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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Isn’t Feeling LiAngelo Ball’s Ferrari
I hate to say that UCLA great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is haterating in this dancerie, but the NBA legend isn’t upset that LiAngelo Ball and two other UCLA players (Cody Riley and Jalen Hill) got caught stealing in China; he’s more annoyed that the middle Ball child is cruising campus in a Ferrari. “This is disgusting.…
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The 10 ‘Wokest’ Athletes of All Time
If you, too, are going through withdrawal during “Cold Turkey Week”—the seven-day period when there is no NBA, NFL or baseball, and the NCAA tournament hasn’t started—then I’m sure you’re searching for something to quench your thirst for sports. (And if you’re thinking I could just watch hockey, shut the fuck up. I’m black. White…
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jim Brown, Bill Russell to Receive Legacy Award
It feels fitting that in a time of the Movement for Black Lives and the last months of the first black president, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jim Brown and Bill Russell, champions of social justice, will receive the Sports Illustrated Muhammad Ali Legacy Award, not only for their achievement in sports but also for their activism, Sports…
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President Obama Announces Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients
President Barack Obama named 21 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the nation, on Wednesday, according to a White House press release. The awards, which will be presented in a ceremony at the White House on Nov. 22, honor “individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the…
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When Black Lives Don't Matter to Black Athletes
There is a specific moment in my sportswriting career that haunts me with the slow-burning intensity of a friend’s betrayal: I was interviewing a black professional athlete for a profile over which he and his handlers had fairly tight control. At some point during what had been a casual, fluffy and pedestrian back-and-forth, I asked…
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