kansascity.com - 8/23/2008
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Few things are celebrated and exalted more vigorously in America than a dead black leader. So today, after Gene Upshaw died of pancreatic cancer Wednesday night, is probably his best day as executive director of the NFL Players Association.
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The Roundup: Bolt does it again, football ‘Bolts in trouble
The Big Lead —
... can’t get over his name. A track star named Bolt even trumps a library cop named Mr. Bookman, although Bookman is still the bigger badass. (FoxSports)
This Merriman injury keeps getting worse. (LA Times)
Darius Miles relaunches his career as a high school phenom with the Celtics. Finley and his cigar face stay in San Antonio. (USA Today)
Jason Whitlock, the guy really needs to write about something serious, always with the jokes. (Kansas City Star)
So who has begun penning their ’softball must ...
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Can't Stop The Bleeding —
... Noting the dichotomy between prior media criticism of the late Gene Upshaw and the tributes that followed his passing (”the long-time head of the NFLPA has been beaten up and vilified for a leadership style that was highly effective in the 1990s and new millennium but not stereotypically militant enough to please the media critics who hypocritically blast Al Sharpton and label any black man who chooses a different path a sellout”), the Kansas City Star’s Jason Whitlock insists, “few things are celebrated and exalted more vigorously in America than a dead ...
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Boston.com -- Football news 8/24/2008
Gene Upshaw's plan was to stage one more labor fight on behalf of the football players he represented over three decades before ensuring a smooth transition to a new executive director. His death last Wednesday, of pancreatic cancer, has altered the ...
