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About Damn Time! Michael Smith Makes His Triumphant Return to Television With New Sports Talk Show Brother From Another
As an ardent supporter of all things Jemele Hill and Michael Smith—His & Hers is the greatest television show in the history of ever and we can fight about it if you feel otherwise—I might’ve cried real tears when the dynamic duo inevitably split after bumping heads with ESPN. And while Jemele has gone on…
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With Stick to Sports, Jemele Hill and Cari Champion Refuse to Do Exactly That
Stick to sports. It’s an age-old adage that we’ve heard time and time again. Yet oddly enough, while LeBron James and Kevin Durant were lambasted for speaking out against Donald Trump’s tyranny, Laura Ingraham, the same Fox News host that told them to “shut up and dribble,” had an entirely different response in June when…
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Can the NCAA Survive Financially If March Madness Is Canceled Again? Coach K Doesn't Sound Too Sure
I’m sure you’ve heard this before—more than likely here at The Root—but the NCAA is big business for everybody but Black players. And when I say big business, I mean it’s been generating over a billion dollars annually since 2016, between television and marketing rights fees and ticket sales. Yet as lucrative of a business…
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Mid-American Conference Postpones Fall Sports; NFL Could Take Over Saturdays If College Football Is Gone
Mere days after UConn became the first major college football program to graciously bow out of playing this season due to the coronavirus, the Mid-American Conference—yes, an entire conference—will follow suit. In a statement posted on Twitter, the conference announced that it will postpone its football season until the 2021 spring semester in order to…
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Candace Owens, Jason Whitlock, John McWhorter, Sage Steele and the Myth of 'Questioning Blackness'
I am not real. I am a fictional character in a 244-year-old fairy tale called America. I am a bit player in the simplistic children’s adaptation of this story where all men are created equal in a land that offers liberty and justice for all. I overcome slavery and Jim Crow in the young adult…
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Players Dish on What It's Like to be Black in MLB: 'Black Players Have Always Felt That They Had to Conform'
I don’t really watch baseball, in part because there was plenty of racism surrounding my own experiences with the sport as a youth. And as it turns out, Major League Baseball isn’t much different, at least according to a new report from ESPN. Reporter Marly Rivera chopped it up with a few current and former…
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Russell Wilson, Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe Deliver Powerful Black Lives Matter Message at 2020 ESPYs
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic ensured that this year’s ESPYs would be radically different than any of its predecessors. And to the surprise of no one, there was no red carpet, no gaudy venue or lengthy monologue taking unsolicited jabs at some of the biggest names in sports. But for what it lacked in tradition, it…
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Michael Jordan Has Some Explaining to Do
Since ESPN’s The Last Dance aired, there’s been plenty of discussion as to whether or not Michael Jordan was involved in Isiah Thomas’ exclusion from arguably the greatest basketball team ever assembled: the 1992 Olympic Dream Team. Jordan has maintained for decades that he had nothing to do with Thomas’ omission—a stance he reiterated in…
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The Last Dance Docuseries Sets Highest Viewership Total for an ESPN Original
The Last Dance is a 10-part, in-depth docuseries about the life and career of NBA superstar Michael Jordan and his time with the Chicago Bulls, which aired on ESPN for the last five Sundays. According to Variety, the series was prolific for the network itself, boasting high viewership and becoming the most-watched documentary in ESPN’s…