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Victorious, Villainous Michigan Is College Football’s Future The national championship winners offer a TV-ready blueprint to the media executives who run the sport.
By Will Leitch
How Michigan Became College Football’s Villain The once-likable team’s maniacal quest for a title — they’re now one game away — has made them hard to root for.
By Will Leitch
The 10 Worst Things About the Florida State Travesty The College Football Playoff committee really, really screwed this one up.
By Will Leitch
Michigan Won At All Costs and Your Team Would Too Scandals be damned; just by defeating Ohio State on Saturday, the team prevailed over its critics.
By Will Leitch
What Happened to College Basketball? The sport, already fading in relevance, is paying a big price for being second fiddle to football.
By Will Leitch
College Football’s Sad Last Dance Enjoy one final season before everything turns upside down.
By Will Leitch
college football
Jan. 8, 2023
The Dawgs Versus the Underdogs This Georgia fan looks forward to a national championship game against TCU and its Hypnotoad mystique.
By Ed Kilgore
College Football Is Now NFL Lite A sport once defined by regional charm is awash in money and becoming more like the pros every week.
By Will Leitch
College Football Is About to Change Drastically — and Not for the Better The rise of two super-conferences will make the sport more like the NFL, and rob it of much of its character.
By Will Leitch
Who Is Biden’s Big Voting-Rights Speech in Georgia Really For? Spurring action on a stalled bill would be tricky enough, and that’s not all the president is trying to accomplish.
By Ed Kilgore
college football
Jan. 10, 2022
41 Years of Frustration Could End Tonight In a winner-take-all league, the Georgia Bulldogs need a championship to get the 1980 monkey off their backs.
By Ed Kilgore
College Football Is the Wild West Now As a new season kicks off, it’s clear that the Supreme Court–weakened NCAA isn’t really in charge anymore.
By Will Leitch
States Are Starting to Fix the NCAA — For the Wrong Reasons Competition, not morality, is driving legislation that allows college athletes to make some money.
By Will Leitch
2022 midterms
Apr. 22, 2021
Georgia Republicans Wonder What to Do About Herschel Walker His indecision about a 2022 Senate race after Trump urged him to run is complicating life for other would-be senators.
By Ed Kilgore
republican party
Feb. 24, 2021
Agonized Georgia Republicans Long for Herschel Walker to Run for Senate A battered and deeply divided state party bent on suppressing Black votes could use a Trump-friendly Black sports legend.
By Ed Kilgore
Below Deck Guest Sorry for Eating Sushi Off Nude ModelThe college quarterback claimed the idea “was brought up by producers.”
By Justin Curto
college football
Oct. 15, 2020
Nick Saban’s Positive Test Makes COVID-19 Real in the Heart of Trumpland Nobody pays more attention to detail than the legendary Alabama coach. Now college football in the South is as imperiled as COVID-19 denial.
By Ed Kilgore
The Fans Can Go to Games Again. Will They? The stadiums are open, but fans aren’t exactly rushing through the doors.
By Will Leitch
College Football Is Still Recklessly Barreling Forward Some of the big conferences canceled their seasons. Others seem to have adopted a “let’s hope for the best” pandemic strategy.
By Will Leitch
Don’t Just Blame COVID-19 for College Football’s Lost Season President Trump, the NCAA, and many of the sport’s most loyal fans had their chance to improve the odds. They blew it.
By Will Leitch
The Sports Scolds Are Winning Elijah Moore’s peeing-dog touchdown celebration was a fun, funny moment — not a threat to our children.
By Will Leitch
vision 2020
Sept. 24, 2019
This College Football Fan Thinks Buttigieg Is Right: The Game Is ‘Problematic’ If you really love college football, it’s time to admit the truth about the exploitation the game involves.
By Ed Kilgore
College Football Players Are Going to Start Quitting Bowl Games Maybe even on college football altogether. The only question is how soon.
By Will Leitch
This Football Play Didn’t Just Trick the Other Team, It Gamed the Rule Book Now look for a lot of coaches to take advantage of new safety rules this way.
By Will Leitch
Why Aren’t We Talking About Football’s Culture of Brutality? The environment which led to the death of a Maryland college football player in practice isn’t an aberration. It’s normal.
By Will Leitch
unlikely fans
Jan. 3, 2018
Trump to Attend His First Kendrick Lamar Concert … inadvertently, at the College Football Playoff National Championship.
By Tolly Wright
Trump’s Going to the College Football Title Game in ‘Crime Infested’ Atlanta The White House is hoping for a warm reception but Trump might be in for a surprise.
By Adam K. Raymond
sexual assault
June 7, 2017
Michigan State Football Players Charged With Sexual Assault A judge issued arrest warrants for three players following an assault in January.
By Sarah Spellings
4 Women On How One of The Worst Campus Rape Scandals Changed Their Lives Over the past year, one of the worst campus sexual-assault scandals has unfolded at Baylor University. Four women describe how it changed their lives.
By Claire Landsbaum
campus sexual assault
Dec. 16, 2016
Minnesota Boycotts Football After Sexual-Assault Inquiry Results in Suspensions Teammates said they’re boycotting football games after 10 players were suspended following an investigation into sexual assault.
By Theresa Avila
Meet the Woman Who Wants to Fix Sexual Assault in College Football Journalist and author Jessica Luther has some ideas for the sports industry.
By Claire Landsbaum
sexual assault
Oct. 28, 2016
By Claire Landsbaum
rape culture
Sept. 17, 2016
Rice Mocks Baylor Rape Scandal With Classy Football Halftime Show Rice’s marching band formed an IX on the field — yes, as in Title IX.
By Jenni Miller
the sports section
Jan. 12, 2016
By Joe DeLessio
the sports section
Jan. 11, 2016
By Joe DeLessio
College Football Fans Suggest Alabama ‘Finish What Katrina Started’ Against LSU “Flood their homes and drown their families!” apparently wouldn’t fit on the banner.
By Chas Danner
the sports section
Aug. 17, 2015
Mississippi Coaches Call for State Flag Change Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze and Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen were among those whose names appeared in a newspaper ad calling for a change.
By Joe DeLessio
last night on late night
Jan. 13, 2015
By Jesse David Fox
the national interest
Dec. 30, 2014
Why Jim Harbaugh Came Home to Michigan Romanticism scores a touchdown over cynicism.
By Jonathan Chait
the sports section
Sept. 8, 2014
NCAA Ends Penn State Football’s Postseason Ban Early They’ll get their full complement of football scholarships back in 2015–16.
By Joe DeLessio
the sports section
Dec. 11, 2013
By Adam Martin
Bill Murray Body Slammed a Guy on ESPN This Weekend
In his ongoing quest to out-Bill Murray himself, Bill Murray appear on ESPN’s College Gameday on Saturday, and when broadcaster Lee Corso […]
By Elise Czajkowski
the player formerly known as mousecop
Sept. 13, 2013
By Margaret Lyons
terrible things
Aug. 10, 2013
By Delia Paunescu
real dead girlfriends
Jan. 17, 2013
Notre Dame Finds Fake Dead Woman Easier to Talk About Than Real Dead Woman As Notre Dame rushes to defend star Manti Te’o, a reminder of the sexual assault victim the school failed.
By Kat Stoeffel
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