Scoop Jackson
What most refuse to see is the beauty of the skin she chooses to live in. A skin at this point millions-on-millions thought she’d shed like most other Black athletes when their fame introduces itself to fortune.
For the first time ever on the same day, starting five hours apart, the most popular sport in the world will crown champions. Preceding both of those championships is maybe an even bigger, more prestigious one: the gentlemen’s final at Wimbledon.
For the actuality that there has been “change,” we can only say, “Thank you.” But now that we have early evidence of what change looks like to the Bulls, we can only plead, “Make it make sense.”
One has to seriously work hard to find compassion for the Cubs becoming one of the more (most?) disappointing teams of the season so far.
It’s something that Gragg and the university, when asked, publicly deny. Yet, it has been believed and framed by us — the media — differently.
It doesn’t seem like Shannon is going to personally have a problem putting the falsehood and what he had to go through because of the falsehood behind him. Unknown is whether the rest of the world finds the ability to do the same.
A man with a rep who will be using these next three to six games to try to erase a narrative about himself. It might be impossible unless he becomes someone he’s not.
Because as much as a wrong has been righted here, there’s that tinge of “allowance” and “integration” and “incorporation” that doesn’t sit well.
This is strictly about the NCAA as one of the most powerful governing bodies in America not allowing the current financial ecosystem to move forward without it. This, at the end of the day, is all about all the NCAA knows: power and control.