kuiper - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights

IDIOT OF THE YEAR: It's the final countdown (Nos. 10-1)Here they are: The biggest dummies of 2023. Most of them are starting to take up permanent residence here. ...

IDIOT OF THE MONTH: Legends of stupidity return to May leaderboardsWelcome to Deadspin’s IDIOT OF THE MONTH. Please enjoy our latest offering to the pageview gods, presented thusly in a convenient slideshow format....

What's worse than Glen Kuiper using the N-word on air? | Worst of the Week

MLB shouldn’t have to be guided through every faux pas by fans

The reason it’s called man-splaining is because men hate being lectured. We’d rather be the ones doing the preaching, and have everybody else do the listening. Even when we’re wrong, we hesitate to admit it, and then when we finally do relent, we don’t want to be told why we fucked up. We just want ...

Glen Kuiper said his excitement is why he 'rushed’ and said the N-word...riiiggghtttt [Update]

Glen Kuiper didn’t misspeak less than three weeks ago during a pregame segment when detailing his trip to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City. That hateful six-letter word doesn’t just slip out of your mouth unless you’ve used it dozens of times before and it’s part of your vernacular. ...

Bob Huggins kept his job, Trump got his CNN Town Hall — white men won Wednesday

Sports and politics have always served as the smoking gun when it comes to proving that white male privilege is a real thing. It’s the reason why all of our presidents — besides one — have been white men, and why that same demographic dominates head coaching positions in sports. On Wednesday, the la...

If you’re mad at Bob Huggins but shrugged at Glen Kuiper, you’re part of the problem

If West Virginia men’s head basketball coach Bob Huggins gets fired for calling Xavier fans “Catholic f**s” on a Cincinnati radio show — whose hosts encouraged and laughed at his behavior — one of the greatest coaches in the history of the sport will have earned his termination. And if Oakland A’s b...

Don’t let Glen Kuiper’s screw-up distract from great news regarding the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

Lost in the noise of Glen Kuiper’s slur of the tongue, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is on the path to an enormous overhaul. With interest and attendance up, the president of the Kansas City museum — Bob Kendrick — announced a plan last week for a new Negro Leagues Baseball Museum campus....