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Turns Out the Nearly $90,000,000 Donation to Prove the NFL Cares About Social Justice Is Bullshit
On Thursday, The Root staff writer Michael Harriot and I argued as to whether the agreement reached between NFL owners to donate some $90 million to various social justice causes as an answer to players’ protests was good business or just hush money to silence a movement. I posited that protest had sprouted a monetary…
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Philadelphia Eagles Player Fletcher Cox Seduced a Married Woman and Now Her Husband Is Suing Him: Report
Philadelphia Eagles defensive lineman Fletcher Cox has gotten himself involved in all kinds of drama. Cox has been accused of running college-sophomore-level game on a married North Carolina woman, and her husband is suing the star defensive player, claiming that Cox’s macking has led to substantial emotional distress. Yes, it’s legal to sue someone for…
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Chicago Bulls Forward Nikola Mirotic Is a Better Man Than All of Us
Chicago Bulls forward Nikola Mirotic might be an angel, because if a co-worker gave me multiple facial fractures and a concussion in a fistfight, I would be suing my employers, my employer’s employers and my employer’s employer’s employers. I would spend the rest of my days at work looking like this: But alas, I’m not…
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NFL Players Just Sold Kaepernick’s Protests for $100 Million. Are They Sellouts or Heroes?
A group of players in the National Football League accepted an offer from NFL owners for $100 million for social justice causes in exchange for … umm … we want to use a term that expresses the exact sentiment while still conveying a modicum of journalistic integrity. We think the most precise way to describe…
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Something Smells Catfishy: Ray Allen’s Alleged Male Stalker Claims They Had a 3-Year Romantic Relationship
This whole thing is becoming intensely messy. Former NBA superstar Ray Allen claimed that he’d been catfished by a man pretending to be several women. In court documents obtained by TMZ Sports, Allen claims that upon learning that it was, in fact, a man behind the online dating profiles, he ended the relationships. Now the…
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Georgia Tech Football Player’s Brutal KO of Teammate Caught on Video and I Have Questions
A violent fight (if you could call it that) between two Georgia Tech football teammates has been released on TMZ Sports, and it’s pretty brutal. According to the sports site, defensive back Step Durham knocked out teammate and fellow defensive back Lance Austin inside the Yellow Jackets training facility before this year’s football season began.…
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And Some Say Protests Don’t Matter: LeBron James Vowed Not to Stay at Trump Hotels; Now the President’s Name Is Being Removed From Trump SoHo
The king will always trump the president. The greatest basketball player in this decade just happens to be one of the most socially conscious, and as such, when the dictator with the little hands was gifted the presidential election by his Russian cousins and 53 percent of white women, LeBron “King” James decided that he…
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Trump’s Racist Beef Could Make LaVar Ball a Lot of Money
The battle of the blowhards between everybody’s loud-ass uncle and white America’s racist grandpa has reached a fever pitch. LaVar Ball’s unwillingness to bow down to Donald Trump has spurred an endless stream of media reports and interviews, prompting Trump to lash out at Ball for his refusal to admit that Ball’s son would be…
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Trump Thinks That Standing in the Locker Room During the Anthem Is Offensive Because He’s an Idiot
I don’t hate; it’s not really in my nature. I fake-hate on a regular, tho. Like, I will fake-hate on Cam Newton’s goofy outfits, but if really asked, I don’t care how he dresses. I fake-hate this bullshit iPhone 8, but I don’t know if there is a better phone because of that research and…