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ESPN, more and more, seems like it has flipped the meaning of diversity and inclusion. According to Outkick columnist Bobby Burack, it’s become obvious that ESPN is giving blatant advantages to some over others in its hiring process. 

Plenty of athletes over the past year have kneeled to protest “racial injustice.” While this gesture of solidarity has generally been well-received, the English national soccer team was met with a different response on Wednesday night.

Canadian sports leagues still haven’t gotten the memo that people do not need to live in fear over COVID-19. The Ontario Hockey League – one of the three major junior hockey leagues in Canada – still thinks that people need to be herded like a pack of little children at hockey games and is taking ridiculous measures to make sure no one “misbehaves.”

On Tuesday's edition of Hallie Jackson Reports on MSNBC, the namesake host and correspondent Erin McLaughlin lamented sellout crowds at college football games over the weekend. Additionally, McLaughlin promoted a doctor who refuses to see unvaccinated patients and gave incomplete information while fearmongering about a new variant.

The NFL continues to stubbornly beat its head against the wall and shrink its audience by promoting unpopular social justice messages. Does it care? No. The Associated Press confirmed that social justice will be a predominant theme again when the 2021 season begins Thursday night.

American soldiers killed in recent suicide blasts in Afghanistan were honored last week by the Texas Rangers baseball team. Thirteen U.S. soldiers were remembered for falling in defense in liberty Aug. 26 in the ISIS-K attack at the Kabul Airport. The University of Nebraska also held a touching tribute to America's first responders.

It’s best you take in as much fall football now as you possibly can, while it lasts. Due to so-called “climate change,” there may be as little as 10-15 more years of autumn football. That’s the load of bull spewing from the tweeting of a few prominent sports reporters.

NFL teams recently made their final 53-man roster cuts before the season begins on September 9. Making a team (or not) is usually based on your capabilities as an athlete, but one team partially made their personnel decisions based on the vaccination status of their players.

The most recent edition of the Little League World Series in Williamsport, PA, was held under strict protocols to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The protocols were so strict that even parents could barely interact with their sons beyond cheering for them from the stands. In a convoluted way, some argued that this was a good thing.

For five years, Rachel Nichols has been a regular on ESPN’s NBA coverage. In addition to hosting “The Jump,” Nichols could be seen reporting courtside at countless games interviewing countless players and coaches. She was an incredible asset to ESPN, but now she is out of a job because of a comment she made over a year ago.

Imagine a world in which a professional athlete – in peak physical shape -- could be ridiculed and punished for not taking an experimental vaccine for a disease with a minimal death rate.

Sounds too ridiculous to actually happen, right? Well, not exactly.

Unlike the timid owners of the Cleveland Indians and the Kansas City Chiefs, Notre Dame University isn’t buckling under pressure from the sports nickname gestapo. Neither is former Fighting Irish football coach Lou Holtz. After a survey by Quality Logo disparaged Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish leprechaun, the university and former coach basically told nickname Nazi’s to pound sand.

American sports leagues are not the only professional leagues that are dealing with a level of turmoil between executives, players and coaches on whether or not to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

Each year, the NBA holds a Rookie Transition Program (RTP) to help the new draft class get a solid foundation on how to deal with the numerous and chaotic challenges that come with being a professional basketball player. But this year, rookies were forced to hear the NBA shove it's woke agenda down their throats when the NBA decided to “educate” players on how to become involved in social…