NFL
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Black Twitter Erupts After Deion Sanders Sells His Soul to Barstool Sports: 'He's Trading His Morals For a Check'
In being outspoken for a living, I make it a point to come from a place of logic and understanding when I broach certain topics in front of millions of people on a weekly basis. Whether it’s a podcast, a television or radio segment, or my writing, I really, really, really try to do my…
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NFL to Get Rid of Live National Anthem Performances This Season. Could That Affect Protests Too?
Whether or not we’ll see fans in attendance this season at NFL games has yet to be determined. But one thing we won’t see this season is live performances of the national anthem. The NFL we all know and love will undoubtedly look drastically different this year. And in its efforts to reduce the threat…
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Washington Running Back Derrius Guice Released After Charged With Strangulation, Assault and Battery of Girlfriend
The once-promising career of running back Derrius Guice is in serious trouble. On Friday, the Washington Football Team released the former LSU star, but it was the details surrounding his release that put jaws on the floor. According to the Washington Post, the 23-year-old was arrested on domestic violence-related charges that include one count of…
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Deion Sanders Blasts Athletes Who Are Opting-Out of Playing This Year Because of COVID-19: 'The Game Will Go On Without You'
There’s something especially disgusting about a Black person who eagerly jumps at any opportunity to publicly tell Black people they are expendable and that their value is determined by how much they can provide and perform for white people. As The Root reported, 66 NFL players—many of them Black men and/or fathers—announced their decision to…
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Who All Gon' Be There? 66 Players Opt-Out of the NFL Season Citing Coronavirus Concerns
With the coronavirus still very much a thing, the NFL and NFL Players Association set a deadline of Thursday for players to decide whether or not they would be opting out of the upcoming season. Now that that deadline has passed, we know exactly which players we won’t see on the field this year. The…
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NFL Thinks Players Are Gaming the System by Opting Out of Upcoming Season, Devin McCourty Calls League a 'Joke'
The NFL is in serious trouble. As the coronavirus continues to terrorize Major League Baseball, NFL players are tripping over themselves to opt-out of the upcoming season. Thus far, over 40 players (and counting) will pass on playing this year—eight from the New England Patriots alone—so it’s safe to say that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell…
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US Navy to Investigate Video of a Kaepernick Stand-In Being Used in an Attack Dog Demonstration at Navy SEALS Museum
The Navy SEALS museum in Fort Pierce, Fla., is under investigation after video surfaced of a Colin Kaepernick stand-in being used for an attack dog demonstration. NBC News reports that the videos were shared over the weekend on documentary filmmaker Billy Corben’s Twitter account and showed attack dogs attacking a white man wearing a cut…
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Another Day, Another MLB Game Postponed Due to the Coronavirus
Say what you want about the NBA bubble, commissioner Adam Silver—and Disney exec Rosalyn Durant—has not only sidestepped a global pandemic, but has delivered the game we all know and love while preserving the health and safety of some of the most popular athletes in the world. Major League Baseball, however, hasn’t been nearly as lucky.…
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The NFL Unveils Its Master Plan to 'Help Conquer Racism' With a Stencil. No, Really
Here I was thinking that I’d have to spend the rest of my days ducking from disproportionate jail sentences, Donald Trump’s Twitter feed and the KKK, but it would appear that after hundreds of years of torment and generational trauma, the NFL might’ve finally found the cure for racism. ESPN reports that as the NFL…
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COVID-19 Is Officially Wrecking Havoc on Major League Baseball. Could the NFL Be Next?
Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but America has a bit of a coronavirus problem. And if you thought that Major League Baseball or the NFL would provide us with a much-needed escape from the perils of this pandemic, I regret to inform you that COVID-19 isn’t letting sports be great, either. The Florida…