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Carolina Panthers Running Back Mike Tolbert Might Be Super Petty
Carolina Panthers running back Mike Tolbert might be the most passively aggressive petty person ever if you believe the owner of Motion Lab Tuning, an automotive company in Charlotte, N.C. According to automotive site Jalopnik, Tolbert took a vintage ride to Motion Lab to get a new engine. The owner says that because of Tolbert’s…
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Neb. Players Protest Before Game; School Leader Wants Them Kicked Off Team
On Saturday, three University of Nebraska football players took a knee during the national anthem to protest injustices by police against African Americans. On Monday, senior linebacker Michael Rose-Ivey, who is one of the players who protested, gave an impassioned speech about threats that he and the other players—DaiShon Neal and Mohamed Barry—have received since…
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WTF Happened to Cam Newton?
At the end of the 2015-2016 football season, Cam Newton could have run uncontested for president of the African Americans. Newton had just finished dominating the NFL regular season, in which he walked away with the MVP and almost dabbed his team to an undefeated season. In the Super Bowl, Superman turned back into Clark…
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Bucks President: Milwaukee ‘Is the Most Segregated, Racist Place I’ve Ever Experienced in My Life’
Milwaukee Bucks President Peter Feigin believes that he was just stating some “hard truths” when he said that Milwaukee “is the most segregated, racist place I’ve ever experienced in my life,” Feigin told the audience gathered at the Madison Rotary in Madison, Wis., the Wisconsin State Journal reports. He added that his hope was to…
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Did the Falcons and Saints Show the NFL How to Honor the Flag and Protest?
Before the Atlanta Falcons took on the New Orleans Saints, Monday night, all of the players stood for the national anthem. Once the Star-Spangled Banner was complete, players and coaches from both teams all met in the middle of the field and joined hands for a moment of silence. ESPN broadcasters noted that quarterbacks Drew…
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Report: There Is an Active Criminal Investigation Into Derrick Rose Gang Rape Allegations
The Los Angeles Police Department has an open criminal investigation going into New York Knicks point guard Derrick Rose for the alleged gang rape of a woman in 2013. According to Deadspin, the LAPD has confirmed that Rose is under criminal investigation. The news comes just weeks after a Los Angeles judge ruled that Rose’s…
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4 Redskins Players Defy Coach, Protest Police Violence During Anthem
It took three games and two more deaths of unarmed black men for four Washington Redskins players to finally join the growing number of NFL players who are standing up against the over-policing of black and minority communities. On Sunday, DeSean Jackson, Niles Paul, Greg Toler and Rashad Ross all raised a fist during the national anthem before taking on…
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Mike Ditka Thinks Colin Kaepernick Needs to ‘Get the Hell Out’ of the USA
Remember the old Mike Ditka? The coach of the team that gave the world this gem: Who once posed with New Orleans Saints running back Ricky Williams like this: And like this: Well, it turns out that fun-loving Mike Ditka is really just a bitter old white man. The Hall of Fame coach was on…
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Ray Lewis Just Can’t Stop Hating on Colin Kaepernick
Ray Lewis is hating on Colin Kaepernick again. First he noted that the San Francisco 49ers quarterback needed to take the flag out of his protest. Now the former NFL linebacker is saying that Kaepernick shouldn’t be on the cover of Time magazine as the “face of police brutality.” Appearing on Fox Sports on Thursday, Lewis…
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Baseball Player Tweets Racist Message, Then Pulls Apology Out of the 'I'm Not a Racist' Handbook: Examined
Updated Friday, Sept. 23, 2016, 2:42 p.m. EDT: The Seattle Mariners have suspended Steve Clevenger for the remainder of the 2016 season without pay. Clevenger spent Thursday tweeting out vile messages about Keith Lamont Scott, who was gunned down by Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., police, and those who have been protesting his death. In theory, the suspension sounds…
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