This is the most effective that Tebow has ever been through the air.

So a dead guy comes back to life once he lands in a city called Phoenix, but somehow Christianity deserves the credit? Bullshit.

Exactly. Saying that Cam Newton showboating is emblematic of the loss of character in this country is sticking to sports, but saying such criticism is racially charged isn’t.

We can throw in playing the national anthem and the unwritten rule that everyone must oblige to this list as well. Is nationalism not political? Is blind patriotism to a flag not the utmost political statement?

and, to be frank, the thing they don’t like is quite often just Black people speaking their minds.

There is some exquisite hypocrisy or myopia going on with the Olympics’ ban on political gestures/statements enforced on athletes while they stand and salute their flag.

Exactly. And team owners probably love the “separation of sports and politics” idiocy because they hope people don’t connect the dots between RAMS ARE BACK IN LA OMG and WTF INGLEWOOD IS ON THE HOOK FOR $500M+ AND KROENKE BOUGHT THE MAYOR.

How many times have sportscasters uttered a banal sentiment about “honoring our troops?” There’s a political calculus under that statement that never gets examined but that’s an endorsement of a political viewpoint. (And might even be a paid promotion.)

leave it to others to ponder why, of Deitsch’s seven interviewees, Jemele Hill and Bomani Jones were the only two strongly in favor of embracing important issues when they arise.

You’ll notice that people aren’t really on board the “stick to sprots” train if it’s a political viewpoint they agree with. Because what they’re really saying is “I don’t like being confronted by anything I don’t like”.

There’s a typo in your article. You forgot an “O” in “doomed” in the second paragraph.

He actually wrote: “Joy to Cleveland and Cavaliers fans everywhere. Rejoice! Your friend, Earl Joseph Smith III" You'd be able to read the full thing if it wasn't so cold in that room.

I’m gonna go shave my long hairy balls in the shower and cry. I’m old.

He looks as happy as a bride at her arranged marriage to one of her father’s 62-year old business associates.

You are attempting to simplify something that cannot be that easily simplified, while overlooking gross levels of institutionalized racism that is prevalent EVERYWHERE. Just because you do not see it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist and is a huge factor.

...UT’s policy was to admit anyone in the top 10% of THEIR class, so disadvantaged students of color in poverty stricken areas would be on a level to their own classmates, not the privileged white kids from across the tracks. As long as said student of color was in the top 10% of their class, they would be in... With…

Yes, I do. There are lots of factors which should be considered on top of academic achievement, and I think coming from a race underrepresented in academia is one of them. In addition to leveling the historically uneven playing field of opportunity among ethnic groups, such policies foster a diverse school community,…

She has such a sour expression all the time. She’s probably a miserable person who wasiserable and not active in high school, then expected to get into a good school because of daddy. Of course, when it didn’t happen, it was some brown person’s fault. Eye roll.

you know, it really isn’t nice to speak ill of the dead...

Dear Antonin Scalia,