Sports
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Former NFL Running Back Clinton Portis Explains Why He Drank Hennessy Before Games, and He Kind of Makes Sense
Former NFL running back Clinton Portis—who also did interviews as his alter egos: Choo Choo, Dolemite Jenkins, Prime Minister Yah Mon, Bud Foxx, Electra, Southeast Jerome, Dr. I Don’t Know, Sheriff Gonna Getcha, Dollar Bill, Reverend Gonna Change, Kid Bro Sweets, Coach Janky Spanky, Inspector 2-2, and Mr. Angel Southeast Romie Rome—announced recently he took Hennessy…
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Exclusive: Clemson’s Black Players Refused to Accept Donald Trump’s Invitation to the McCookout
When Filet-O-Fish aficionado Donald Trump invited the Clemson Tigers to enjoy the White House’s first Presidential Value Meal, most of Clemson’s national championship football team members jumped at the opportunity to meet the original cheeseburger-swallowing clown. But The Root has learned that Clemson’s black players, some specifically citing racism and their disdain for Trump’s divisive…
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Black Twitter Showers Naomi Osaka with Praise After Winning the Australian Open
Naomi Osaka is really fucking good at tennis. How good? This good. And in order to achieve her latest victory, Naomi Osaka tapped into her melanin magic and came from behind against Petra Kvitová in order to extend the match to a third set and claim her second consecutive Grand Slam. So guess who’s ranked…
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Not Like This: Gladys Knight Plans to 'Give the Anthem Back Its Voice' at Super Bowl LIII
Auntie Gladys, not like this. Many of us have spent a year or more protesting the NFL in support of Colin Kaepernick and other players’ right to kneel during the national anthem (or simply opt out, altogether). So, understandably, it is low-key heartbreaking to hear through the grapevine (also known as Variety) that national treasure…
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Colin Kaepernick Doesn’t Approve of Travis Scott’s Super Bowl Halftime Performance [Updated]
Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback and current head coach of the Wakanda Panthers pro football team, Colin Kaepernick, didn’t give Travis Kardashian Scott his blessing to perform during the Super Bowl halftime show, contradicting reports by an unnamed source probably named “Stravis Spott” who tried to insinuate that Kaepernick thought it was OK. Despite several…
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Value Meal in Chief Feeds National Champion Clemson with Good Old American Fast Food
President sniffles has a knack for poor timing. Not only did he manage to time his manufactured government shutdown in the midst of one of the worst stretches the stock market has ever seen, his shutdown lasted into his visit with the newly minted national college football champions from Clemson University. When faced with the…
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Arizona Cardinals Hiring Kliff Kingsbury Proves That Mediocre White Men Stay Winning
I believe it was comedian DL Hughley who said that a homeless white man is a shower away from being a manager and it looks like Kliff Kingsbury is all showered up as the former college head coach without a winning record was recently announced as the new head coach of the Arizona Cardinals. Five…
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Safety Eric Reid Was Drug Tested 7 Times in 11 Weeks. The NFL Swears it Was Totally Random
Carolina Panthers safety Eric Reid needs to play the lottery because he’s a lucky man. So lucky, in fact, that when the NFL is randomly drug testing its players, Reid has been fortunate enough to have had his name chosen seven times in 11 weeks. And get this, the NFL, the league that Reid is…
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. Just Stole $9 Million
Floyd Mayweather Jr. is becoming a worldwide carnival act. In the latest attempt at “come beat the champion,” Mayweather took his talents over to Japan, where he beat the brakes off of some guy named Tenshin Nasukawa. In what was billed as an exhibition fight, Nasukawa and Mayweather … hell, I don’t even know what…
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NJ School District to Boycott Matches Officiated By Ref Who Forced Black Kid to Cut His Dreads
By now you’ve seen the viral video of the New Jersey teen who had his dreadlocks cut before a wrestling match. It was disturbing, unsettling and uncalled for, considering that the teen, Andrew Johnson, was wearing a head covering that is allowed during wrestling matches for people with longer hair. The referee, Alan Maloney, who…