If we want to get anything done, we need white athletes to stand along side us. It can’t just be our voices, our burden. | | | | The Phillies remember Darren Daulton.
(Mitchell Leff/Getty Images) | | | | | | “If we want to get anything done, we need white athletes to stand along side us. It can’t just be our voices, our burden.”
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| | rantnrave:// No league better reflects America’s cultural landscape than the NFL. From its drug policies (pain killers are good, weed is bad), to its treatment of its work force, the league has long been a mirror for many of the problems that plague the country. And then, of course, there’s race, and the issue of racism, which never went away but in the past had been more covert. Now, with Nazis marching down the streets, there's no pretending otherwise. Meanwhile in the NFL, COLIN KAEPERNICK, easily one of the 40 best quarterbacks in the world, continues to be unemployed. MARSHAWN LYNCH and MICHAEL BENNETT are protesting the National Anthem now, too, and according to BLEACHER REPORT’s MICHAEL FREEMAN, at least five other players plan on joining them. And Bennett is wondering out loud when a white athlete will join the protests, and for good reason—surely there must be one among the 500 or so in the NFL who feels the same way. Sports don’t exist in a separate universe, and the NFL, with its season fast approaching, is about to make a bunch of people (from ROGER GOODELL to owners to "stick to sports" fans) extremely uncomfortable... As a former SB NATION writer I have a ton of thoughts about this piece. On the one hand, spending two years working for $10 an hour wasn't exactly an enjoyable experience. On the other, I learned a lot while under the SB Nation umbrella, and got good exposure. Still, there's got to be a better way to do business, and, as pointed out in the story, there's something wrong with a company like SB Nation following the very NCAA business model that it's always quick to call out... Do whatever you want to the team, JEETS, but don't you dare strip away the home run sculpture... I never played soccer, but count me as a parent who plans on signing his kids up for youth soccer league… One piece of advice that both NFL and fantasy football GMs should always follow: Never draft a kicker… So maybe J-E-T-S doesn't spell 0-16. | | | - Yaron Weitzman, guest curator |
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| Want to demoralize the fascist right? We need their white athletic heroes telling them to go to hell. | | |
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| Domestic violence investigators kept Roger Goodell at bay, sources tell B/R Mag. Now, insiders and experts say, comes the real test: Either the Cowboys scandal is a precedent-or part of the problem. | | |
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| A notable number of players, in Philadelphia and elsewhere, have reportedly died of glioblastoma. But it’s unknown whether that is anything but coincidence. | | |
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| Depending on who's defining it, to whom, and why, SB Nation is either a popular website best-known for puckish, irreverent coverage and such whimsical projects as Jon Bois's 17776, or a sprawling network of "team" or "fan" websites, each tightly focused on a particular topic, like the New York Mets or professional boxing. | | |
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| Between Conor McGregor’s racist barbs and Floyd Mayweather’s homophobic jabs, there’s no one to root for in this fight. So why tune in? | | |
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| The viral thunder-dunks delivered by Zion Williamson don't merely demoralize opponents. They have made him better known than any prep star ever. (Yes, including LeBron). | | |
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| The Bucks' star forward played his first four NBA seasons with a bargain-basement Nike endorsement deal. That's about to change in a big way this summer. | | |
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| The violent white supremacist gathering in Charlottesville, Va., this weekend has featured Nazis, wannabe Nazis, Klansmen, militia members, Polynesian cultural appropriators and, in one case, the Detroit Red Wings logo being used by white nationalists on homemade shields and flags. | | |
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| There’s a lot of misinformation out there about Kaepernick’s play. Retired NFL defensive end Stephen White sets the record straight. | | |
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| Jason Licht on the Roberto Aguayo mistake, inside the Ezekiel Elliott suspension, Marshawn Lynch sits and more from around the league. | | |
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| ESPN combat sports analysts Dan Rafael and Brett Okamoto broke down the boxing event of the year to determine whether McGregor or Mayweather has the upper hand. Their decision was unanimous. | | |
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| Comparisons to the Lakers’ Kobe Bryant saga in 2007 miss the mark. Better to move Irving now than later. | | |
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| You might not have noticed, but over the weekend a little coup took place. On Friday night (Aug 11), in front of a crowd of thousands, an AI bot beat a professional human player at "Dota 2" -- one of the world's most popular video games. | | |
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| Have we already seen the best of Tom Brady, Julio Jones, Ezekiel Elliott and other stars? Here are the hints on 11 big names. | | |
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| Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is one of the greatest basketball players ever, but he's happy if you know him as a writer, a cultural critic, an activist, a chronicler of African-American history, an actor, an ambassador, and a coin collector. Kareem and Marc talk about all those things and how life in 2017 America is similar to life when Kareem was a young man. | | |
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| On the cusp of greatness his entire career, Matt Ryan finally made the leap in 2016 with an MVP season, and he nearly achieved legendary status--until the Patriots overcame a 25-point deficit to win Super Bowl 51. How will the Falcons overcome that psychological hurdle? For starters, Ryan isn’t changing a thing. | | |
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| Should his investment group acquire the Marlins, Jeter would have his work cut out for him in running the struggling team, but ways to boost revenue exist. | | |
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| Last year, when I asked eight sports business types to identify the story they are following the closest, half focused on the NFL’s Twitterdeal. By comparison, this season’s NFL-Amazon deal seems almost humdrum. Streaming NFL games? Been there, done that. Twitter questions have been replaced by uncertainty around how traditional media companies will respond to disrupters. | | |
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| The last time Bryce Harper played a full season of baseball, he was a 19-year-old rookie. That was five years ago. | | |
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