For
@YahooSports
, I did a series exploring MLB's Black Aces.
We start with Vida Blue, who cherished the 1971 ASG, but lamented that he may never enter the Hall of Fame because he hurt his reputation.
"I hope they eventually let me in, but I don’t know."
Trae Young is the first player to have a 45-point double-double with under 25 field goal attempts against the Washington Wizards, since Kobe Bryant on December 17, 2006.
Dawn Staley becomes the first Black coach in men’s or women’s Division I basketball history to win multiple national championships with South Carolina’s 64-49 win over UCONN
President
@BarackObama
's official presidential portrait has now been unveiled. Kehinde Wiley produced the 44th president's portrait.
#BlackHistoryMonth
I can definitively say Dwayne Haskins cared about people. I was having a debilitating migraine after a game. I was standing by myself, he noticed, told me I didn’t look good, got me a ginger ale, Gatorade and chair. He was even about to get a trainer.
I genuinely hope he RIP.
For those who missed it. This is the look Judge Aquilina gave Larry Nassar after she finished reading that six page letter, where at one point he said "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorn."
The other day, I mentioned I had a tough morning. Generally, I Ike sharing positive interactions I have, but I also want to discuss what happened earlier.
On my way to Pittsburgh, right at the Uniontown exit, I got pulled over.
I want you all to know what it feels like to be sexually harassed on the job. I want you to know what it feels like speaking up. But more importantly, I hope that my speaking up helps other women navigate a situation like this.
Jon Bostic owns 22 rental properties and discussed finding ways to pay it forward. He buys homes in well-graded school districts to give kids an equal playing field.
He rents below market value, which helped a former tenant buy their first home recently
@Tuaamann_
@AlabamaFTBL
This is the nicest I've ever seen someone push through to see their family and friends after they watch you lead your team back in overtime.
Resigned to the fact she wouldn't medal, French figure skater Surya Bonaly flipped off the judges, performing her signature backflip where she landed on one foot. In 1976 the ISU banned the backflip, but she became the only person to complete the move at the Games 20 years ago.
The man who played Jackie Robinson in 42, dies on Jackie Robinson Day. He gave little black boys a superhero to look up to with Black Panther. He performed in game-changing and impactful movie roles as he quietly battled cancer. Boseman left his mark. Rest in Power.
Sending up a huge prayer to Vanessa and her daughters, Natalia, Bianka and Capri. She lost her spouse and child. They lost their father and sister. I am absolutely gutted for them. This is just horrible and the worst nightmare anyone could imagine.
The Washington Football Team is hiring Natalia Dorantes as its coordinator of football programs.
She’s the first Latina in NFL history to serve in that position. Dorantes joins Callie Brownson and Sarah Hogan as the only women holding similar roles.
And I’m not special, people go through this all the time. What’s worse, I love driving and going new places, but these experiences chip away at that joy. As if this year wasn’t long enough. I hope y’all actually listen to people when they explain these things happen to them.
What I hate more than anything is I feel like I had to pick between standing up for myself and my dignity versus my safety. I wanted names and badge numbers in both cases, but then I worry about them retaliating even though they were wrong.
Small anecdote on Chase Young: He has a rep against Morgan Moses, used power to move him back. He comes off and does five pushups. No other DL was doing that. Apparently, Young is doing push-ups whenever he feels like he doesn’t make the play. Not bc of coaches.
I hate that. What I do shouldn’t be the reason you second guess how you’re treating me or anyone else in my car.
Why is it so hard to believe I have a Charger? Why do you think I have anything illegal in my car?
Three weeks ago, I wrote this story to open up about being sexual harassed in the workplace. I asked for no paywall. Today, my bosses told me y’all still subscribed, and it’s my first home run at the company. From the bottom of my heart thank you for supporting me 💙
I want you all to know what it feels like to be sexually harassed on the job. I want you to know what it feels like speaking up. But more importantly, I hope that my speaking up helps other women navigate a situation like this.
Sources tell me that
@JenniferKing5
is nearing a deal to rejoin Ron Rivera's coaching staff in Washington, and thus become the first full-time African American female coach in the NFL. She will work on the offensive side of the ball.
#HTTR
#BHM
The official presidential portrait of First Lady
@MichelleObama
has been revealed. Amy Sherald composed Michelle Obama's portrait. President Obama's revealing coming shortly.
#BlackHistoryMonth
Do I want to get out of there sooner or prolong this experience I don’t want to be in? Do I challenge some of the remarks they’re making or let it slide, so I can go on with my day? I had to make myself small for my safety and that of my friends.
True freshman
@Tuaamann_
just became the first Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander quarterback to lead
@AlabamaFTBL
to a national title. Never forget the Crimson Tide fan concerned about his ability to communicate as a result of coming from Hawaii.
#CFPNationalChampionship
This is the second time in three weeks that I’ve been pulled over and had that conversation about whose car I was driving.
The first trooper, one in NJ, he even had me get out the car, while his partner did the check of the vehicle and never explained why he stopped me.
I want to thank everyone for the kind words, who shared my story, and those who have stood up for me. I’m overwhelmed by those who have rallied around me and the love. I’m not ignoring anyone. In the coming days, I will be getting back to folks. I appreciate you all so much. 💙
Only once I told him what I do, that the entire situation changed. He asked what my friends do, all of us journalists. I kid you not, when I explained one of my friends just did a series on the protest that broke out regarding police brutality, that man let me go not a min later.
The Nashville Predators’
@PKSubban1
just became the first black hockey player named the cover athlete for EA Sports’ NHL video game. The series has been in production since 1991.
I say yes, because I’m a journalist and covering the game. And that’s when things shift. Suddenly no more questions about where I got the car asked seven ways to Sunday or where I’m coming from or “really” going. I “behaved” so I was good to go, he said. My mom hears all of this
It’s degrading putting your hands on the dash or wheel or on your laps or being asked to step out or continuously being asked if you have something in the car or being told you’re “kinda young” to have an elite membership, because why is that even necessary to say?
Two sources tell
@TheAthleticDC
that Jennifer King will soon be joining Ron Rivera’s coaching staff. That would make her the first full-time African American female coach in the NFL. King was a coaching intern under Rivera in 2017 and a coach on the Hotshots in the AAF.
#HTTR
Coach Ron Rivera said that while he was getting an IV, he understands that Dwayne Haskins stood up in the locker room and gave the speech to fire up the team at halftime.
“I’ve enjoyed my time here, and if this is it, I can say I gave it my all on the field, in the training room, in meetings every single day.” Chris Thompson reflecting on his seven years with Washington
My mom told me not cry or give him the satisfaction of seeing me upset. She told me she wanted me to get back home to them safely. So I let things slide to achieve that end game, and I hope none of you ever have to know what that feels like it.
First minority coach in franchise history. First black woman as a full-time coach in the league. First woman on an NFL radio broadcast team. Now, first black team president. Ron Rivera has come in and helped not only change the culture but diverse it, too.
Washington Football Team appointed Jason Wright as team president in a historic hire. Wright will be responsible for leading the organization’s business divisions, including operations, finance, sales, and marketing. Wright now becomes the first black president of an NFL team.
Redskins and HC Ron Rivera are working to make Jennifer King the first full-time African American female assistant coach. King would join the staff as an offensive asst, a source
@DNewtonespn
. Rivera hired King as a wide receivers coaching intern in Carolina the past two summers.
Chase Young is doubled at a higher rate than T.J. Watt, Jason Pierre-Paul, and DeMarcus Lawrence.
His win rate? Higher than J.J. Watt, Khalil Mack, Cameron Jordan.
The rookie is receiving premier rusher attention and winning. Last day for $1/12 months.
My friends had to sit there, and we were all asked if there was anything in the car and if everyone had IDs on them. That cop made a quip about how I was “young” to have an executive membership with National, and didn’t believe me when I told him my friends and I were hiking.
Black managers in MLB are hired by winning teams less than any other group including white men with no coaching experience, and fired by above .500 teams more than other racial demographic a four-month study by
@TheUndefeated
and
@ESPNStatsInfo
found:
Third time’s the charm. Twenty years after Dusty Baker made his first appearance in the World Series as a manager, he finally wins. With the Houston Astros 4-1 win over the Philadelphia Phillies, Baker becomes the third Black manager to do so. He joins Cito Gaston & Dave Roberts
Jennifer King is being promoted to a full-time offensive assistant gig with the Washington Football Team, sources confirm. Almost a year after coming on as a full-year intern.
King officially makes history as the first full-time Black female coach in the NFL.
@RapSheet
first.
He finally pulls me over. Walks up to the car, tests my trunk, tests my wheels, doesn’t ever wear a mask the entire exchange.
I’m being pulled over for minor infractions — not passing in the left, being too close to the other car, going under 55 and going over the shoulder line
The judge just read Larry Nassar like a book, glared at him after reading that non-apologetic letter and threw said letter to the side like garbage. She's FED up.
I wish you all could’ve seen the look on his face when I told him we were going to the Catskills. He asked me why we want to go there, and I explained my friends and I have been going through it, and then I had to explain what we were specifically going through.
For the first time since his firing, Ron Rivera and his family return to Carolina for a game.
In anticipation of this, I spent the three months interviewing people to understand what the Riveras meant to the community.
“He was the face of Charlotte.”
The Washington Football Team surprised Coach Rivera with a section of cutouts near the visitors tunnel that is called Coach's Corner. Over 400 of Ron's friends, family, former players, people he's coached with and worked with participated.
But he promises if I’m good, I’ll just get a verbal warning. He spends 10 minutes asking me whose car I’m driving. I say it’s a rental, he ask why it has Texas plates, idk it’s a rental. He ask if my license is clean, if there’s anything in the car he should know about?
Yes, my license is clean, and no. Then he comes back and says he actually needs to see the receipt of rental...mind you the insurance says National Car Rental on it. He asks where I’m going, I say Heinz Field, he ask if I know that’s where they play football.
When Jordan Greenway (
@JGreenway12
) takes the ice next month in South Korea, he will be the first African American to represent Team USA in hockey at the Winter Olympics, breaking a 98-year old color barrier.
Derrius Guice’s first run of training camp? Speeds through a huge hole, makes a nice cut back, jukes out Landon Collins and then puts on the afterburners. Biggest applause of the session so far
#HTTR
I didn’t pass the car in that lane, knowing the cop was coming up and I didn’t want to speed. The car in front of me starts going slow, so I go slower.
Then the trooper drove parallel to me for a good mile. Actually pulling me over took forever, and I hated that.
I passed the trooper and didn’t think anything of it, because I wasn’t speeding or anything.
Then two miles later, I notice him behind me, so I call my mom and detail what’s happening. Again, I don’t think it’s me, but I decide to move in the right lane.
.
@Grambling1901
's Shakyla Hill is the first player -- man or woman -- from an HBCU to record a quadruple-double (15 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists and 10 steals) in Division I NCAA hoops.
Tomorrow, Briana Scurry will enter the
@soccerhof
as the first black woman and female goalie. She will do so after overcoming the brain injury that forced her to retire, suicidal thoughts and pawning her Olympic goal medals.
Live look at Khalil Mack inside the Bears locker room following his interception to the house and sack-fumble recovery in the FIRST HALF of play against the Packers.
Per sources, QB Dwayne Haskins (
@dh_simba7
) and SVP of player development Doug Williams are headed to Washington, D.C. to speak to DC
@MayorBowser
, who is attending the
#DCProtests
today.
#HTTR
Dwayne Haskins and Alex Smith are dag on near attached at the hip when Haskins isn’t going through his reps. Constantly talking through what’s happening. This is exactly what you want to see in this situation. Josh Woodrum also getting some time in with Smith
#HTTR
Coach Ron Rivera checking out his section. Some notable participants are: Andy Reid, Sean McDermott, Steve Smith, Luke Kuechly, Greg Olsen, Dave Gettleman, Brandon Beane, Mario Addison, Matt Nagy, Ted Ginn Jr., Graham Gano, Gayle King and Gov. Larry Hogan.
Principal Duvall: We have a new student joining us. She just moved here all the way from Africa
Ms. Norbury: *Says welcome directed at the one black girl in the class*
Black student: "I'm from Michigan?"
Ms. Norbury: "Great."
Roy Moore's Attny. Trenton Garmon suggests Ali Velshi's "background" would help him understand why Moore would date underage women —
@AliVelshi
is from Canada
When I spoke to Trent Williams in Nov., he said, “I’ll never be a Redskin again.” After Bruce Allen’s firing today, a source told me that Williams returning is “a possibility.” He’s thinking on it, and there’s no decision. But the source said he still sees it as a positive.
#HTTR
My heart and condolences go out to Dwayne Haskins family. They raised a tremendous son and brother. I’m so sorry for their loss. He was always very kind to me. If I needed help with a story, he was always willing to give me time and helped me a lot my first year.
Jimmy Moreland had his third INT of the day, and it was a walk-off, pick six. Dwayne Haskins stared down a comeback route to Brian Quick in the end zone & Moreland read it perfectly & jumped it. Whole defense ran behind Moreland as he made his way to the opposite end zone
#HTTR
Some of you have asked why I didn’t say more. I made a business decision. My mom was listening, the last thing I wanted was anything to happen and her to hear it. She’s three hours away and can’t help me. I put my pride aside, I played small, so I could get there and home safely.
Benjamin St-Juste working against Terry McLaurin in red zone. Ryan Fitzpatrick tried throwing it over St-Justen’s head. He jumped up, and intercepted Fitzpatrick one-handed in the endzone. He’s got serious hops, y’all.
"If Coach Rivera or Mr. Snyder want to know my opinion" Jack Del Rio says he wants to bring back the white on white uniforms for Washington. But that's up to the coach and owner to do so. Fans, your prayers are being heard.
#HTTR
Per Washington PR: With his sack, forced fumble and fumble recovery for a touchdown, Chase Young becomes the first player in franchise history to achieve such a feat, and the eighth rookie in NFL history to do so since 1982.
Chase Young is double teamed at a rate equal to Khalil Mack and has a higher win rate.
In 2014, “Mack told him, ‘I’m going to be competing against you when you come out.’ That (was) when he was a freshman” in HS.
Our deal: $1/month for next 12 months.