After the uproar this week when a player for the Baltimore Orioles reported he was the target of racist epithets at Boston’s Fenway Park, some fans gave Adam Jones a standing ovation the next night.
Heartwarming stuff. Everything cool now?
Nope. You can’t clap racism away. Read more →
A week or so after USA Boxing decided it would allow Oakdale boxer Amaiya Zafar to box in a sanctioned bout wearing a hijab, basketball’s governing authority has seen the light, too.
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Mark Sertich, 95, of Duluth, still plays hockey several times a week against a bunch of kids — firefighters in their 50’s and 60’s. Read more →
It doesn’t erase the stain of its racist reputation, but Boston Red Sox fans did what they could last night to apologize to a black player who was subject to racist taunts the night before. Read more →
For a guy whose weapon was a typewriter, Frank Deford lived a dangerous life. He gave his opinions and, on occasion, they chipped away at his legacy.
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Roy Riegel, who died nine years ago, is being flushed down the urinals at baseball stadiums across the country.
It’s fitting, perhaps. Mr. Riegel was a plumber. Read more →
The shame we feel in incidents like this is our brain’s way of telling us what our heart doesn’t want to accept: We own the racism that lives among us. Read more →
The online reaction to an otherwise sweet moment is quite the barometer for the divisions in America.
A typical response has been “would Americans do this?”
Maybe it was just a nice moment and leave it at that, America. Read more →
There is joy, and then there is the unbridled joy when you catch a homerun at a baseball game. Or so we imagine. Read more →
Janis Thompson is being inducted into the North Dakota High School Track and Field Hall of Fame next month. She was a top sprinter.
She was also a cheerleader whose death at North Dakota State in 1986 made schools take another look at the stunts cheerleaders were attempting. Read more →
ESPN, which threw way too much money at sports leagues for the right to broadcast games, took its mistake out on its employees again today when it chopped some high-profile personalities, more than a year after it gutted 350 behind-the-camera employees. Read more →
Your Wednesday inspiration comes from Man Kaur, a 101-year-old athlete from India, who took home the gold at the World Masters Games in New Zealand this week. She was the only entrant in her age group. Read more →
We tried to tell you, Chicago Cubs fans. The minute you won a World Series, you ceased to matter. You’re just another sports fan of a big money, winning team. You’re no big deal if you don’t suffer. Read more →
Thanks to Reddit, this sign from Glendale, Wis., is racing around the Internet, confirmation that a lot of people have a problem with a few parents — the ones who take their kids’ baseball games too seriously. Read more →
A University of Illinois at Chicago economics professor says Minnesota’s sports woes can be traced to high taxes.
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