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Look out University of Michigan football fans, your team just went woke.

The NFL has yet another sticky player discipline situation on its hands. Embattled quarterback Deshaun Watson just signed a five-year, $230 million dollar contract with the Cleveland Browns that is fully guaranteed, the highest fully-guaranteed contract in NFL history. While it should be a cut-and-dry signing of a talented player, there’s more to this than meets the eye.

One of the most entertaining aspects of football and media relations are locker room interviews. Throughout the years, we have seen countless players and coaches give timely quips, angry stares, or short-tempered replies in exchanges with reporters that have provided us with plenty of juicy and memorable content.

A growing contingent of NCAA swimmers have had enough with Lia Thomas ruining women’s swimming not just in the pool, but in other aspects as well. 

The National Football League’s Rooney Rule has been re-made into the “loony rule.” On Monday, the league mandated diversity Kool-Aid overdoses for each of its 32 teams. The mandate requires all of its teams to hire a minority offensive assistant coach for the 2022 season, as part of an effort to engineer greater diversity. 

Social media was naturally in a stir after Will Smith slapped fellow actor Chris Rock at the annual wokefest that is the Oscars last night. Not surprisingly, sports talk show host Stephen A. Smith had his opinion on the matter, and you can be darn sure that he let the world know his two cents on the situation.

Brooklyn Nets point guard Kyrie Irving will finally be able to play in home games after NYC mayor Eric Adams made an exemption to the city’s mandate that prevented unvaccinated athletes and performers from working within the city (the mandate previously prohibited anyone without a vaccine from working in the city).

Caitlyn Jenner is an odd individual. He transitioned to a she in 2015 and has been an outspoken supporter of trans rights in recent years, but yesterday Jenner made a statement that might have some trans people scratching their heads.

San Diego Padres third baseman Manny Machado is known more for being a wizard on defense than being outspoken politically, but that changed on Wednesday when he spoke with local San Diego news outlet KUSI News.

The U.K. government has relaxed many of the sanctions it placed two weeks ago on Chelsea F.C., allowing the club much more financial freedom for the foreseeable future. 

There’s no longer any denying it: ESPN is the worldwide leader in creating its own news. The most recent example is the new report that network MMA analyst Chael Sonnen has been charged with 11 counts of battery for attacking six people, including a woman.

If you look hard enough for a problem, you’ll find it. MSNBC published an op-ed by Cynthia Miller-Idriss that attempted to condemn home fitness as a potential breeding ground for white supremacists.

Progressives fully understand the power of using entertainment and sports to influence people's minds and push their agendas. 

Lights! Camera! Action! This isn’t a Hollywood movie set, but a publicity stunt on a high school football field in Scottsdale, Ariz. NFL quarterback wannabe Colin Kaepernick backpedals, throws a pass to Seattle Seahawks’ receiver Ty Lockett, who is standing flat-footed still, 10 yards downfield. At the same time, a man with a video camera moves alongside Kaepernick capturing video images of…