This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Seen one way, Don Cherry and Colin Kaepernick lost their jobs in similar fashion, after widespread objections to their bringing politics into their respective games. Seen more clearly, the situations are completely different, as Mr. Cherry used his Hockey Night in Canada platform to broadcast a prejudiced diatribe unsupported by facts, while Mr.
These are just two recent examples of professional sports being used as a lens through which to view current affairs. Which is hardly a surprise, as sports have always reflected and refracted the day’s politics; African-American sprinter Jesse Owens’s 1936 Olympic success in a rising Nazi Germany is just one way-back example. What’s silly, but also unsurprising, are futile calls to keep athletics and politics separate. That’s impossible, and not desirable, either.
Ms. Rapinoe also referenced an ongoing gender discrimination suit against U.S. Soccer. The same day, she was quoted elsewhere criticizing a revamped pay structure that would benefit female soccer players – but only new signees, not thoseAs well, former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stoked the fire burning between China and the NBA.
In response, acting editor-in-chief Barry Petchesky filled the homepage with non-sports stories and was fired. The entire editorial team then resigned. The hollowed-out site that remains is now missing both fun commentary and real journalism – in 2014, Deadspin was one of the first outlets to obtain audio of then-L.A.
GlobeDebate 2 completely opposing issues! One disrespect the national anthem and all people of our country! The other...calling out the people going to a country to extract the milk and honey and not giving much back!
GlobeDebate Another bias story. Kaepernick lost his job because he was no good. Tones of players have taken a knee & still play in NFL, & no one had a problem with Cherry showing pictures of soliders or police officers who lost their lives, but now all of a sudden they do 🤣
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‘There is hypocrisy in all this’: Post readers defend Don CherryReaders have flooded our Letters to the Editor inbox with their reaction to the firing on Nov. 11 of controversial hockey icon Don Cherry. Here’s a sampling Nope. Not interested. Goodness...lets move on..we have better things to think about and do....the right decision was made Why are you still wasting time on this story. It's over. Help Don establish his own blog so he can sling his own ideas. See how that works out for him.
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Scott Stinson: Did Don Cherry just misspeak, or has he laid bare Canada’s divisions?If it is more than just a braying minority insisting Cherry was right about immigrants not fitting in, that says something about the problems Canada is facing both He told it how it is, people take for granted what they have. A proud member of Fordnation
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How Don Cherry resisted Canada's brownface - Macleans.caErica Ifill: Canadian hockey and Don Cherry walked hand in hand for 40 years without noticing that they lost an entire generation of highly diverse viewers Maclean's Magazine, how the hell do you even publish such an article and support such an attack, I have never seen anything stretched as bad as Erica has done. This was far from far right. This extreme feminist has a problem with the penis nothing more. This is an embarrassment This is complete nonsense, it has come to the point that a white, heterosexual, male who doesn't cross his legs like the PM is now a Nazi? I am no F'n Nazi and this association has got to stop. This was over the top, I won't ask for an apology, cause I don't need one. Your shame Don’t blame that on cherry. It’s just a white sport.
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Colby Cosh: Don Cherry, extremely inconvenient free-speech iconI will write what Cherry’s defenders know better than his critics, yet cannot admit: he was, for the last half of his career, a grotesque, preposterous spectacle Hey remember how Postmedia tells their papers to endorse the conservatives in elections? that would be true if DonCherry thought before he spoke. which he didn't or those were his actual thoughts. This is not a free speech issue.
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Small group of Don Cherry supporters protest his firing outside Rogers headquartersCherry supporters stood silently on the sidewalk outside Rogers headquarters on Wednesday with Canadian flags while others raised placards in the air Globe_Sports As much as I hate how it all went down, you brush against the line long enough and you eventually cross it Globe_Sports RACISTS UNITE! Globe_Sports 'Small group'? It was a larger group than the 'hundreds' you claimed protested Megan Murphy.
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