Just took a quick browse through your comment history, Mr. Black Friend of Riley. As the Queen of Egypt and Empress of All the Russias, I gotta say: Not buying anything you're selling, and hope that others don't waste keystrokes engaging with your Oscar Mayer faux-logna.

The reason why so many "average" white people have this distorted image that black people are a race that complains about every single slight is because articles like these that point out asinine coincidences, that have no racist intent whatsoever.

"Sorry, poor black kids. Enjoy returning to your lives of privation, disenfranchisement and disparate outcomes in that DMZ known as the South Side of Chicago. - Hey, wealthy suburban kids, here's something else you didn't earn!"

Or wealthy suburban schools recruiting inner city kids to play on their teams, while doing little to support them academically. Reminds me of another classic Chicago tale - Hoop Dreams.

Honest to god question, do you think Las Vegas used all their regional players? Do you think ANY team in the tourney used all their regional players? Look, I couldn't care less either way, I hate baseball. But this whole thing about "cheating is cheating" doesn't make any sense to me, only because I'm pretty sure this…

This certainly sucks, but is hardly a surprise. Frankly, the odds are that they could have nailed several other teams from this past year's LLWS. Taney LL in Philly (Mo'Ne Davis' team) is basically a shell league that popped up solely to bring a loaded AAU team into LL. That they were so quickly chartered by…

I wonder if this would be happening if it was a bunch of white suburban kids and they beat an all black team...

One of the things that makes this so upsetting is the frequency with which (rich, white) parents move if they have the means to do so. It's like JRW is being punished for having players who couldn't move their kids into the boundaries as was convenient.

Yea, there's something about this that's bothering me. I'm not going to "go there," but it's pretty obvious.

I mean, a man killed three people just for being Muslim last night, but go ahead and let this be your last straw.

I'm sure that the other teams in the tournament would never dream of doing anything similar...

To have a real choice, it must an informed choice. Tony Dorsett played in the 70's and 80's. He didn't agree to die for your entertainment.

Not like this. CTE, like Alzheimers, is degenerative and removes memory. Memory is a large part of what makes us human. The disease wears down your humanity, your connection to people, and then kills the body. No thanks. Your larger point stands but there are exceptions and CTE is one mother of an exception.

Actually apparently Ledisi was never slated to perform. It was only going to be Common and John Legend. And then I guess Bey was all "SO NOBODY'S SINGING MY FAVOURITE SONG CAN I DO IT" and they let her. *shrug*

My opinion on this comes purely from my place as a consumer of entertainment who loves Beyonce: I was wanting a Beyonce performance, like dancing and singing one of her hits, because that is where she truly shines IMO. She sounded good and the performance was moving, but if that's all she was going to do, I would have…

I'm going with the latter. Sometimes idk if Bey is always aware of certain things.

Yep. People keep saying that Bey's a thief or whatever and stole Ledisi's moment without realizing that Ledisi was never going to perform in the first place. People just want a reason to hate Bey. I have no idea why she is so polarizing.

there was no plan to perform that song until Beyonce approached them. So folks needs to hop off her nuts. It was just John and Common the Legend(see what I did there😊) that the grammys had scheduled.

Jay Z have accomplished more than you have in your life, so if he's dumb what are you?

In 1969, Charlie Scott lost the ACC player of the year award to John Roche (white) of South Carolina. Further, five writers left Scott off their all-ACC ballots entirely. Smith went after them directly, saying the choice was borne of bigotry (or ignorance, but we know what was really the case.)