(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) The Philadelphia Eagles have a notable history of Black quarterbacks for their franchise. A generation before Jalen Hurts won a Super Bowl as the starting QB, Donovan McNabb was the face of the franchise during the 2000s, and the Eagles have even had two of the most unique QB ...
(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) Adrien Broner once carried the kind of promise the fight game rarely hands out. For a while, people talked about him like the next Floyd Mayweather. World titles across four weight classes, mouth running faster than his hands, a swagger that made you either love him or want to ...
(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 ...