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Social Justice: The New Barometer For Sports Media Athlete Awards

Culture
December 12th, 2020 10:00 AM

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.

Colin Kaepernick’s 'Change the Whirled’: Ben & Jerry’s New Flavor

Culture
December 10th, 2020 5:45 PM

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…

American Race Imboden kneeling during 2018 Pan American Games

Olympic Movement Clearing Hurdles To Join Social Justice Club in 2021

Business
December 10th, 2020 12:12 PM

The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) wants in the club, the Black Lives Matter-style protest club, along with the cool people – the NBA, WNBA, NFL and Major League Baseball. If the International Olympic Committee agrees, American athletes will have the green light to embarrass their country during the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo starting July 23.

Melvin Gordon

Latest TV Ratings Decline Spell More Gloom For NFL

Culture
December 3rd, 2020 1:14 PM

The popularity of the National Football League, a long-time American cultural icon, is going down the tubes. Television viewership for the NFL has been steadily plummeting for 10 years, and the numbers for Week 12 of this season are dreadful as well. Sports fans will only tolerate a league characterized by disgusting protests, uncivil behavior and Super Bowl halftime trash for so long before…

ESPN's LInda Cohn, left, and Vanderbilt kicker Sarah Fuller

Sports Media Going Nuts Over Vanderbilt’s Female Place-Kicker

Culture
December 2nd, 2020 1:43 PM

Sports writers aren’t demanding a female Vanderbilt University place-kicker be awarded the Heisman Trophy – not yet anyway – but they can hardly contain themselves over Sarah Fuller’s farcical appearance Saturday in a Southeastern Conference football game.

Adam Silver

NBA, Newsweek Explain Away League’s Social Justice Unpopularity

Culture
December 1st, 2020 2:00 PM

It’s been nearly two months since the increasingly unpopular NBA stumbled to the end of the 2020 season, but its spineless commissioner and a reliably left-wing sports-writer are still making excuses for America tuning out the social justice-crazy league. Commissioner Adam Silver said in a GQ interview that there is zero data for claims by President Donald Trump and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz that…

US women's national soccer team protest

Women's Soccer Team Identifies With BLM, Not With USA

Culture
November 30th, 2020 6:23 AM

Social justice firebrand Megan Rapinoe wasn't even on the U.S. national women's soccer team's active roster, but the squad was more radical than ever before Friday's 2-0 friendly match win over The Netherlands. Most team members knelt for the national anthem and they spread the Black Lives Matter "gospel" while insisting their activism was not political.

ESPN report on Sarah Fuller

Woman’s College Football Appearance Ignites Media Virtue Signaling

Culture
November 29th, 2020 2:25 PM

In a publicity stunt that gave virtue-signaling media a thrill up their legs Saturday, Vanderbilt University soccer star Sarah Fuller appeared for one play in a Southeastern Conference football game. Outkick commentator Jason Whitlock threw a big flag on left-stream media for equating this as a symbolic event on a level with Jackie Robinson breaking the race barrier in Major League Baseball in…

NFL Perversion Ahead: The Weeknd To Headline Super Bowl Halftime

Culture
November 24th, 2020 12:42 PM

It's official. The entertainer known as The Weeknd will provide the substandard gutter garbage, sexually explicit, vulgar rot. We're not talking about MTV or even the Grammy Awards here. He's actually the NFL's pathetic choice to headline the 2021 Super Bowl halftime show.

Rudy Giuliani

'Democratspin' Attacks Republicans Giuliani, DeVos, Gov. Noem

Culture
November 20th, 2020 12:08 PM

The Deadspin blog is a veritable "Democratspin" again with three currently appearing attacks on Republicans, over the election investigation, campus sexual assaults and COVID-19. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, presidential attorney Rudy Giuliani and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem all took broadside hits from "Democratspin" partisan hacks. The so-called "sports" blog is a full-fledged anti-…

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Sports Writer Slams Group-Think: ‘Is [LeBron] More Than Black?'

Culture
November 12th, 2020 9:00 AM

In a column published Wednesday, Outkick’s Jason Whitlock addressed a critique about comedian Dave Chappelle’s Saturday Night Live monologue. According to Whitlock, Chappelle succumbed to the “black group-think” that the stand-up artist has spent a large portion of his career avoiding, and athletes, like LeBron James, have spent a large portion of their careers embracing.

LeBron, Athletes Relish Biden's Declared Victory

Culture
November 9th, 2020 2:22 PM

If a sports analogy can be used to describe America's presidential election it would be "the play is under further review." However, high-profile Trump-hating athletes are already claiming "the ruling on the field stands." Even though recounts and legal challenges have not been resolved.

From Lay-Ups to Lay-Offs: Trouble for ESPN

Culture
November 5th, 2020 10:15 AM

Any way you look at it -- and judging from the ratings, you haven’t looked at it -- 2020 has been a disaster for spectator sports. Covid interrupted or delayed all the major professional sports for long months, and when they did resume, they were made unwatchable by Black Lives Matter antics. Even an excellent World Series won by a major-market franchise drew 32% fewer viewers than last year…

Tommy Tuberville

Deadspin Savages Senator-Elect Tuberville as 'Psychopath'

Culture
November 4th, 2020 1:19 PM

Former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville won election to the U.S. Senate Tuesday and drew a thorough, vile trashing from Deadspin writer Sam Fels. Tuberville is a shit heel, psychopath and would-be tyrant, Fels roars.