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Mel Tucker keeps overlooking his own words in this he-said-she-said with Brenda TracyI have no idea if Mel Tucker thought things were consensual — or if he even asked. I’m clueless when it comes to knowing if Brenda Tracy had a motive. But what I, and you, know is that Mel Tucker owned up to doing what he did — making “sexual comments” about Tracy while “masturbating” during a “late...

<em>Winning Time</em> ‘The Swan’ a reviewFor Americans, but specifically African-Americans, 1991 was a hell of a year....

No, your favorite team doesn’t ‘know something’ you don’t(TW: Sexual assault)...

Supreme Court justices dunk on NCAA in athlete-pay hearing

It’s the final day of March and madness continues — not in Indiana or Texas, but in Washington, D.C. Today, the Supreme Court heard an argument on college athlete compensation and... it didn’t seem to go all that well for the NCAA....

Clarence Thomas Name-Drops NBA While Arguing Some Discrimination Is OK

The summer of Justice Clarence Thomas making sports references in opinions from which his fellow justices run screaming continued yesterday with his dissent in a Texas case regarding housing discrimination. In this case, Thomas brought up the NBA and the fact that it is a predominantly black league....

Clarence Thomas Cites Warrick Dunn's Life Story In Death-Penalty Case 

On Jan. 7, 1993, Kevan Brumfield was one of two men who gunned down Baton Rouge police Cpl. Betty Smothers. The mother of six, including then 18-year-old Warrick Dunn, was working an off-duty security job, escorting a grocery store manager to make a bank deposit. Brumfield was sentenced to death two...

Stephen A. Smith Has Important Friends Other Than Allen Iverson

We suppose it explains a lot about Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas that, in a room full of people, he would single out Stephen A. Smith for a conversation....