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Don’t support Gabe Kapler’s protest during the national anthem if you took issue with Colin Kaepernick’sSix years ago, a Black football player decided he wasn’t going to stand during the national anthem because America wasn’t holding up its end of the bargain when it came to protecting the people he cared about. The country lost it, and he lost his job. Six years later, a white baseball manager has de...

White fans were entertained by Black athletes a day after a racist killed Black people in Buffalo — this is what white supremacy looks likeSports only serve as an escape from society if you’re white....

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s take on the Will Smith/Chris Rock situation is an outdated view of progressSometimes, even the NBA’s all-time leading scorer misses an easy one....

Let’s go Brandon? Let’s stop the nonsense

Brandon Brown is the most famous race car driver in America, an incredible thing for a 28-year-old in the second-tier NASCAR Xfinity Series who has won exactly one race since moving up from the NASCAR truck series, where he was winless with only one top-10 finish in 22 races over four seasons....

Idiot of the Month: November’s most mind-blowing acts of stupidity

Welcome to Deadspin’s IDIOT OF THE MONTH! The year is almost over, mercifully. Here are some people who stood out in November for doing dumb things....

The sports and athletes we’re thankful for…

It’s that time of year where most of us prepare to eat ourselves into a stupor over the next few days, kick back, watch football and enjoy friends and family. More importantly, it’s the time where we give thanks for the things we’re thankful for in life....

Trevor Bauer joins the worst people in America in celebrating Kyle Rittenhouse

Kyle Rittenhouse got away with murder, acquitted on all charges in the two killings that he admitted to last year, because he was able to convince a Wisconsin jury, with the help of a sympathetic-to-say-the-least judge, that he was acting in self-defense after having brought a rifle across state lin...

The sports world has gone silent even as discrimination is apparent in Ahmaud Arbery and Kyle Rittenhouse cases

The kneeling has stopped. The messaging on the backs of jerseys has been replaced with last names. Black Lives Matter isn’t plastered on the court. And journalists have ceased asking “those questions” after games. But, the pain is still there – and the racism, too....