Don’t expect LSU basketball standout Ben Simmons to send the NCAA a thank-you note anytime soon — or ever, for that matter. ESPN has published more details about the new ‘ONE & DONE’ Showtime documentary that will air Friday. In it, Simmons reportedly says the NCAA is “really (expletive) up.” The report also details Simmons […]
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Ex-Penn State Coach Awarded 7.3 Million In Wake of Child Sex Abuse Case
BELLEFONTE, Pa. – A jury awarded a former Penn State assistant football coach $7.3 million in damages Thursday, finding the university defamed him after it became public that his testimony helped prosecutors charge Jerry Sandusky with child molestation. Jurors deliberated for about four hours in Mike McQueary’s defamation and misrepresentation lawsuit. McQueary remained stoic as […]
Concussion: Study shows 91% of ex-college players have CTE
Former college football players from over 100 schools have CTE according to the Concussion Legacy Foundation. The foundation, which studies concussions and brain injuries, said Wednesday that 138 of 152 former college football players studied at the Veterans Affairs-Boston University-Concussion Legacy Foundation brain bank have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, more commonly known as CTE. CTE is […]
Athlete becomes legal marijuana grower
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — If college athletes want to use marijuana, the NCAA likely won’t catch them, and Treyous Jarrells is proof of that. He says he was high in almost every game he played. Now he has given up his dream of a football career for one that’s very different: He has one of 102,620 medical marijuana licenses […]