sports
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Black Athlete at West Virginia High School Finds Picture of Himself in a Noose Before Game
I’m often skeptical when I hear people say shit like, “We just need to let the old people die out, then racism will be a thing of the past.” Mainly because those racists have kids. Kids who often turn around and do things like this. NBC News reports that Jace Colucci, a 17-year-old student and…
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The League of Luxury: Louis Vuitton and the NBA Announce Multiyear Partnership and Capsule Collection by Virgil Abloh
The NBA may already be the most stylish league in sports, but it’s about to get even more fashionable. On Wednesday, it joined Louis Vuitton in announcing a multiyear partnership; the first and only between the French luxury house and an American sports league. The collaboration will launch with a new, fashion-forward travel trunk for…
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Nothing Is Certain But Death, Taxes, and Zion Williamson Wrecking Shit in His Debut
Zion Williamson is a force of nature, and for three agonizing months, millions of sports junkies throughout the world waited with bated breath for Coach K’s pride and joy to unleash a tsunami upon the NBA. Williamson’s meniscus tear in the preseason derailed the entire league: TV ratings plummeted and his new squad, the New…
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WNBA Star Maya Moore Will Sit This Season Out to Advocate for Prisoner
Minnesota Lynx star and four-time WNBA champion Maya Moore is widely considered one of the most elite players in the game. Which makes her decision to sit out for a second season all the more noteworthy. The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Moore will continue her sabbatical from the sport to focus on…
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Former Coach, NBA Community Express Concern After Disturbing Videos of Delonte West Surface: 'This Is So Very Painful'
Former NBA star Delonte West is probably best remembered as an integral member of the Cleveland Cavaliers during the 2008 NBA playoffs. But in recent years, his personal struggles with mental illness have become tabloid fodder, and on Monday a pair of disturbing videos surfaced of the once-promising point guard. In one video circulating on…
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It Takes a Special Kind of Stupid to Get Charged With Battery for Slapping a Cop's Ass. Odell Beckham Jr. Is That Special Kind of Stupid
Odell Beckham Jr. lives for attention. From his on-field attire to his off-field lifestyle, the Pro-Bowl receiver lives for the limelight. And in doing so, he often puts himself in situations that are equal parts precarious and unnecessary. Case in point, I’m writing this because instead of celebrating LSU’s college football championship on Monday like…
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The WNBA's New 'Groundbreaking' Collective Bargaining Agreement Includes Higher Salaries, Quality of Life Improvements
Since its inception in 1997, the WNBA has provided a master class on how gender inequality manifests in the workplace. Players like A’ja Wilson and Kayla McBride have openly critiqued their paltry wages; four-time All-Star Skylar Diggins-Smith confessed to playing an entire season pregnant after receiving “no support” from her organization, and in 2018, the…
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Mike Tyson Dishes on Marriage, His Children’s Dating Preferences on T.I.’s ExpediTIously Podcast: ‘Why My Kids Don’t Like Black Kids?’
During a recent interview on T.I.’s ExpediTIously podcast, boxing legend Mike Tyson expressed his frustration at his children’s dating preferences while also admitting his own shortcomings as a father and husband. In 2009, Tyson married his third wife, Lakiha Spicer, who, according to the retired heavyweight champion, has achieved the impossible by finally making him…
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Cleveland Cavaliers Coach Called Team ‘Thugs,’ Says He Meant ‘Slugs.’ Sure, Jan
In this installment of Freudian slips that make you go “Damn,” we turn to the Cleveland Cavaliers. ESPN reports that during a film session on Wednesday night, first-year coach John Beilein told the players that they were no longer playing “like a bunch of thugs.” Reportedly, a hush fell over the room and the players…
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Vince ‘Back in My Day’ Carter Becomes 1st Player in NBA History to Play in Four Different Decades
If Vince Carter was a wine, he’d be a Château Lafite 1869 or perhaps a 1947 Cheval Blanc: universally revered while gracefully aging in Nancy Pelosi’s wine cellar. But he’s not a wine, he’s an eight-time NBA All-Star, who at 42-years-old is still somehow doing shit like this: On Saturday, as ESPN reports, the future…