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Ten Black Starting QBs Make History on Opening Weekend
Ten Black quarterbacks will start on the opening weekend of the 2020 season, the most Black QBs to start in an opening week in NFL history. ...
The NFL is Blackballing Eric Reid, too
On March 29, ESPN ranked its top 15 remaining NFL free agents. Like nearly all NFL free-agent lists, it failed to include NFL free agent Colin Kaepernick....
NFL's Cluelessness on BLM Exposes Fake Team Unity & Not Caring a Lick for Players' Communities
If the NFL owners and front office thought that adding Lift Every Voice and Sing to the pre-game program would mollify more players than it put off fans, they were likely wrong on both counts....
Watson and Mahomes Prove the NFL As You Knew It No Longer Exists
The NFL will never be the same....
Racism is Why Your Favorite Team Might Have Drafted a Sorry White Quarterback
This is not a story about Black quarterbacks....
With Deshaun Watson’s $177M Deal, Black QBs are the Face of the NFL
Pat Mahomes received his bank-breaking contract earlier this summer, so we knew it was a matter of time before Houston’s Deshaun Watson had the Brinks trucks rolled out for him....
NFL's 'Social Justice' Program Won't Make a Difference Until Players Push Harder
Throughout the summer, athletes across the sports spectrum have expressed their viewpoints on issues disproportionately harming the Black community....
John Thompson Coached Life, Not Basketball
For Black men of a certain age, John Thompson was the pinnacle. And even if they didn’t play for him, he was their coach....
Have to Wonder if These Wealthy Owners Are Trying to Advance this Moment or Manage it
It was a garden-variety fuck up....
Terrible Flyers Reporter: Can We Just Get Back to Hockey?
That’s some Broad Street Bullshit....
America is Finally Getting It: Poll Shows Majority Supports NBA Protests
A stunning new poll shows that Americans have had a drastic change of heart when it comes to professional athletes protesting against racial inequality. ...
PGA's Triplett, Whose Son is Black, Says Change 'Needs to Come from All Sides,' Adds BLM Logo to Bag
The community that makes up the world of golf is largely conservative, white men over 50 years old. One member of that demographic, PGA Champions Tour player Kirk Triplett, became the first professional golfer to place a Black Lives Matter sticker on his golf bag a few weeks ago. He did so in the ho...
'Black August' Means so Much More This Year, as Actions Honor History & Reach Critical Mass
August has been a monumental month on the trail of Black resistance and, by many estimations, Black global progress. ...
Mets’ Poignant Moment on Field was Pure Mets Off it
The Mets and Marlins did not play on Thursday night, instead taking the field, removing their hats, having a collective moment of silence — 42 seconds to honor Jackie Robinson — and leaving a Black Lives Matter shirt on home plate as they headed back to their clubhouses in Queens....
Welcome to the Revolution, NHL. We Hope You'll Stay Awhile (They Won't)
A day after players in other major sports leagues decided to not play to demand an end to racial injustice, the NHL canceled its Thursday bubble playoff games. A day late and a dollar short, so giving the NHL any praise for this is sorta like rewarding a puppy for peeing on the kitchen linoleum inst...
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Nine NFL Teams, Eight MLB Teams Join NBA, WNBA in Racial Justice Walkout [UPDATED]
As the NBA continued its postponement Thursday after players protested police violence on Black lives, some NFL teams staged a smaller scale work strike of canceling practices....
LeBron Voting to Walk Away from This Season Should Tell You All You Need to Know About the Importance of This Moment
If you weren’t sure how serious and life-changing the historic NBA walkout is, the players’ vote late Wednesday night after the postseason was halted should clue you in....
The NHL Stays On-Brand, Ignores Racial Justice Movement
As the sports world ground to a halt yesterday amid a growing movement to protest racial injustice, the NHL did the most NHL thing ever and offered a tepid, half-ass response before the Bruins-Lightning game in Toronto on Wednesday night. ...
Kyrie Irving Tried to Save the NBA From This Moment, but Nobody Wanted to Listen
Some people want to be right, while others need to be heard....