is officially the Capulets and the Montagues of our generation. No Sacramento King will ever again exchange ritualistic-verging-on-meaningless signs of mutual respect with a Los Angeles Clipper. Not while DeMarcus Cousins is around....
Do Not Even Think About Dapping Chris Paul In Front Of DeMarcus Cousins
Saturday's Kings-Clippers game ended with DeMarcus Cousin missing a tough, potentially game-tying shot as time expired. As Cousins was leaving the court, he noticed his teammate, Isaiah Thomas, attempting to shake Chris Paul's hand. Thomas should have known better, because Cousins was having none o...
Furious Cool
That's the title of a new book about the great Richard Pryor by Joe Henry and David Henry. Here's a Q&A with the author's over at the Atlantic. And a review of the book at the A.V. Club....
Will Muschamp Left Bloodied After Scuffle With A Chalkboard
Florida lost to South Carolina 19-14 Saturday night, but it wasn't for a lack of halftime fire-up violence from coach Will Muschamp. "'I hit a chalkboard,' he said after the game. 'Dumb.'"...
Jonathan Martin Is A Pussy: Your Stanford-USC <i>GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
Well, this was bound to happen when you take the College GameDay crew to USC for a game against Stanford. Jonathan Martin, who met with the NFL yesterday to discuss the Richie Incognito/Miami Dolphins bullying issue, is a Stanford man and so the Trojan faithful had plenty of Martin-themed signs to s...
Don't Turn Your Back On A Jealous Cokehead: A Mike Tyson Life Lesson
Excerpted from Undisputed Truth, available now from Blue Rider Press....
The Curious Childhood Of An 11-Year Old Beauty Queen
Pat Jordan's 1994 story for LIFE magazine. ...
Hawks Rookie Suspended For Hitting DeMarcus Cousins In The Dick
Congratulations, Dennis Schröder! you're only four games into your career, and you've already joined the illustrious fraternity of NBA players who have hit other NBA players in the dick....
Lahr and Buscemi: Who You Callin' Funny-Lookin?
John Lahr's first book was a biography of his father, Bert Lahr, Notes on a Cowardly Lion....
Seattle's Special Teamers Need To Stop Trying To Tackle
Last week, Seahawks punter Jon Ryan got annihilated trying to tackle someone. Today, kicker Steven Hauschka was taken out of the game with a possible concussion after trying to stop Darius Reynaud. Stop trying to help, Seattle's special teamers....
The Champ And The Chump: The Meaning Of Liston-Clay I
Originally published on March 7, 1964, in The New Republic. Reprinted here with the permission of the author's family....
Impostors Posing As USC Reps Reach Out To Potential Football Coaches
So you know those reports that say USC has reached out to Tony Dungy and (possibly) Jack Del Rio to replace Lane Kiffin? Yeah, well, those overtures never happened. Oh, someone claiming to be from USC did call Dungy and a member of the Denver Broncos coaching staff. Whoever it was just wasn't actual...
R.I.P., Lane Kiffin's Career As USC Head Coach (2010-2013)
We won't have Lane Kiffin to kick around anymore, and that makes us a bit sad. We're gonna send Kiffykins out with a bang in the only way we know (and the only way you expect)....
Lane Kiffin Was Fired In The Most Cold-Blooded Way
After last night's 62-41 loss to Arizona State, USC head coach Lane Kiffin was unceremoniously dumped like a bag of trash at the airport by athletic director Pat Haden. Judging from the details, he never saw it coming, and needed a ride home from LAX....
