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Exactly Zero Women Landed on Forbes’ List of 100 Highest-Paid Athletes This Year
For the first time since compiling its catalog of top-paid athletes, Forbes counts nada-one woman on this year’s list. That’s right: Serena Williams takes some time off to have a baby, and boom, it’s an all-dude bonanza, which tells you a little something about the pay disparity between male and female athletes on the whole.…
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Philly Mayor Blames Trump for Eagles Team Not Wanting to Visit
The Philadelphia Eagles are still celebrating their Super Bowl win, but they won’t be doing it at the White House. Fewer than 10 of the players planned to attend the White House visit, so the offer was taken back. Supposedly, they were disinvited because the team doesn’t agree with standing during the national anthem. President…
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Trump Disinvites Philadelphia Eagles From the White House, Allegedly Over National Anthem
Once again your president is using the lofty office of the executive branch to be the petty bitch that he obviously can’t help being. On Monday evening, the White House released a statement saying that the 2018 Super Bowl-winning Philadelphia Eagles are “unable” to come to the White House on Tuesday because of the national…
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NOOOOO!!! Serena Williams Pulls Out of French Open Because of Injury
It seems that we’ll have to wait a little longer to see Serena Williams dominate on the tennis courts once more. The superstar called off her grand-slam comeback and pulled out of the French Open on Monday because of a pectoral injury shortly before she was due to face archnemesis Maria Sharapova in a highly…
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It’s On! Serena Williams Will Face Rival Maria Sharapova in French Open
The upcoming match between Serena Williams and her archnemesis Maria Sharapova is going to be as good as Apollo Creed vs. Rocky Balboa, Bird vs. Magic, the Rancho Carne Toros vs. the East Compton Clovers. Do you see any theme here? Good, me neither. Miss Serena, fresh off attending the royal wedding, threw just a…
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In Defense of J.R. Smith, the Loneliest Man in Cleveland
By now you’ve all hopped onto your social media timelines to jump on the J.R. Smith-bashing bandwagon. I get it. In fact, he’s kind of an easy person to blame. The Cleveland Cavaliers guard is a rumored pothead, who always kind of seems out of place. Remember when the Cavaliers won the title, and during…
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Mama Don’t Take No Net: Serena Williams Comes Off Maternity Leave, Shows She’s Still Boss at French Open
Serena Williams came back from maternity leave ready to stunt on her “co-workers” at the French Open. Having her rank knocked down to No. 453 in the world just because she took time off to have, love and care for her baby Olympia meant nothing in the grand scheme of things when Williams came back…
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Colin Kaepernick’s Lawyer: Somebody Is Ready to Snitch on the NFL
The attorney for currently unemployed NFL stars and former San Francisco 49ers Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid dropped a bomb Wednesday on CNN when he hinted that a witness in their collusion case against the powerful football league was ready to drop dime with concrete evidence proving that NFL owners conspired to keep both men…
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Brown Girl Surf Wants to Change Surf Culture
Images of black and brown women are not the first thing that come to mind when one thinks of surf culture. The Oakland, Calif.-based organization called Brown Girl Surf challenges that by simply inviting women of color to dive into the water. “The goal of Brown Girl Surf is to change surf culture,” says Marlim…
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Serena Williams’ Ranking Falls to No. 453 in the World After She Has a Baby, Smacking of Sexism
Serena Williams, the 23-time grand-slam champion, and possibly the greatest athlete of all time, was ranked No. 1 in the world before she left her job to give birth and nurture her daughter, Alexis Olympia, as well as recover from a pulmonary embolism. Williams, who was away from tennis for 14 months, currently has a…