Sports
Abdul-Jabbar: LeBron Personifies Modern Athlete
Following the NBA's embarrassing TV ratings collapse, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Jason Whitlock offered competing evaluations of the face of the league: LeBron James. Writing for The Guardian, Abdul-Jabbar used a Mount Rushmore analogy to describe James as the personification of the modern-day woke athlete. In an Outkick video, Whitlock called James a turn-off, "crass" and "crude" and…
Radical Kaepernick Movement Demands ‘Abolish Police, Prisons, Borders’
You thought Colin Kaepernick's cops are pigs socks were bad? Those are trifling matters compared to the torrent of cop- and America-hating vitriol oozing from his "Abolition for the People" partnership with Medium Publishing. At Kaepernick's bidding, a 30-story blitz is underway searing America as a racist nation while calling for the abolition of police and Immigration, Customs and…
Deadspin Attacks ESPN's Schefter For White Privilege Over Joke
We just learned that privileged white leftists do eat their own. Julie DiCaro, a clearly unhinged white writer at Deadspin, chewed up and spit out ESPN's Adam Schefter, whom she accuses of embodying white male privilege. DiCaro excoriates him for harming others while attempting to score Twitter points.
OSU Star At Pence Rally, But So Were Dems Dissing GOP
Cardale Jones, one of the heroes of Ohio State's 2014 national championship football team, appeared at Vice President Mike Pence's Monday rally in Columbus, but USA Today Sports's story on the event was light on the football star's presence and top-heavy on attacks by opponents of the Republican ticket.
BLM? NFL Moves On To Focus On National Coming Out Day
Black Lives Matter protest is so passé now that the National Football League's weekend focus Sunday was on "National Coming Out Day." The league released a 30-second long National Coming Out Day PSA" on YouTube Saturday, which aired during early-game Fox broadcasts Sunday.
'F*** Reform:' Kaepernick Launches Movement for Abolition of Police
In response to the "state-sanctioned lynchings" of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, the radical Colin Kaepernick is spearheading a movement to dismantle the carceral state and demand abolition. The former NFL anthem protester introduced the "Abolition for the People" movement in a partnership between Kaepernick Publishing and LEVEL, …
Detroit QB Stafford Emerges From White Privilege Closet
Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford has written his way onto sports' unofficial all-white privilege team. In the post, "We Can't Just Stick To Football" appearing on The Players Tribune blog, Stafford says police brutality, white privilege and racism are real and he should know because he grew up in a Texas town that was one of the most privileged places in the country.
Deadspin Slams Trump, Pence, GOP In Multiple Attacks
The Deadspin sports blog could easily pass as "Democrat Spin" with three current stories featuring mean-spirited attacks on Republicans. Vice-president Mike Pence is portrayed as a "giant pile of crap" after appearing in Wednesday's debate, Republicans in Wisconsin are accused of engaging in voter suppression and NFL owners donating to Republicans are vilified.
Social Justice Messages Backfire, NBA Will Back Off Next Season
The NBA could only take a pelting so long before it had the good sense to come in out of the rain. Commissioner Adam Silver told ESPN's NBA Countdown it will back off the on-court social justice messaging next season.
BLM Indoctrination: Miami Heat's Leonard Confesses White Privilege
Taking a page out of the Kyle Korver I'm white, privileged and sorry book, the Miami Heat's Meyers Leonard tells The Undefeated sports blog's Marc J. Spears why he stands for the national anthem and also gets down with the Black Lives Matter movement. He says he's trying to be a good white boy by listening and educating himself and clueless folks back home on the farm about the effects of…
Colin Kaepernick Wants to Get Rid of the 'White Supremacist’ Police
Colin Kaepernick believes that this country will be safer without police departments, according to popculture.com. Yesterday, the activist and ex-football player tweeted that “The white supremacist institution of policing that stole Breonna Taylor’s life from us must be abolished for the safety and well being of our people.”
NBC Says KC Chiefs Name ‘Dehumanizes, Commoditizes’ Indians
One team down, four to go. They neutered the Redskins, who now go about as the Washington Football team. Who’s next? Simon Moya-Smith called for the renaming of the Kansas City Chiefs, Chicago Blackhawks, Cleveland Indians and Atlanta Braves to prevent the “dehumanization and commodification of an entire race of people.”
UFC Fighter Slams ‘Muted’ LeBron’s ‘Spineless’ Woke Attitude
Over the weekend, professional athletes and sports writers ratcheted up debate over the social justice movement currently straining sports' place in the American culture. On the left, LeBron James and USA Today writer Jarrett Bell defended social justice protest, and on the right, ultimate fighter Colby Covington and Outkick's Jason Whitlock ridiculed it.
Lacking Credibility: Deadspin Cries of Voter Suppression Ring Hollow
Next to police brutality, voter suppression is the biggest topic among athletes right now. Carron J. Phillips, resident agitator at the Deadspin blog, revealed that the NCAA's 55 years of voter suppression since the Voting Rights Act became law in 1965 ended last week. This year the left-leaning association that governs college sports in the U.S. is banning college games and practices Nov. 3…
