Trial by Twitter: Montana QB’s rape case plays out in real time
The nationally watched rape trial of the University of Montana’s suspended star quarterback—a case that has already contributed to the firing of the Grizzlies’ football coach and athletic director— is...
View ArticleMontana QB Johnson acquitted of rape charge
In a nationally watched case followed minute-by-minute on Twitter, University of Montana quarterback Jordan Johnson was found not guilty of raping a woman he knew from the school last February. A jury...
View ArticleCasey Anthony badgered as she emerges from seclusion
A TV reporter who’s been after Casey Anthony for years badgered her mercilessly as she emerged from seclusion to attend a bankruptcy creditors meeting in Tampa. Orlando WFTV reporter Kathi Belich, who...
View ArticleUpdate: Startling Steubenville rape trial testimony
Update: The trial, which began Wednesday, has produced some startling testimony involving social media evidence about the events of August 11. A possible coverup by one of the defendants included an...
View ArticleUpdate: Steubenville rapist’s lying text
Update: Some people seem to have misunderstood my point. Mays presented himself to adults far differently than to his friends. I used a TV character many people would remember to illustrate the...
View ArticleWhy Harvard’s NCAA win is even more astonishing
There’s room in big-time college sports for a Crimson that isn’t riding a Tide. Fourteenth-seeded Harvard’s first-ever March Madness victory Thursday, 68-62 over third-seeded New Mexico, is even more...
View ArticleSNL parodies Rutgers basketball scandal (Video)
It didn’t take long for “Saturday Night Live” to take on the Rutgers basketball scandal. In this hilarious clip from this week’s show, take a look at the women’s coach for fictional Middle Delaware...
View ArticleDzhokhar Tsarnaev gets the Bieber treatment
Some teenage girls may not be able to tell Dzhokhar Tsarnaev from Justin Bieber. In the latest evidence that hormones trump brains among teenagers, girls are taking to social media to defend the...
View ArticleNate Silver moving blog from NYTimes to ESPN
Nate Silver made it official today– he’s taking his act to ESPN. The political blogger and the sports network announced today that Silver is moving his fivethirtyeight blog away from the New York...
View ArticleSteubenville rapist is back on the football team
WTRF 7 News Sports Weather – Wheeling Steubenville One of the two Steubenville (Ohio) football players convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl at a party two years ago is back on the football team,...
View ArticleUpdate: Russian waitress video is a fake
Update: The video of a Russian waitress knocking down a customer who groped her is a fake, several news sources reported. France 21 investigated the video and traced it to a communications consultant...
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