(ThyBlackMan.com) On Thursday, August 28 National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell announced a new league-wide policy for players accused of domestic violence. The Good: There needs to be stronger and more professionally detrimental circumstances for what is a heinous crime. Note: there is no excuse for domestic violence despite what ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Robert Griffin III or RGIII as he is sometimes better known as, will begin the 2014 N.F.L. season as the starting quarterback of the Washington Professional Football Tea,m. There’s no doubt about that, the doubt however is more or so aimed at his current status as Mr. Football in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Floyd Mayweather was recently ridiculed for not being able to read. The rapper 50 Cent made fun of him the other day, offering $750,000 if he publicly reads a page of Harry Potter. In response to the rapper’s humiliating call, Mayweather took a picture of his most recent paychecks ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I want to start by saying that I’m not sure if I like the rapper 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson). As brilliant as he happens to be, “Fiddy” appears to be plagued by a set of psychological challenges that cause him to seek attention at all costs and to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is only one team sport on this planet we call Earth where two men can ultimately determine a title: basketball.Football: Barry Sanders couldn’t get in done as the best running back in the league. How about baseball: Barry Bonds couldn’t grab the brass (World Series) ring after spending ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On August 5 of this year the world champion San Antonio Spurs’ head coach Greg Popovich signed an assistant coach. No big deal right? The new hire was a 16 year vet of the professional game having played domestically and overseas in Spain and Russia. Sounds like a very ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate partner each year. Nearly one third of female homicides are committed by an intimate partner. The cost of intimate partner violence exceeds 5.8 billion dollars a year. Domestic violence is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Long lost are the days when our fighters embodied the collective pathos of our community. The last one to do it effectively was Muhammad Ali, whose eloquent delivery and stylish bravado captured and certified the black community’s desire to define itself by its own terms. Ultimately the message that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Stephen A. Smith, ESPN analyst, writer and social critic, recently got into a bunch of hot water while commenting on the most recent domestic abuse eruption between Baltimore Ravens running back Raymell Rice and then girlfriend (now wife) Janay Palmer. At issue was a videotape that was released by ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The homosexual mafia has struck again. This time, however, they have picked the wrong target. Beloved former Tampa Bay and Indianapolis Colts head coach Tony Dungy has been under a vicious assault for honestly answering a reporter’s question. In an interview with the Tampa Tribune, Tony Dungy was asked ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Used to be a time that African American athletes had character, integrity and stood on what was right more than how much they were paid. This was also the period of intrepid investigative journalism. Now, both have gone the way of extinction as it was with the dinosaurs at ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) On the eve of the Viet Nam War, Malcolm X declared, “[As] long as the white man sent you to Korea, you bled. He sent you to Germany, you bled. He sent you to the South Pacific to fight the Japanese, you bled. You bleed for white people. But ...