fam I went and took a whole entire tour of the building named and dedicated to Serena Jameka Williams and didnt meet or see a single black woman working in the place. start there.
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Reporter: 🫶
Caitlin Clark: "You like that?"
Reporter: "I like that you're here."
Caitlin: "Yeah, I do that at my family after every game.”
Reporter: "Start doing it to me and we'll get along just fine."
Caitlin: 😳
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Jonathan Isaac is more educated, intelligent, and speaks with more moral clarity on this issue than the reporters that condescendingly cover him and the morons who mock him on Twitter.
for one, 44 going FULL clasp into embrace into straight up shake, not back to clasp, is flatly...a presidential dap.
Getting from embrace back to full shake is not easily executed unless the second person is following suit. Which with him, they all are, obvs. Hence the name
I am extremely curious to see how the generalized culture around this country changes because we are in a space beyond hoops that we just haven't seen. Which is that a US women's professional team sports league could have a markedly dominant *cultural* market share.
like, none of us have ever really lived in a space where for the WNBA, which is necessarily the specific point here, has like UNDENIABLE space in just regular everyday life that changes the priority of the male gaze entirely. There are MANY men who are simply not ready for that.
Now for those of you who dont understand why this is all so necessary to break down.
REMINDER: 44 is left handed. So he basically does all his daps with his off hand or “switch” if you will.
POTUS CAN DAP ON BOTH SIDES OF THE HOOP. Not that most lefties dont do this too
WNBA star Maya Moore sat out the entire season last year and helped overturn the conviction of Jonathan Irons, who was serving a 50-year prison sentence.
He was finally released today.
(via
@MooreMaya
)
dont get me wrong. this growth is awesome. but I can tell you from life experience, nevermind as a sports journalist that there is still very much a patina of "that's nice for the ladies" to ALL of it.
we're far closer to "these women control the zeitgeist, period" than we know
What's your goofiest sports take that you actually kind of believe? Mine is: If the Bills want to truly get the most out of Josh Allen, they gotta build a dome.
He was also a two-time Negro Leagues all-star as a pitcher in the 50s and used to make money singing at the parks he played in, too.
His life is nothing short of remarkable. RIP to an American legend.
Sad to share the news that Charley Pride died today in Dallas due to complications from Covid-19 at age 86.
Charley is country music’s first Black superstar and the first Black member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
#RIPCharleyPride
it’s not a boycott. It’s a strike. The difference is imperative to understanding what it means to take action as a black person in America.
Column tomorrow
@TheUndefeated
.
secondly, to the offhand on the embrace. Notice how with both players, 44 goes multi-pat.
saved the extended hand on pat for someone closer to his age, a sign of respect. You’ll notice that conversely, both players give 44 the extended one pat as well, even tho not reciprocated
Astros got Dusty Baker falling on the sword for something he aint even do on the 100th anniversary of the Negro National League’s creation.
this is America.
like, bottom line here is that the cultural shift in sports journalism has yet to be invested in enough to change the way the average person consumes things on the ground more deeply. short version: dudes aren't really ready to just not matter at all in the space.
look this is the best video of all time that I cry at every year and time that I see it.
Never @ me in your life if you dont respect how incredible the moment is. Ever.
We play baseball. Because we love it. Always have, always do, always will.
and that just changes so many things, specifically on the professional level, that a lot of markets on going to have to find a way to properly adjust for and maximize in terms of just "what are we actually doing here" because this aint going backwards, kiddos.
those TV numbers are plain impossible to ignore in terms of the amount of people who care, at all, nevermind will continue to care more. How we take care of the people who have invested their lives in this beyond just wether or not some old guy is having fun will be fascinating
the two sports statues that were removed today are both DEEPLY personal to me. The racist that abandoned D.C. with his MLB team and the racist that named my city's NFL team no longer stand tall in their respective locations.
I don't even know what to say right now. I'm so happy.
never has it been more clear to me that white folks don't understand that because of systemic racism, simply having to interact with so many disingenuous and bad faith humans is a threat to black people's mental health, without any specific diagnosis of other issues needed.
so, I waited a little to talk about this, but you have to understand how remarkable this young mans story is. and trust me, it is well appreciated that mans is letting the natural hair grow.
flat out embarrassed that I am just now learning of this human. Lebarn James is my favorite basketball player on earth right now.
LOOK AT THIS BACKBOARD.
yall can just say you dont like black women being in control of anything instead of blaming Naomi Osaka for anything having to with the OBVIOUS systemic racism that exists in the tennis community.
last thing I’ll say about this is: what exactly, besides obvious misogyny, is the *actual* purpose of publicly staking a claim that you dont enjoy women’s sports? like what is the point of just openly declaring such haterade. what does that get anyone. I’ll never understand.
column: When Kyle Lowry reached out to save Masai Ujiri’s dignity in Oakland after winning the NBA championship, it was a moment of blackness that we all instantly understood
do we realize that a near perfecto turned no-no happened in the bigs last night? Yes. Are we aware that there was a glorious nacho explosion in LA yesterday? Of course.
but look. my favorite moment in MLB wednesday was an ump’s punch out.
look. at. this. form. and. delivery.
🚨BREAKING:
@MizzouBaseball
is hiring Kerrick Jackson as its new head coach,
@d1baseball
learned earlier today. Jackson heads back to Columbia after serving as an assistant a few years ago and as the head man at
#Memphis
last season.
STORY:
this man used to walk slow from the bullpen because the grounds crew guys were his homies, and they got paid time-and-a-half at Wrigley Field if they worked past 4:30p. Mind you he left the Cubs in 87. The first night game was obvs 8/8/88. gawd of gawds.
would just like to take this time to remind everyone that no matter what any records tell you, January 20th 2009 was the coldest goddamn day that there ever was in the District.
quick personal story for. if you don’t know, this is
@RealMikeWilbon
. 20+ years ago, this man very much changed the course of my career and thus life. To casually see him around the studio and be friends with him is still sorta surreal, no matter how many times we kick it.
Your annual Jackie Robinson Day reminder: PLENTY BLACK CHILDREN AND ATHLETES ARE PLAYING BASEBALL RIGHT NOW.
Pay attention to them, allow them to succeed and it will be fruitful. It’s not all Negro Leagues and “the future”
I wrote about it, but since we’re keeping it a buck, I’ll tell you something else that happened. It was a junket, basically, but because it’s Oregon, it was raining that day. The sistas who were invited* to cover the event were in their finest. hairdos were hairdoing. clearly
I was looking forward to throwing out the first pitch at the Texas Rangers' home opening game until
@MLB
adopted what has turned out to be a false narrative about Georgia's election law reforms.
It is shameful that America's pastime is being influenced by partisan politics.