Category: Sports

The Indianapolis Colts should be thanking the football gods for a second chance at respectability—instead, they’re still waiting on their great White hope. Andrew Luck, the face of the Colts franchise and their star signal-caller, has been dealing with a debilitating shoulder injury since last year, and hasn’t played a down so far this season […]

A week ago, this writer stated that the Baltimore Ravens would own a 2-3 record by the end of Week Five. The way Baltimore’s offense looked in a humiliating 44-7 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars that week, there was just no way the Ravens would beat the explosive Pittsburgh Steelers in Week Four, nor the […]

The weather has finally turned, which means the long and tedious baseball regular season is finally over.  Now is when the fun begins. For Washington Nationals fans, however, October has become a house of horrors. After shocking the baseball world in 2012 with a league-best 98 wins, the Nationals were defeated in excruciating fashion by […]

The world’s most popular sport took some big hits last week. National anthem protests around the NFL drew down the Twitter wrath of Donald Trump, who unleashed a series of venom-filled tweets towards athletes against anthems. Athletes have responded viciously to Trump’s remarks, while many fans have not shown their support of those players. Boos […]

The Bowie State University Bulldogs remained undefeated after blowing out yet another opponent, this time with in a 64-31 victory over Fayetteville State on Sept. 30 in Fayetteville, N.C. It marked the third straight week that No. 21 Bowie State (5-0 overall, 2-0 Central Interscholastic Athletic Association(CIAA)) scored at least 60 points in a game, […]

CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert received “vile, disgusting” voicemails after LeBron James called President Donald Trump a “bum” on Twitter. Gilbert said he was flooded with phone messages when the NBA’s most celebrated player criticized Trump for rescinding a White House invitation to Golden State’s Stephen Curry to honor the team’s NBA […]

Upper Marlboro, Md.-based Frederick Douglass High School completely dismantled Largo High School, also located in Upper Marlboro, 38-3 on Sept. 23. Douglass sophomore Malik Petteway accounted for 170 all-purpose yards and scored three touchdowns including a 91-yard kickoff return to the house in the first half. Frederick Douglass High School sophomore running back Malik Petteway […]

MIAMI (AP) — The Miami Marlins are Derek Jeter’s problem now. FILE – In this Sept. 28, 2014, file photo, New York Yankees’ Derek Jeter speaks to the media after the last baseball game of his career, against the Boston Red Sox, at Fenway Park in Boston. Two people familiar with the vote say major […]

On a balmy afternoon in West Baltimore, Van Brooks and an exuberant gaggle of adolescents have gathered outside on a city sidewalk, preparing to race a soap box derby car. Paralyzed former high school football star Van Brooks. (Screengrab from news video/safealternative.org) The youngsters worked together to design, assemble and decorate the mini vehicle while […]

Ray Lewis, the shucker and jiver who admitted he told his team not to hire Colin Kaepernick; the man who condemned the entire NFL national anthem protests; the dunderhead who loudly proclaimed that “All lives matter”; the Pro-Bowl stepper and Hall of Fame-level fetcher of “it”; Ray muthafucking Lewis, who couldn’t wait to bury his […]

President Donald Trump struck a nerve with NFL players when he implored team owners to “get that son of a bitch off the field” for protesting during the national anthem. The line drew loud applause at the president’s political rally in Huntsville, Alabama, but the words cut deep into America’s most popular sports league, where […]