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How Ryan Lochte Is The Worst Type Of "White Boy Bro," Explained
Who is Ryan Lochte? Ryan Lochte is a reanimated collection of discarded beer pong red cups repurposed and stuffed into a Von Dutch trucker hat. He can also swim really, really fast. Where is he from? Rochester, NY. Which is a poor man’s Buffalo. Which is a poor man’s Cleveland. Which is a poor man’s…
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Michael Phelps' Gold Medals Can't Outshine Usain Bolt's Black Brilliance
Michael Phelps is an amazing athlete. The most-awarded Olympian of all time, he has collected an incredible amount of hardware for his display case: 23 gold medals, three silver medals and two bronze medals are nothing to scoff at. He’s an icon, an ambassador for his sport and, to quote Jay Z, not just a…
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Emmett Till's Casket Is ‘One of Our Most Sacred Objects’ at African-American History Museum
Curating for a museum is no doubt a difficult job, and one of the more difficult decisions that Lonnie Bunch III—founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture—remembers grappling with was whether to include the casket that once held the brutalized remains of Emmett Till. “I remember struggling with, ‘Should we…
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Donald Trump Picks White Nationalists’ Dream
“Donald Trump’s campaign is under new management — and his white nationalist fanboys love it,” Betsy Woodruff and Gideon Resnick wrote Wednesday for the Daily Beast. “The campaign’s new chief executive, Stephen Bannon, joins from Breitbart News — where he helped mainstream the ideas of white nationalists and resuscitate the reputations of anti-immigrant fear-mongers. “White…
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Bob Costas Should Never Interview People Again
To put it bluntly, Bob Costas has been doing a crappy job when it comes to his Olympic reporting and interviews. And the pièce de résistance came when he interviewed five-time Olympic medalist Simone Biles and six-time medalist Aly Raisman. During the interview, Costas didn’t focus so much on their athleticism as on Biles’ crush…
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2016 Rio Olympics Day 11 Open Thread
More gymnasts and tracksters and other Olympic things are happening today.
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Simone Biles Finishes Rio Olympics With 4 Gold Medals
Simone Biles didn’t become the first female gymnast to win five gold medals in a single Olympics. However, the 4-foot-9-inch powerhouse joined a very small group of elite gymnasts when she snagged her fourth gold medal of the Rio de Janeiro Games after coming out on top for the floor exercise, Time magazine reports. According…
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Ellen DeGeneres Responds to Usain Bolt Tweet Controversy
Ellen DeGeneres wants the world to know that there are plenty of racist things out there, but she’s not one of them. The talk show host issued that statement after a tweet depicting her on the back of Usain Bolt was deemed racist by some people on social media. The tweet was posted after Bolt…
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Twitter Hilariously Reacts to Shaunae Miller's Gold-Medal-Winning Finish Line Dive
Shaunae Miller is the darling of the Bahamas when it comes to track and field. And during Monday night’s women’s 400-meter race at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, she proved nothing would stop her from winning a gold medal. In the close race, Miller dove to the finish. Literally. And it pissed off a lot of…
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Simone Biles Continues Gold Streak, Wins Women's Vault
Simone Biles, the world’s best gymnast, walked away Sunday from the women’s vault event with her third gold medal in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, the Huffington Post reports. Biles led the U.S. women’s team, dubbed the “Final Five,” to a team gold Wednesday before snagging the all-around gold by a 2-point margin. Her win…