sports
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Toronto Raptors Head Coach, and Front-Runner for NBA Coach of the Year, Dwane Casey Has Been Fired: Report
After compiling the best record in the NBA Eastern Division, the Toronto Raptors have fired head coach Dwane Casey. Casey was informed Friday morning that the team, which suffered a disappointing second-round-playoff sweep by the Cleveland Cavaliers, was moving in another direction. According to ESPN, Casey was the winningest coach in the franchise’s history and…
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The NFL Is Being Guided by an Immoral Compass
In 1958, Martin Luther King Jr. famously said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Some 60 years later, the NFL has shown that the moral compass guiding it is bending on an arc toward a potential unjust blackballing of Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid for protesting against systemic…
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Watch: Mother of Former Duke Player Wendell Carter Jr. Compares NCAA Basketball to Slavery and Prison
Kylia Carter, mother of former Duke basketball star Wendell Carter Jr., didn’t mince words during an emotional speech to the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, in which she compared the current NCAA basketball system to slavery and prison. “When you remove all the bling and the bells and the sneakers and all that,” Carter said,…
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Pittsburgh Steelers Pay Injured Linebacker Full Salary for 2018
Last season, many people thought that Ryan Shazier might never walk again. The Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker suffered a horrible neck injury while making a tackle during a Monday-night game against the Cincinnati Bengals in December. Shazier lay on the ground unable to move his legs before being carted off the field. The injury looked so…
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Darrell Scott and Trump’s White House Want to Talk About Race; This Is a Horrible Idea
On the heels of Kanye West’s full “Make America great again” rants, one of Donald Trump’s most prominent blacks and the conkiest-conk-to-ever-conk, Cleveland pastor Darrell Scott, has been kicking around the idea of having multiple summits on race that would include athletes and artists; and the White House is actually considering this. According to Politico,…
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Former San Francisco 49ers Safety Eric Reid Files Collusion Grievance Against NFL
Former San Francisco 49ers and Pro Bowl safety Eric Reid is still without a job. On Wednesday Reid, the first player to take a knee alongside his then-teammate Colin Kaepernick to protest the killings of unarmed African-American men, women and children, filed a collusion grievance against the NFL. For all the naysayers who have all…
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Virginia Tech Assistant Coach Resigns After Getting Outed on Twitter for Alleged Affair
A Virginia Tech assistant football coach resigned after emails and social media blasts accused him of having an extramarital affair. “I made a mistake, man,” coach Galen Scott, who had been promoted to co-defensive coordinator in January, told the Richmond Times-Dispatch shortly after the university announced his resignation Friday. “I made a mistake and hurt…
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New Jersey Football Coach Says He Lost His Job Because He Had Too Many Black Players on Team
A New Jersey high school football coach claims he was fired because his football teams featured too many black players. But the reality is he’s probably just another black dude playing the race card to make himself a victim after doing a terrible job of coaching … Oh, wait … he’s white? And he wins?…
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White Reporter Stole From Warriors Security and Nothing Happened Until the Players Found Out
A white reporter who covers the Golden State Warriors was caught on tape stealing a security staffer’s jacket. It isn’t debatable; it happened. Several news outlets have seen the tape and confirmed that Mike Shumann, a sports anchor for KGO-TV in San Francisco, picked up the jacket, which didn’t belong to him, and walked out…
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Leaked Meeting Audio Proves NFL Owners Worried About Appeasing White Fans, While Players Worried About Kaepernick, Black Lives
An October meeting between National Football League owners, players and league executives to discuss player protests and President Donald Trump’s bashing of the league because of players protests was supposed to be confidential. If Colin Kaepernick’s heavenly Afro didn’t already prove that God was OK with players protesting, the leaking of audio from said meeting…