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Perry Wallace, the 1st Black Southeastern Conference Basketball Player, ‘Wasn’t a Candy-Coated or Candy-Assed Pioneer’
In 1966 Perry Wallace was a 6-foot-5-inch small forward who helped his Pearl High School team in Nashville, Tenn., go undefeated. He was being heavily recruited by major college programs, but Wallace, a high school All-American, would choose to stay close to home and go to Vanderbilt University. He was one of two black basketball…
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Cory Booker and Jeff Flake Had a Snowball Duel, and I Have Questions … a lot of Questions
I miss the old Cory Booker, the Newark, N.J., mayor who was so grassroots that he was like a New Jersey-born superhero who literally was saving people from burning buildings and pushing snowed-in cars to safety. Oh, Hurricane Sandy knocked your power out? No biggie, just slide over to Booker’s crib to watch Netflix and…
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Scottish Man Convicted of Hate Crime After Posting Video of Dog Giving Nazi Salute
As it turns out, Scotland does not play around when it comes to hate speech, “jokes” or not. A 30-year-old man was recently convicted of committing a hate crime after he filmed his girlfriend’s dog giving Nazi salutes, as well as responding to statements such as “gas the Jews,” the BBC reports. Mark Meechan filmed…
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Trump’s Lead Lawyer Abandons White House Titanic After Realizing He’s Been Working for an Idiot: Report
Being the lawyer for a client who won’t listen has to be difficult. Being a lawyer for the “president of not listening” even when objectives are written in all caps has to be impossible. So on Thursday, the president’s lead lawyer for the special counsel investigation, John Dowd, decided that he’d been working for a…
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Did a Price Jump Just Push Diddy and Steph Curry Out of the Running to Own the Carolina Panthers?
The man making Cam Newton’s clothes must be setting the price for the Carolina Panthers because the embattled team owner now wants $2.5 billion, which would set a record for a U.S. professional sports franchise, and has pushed the major financial arm of Sean “Diddy” Combs and Steph Curry’s bid for minority ownership out of…
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Amid Recent Security Scares, Stoneman Douglas High School Requires Students to Wear Clear Backpacks
In the absence of the substantial gun reform advocated by students in Parkland, Fla., their school district will be installing a wholly different security measure: clear backpacks. The Broward County school district announced Wednesday that it would require students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to wear clear backpacks after the students return from spring…
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Biden Would ‘Go Down Fast and Hard,’ Says Borderline-Obese 71-Year-Old With Bone Spurs
Well, this all got super stupid, super quickly. Donald Trump woke up with a bone to pick with former Vice President Joe Biden after Biden told students at the University of Miami earlier this week that he would have “beat the hell out” of Trump if they’d gone to school together. Furiously tweeting about “Crazy…