Sports
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NFL Rookie Shot Just Hours After Being Drafted By New York Giants
What should have been the best weekend in one college football player’s life turned into tragedy when he was injured and his college teammate killed in a shooting early Sunday morning at a party in Topeka, Kan. Corey Ballentine, a 23-year-old senior cornerback at Washburn University in Topeka, was the 180th pick in the NFL…
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Shannon Sharpe Is Dead Serious About HBCUs
Shannon Sharpe has gone viral many times since his 2016 debut on Fox Sports 1’s Skip and Shannon: Undisputed with sportswriter Skip Bayless. Just last year he set Black Twitter abuzz when he appeared on the show with a Black & Mild dangling from his lips, referencing Hennessy as “yak” and “Henn Dog.” Because the…
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Manhunt Underway After Dame Lillard Commits 1st-Degree Murder on National Television
NBA players live a charmed a life. There’s lucrative endorsement deals, celebrity friends, an inconceivable level of fame and influence along with a litany of other perks that I’m too spiteful to catalogue. But you know who I don’t want to be right now? Oklahoma City Thunder forward Paul George. I’m sure the MVP candidate…
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After Securing the Bag, Russell Wilson Delivers a Prime Package to His Teammates
Now that Russell “Future Baby Daddy” Wilson is the highest paid quarterback in the entire NFL, he decided to give the men on his offensive line a little gift — $12,000 in Amazon stock each. As reported by The Root, Wilson recently signed a four-year, $140 million contract extension with the Seattle Seahawks, and hey,…
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WNBA Star Lindsey Harding Becomes Philadelphia 76ers' First Female Coach
Lindsey Harding is used to breaking records. During her time as a guard at Duke, she became only the sixth player in the history of the Atlantic Coast Conference to record 1,000 points, 500 rebounds, 500 assists and 250 steals. In 2007, she was named the Naismith College Player of the Year and won the…
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White Coaches Pick the Wrong Side When They Talk Down to Their Black Athletes
Editor’s Note: This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter. Now that the NCAA basketball tournament is over and passions about everyone’s favorite team are not running as high, we need to have a conversation about coaches’ abusive…
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Future’s Baby Daddy Just Made the Seattle Seahawks Level Up, Becomes NFL’s Highest Paid Player
Russell Wilson just spiked the ball on Future’s face—not only did he just become the highest paid player in the NFL, signing a $140 million extension to stay with the Seattle Seahawks, which includes a $65 million signing bonus, he flexed on everyone by posting a video to social media of him lying in bed…
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I’m Not Black, I’m Tiger
On Sunday, Tiger Woods won the Masters. Big fucking deal. I mean I know it’s historic and a major comeback and he got a green jacket and all that, but let’s be clear about this: Tiger Woods don’t fuck with us. He never has, so me going all ape shit and posting celebratory Tiger photos…
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I’m Gonna Go On Ahead and Count Tiger Woods’ Win as Another One for the Black Community. Cool? Let’s Fight
Tiger Woods made a triumphant return to Augusta National on Sunday, winning his fifth Master’s Tournament (and his first since 2005), becoming one of the oldest golfers to win a major tournament at age 43, and putting him three back from tying the record for most majors titles, currently held by golf-legend Jack Nicklaus. Only…