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No Player For Beaver Country Day

The NBA will open the preseason this coming week and the league’s commissioner declared that the players will be expected to stand during the National Anthem. The Lakers and Timberwolves linked arms in unity, but no one took the knee in protest of centuries of injustice against the black race. In 2014 Silver banned the […]

Jason Collins Comes Out

This week NBA basketball center, Jason Collins, announced in Sports Illustrated, “I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay.” This statement was the first outing for a major professional athlete and considered courageous by nearly everyone. Rarely a starter Jason Collins played with the Celtics and Wizards this season, his 12th in the […]

Celtics Versus Heat Game 6

Tonight the New Big Three of the Miami Heat will face elimination at the hands of the Old Big Three of the Boston Celtics in the Corporate Garden at North Station. The sell out crowd are expecting a victory from the Men in Green over the visitors. ESPN’s analysts have reassessed their previous judgment about […]