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Roger Goodell is ducking hard questions by moving annual Super Bowl press conference, making it invite-onlyIf an elephant is in the room, you have two choices: address it or ignore it. When you’re the NFL, you have a third one: Remove it. ...

The NFL is having another fake diversity program for coaches next weekNo one fakes the funk like the NFL. Despite being investigated by New York and California Attorneys General for allegations of hostile workplace discrimination, racial and sexual harassment, and age bias, in addition to Brian Flores’s class-action lawsuit for the league’s alleged racist hiring pract...

A Major League Baseball team in Utah is a terrible ideaAt a time in which it appears that Major League Baseball is seemingly doing all it can to keep African-Americans from being on Big League rosters, a group in Salt Lake, Utah is throwing its hat in the ring to land a franchise in the coming years. Remember this the next time MLB Commissioner Rob Manf...

The media photos from the NFL Owners' Meetings were extra white

Football is America’s sport because it’s the game that so closely mirrors how our society works. The players are the workforce/employees. The coaches are middle management. And the owners are the politicians and lawmakers. And when you think of it that way, it’s evident where the lack of diversity w...

Instead of addressing the lack of diversity, Roger Goodell and NFL Media got rid of Jim Trotter for asking about it

At a time in which the NFL has become a Teflon juggernaut despite its glaring issues, and in a moment in which those on the left, right, and the middle are calling for fairness and balance, Monday morning was an example of why those desires are rarely fulfilled. For the last two years, veteran NFL r...

James Baldwin Was An Honest Man And A Good Writer

This article was originally featured in the August 1988 issue of GQ and appears here with the author’s permission....

The Fight: Patterson Vs. Liston

Originally published in the February 1963 issue of Nugget, "The Fight: Patterson vs. Liston" also appears in At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing, edited by George Kimball and John Schulian and published in hardcover, paperback, and as an e-book by The Library of America. You can also find it...