Athletes’ Racial Justice Protest Last Week Made History. But It Wasn’t the First Wildcat Strike in Pro Sports

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Clemente…the size of the bat he used…the size of his spirit.

Had to get that in there. Boricua fantastico

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And he had as good an outfield arm as anyone I’ve ever seen.

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“Brown called on the Wisconsin legislature to reconvene for a special session called by Gov. Tony Evers, to take action and address police accountability, brutality and reform.”

If you don’t know what a DISS is now you know.

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Jeebus. I don’t remember that, but it’s like there was a jet pack attached to that ball. And dead on target.

One of my favorite players of all time. And as good a man as there ever was.

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They are some ugly people in the Wisconsin GOP, they will pay for this crap in a big way. Hopefully in November

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He’s an “athlete” too.

In one instance, DeJoy’s son, Andrew, secured a slot on Duke University’s tennis team in 2014 while his parents wrote a series of large checks to the school’s athletic department.

The team was ranked 14th in the nation by the Intercollegiate Tennis Assn. and drew a host of top national and international prospects. But Andrew DeJoy was not one of them when he joined as a walk-on freshman months after the season started.

“It was a dream of mine since I was very little, but I wasn’t expecting to play,” Andrew DeJoy said in an interview published by the school’s athletic department in 2015. “I just emailed the coach and said I was willing to work hard over the summer if there was spot. Luckily … in the fall, things just worked out.”