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Is MLB Really Going to Make the Yankees and White Sox Play Today?

Is MLB Really Going to Make the Yankees and White Sox Play Today?

Hell Gate — As the Canada wildfires filled New York with severely poor air quality, I spoke with athletes asked to play with fire, the scientists who said it was a bad idea, and the league who did it anyway.
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The unsolved murders of Eastern Avenue

The unsolved murders of Eastern Avenue

Business Insider — Discrimination pushes many transgender women into sex work. But the desolate strolls where they find clients put them at high risk for violence. Won Scripps Howard, Arthur L Carter (NYU), Sidney and Drum awards and was nominated for NABJ and GLAAD as part of Business Insider's exploration of transgender homicides.
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Major League Baseball used at least two types of balls again this year, and evidence points to a ...

Major League Baseball used at least two types of balls again this year, and evidence points to a ...

Business Insider — An Insider investigation based on research by Dr. Meredith Wills found evidence that during the 2022 season, MLB not only circulated three distinct sets of game balls, but delivered a specific one that boosts home run power to the New York Yankees. Won 2023 New York Press Club Best Sports Feature (Online).
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Insiders say RAINN, the nation's foremost organization for victims of sexual assault, is in crisi...

Insiders say RAINN, the nation's foremost organization for victims of sexual assault, is in crisi...

Business Insider — 22 current and former staffers said that RAINN, which has deep ties to Hollywood and corporate America, is facing an internal reckoning.
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Baseball let unity stand in the way of protest

Baseball let unity stand in the way of protest

New York Daily News — This was one of a series of essays I wrote about sports trudging through a global pandemic and racial justice uprising to show us everything was OK. 2021 SABR Award winner.
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The Knicksian inevitability of Uncut Gems

The Knicksian inevitability of Uncut Gems

New York Daily News — The Safdies share how their love of the Knicks, alongside their Jewishness, defines their work, including their opus --- 2019's Uncut Gems
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Manny Machado plays dirty, but that's not what pundits are really whining about

Manny Machado plays dirty, but that's not what pundits are really whining about

New York Daily News — In baseball, as in life, there are racists, and there are a---holes, and there are racist a---holes. Sometimes the a--holes feel compelled to confront the racists. In America's pastime, they share the diamonds and dugouts.
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MLB honors Tim Anderson the way it honored Jackie Robinson: By telling him to shut up

MLB honors Tim Anderson the way it honored Jackie Robinson: By telling him to shut up

New York Daily News — In the spring of 1947, Branch Rickey had one immutable rule for Jackie Robinson: No matter what happened to him, no matter what was said, he must not fight back. Baseball was not ready for that. Baseball was barely ready for him at all.
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Staff Picks - A Plea for Plemons

Staff Picks - A Plea for Plemons

HBO — My take on the most overlooked performance of 2018.
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Staff Pick - Who's the Better Action Hero? Man on Fire's Creasy or Taken's Mills?

Staff Pick - Who's the Better Action Hero? Man on Fire's Creasy or Taken's Mills?

HBO — If you absolutely had to be kidnapped by gangs enmeshed in the highest levels of foreign intrigue, then having Denzel Washington or Liam Neeson attempt your rescue is a great starting point.
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Football 'Is Not of God'

Football 'Is Not of God'

Sojourners — Concussion doctor Bennet Omalu tackles faith, race, and why your children should never play football again.
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Terence Nance Downloads His Subconscious to the Screen

Terence Nance Downloads His Subconscious to the Screen

HBO — Translating the inner-recesses of your mind into a half-hour television program is a group project.
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Dead Presidents Makes a Case for the Vets Left Behind

Dead Presidents Makes a Case for the Vets Left Behind

hbo.com — The Hughes Brothers' period drama digs into the iniquities of military service.
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Andre Royo explains why Hunter Gatherer is more than a black story

Andre Royo explains why Hunter Gatherer is more than a black story

NBC News — Andre Royo is finally bursting through his Bubbles. Royo's sensitive, drug-addicted character from "The Wire" is so iconic and embedded to memories of the show, the typecast that endeared him to viewers followed him into casting calls. The 48-year-old actor's first leading role, the indie film "Hunter Gatherer," is a validation of sorts for his persistence and talent.
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Southern Baptist retailer removes black hip-hop artist's album that includes the word 'penis'

Southern Baptist retailer removes black hip-hop artist's album that includes the word 'penis'

The Washington Post — Popular hip-hop artist Sho Baraka has taken aim at Southern Baptist retailer LifeWay Christian Stores for dropping his album for including the word penis, a move that shows a growing tension between the black artist and his white evangelical fans.
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'Creed' nails Muhammad Ali's legacy.

'Creed' nails Muhammad Ali's legacy.

foulandfair.com — Muhammad Ali was a big fan of the first two Rocky films. He told Roger Ebert as much in 1979 after they screened Rocky II. "It has all the ingredients. Love, violence, emotion. The excitement never dulled." Ebert, knowing the obvious and unavoidable parallel between Apollo Creed and his guest, pressed Ali for a reaction to his on-screen avatar's defeat. Never weary of a chance to land a clean blow on the racial politics of his day, Ali replied: "For the black man to come out superior would be against America's teachings.
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