On Thursday, the San Francisco 49ers played against the Oakland Raiders, and a Twitter user named @GatorLenny posted a photo of one of the 49ers cheerleaders kneeling. In fact, multiple people caught a picture, which have now been widely shared on social media and embedded in news articles across the web by reporters…
The revamped Miss America pageant—Miss America 2.0! No more bikinis! Women in leadership roles!— kicked off this week, and on Thursday, Emili McPhail, the contestant from Virginia, had a pretty good answer in response to a question about the ongoing player protests in the NFL.
As racists across the country melt down over Nike’s new Colin Kaepernick ad celebrating his activism, one Republican county official has resigned over Facebook posts that called black football players who protest police brutality “baboons” and “ignorant blacks.”
Oh hell yes, 2018 is now officially the year that people pushed back against narrow-minded bigotry via the art of athletic dance. The Advocate reports that on Friday night, Jesse Hernandez became the first-ever man to perform with the NFL’s New Orleans Saints dance team, the Saintsations. I am no dance expert, and the…
Today we’re paid a visit from a familiar face, and it’s not the Lamb of God here to break the Seven Seals and put us out of our collective misery once and for all.
Five former NFL cheerleaders have filed a federal sex discrimination lawsuit against the Houston Texans, accusing the team of underpaying valuable employees and subjecting them to unsafe working conditions. The five plaintiffs—Hannah Turnbow, Ainsley Paris, Morgan Wiederhold, Ashley Rodriguez, and Kelly Neuner—are…
Bailey Davis, the former New Orleans Saints cheerleader who was fired after she posted a private Instagram photo of herself in a lace bodysuit, spoke with NPR on Sunday about the subsequent complaint she filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the NFL and the Saints. But Davis says the complaint…
Bailey Davis, a now-former cheerleader for the New Orleans Saints, was fired in January over an Instagram photo of herself wearing what sounds like the equivalent of a bathing suit. Now she’s filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission accusing the team of gender discrimination, according to…
For the past 29 years, the Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women has released an annual Femicide Report, which publicizes domestic violence and homicide in the state. This year, the report included information about the 24 Minnesotans who died as a result of domestic violence in 2017. The report recommended increased…
In a decision thematically consistent with the rest of 2017, Justin Timberlake will be returning to the Super Bowl Halftime Show stage on February 4 in Minneapolis as headlining act, this time sans Janet Jackson.
As our leader likes to say—“enjoy!”
White House Press Secretary/bewitched doorknob Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Monday defended Donald Trump’s asinine and racist comments in which he said that any football player who takes a knee during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racism is a “son of a bitch” who should be fired.
“All anybody’s talking about is these NFL protests and that’s...unfortunate,” said Kathie Lee Gifford Monday on the Today show. Oh it it? Tell us more. “I understand that it’s on the minds of a lot of people but there are so many problems in the world.”
Things escalated quickly from some bullshit comments the president made recently, this time it has to do with sports.
Let me anger bigots around the country by wishing you a very happy holidays.
Ahead of their Sunday season opener, the Seattle Seahawks announced plans to link arms during the national anthem as a show of unity for an vague collection of causes, including “brotherhood” and “freedom.”
Ben Roethlisberger, the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback who’s been accused of sexual assault by two separate women, has weighed in on San Francisco 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick’s controversial decision to sit during the National Anthem as a protest of police brutality.
At this point, America has gotten pretty familiar with Jordan Rodgers, brother of Aaron Rodgers, because despite how much he’s argued he’s far more than just the brother of a famous football player, his edit on the show is certainly not showing up his other skills.
“I haven’t brought a girl home in years,” Jordan said on Monday night’s episode of The Bachelorette, before explaining to JoJo who she’d meet should she choose to come to his hometown of Chico, California, in next week’s episode: his parents, Darla and Ed, and “My oldest brother Luke, funniest guy I know, and…
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