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A former NFL player and current Republican candidate for Congress in Utah drew positive press from Newsweek magazine Saturday for opposing national anthem protests and for defending an NBA player who refused to kneel. Newsweek's Benjamin Fearnow gave Burgess Owens fair treatment for his remarks on Orlando Magic forward Jonathan Isaac's courageous stand, just days after an…

Kudos to the Idaho conservatives who stood up to LGBT and NCAA bullies and said "no" to transgender males playing on women's sports teams. Earlier this year the state passed a law banning males from muscling in on women's teams, the ACLU filed suit and the NCAA was pressured to withdraw 2021 postseason events from the state. Well the NCAA just flinched, deciding to re-examine its policy…

WNBA players openly campaigning for a Democrat running for the U.S. Senate sure look and act like a political action committee. Many of the players are wearing "Vote Warnock" shirts as a show of opposition to Atlanta Dream co-owner Kelly Loeffler, a U.S. senator seeking re-election who previously wrote a letter to the WNBA commissioner scalding Black Lives Matter.

America's sports organizations are up to their eyeballs in social justice activism, but Deadspin writer Carron J. Phillips has already started complaining about impending apathy over Black Lives Matter. Nobody hates black people like Americans who act like they care about important issues, only to treat them like outdated agendas as soon as it no longer suits their interests, the race-baiter…

Washington Post sports columnist Jerry Brewer has some bad news for normal sports fans. “Sports escapism has been suspended,” he wrote on Aug. 6. “There is a chance the ol’ reliable expectation of games as breezy diversions may never return.”

Jason Whitlock, the courageous African American commentator bucking the left-stream media from his new post at Outkick The Coverage sports blog, has dared to challenge the here-to-fore unquestioned racist cop narrative of George Floyd's death. With civil unrest raging and media and athletes screaming about systemic racism and defunding police departments, Whitlock says newly released video…

Here's a big no thank you from sports fans to the NBA and Major League Baseball! Both leagues felt some cold shoulders from alienated fans objecting to over-the-top social justice protests recently when they resumed play. Discontent has been evident in television ratings since the NBA started up with games at the bubble in Orlando's Disney World and baseball returned with regional play in team…

The Big Sports Turn-Off continued over the weekend. A hockey player declared racism is everywhere and systemic. Overly woke pro basketball and baseball players had already killed the golden goose, turning off many fans with massive protests in their recent returns. On Sunday, Pac-12 athletes did their best to drive fans away from major college sports, too, by releasing social justice demands…

You can spell hypocrite "P-O-P-O-V-I-C-H." After all his mouthing off about systemic racism, San Antonio Spurs' Head Coach Greg Popovich refused to kneel Friday with his team during the national anthem. USA Today sports reported Saturday that…

A left-wing organization whirled into political action Thursday in Orlando, working to get out the Democrat vote, fighting so-called voter suppression, and protesting systemic racism. Activists were allowed to conduct their political activities on the job at NBA games played at Disney World. Marching in lockstep with these athletic activists are numerous members of the media.

It takes a lot of guts to swim upstream against the Black Lives Matter tidal wave sweeping the country. New York Post columnist Phil Mushnick looks like Michael Phelps doing just that in a post exposing pro sports providing cover for the true and troubling nature of BLM

There are few profiles in courage these days. Americans are enervated, bullied by politicized medicos, ruthless cancel culture and violent America haters who’ve been eagerly abetted by media that have all but dropped the pretense of objectivity. Already hollowed out by creeping progressivism and terrified of social media infamy, our institutions’ default response is groveling before the mob.…

By stenciling the phrases "End Racism" and "It Takes All Of Us" across end zones for home openers this fall, the NFL is ducking several messages for which it needs to take ownership. The league and its players plan to portray themselves as high-minded social justice heroes, when in fact many of them have sorry records of uncivil behavior that continue to go unaddressed.

Forget pro sports as you once knew and loved them. Those days are, like the late Detroit Tigers broadcaster Ernie Harwell's famous home run call, "long gone!" Even baseball has gone social justice mad. WNBA players did a walk-off Saturday, but not of the game-winning variety; they disrespectfully walked out of the arena as the Star Spangled Banner began to play. The NBA has approved slogans…