there is a rich history of professional sports and political activism1.  but truth be told, these days most pro athletes and owners try to stay out of the headlines when it comes to expressing political opinions.  anyone remember when lebron james wouldn’t sign a petition calling for a stop to genocide in darfur?  i do. [...]

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get it?  because he’s a blowhard you know, as long as there are black people in sports, i’m always going to have something to blog about. recently, there have been two incidents involving high profile media personalities and their comments being construed as offensive by a racial/ethnic group.  but what i think is instructive is [...]

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so at this point, i feel that all the circus that surrounds the bonds trial is all just window dressing.  a trial, a verdict either way is not going to change at all the way that people feel about barry bonds and the whole steroids era.  if he’s found guilty or innocent will not affect [...]

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i know! a real friggin blog post! i can’t stand it either! no, seriously, i know this is late, but here is my attempt at being a better blogger. so i’m a big fan of the NBC show heroes, and i finally got around to watching the second episode on my tivo this weekend. for [...]

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(Either JavaScript is not active or you are using an old version of Adobe Flash Player. Please install the newest Flash Player.) so it’s a known quantity that i’m not into soccer, but stuff like this sure doesn’t help. the goal, while mildly amusing is not the best part. the really good stuff starts at [...]

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from truehoop: a story about everyone’s favorite underwhelming australian former number 1 NBA draft pick, andrew bogut, ran in an australian newspaper yesterday. truehoop’s analysis of the newspaper article focuses on some bogut remarks about NBA culture. basically, bogut seems to buy into the notion that nba culture is destructive and that NBA players have [...]

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you may have heard that marginal slightly above average nba player j.r. smith recently got in a bad car accident that left one of his good friends dead. of course, the media coverage has been minor across the nation as j.r. smith is not a big name. however, as you might guess coverage in the [...]

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