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This evening, the defending champion Cleveland Cavaliers will head to Madison Square Garden to play a New York Knicks team that’s looking to further prove itself as a legitimate competitor in the East. But neither of these are the main storyline of the night. Instead, the biggest pre-game headline concerns what’s happening long before tip-off. LeBron James […]

racially-charged incident of hazing at a high school in Wynne, Arkansas has an entire community up in arms. An African American students was hazed by his white teammates on a junior varsity football team. They made the young man wear a noose around his neck.

This past Saturday, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) hosted one of the most anticipated main fights, UFC 229, in the company’s history. It was a fight between Muslim Russian fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov, the world’s lightweight champion, and Conor McGregor, the Irish international superstar coming to challenge him for the title. While the fight ended with […]

Content Warning: racialized sexual violence, Jeffrey Dahmer, dismemberment, necrophilia, cannibalism, hebephilia  This is perhaps the most gruesome thing I have ever written, and I ask you to bear with me. It’s an extension of my discussion of erotic race play, which I assure you, I had not intended to return to so soon. In my […]

For over a year now, NFL players have been using their platform to speak out against police brutality and social injustice. The most recognizable of these, of course, is Colin Kaepernick, who has been blatantly blacklisted from the organization as a result. 

Jasmine Orsted’s past coaches called her an “excellent athlete.” She proved that to be true during a year at Northern Virginia Community College where she played well. However, the next year she was cut from the women’s basketball team at the University of Mary Washington before the season started. Reportedly, it was because of a lack of […]

John R.K. Howard and two other classmates were initially charged with sodomizing a disabled, Black teammate with a clothes hanger in 2015 in the small village of Dietrich, Idaho. The sexual assault charge against Howard was later dropped and he entered an “Alford plea,” meaning he maintained his innocence but concluded that the jury would […]

Savannah State University has become the first historically Black college or university to win the National Cheerleading Award. 

As expected, Martellus Bennett was the first domino to fall in what could be an ongoing series during the Trump administration. After winning the Super Bowl this past Sunday, Bennett told the press he wouldn’t join his teammates on the standard visit to the White House to meet and pose with the president. Defensive back […]

It’s a standard tradition for championship teams to visit the sitting President of the United States at the White House and pose for a photo. They often award him with his very own jersey. But the United States hasn’t ever had a president like Donald Trump and tradition’s likely to get thrown out of the […]

Colin Kaepernick’s protest against the National Anthem has been one of the biggest stories of the current NFL season. Initially, it was feared that his choice would split the locker room. However, it’s looking like it did the opposite. 

At 2:45 p.m. Thursday, Ronald Gasser, 54, was arrested after shooting former NFL player Joe McKnight in Louisiana after a road rage incident. The loss was felt by both former teammates, competitors and fans alike. The same can be said for the outrage that followed Gasser’s overnight release from custody with no charges.