Freeze's fall at Ole Miss partially traced to Nutt's suit

The man who Hugh Freeze replaced as Mississippi's football coach was at least partially responsible for Freeze's stunning downfall Thursday night. It was a recently filed civil lawsuit from Houston Nutt — who coached Ole Miss from 2008 to '11 — against the university that unearthed the phone records that eventually revealed Freeze's school-issued cellphone had dialed an escort service on at least one occasion in 2016. Freeze resigned on Thursday after university officials found that the coach engaged in a "pattern of personal misconduct" that was unacceptable. The 47-year-old — who was making more than $5 million per year — will receive no buyout, according to Ole Miss athletic director Ross Bjork.

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  Hugh Freeze's fall reminds again we should stop turning football coaches into demigods

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  The Two Faces of Hugh Freeze

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After losing uncle, emotional Jon Lester pays tribute with Notre Dame rallying cry

For the second time in the last month, the reigning MVP has avoided serious injury and returned ahead of schedule. Kris Bryant continues to impress everybody with his magical healing abilities. He is in the lineup for Saturday's game against the St. Louis Cardinals after injuring a finger on his left hand while diving into third base during the first inning of Wednesday's game in Atlanta. Bryant was immediately removed from that game, had the off-day Thursday, was held out Friday and expected to be sitting again for the second game of this Cubs-Cardinals series. But that's not the case. Bryant is once again hitting second and playing third base after missing only 17.5 innings with a finger issue

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  Cubs' Bryant out of lineup against Cardinals with finger sprain

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  Cardinals score 9 in 8th, cool off Cubs with 11-4 win

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WATCH: Mark Richt takes annual backflip off the high dive

It’s been quite the summer for Mark Richt. His 2018 recruiting class is one of the best in the nation, he taught the nation the most efficient way to eat a sandwich, and on Friday he executed his annual high-dive backflip at a Hurricanes pool party. (In case you haven’t seen the sandwich bit, watch it below. It’ll change your life.) As SB Nation catalogues, Richt has made these backflips an annual thing since he was at Georgia in 2015. It was a skill he learned, he says, to impress the ladies after watching Greg Louganis (yes, that Greg Louganis) do it while they were students at Miami. Richt and Louganis both enrolled at the University of Miami in 1978, and the future Hurricanes’ coach and his