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Top-Ranked Chess Grandmaster Throws Game In Protest After Just Five Moves
Hou Yifan is the highest ranked women’s chess player in the world. She became the youngest woman to reach the rank of grandmaster when she was 16, and she already had four World Championships under her belt by age 22. Her nickname is “Queen of Chess” and last year, she declined to defend her women’s...
Aubrey Huff Tells Protesters To Get A Job
In response to Donald Trump’s decision to ban immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries, Americans took to the airports and streets in protest. In response to those people, former MLB player Aubrey Huff complained online like a big baby....
"If You Are Looking For A Sign This Is It"
On inauguration day in DC, the souvenir business was slow. I asked a vendor wearing a huge Bob Marley hoodie while hawking Trump hats and scarves and keychains whether he might not have had better luck selling Obama gear, and he shrugged. “It’s too late.” ...
Goldman Sachs Does Not Want To Talk About It
If someone came to your house and camped in your front yard and screamed all day and night about how bad you are, you would want to correct the record somehow. Right? ...
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Anti-Dakota Access Pipeline Protesters Hang Enormous Banner During Vikings Game [Updates]
Protesters calling for U.S. Bank to stop funding the Dakota Access Pipeline project hung a huge banner from the Vikings’ stadium during Minnesota’s game against the Bears today:...
Hate Mail To Broncos Linebacker Brandon Marshall: "You Are A Worthless Fucking Nigger"
Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall was the first NFL player to take a knee during a regular-season national anthem, an action which cost him a pair of endorsements. Marshall said he planned to continue his protest throughout the season. While speaking to the Denver Post earlier this season, he note...
The Hard Work Is About To Get Harder
Zucotti Park is beautiful in the holiday season. Delicate strings of white lights coat the trees where, just a few years ago, thousands of angry people stomped and plotted and harangued the world during the Occupy Wall Street encampment. Across the street to the east, the warm lights of the Brown Br...
A Crowd Marched Up Manhattan To Yell At A Big Ugly Building<em></em>
The protestors were mostly gone by the time I arrived at Union Square on Wednesday night. They had begun to march towards Trump Tower, stalling traffic as they held signs, phones, and contempt for the next president of the United States....
Did Donald Trump Watch The Same Obama Speech We All Did?
Yesterday a Trump protester interrupted the president’s appearance at a Hillary Clinton rally in North Carolina, prompting Obama to quiet down a rowdy crowd and urge it to respect the man’s right to free speech. That’s a radical difference from the Trump approach already, but the GOP nominee saw thi...
Singer Claims Sixers Prevented Her From Performing National Anthem Because Of "We Matter" Jersey
Singer Sevyn Streeter was supposed to perform the national anthem at the Philadelphia 76ers home opener this evening, but instead, a member of the Sixers’ dance team took the microphone before the game. Some fans were confused, and shortly after the game tipped off, Streeter posted a video claiming ...
Nantz: "They're Gonna Keep Kneeling As Long As They Have Cameras Right In Their Face" [Correction]
Here’s some off-air video from the Sept. 29th game between the Dolphins and Bengals. Jim Nantz has some things to say about Kenny Stills and Michael Thomas, who have maintained a season-long protest against police brutality....
![Which NFL Owner Told His Players Not To Protest Because "This Is My Stage"? [Update]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/ncikyli7qgu3lv2qkyox.jpg)
Which NFL Owner Told His Players Not To Protest Because "This Is My Stage"? [Update]
Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin went on Any Given Wednesday tonight, and dropped a tantalizing anecdote about how NFL owners have responded to player protests during the national anthem....
Nebraska Regent Calls For Kneeling Players To Be Kicked Off Team, Then Tries To Deny It
Nebraska player Michael Rose-Ivey held a press conference yesterday and discussed the litany of slurs, threats, and condemnations he and two of his teammates had heard from fans after they kneeled during the national anthem before the Huskers’ game this weekend. Unsurprisingly, there are higher-ups ...
Gregg Popovich Explains America
If Colin Kaepernick wanted to get people talking—or, rather, to amplify the conversation for the benefit of those who wish to avoid it—he succeeded. Just about every sports figure has been asked their takes on the national anthem protests, and on the issues at stake, and yesterday, at Spurs media da...
Nebraska's Michael Rose-Ivey Addresses Racist Responses To His Anthem Protest
On Saturday, Nebraska football players Michael Rose-Ivey, Mohamed Barry, and DaiShon Neal protested racial injustice in America by kneeling during the pregame performance of the national anthem. During a press conference yesterday, Rose-Ivey passionately defended his decision to kneel, and shared so...
Peaceful Student Protest Marches On Eastern Michigan Field As Game Ends
Eastern Michigan students protesting that university’s response to white supremacist graffiti that appeared on a campus dorm this week occupied an area behind an end zone during tonight’s game against Wyoming before marching onto the field upon the game’s completion in a display that, remarkably, CB...
Lawyer For Guy Who Pied Kevin Johnson Decries Lack Of Visual Evidence
The attorney for political pie-thrower Sean Thompson is questioning the current lack of video evidence in the altercation with disgraced soon-to-be-former Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson....
The Guy Who Threw A Pie In Kevin Johnson's Face Explains Why He Did It
Sean Thompson, the dude who reportedly got the stuffing beat out of him for throwing a pie in Kevin Johnson’s face last night, is facing a felony assault charge. Throwing baked goods in the faces of public officials is a time honored way to make your disgust known in as gross and physically harmless...
Mariners Catcher Barfs Out Some Thoughts About Protestors, Compares Them To Animals
Steve Clevenger is an oft-injured backup catcher for the Seattle Mariners, who is hitting .221 this season in 68 at-bats. This afternoon, he weighed in on the protests sweeping through Charlotte with all the subtlety of an elephant playing the piano....