sports
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In Shocking Report, 100 Percent of NFL’s Black Men Surveyed Are Treated Like Black Men
In news that was probably shocking to those who found Colin Kaepernick’s protest to be disrespectful to the military and America, a new Associated Press report found that 100 percent of black NFL players surveyed have experienced racial profiling or know someone who has. From AP: The Associated Press surveyed 56 of the 59 black…
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Can We Talk About Tom Brady Kissing His 11-Year-Old Son on the Mouth for a Long Time?
I believe in father-son affection. I have a son. He’s 3 months old, and I am dreading the day that he finds my kissing his cheek uncool. I also believe that because America doesn’t love black boys, it’s my job as his dad to make sure that he knows at all times that he is…
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Collusion? Forget Russia: LeBron James Is Willing to Take a Meeting With the Golden State Warriors
I’m going to need special counsel Robert Mueller to stand down on the Russia investigation and take a look at LeBron “King” James’ reported willingness to have a sit-down with the Golden State Warriors. That could mean that Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant and James would be on the same team. This feels like Vladimir Putin’s…
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Former NBA Player Rasual Butler, Wife Leah LaBelle Dead After Car Crash
Former NBA player Rasual Butler and his wife, former American Idol contestant Leah LaBelle, died early Wednesday morning in a single-car crash in Studio City, Calif. Butler was 38. LaBelle was 31. At approximately 2:30 a.m., Butler lost control of the Range Rover he was driving, and according to NBC Los Angeles, authorities said he was…
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University of Missouri Athletic Director Claims South Carolina Fans Spit at and Yelled the N-Word at Women’s Basketball Team
The University of South Carolina Gamecocks and University of Missouri Tigers don’t like each other, and that’s a good thing, especially when it comes to sports. Natural rivalries are what makes sports entertaining, but on Sunday that intensity turned ugly as several reports claim that South Carolina fans spit at and hurled racial slurs at…
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California Sex Offender Arrested, Accused of Posing as Private Basketball Coach
There was something about Melvin Flemings that seemed off. The 28-year-old California man had approached a high school teen, saying that he was a basketball coach, and offered the young man basketball lessons at a private training center, Evolution Basketball. But Flemings seemed suspicious to the parent of the Mount Eden High School teen. According…
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Blake Griffin Just Got Traded to the Detroit Pistons for a Scratch-Off, an Expired EBT Card and a Pack of Newports
Imagine you are Blake Griffin. You are the franchise player of the Los Angeles Clippers—the one who actually got people in L.A. interested in the Clippers again, to be exact. You are an All-Star. You are a pivotal member of the team. You are the star of Kia ads, and you are known for your…
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The Cleveland Indians Are Getting Rid of Racist Logo but Sticking to Racist Name
It is not lost on this writer that the name of the stadium where the Cleveland Indians play is “Progressive.” Why? Because the name of the team that plays there and its mascot are anything but. In fact, the fire-engine-red, big-nosed caricature is … what’s the word that white folks hate again? … oh yeah,…
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Deontay Wilder Thinks He Could’ve Beaten Peak Mike Tyson; Lennox Lewis Says, ‘Nah, Bruh’
Boxers talk trash; it’s what they do. But WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder may want to slow down on his claims of multigenerational greatness, especially when he’s talking about a man who once threatened to eat another boxer’s kid. One-belt Wilder had the audacity to claim that he could’ve beaten 1986 Mike Tyson, which, for…
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Running Slaloms on ’Em: Kenyan Skier Sabrina Simader Makes It to 1st Winter Games
Although the Winter Olympics used to be a lily-white affair, or what The Root Senior Editor Stephen A. Crockett called “the privileged Olympics,” slowly but surely, the blacks are coming to eat. And black women are looking to dominate. In addition to a nice Nigerian bobsled team, not one, but two black women qualified for…