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If athletes are going to take a stand on social issues, they can't also ignore Kyrie Irving, antisemitismIt was one of the rare beautiful things about 2020. It’s a shame it took an event as obviously evil as George Floyd’s murder while in Minneapolis police custody to be the catalyst for such touching moments. Seeing the groundswell of support for the Black Lives Matter movement in the aftermath, and t...

It isn’t Celtics or Suns players’ job to answer for Ime Udoka and Robert Sarver’s actionsThe question askers were there. The question answerers were not....

LeBron James, Michael Jordan, and Jayland Walker share a similar experienceLeBron James and Michael Jordan approach basketball and life in starkly different ways. Jordan had to be convinced into consistently sharing the ball with his teammates, while James has been criticized for involving his teammates in the offense too frequently. James is a significantly larger man and...

Don’t support Gabe Kapler’s protest during the national anthem if you took issue with Colin Kaepernick’s

Six years ago, a Black football player decided he wasn’t going to stand during the national anthem because America wasn’t holding up its end of the bargain when it came to protecting the people he cared about. The country lost it, and he lost his job. Six years later, a white baseball manager has de...

Steve Kerr and the hopeful effectiveness of the ‘Angry White Man’

Thoughts and prayers are the worst things you can offer during times like this. The Bible says that faith without works is dead, which means that all those prayers are useless without legislation. And those thoughts? Well, just because people hope — or think — we can get back to the world we lived i...

Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf deserves an apology

Now that the NBA’s social justice pomp and circumstance have faded away, it’s past time the league officially apologized to former player Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf....

Brian Flores is the new face of racism in the NFL — where’s Jay-Z?

Lyrics stay with us forever....

Like Colin Kaepernick, Brian Flores is the latest Black person getting overlooked for a job they deserve

On the first day of Black History Month, just two years after America had a supposed “racial awakening” following the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and the shooting of Jacob Blake, former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores followed in Colin Kaepernick’s footprints by ex...