Mustn’t-See TV: NFL, NBC Plan Social Justice Hour Night Before Opener

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September 3rd, 2020 3:31 PM

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

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September 3rd, 2020 12:36 PM

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…

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Titans Quarterback Slams U.S. as Nation Founded on 'Racist Ideas'

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August 28th, 2020 4:10 PM

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…

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Sports Illustrated Impressed By 'Powerful' Sports Boycotts

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August 27th, 2020 8:17 PM

Sports Illustrated on Thursday raved over the reactions of pro basketball analysts Kenny Smith and Chris Webber to the NBA's Jacob Blake-inspired boycotts resulting in Wednesday's cancellation of three playoff games. Afterwards, Outkick's Jason Whitlock said these former pro players have been duped by a hollow Nike "Just Do It" mentality and social justice bubble groupthink.

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Thank You, NBA! No Games, No Protests On Wednesday

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August 26th, 2020 9:00 PM

The Milwaukee Bucks announced they were boycotting Game 5 of their playoff series against Orlando at the NBA's social justice bubble Wednesday. The league later announced that all three playoff games scheduled for Wednesday would be postponed. NBA social justice warriors are incensed over the paralyzing of Jacob Blake, an African American shot by police officers in Kenosha, Wisconsin Sunday.…

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NFL Commish: Sorry, Kaep, Hope Americans Accept Protests This Season

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August 24th, 2020 4:28 PM

Earlier this year, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell apologized on behalf of his league for not listening to players protesting since 2016. With the season opener just 18 days away, Goodell on Sunday doubled down on his support for social justice activism in his league, praised former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick and said he hopes Americans are ready to accept a new season of heightened…

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Kansas City Chiefs Scalp Headdresses Worn By Fans

Culture
August 22nd, 2020 4:30 PM

The NFL season hasn't even begun yet, but the Kansas City Chiefs are already sanitizing Arrowhead Stadium -- of Indian headdresses. It's just another way a large U.S. organization hopes to make the public think that they, too, are out in front of the curve on addressing racial sensitivities.

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James Alters MAGA Hat In Statement On Breonna Taylor

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August 19th, 2020 2:19 PM

In mocking the president he hates, LeBron James raised eyebrows Tuesday by parking himself under a Make America Great Again hat. James' hat displayed an altered version of MAGA, crossing out the words "Great Again" and adding a message about Breonna Taylor, an African American woman who was shot to death by police in Louisville in March.

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New York Mag Blames Crumbling College Football Season on Trump

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August 11th, 2020 4:50 PM

In regard to football and COVID-19 Tuesday, President Donald Trump took on hostile fire from New York magazine and found safe harbor in a discussion with Clay Travis on Fox Sports Radio.  NY mag's Will Leitch blamed the president and a lack of federal guidelines for the crumbling of the 2020 college football season. President Trump said college players have been working hard in hopes…

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SBNation Shocked as NCAA Reconsiders Trans Policy

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August 10th, 2020 10:00 AM

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…

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WNBA Players Start Full-Blown Campaign For Democrat Senate Candidate

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August 7th, 2020 5:00 PM

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.

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Writer Jason Whitlock Bucks Claim That Floyd Killing Was Race-Based

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August 5th, 2020 6:35 PM

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…

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MLB, NBA Feeling Anti-Social Justice Repercussions

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August 3rd, 2020 6:22 PM

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…

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Woke Pac-12 Athletes Demand Keys to Athletic Programs

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August 3rd, 2020 1:43 PM

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…