Sports

Venezuelan Stars Point Media to Socialism's Ills
Culture
May 24th, 2017 6:48 PM
America’s left-stream media long ignored the human rights abuses of the communist dictator Castro’s Cuba. Astonishingly, for many in the media it was see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil about Cuba. But now Venezuelan major league baseball players are helping to enlighten the media about a socialist dictator’s crackdown in their home country.

Media's Obsession with Kaepernick is 'Insane'
Culture
May 22nd, 2017 7:22 PM
In the 21st century, no sports free agents have been covered more than LeBron James, Peyton Manning, Brett Favre, Kevin Durant and ... Colin Kaepernick. The first four are in or headed for their respective Hall of Fame. Kaepernick, a free agent quarterback trying to help Black Lives Matter move the ball forward, gets a ton of press only because left-wing media are using him to advance their own…

ESPN Woos Advertisers By Sticking to Sports
Culture
May 18th, 2017 6:32 PM
Deadspin, the perpetual cactus in ESPN’s side, had a field day with the sports network’s phony-baloney performance before advertisers in New York this week. Kevin Draper and Laura Wagner pointed out a huge gap between what’s going on at ESPN and the façade its brass displayed to advertisers.

SI: Spurs' Coach Not Partisan in Anti-Trump Rant
Culture
May 16th, 2017 7:34 PM
Speaking on SI Now video, Sports Illustrated's Robin Lundberg said the San Antonio Spurs' players might not show up to play in the NBA's Western Conference Finals if their coach didn't take strong anti-President Trump political stands.

SB Nation Suggests Signing Free Agents Based on Activism
Culture
May 16th, 2017 6:19 PM
Sports media have now descended to the point where reporters are judging free agent athletes on how well they fit with potential new teams based on their activism. And judging by the strong activism among members of the Seattle Seahawks, the NFC West Division team is a good fit for radioactive activist Colin Kaepernick in the view of SB Nation's Christian D'Andrea.

ESPN's Political Insistence Is Truly 'Outside the Lines' of Fairness
Culture
May 12th, 2017 7:35 PM
Long-time ESPN veterans and untouchable survivors of multiple layoffs, Jeremy Schaap and Bob Ley say sticking to sports will not work in the modern world of sports. Ley also says, according to Travis Waldron of The Huffington Post, that those who say ESPN is too political are hypocrites.

TNT's Charles Barkley Battles With Crowd on Racism and Cops
Culture
May 12th, 2017 1:26 AM
Three Baltimore police officers were acquitted of charges in the death of Freddy Gray in Baltimore last year. Charges against three remaining officers were dropped. Three of those police officers are Black, three White. If you didn’t know any of this before Thursday night’s airing on TNT of “American Race – Baltimore Rising,” you sure didn’t get it on this program co-produced by retired NBA…

Barkley Series: Commonsense on Race
Culture
May 11th, 2017 7:09 PM
If race baiters were hoping retired NBA player Charles Barkley would rubber stamp Black Lives Matter-style, police-bashing racism on his four-part TNT series American Race, they may be in for disappointment.

Ex-ESPN Journalist: Deadspin Pushed Network Left
Culture
May 8th, 2017 8:13 PM
Ever since ESPN sacked 100 on-air employees and sent them packing April 26, conservatives and leftists have debated the reason for the network's latest round of layoffs. "Chord-cutting," say those on the Left, as well as ESPN management. "Radical turn-off politics," say the conservatives.

USA Today: Criminals in, Humanitarian Kaepernick Out
Culture
May 4th, 2017 11:56 PM
How can NFL teams possibly conceive of drafting college players under suspicion of having committed heinous crimes while leaving the humanitarian/champion of free speech Colin Kaepernick out in the cold? That's the question USAToday writer Christine Brennan wants answered.

ESPN's Michael Smith: Every City in America Is Racist
May 3rd, 2017 6:32 PM
ESPN's determination to dig its own grave continues to move at high speed. On Tuesday, SportsCenter 6 co-host Michael Smith intensely overreacted to the racist actions of a small contingent fans at a Major League Baseball game at Boston's Fenway Park, using what they did to tag every city in America as "racist."

The Ringer on Orioles Incident: We're a Nation of 'Violent Oppressors'
Culture
May 3rd, 2017 4:59 PM
You should feel guilty – white guilt guilty. Because Michael Bauman says “racism is in the foundation of bourgeois white America from sea to shining sea.” And we are a nation of “violent oppressors.” We’re all supposedly guilty.

WSJ: ESPN's Troubles Far from Over
Culture
May 2nd, 2017 5:30 PM
Ever a glutton for punishment, ESPN is not ready to change its self-defeating ways. Dramatic losses in business and the jettisoning of 100 employees last week are only leading to continued defiance.

NYT: ESPN's Liberalism is 'Novel Development'
May 1st, 2017 7:54 PM
To The New York Times' own “Captain Obvious" -- Marc Tracy -- the idea that "a liberal viewpoint" emanating from "mainstream sports broadcaster" ESPN is a "novel development." Tracy hasn't left his liberal New York cocoon in quite a while, or he would realize what we all know: ESPN is every bit as biased as his own liberal newspaper.