Sports
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Raptors Exec Masai Ujiri Outed as the Real Racist After White Cop Accuses Him of 'Racial Animus', 'Anti-Law Enforcement Prejudices'
If American history has taught us anything, it’s that Black people are bald-faced liars. We lie about our police interactions, we lie about the existence of white privilege, we lie about our own innocence, we lie about any and everything to do with the irreparable harm that white people have done to us for generations…
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Game, Set, Match: Serena Williams Becomes All-Time Leader in U.S. Open Match Wins
In case you missed the memo, Serena Williams is really fucking good at tennis; so much so that it’s easy to lose sight of how exceptional she actually is. But on Tuesday, she was kind enough to provide us all with a timely reminder of how ruthless she’s been on the court for over two…
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Instant Classic: Nuggets Bounce Back From 3-1 Deficit, Eliminate Jazz in Game 7
I’m still attempting to process what I witnessed last night. Down two with 17 seconds left on the clock, the Utah Jazz inbounded the ball to their burgeoning assassin, Donovan Mitchell. That’s easy money, right? Well, it would’ve been had Denver’s Gary Harris not knocked the ball loose and set up a fast break for…
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Brandon Ingram Wins 2019-20 NBA Most Improved Player Award Over Bam Adebayo and NBA Twitter Has Questions
Heading into the 2019-20 NBA season, there were plenty of questions about New Orleans Pelicans star Brandon Ingram. Could he stay healthy? Could all that tantalizing potential finally translate into consistent play? Was he worth a max contract? The 22-year-old responded with a career year in which he averaged 24.3 points, 6.3 boards, 4.3 assists…
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Police Union Criticizes NHL Team for Opposing Racism
Racist white people hate being called racist white people. I know this because I receive emails, tweets and DMs from white people who are insulted by the notion that all white people don’t hate Black people. Most recently, after an article about patriotism and the NBA strike (or this one about Ben Shapiro…or this one…
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Seattle Seahawks’ Pete Carroll Calls on Other Head Coaches, White People to Tackle Systemic Racism: ‘This Is a White People’s Issue’
Though short-lived, the Milwaukee Bucks’ wildcat strike last week has recalibrated many people’s expectations of what is possible when it comes to professional athletes speaking out on social justice issues. Over the last week, teams from various professional sports leagues, including the NFL and MLB, canceled practices or games. For some, it was a necessary…
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Ole Miss Football Players Walk out of Practice, Protest Police Brutality in Front of Confederate Statue
Sports has become one of the most viable avenues to force a spotlight on racial injustice, not least because so many of the most popular ones are dominated by Black men. On Friday, football players from Ole Miss at the University of Mississippi chose to walk out of their practice in protest of the racist…
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NBA, NBPA Announce Social Justice Initiatives; NBA Playoffs to Resume on Saturday
It’s official: the NBA playoffs will resume on Saturday. Per ESPN, the league will also work with its players on a number of initiatives centered on social justice, police reform and other important issues impacting our communities. “These commitments follow months of close collaboration around designing a safe and healthy environment to restart the NBA…
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After Bringing the Sports World to a Standstill, NBA Players Agree to Resume Playoffs
After refusing to play, and forcing the entire world to focus its attention on Sunday’s police shooting of Jacob Blake instead, NBA players have reversed course and now agree to resume the NBA playoffs. On Wednesday, The Root reported that something unprecedented occurred: fed up with the mistreatment of Black people in America, the Milwaukee…
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This Is Patriotism
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the…