Mauricia Grant and the Disdainful Sound of One Hand Clapping

Mauricia Grant. I'll type her name again so you remember it. Mauricia Grant. She is why race and sports and racism in sports are the hot-button topics that almost always get pushed to the fore by white-owned mainstream media and its white-owned sports blogosphere mirror image. The operative word here is ------- almost. Because of its Internet "reach" when it comes to any "important" sports ...

The Sports Blogosphere and Today’s Latest News

And finally, as a tie-into relevant headlines of today, what's really wrong with the sports blogosphere… Because it, like the mainstream sportswriting landscape is filled with and run by far, far too many utterly soulless white people. Because you - the utterly soulless ones - demand that everyone think and perceive just like you. Because there are too many black people who acquiesce ...

Deconstructing Will Leitch and His Dead Spin

Unlike MODI, who, until his post on Will Leitch and Deadspin, had never spoken ill of another blog, I don't really give a damn. I learned early on in this affair which I took up at the behest of Henry Abbott of True Hoop so that he could view recent examples of my sports writing, that I was living ...

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