NFL
Op-Ed: Jim Brown was as Complicated as They Came
By: Zachary Draves The outpouring of loving tributes to Jim Brown in light of his passing on Friday at the age of 87 are certainly warranted. Everything he did in ...
Tag: Social Justice
Op-Ed: Phil Jackson’s Recent Comments Speaks Volumes About Him
By: Zachary Draves In a world where we are prone to creating caricatures of public figures based on our own perceptions of who they are, we run the risk of ...
Bill Russell: Legend is a Celebration of a One Man Revolution
By: Zachary Draves He was basketball’s greatest winner in more ways than one. Three time NCAA champion with San Francisco University, 1956 Olympic gold medalist, and eleven NBA titles with ...
Op-Ed: LeBron and Kareem Will Always Share a Common Passion for Social Justice
By: Zachary Draves Now that LeBron James is the official all-time leading scorer in NBA history after surpassing Kareem Abdul Jabbar’s nearly forty year long record on Tuesday, it marked ...
Op-Ed: Athlete Activism Remains Vigilant After the Killing of Tyre Nichols
By: Zachary Draves “My grandfather had to deal with the cops My great-grandfather dealt with the cops My great grandfather had to deal with the cops And then my great, ...
Op-Ed: Because of Kyrie Irving, The NBA Needs to Draw a Line in the Sand and Actually Live Up to Its Supposed Values
By: Zachary Draves The exhausting, excruciating, and exceedingly endless drama that Kyrie Irving has brought to the NBA has fueled so much discussion around some legitimate and pressing issues. Specifically, ...
Bill Russell Demanded to be Seen as Fully Human
By: Zachary Draves He was a man who just happened to play basketball. He was a man who happened to help spur one of the greatest dynasties in all of ...
The Bomb Threats on HBCUs Can Be Seen as an Attack on Black Athletes
By: Zachary Draves In the light of the recent bomb threats against various Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), this ultimately reinforces the current state of race in this country ...
Brian Flores May Expose the NFL Once and For All
By: Zachary Draves Former NFL coach Brian Flores took a bold and courageous step when he filed a class-action lawsuit against the league alleging racial discrimination in its hiring practices. ...
Justice Has Been Served for Ahmaud Arbery But We Can’t Stop Won’t Stop
By: Zachary Draves It has been said that any victory is worthy of celebration and that is certainly the case with the killers of Ahmaud Arbery having met their maker. ...
