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Black Community: 2023 reminded us that sports are important but not life and death.

December 30, 2023 by  
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Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) One of the best things about being a sports fan is that sports are an opportunity of some semblance of escapism. Seeing talented athletes perform on the court, field, or area of play at a high level can be jaw-dropping and remind adult sports fans of their childhood playing that sport for the first time or watching pro sports... [Read more...]

Sports: Jacksonville Jaguars have been the most interesting NFL franchise this season off-the-field.

December 22, 2023 by  
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Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) Jacksonville Jaguars remain the favorites to win the AFC South Division but they have been interesting for more than quarterback Trevor Lawrence throwing touchdown passes or edge rusher Josh Allen pressuring opposing quarterbacks. The Jaguars as a franchise have made sports headlines beyond their win-loss record in 2023. Here... [Read more...]

Black People: Demons & Football – Northwestern State University, Louisiana.

December 20, 2023 by  
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Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) On October 12, 2023, Ronnie Caldwell, an NSU football player, was murdered. He was shot multiple times. The murder is upsetting, the worst part is all of this could have been avoided if the head coach at the time Brad Laird had heeded the warning he received. Ronnie Caldwell lived in an off-campus apartment complex The Quad,... [Read more...]

Ranking Kyrie Irving’s Pro-Palestinian Apparel Among Political Statements by African and Black Athletes Over the Past 50 Years.

November 30, 2023 by  
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Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) Last month, one of professional sports most polarizing people, Kyrie Irving of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, made a big political statement without even saying a word. Irving, appeared at his team’s November 18th post-game press conference wearing a black and white keffiyeh. The keffiyeh, worn by Palestinian men and women,... [Read more...]

Black Community: More Than a League of Bismack Biyombos Needed for Change in the Congo.

November 20, 2023 by  
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Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) Because of the magnitude of what is happening in occupied Palestine, thousands and thousands of people rallied and marched in Washington, D.C. earlier this month in the largest pro-Palestine rally ever in the U.S. to call for an end to Zionist Israeli violence against the Palestinian people. It seems that more and more people... [Read more...]

Black Community: Golden State’s Draymond Green – A Polarizing Presence in the NBA.

November 17, 2023 by  
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Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) It’s safe to say that in my days as an athlete, I’ve seen my fair share of scuffles, dustups, and physical altercations. With so much adrenaline, testosterone, and just macho chest-thumping behavior in team sports, it’s a given that tempers will flare, manhood will be tested, and competition will sometimes boil over into... [Read more...]

Tommy Tuberville: U.S. Senator for Alabama and Former Football Coach, Advocate of Republican Values.

November 10, 2023 by  
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Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) He prefers to be called “coach” despite being the senior U.S. Senator for Alabama. Even on his official Senate website, he is called “Coach Tommy Tuberville.” Tommy Tuberville spent most of his professional career as a college football coach with stints at the University of Mississippi, Auburn University, and then the... [Read more...]

Black Community: Catching up with two African/Black professional soccer teen titans.

November 8, 2023 by  
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Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) Because soccer, as it is known in the United States, but fútbol nearly everywhere else on the globe, is the world’s most popular sport, teenagers signing contracts to play the sport professionally get some headlines. In 2021, 15-year-old, Olivia Moultrie, was granted a preliminary injunction by a judge that prohibited the... [Read more...]

African American Community: The top feel-good moment of Deion Sanders’s Colorado tenure so far.

October 27, 2023 by  
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Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) In football, it seems like the biggest media story in the NFL is Taylor Swift dating Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce and college football’s biggest media story has been Colorado Buffaloes head football coach Deion Sanders. Both stories have engendered a lot of headlines and attention due to the large personalities and talents... [Read more...]

Black Community: Amar’e Stoudemire shows that he is no Muhammad Ali.

October 18, 2023 by  
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Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) “If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”-Malcolm X The biggest news story in the world right now is taking place in Gaza. Although the mainstream corporate media coverage began with rockets from Hamas on October... [Read more...]

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