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School fires girls basketball coach, dismisses player after antisemitic incident: reportUpdated Jan. 9: Yonkers Public Schools have fired a high school girls basketball coach and dismissed a player from the team as a result of an antisemitic incident Thursday night, the New York Post reported. ...

What’s going on at Harvard with Claudine Gay is similar to how the NFL, sports, and America operateClaudine Gay is the new Nikole Hannah-Jones in the same way that Eric Bieniemy is the latest version of Sherman Lewis. And while there’s a big difference between being a leader at an institution of higher learning and coaching football, the common denominator remains the same — excluding Black peopl...

Michael Bidwill is in full denial mode — just like his buddy Brett KavanaughNo one likes being accused of things. But, nobody despises it like white men — especially the rich ones. Almost five years after then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh threw a temper tantrum when he testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee — due to being publicly accused of sexual miscond...

National football powerhouse Mater Dei is trying to make assault allegations disappear

In November, Mater Dei High School in Orange County, Calif. lost its first football game since before the COVID-19 pandemic. Bryce Young’s high-school program was defeated by St. John Bosco, 24-22, at the Rose Bowl in the Southern Section Division I Championship Game. There’s no shame for high schoo...

Colin Kaepernick may return to the NFL while America asks itself what is it that the police do, exactly

Every revolution begins with a single act of defiance - Mahatma Gandhi...

A grim reminder of our insane gun culture [Updated]

As gunshots rang out near a recent Little League game in North Charleston, S.C., every kid in sight knew how to act immediately. The game was no longer important. Get down and wait until the adults around them have deemed it’s safe to get up from sprawling on the ground. And try to stay alive....

There's no party in Conference USA as three teams leave

I know, I know — college football is far from our collective minds at the moment, what with Super Bowl Sunday this past week and March Madness fast approaching. But the best kind of drama is CFB drama, and the best kind of CFB drama is Group of 5 drama....

IDIOT OF THE YEAR: Bishop Sycamore, Antonio Brown, and other honorable mentions

Bishop Sycamore, for getting itself broadcast on ESPN despite being a fake school and not winning a game in two years...