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The Last Of The Old Way: Larry Bird's Celtics Enter The Modern Era
Excerpted from Unfinished Business, a chronicle of the 1990-91 Boston Celtics season, now available as an e-book. The author's annotations appear throughout the story. ...
Restaurant Chain Apologizes For Racist Sign About Chiefs And Redskins
Sonic Drive-In has apologized for a racist sign promoting Sunday's Chiefs-Skins game outside one of its restaurants in Belton, Mo....
Mizzou's Cheering Section Gets Kicked Out Of Two Games For Being Awful
Mizzou basketball games have long been attended by a student cheering section known as the Antlers, and it is a cheering section that is apparently full of huge dick heads. The entire section has been kicked out of two games this year by university police, and the school's athletic department just r...
Report: Richie Incognito Also Harassed A Dolphins Staff Member
Hey, it's been a few days since we've had a report about what a gigantic shit head Richie Incognito is. So here's this, from Jason Cole at the National Football Post....
Lawsuit: Jim Gray Sent Around Dumb Anti-Obama Tea Party Meme
Late last month, a former employee filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against Los Angeles real estate mogul Mike Meldman, alleging racial discrimination and harassment. The full suit is here, but we're mostly concerned with a cameo appearance from pseudojournalist-for-hire Jim Gray....
ESPN Anchor Apologizes After "Lin Is Cooking With Peanut Oil" Joke
Remember when ESPN suspended Max Bretos for a month because he used a common colloquialism that, in the context of Jeremy Lin, seemed racist? Remember when media people saying racially obtuse things about Jeremy Lin was a thing? Lin's having a good game tonight against the Knicks, which means we'r...
People Keep Tweeting Hate And Support At The Wrong Jonathan Martin
You know what this Richie Incognito-Jonathan Martin mess could use? Some levity. So let's take a moment to laugh at how dumb people on the internet are. ...
The "Threatening" Text That Martin Sent To Incognito Was A Dumb Meme
During his interview with Jay Glazer that aired on Fox today, Richie Incognito revealed that he had also received joking text messages from Jonathan Martin that could, out of context, appear to be threatening. ...
Richie Incognito Speaks, Says He's Not A Racist Or A Bully
Richie Incognito spoke publicly about his role in the bullying of Jonathan Martin for the first time today. He was interviewed by Fox Sports' Jay Glazer, who's given Incognito MMA training and has a personal and (presumed) business relationship with him. The interview was a fucking joke....
Richie Incognito Was Accused Of Rubbing His Junk On A Woman Last Year
Local 10 in Miami got its hands a police report that was filed in May of last year, in which Richie Incognito is accused of physically harassing a woman who was volunteering at an annual golf tournament hosted by the Miami Dolphins....
Richie Incognito Was Never An Honorary Black Guy
We know that Miami Dolphins offensive lineman Richie Incognito called his teammate Jonathan Martin a "half-nigger." Today, Warren Sapp told Dan Patrick that Incognito called him "a nigger" when the two lined up years ago, when they were still in the league. At first glance, that Richie sounds like a...
Richie Incognito Once Called Warren Sapp A "Nigger" During A Game
During today's Dan Patrick Show, Warren Sapp recalled the time Richie Incognito called him a nigger during a game. In this short clip, Sapp evokes much of the complexity that surrounds the Incognito controversy and the use of the n-word in general....
Shirtless Richie Incognito Drops An N-Bomb And Acts Like A Psycho
This isn't going to help Richie Incognito's future attempts to prove that he is not a racist psycho....
76 Years Later, Maryland Tries To Right A College Football Wrong
In October 1937, Maryland administrators threatened to cancel a game with Syracuse unless the then-Orangemen benched their offensive star, Wilmeth Sidat-Singh. The problem, as Maryland saw it, was that he wasn't the right type of colored boy....
Russian Soccer Fans Were Racist Today. But Were They Racist Enough?
Champions League soccer is back on today, and English side Manchester City traveled to Russia to play CSKA Moscow. City won, 2-1. City have the better team, so the result itself isn't shocking. But going to Russia to play soccer sucks. It's far. It's cold. The environment is oppressive. CSKA are act...
Atlanta Newspaper Tweets Some Dumb Shit About Lottery Winner
It's since been deleted (of course), and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has yet to offer an apology or an explanation, but some announcement about their account being hacked will probably hit the Twitter machine any moment now....
Kevin Love Wins White Guy Award From NBA Executives
The NBA season is right around the corner, and you know what that means: Time for another preseason survey in which the league's 30 general managers answer various questions of varying degrees of inanity. You'll note that, way down at the bottom, the NBA asks an especially weird one:...
Simone Biles Vs. The Racists: Are Black Gymnasts The New Black QBs?
Last week in Belgium Simone Biles made history by becoming the first woman of color to win an all-around title at the world championships, just a year after Gabby Douglas took the top spot at the Olympic Games....