D.C. Could Use a Little Local Understanding for Gilbert Arenas

Due to His incident with Javaris Crittenton, Gilbert Arenas has suddenly become a mystery. At 2:40 p.m. EST Friday Chad Dukes, co-host of an afternoon 106.7 The Fan radio show in Washington, D.C. told a story about getting pulled over by a policeman after he was out drinking with his girlfriend. Dukes admitted that if the policeman desired he could have [read more...]

When Justice Looks More Like, “Just-us”

(Please excuse the original lead sentence about “a line from a Chris Rock joke in response to Quentin Tarantino’s overuse of “nigger” in Pulp Fiction.” The original headline was, “Nigger, Nigger, Nigger,  Nigger, Nigger, Nigger, Nigger.” The headline was obviously changed - and the Rock reference was removed.) On ESPN Tuesday night, Plaxico Burress cried on camera knowing his daughter will be born in late November [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...]

Michael Vick and the Effects of the Game “Those People” Run

Michael Vick stands before the press. On August 7, Michael Vick was videotaped for 23 seconds in a parking lot in Bristow, Virginia hanging with rapper, Young Jeezy. As soon as you could say “Uh oh”, Charles Robinson of Yahoo! Sports popped up  a link to the video on his Twitter page.  And as soon as you could say, “The Blond Ghost” Mike [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...]

One Shining Moment: Boomer Esiason Uses the “H” Word

Here we go again. On WFAN Sunday morning former NFL quarterback Norman “Boomer” Esiason called Denver Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels “littler Hitler.” Esiason is one of the guys who is said to ‘tell it like it is,’ and who ’spares no one with his wrath.’ And similar positive spin blasther attached to his being a verbal bully. So, will Esiason gat the “he [read more...]

Politics: Stop Crazy-Chasing and Start Hypocrite-Hunting

Happy Election Day, everyone. As we await the results of the election today, in what is most likely an Obama-Biden victory (congratulations to his supporters who comment here!), I have to finally get a post out that has been reverberating in my head for months. My passion is to address a severe problem destroying our ability to hold a national [read more...]

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