Arrowhead Stadium, the home of the Kansas City Chiefs, the N.F.L.’s defending champions, is a very loud place. Players say that when the noise reaches top volume, they can feel vibrations in their bones. During a 2014 game, a sound meter captured a decibel reading equivalent to a jet’s taking off, earning a Guinness World […]
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Honesty Butler was not planning to go to college, let alone leave her home state of New York. She loved art class, but hated math and history. Art school was too expensive, so she began to give up on the idea of higher education entirely. But one day her social studies teacher at Binghamton High […]
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Carmelo Anthony, the 10-time N.B.A. All-Star who announced his retirement in May, said that when he was starting out as a professional basketball player he did not understand art, but grew to appreciate it and began collecting as he matured. Now paintings by major Black artists including Nelson Makamo, Swoon, Rashid Johnson and Kehinde Wiley […]
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Since Thursday afternoon, those in the sports media industry, particularly women, have been talking about one thing: that the prominent broadcaster Charissa Thompson had casually volunteered in an interview that she had made up reports while working as a sideline reporter. Young women just beginning careers in sports journalism asked one another in group chats […]
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Photo: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression A California middle-school student was suspended for wearing what some consider blackface to a football game. The eight-grader has only been identified as J.A. to protect his privacy. ULTA Beauty Faces A Boycott For Being Trans-Inclusive In Their Marketing Off English He was photographed at a high school […]
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As Americans gather this Thanksgiving, tens of millions will sink into their couches for one of the country’s enduring rituals: watching football games showcasing the Detroit Lions and the Dallas Cowboys while turkeys are being dressed, carved and gobbled. The National Football League has long been a broadcast juggernaut, with its games accounting for 83 […]
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NewsOne Featured Video CLOSE Source: Steve Marcus / Getty From Oakland to Los Angeles, then back to Oakland, and now in Las Vegas, the Raiders have always been a squad that knows how to wear black well. In 2023, the uniform color is now a testament to the team’s overall leadership as they recently became […]
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Photo: Rich Barnes (Getty Images) Buffalo Bills’ safety Damar Hamlin has only played in one game during the 2023-24 NFL season. However, there was no way he wouldn’t travel with the team for its Sunday night game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Following the Bengals’ 24-18 victory over the Bills, Hamlin took a private moment on […]
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Photo: Harry How (Getty Images) The hot takes have returned now that we’re in the swing of pro football and basketball. Sports media personalities everywhere are licking their chops to say the wildest, craziest, and most controversial statements on television, radio, and podcasts daily. Advertisement It’s part of the 24-hour sports news cycle where companies […]
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About 60 hardcore fans of the National Football League piled into the party space at Der Player, a fancy eatery, on a chilly evening in Hamburg, Germany, last month. Wearing jerseys and hoodies of teams like the Chicago Bears, the Kansas City Chiefs and the Las Vegas Raiders, they grabbed seats to watch a taping […]
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The Battle of the Bridge is the biggest football game of the year in Lewiston and Auburn, cities separated by a river in Maine. The high schools — Lewiston High and Edward Little — are bitter rivals. On the eve of the game, the last of the year, seniors burn a pair of cleats in […]
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NewsOne Featured Video CLOSE Source: Ethan Miller / Getty UPDATED: 11:00 a.m. ET, Nov. 2, 2023 The NFL has finally hired another Black head coach, although it’s only an interim tag for the time being. On Wednesday, the Las Vegas Raiders fired Head Coach Josh McDaniels and General Manager David Ziegler after a terrible start […]
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There’s a new Black coach (and general manager) in the NFL. Although they’ve only been given the interim tag, we gotta take our wins where we can get them. Michael Oher On New Book, NFL, The Jets, Aaron Rodgers, Running Backs Contracts & He Sings! Off English Early Wednesday morning, the Las Vegas Raiders announced […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Colorado Buffaloes Head Coach Deion Sanders walks through the locker room after arriving at Rose Bowl Stadium to take on the UCLA Bruins on October 28, 2023, in Pasadena, California. | Source: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images / Getty University of Colorado head football coach Deion Sanders has responded […]
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Photo: Sean M. Haffey (Getty Images) The Cinderella run for the University of Colorado football team is over, at least it seems to be. After starting the season off 3-0, Deion Sanders’ team is now 1-4 in their last five games. Oprah Produced Mystery, Black Cake, Is Our TV Pick This Week Off English Considered […]
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Going into the Division II state football championship game Saturday at a sunny Service High School in Anchorage, Soldotna’s Class of 2024 was looking at the possibility of becoming the first since the Class of 2006 to leave the school without a state football title. After 48 minutes of football and a 64-14 victory over […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Indianapolis Colts defensive tackle Grover Stewart warms up before the game between the Houston Texans and the Indianapolis Colts on January 8, 2023, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. | Source: Icon Sportswire / Getty INDIANAPOLIS – The Colts will be without one of their best players for the next month […]
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The News The N.F.L. owners finalized a contract extension for Commissioner Roger Goodell on Wednesday that would keep him in the league’s top job through March 2027, halting speculation that he might step aside when his previous agreement ended in a year. The announcement was made at a two-day owners’ meeting in New York. Since […]
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Photo: Jon Kopaloff, Matt Winkelmeyer (Getty Images) Whether you’re a football fanatic or are just in it for Super Bowl Sunday parties, by now you’ve heard that superstar Taylor Swift is reportedly dating Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. The internet has endless conspiracy theories about the truth behind their relationship. Are they really […]
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Photo: Maddie Meyer // David Bergman /Sports Illustrated // Jeff Gross (Getty Images) Professional sports are something almost everyone in the country can get behind. Not only because it’s entertainment, but it’s the closest thing we have to a meritocracy. Advertisement Sports has a way of finding the most talented and gifted athletes in the […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Christian Petersen / Getty Shedeur Sanders, the 21-year-old son of NFL Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, is making waves out on the field for his incredible skills — but his impeccable fashion sense has caught the eyes of many as of late. One particular item that has garnered considerable attention is […]
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The former N.F.L. defensive back Sergio Brown was taken into custody by the San Diego police on Tuesday in connection with the death of his mother last month, said the police in Maywood, Ill. According to the police, Brown re-entered the country from Mexico and was being held in San Diego before extradition to Illinois, […]
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The Homer Mariners lost narrowly in a conference playoff heartbreaker Saturday afternoon against the Kenai Kardinals, 16-21. “I’m really proud of my guys. I thought they left everything out there on that field,” Homer coach Justin Zank said Sunday. “Probably the best game we played all season, everyone working together to try to make it […]
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Mariners football players were among those recognized with Division III all-state awards. Preston Stanislaw led the way for the Mariners offense with first-team quarterback in Division III. Chris Martishev snatched first-team wide receiver honors, helping boost the Mariners offense all year long along with running back/outside linebacker Jake Tappan, who received second-team honors. Inside linebacker […]
Read MoreDick Butkus, the Chicago Bears’ famously hard-hitting Hall of Fame middle linebacker of the 1960s and ’70s and a selection for the N.F.L.’s 100th anniversary all-time team, has died at his home in Malibu, Calif. He was 80. The Bears confirmed the death on Thursday, saying he had died “overnight.” No cause was provided. At […]
Read MoreJust days after a Tennessee judge put an end to the conservatorship agreement between Michael Oher and the Tuohys, the author of the infamous 2006 book, “The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game,” is still running his mouth. 5 Days Before Court Petition, Here’s What Michael Oher Told The Root About The Blind Side Off […]
Read MoreIn a rematch of a Mid-Conference gridiron clash on Saturday, Homer fell short to the Barrow Whalers 22-6. Barrow improves to 5-2 overall, rebounding from a loss from Kenai to build to a 4-1 record in conference. Meanwhile, the loss sets the Mariners back to .500, sitting at 4-4 overall and 2-3 in conference record […]
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They say it takes 10 years to become a real New Yorker, but Aaron Rodgers seemed to earn his bona fides in just one summer. In March, after solemn contemplation at what he called a “darkness retreat” in Oregon, the 39-year-old announced, with pomp befitting his superlative N.F.L. résumé, his intentions to continue his career […]
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During one of the cutaway shots of the 12-time Grammy winner Taylor Swift at Sunday night’s football game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the New York Jets, Zainub Amir, one of the singer’s ardent fans, grinned. “It’s like I’m watching the Eras Tour on TV, except it’s football,” Amir, 27, said from a bar […]
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It was a standing-room-only crowd gathered in the aisles of a New Jersey Transit train from New York’s Penn Station to New Jersey at 5 p.m. on Sunday evening. Multiple groups of friends were overheard asking the same question: Was this because of Taylor Swift? By now most Americans are well-versed with the Ms. Swift […]
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From a football perspective, the game on Sunday night between the Kansas City Chiefs and the New York Jets is not must-see TV. The Chiefs, favored by 7.5 points, are the reigning Super Bowl champions and are led by the N.F.L.’s best player. The Jets are flailing after their 39-year-old would-be savior tore his Achilles’ […]
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