(ThyBlackMan.com) Keep your eye on the ball. As they say, always keep your eye on the ball. Note the spectacular media uproar, and lightning swift retaliation, to the intemperate words of Donald Sterling, owner of the LA Clippers. And now we can all go back to playing the game. Yes, that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) National Basketball Association owners, like kids, say the “darndest” things. Usually, only some of those things are noteworthy, let alone newsworthy. But when one owner is slated to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Los Angeles branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP now has the dubious distinction of being the civil rights organization that was insistent upon giving a Lifetime Achievement Award to Donald Sterling, the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. Most astonishing about the award was that it was set to be ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “You cannot move the ball forward if you do not discuss race; and discuss it uncomfortably.” That’s a direct quote from Colin Cowherd – bestselling Author, TV show host, and the host of ESPN’s nationally broadcast radio talk show, “The Herd.” Mr. Cowherd said those words in the wake ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) An audiotape obtained by celebrity gossip show TMZ has revealed Los Angeles Clippers basketball team owner Donald Sterling scolding his Black and Mexican girlfriend for publicly associating with Black people. The tirade came after the woman, reported by TMZ to be V. Stiviano, posted a photograph of herself and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) are some mistakes you can make to show that you’re old-fashioned, and there are other mistakes that might cost your organization a hundred million dollars. Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling was recorded on the phone telling his girlfriend to not associate with black people, at least not in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Major League Baseball’s home run king, Henry Louis “Hank” Aaron has just knocked another one out of the park. But this time, Aaron wasn’t on a baseball diamond. Aaron stood up boldly on the national stage and blasted a political homerun against Republicans who have made a sport of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve always loved Stephen A. Smith. His energy, intellect and instinct as a sports analyst is second-to-none. I also appreciate the fact that every time I was on Stephen’s Show (“Quite Frankly, which ESPN should never have taken off the air), he always treated me with decency and respect. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I don’t go out of my way to meet very many people. I’m not sure if this makes me anti-social or not, but it’s just a fact. In the course of my work, I’ve been blessed with the chance to bump into some extraordinary souls, and brilliant individuals who’ve ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am good friends with former NBA player Etan Thomas. I consider Etan to be one of the great athletes of our generation not just because he was an outstanding performer on the court, but also because he excels just as much off the court. His promotion of fatherhood and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Like the rest of the world, I was stunned to hear Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant argue that it was somehow an unecessary burden for a black man to stand in support of the late Trayvon Martin. If anything, the Trayvon Martin case brought black people together in ways ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Leave it to comedian Bill Maher to inject humor into the truth in such a way that it accelerates the bite on those who are trying to find the opposite side of the argument. Bill Maher goes over the top at times and there are cases where he’s even ...