When it comes to racial shakedowns, few organizations succumb on a grander scale than the National Football League. This tendency was on full display on Tuesday when NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and black rapper/business mogul Jay-Z announced a multiyear partnership “to enhance the NFL’s live game experiences and to amplify the league’s social justice efforts.” […]
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Will Nike’s Colin Kaepernick Campaign Backfire?
Buying a pair of athletic shoes shouldn’t be a political act. But Nike, the world’s largest maker of athletic shoes, thinks otherwise. And it might lose customers as a result. On Thursday evening, September 6, the company aired its widely anticipated two-minute “Just Do It”-themed ad on NBC-TV during the 2018 NFL season opener narrated […]
Teachers and Coaches Should Quit NEA to Protest Kaepernick Award
The National Education Association thinks Colin Kaepernick is an ideal role model. Many members, however, may take their loyalty elsewhere. And frankly, they should. On July 1, the NEA honored Kaepernick, along with several other persons and organizations, with a “Human and Civil Rights” award in recognition of the former pro-football star’s campaign “to fight […]
New NFL Policy on ‘Kneel-Down’ Protests Is Capitulation to Radicals
On the surface, it looks like a compromise. Underneath, it is a capitulation. Yesterday the National Football League and its 32 team owners announced the establishment of a new policy on the issue of player ‘kneel-downs’ during the playing of the national anthem to express solidarity with Black Lives Matter and other radical groups who […]
Radical Activists Cash in on $89 Million NFL Shakedown
The National Football League, a model of fecklessness, has taken the art of surrender to a new level. Last Wednesday evening, November 29, a group of team owners and black players reached a tentative plan to divert at least $89 million over seven years to various radical organizations. The move, an effort to placate the […]
NFL Owners About to Reward Goodell Despite Failed Leadership
In what is universally agreed to be the National Football League’s worst year, both on and off the field, in anyone’s long-term memory, team owners appear to be ready to reward Commissioner Roger Goodell with a sizable contract extension. The NFL’s reputation, for many years signified with pride by its “shield” logo, has been diminished […]
NFL Sponsors Punt on Anthem Controversy Despite Fan Outrage
Following in the footsteps of cowardice exhibited by the NFL’s owners, coaches, and media partners, the league’s corporate sponsors remained mostly mute following the offensive display by players who disrespected the symbols of American freedom by kneeling during the Star Spangled Banner. Friday night’s remarks in Huntsville, Ala. by President Trump, who called upon team […]
Atlanta Hedge Fund Manager Found Guilty, Kills Self
As far as swindlers went, the late Kirk Wright hadn’t quite ascended to the top of the mountain. But he was fast coming within range. Wright, 37, had started and run International Management Associates (IMA), an Atlanta-based hedge fund which came to amass somewhere between $150 million and $200 million in paper assets. The problem […]
Player Suit Against NFL, Union in Hedge-Fund Scam to Proceed
It’s become a familiar story. High-paid professional athletes, advised by aggressive financial managers, put their assets in investments that go bust. In football alone, casualties have included Tony Dorsett, Lawrence Taylor and the late Johnny Unitas. Now several former pro football players burned out of an estimated combined $20 million believe they have a case […]