‘Because Black People Are Getting Killed And Nobody’s Going To Jail’

“Every player on the Cahokia Quarterback Club football team (8 and under) took a knee during the national anthem ahead of Sunday’s game at Little Devil’s Field in Belleville,” Fox 2 in St. Louis reports.

“One of the kids asked me if I saw (people) protesting and rioting in St. Louis. I said yes; I said, ‘Do you know why they are doing it?'” said Coach Orlando Gooden.
Coach Gooden said his player responded, “Because black people are getting killed and nobody’s going to jail.”

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Posted on September 22, 2017

By NASCAR

“From Kyle Busch and Chase Elliott grabbing stage wins to Martin Truex Jr.’s strong run to Victory Lane, a recap from Joliet.”

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Posted on September 21, 2017

Produced And Directed By Alex Braverman/GQ

“Football killed Zac Easter. But before it did, before the head trauma inflicted by concussions became too much to bear, he recorded it all in his diary, hoping that his story might ensure that what happened to him wouldn’t happen to others.”

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Posted on September 20, 2017

By Jim Coffman

In one way, the Bears game on Sunday worked out perfectly. For all intents and purposes it was over by the time the Cubs contest started further down the dial.
I’m not going to join the mob baying for a change at quarterback. Does anyone really believe Mitch Trubisky will have a legitimate shot at success this season with the roster general manager Ryan Pace has put together for the Bears? He will not. And that is definitely enough about that monstrosity of a football game.
But I will join a much better kind of mob: the one raucously celebrating the Cubs pulling out another win and burying the Cardinals once and for all in 2017. It was a great weekend of baseball capped off by the team hanging on by the tips of their breaking-ball spinning fingernails to win 4-3 on Sunday. How close was this to a loss? It was a close as giving up two hits and two walks, but no runs, in an eighth inning. It was as close as a fly ball to deepest center with the tying run on base . . . caught on the warning track. But the Cubs pulled it out to take a six-game lead on the Cards with 13 to play.

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Posted on September 18, 2017

By Roger Wallenstein

The pennant races have ended. The Dodgers, Cubs, Nationals, Astros, Red Sox and Indians have either clinched or are confidently in command of their respective divisions with two weeks to go in the 2017 baseball season.
There is just one more wild card playoff spot to be determined – between the Twins, 103-game losers just a year ago, and the Angels.
What with the NFL season underway and the Blackhawks skating to get in shape for the 2017-18 campaign, why would anyone continue to keep an eye on baseball?
Until they got beat 4-3 in Kansas City last Friday night, the Cleveland Indians certainly were in the national spotlight as they ran up 22 straight victories. But few noticed that the Tribe ran off two more wins over the weekend to make it 24 out of 25 to clinch the Central Division. Can they top the Astros for the league’s best record? Maybe so, but outside of Cleveland and Houston, who cares?

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Posted on September 18, 2017

By Thomas Chambers

And then, on a beautiful Sunday, you get punched in the stomach.
Penny Chenery, the owner and elegant human representative of the magnificent Secretariat, passed away Saturday in Boulder, Colorado. She was 95. But immortal to me.
I learned a few new things about her today. Including an affair she had with Secretariat’s trainer, Lucien Laurin.
But her always honest reflections taught us once more.

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Posted on September 18, 2017

Bears Twitter Is Lit

The clock restarts on Johnny Foxhole.

#Bears still using Internet Explorer. It’s time for an upgrade: pic.twitter.com/OyPN6Oo9pI

— Ryan (@cubsguy20) September 18, 2017

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Posted on September 18, 2017

By The Democratic Coalition

New York, NY – The Democratic Coalition announced today that it has filed an ethics complaint against White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders with the Office of Government Ethics for her comments calling on ESPN host Jemele Hill to be fired.
The group cited Sanders’ possible violation of federal law which makes it a crime for a government employee to influence “a private entity’s employment . . . solely on the basis of partisan political affiliation.”

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Posted on September 16, 2017

By Jim Coffman and Steve Rhodes

Inside the Cubs’ volatile stretch run. Plus: Bears Strangely Competent; White Sox’ Future . . . Here?; Blackhawks’ Future . . . Here?; South Parking Lot Saga; Stupid CFL; Amateur Doping; and Schweinsteiger!

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Posted on September 15, 2017

By Kyle J.D. Mulrooney and Katinka van de Ven/The Conversation

The 11th annual CrossFit Games took place last month.
While the event has come a long way from humble beginnings, the prize money and fame now attached to it have led to concerns that competitors may be doping to gain an unfair advantage.

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Posted on September 12, 2017