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I Watched Dozens Of Cops Race Past My Whiteness To Assault Blacks In Times Square
All my life I have lived inside a bubble wrapped in white privilege. I don’t wear it as a badge of honor; it is just reality. This reality was never clearer than my experience during the George Floyd protests in New York City on Saturday....
Poker Pro Reports Better Than The Mainstream Media: ‘The Aggression Started With The Police.’ Update: And He Got Arrested
Sparked by the death of George Floyd, Mark Newhouse joined protesters in San Jose on Saturday who were demanding an end to police brutality. They were met with the same response as other protests nationwide: More police brutality....
The Justice For George Floyd Campaign Spreads To Europe
There have been protests across the world today against police brutality to echo those in this country the past couple of days and players in the German Bundesliga have taken up the cause as well over the weekend. Three players had public displays of protest in matches. ...
Former NBA Player Royce White To Lead Another Peaceful Demonstration For George Floyd
On Thursday, Royce White sent a text message to a few athletes and friends from Minneapolis to gather folks for a peaceful demonstration against the killing of George Floyd. The next day, a few friends turned into a few thousand people in the streets, with White leading demonstrators from downtown M...
“Save the Bullshit”: Roger Goodell and Jed York Insult Kaepernick with Fake Concern for George Floyd
After Texans wide receiver Kenny Stills read NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s statement yesterday on the death of George Floyd, he could only muster up three words: ...
Colin Kaepernick Tried To Save George Floyd. They Called Him 'Son Of A Bitch' And Took His Career
Colin Kaepernick was right....
Distraught Stephen Jackson’s Pain About George Floyd is Real: White People Need To Listen
The world has seen the gut-wrenching killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin as his colleagues refused to stop a murder in progress....
‘Jungleman’ Comes Clean, Admits To Role In Poker Scandal
Renowned poker pro “Jungleman” Daniel Cates ’fessed up to an online cheating scandal that surfaced over the weekend, one which multimillionaire Bill Perkins claimed on Twitter would “make the Mike Postle (scandal) look like a church service.”...
ESPN’s <i>Lance:</i> New Documentary, Same Glib Asshole
Lance Armstrong is a dick....
Kendrick Perkins Is Right: Harden Is Better Than Curry
It’s been a while since we’ve seen a live NBA game. But Monday NBA Twitter was acting like it caught amnesia when the topic on the table was determining who was better: Steph Curry or James Harden....
‘Dream Team Tape’ Proves Jordan Lied About Keeping Isiah Off Team
Today’s Jordan tape tells a different story between Michal Jordan and Isiah Thomas than the one we heard on The Last Dance....
Crisp Visual Metaphor Of The Week: Jaguars' Mascot Beaten To Pulp In Empty Stadium
In what could only be described as a Jason Mendoza fever dream, AEW held a 10-man main event Saturday night inside the Jacksonville Jaguars’ stadium with the Jaguars cheerleaders and the team mascot, Jaxson de Ville. Perhaps if Mr. Mendoza had known about this, he wouldn’t have thought a perfect Mad...
No One Has More To Lose On An NBA Reboot Than LeBron James
If — or when — the 2019-2020 NBA season gets back under way, there can be only one loser at season’s end....
Reliving the 2000s Pittsburgh Pirates, A Time of Bow & Arrows, Tony Plush And Beating Sausages
Perhaps no team in history defined a single decade like the Bulls of the 90s. They racked up wins, fans, championships and pop-culture adulation on their way to immortality, ultimately etching a lengthy run of dominance that none of us may ever see again. Hence the 10-episode documentary The Last Da...
Death of Japanese Wrestler Hana Kimura Returns Attention To The Reality Of Cyberbullying
Hana Kimura, a rising phenom in Japan’s World Wonder Ring Stardom (known simply as “Stardom”) died on Saturday at the age of 22. While no official cause of death has been released at this time, it has been widely reported that she took her own life....
Joe Biden Should Learn From His White Entitlement
Joe Biden’s sense of entitlement toward black culture is a problem....
Drive-in Theater To Open At Yankee Stadium … Parking Lot
You may have heard on Thursday that Yankee Stadium is becoming a drive-in movie theater this summer, as that was the headline at Travel & Leisure and Cosmopolitan, and even the content of a tweet from the Yankees’ flagship radio station, WFAN....
Wrestling’s Skirting Of The Rules Hasn’t Gotten It Ratings
While most of the attention has been focused on how WWE and AEW have bent, skirted, and avoided protocols and rules to still run live programming during the pandemic, it doesn’t appear to be netting them results that make it seem worth it. Once again, when Monday Night Raw’s ratings for Monday came ...
WWE's Shad Gaspard Drowns Saving Son From Riptide
The body of former World Wrestling Entertainment star Shad Gaspard was found on Venice Beach early Wednesday morning, police said. He had been caught in a rip current last weekend while saving the life of his 10-year-old son, Aryeh....
Several Colleges Nix Sports Programs Due To Lack Of Funding Amidst Coronavirus
No one is safe from the economic fallout from the coronavirus, not least of all the nation’s cash-strapped college sports programs....