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Super Bowl MVP & Commentators Agree: Rebuild Culture Like Locker Room
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Over the past week, George Floyd’s violent and tragic death has been well documented. Additionally, the tragic turmoil at the hands of violent rioters has also been at the forefront of the news.
ESPN Guest: America 'Earned' Looting, Rioting, Burning
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Author and radio host Lenard Larry McKelvey, known professionally as "Charlamagne tha God," went H. Rap Brown on ESPN's First Take television show Monday. He claimed America earned every bit of the social unrest over its 400 years of white supremacy. The militant Brown said during the racial unrest of the 1960s that if America doesn't come around we will burn it to the ground, and McKelvey…
Some in Media Defend Kaepernick's Call to ‘Fight Back'
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Amid the sports media reports on LeBron James and other athletes expressing outrage over the killing of George Floyd, the New York Daily News, Deadspin and the New Jersey Advocate featured excuses for the violent rioting. Sarah Valenzuela's story in the New York Daily News focused on former NFL player Colin Kaepernick (at right in photo) blatantly defending the riots and the arson:
Department of Education Ignites Media Whining Over CT Trans Policy
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The boys who would be girls in Connecticut have been told by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) to pick on someone their own size. In a 45-page letter obtained Thursday by the Associated Press, DOE's civil rights division says a Connecticut policy allowing transgender males to compete in girls sports is a violation of Title IX and it may seek to withhold federal funding over the policy. In…
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George Floyd: Whitlock Calls for 'Strategic' Protesting Among Athletes
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]The headline news of this week has been horrifying. Heartbreaking. Heinous. Pick a negative adjective, and you can apply it to the senseless killing that occurred in Minnesota this week. If you have seen the video of a Minnesota law enforcement officer kneeling on the neck of George Floyd until he suffocated to death, then you have probably experienced the same gut-churning feeling that the rest…
Nike Swoosh Rolls Out Collection Of LGBT-Themed Footwear
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Nike hardly resembles the company co-founded by the late Bill Bowerman, so narrow and limited in his vision that he actually produced shoes, books and manuals to promote fitness. In comparison to the company's legacy, the politically correct goofballs running his misguided organization today are producing products that speak a spectrum of voices to non-binary runners.
Trump-hating Progressive Power Couples To Host 2020 ESPYs
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The 2020 ESPN "ESPY Awards" show this summer is bound to be a politically charged event. How can it not be with Megan Rapinoe, Sue Bird and Russell Wilson hosting the remote event? It's an election year, all three of these Seattle area progressives have a history of political activism and the ESPYs have provided "home field" for the likes of Michelle Obama and Caitlyn Jenner in the past.
Porn Site Seeks Stadium Naming Agreement With Saints
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The sleazy NFL potentially continues to slouch toward Gomorrah! Super Bowl halftime sleaze is legendary, but now an adult webcam site has offered $15 million to the New Orleans Saints in hopes of gaining the Super Dome stadium naming rights. SB Nation sports blog asks why an organization would want to get involved with an "embarrassing, scandal-plagued business" and it wasn't even referring to…
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Sports' Fear-Driven COVID Responses Need to Stop, Says Sports Writer
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Months ago, nobody would have imagined that there would be dozens of controversial articles written about an NFL quarterback getting a haircut and a beard trim, but here we are. On Monday, the Pittsburgh Steelers posted a video of quarterback “Big Ben” Roethlisberger throwing “legit NFL passes” to teammates Juju Smith-Schuster, James Connor, and Ryan Switzer, signaling that a long rehab from…
NY Post Zings NFL Commissioner, Culture Of Criminality
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The New York Post's Phil Mushnick is never afraid to tell it like it really is. Which makes him an outlier in sports media. This week, he tattoos NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell as a pandering "Great White Father" who treats everyone like dopes, insults minorities and presides over the league's untreated illness: the criminality of its players. You won't see this kind of language on ESPN or in the…
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Cuban Tells Hannity Trump Failing to Lead During Pandemic
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Yes, we should really be listening to Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban when he speaks on the stuff that leaders are made of. Mr. Cuban forfeited his credibility on this subject in 2018 when he was forced by the NBA to pay $10 million to women's leadership and domestic violence organizations. Why? Because he permitted a culture of sexual harassment in the team's front office. Nevertheless, Cuban…
Deadspin Rages About Failure Of NFL Affirmative Action Proposal
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In a meeting with league owners Tuesday, the NFL approved rules requiring more minority candidates for coaching and general manager (GM) jobs to be interviewed. A virtual affirmative action proposal to elevate the draft positions of teams hiring minority coaches and GMs was tabled due to a lack of owner support, prompting a race-filled diatribe from Deadspin writer Carron J. Phillips.
Guardian Blames UFC Claim of Media Bias on President Trump
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If you're the head of a sports organization and you complain about media basis, you're just taking a leaf out of President Donald Trump's book on media criticism. So says Guardian Sport in a Tuesday post. UFC President Dana White on Monday evening told Fox News' Sean Hannity that the New York Times, the Guardian and other media tried to sabotage his May 9 fight card in Jacksonville.
Sports Media Suddenly Discover Fallacies Of Affirmative Action
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Suddenly progressives have become aware that affirmative action is demeaning to minorities. Liberal sports writers from SB Nation and the ESPN blog known as The Undefeated are surprisingly ripping an NFL proposal to elevate the draft positions of teams hiring minority coaches and general managers, amid charges of engaging in affirmative action. A Deadspin writer also shreds the idea of allowing…
