Sports
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Why They Kneel: New York City and Atlanta Prove Everything You Know About Jim Crow Is Wrong
To examine the injustice and inequality that prompted some NFL players to protest during the national anthem, each week, for the remainder of the NFL season, The Root will explore the data behind racial disparities in the two cities represented in the National Football League’s premiere matchup—Monday Night Football. Tonight, the New York Giants travel…
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Breakthough: Steph Curry Shoots His Hollywood Shot With New Film, Set to Drop in 2019
NBA star Stephen “Steph Curry with the Shot” Curry has wasted no time after founding his Unanimous Media company earlier this year. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Curry will executive produce a faith-based drama set to hit theatres in April of next year. Starring Topher Grace (BlacKkKlansman), Josh Lucas (Glory Road) and Chrissy Metz (This…
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Jamaica’s Reggae Girlz Become First Caribbean Team to Make Women’s World Cup, Thanks to a Big Assist from Bob Marley’s Daughter
Twenty years ago, the Jamaican mens’ soccer team made history by qualifying for its first World Cup. Now, Jamaica’s women’s team—known affectionately as the Reggae Girlz—have next. On Wednesday night in Texas, Jamaica beat Panama 4-2 on penalties after playing their opponent to a 2-2 draw. With the win, the Reggae Girlz took third place…
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Mary Bono Resigns as President of USA Gymnastics, Resumes Role as Queen of Clueless White Women
Former congresswoman and interim president and CEO of USA Gymnastics Mary Bono was a thing and now she’s gone… Just like that. Four days after she was hired, she’s resigned. Bono should have never been selected to be president given her proximity to the sexual abuse scandal that rocked USA Gymnastics. But Bono had one…
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Hall of Fame Quarterback John Elway Is Dropping Major Money on Republican Candidates
Former Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway was a great football player. Full stop. Since retiring from his position on the field and landing in the front office of the team he once played for, he’s proven himself to be a spineless GOP barnacle complicit in the whiteballing of Colin Kaepernick and one of the largest…
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Simone Biles Makes USA Gymnastics History Again—and Makes the Organization’s President Recant Her Tweet on Colin Kaepernick
Simone Biles is a force to be reckoned with—in competition, and on Twitter. After once again upgrading her gymnastics program by nailing a vault no woman has ever performed during the USA Gymnastics team selection camp last Thursday, on Saturday she took a moment out of her busy schedule to clap back at an inappropriate…
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White Dude Yelling During the National Anthem About Abortion and Supporting Republicans Isn’t Kicked Out of Cowboys Game
In case you missed it, during the playing of the national anthem before the Dallas Cowboys vs. Jacksonville Jaguars game on Sunday in Texas, a man yelled about the need to support Republican candidates in the midterms, as well as about stopping abortion. It happened in “Jerry’s World,” the colossal stadium that is home to…
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Aaron Hernandez Was Sexually Abused as a Boy and Had a Relationship With High School Teammate: Report
The first installment of a six-part investigative series by the Boston Globe claims former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was sexually molested as a boy. The newspaper’s acclaimed “Spotlight” investigative team researched Hernandez’s life from birth until he killed himself in prison. Hernandez was sentenced to life in prison for the 2013 killing…
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Colin Kaepernick Files Trademark Image of His Face and Glorious Afro
I have written ad nauseam about former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s glorious afro, which rivals only Angela Davis for blackest and most defiant afro in American history. (Yes, you can debate me in the comments). I have also noted the historic and healing properties of Kaepernick’s afro, which has been know to cure…
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‘Put It on Dad’: LeBron James Admits He Gives His 14- and 11-Year-Old Sons Wine
King (Lebron) James apparently lives up to the name by doing things the Biblical way, including having his youngins imbibe on that Jesus Juice. James, who fancies himself a wine connoisseur, said his 11-year-old and 14-year-old sons also drink wine, but people should put the blame on him, not his longtime sweetheart and wife, Savannah…