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Michigan State Reinstates Linebacker Who Called His Teammate The N-Word<em></em>
Michigan State football coach Mark Dantonio confirmed during today’s Big Ten Media Day that linebacker Jon Reschke, who left the program in February 2017, has been reinstated. Reschke, a starter in his 2015 sophomore year who missed most of 2016 due to an injury, apologized at the time of his depart...
Papa John's Creates Poison Pill For One Special Customer: The Disgraced Papa Himself
The Papa John’s board of directors announced late last night that they would be adopting something that’s known in the business industry as a “limited duration stockholder rights plan.” This is an attempt to prevent Papa “John” Schnatter from reasserting his control over his eponymous company, which...
Mesut Özil Quits International Soccer In Letter Decrying Racism And Unfair Double Standards
Mesut Özil retired from German international soccer Sunday, in a lengthy statement released on Twitter. Özil says the fallout from a photo he took with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in May lays bare a kind of racism he’s subjected to as a German with Turkish heritage, and that “enough is en...
Giving A Guy Who Was Racist Online A Standing Ovation To Own The Libs
Josh Hader took the mound for the Brewers Saturday night, his first appearance since the All-Star break, and since the accompanying revelation that Hader’s Twitter account was full of racist and offensive shit, all of it posted when he was a teenager in 2011 and 2012. Hader was masterful against the...
LAFC's Adama Diomande Says Portland Timbers Player Called Him The N-Word During Game
LAFC striker Adama Diomande wrote in an Instagram post that an opponent on the Portland Timbers called him “the ‘N’ word” during his team’s U.S. Open Cup match on Wednesday. Diomande came on in the second half as a substitute in his team’s 3-2 win, and while he exchanged a few words with Timbers pla...
The Family Of Colonel Sanders Defends His Honor From That "Weasel" Papa John
The whole reason Papa “John” Schnatter found himself in this PR catastrophe, one that has left him disowned and evicted from the Papa John’s headquarters, as well as practically scrubbed from the University of Louisville’s campus, is because he allegedly said “Colonel Sanders called blacks niggers” ...
Serving Up A Three-Run Homer Is Somehow Only The Second-Worst Part Of Josh Hader's Night<em></em><em></em>
Brewers reliever Josh Hader pitched just a third of an inning during Tuesday night’s MLB All-Star Game, and allowed a mighty three-run Jean Segura tater that put the American League ahead in the eighth. His hair was perfect, but it was otherwise not a great night for Milwaukee’s closer. But getting ...
Barstool Sports Hires Old Weirdo To Make Racist Jokes
Barstool Sports recently hired Michael McCarthy, who ran a site called TakeAReport.com back in the early days of blogging. Then a VP at Citigroup, McCarthy used the site to pseudonymously share musings such as, “Although I’m pretty sure you don’t condone the drugging and subsequent raping of female ...
Papa John Has Regrets
John “Papa John” Schnatter is sorry ... sorry he resigned as Papa John’s chairman, you cowards!...
Papa John Made Some People Mad After Allegedly Using The N-Word On A Conference Call
According to a report from Forbes, the owner of the Papa John’s pizza empire, John Schnatter, rankled a group of marketing executives when he used the n-word during a May conference call....
Report: Fired Tigers Pitching Coach Called Black Clubhouse Attendant A "Monkey"
Wednesday, the Detroit Tigers announced that pitching coach Chris Bosio had been let go for making “insensitive” comments toward a team employee. The next day, Bosio spoke to USA Today claimed that the whole thing had been a misunderstanding. According to a new report from The Athletic, Bosio’s expl...
Former Tigers Pitching Coach Claims He Was Fired For Calling A White Player "Spider Monkey"
Tigers pitching coach Chris Bosio was fired on Wednesday, just a few months into his first season, for what the team called “insensitive comments” to a team employee. Those around the Tigers organization have stayed remarkably tight-lipped about what it was that Bosio said, but WXYZ first reported t...
Telemundo Hosts Suspended For Making Slant-Eye Gesture While Celebrating South Korea's World Cup Win
If South Korea hadn’t beaten or drawn Germany yesterday, Mexico would have been sent packing from the World Cup. It would have been a national nightmare, considering their sterling performance through the tournament’s first two matches, which included a win against the defending champions. Instead, ...
NFL Fines Jerry Richardson $2.75 Million
Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson has been hit with a $2.75 million fine following an NFL investigation that concluded the “allegations of improper workplace conditions” against him were “substantiated,” according to a league statement....
Here Are Some Old Englishmen Doing An Anti-Semitic Soccer Chant And Saluting Hitler
According to The Telegraph and journalist Bryan MacDonald, these English fans went to a pub in Stalingrad after Monday’s England-Tunisia World Cup match and celebrated England’s win by doing anti-Semitic chants....
Sam Dekker White Pride Tweet Sparks Meet Me In Temecula Part 2
Last night, Los Angeles Clippers forward Sam Dekker tweeted how proud he was to be white, sparking a feud between two Twitter users that culminated with the Dekker-defender buying his adversary an airline ticket to Los Angeles so they could punch each other about it. It is truly as stupid as it sou...
UFC Fighter Andrea Lee's Coach And Husband Apologizes For Nazi Tattoos
On Friday afternoon, UFC flyweight Andrea Lee posted a lakeside photograph of herself and her husband Donny Aaron. MMA fans quickly noticed something unexpected in the picture: a swastika tattoo on Aaron’s left forearm....
Cal Coach Lindsay Gottlieb Says Southwest Airlines Demanded Proof She Was Her Biracial Son's Mother
Cal women’s basketball coach Lindsay Gottlieb was about to board a plane in Denver with her year-old son Jordan on Monday when she was stopped by a Southwest Airlines employee, who demanded to see proof that she was Jordan’s mother. Even after Gottlieb showed Jordan’s passport, the employee was not ...
Georgia High School Tennis Players Punished After Posing With White Bags Over Their Heads
White tennis players from Telfair County High School in Georgia have been punished for posing for a photo in which they wore white bags over their heads with the eyes cut out. The photo, which was taken on Snapchat and then distributed on Facebook in the days after the tennis tournament, was taken a...
The Sports Highlight Of The Day Is The Idiot Racist Lawyer Sprinting Away From News Cameras
Aaron Schlossberg, the New York City lawyer who was caught on video dressing down restaurant employees for speaking Spanish and threatening to call U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on them because he believed they were undocumented, is having a rough time since activist Shaun King released t...