President Donald Trump ventured to Madison Square Garden in his hometown of New York City on Monday night to watch Game 3 of the NBA Finals — where he was met with overwhelming boos from the crowd. Trump’s face was shown on the Jumbotron in center court during the early part of the National Anthem. As he stood saluting from a private box, the camera turned its attention on him…
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There was a time when Donald Trump wasn’t just welcomed at the world’s most famous arena but when his attendance was trumpeted. In that not-so-distant past, Trump, who was born in Queens, was a part of Manhattan’s fabric, a New Yorker through and through. “Donald! Donald!” the fans called as he rounded the glass partition of the hockey rink where the New York Rangers played. It was 1999, Wayne Gretzky’s last season. “The Apprentice” was five years away, the White House not even a glint in his eye. When he shook hands and nodded knowingly to the Madison Square Garden masses, they felt happy that their rich and famous neighbor acknowledged them.
But Monday night, as President Donald Trump smiled broadly and saluted while “TheStar-Spangled Banner” blared and his image was shown to masses on the big screen for nearly eight seconds before Game 3 of the NBA Finals?
Outright disdain.
Heckling, jeering from every part of the arena was focused like a beam of white, hot angry light into owner James Dolan’s luxury suite where Trump stood.
Heckling, jeering from every part of the arena was focused like a beam of white, hot angry light into the owner James Dolan’s luxury suite where Trump stood. Secret Service agents, who had commandeered the boxes on each side of the owner’s box, pressed their fingers to their earpieces, as if they were trying to hear above the noisy and disrespectful din.
The intensity of the Garden’s displeasure did not wane even when Trump’s granddaughter Kai was shown behind him. The president smiled and saluted throughout his cameo, as if he was impervious to the crowd that likely
Brian Flores was fired as head coach of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins in January 2022 after leading the team to back-to-back winning seasons, a feat the Dolphins haven’t accomplished since. Flores, now the defensive coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings, interviewed for but didn’t receive another head coaching opportunity. In fact, thanks to a misdirected text message from then-Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, Flores, a Black man, has evidence that the New York Giants had picked its coach before it interviewed him.
That sham interview, he argued in a February 2022 lawsuit alleging racial discrimination, is an example of the way NFL teams have navigated around the “Rooney Rule,” which the league implemented to ensure minority candidates are interviewed for leadership positions.
The NFL appealed that ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the justices declined Tuesday to hear the appeal.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last year that Flores’ lawsuit alleging systemic racism in the NFL when it comes to hiring, promotion and termination practices can move forward. The appeals court rejected the NFL’s position that Flores should go through the NFL’s arbitration process. The NFL appealed that ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court but the justices declined Tuesday to hear the appeal.
More than four years later, Flores, and other Black coaches who have joined his lawsuit, will have their day in court. And when that day comes, their lawsuit threatens to unearth an ugliness the league and its owners would rather keep secret.
But that’s not the only lawsuit that should have the league worried. Former Raiders head coach Jon Gruden is also suing the league in response to racist,
The NAACP called for Black collegiate athletes to boycott playing for the flagship public institutions in eight southern states this week, giving a boost of legitimacy to a problematic idea that had been circulating on social media for weeks. The proposed boycott is the civil rights organization’s response to Republican-controlled state legislatures in Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, and Georgia redrawing or threatening to redraw congressional maps to eliminate some or all of their majority-Black voting districts.
Those states, whose economies have long benefited from the toil of Black athletes at the public institutions funded by those legislatures, began rushing to change those maps after the Supreme Court’s recent gutting of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
The NAACP will not watch the same institutions that depend on Black athletic prowess to fill their stadiums remain silent while their states strip Black communities of their voice. NAACP PRESIDENT AND CEO DERRICK JACKSON
“The NAACP will not watch the same institutions that depend on Black athletic prowess to fill their stadiums and their bank accounts remain silent while their states strip Black communities of their voice,” NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson said in the statement announcing the initiative it’s calling “Out of Bounds.”
Boycotts have always sought to break the machinery of oppression by choking off the funding that lubricates it, and the money these states make on sports dominated by Black athletes is hefty. Louisiana State University, which produced athletes including WNBA star Angel Reese, Olympian Sha’Carri Richardson and NFL wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase, released a study that claimed its sports programs generated nearly a half-billion dollars in economic
Current and former World Cup soccer players have penned an open letter to FIFA, urging the sports governing body to address the heat stress that is expected to be felt by competitors during this summer’s games in North America and to take action to tackle the global climate crisis. The 2026 World Cup will take place in three separate countries — Canada, the United States…
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The internet unleashed its fury on Indiana Fever shooting guard Caitlin Clark over the weekend after she walked on stage Saturday night with country music star Morgan Wallen as he greeted a packed arena in Clark’s backyard: Indiana.
At issue for Clark are Wallen’s personal history and his choices. In 2020, Wallen ran afoul of Covid lockdown restrictions. The same year, he got kicked out of Kid Rock’s Big Ass Honky Tonk Rock N’ Roll Steakhouse in Nashville and was arrested for public intoxication and disorderly conduct. In 2024, he was arrested again — this time for throwing a chair off the balcony of another Nashville honky-tonk, a six-story bar. The piece of furniture crashed to the street below, narrowly missing two police officers. He entered a “conditional plea” and was sentenced to seven days at a DUI education center.
The biggest reason why Clark should have stayed home Saturday night is a 2021 video in which Wallen can be heard shouting the N-word.
This behavior alone probably should have been enough to make Clark — the WNBA’s most marketable star — think twice about appearing with Wallen. But the biggest reason Clark should have stayed home Saturday night is a 2021 video posted by TMZ in which Wallen can be heard shouting the N-word and other obscenities. As journalist Sarah Spain wrote on social media over the weekend about Clark, “If Morgan Wallen using the N word wasn’t enough for you to stop supporting him — (forget all the other terrible s*** he’s done!) — I don’t know what to tell ya.”
A week after TMZ published its video, and after his record