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The National Football League seeks to double down on politics despite the bad hand of anthem kneelers resulting in fans becoming boo-birds.

Colin Kaepernick blames collusion for sitting on the couch rather than standing in cleats this season.

When Courtney Love speaks as the voice of reason, the conversation (or in the case of Harvey Weinstein, the lack of one) tends to resemble competing nuthouse monologues.

Hillary Clinton reacted to the abuse scandal embroiling Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein by saying the American people elected someone guilty of sexual assault to the presidency.

The Philadelphia Eagles and Carolina Panthers went down to the wire. But fewer wires, and satellites and antennas, brought that exciting finish into homes than the similar conclusion between the Patriots and Buccaneers last week.

A conceit allowed Democrats, Hollywood, and the media to overlook the behavior of one of their own. Now they wear egg where they once wore superior expressions.

One of the greatest pre-Super Bowl era NFL quarterbacks passed away on Sunday night.

Vice President Mike Pence exited Lucas Oil Stadium early after 23 San Francisco 49ers players knelt for the national anthem on Sunday. He received more criticism than from the media the athletes refusing to rise.

Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas. What did Antifa ever do?

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced its nominees on Thursday. Several appear neither rock and roll nor famous.

Tom Petty died late Monday after suffering a heart attack on Sunday night. He leaves behind 20 albums, 14 top-40 singles, two daughters, and a wife.

Hugh Hefner gave off a more airbrushed quality than the girls in his magazine.

Men on battlefields fell defending the flag. Millionaires on playing fields refuse to rise to honor the flag.

Bruce Jenner reinvented himself as a woman. Rachel Dolezal declared herself black. Andrew Cuomo now calls himself an immigrant.

Coke doesn’t tell you to drink Pepsi. But the NFL tells the majority of its fans to spend their Sundays doing something else.

Colin Kaepernick and Roger Goodell hate Donald Trump. Whose side are you on?

Some pejoratives insult the speaker rather than the spoken about.

Aaron Hernandez’s fiancee, who now goes by the name of Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez, filed a lawsuit against the New England Patriots and the NFL on behalf of the daughter she shared with the late tight end.

Muhammad Ali left the sport of boxing with a shake and a huskier, slower speech. Benny Paret went from the ring to a hospital bed to a coffin.

Jake LaMotta, famously never knocked down in six brutal bouts with Sugar Ray Robinson, fell from pneumonia on Tuesday. He lived 95 interesting years.

At three Boston sports venues, where mostly white fans cheer mostly minority athletes, teams soon make spectators watch a video that seeks to rid them of their racism.

The most politicized Emmy Awards goes down in history as the lowest-rated Emmy Awards.

Whoever said “buy low, sell high” never said it to Jann Wenner.

Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta likened the Trump White House to a “clown car” in that “you are never sure who is getting out of the door” Thursday night on All in with Chris Hayes, an MSNBC program hosted by a zealous Democrat who just as zealously embraces the look of a Hale-Bopp Heaven’s Gate cultist.

A black-and-white banner partially eclipsed the Green Monster Wednesday night.

Thirty-nine years to the day that 653 fans paid for seats and just 250 showed up to an A’s game at the Oakland Coliseum, the team offers fans a chance to attend a game for free.

A month after September 11, students burned American flags at Amherst College. Sixteen years after 9/11, Amherst College Students used the anniversary of thousands of Americans murdered to call Americans murderers.

The Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA) blocked a group critical of animal-rights extremists from its annual conference this weekend despite such radicals targeting zoos and aquariums for extinction.

Los Angeles witch Vicky Adams leads thousands in a thaumaturgic conspiracy against the president of the United States every month.

Three Super Bowl-era teams completed a season winless. The prospects look good for a team without prospects looking that bad in 2017.

Banned in Boston soon claims another victim.

“I don’t want to see another cat or dog born.” Wayne Pacelle, the author of those few, strange words, does not officiate over a pitbull-fighting ring or binge-watch cartoons of Jerry torturing Tom. Pacelle delivers the keynote at the annual conference of the Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA) later this week in Indianapolis.

Beneath the economic issues on the surface of the Pullman Strike that gave birth to the federal government recognizing Labor Day lay ugly racial resentments brushed aside in the intervening 123 years.

The way some in the sports media see it, Floyd Mayweather, like so many robbers, wore a black ski mask while going to work on Saturday night robbing Rocky Marciano of his record.

If one wants to experience the Fourth Estate’s “Fall of the House of Usher” moment, go to the Newseum, that three-cheers-for-me monument to self-indulgence crumbling as an unintentional exhibit to the narcissism of journalists.

Conor McGregor stands to win the greatest return on a parlay bet in the history of Las Vegas despite losing his big gamble in the boxing ring.