Sports editor @thenation. Edge of Sports TV at https://t.co/dX4rfdcYQE Host of the Edge of Sports Podcast. Co-host of WPFW's The Collision.
Sep 20, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
When the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom" anniversary comes around, the media always forgets the full name, which leaves out "jobs" and erases that the march was, yes, for Civil Rights but also anti-racist economic justice. Why am I bringing this the hell up? (1/2)
The "jobs" component was the influence of Rustin & @UAW head Walter Reuther. Today as openly racist @GOP candidates are "wooing" white UAW members with anti-union appeals to racism and nativism, the union would do well to embrace their past and tell them to go to hell. (2/3)
Jun 6, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
What if I told you that there were people who believed that the PGA, was some kind of a moral, even patriotic, alternative to the LIV golf tour? The PGA is what it has always been: a bunch of ham faced, julep drinking, amoral scoundrels. cnbc.com/amp/2023/06/06…
The PGA big wigs, so shocked and outraged by Saudi Arabia’s incursion into their game, will now drink scotch, smoke cigars and, with their new partners, laugh loudly over the sounds of the bone saws.
Jun 5, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I'm sorry, CNN and Ms. Phillip. But you can't just tweet this disgusting opportunistic slander by @NikkiHaley without pointing out that it's a lie; that trans kids are the most vulnerable to suicide and to blame them for the despair felt by so many young girls is truly sick.
Not even DeSantis is blaming teen suicides on trans kids. This is truly sick. I know @NikkiHaley doesn't care about anything other than getting that polling number over 1%. But CNN has to have some moral duty to not pump these lies out into the ecosystem without comment.
Mar 28, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The people in the athletic world who took yesterday - of all days - to celebrate the exclusion of trans kids from playing sports, using military language about stopping their “invasion”…as a full scale, GOP demonization was taking place after Nashville, are beneath contempt.
I’m weary of calling people out and naming names, partly because it seems to give them confidence when critiqued and they play victim, while people munch popcorn and watch. Not interested in that game. More interested in making one point very clear…
Mar 27, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Upsetting on every level. But the part that demands a closer look is that Lamar says he requested a trade March 2nd. That’s almost a damn month ago. Where are the trade partners? Where is the leaked expressed interest? Collusion is no illusion.
I really wanted him to stay a Raven. There was a magic with qb and organization at times that felt special, even historic. It really seemed like the problems could be worked out, but parties have to want it to work and I have doubts about both sides, not just Lamar.
Mar 25, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
We’ve discussed this. You need two categories for Denzel: prestige and re-rewatchability. Prestige: Glory, Malcolm, Hurricane, Fences: Macbeth…. Re-rewatchability (meaning if you’re flipping channels, you stop) : Man on Fire; Training Day; Ricochet; Inside Man; The Mighty Quinn.
And I know I did five, not four. It was out of protest to the very idea of using Mt. Rushmore as a guideline. You’re welcome.
Mar 7, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The @GOP at the federal level wants Title IX - which they’ve historically opposed - to used be to keep trans kids off the playing field. What a hateful warping of some of the most important legislation in US history: legislation passed to foster inclusion not exclusion.
Banning trans kids from play is a predictable agenda for this this bigoted iteration of the @GOP. But to see a minority of athletes agitate to keep - often extremely vulnerable - children from the joys of sport, is f***** nauseating.
Do I think Amazon should profit from a film that says I believe in child sacrifice and drinking blood? Not any less than I think kyrie should not have dramatically popularized it.
Nov 2, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Now hear me out... instead of a billionaire owning the Commanders, how about fans get together and buy the team in the style of the Green Bay Packers? Part of every ticket or merch sold goes to paying for some public good like schools, roads or libraries? Just spitballin'!
I know that NFL owners would never "let" it happen. But "power concedes nothing without a demand", right? Why shouldn't we demand - after years of suffering under Snyder - to have a piece of the pie? Or even run the bakery?
Nov 1, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Lemme get this straight: the coach who did something so heinous he was suspended for a year, has really now only been suspended for seven games? And will we ever find what he was actually suspended for? And the Nets, put their reputation on the line to hire him? Theory: (1/2)
Udoka is a fine coach. But he's not prime Lenny Wilkins. He has coached one year. They could have hired anyone as opposed to the most scandal-ridden coach in the game. Pretty obvious why. Takes two to tango.
Oct 22, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Better than even chance Ron DeSantis was at Woodstock 99. That was when a generation of frat d-bags decided that the greatest rush came not from beer bongs, but from letting it all burn.
Watching these W99 docs, and seeing polls that Gen X is the backbone of trumpism, Q, and the assorted fascist freaks, the more Woodstock 99 looks like an inflection point of young white male, middle class rage in embryonic form. Now it’s all grown up.
May 26, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
All the wealthy @GOP ghouls like @JDVance1 calling for "one door" for schools as a solution to shootings **clearly** send their kids to elite private schools, with eight kids in a class. If they went to public schools, they might be too embarrassed to suggest something so stupid
My kids' schools have thousands of students and 25 kids at least per class. One door?!?? These schools would be death traps in a fire, not to mention provide no escape if there was a shooter and the police were neutralized (or ran for cover.)
May 24, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The Christian Nationalist worldview explains school shootings through"mental illness"; a mental illness brought about by a decadent society rotted by Hollywood, abortion, LGBTQ folks & non-whites. They'll never accept gun control because the worldview would crack like an egg.
If you accept that legislation exists that could make this country safer and **better**, then maybe government isn't the root of all evil. Their leaders are terrified their followers will pull on this string so they will never, ever compromise.
Feb 17, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
She’ll have a show with Enes FREEDOM on Fox Plus Plus within the month. 🥱 🥱
There’s no lazier grift than racism. There isn’t a grift more lucrative than racism. Pathetic.
Jan 4, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I wrote something about Antonio Brown, the movie Slap Shot, and a league where the only true sin in the eyes of management is the refusal to be controlled. thenation.com/article/cultur…
No, I'm not arguing that Antonio Brown is some kind of rebel hero. Just that off-field "issues", no matter how volatile, mean nothing as long as you can perform on the field. Once you refuse to do that, the love and support dry up mighty quick. thenation.com/article/cultur…
Jan 2, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Loved Don’t Look Up and don’t understand why it’s pissing so many people off. Does it answer every pol question or articulate a way forward? No. But so what? Dr. Strangelove wasn’t exactly a movement manifesto for the anti-nuke movement. But both films hold a devastating mirror.
We need satire like this. Desperately. Our world is not only warped and crisis-ridden. It also moves so quickly we rarely take a moment to collectively take a step back and marvel at how f***** things are. This film seems to be accomplishing that. That makes it a gift.
Nov 30, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
If you don’t see this as a coded attack on the NBA players who have protested racist police killings, then you don’t know Enes….or Tucker. So much for “Freedom”.
Renaming yourself “Freedom” while going on Tucker to spread the “shut up and dribble” gospel. Makes sense Enes became a US citizen because there are few things more “American” than telling people protesting racism to shut their mouths.
Nov 28, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
When you deride young people as “snowflakes”, ask yourself, “do I actually work with/know/organize with/listen to any young people or my opinions shaped by 55 year old podcast hosts? (1/2)
This generation is more diverse & less tolerant of intolerance than any in the history of this country. The people trashing them are expressing their own prejudices and with their fear, their guns, their gated communities, their rage to outlaw books, reveal the true “snowflakes.”
Oct 14, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Respect to every athlete’s right - no matter their politics - to use their platform & speak their mind. Doesn’t mean we have to mindlessly applaud their every utterance. That’s patronizing and as bad as “shut up & dribble.” So in that spirit, Kyrie is absolutely wrong here. (1/2)
After hundreds of thousands of deaths, which have disproportionately hit working people, true solidarity is getting #the damn vax. For someone who has offered solidarity to Palestinians, Indigenous people & BLM, he is now taking a position that’s the negation of solidarity.(2/3)
May 31, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Osaka was willing to work with Roland Garros. Their shocking response has gotten us here. They clearly wanted to send a message to a player who spent the last year refusing to "shut up and play". This is as much a part of the "backlash" as that idiot who threw a bottle at Kyrie.
Sports World was willing to abide "Black Lives Matter" because athletes playing - and risking their health - were keeping the lights on and there were no white fans to boo/shower them with trash. Now the signal from the exec suites to the fans is ringing out: it's backlash time.
Dec 6, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
si.com/sportsperson/2…
Yes, 2020 was the year of the Activist Athlete. Sports Illustrated got that part exactly right. But did they get the right five people? How do you choose even five? And, again, the erasure of Colin Kaepernick from this equation rankles. His shadow looms.
Look at the athletes SI chose and with the exception of the remarkable Duvernay-Tardif (at least from what I know), Kaepernick is part of each of these athletes' journeys. But what he's been calling for is also way beyond the parameters of what's been deemed acceptable discourse.
