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Pittsburgh Area High School Students Dress In Bananas and Yell Racial Slurs at Opponents

Posted February 9, 2012, 10:46 am by Jason Lisk (197 Comments)

A nasty incident at a Pittsburgh high school has led to heightened racial scrutiny.

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How could a team possibly be expected to sit idly by and let another team get away with this

Opposing High School Gets Technical, Complains About Pink-Tinged Uniforms For Charity

Posted February 8, 2012, 5:01 pm by Jason Lisk (17 Comments)

You’ve got to play by the rules, people. How else are we going to teach our kids to be jerks?

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Joe Paterno’s Situation at Penn State Parallels Bob Knight at Indiana

Posted November 9, 2011, 2:00 pm by Ty Duffy (150 Comments)

An iconic coach breaching the bounds of human decency. Defiant fans taking to the streets in support. A once sycophantic administration gearing up under fire, forced to consider a previously unthinkable decision.

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Here’s Tom Izzo Hanging Out With The Situation

Posted September 10, 2011, 1:08 pm by Ty Duffy (10 Comments)

Just a couple of Italian-American multi-millionaires hanging out on a football field.

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College Quidditch Conquers the Midwest

Posted September 7, 2011, 6:10 pm by Ty Duffy (59 Comments)

Football isn’t the only “sport” aggressively expanding its footprint.

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Roundup: Bubba Starling’s Difficult Choice, Hangover II Trailer & a Spring Break Fight at Walmart

Posted April 1, 2011, 8:58 am by Jason McIntyre (216 Comments)

Blake Lively … bet they’re proud of their son … 25 best baseball mullets … nice to see the criminals avoid the NCAA tournament games in Newark … hey google, this phone seems unnecessary ….. hate when a dead mouse ends up in a can I’m drinking out of … that’s a large defamation lawsuit [...]

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T.J. Simers’ Unnecessarily Cruel Hatchet Job on Marcus Thames

Posted March 23, 2011, 10:30 am by Ty Duffy (43 Comments)

I don’t like criticizing other writers, as I face a fair bit of criticism myself. However, the profoundly ignorant drivel that escaped T.J. Simers’ keyboard on the topic of Marcus Thames aggravated me, not as a writer but as a human. Even for Simers that column was frivolous, arrogant and silly. Had he performed even [...]

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