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Like 'thug' and 'woke' — 'classless' is the new way to call Black people the N-wordAll season long, Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark dominated women’s college basketball. It was a prayer answered when the basketball gods gave us Iowa and LSU in the national championship game during a record-breaking Final Four. But instead of the focus being on LSU’s hot shooting or Iowa’s second-hal...

Fighting is condoned, even celebrated in baseball and hockey, but not in basketball and football — you know whyHas anyone checked on Amy Schumer?...

Beware of the racially coded language that will be used when discussing Isaiah Stewart and LeBron JamesSeventeen years and two days after one of the most historic events in NBA history took place in Auburn Hills, Mich., an updated version almost occurred involving the same fanbase and team — wearing the same uniforms — on Sunday night, as we were this close from having “Malice at the Palace 2.0" on o...

Five Little Words That Started It All

As every schoolchild knows by heart, Nov. 19, 2004 was the date of the Malice in the Palace NBA brawl between the Detroit Pistons and Indiana Pacers. That of course is the fight in which the Pacers' Ron Artest went into the stands to tangle with fans, one of whom he thought had thrown a beverage a...