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Who All Gon' Be There? With Social Distancing a Thing Now, the NFL Draft Might Be the Next Big Virtual Party
Despite President “China Virus’” ‘insistence that the NFL season should start on time, there’s this thing called the COVID-19—perhaps you’ve heard of it?—that’s doing everything humanly possible to disrupt those plans. Of immediate concern is the NFL Draft, which was originally set to take place in Las Vegas on April 23, but shelter-in-place orders have…
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Mississippi State Football Player Announces He's Transferring Days After Coach Posts Tweet With a Noose
Two days after Mississippi State football coach Mike Leach posted an offensive meme of an elderly woman knitting a noose, defensive tackle Fabien Lovett announced in a tweet that he will be transferring from the university, USA Today reports. Leach’s tweet—which was captioned, “After 2 weeks of quarantine with her husband, Gertrude decided to knit…
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Simone Biles Publicly Addresses Olympics Postponement: It 'Takes a Toll on Your Mind'
The top of 2020 was shaping up to be a banner year for Simone Biles. Widely looked at as the best women’s gymnast of all time, all eyes were on the 23-year-old reigning world champion to see if she’d repeat her stellar performance from the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Then, the coronavirus…
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The 'Forgotten Population': Yusef Salaam Speaks Out About COVID-19 and the Prison Industrial Complex
“There’s going to be a more serious health crisis as it relates to the prison industrial complex and a prison population. Whatever we are seeing in the world is going to be times ten—it’s going to be magnified in the prison industrial complex.” —Yusef Salaam, Ph.D. text In the state of New York alone, there…
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Netflix's Uncorked Reminded Me of a Fun Story About Unconventional Support From My Father
Since we’re all stuck (or should be) inside the house for the foreseeable future (despite various projected goals for peak contagion and flattening curves—shoutouts to the homies Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx, y’all some real ones), the amount of movies and television shows being watched is about to put Netflix on par with Earth, Wind…
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It's Official: NFL Expands Postseason to Include Pretty Much Everyone but the Bengals
A longstanding rumor is now official: The NFL will extend its postseason to include 14 teams. While the timing is a bit peculiar considering the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, ESPN reports that the new format will go into effect this upcoming season and include two major changes: • Each conference will now include three wild-card teams…
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The 2020 Census Is Critical for Black People. Here's Why We Need to 'Make Black Count'
“People are aware of the power of the numbers and they also are aware that this country is with every tick of the clock, is becoming browner and browner. So there’s this death grip really on the status quo and the whiteness of America that is fading and disappearing with every tick up the clock.”…
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NBA Discussing Playoff Scenarios That Could Include Empty Arenas, Shortened Series, and…Playing on a Cruise Ship?
With billions of dollars at stake, the NBA is scrambling to salvage what’s left of its season. So while players plan to sidestep their boredom with an elaborate NBA 2K tournament on Friday, the powers that be are preoccupied with formulating potential playoff scenarios should the league resume play this summer as expected. According to…
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Because God Won't Give Us More Than We Can Handle, Michael Jordan Docuseries The Last Dance Will Now Premiere in April
Our prayers have been answered. With the coronavirus condemning us all to our couches indefinitely, the world as we know it will never be the same again. Thankfully, ESPN has stepped up to be the hero we need during these perilous times and announced that its highly anticipated 10-part docuseries, The Last Dance, will debut…