Carolina Panthers coach Steve Wilks has had one of the most successful NFL interim coaching stints in decades. Wilks should be more than interim.
Author: Mike Freeman, USA TODAY
‘Did we win?’ Damar Hamlin’s story has pierced our tribalism and our hardening cynicism | Opinion
Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin has made us all stop and appreciate life and love. Most of all, many Americans have rallied around this moment.
Tragic moment with Bills safety Damar Hamlin reminds us NFL players are human | Opinion
There are many times we don’t think of NFL players as human beings. The injury to Buffalo’s Damar Hamlin should change that forever.
Brittney Griner biggest sports story of the year: ‘She’s really special’| Opinion
Brittney Griner is the biggest sports story of the year and she also represents a continuing problem: the pay disparity between WNBA and NBA players.
Franco Harris’ historic play not only thing that was immaculate; his career was, too | Opinion
Franco Harris’ remarkable play is perhaps greatest in NFL history. But as we remember his life, we shouldn’t forget just how great a player he was.
We cannot allow ourselves to forget Brittney Griner as she sits in Russian penal colony | Opinion
Brittney Griner has started her nine-year prison sentence at a penal colony in Mordovia. We shouldn’t forget her as she disappears into that hellhole.
Colts hiring Jeff Saturday as interim head coach is slap in the face of Black coaches | Opinion
The Indianapolis Colts hired former player Jeff Saturday as interim head coach. In doing so, the team passed over far more qualified Black candidates.
Black athletes and my community’s blind spot when it comes to antisemitism | Opinion
There is a strain of antisemitism that runs through the Black community. We’ve seen it from Black athletes like Kyrie Irving, and it has to stop.
Kanye West’s story is about hate and how a Black man should know not to traffic in it | Opinion
In the end, this ugly Kanye story is about one thing: hate. It’s also about how a Black man, of all people, should know better than to traffic in it.
Kanye West’s story is about hate and how a Black man should know not to traffic in it | Opinion
In the end, this ugly Kanye story is about one thing: hate. It’s also about how a Black man, of all people, should know better than to traffic in it.