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NAACP Urges Professional Athletes to Stay the Hell Away From Texas Due to Recent Voting, Abortion Laws
Texas has recently passed a series of abhorrent laws about voting rights, mask mandates and women’s reproductive freedom.
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You’ve Gotta Be Stupid AF to Get Suspended by the NHL for a Fake Vaccination Card, and Evander Kane Is Stupid AF
The San Jose Sharks forward just got suspended 21 games for being a first-ballot Hall of Fame idiot.
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Willie O’Ree, NHL’s 1st Black Hockey Player, Set to Receive Congressional Gold Medal
Senate passes a bill to honor the trailblazing athlete, who broke the NHL's color barrier in 1958. The bill heads to the House, where swift passage is expected.
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Calm App Rides for Naomi Osaka, Offers to Pay Fines for Players Declining Media Interviews: 'Mental Health Is Health'
Not all heroes wear capes, but they may develop apps. In light of the ongoing Naomi Osaka saga, in which the four-time Grand Slam champ withdrew from the French Open after she was fined for declining to participate in media interviews, much has been said about mental health and how fiercely it should be protected—both…
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Tampa Bay Lightning Makes NHL History by Starting an All-Black Forward Line
Toward the end of his legendary standup special Never Scared, Chris Rock goes into a bit about the history of slavery and how slave masters used breeding to try to create “super slaves” and how that continues to affect America today. “This is why Black people dominate every physical activity in the United States of…
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The Day Sports Stood Still Proves Athletes Reserve the Right to Be Human, Too
For as far back as I can remember, I’ve always had a symbiotic relationship with sports. Whether it was throwing the football around in my neighbor’s backyard as a child, or getting clowned at basketball tryouts as an 8th grader because my sneakers had holes in them, or my father chasing me around the house…
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Police Union Criticizes NHL Team for Opposing Racism
Racist white people hate being called racist white people. I know this because I receive emails, tweets and DMs from white people who are insulted by the notion that all white people don’t hate Black people. Most recently, after an article about patriotism and the NBA strike (or this one about Ben Shapiro…or this one…
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Matt Dumba Becomes 1st NHL Player to Kneel During the National Anthem
I would be lying if I said I ever watch hockey, but this weekend something spectacular occurred. Matt Dumba, a Minnesota Wild defenseman of Filipino descent, became the first player in the NHL to take a knee during the national anthem. But he didn’t just take a knee, he delivered a soul-stirring speech while wearing…
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Dr. Fauci Suggests COVID-19 Could Force Sports Leagues to Skip the Season: 'Safety Trumps Everything'
Dr. Anthony Fauci is kind of a big deal. As the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who moonlights as the Justin Timberlake of Trump’s coronavirus task force boy band, anything that comes out of his mouth is as good as gold. So if he says there’s no Santa Claus,…
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March Madness the Latest in Coronavirus Cancellations
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has set off an unprecedented streak of cancellations. The NBA and NHL have all suspended their seasons and now the NCAA is the next sports organization to follow suit. The Detroit Free Press reports that as a result of the ongoing outbreak, the NCAA has cancelled all remaining tournaments for the…