football
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Michael Bennett Will Continue to Sit During Anthem, Says Kaepernick Needs a Job Before NFL Can Move Forward With Players
Seattle Seahawks defensive lineman Michael Bennett says the issue of Colin Kaepernick’s unemployment needs to be addressed before players and the league can move forward with talks on how to work together on social causes. “I think the first step to even being able to even have a conversation is making sure that Colin Kaepernick…
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Pa. College Football Quarterback Kicked Off Team After Kneeling During National Anthem
As the NFL protests continue and teams and the association at large continue to argue about how to deal with players kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality and black oppression, school football players—across high schools and colleges alike—are also showing their solidarity and their own morality by choosing to take a knee.…
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I Played 2-Hand Touch Football This Weekend. I’m Probably Not Doing That Shit Again
On Saturday, Sept. 30, 2017, I engaged in a lighthearted game of two-on-two touch football with a couple of my closest friends and the 11-year-old son of one of them. We played to a tie (we were playing to 2). One of my friends is in phenomenal shape; he’s contemplating competing in USA Track &…
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W.Va. High School Taunts Inner-City Pittsburgh High School Football Team With ‘Trump Perry’ Sign
Perry Traditional Academy is a predominantly black high school, located on Pittsburgh’s North Side and a five- to seven-minute drive away from my house. My brother-in-law graduated from there last year. (He was also a first-team All-City basketball player. He can’t beat me yet, but he is pretty good.) On Friday, Perry traveled to Wellsburg,…
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ESPN Televises Slave Auction for NFL Players and Wait, Are We Sure the Confederates Actually Lost?
After watching a clip of an ESPN fantasy football bit where a group of white men “buy” black players from an (also white) auctioneer, I couldn’t help but ask: If this was the idea that received the go-ahead to produce, what the fuck else was on that producers’ meeting whiteboard? A tongue-in-cheek skit where Odell…
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8th-Grader Gets Football Scholarship Offers From University of Ala., Ole Miss and Miss. State
Jaheim Oatis just graduated from the seventh grade. Jaheim Oatis is 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 286 pounds. Jaheim Oatis is a baby and a beast who happens to be shaped like a grown man. And big football powerhouses want in. According to a tweet posted Friday by the 14-year-old, the University of…
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Gotta Be the Shoes: NFL Combine Star John Ross Misses Out on an Island Because of Wrong Kicks
College wide receiver John Moss must be kicking himself for not wearing Adidas on Saturday after breaking Chris Johnson’s record at the 2017 NFL Scouting Combine. The German sneaker giant made a thrilling offer before the weeklong event, which pairs the top college football players performing physical and mental tests in front of NFL coaches,…
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Marshawn Lynch Went to Scotland and the Punch Line Is Marshawn Lynch
So I never know how to take these videos; you know, the ones where they take the African-American sports star out of his element and surround him in whiteness and then record him. It’s always felt like a backward safari, one of those moments when we collectively laugh at how uncultured the athlete is around…
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Texas Woman Stabbed to Death by Stepson After 'Gloating' About Dallas Cowboys Win
Authorities say that a Texas woman was stabbed to death Sunday night by her stepson after she had reportedly been “gloating” about a Dallas Cowboys win, KEYE reports. According to the report, Magdalena Ruiz and her husband were sitting at home in their South Austin apartment watching TV when 20-year-old Pontrey O’Neal Jones attacked. Jones…
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Academic Scandal Forces Notre Dame Football Team to Vacate 2012, 2013 Wins
An academic scandal at the storied Notre Dame football team will put the team on probation; the team must also forfeit wins from the 2012 and 2013 seasons. According to WNDU, the trouble started after the university investigated claims that a student athletic adviser committed academic violations for several players, including giving six players prohibited…