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Pathetic: NYT, Deadspin Defend BLM Protest at Kentucky Derby
Mark off one more sport exploited by Black Lives Matter protesters: horse racing. Just like basketball, baseball, football and soccer, the Kentucky Derby had to be overshadowed by social justice protests. Louisville is where Breonna Taylor lived and died, and the Black Lives Matter disrupters were out in force to protest and turn the actual sporting event into a sideshow.
New Smithsonian Collection Mischaracterizes Athlete Activism
On Thursday the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture introduced a new webpage and collection celebrating the activism of African American athletes. A story by The Undefeated's Parker Owens declares, "The same athletes who were chastised and told to 'shut up and dribble' are now going to be immortalized as a part of the Smithsonian and chronicled in the story of…
ESPN's Stephen A. Smith Rages Against White Privilege in NBA Coaching
ESPN senior ranter Stephen Anthony Smith had three-alarm, hair's-on-fire meltdowns Thursday and Friday over the NBA's Brooklyn Nets hiring Great White North Canadian Steve Nash as their new head coach. Smith inferred that in the post-George Floyd world, only black coaches matter. To Smith, the NBA team chose a coach from a hiring pool of privileged white boys.
Whitlock: NBA’s Bucks Have ‘Black Lives Matter B.S.’ Hangover
Yes, Black Lives Matter is societal poison. How could it be otherwise, dreamt up by self-described “trained Marxists” and based on crackpot academic theories bolstered by garbage statistics? And TV ratings give up empirical evidence BLM and all its public trappings…
Jacksonville Football Player to Honor Slain Cop This Season
Starting next weekend, NFL end zones will throw social justice slogans in viewers' faces, the players' helmets will feature the same plus the names of glorified criminals and there will be mass kneeling during the national anthem. Sound like ample inspiration to play golf or clean out the garage? There will be one redeeming presence in it all, though. Jacksonville tight end Tyler Eifert will…
Mustn’t-See TV: NFL, NBC Plan Social Justice Hour Night Before Opener
It’s been years, but the NFL has finally done something right. The only question is whether Goodell’s crack team of brand burnishers did it on purpose. According to Yahoo Sports, a Thursday NFL press release touted a slate of concessions the league is making to its malcontent millionaire players. Most of them are 2020 get-out-the-vote efforts, including “working with state officials to…
Spit-Take: WashPost Miffed Outkick Would Politicize Sports
Reading the Washington Post is mainly a joyless slog through waist-deep Democrat conventional wisdom and thickets of fashionable lefty platitudes. But the intrepid and alert can sometimes be rewarded with enlightenment. For example, Post sports and media writer Ben Strauss’s long (nearly 2,300 words), deeply hypocritical…
USA Today Backs Batty Kaepernick Hall Of Fame Suggestion
The nominees for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Class of 2022, include ... Colin Kaepernick and -- stop right there. This isn't someone's idea of a bad joke. A Vermont man with no connections to pro football seriously nominated the most polarizing player in NFL history for the game's highest honor. It seems anyone can nominate anyone for the shrine, with no shame for turning the nominating…
Ravens Team Pressures U.S. Senate To Shackle Police Officers
"Is this a football team or a political organization?" USA Today writer Jarrett Bell posed the question in reference to the Baltimore Ravens players and staff who sent a letter to U.S. Senate President Mitch McConnell urging him to bring the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020 to the Senate floor for a vote. In other words, they want to handcuff America's cops.
WashPost Attacks 'Archenemy' Conservative Owner, Senator Over BLM
By courageously standing alone among professional sports owners in public opposition to Black Lives Matter, U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler is being branded a "villain" and "archenemy" by The Washington Post. However, Newsweek Sports gave the Georgia conservative a forum to stand her ground and double down on her criticism of the Women's NBA for promoting BLM.
But How’s the Hoops? CNN Puffs WNBA’s 'Activist DNA'
Times are probably kind of tight for the WNBA. Coronavirus curtailed its season and drove the ladies into a “bubble” in Bradenton, Florida, disappointing dozens of fans and easily costing hundreds of dollars in lost revenue.
Obama's Counsel For NBA: Go Left, Young Men
CNN portrayed it as an "American crisis": NBA players receiving counsel from their favorite former president -- Barack Obama. At his bidding, the league lurched even further to the Left. At the same time, a former NFL player/protester thanked the NBA for moving the ball forward in the fight against systemic racism.
Astros Refuse to Play Ball on Observance of Jackie Robinson Day
After some professional sports teams boycotted games over the killing of Jacob Blake, the Houston Astros put a new twist on social justice idiocy. Friday was Jackie Robinson Day throughout Major League Baseball, and the Astros thought it would make baseball's first African American player proud if he could see them boycott a game.
Titans Quarterback Slams U.S. as Nation Founded on 'Racist Ideas'
Remember the Titans? The 2000 movie depicted a football team at a newly integrated high school in Virginia overcoming racial division. Twenty years later, the U.S. is being torn apart by social justice warriors creating racial division through the Black Lives Matter movement. Remarks made Thursday by Tennessee Titans quarterback Ryan Tannehill go to the heart of the divisiveness and will be…