I swam in college. Freshman year during season my best friend's dad died. My coach would have been mad if I DIDN'T go.

It's really nice that they were concerned about Bama.

Serious question: Did Manti pass up chances of romantic encounters with actual real co-eds for a fake girlfriend he probably knew didn't exist?

I am embarrassed to say that I'm a moderate fan of college football (IU's football team is about as real as Lennay), and I didn't even know this dead girlfriend was an actual story back in September.

This is delightful.

There's a short bit in an episode of The League when they talk about sportscasters using code words to discuss races. Black quarterbacks are "hybrids," or "pure athletes," while white players are "cerebral," "students of the game," or "gym rats" if they succeed at a position not typical of white football players.

I guess it's better than keeping a bunch of Catholics at the kid's table?

"Christ our King" and "goddamn fucking" appear nine words apart.

Fucking Butler ruined my birthday...

"Statistics of such things happening are low" Look up the number of school shootings in the US since Columbine compared with the rest of the world combined. The US has a gun problem.

Glad to know your Glock will protect you against a $4.03million Drone

Yo soy loco por los Cornballs

I get your sentiment, but suicide is such a complex issue that it's not so black and white. Belcher obviously needed help. It doesn't condone or pardon what he did in the least bit. Not even 1%. But some sympathy could be saved for what was a horribly troubled young man who obviously felt his only solution was this…

Homey loves a good scarf

Shit that is incredibly poorly written. I meant to support Golic and the guys who defend making rookies carry their bags or buy dinner... but only after calling him a mongrel.

Agreed. I hate some of the mongrels that come out of the NFL woodwork to defend hazing (Golic for example. He's an idiot), but what's going on here is sick and sadistic, not hazing.

Van Pelt and Russilo talk about the lines, but they're the only ones I can think, especially considering I assumed Goldberg died ten years ago.

But Broussard doesn't do any real reporting, like most of the "journalists" at ESPN. He just reports on things after they've been broken by other people from CBS and Yahoo!

To be fair, his 400m hurdles time his SR year of high school would have placed very nicely at the Olympics

One of my favorite pieces to read ever. Love these stories.