(ThyBlackMan.com) I have lived long enough to watch an entire generation start believing a person is whoever his pictures claim. That belief has cost people plenty. The federal complaint against Daejon Love, filed this month in the District of Oregon and later made public, is among the clearest warnings I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Somewhere along the way a lot of us convinced ourselves that a fat bank account and financial wisdom were the same thing. They are cousins at best, and distant ones at that. I got to thinking about this again while watching the whole Floyd situation unfold across 2026, because if ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is a photograph in my head of Michael at his peak, tongue out, rising toward a rim that never seemed far enough away to stop him. Most of us carry some version of that image. It got burned into a whole generation. What fewer of us sit with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let me talk plain for a minute. Something strange has followed Shedeur since draft night last spring, and it is getting worse instead of better. Grown folks who have never met the kid treat every rough throw like a personal wound. A missed read turns into a conspiracy. Any ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Turn on the debate shows long enough and you start to notice who gets handed the microphone when a Black athlete steps out of line. Not the loud one. Not the guy who might scare the room. Producers want somebody who looks the part, talks the culture, and still ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There was a stretch of years where laughing at Russell Wilson turned into something close to a national pastime. Dude could barely finish a sentence before an account grabbed the audio and chopped it into a joke for the timeline. The talk about drinking water and staying separated from ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ryan Clark gave ESPN more than ten years of his working life. What they gave him on the way out tells you plenty about the whole business. He was appearing remotely on NFL Live this past July when company executives called him during a commercial break and told him ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This past July, after more than two decades in the league, LeBron James faced a decision hardly any athlete gets to make on his own clock. Keep playing, or hang it up. For a good while there, even he did not know which way it would land. The money was ...