(ThyBlackMan.com) As teams gear up for the NFL season, President Trump is reviving his destructive and diversionary attacks aimed at turning fans against players. The league office stepped in it by unilaterally declaring that players who do not want to stand during the national anthem should stay in the locker room. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Few athletes have ever been under the public spotlight more than LeBron James. It is extremely rare when high school juniors appear on the cover of America’s preeminent sports magazine, Sports Illustrated as James did back in 2002. At the age of thirty-three, LeBron James has been in the national ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have lived long enough to testify to the following. Most apologies appear after the evil people do in the dark comes into the light. Hence, I view public apologies with extreme skepticism. The above perspective provides ample opportunity for amusing moments when others accept the apologies of professional athletes ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) According to the Associated Press in a recent story, the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) has entered into negotiations with NFL owners, regarding the controversy over NFL players kneeling during the playing of the National Anthem. What the NFL players have done in highlighting the issue of unjust killings ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The casual sports fan would have been hard pressed to know what sport Josh Hader participated in one month ago. The 24 year old Milwaukee Brewers pitcher became known nationally for controversial, racist, and homophobic tweets that he made as a teenager that resurfaced as he pitched in the 2018 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The 2018 ESPY Awards was another gathering of the world’s best athletes being honored in front of their peers and competitors. There was history made as former professional race car driver Danica Patrick became the first female host in ESPY Awards history. The 2018 ESPY Awards also included one of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth…arrogance into humility…brutality into patriotism. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.” Joseph Heller Catch-22 Truth, sometimes, is stranger than fiction. This quote, in some ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A pioneer is “a person or group that originates or helps open up a new line of thought or activity or a new method or technical development”. In sports, pioneers are often viewed as people who make innovations or breakthroughs in how a sport is played or how the business ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Young people can’t jump! In your face, Millennials! Step back, hipsters, because black Baby Boomers are taking the court in Uncle Drew. The genesis of this heart-warming sports comedy was a Pepsi Max commercial that evolved into a YouTube series that has been viewed 100M times. The webisodes starred Boston ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The worlds of video games and sports have become more and more in sync. The e-sports industry is now a major financial industry that is growing, and has gotten so big that the NBA has gotten into launching a new, professional competitive gaming league. One of the biggest and most ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Being the “big man on campus” is one of the phrases that often connotes a sense of invincibility. The college experience is an unique and special time for the lives of many young adults as they develop and mature on a personal, social, academic, and professional level. The “big man ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is so much going on in the world and in the mist of all of it the news was release that LeBron James was indeed going to the Los Angeles Lakers. In that moment social media became a live wire, and very few seemed to understand why he left. ...