If Ben Roethlisberger or Carl Edwards Looked Like Brittney Griner…

Brittany Griner grabs a rebound over Jordan Barncastle. Earlier his season I openly wondered two things about NCAA basketball: 1) Why the game officials were allowing so much physical play to occur and 2) Musing that, because of the referees refusal to put an end to the constant banging and bumping, it was a miracle there were no major fights in [read more...]

Rajaan Bennett, H.S. Football Star, Victim of Murder-Suicide

Rajaan Bennett. Rajaan Bennett signed to play football at Vanderbilt University earlier this month. It was the crowning rvent of his high school career on and off the football field. Now he is dead: Bennett… and Clifton O’Neal Steger, a former boyfriend of Bennett’s mother and the suspected shooter, police say. A third person was wounded in the shooting. Steger, 39, died from [read more...]

Tiger Woods: Lessons Not Learned – Again

How mass media forms public opinion. Let’s get this straight first: Tiger Woods’ platelet-rich plasma treatement is not “controversial.” Anyone who says or implies it is can be perceived to be disingenuous. —————————— Despite the fact that only one woman’s alleged trysts with Woods has been substantiated, Tiger Woods’ wife, Elin Nordegren, is said to be seeking a divorce. Nordegrin was seen recently [read more...]

Serena Never Had A Chance at This Year’s U.S. Open

Serena Williams explaining that she never told the lines woman she would kill her. At 5-7, 4-5 and 15-30 in the 10th game Serena Williams was clearly frustrated with the position she was in. This semifinal match against Kim Clijsters was supposed to be yet another dominant win her run to a U.S. Open championship and her 11th Grand Slam [read more...]

Michael Vick vs. the Black Sporting Press

I detest it when Black columnists jump out in front of their White columnist cohorts to get hit by the oncoming speeding bus of public opinion. It is a sad occurrence and goes far to elucidating the sorry state of journalism today; it is also darkly comical Step N’ Fetchit, Man-Tan, buffoonery. Of the recent seeming Black-White divide concerning Vick, a well-known [read more...]

Will ESPN Take Over as Worldwide Leader of Andrea McNulty’s Public Flogging?

Ben Roethlisberger faces a "steep uphill climb to prove his innocence." (PDF File of the Civil complaint against Ben Roethlisberger) When it come to public figures, some people believe there are not forces behind the scenes manipulating their careers, for the good or bad. Some public figures are meant to take a dive when they fall prey to their personal liabilities. Some [read more...]

The Ben Roethlisberger Sexual Assault Allegations: Where Do the Honchos at ESPN and ESPN.com Hide Now? Darnell Dockett Blows UP ESPN via Twitter

Update: Darnell Dockett blows up ESPN via Twitter… When kobe bryant got accuse I HEARD ABOUT THAT ISH 50 straight days and he was found not guilty, why haven’t I heard about ben I’m pissedWTFabout 13 hours ago from UberTwitter I don’t care if they showed oit a few times, plaxico was all the news and he shot his own self, and I got [read more...]

Quick Note: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s “Still a Nigger” Moment

Harvard professor and eminent scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was recently arrested in his own Cambridge home after returning from a trip to China: Malcolm X’s 40-year-old quote is still true: “What do you call a black man with a Ph.D.? A nigger.” Some people were thinking, “We’ve got a black president, America is beyond racism, we’re post racial now.” Some think [read more...]

Steve McNair-Sahel Kazemi, Their Lives and Deaths - and What They Mean to Us

On vacation... Steve McNair was murdered by Sahel Kazemi while sleeping. Kazemi shot McNair in the head, twice in the chest, and again in the head; while he slept. Then Kazemi, 20, sat down next to the corpse of her just dead lover, and killed put a bullet through her own head. Apparently Kazemi was contemplating ending her life and mentioned this [read more...]

Steve McNair Murder Update: Sahel Kazemi’s Sister Says Third Person Involved - with an Addendum

According to Kate Howard of The Tennessean, Sahel Kazemi’s niece, Sepideh Salami (the two women were raised as sisters), feels her aunt was also murdered: Salmani said she talked to her sister nearly every day, and that she’d been hearing about McNair for several months, since he started coming to Dave & Busters and chatting her up.   “He started to talk to her [read more...]

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