Here we go again, another dramatic switch for the Washington Football Team at the quarterback position as Dwayne Haskins has been removed from the starting lineup and is now benched at 3rd string. This drastic change occurred following this past Sunday\’s game of football as Washington played the Baltimore Ravens in a district face off. […]
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The plague of bad football continues in DC. The Washtiongot Football team has donned a new – no mane and new uniforms but the mediocrity of play continue. The first half of football against the Baltimore Ravens looked pretty much like years past where teams run up and down the field with ease as the
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One of the 4 major sports concluded its season by anointing a Stanley Cup champion, 2 others are in their playoff and championship rounds, and the fourth kicked off its 101st season. I\’ve been ambiguous about it all amid the COVID pandemic. There\’s one side that craves the distraction from the life-altering pandemic, political chaos,
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Do you remember the feeling last year at this time as the Nationals pulled off a remarkable run to get into the playoffs? Or how you felt about the chances of a team that had adopted Baby Shark as a rally song or the \”stay in the fight\” motto? There were so many highlights that
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The Negro Leagues, that produced legendary Hall of Famers such as Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Buck Leonard, Monte Irvin, and Cool Papa Bell and future Major League Baseball Hall of Famers like Jackie Robinson, Larry Dolby, Willie Mays, Ernie Banks, Roy Campanella, Don Newcombe, and Hank Aaron, to name a few, is celebrating its 100th
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I wasn\’t enamored with Major League Baseball\’s opening day ceremonies where the opposing teams grasped a black ribbon and knelt to one knee as Black Lives Matter was emblazoned on the scoreboards and pitching mounds. I am even less enamored with the NFL playing Lift Ev\’ry Voice and Sing during the opening day ceremonies starting
The Black athlete, like the Black musician, politician, and the other varieties of stardom, has historically been victim to glaring double standards in their field. Serena Williams, for example, is criticized more severely than her white counterparts for openly disagreeing with line judges. White tennis players like Roger Federer and Maria Sharapova receive veritable slaps
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Is the NBA season starting back up or not? This now becomes the question of NBA fans. The league had initially established a plan on exactly how to bring all the players back accordingly and set up sequential events in which the players were supposed to follow as protocol. For the plan to still be
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Amidst the protests over the death and memorial of George Floyd, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a country seemingly on the brink, a Washington DC sports icon and legend passed away. Wes Unseld, who anchored the center position for the Washington Bullets, yes the Bullets, for 13 seasons at, what would be an undersized height by
When Colin Kaepernick took a knee on September 1, 2016, the sports world and conservative media threw a conniption about the irreverence of a young Black man exercising his First Amendment right of free speech by kneeling during the National Anthem. The cause – racial injustice exemplified by police violence against Blacks – particularly Black
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