sports
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NFL Star Faces Felony Robbery Charges Over $15 Phone Charger
A Baltimore Ravens player was arrested and jailed Thursday after an Uber driver accused the NFL star of masterminding a whirlwind heist of a $15 cellphone charger. The criminal plot began Jan. 13 in Tuscaloosa, Ala., a city known for its glamour and wealth. Defensive back Marlon Humphrey was there allegedly visiting the University of…
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ESPN’s Jemele Hill to Leave SportsCenter, Join The Undefeated
Jemele Hill is switching gears in her career, leaving her position as anchor on ESPN’s SportsCenter to join the staff of The Undefeated, an ESPN-owned website that focuses on the intersection of sports, race and culture, as well as take on additional assignments. As Sports Illustrated notes, the move comes after Hill sparked national conversation…
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Saints’ Cam Jordan Gifts Super Bowl Ticket to 108-Year-Old World War II Vet
WHO DAT?! New Orleans Saints defensive end, and the Walter Payton Man of the Year nominee, Cam Jordan is showing up and showing out for the culture, gifting beloved local veteran and Saints fan Lawrence Brooks tickets to the Super Bowl. Brooks is not your average Saints fan. He is an esteemed World War II…
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Lucky Lakers Fan Wins $100,000 for Hitting Half-Court Shot
Every basketball fan has fantasized about it at one time or another, but imagine what would happen if you were the lucky person who hit that half-court shot on your team’s home court to win a big, fat check for $100,000. Suni Strong of Lancaster, Calif., doesn’t have to wonder any longer after he completed…
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NFL Miraculously Gets Protest-Free Super Bowl
After a tumultuous season that featured a decline in ratings partially blamed on National Football League players protesting injustice and inequality during the national anthem, America will get to enjoy a Super Bowl devoid of ungrateful players insulting the mythical “troops” and the long-dead corpse of Francis Scott Key by kneeling during “The Star-Spangled Banner.”…
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LeBron James and Steph Curry Are the Team Captains for NBA All-Star 2018 and They Get to Build Their Dream Teams
The votes have been counted and the results are in. On Thursday evening, the NBA revealed the team captains and the starting roster pools for both the Eastern and Western conferences for the 2018 All-Star Game, which will take place in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 18, at 8 p.m. EST. For the second year…
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Colin Kaepernick Has Done More for the 99 Percent Than the President of the United States
Other than keeping the few black and brown workers at KFC busy filling his order for a bucket of chicken and employing the once-great-and-now-fallen Dr. Ben Carson, what has President Supremacy von AgentOrangeFace done for black America—or, more importantly, for the black America that isn’t among the 1 percent? I’m actually not being facetious here;…
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Well, This Is Awkward: Los Angeles Lakers No Longer Want Player After Learning of Herpes Lawsuit: Report
In life-comes-at-you-fast news, the Los Angeles Lakers have decided to pass on small forward Jamil Wilson after learning that the former NBA player was being sued for sexual battery for allegedly knowingly giving a woman herpes. According to TMZ Sports, the woman claims that she received herpes simplex 2 during a yearlong relationship with Wilson.…
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‘Wet Dream Team’ Featuring Players ‘Knee-Grow’ and ‘Coon’ Suspended From Youth Basketball League
Someone at an Ohio middle school recreational basketball league thought it would be funny to give the team a sexually suggestive name with thinly veiled racial slurs on the backs of the kids’ jerseys, and now the team has been suspended for the rest of the season. Tony Rue attended a game at West Clermont…