TALLAHASSEE, AP–Bobby Bowden appealed to the NCAA to include wins from his past before. He may have to do it again. Florida State will appeal the NCAA ruling in an academic fraud case including the vacating of 14 wins, but should the University lose the appeal Bowden will likely try a new tack...

Six weeks into the job, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is starting to roll out the Obama administration's approach to the most prickly foreign policy challenges from Arab-Israeli peace to Russia....

Corby Kummer at The Atlantic takes on the cupcake in "Not So Guilty Pleasure" and concludes: You have to get over the names. Then you have to get over the novelties, like the rum-soaked Mojito with lime icing and the corn-dog-style mock Twinkie at Kickass Cupcakes, a typically whimsical and cheery s...

It’s NCAA Penalty day in college football, and who couldn’t be excited about that? The offseason is a wondrous cavalcade of events, isn’t it? This ledge…looks so inviting…so…death-y…. Only the fact that this is Florida State in potential NCAA trouble keeps u...

Filed under: Airlines, News I love good news from the aviation world - it really does bring a smile to my face amongst all the doom and gloom stories out there. A good example of something great comes from regional carrier Atlantic Southeast Airlines. For the first time in history, a domestic US fli...

Got an image you'd like to see in here first thing in the morning? Send it to tips@deadspin.com. Subject: Morning crap. NFL scouts descended on Florida Atlantic University (really?) hoping to find the next big diamond hidden somewhere in the rough. They've brought every tool imaginable to try and qu...

Fulmer Cuprising! Iowa; Ohio State; and Arkansas. All three strike with a boozy determination to bolt their teams into the Fulmer Cup race. Full update shortly with points awarded, but the most active weekend of the Cup season has a common thread running through it: the need to get crunk no matter i...

We’ve also avoided the complex topic of using Federal economic recovery funds to bail out the financially sinking Atlantic Yards project. Local backers have been pulling out al the stops to lobby the governor for money and to us–who fully support a massive Federal spending plan to rescue...

Jacory Harris of Miami is trying to gain weight the old-fashioned way: by eating himself into a clammy, gibbering stupor at “MLK Restaurant Proudly Specializing in Home Cooked Meals” in Miami. Put down your drool guards, fat guys, because we’re about to reprint quality food porn th...

Jarred Ball has signed a minor league contract with the Diamondbacks, the team that originally drafted him. Ball, 25, started last season with the Barnstormers and was picked up by the Astros after 40 games. The outfielder hit .259 with one homer and 14 stolen bases in 52 games at Double-A Corpus Ch...