(ThyBlackMan.com) In the National Football League, organization often highlight their best all-time players by retiring their jersey or putting their names and jersey numbers in the Ring of Honor. The Ring of Honor gives that former player a major link to their former NFL franchise with their name being added ...
(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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Something about the Paul Pierce mess has been sitting heavy on me all week. Not the dollar figures, loud as they are. What bothers me is the posture of it. A grown man treating his responsibility to his own flesh and blood the way he might treat a bad ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) At my age, I shouldn’t care so much whether the Boston Red Sox win or lose, let alone permit my daily mood to rise or fall accordingly. It’s only a game. It’s supposed to be a pastime (according to AI, something that “helps make the hours pass pleasantly when ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Philadelphia 76ers have assembled one of the most aggressive roster overhauls of this NBA offseason, and the biggest piece arrived Friday morning when a 41 year old free agent decided where he would continue playing. Man, listen. I have been watching this brother play professional ball since my ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For adults of a certain age, one of the best memories of childhood was playing sports with friends in the neighborhood. Whether it was baseball, basketball, football, or soccer, it was an afterschool and weekend venture for so many kids growing up to play numbers of sports with their ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The New York Knicks, NBA champions for the first time in 53 years, have been given the keys to the city of New York. But, before they can celebrate for too long, owner James Dolan has dropped a bombshell. The team is to visit the White House of President ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Growing up, somebody always told me soccer was the sport you picked when you couldn’t hang on the basketball court. Made me laugh every time. The cats I knew who could really go, the ones with touch and vision, were pure athletes. Quick feet, lungs that wouldn’t quit, a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Several things have taken place over the past week that shore up the importance of understanding what has truly made the United States of America the most prosperous country in human history. First, we have the foreigners visiting the U.S. to cheer on their teams in this year’s World ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Walk into almost any bar in Boston right now and you will hear bagpipes. Not on the speakers, actual bagpipes, carried by actual Scottish fans in kilts who have taken over the city like they were always supposed to be there. Locals have not minded one bit. They have ...