Tag: Sports
Ex-Virginia Tech soccer player sues after being forced off team refusing to kneel
Kiersten Hening Ex-Virginia Tech soccer player sues coach after being forced off team refusing to kneel for BLM. Fighting for her first amendment rights.
Do politics/social justice issues and sport belong? A former Virginia Tech women’s soccer player, is suing her...
Right decision? Trek-Segafredo cyclist booted off team over political Trump tweet
Quinn Simmons twitter black hand suspension after Trek-Segafredo cyclist is accused of being racist & antagonistic over pro Donald Trump tweet. Do sports & politics mix?
Does politics belong in sports? Trek-Segafredo's junior road race world champion has apologized after...
Iranian female Olympic medalist defects in rising tide against regime
Kimia Alizadeh defects: Iranian Taekwondo Olympic gold medalist female rights takedown of ruling theology government oppressing women and human rights violations as domestic discord calls for change.
www Iran’s only female Olympic medalist has defected from the Islamic Republic in...
Why? Triple US female cycling world champion commits suicide
Kelly Catlin suicide death: Three time US Olympic cyclist kills self at her on campus residence at Stanford University. Athlete had been struggling with time demands and mental illness.
Olympic cyclist Kelly Catlin, who helped the US women's pursuit team win...
A winner? Nike Colin Kaepernick Just do it ad: social media responds
Nike-Colin Kaepernick, 'Dream Crazy, Just do it,' ad is released and draws intense commentary on social media. How Nike tapped into America's cognitive dissonance.
Social media users have responded with divided acumen to the release on Wednesday of Nike’s unveiling...
The Top Three Pro Tennis Scandals in Recent Years – from Agassi to Sharapova and More
The Top Three Pro Tennis Scandals in Recent Years: How drugs and doping busts exposed the dark reality of professional sports with so much (money) at stake.
Just like other pro sports, tennis has had its share of scandals over...
Mostly straight, most of the time…
In the continuation of our series of sexuality and its increasing polarizing dichotimies we choose to explore the heterosexual male. Or to be precise the almost hetero sexual male. Not to be confused with being overtly...
Tiger Woods’ Grave Keeps Getting Deeper
Will the world watch golf without shame ever again?
In the aftermath of Tiger Woods' penis having a little too much activity, it seems the newest figure to suffer the repercussions of his acts besides his wife and growing string...
Tiger Woods’s Life Sucks Right Now.
Doing the math in corporate deals.
Despite all the athletes that were riddled with accusations of cheating and other controversies that threatened their endorsement deals, Tiger Woods has slipped through the storm unscathed. However, he has now joined the ship...
Leftover Turkey vs. Tiger Woods’ Accident.
The sports worlds’ first billion-dollar boy Tiger Woods (or almost billionaire athlete depending on your sources) was injured in a car crash in the early morning hours the day after Thanksgiving.
Early reports rendered the star...
Demolishing soccer stadiums because they don’t comply with Israeli codes.
When politics gets in the way of good will.
Here’s an interesting (distressing) situation out of Israel (you know, that fun place where the Palestians and Jews attack each other like madmen):
In anticipation of the completion of a friendly soccer...
Williamsburg mourns the loss of another hipster.
When falling into elevator shafts is never a good career move.
According to pain-in-the-ass Gawker, Gerhardt Fuchs, a 34 year-old drummer that played in bands including !!! and Maserati, fell to a gruesome death over the weekend when he apparently...
The Steve Phillips sex scandal.
Psychos, sportscasters and their wives.
Welcome to the life of Steve Phillips, America’s sunny face on ESPN, and the current nightmare of an ensemble that includes his wife, Marni, his jilted 22 year old lover and the network that hires...
Philadelphia: Not the Smartest town on the Map.
What’s a Big City Without a Newspaper?
“Philadelphia will be the first major U.S. city to not have it’s own newspaper…”
To be honest, I did not read more than the first couple paragraphs of this New York Times...
Polo? What Polo…
After witnessing a rare yet glorious ‘star-burst’ lightening storm Friday night, hard-core event goers flocked to the infamous horse fields of Bridgehampton. They forwent a picturesque afternoon on the beach, choosing to instead transform themselves into the ‘preppiest of...
