Headlines for March, 2009

War on Drug Laws: Governor Paterson and Senator Webb Step Up

  For 35 years prison and drug law reform advocates have been screaming at the top of their lungs at America’s greatest ongoing human rights injustice. This month those calls are finally coming from people with actual power. New York Governor David Paterson and Virginia Senator Jim Webb are leading the way. Both have a history of fighting for prison reform, both [read more...]

ESPN, AP, and Terrell Owens: How a Non-Story Becomes a Big Story

  Terrell Owens has left the Cowboys, but ESPN just can’t quit T.O. For the uninformed, D-Wil recently wrote an excellent piece spelling out the critical role ESPN played in ushering Owens out of Dallas. It seems that they are wasting no time with the Buffalo narrative before a single preseason snap. Yesterday the Associated Press sent out the following article titled: “Owens misses start of Bills’ [read more...]

Marcus Williams and Renaldo Balkman Revisited: Will Media Apologize to Isiah?

  The stage was set. It was General Manager (GM) Isiah Thomas’s turn to pick in the NBA draft. Both the media pundits and the raucous hometown crowd made it perfectly clear as to which player was desired. It was a “gimme”, not to mention the ultimate positive PR move. So, of course, Thomas passed on the popular choice and the New Jersey Nets [read more...]

Ending Drug War Starts with Rockefeller

Forget steroids in baseball. Did you hear the almost good news? One of the worst state criminal injustice laws in America might finally get repealed. Of course I’m talking about New York State’s draconian “Rockefeller Laws” that force mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug crimes. Yesterday, the News York Times reports: “ALBANY - The State Legislature took pivotal steps on Wednesday toward repealing [read more...]

The Incredible Mismanagement of Stephon Marbury

“Cartoon Character”… “King of Fools”… “He is a loser”… These were some of the early media descriptions of Stephon Marbury after he parted ways with the Knicks to join the Celtics. If Marbury is a “cartoon character”, we can thank our sports media for drawing the daily comic strip. For those innocent souls who have so mistakenly bought into the cartoon journalism, [read more...]

Juan Manuel Marquez KO’s Juan Diaz

It’s only March now, but we have a fight of the year candidate for 2009 to measure against. Juan Manuel Marquez continues to add to his incredible resume with his victory over an impressive Juan Diaz. Hundreds of punches from both fighters, not one clinch the entire fight, and a spectacular knockout off a righthand uppercut. Can’t really ask for much more. This [read more...]

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