ESPN was so much better before the Stephen A. Smith and Pat McAfee types came along.
Now it’s nothing more than what MTV became after they stopped actual music videos and just did reality tv.
Just be live sports and highlights.
Imagine the hate you have for a group of people or just anything irritating. Now multiply it x1000 for the anyone who has depression who hates themself.
There’s a line you don’t cross in life and Ryan Clark sprinted past it.
Ryan Clark didn’t like my take on Angel Reese hating Caitlin Clark. That’s fine. Disagreement is part of the game. But instead of debating my point, he personally attacked me and my family. That shows how low of person he is.
I gave a sports opinion: I said Angel Reese hates Caitlin Clark, based on repeated, visible actions on the court and in press conferences. I backed it up with five separate examples from the game of basketball because that’s what I do. I analyze sports. I stay in the arena.
Just because Angel Reese is Black doesn’t mean that her game and actions can not be critiqued.
A Black man or woman is not restricted from giving a sports opinion on another Black man or woman just because you don’t like it.
Everyone can give their opinion on everyone no matter what color they are.
We’ve got to be better in this space. Debate the game. Don’t play with people’s families. Because if you need to cross that line and attack the person and their family instead of the point just to win an argument, then you already lost.
Ryan Clark said I don’t understand the struggles of Black women because I’m married to a white woman. That’s wrong and way out of bounds.
He suggested I don’t value my wife as the woman I love, protect and raise a family with but only value her because of the color of her skin. That’s wrong and way out of bounds.
He implied that he, a man who has never sat at our dinner table, values my wife and knows my marriage better than I do. That’s wrong and way out of bounds.
He dismissed my Blackness because I have a different opinion about Angel Reese than he does. That’s wrong and way out of bounds.
He claimed that I’m not having conversations about the struggles of Black women in my own home because my wife is white. That’s wrong and way out of bounds.
We also raise Black daughters together and don’t teach them to hate people or disqualify their opinions based on the color of their skin.
He claimed that I want to appeal to a certain audience. The only audience I’m focused on is the audience of one, God. I support all people, not some people.
My support is not based on the color of someone’s skin, but the content of their character.
My sports opinions are not based on the color of someone’s skin, but from what I see and my experience as a player and analyst.
Let me be clear. It is wildly inappropriate, wrong and extremely low to weaponize and attack a person’s wife, marriage and their family because you disagree with a sports take.
I didn’t make it personal with Angel Reese. I didn’t drag her family. I didn’t question her soul. I spoke about basketball.
But Ryan? You crossed the line. You made it personal and some.
There should be no space in Sports Media for personal attacks and wives and children are alway off limits. You attacked me and my family in a public forum on a level that shows how low of a person you are.
Disagree with me all you want. Challenge my take. But keep my family and wife out of it. That’s a boundary that should always be respected.
Ryan Clark personally attacking me and my family personally over a sports opinion is cowardly, spineless, and weak.
Ryan Clark personally attacking me and my family personally over a sports opinion is a bad look for ESPN and for him as a man.
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Army veteran takes his life just one day after returning from his honeymoon with his wife, delivers his wife a final gift months later.
North Carolina woman Isabel Coles says her husband Christopher, took his life just four days after they got married.
"In the morning, he was folding laundry, and things were a little weird. I asked him what was wrong, and he said ‘Nothing.’ Then he went downstairs and tried to get out," she said, according to the New York Post.
"I stood at the front door and asked what was going on. He got out and started heading towards the woods."
Coles says she ran to get her shoes, but by the time she chased after him, he was gone.
His body was found in the woods the next day.
"He was very hard on himself, always pushing himself. There were no signs, it did take me really off guard."
Coles says three months after Christopher passed, she was delivered a bouquet of flowers on Valentine’s Day.
"In February, I got a flower delivery from him, and I freaked out. I contacted the florist, and they said he ordered the flowers in September."
Coles says she will be running in the Chicago Marathon in October to raise awareness for mental health through the American Foundation for Su*cide Prevention.
Vice President JD Vance has a powerful message for young men 🔥🔥
“My message to young men is don’t allow this broken culture to send you a message that you’re a bad person because you’re a man, because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends, or because you’re competitive.
Our culture “wants to turn everybody, whether male or female, into androgynous idiots who think the same, talk the same, and act the same.”
“We actually think God made male and female for a purpose, and we want you guys to thrive as young men, and as young women. And we’re going to help with our public policy to make it possible to do that.”
Amen.