Michigan Wide Receiver Grant Perry Charged With Criminal Sexual Conduct, Assaulting A Police Officer

Michigan wide receiver Grant Perry was arraigned yesterday on charges of criminal sexual conduct and assaulting a police officer. The charges follow Perry being accused of “sexually assaulting (by touching)” a woman on Oct. 15 while waiting outside a bar, according to the East Lansing Police Department. There was a “fracas” when police arrived, a department spokesman told the Lansing State Journal, durin which Perry gave an officer a “minor hand injury.”

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How Two Investigations Into Minnesota's Sexual-Assault Scandal Reached Two Very Different Conclusions

It was in the early morning hours after the Golden Gophers’ victory—in their September season opener, no less—that the student said she was sexually assaulted by multiple football players. She gave a statement to Minneapolis police a day later, going into detail about how she had sex with two guys and how more men then kept coming. She remembered people watching, the officer wrote in the report, “like they were waiting their turn.” She remembered yelling at them to stop sending people in, but they didn’t. Two men tried to force their penises into her mouth while a third had vaginal sex with her, according to the report. Another man, whom she thought might help her, instead forced her to to give him a blow job, she recalled.

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LSU Football: DT Davon Godchaux to withhold NFL Draft decision until after Citrus Bowl

A number of members of the LSU Football team are set to enter the 2017 NFL Draft, and defensive tackle Davon Godchaux may be among them.But Godchaux won’t be announcing the decision to stay in college for another year or to go pro for next season right now.The 6’4 junior currently bo…

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Michigan State Football: Le'Veon Bell makes NFL Pro Bowl as starter

Former Michigan State football star Le’Veon Bell has been dominating the NFL this season, making the 2017 NFL Pro Bowl as a starter.Sincemissing the first three games of the 2016 season, former Michigan State football star and current Pittsburgh Steeler Le’Veon Bell has been putting on a…

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Joe Mixon Told Police “It Felt Like A Dude Hit Me”

On Friday, Joe Mixon’s attorneys released video of the Oklahoma RB punching out Amelia Molitor, and the timing wasn’t accidental. The State Supreme Court had ruled that it must be made public, though not when, so Mixon’s attorneys pulled the classic Friday evening news dump in an attempt to bury it. (Coincidentally, Molitor graduated from OU on Friday night.)

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Dispatches From The War On Marching Bands

America’s War on Marching Bands continues apace. The Rice MOB angered Baylor fans with a Title IX-themed show. The Stanford Band was suspended for the semester, which they maintain is about the school prioritizing its image over student life. And now the Columbia University Marching Band, of which I am an alum, is being told it can’t perform in the library the night before finals, as it has done every semester for over 40 years.

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The Denver Broncos Clearly Miss Former Vols Peyton Manning and Malik Jackson

The Denver Broncos would already be in the NFL playoffs if former Tennessee Volunteers Peyton Manning and Malik Jackson were still there.Hey John Elway, how has forcing Peyton Manning out the back door worked out for you? Your Denver Broncos might not even make the playoffs this year because of at…

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2017 NFL Mock Draft: First-round projections after first bowl weekend

With a few bowl games alreadyin the rearview mirror, take a look at our latest2017 NFL Mock Draft.The first weekend of bowl games is already behind us and it’s time to glanceat what our newest2017 NFL mock draft looks like. There weren’t a ton of changes in terms of team needs, from my l…

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Louisville Football: NFL Playoff Race Is Heating Up For These Ex-Cards

We take a look at the former Louisville football players who are on teams that are in great position to make the NFL Playoffs this year.Not only is the bowl season getting going, but the NFL is getting closer and closer to their playoffs as well. There are just a few former Louisville football pla…

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Youngstown State Shocks Eastern Washington With Last-Second Touchdown Catch

Bo Pelini’s Youngstown State team is headed to the NCAA Division I Championship after Kevin Rader hauled in an incredible catch with one second left in the game to give the Penguins a 40-38 win over second-seeded Eastern Washington:

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Florida Finds Title IX Official Had Conflict Of Interest; Won't Say How, Why

The University of Florida released its investigative report today into a fired Title IX official, Chris Loschiavo, who was last known for being removed from the Antonio Callaway student-conduct case and replaced by a lawyer and football booster (who found him not responsible for sexual assault). The investigative report said that Loschiavo had “both a conflict of interest and a lack of independence” in a certain Title IX case—but did not say which one. The problems brought up in the document, though, mirror those brought up by the wide receiver’s lawyers, as reported by the Tampa Bay Times: Loschiavo had a conflict of interest because of his outside consulting work and he held an inappropriate role in the case.

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Minnesota Football Players Say They'll Boycott Bowl Game In Protest Of Mass Suspensions [Update]

A few days after 10 Minnesota Golden Gophers football players were suspended from the team’s upcoming trip to the Holiday Bowl, the rest of the team has responded. The Star Tribune reported this afternoon that the team will threaten to boycott the game in protest of the suspensions. The players’ “demands” have not been made public, but they likely concern the reinstatement of all or some of the players:

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Army May Also Have Been Provided With Wake Forest’s Leaked Game Plan 

A third school has now become involved in the Wakeyleaks scandal. Wake Forest officials informed Army athletic director Boo Coriggan this evening that Wake’s game plan may have been leaked to Army as well. Corrigan spoke to Sports Illustrated and confirmed that Wake Forest had reached out.

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A third school has now become involved in the Wakeyleaks scandal. Wake Forest officials informed Army athletic director Boo Coriggan this evening that Wake’s game plan may have been leaked to Army as well. Corrigan spoke to Sports Illustrated and confirmed that Wake Forest had reached out.

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Louisville AD Says Cardinals Received Plays From Wake Forest Radio Announcer Before Football Game

One day after Wake Forest fired and banned football radio announcer Tommy Elrod for sharing game prep materials with the team’s opponents for at least two years, Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich said that the Cardinals had received information from Elrod this season, before their Nov. 12 game against the Demon Deacons.

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One day after Wake Forest fired and banned football radio announcer Tommy Elrod for sharing game prep materials with the team’s opponents for at least two years, Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich said that the Cardinals had received information from Elrod this season, before their Nov. 12 game against the Demon Deacons.

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