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It started last January, but few were paying attention then. On Wednesday, Major League Baseball announced that it is elevating Negro League baseball to the status of Major League. In short time, race-mongering media began to demand that the surviving players and family members from the 1920-1948 Negro League era receive reparations from MLB.

This year in American sports was more of a movement than a time of athletic achievement. It was also about staying safe from COVID-19, speaking out for Black Lives Matter, racial justice and political activism, and opposing systemic racism and voter suppression. The New York Times’ review of the year gives deference to off-the-court/field issues over championships won. 

Having exorcised the White house of the demon Trump, you might think legacy media would ease up, tack toward the middle and tone down the “woke” hysteria. If the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times are indicators, forget it.

Though few believe it, ESPN swears that it’s not a political network. Many of its personalities just happen to hate conservatives. Keith Olbermann and former SportsCenter co-host Jemele Hill are legendary among them, and a few days ago, ESPN’s Domonique Foxworth bashed the Buffalo Bills’ quarterback Josh Allen and his American flag- and dog-loving fans.

How unoriginal. Awful Announcing’s Ian Casselberry is the latest media lemming to use a sports analogy to diss President Donald Trump’s contesting of the presidential election. In roasting Newsmax for allegedly encouraging unsubstantiated election conspiracy theories, Casselberry joins the Washington Post’s…

An embarrassing symbol of arrogance and bullying is coming to an end with the Cleveland Indians announcing plans to scalp their nickname. It’s also a significant racial reckoning in American history sparked by the killing of George Floyd, writes USA Today’s race and inequality editor Mike Freeman.

To no one’s surprise, LeBron James is Time magazine’s athlete of the year and one of Sports Illustrated’s sportspersons of the year. James had another big year of championship basketball, but this award is every bit as much about social justice as it is about the Lakers championship and James's stat line.

The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) wants in the club, the Black Lives Matter-style protest club, along with the cool people – the NBA, WNBA, NFL and Major League Baseball. If the International Olympic Committee agrees, American athletes will have the green light to embarrass their country during the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo starting July 23.

Spread over last weekend and the approaching weekend, the NFL is allowing its players to wear customized spikes promoting various causes. SB Nation Outsports is miffed that no NFL players have ever chosen to wear LGBTQ-specific shoes for the My Cause My Cleats promotion and, to its chagrin, three players chose to support the so-called anti-gay Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA).

Had enough 24/7 social justice and Black Lives Matter with your football yet? Before you answer, know this: CBS and the National Football League don’t believe you have. They’re planning to double down on political correctness and virtue signaling in the upcoming Super Bowl game, set to be played Feb. 7 in Tampa.

Don’t be a sore loser, don’t damage the game. This is the condescending advice given to President Donald Trump by Washington Post sportswriter Thomas Boswell, who demands he accept defeat or find a new job.

The NBA isn’t planning to paint up the courts with Black Lives Matter next season; been there, done that. What the league with a bad reputation for drug abuse is planning to do is to stop testing players for marijuana. Deadspin’s Donovan Dooley is ecstatic over this news and urges players to smoke it up because it could help take the game higher.

The popularity of the National Football League, a long-time American cultural icon, is going down the tubes. Television viewership for the NFL has been steadily plummeting for 10 years, and the numbers for Week 12 of this season are dreadful as well. Sports fans will only tolerate a league characterized by disgusting protests, uncivil behavior and Super Bowl halftime trash for so long before…

Sports writers aren’t demanding a female Vanderbilt University place-kicker be awarded the Heisman Trophy – not yet anyway – but they can hardly contain themselves over Sarah Fuller’s farcical appearance Saturday in a Southeastern Conference football game.