Probably in the minority here, but I think it’s fair for an athlete not to want to take part in someone else’s political speech - not wearing the jersey isn’t that different than not wanting to stand for the anthem. This isn’t a private team, it’s the USWNT, for all intents and purposes an arm of the state.

Ah. So it is basically this with leds:

Maybe the writers of The Root, and its editors, should try to find the proper tone of indignation for news stories.

Considering the number of comments in the hours after the original post and the number of comments since the update I doubt that there will be a change in publishing policy. As always seems to be the case, the lie is more popular than the truth. Will Ms Cole-Dixon be fired from what ever job she has and pilloried by…

This should be a separate story not an update surely. Most of the people who read and commented on this won’t come back to it and are out there talking about ‘did you see what happened to Sherita?’ Nothing. Nothing happened. The boyfriend saying I know how she is makes sense now. Run young man or you’ve got a mess of…

This whole site is pretty much kept alive by hot takes, but maybe this one is a wake up call to stop that shit immediately. Nobody looks good here right now. Embarrassing. Take all the seats, y’all.

The restaurant says they were closed, but the women say the restaurant was open because people were still dining. Anyone who’s worked service knows a closed restaurant often has people in it well beyond the official closing time, and while the public may still be inside, no one new gets to come in.

Like hanging banners for ‘Runner-Up’ 30 years ago?

Conservatives historically have had a strong isolationist wing and followed George Washington’s warnings about avoiding “foreign entanglements”. The Isolationists resisted American involvement in WWI and WWII. Where WWII is looked at a being a case where America had to intervene, WWI is more questionable. Some…

This is a fucking phenomenal question, and I will spend the rest of my day working at it. You have to figure the Democrats would blow at least one obvious pick, and the Republicans would pick up some strategically Democratic state simply for economic purposes. I’m making it a snake draft for kicks. And D.C. cannot be…

They knew that they couldn’t storm Jabba’s palace, so the plan was to get everyone inside the palace and take it down.

Sorrey not sorrey

It’s got what bikers crave.

Yo, what are you talking about? She makes it all the way up to the blue line five out of six times, doesn’t fall down, SKIS BACKWARDS, and doesn’t degrade herself or her country with showboating theatrics. Just good, clean skiing. Give this woman the Gold medal for efficiency and self respect.

Yes, Larin played college ball. That doesn’t mean that your argument — that MLS is avoiding the cost of building academies and such because they can rely on the NCAA — holds any water. The idea that NCAA soccer has to be replaced with early professional development has been widely accepted as conventional wisdom since…

One of the many problems with your stupid comment is that MLS already spent money (and continues to!) on academies and other youth development programs. Your thesis — that the league avoids investing in youth development in favor of letting the NCAA do it for them — is transparently false, and laughable to anyone who…

Your comment would have made sense about ten years ago. The draft is almost meaningless now, precisely because of the reasons you mentioned.

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I just looked it up: Chris Jericho is 47 years old. He’s still that spry and capable at that age. I’m over a decade younger, remember him from WCW, and doubt I could do half that without injuring myself. Dude just has It.