Sport

Make way, internet, Oklahoma senator has some fake outrage over Lincoln Riley

Oklahoma Sooners fans are mad, including Oklahoma state Sen. Bill Coleman, who is looking to “honor” Lincoln Riley with by renam — wait what?! Say that again, internet, Coleman (R-Ponca City) is an Oklahoma State fan? And his planned backhanded slight of renaming a desolate 3-inch stretch of highway after the… Read more…

Sport

Trevor Bauer joins the worst people in America in celebrating Kyle Rittenhouse

Kyle Rittenhouse got away with murder, acquitted on all charges in the two killings that he admitted to last year, because he was able to convince a Wisconsin jury, with the help of a sympathetic-to-say-the-least judge, that he was acting in self-defense after having brought a rifle across state lines to play… Read more…

Tech

The blame game: How much are we responsible for recent wildfires?

Enlarge (credit: Kevin Key / Getty Images ) This summer, the Western United States saw a truly devastating wildfire season. Across the country , more than 48, 000 wildfires raged, damaging more than six million hectares of land. It would be nice to think that humans weren’t the primary cause of these events and that […]

Sport

Ron DeSantis is ‘Florida Man’

About once a month, you see a headline or hear about a story so absurd that it could only happen in one place – Florida. Well, here are a few more. Read more…

Entertainment

Here’s How Celebs Spent Memorial Day Weekend!

For many, Memorial Day Weekend 2021 marked one of the very first times out and about in 15 months. An unimaginable thing last February before the coronavirus pandemic first took hold in the United States! But here we are now with summer ahead of us and you and yours hopefully fully vaccinated and ready to […]

Sport

‘Bama fan’s COVID-19 related death following Men’s March Madness visit prompts Indiana health investigation

Luke Ratliff was an Alabama student and men’s basketball superfan known around campus as “Fluffopotamus.” Last week, he made the trip to Indianapolis to watch the Tide in the Sweet 16. Ratliff was in Butler’s Hinkle Fieldhouse on Sunday for the game. After UCLA pulled off the upset that night, he returned to… Read more…

Sport

White America still doesn’t get why athletes stand up for Black people

Even after Colin Kaepernick, Donald Trump, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, national protests, Jacob Blake, and the storming of the Capitol by homegrown American terrorists, a new poll has discovered that America — “the land of the free and home of the brave” — still isn’t fond of athletes taking a stand on racial,… Read more…

Sport

South Dakota’s Gov. Kristi Noem wants an anti-trans bill that’s even more anti-trans

It’s not worth pretending, even for a minute, that South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem had a sudden change of heart and developed a sense of humanity that led her to reject the state’s anti-trans sports act, House Bill 1217, one of many such initiatives being pushed in Republican-run states. Read more…