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My beloved Spurs were knocked out of the NBA playoffs on Saturday. This is the first time since the 2010-2011 season that they failed to make it out of the first round. That’s actually pretty good for any NBA team, but as a fan it’s kind of a tough pill to swallow. Especially since they won the Championship last year.
Here are a few of the things I have told myself (and others) since Saturday’s loss: Continue reading
The recent and short-lived #CancelColbert campaign caused much controversy over whether the joke was offensive to Asian-Americans. Lost in the #CancelColbert fervor was the fact that Colbert’s joke meant to mock Dan Snyder’s Original Americans Foundation, widely thought to be a PR tactic to appease Native Americans and others who oppose the name “Washington Redskins.” Continue reading
Up until last Sunday, I only had one athletic achievement. It was 2003. I was at my buddy Dan’s bachelor party, a weekend in Lake Tahoe. We spent an afternoon on the beach, playing football. Being entirely unathletic, no one covered me, ever. Continue reading
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French football (meaning soccer to the Americans) clubs are going on strike to protest the 75% tax on those earning over 1 million euros annually. Ligue 1 and 2 clubs have announced that matches have been cancelled for the last weekend in November.
The two-year tax is meant to be a temporary measure as France deals with an economic crises. Originally meant to apply to households, the French constitutional counsel held that the tax as then written was unconstitutional. Lawmakers rewrote the law so that the tax would be on employers instead. Continue reading
Have you ever played fantasy football? You know the exhilaration you get when one of your players scores a big touchdown? Have you ever thought to yourself “Wow, wouldn’t it be great if I literally owned a piece of that person in real life.” Continue reading
“Whose streets? Our streets!” was one of the chants repeated Saturday night by organizers of the Los Angeles edition of Clitoral Mass. The ride’s official start time was 5:00 pm from Watts Towers in South Los Angeles, and would take the women and women-identified cyclists throughout Los Angeles, traveling north through downtown Los Angeles, and east into Pasadena, Highland Park and Boyle Heights. Continue reading