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5 Reasons Not to Waste Your Money on the Mayweather vs. ‘White Mayweather’ Fight
The fight that no one wants to pay for but everyone kind of wants to see, if only to laugh as Floyd Mayweather Jr. beats the stuffing out of Conor McGregor, is Saturday. We all know that this is going to be a shit show of epic proportions. It most likely won’t even be remotely…
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Boycotting the NFL Will Not Work, but I’m Doing It Anyway
First I’d like to give honor to the Most High (Snoop Dogg), the members of the pulpit, the pastor, his wife, his mistress, the mother of the church, and all the saints and sinners in the audience. I am here today to ask for your prayers. I am about to endure one of the bravest…
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#ImWithKap: Hundreds Rally at NFL Headquarters for Colin Kaepernick, Call for Boycott if Demands Not Met
Nearly 1,000 people showed up at the New York City headquarters of the National Football League Wednesday in support of Colin Kaepernick, the quarterback many see as being unfairly blackballed for “taking a knee” during the national anthem. The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback knelt during the 2016 season to bring light to police brutality…
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ESPN Takes Asian Announcer off UVA Game Because His Name Is Robert Lee
Oh, I see what you did there. Because Robert Lee, an Asian announcer for ESPN, happens to share the same name as the Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, ESPN thought it was a good move to take him off a University of Virginia home-opener football game because, well, awkward. CNN reports that Lee—the announcer, not…
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LeBron James’ Destruction of the Cleveland Cavaliers Is Complete: Kyrie Irving Headed to Boston Celtics
LeBron James has single-handedly destroyed the Cleveland Cavaliers’ franchise twice now. The first go-round was shortly after the team invested tons of money to try to build a franchise around him and he bolted to the Miami Heat. But the Cavaliers recovered, thanks to some draft luck and landing perennial All-Star Kyrie Irving; and then…
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12 Cleveland Browns Players Took a Knee During the National Anthem and Colin Kaepernick Still Doesn’t Have a Job
The protest started by Colin Kaepernick to bring awareness and concern to the killing of unarmed black men, women and children by police has continued even though the free agent quarterback still doesn’t have an NFL home. On Monday, before their game against the New York Giants, a dozen Cleveland Browns players took a knee…
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Colin Kaepernick Items to Be Part of Black Lives Matter Exhibit at National African-American History Museum
Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick will be immortalized at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, according to a curator who made the announcement Friday. Because of his kneeling protest against police brutality during the National Anthem during the 2016 NFL season, items from the 29-year-old will be part of a Black Lives…
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Did Chris Long’s Support of Malcolm Jenkins’ Protest Just Secure Him the No. 1 Pick in This Year’s Racial Draft?
Since the beginning of the NFL season, Philadelphia Eagles safety Malcom Jenkins has been one of the few players this season to take up the mantle that current free agent Colin Kaepernick left behind. Jenkins has upheld Kaepernick’s silent protest against the killings of unarmed African-American men, women and children by raising his fist during…
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Kevin Durant on Possible White House Invite: Is Trump Still in Office? Nah, I’m Good (I’m Paraphrasing a Bit)
If the White Nationalist House of Pancakes plans on inviting the championship Golden State Warriors to come and see where evil lives, then they can skip the e-vite for Kevin Durant because he ain’t going. “Nah, I won’t do that,” Durant said Thursday of a potential visit, according to ESPN’s Chris Haynes. “I don’t respect…