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The University of Alabama Crimson Tide won another college football national championship, and the New York Times returned to its disgraceful double standards on condemning sports fans gathering in celebration during a pandemic: It’s dangerously irresponsible when done in red states, but it’s ignored when done in liberal cities. Wednesday’s Sports page featured the ominous headline, “…

By campaigning for the radical U.S. Senator-elect Raphael Warnock, intolerant Women’s NBA players now insist they are the “caretakers of democracy.” They, along with radioactive writer Jemele Hill and LeBron James are trying to push Atlanta Dream co-owner Kelly Loefler out of their far-Left league to assure that there is no room in it for someone who is not on board with Black Lives Matter.…

Long considered essential to American culture, football is destroying itself, and it’s not just over social justice mania. The New York Post’s Phil Mushnick says the sport is in an idiot-induced freefall, as evidenced most recently by a brawl after a college bowl game Friday and unbridled anti-social behavior on the NCAA and NFL levels.

In the past year, Kobe Bryant died in a helipcopter crash, social justice activism ruined sports for countless fans, LSU won the national championship in college football, Dustin Johnson won the Master’s and Patrick Mahomes inked an astronomical $500 million contract after winning the Super Bowl. Each of these major stories have one thing in common: Newsweek ranked these and other…

Three qualities significantly increase one’s likelihood of making Deadspin’s “Idiot of the Year” list: you’re a Republican, you stand up for freedom over COVID shutdowns and you take a stand against the Black Lives Matter Marxists. Deadspin staff members boast of working tirelessly to select the members of the list who are the dumbest fish to swim through 2020’s sea of stupidity.

Though he’s overshadowed by the better known social justice warriors of the NBA and NFL, New Orleans Pelicans coach Stan Van Gundy is way out there on the far Left fringe. In an interview with ESPN’s black-themed blog, The Undefeated, the veteran NBA coach proudly claimed the mantle of poster boy for white privilege.

In the first month of 2020, Fox Sports gave to us its rejection of pro-life Super Bowl ads – while accepting drag queens, social justice warriors and gun control. The pro-life group Faces of Choice attempted to purchase advertising time, but never got a response from Fox. NBC reporter Liam Knox called the drag queen ad "barrier-breaking.”

Perhaps disappointed that the National Football League had the audacity to play this year, New York Times “Sports of the Times” columnist Kurt Streeter found another way to attack the league from the left – the tired old hobbyhorse of allegedly offensive American Indian nicknames. “A Growing Movement Tired of Being Your Mascots” is the latest dose of guilt-ridden consciousness-…

LGBT royalty Billie Jean King and Megan Rapinoe are among the 176 women who signed a friend of the court brief demanding the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (aka “Ninth Circus”) overturn Idaho’s law H.B. 500 requiring athletes to compete with the teams of their actual gender.

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.

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.

Why should former NFL player Colin Kaepernick hate America? After all, the country gave him a home, an education, and a great sports league to showcase his talents (that is, it was great before it became a platform for social justice activists). Despite these blessings, Kaepernick is resolved to fight against America for the sake of “social justice”-- and he’s recruited a new ally to help him…