Sports Media Gets Woke: Attacks on Tony Dungy and Ivan Provorov

Jeffrey Lord
January 21st, 2023 4:00 PM

Once upon a time there was free speech in America.

 

Dungy Humbles Woke Mob After They Came For His Head

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John Simmons
April 14th, 2022 12:23 PM

Former Indianapolis Colts head coach Tony Dungy was vehemently criticized by unhinged leftists for supporting a pro-fatherhood bill signed by Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis. Dungy, who currently resides in Tampa, said that he thinks that HB 7065 will have a lasting, positive impact on fatherhood in the Sunshine State.

 

Sportswriter Attacks Dungy for Citing QB's Faith As Success Factor

Tom Blumer
February 8th, 2018 10:55 PM
There is a little doubt that a segment of the sports press and the public would prefer that athletes with conservative and Christian beliefs keep their views to themselves (but secular and leftist views are fine). This became evident after the Super Bowl, when one sportswriter and the Twitter mob strongly criticized NBC's Tony Dungy, a Super Bowl-winning coach himself, for citing Philadelphia…
 

Tony Dungy, Israel and the Media's Selective Religion Bigots

Jeffrey Lord
July 26th, 2014 5:37 PM
Who’da thunk it? A winning Super Bowl coach and Israel combine to teach Americans a lesson in how the media’s religion bigots operate. The coach, of course, is Tony Dungy, the now retired coach of the Indianapolis Colts, the team he led to the 2007 Super Bowl win over the Chicago Bears.  And Israel? Israel is, thank God, still Israel.  (Oops! Can I still say “God”?)
 

Michael Eric Dyson Compares Tony Dungy to 'White Racists' on 'The Ed S

Laura Flint
July 24th, 2014 3:30 PM
On the July 23 edition of The Ed Show, host Ed Schultz and guest Michael Eric Dyson took turns attacking former NFL coach Tony Dungy for stating that he “wouldn’t want to deal” with the media attention that followed the drafting of Michael Sam, the NFL’s first openly-gay draftee. While the other guest, national sport columnist Terence Moore, attempted to defend Dungy, Dyson compared his “…
 

Media’s New NFL ‘Anti-Gay’ Target After Dungy: David Tyree

Kristine Marsh
July 23rd, 2014 3:50 PM
It’s open season. Since the media attacked former NFL coach and NBC sports analyst Tony Dungy for saying he wouldn’t have picked openly gay player Michael Sam during the draft, the sports media now has its pitchforks and torches out for anyone in the NFL guilty of thought crimes. ESPN and CBS  are going after David Tyree, a former New York Giants wide receiver (who’s miraculous “helmet catch”…
 

Dungy a ‘Pathetic’ ‘Homophobe’ for Saying He Wouldn’t Have D

Kristine Marsh
July 22nd, 2014 12:33 PM
These days, if a former NFL coach makes a vague statement about an openly gay sports player who was fawned over by the media, he can expect to be called a “homophobe” and “bigot” for not getting aboard the pro-gay train. Dungy, former coach of the Indianapolis Colts and Tampa Bay Buccaneers and current NBC sports analyst, told The Tampa Tribune, “I wouldn’t have taken him [Michael Sam]. Not…