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Black-Owned Gym in California Vandalized With a Noose and N-Word Carved Into a Door
A Black gym owner in California found a hanging noose and a racial slur carved into the door of his establishment over the weekend. According to the Fresno Bee, Sam Akoidu, owner of Iron Bird Fitness in Fresno’s Tower District, initially didn’t notice anything when he went to the gym early Saturday morning. A trainer…
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Post-COVID, Is Indoor Pickup Basketball…Done?
“The era of “drop-in” workouts may be over,” writes VICE’s Maggie Puniewska in a sobering piece about what gyms will likely look like in a post-COVID America. The brim and bustle of a peak-hour LA Fitness won’t be returning any time soon, as even those willing to chance visiting a gym once they reopen will…
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Apparently There’s a White Supremacist Gym in Nashville, Tenn., and I Want to Go
Let’s open this post with a prayer: Dear white, blue-eyed, 7-pound, 4-ounce, swaddling, onesie-wearing baby Jesus. I know I haven’t talked to you in a while, but I come to you as humbly as I know how, with one simple request: I have been reading about the protests around the “alt-right” gym in Nashville, Tenn.,…
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White Nationalist Richard Spencer’s Gym Membership Terminated After Georgetown Professor Confronts Him, Calls Him a Neo-Nazi
Looks like white nationalist Richard Spencer will be hunting for a new gym after his regular Alexandria, Va., establishment pulled his membership after he was confronted by a Georgetown University professor who called him a neo-Nazi. According to the Washington Post, C. Christine Fair, an associate professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, was…
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Stop Being The Gym Snob Who Complains About New People At The Gym After New Year's
Despite the pending apocalypse’s greatest efforts to wipe out the human population in one fell swoop, the bulk of us have managed to make it out of 2016. The stroke of midnight came, folks drank their champagne – or if your name rhymes with Pariah Larry, threw out your earpiece and decided to defer New…
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Fight Breaks Out at Ga. High School Graduation After Parents Told They Won’t Be Able to See Their Children Graduate
A fight broke out and police used a Taser on one person after parents and family members of students graduating from an East Point, Ga., high school were not allowed into the ceremony. According to WSB-TV, Tri-Cities High School’s graduation was originally scheduled to take place in the school’s stadium Friday night, but rain moved…