J.R. Smith just took a loss, and the NBA season hasn’t even started yet. The 2013 Sixth Man of the Year has been suspended the first five games of the season for violating the NBA’s drug policy.
Alex Rodriguez is truly a polarizing athlete. As one of the highest paid Major League Baseball players in league history, the scrutiny on him has touched various aspects of his career including his on field performance, vanity, womanizing, individual character and his choice use of words, or lack there of.
The hammer has fallen on Alex Rodriguez, but it’s not a lifetime ban. The New York Yankees third baseman has been suspended by Major League Baseball for the rest of the 2013 season and all of the 2014 season.
The infamous Drake and Chris Brown club brawl went down last summer, but its repercussions are still being felt. A pair of popular NYC clubs, WiP where the altercation went down and Greenhouse, which is around the corner, will be shuttered for 10 days.
Apparently, “YOLO” is still a thing. The acronym for a You Only Live Once got a Texas high school student suspended when he wrote it on an exam and tweeted the evidence to friends and school administrators.
Popular NBA analyst for ESPN and founder of Grantland, Bill Simmons, was suspended earlier this week for tweets criticizing one of the network’s flagship shows, First Take.
Carmelo Anthony’s day just got worse. The NBA has suspended the Knicks forward for one game without pay for “confronting” Kevin Garnett in Madison Square Garden after Monday night’s (January 7) game against the Boston Celtics.
What was Rob Parker thinking? Yesterday, the sports columnist made headlines for essentially questioning the Blackness of Washington Washington Football Team quarterback Robert Griffin III because of his white fiancée, Rebecca Liddicoat, while on ESPN’s First Take, among other reasons. Today, the network announced that is has suspended Parker for his comments.
In the weeks before his death Trayvon Martin had gotten into trouble for drug possession. According to his family’s lawyer, Benjamin Crump, the 17-year-old was suspended for 10 days from his Miami high school for having a small bag of greenery in his backpack. Though it wasn’t enough to get him arrested, the teen was […]
New data from the Department Of Education reveals that one out of five Black male students and just over one in 10 black female students face more suspensions and expulsions in public schools than their white counterparts, reports the New York Times. In a review of the numbers received from the Civil Rights Data Collection […]
In the days after contributing CNN political analyst and journalist Roland S. Martin fired off a few tweets during Sunday’s Super Bowl contest heard around the world, the network is suspending the outspoken pundit for comments deemed offensive by GLAAD. Although Martin formally apologized after GLAAD relentlessly called for his termination, CNN suspended the analyst […]
However, it looks like the beef between the past collaborators escalated after Gibbs was allegedly beaten by goons affiliated with…
One of Los Angeles Lakers' superstar LeBron James' most sought-after kicks will finally be available to the public.
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