Sports At Politics

I will preface this blog post by saying that, as of this writing, some parts of the country may still be counting votes cast in the November 6, 2018 midterm elections, and there are runoff elections in Georgia (December 4) and Louisiana (December 8) for statewide office yet to be held. Also, this will be a living blog post of sorts until the end of the current calendar year, as I'll update and add information and analysis to this blog post throughout the month of December. However, one thing that is certain is that this year's midterm elections were monumentally excellent and historic for the Democratic Party , even if the blue wave didn't reach every corner of the country, or the blue wave wasn't as large as you might have predicted. The only major bright spot for the GOP nationally was the U.S. Senate races, where they flipped Senate seats in North Dakota, Missouri, Indiana, and, in a surprise, Florida. However, Democrats flipped Senate seats in Nevada and Arizona...

Due to the inability for Turner Sports's Bleacher Report Live (B/R Live) sports streaming service to allow everyone who had paid to stream the Tiger Woods vs. Phil Mickelson exhibition golf match yesterday because of a technical glitch affecting the purchase function of the B/R Live streaming service, B/R Live ended up providing the Tiger/Phil match for free to anyone with an internet connection: BREAKING: Source says Turner execs decided to give Phil-Tiger match away for free on B/R Live streaming platform (instead of $20 charge) when purchase function broke down to point where those who bought had trouble getting in. — Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) November 23, 2018 While the Tiger/Phil match itself was a classic, with Phil winning the match after four extra holes were needed to decided a winner, the match was a total disaster for Turner Sports and their B/R Live sports streaming service. The business model of the Tiger/Phil match as it relates to the B/R Live streaming serv...

After getting heavily criticized on Twitter, Arkansas State Rep. Stephen Meeks (R-Greenbrier) deleted a tweet in which he claimed that being poor is a personal choice, and that a homeless person can become a millionaire in 20 years by becoming a truck driver. Here is a screenshot of the now-deleted tweet that was captured prior to the tweet in question being deleted. It is inherently clear that Meeks does not understand poverty or the trucking industry. First off, being poor is not a personal choice. Some people, including me, are simply unable to find a good-paying job for any number of reason(s). I was born into a poor family, and, while I write at a grade level that is above average, I never had the right kind of intelligence to earn a college degree (remember that, while a college degree does not guarantee a good-paying job, it increases the odds of getting a good-paying job). While the late Dale Earnhardt, Sr. went from dropping out of high school to winning seven NASCAR seas...

The NCAA initially told Emily Scheck, an openly-lesbian cross-country runner at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, that she could either forfeit her eligibility and give up her ability to compete as a collegiate cross-country runner or return donations that she receive via GoFundMe that are, because her parents disowned her because of her sexual orientation, necessary for her to have a good standard of living. Here is how ThinkProgress initially reported about the NCAA's original decision regarding Scheck (proofreading mine): Emily Scheck, a cross-country runner at Canisius College in upstate New York, had to deal with this worst-case scenario when her parents discovered, through social media, that she was dating a woman: She was told to either return home so she could receive dehumanizing, harmful, and ineffective conversion therapy, or stay at school and be cut out of their lives forever, according to a report by Outsports. (Scheck) did not want to endure conversion th...

This will be my closing message, as a political blogger, before Election Day this year. As President of the United States, Donald Trump has completely disgraced America, and the Republican Party has enabled Trump's disgracing of this great country. It's almost impossible to count the ways that Trump has disgraced this country, but I'll list a large number of them. Early on in the Trump presidency, Trump crony Kellyanne Conway went on NBC's Meet the Press and helped set the tone for the entire Trump presidency by claiming that then-White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was using "alternative facts" to describe the crowd size at Trump's inauguration. Since then, it has become inherently clear that the entire Trump regime has been built on a pyramid of lies, deceit, fearmongering, and hatred. When it comes to immigration, Trump's policies and rhetoric pander to far-right extremists who want to end immigration to this country, even though America ...