When the news of San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich’s wife dying hit the media, all of the kneejerk “thoughts and prayers” social posts started flooding in. A few weirdos even suggested that the Spurs players “needed to win for Pop.” As if Popovich would be comforted by a victory in a basketball game…
The presidential election cycle brings games of duck-duck-goose for the candidates. They have to visit just the right mix of business interests, ethnic groups, and men’s and women’s gatherings of all types. A few weeks before the 2012 vote, media headlines read “Mitt Romney Faces Tough Questions From Black Leaders.” Almost every news site had…
Three reasons to switch the “Washington Wizards” back to the “Washington Bullets”: The switch was based on a false piety in the first place. Reportedly, team owner Abe Pollin was convicted to change the mascot back when a friend was shot and murdered, after pondering the issue for a few years prior. This switch was not…
“[The Redskins name] receives the most public attention due to the name itself being defined as derogatory or insulting in modern dictionaries,” says Wikipedia. Controversy over Washington, D.C.’s NFL team name has been building in recent years. The term hearkens not only to a noble people, but to a past where early American settlers took scalps and skins of indigenous…
There is a buzz about Baylor University hoops superstar Brittney Griner playing in the NBA. A few souls watched her dominate other women in college, and have concluded that she is transcendent enough to play with the best basketball players on the planet. All us gym rats and weekend sports warriors have encountered the occasional…