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We Talking Bout Coaching? Cavs Coach Tyronn Lue Said He’d Love to Work With Allen Iverson
It wasn’t the move or the shot so much as it was the stepover. Fifteen years ago, when Allen Iverson was in his prime as a shooting guard with the Philadelphia 76ers, Tyronn Lue was a backup guard with the Los Angeles Lakers. It was Game 1 of the 2001 NBA Finals, and Iverson did…
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DeAngelo Williams Stiff-Armed a Food Server With a 75-Cent Tip and Explains Why He's Right
Pittsburgh Steelers running back DeAngelo Williams isn’t just out here stiff-arming defenders—he’s also stiff-arming food servers he says don’t bring his food quickly enough. According to TMZ, on Monday night, Williams, who was in Washington, D.C., to take on the Washington Redskins, stopped by the Ledo Restaurant in College Park, Md., with a few folks…
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Stephen Curry Supports Hillary Clinton and Colin Kaepernick's Protest
Two-time NBA MVP Stephen Curry didn’t hesitate when he was asked for whom he was voting in this upcoming election. “Hillary,” Curry, the star point guard for the Golden State Warriors, said during a question-and-answer session Tuesday night at TechCrunch in San Francisco, the Mercury News reports. Curry also noted that while he planned to…
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Denver Broncos' Brandon Marshall to Donate $300 Per Tackle to Address 'Critical Social Issues'
Denver Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall has said from the outset of his decision to take a knee during the national anthem to protest racial injustice that doing so was only part of his plan. In an Instagram message posted Wednesday morning, Marshall announced that he would be donating $300 for every tackle he makes to…
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Colin Powell Confirms Brother Status as Leaked Emails Show He Hates Donald Trump
Turns out that former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell is just like the rest of us black folks and believes that Donald J. Trump is a “national disgrace” and an “international pariah,” according to emails reportedly hacked and leaked online Tuesday. According to BuzzFeed News, emails from Powell’s account read that the GOP presidential…
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Is Fox Sports Commentator Skip Bayless Woke?
I know that the often controversial Skip Bayless generally doesn’t have enough decent, compassionate, thoughtful sports sound clips to fill a thimble. He’s often wrong about sports and often is just wrong in general. Who can forget the time Richard Sherman called him out and the time Jalen Rose blasted him for being, well, Skip…
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Colin Kaepernick Took a Stand the Washington Redskins Will Never Make
I did not choose to be a Washington Redskins fan. It was embedded in my DNA like my wide nose and kinky hair. It was declared in the womb after a Northeast D.C. girl and Northwest D.C. boy found each other cute in the hallway of a junior high school. I’m generations deep and old…
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FSU Volleyball Player Takes Knee During National Anthem
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s movement to take a stand against the over-policing of black communities by taking a knee may be spreading; Mara Green, a redshirt senior middle blocker on Florida State’s volleyball team, did just that before a match Friday. Green told her coach that she planned to stage the silent protest…
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Report: Hackers Reveal Simone Biles’ and Serena and Venus Williams’ Medical History
While the World Anti-Doping Agency is out here trying to prevent athletes from dirtying up sports, it may want to look at how to prevent hackers from breaking into its computer databases. According to The Atlantic, a hacking group called “Fancy Bears Hack Team” is claiming to have broken into WADA’s database and released medical…
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Lyin’ Ryan Lochte’s DWTS Debut Thwarted by Protesters, Turns Into a Lochte Love Fest
Protesters interrupted lying Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte’s debut on Dancing With the Stars Monday night. According to the Washington Post, Lochte had finished dancing with partner Cheryl Burke and was receiving his critiques when two protesters stormed the stage. The two men were grabbed by security and escorted out before Los Angeles police took them…
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