Funny Things That Happened on Thursday 31517
Daily Dose Daily Dose: 3/15/17
Snoop Dogg is taking figurative shots at the president
3:00 PMNosotros taped some other All Twenty-four hour period Podcast this week, and this time we discussed the new video surfaced from Michael Brown's concluding days alive in Ferguson, Missouri, and, of course, the life and legacy that is LaVar Brawl and his family unit.
Can y'all imagine what the outcry would be if @SnoopDogg, failing career and all, had aimed and fired the gun at President Obama? Jail time!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 15, 2017
Snoop Dogg has upset the establishment. The longtime rapper, now amusement icon, took part in a video in which the major premise involves a character, a clown, whose name is Donald Clump. In that location'south a scene in which Snoop uses a toy gun to shoot the clown and a flag comes out that says, "Blindside." Meanwhile, the president got wind of this and allow the Twitter chopper fly, because that's what he does. Also, his boy Sen. Marco Rubio decided to get involved, see, considering he likes hip-hop and is thus the GOP's rap culture critic in chief.
Ice Cube's 3-on-3 league is picking up steam. Not merely has he gotten a agglomeration of old-school NBA players to sign on, but at present, he's picked upwards some other legend to bus: Dr. J. In all honestly, nobody is going to exist tuning in for the bodily basketball. The fundamental will be using this every bit a vehicle for other entertainment acts, which will allow the demographic that listens to say, Backspin on SiriusXM, to spend their dollars. It'southward a huge market. Information technology'll demand to be more than than the hoops since, you lot know, injury and fatigue will obviously exist a cistron.
Pi Mean solar day is clumsily nerdy, only it's fun. March fourteen, every bit identified as three/fourteen, is also apparently the numerical doppleganger to ฯ, the mathematical constant. Some people take this lilliputian mean solar day more seriously than others. The pizza company &pizza decided to make a huge deal of this and ready a pop-up chapel, and folks really showed up to become married in a fast-casual eating house. But the Colorado Rockies took things a step further and we're totally here for it. Check out how they decided to line up for the national anthem on Tuesday.
Leaving this hither to run on a loop.https://t.co/RabVnkob9g #WBC2017 pic.twitter.com/N0OyIvJ3Q9
— MLB (@MLB) March fifteen, 2017
If you aren't watching the World Baseball Classic, I feel sorry for you. The tournament has been tremendous so far, and Tuesday night's tilt betwixt Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, well, you missed that incredible play above and you lot haven't seen some side nations do pretty well. But when information technology comes to development in the baseball earth, not everything is equal. For example, for Dominicans of Haitian descent, landing that spotter'southward centre is a much more difficult proposition.
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Java Suspension: Every bit a child, Gang Starr was one of my favorite groups. The group's album, Daily Operation, is still a desert island choice for me. For people who don't know, Primo is from Texas and Guru was from Boston. If you didn't know that, this minidocumentary well-nigh them volition certainly be something you enjoy.
Snack Time: Activeness Bronson might be plenty to get me on Snapchat. The rapper-turned-television receiver host has a new evidence out — a matchmaking one — being designed exclusively for the app. Sounds like fun.
Dessert: Simply put #LilUziVertChallenge into your Twitter search and thank me later, fam.
Basketball LaVar Ball says he could have beaten Michael Jordan back in the twenty-four hour period
And he wants a $ane billion endorsement contract for his sons
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Don't always accuse LaVar Brawl of non aiming high. The father of UCLA'southward Lonzo Ball has fabricated his presence felt in contempo weeks, and this time he's set an request price for his sons' sneaker bargain: $1 billion. Somehow, this is the least outlandish thing he's said all twelvemonth.
There was the initial declaration that his son, Lonzo, only had plans to play i year before going pro, an clumsily assuming annotate for a sport where fate and futures can plough on a dime. And so, he claimed that Lonzo was better than Stephen Curry. He famously alleged that Lonzo would only exist playing for the Los Angeles Lakers. Post-obit that, he got into a public spat with Charles Barkley, a feud that felt like two uncles arguing at the cookout. Almost recently, he claimed that he himself was a better basketball game player than Michael Jordan back in his solar day, which is laughable.
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Can nosotros end asking Lavar Ball questions when we already know he not backing downwardly from annihilation.
— ๐๐ ๐๐๐ (@KofieYeboah) March xiv, 2017
The apparel contract stuff is real business, though. For his three sons: Lonzo, LiAngelo and LaMelo, he's asking for the x-effigy number from one of the large companies and says that if they don't get information technology, they'll start their ain. Some accept speculated that his loud antics could potentially hurt his sons' future college or pro careers. LaVar himself says he's not doing anything more than than protecting his kids from exploitation. His approach brings to listen two other patron saints of blackness sports parenting, Earl Woods and Richard Williams.
Woods was known for his driving way on Tiger, who eventually grew upwardly to revolutionize the golf earth. Williams was even more maligned, as he was coaching and raising not one, simply two girls in Venus and Serena, who'd eventually become the 2 most popular tennis players on world by a broad margin. In short, the methods to their madness were effective.
Just the Assurance are in a dissimilar state of affairs. For one, they're playing basketball game, a sport that'due south already undergone its cultural smash for the virtually part. We're not talking almost primarily land-club sports that for various socioeconomic and cultural reasons had not accepted dark-brown faces for the most function. Information technology's basketball game. At this point, Lonzo is only another kid who might go No. 1 overall in the NBA draft, while LaMelo, the youngest is non bolstering his reputation by scoring 92 points in high school game under questionable circumstances. Of class, there'south also LiAngelo, the forgotten Brawl.
Maybe if I had a dad like Lavar Brawl I wouldn't be on here everyday seeking your approving
— yc (@yc) March thirteen, 2017
LaVar Ball has 3 kids, all receiving full ride scholarships, and the eldest is going be #Top5 in NBA Typhoon. He deserves adulation– not scorn. picture.twitter.com/AV3IL9STUm
— LEFT⚫️ (@LeftSentThis) March 13, 2017
But if his three sons turn out to be something similar Tiger Woods, Venus and Serena Williams and, say, LeBron James combined, then that $1 billion number isn't that outlandish. People are already saying that Lonzo is the second coming of Magic Johnson, which on its own, if true, makes his starting indicate in negotiations understandable. Ultimately, that's the issue — there's no way to know if that'll be the case.
Don't wait LaVar to dorsum down. You lot might poke fun at the way he operates, including down to the way he named his kids, but he's just continuing a family tradition. His own brothers are named LaFrance, LaValle, LaRenzo and LaShon. He won't exist backing down but because a couple of people think he's too loud. At half dozen-foot-6 and 320 pounds, I'm not certain a lot people are going to be able to brand him do and then, either.
Daily Dose Daily Dose: 3/xiv/17
Larry Sanders is ready to play ball again
two:15 PMA adept role of the nation is covered in snowfall, then hither'south to hoping that everyone out there is safe and has enough food to last a couple of days should that become an issue in coming days. Snow days are fun, only tin can be very annoying.
Rep. Steve Rex is riding for all the wrong things. Afterwards maxim that he didn't want to rebuild this country with "someone else'due south babies," he's doubled down. No. 1, he made it clear that he meant exactly what he said, in all of its white supremacist celebrity and, secondly, he's added to that by pointing out that he doesn't recollect this will ever be a so-called minority-majority nation, because blacks and Latinos volition be also decorated fighting with each other for that to happen. That'southward nearly as reckless a statement equally we get from a congressman.
If nosotros're ever going to get to Mars, there'southward ane thing nosotros take to think near: procreation. Because if we're going to be inhabiting the red planet, as information technology seems so many people are looking to do, it's non going to be enough to just keep shipping people out there to keep the place populated. Someone's going to have to start having babies, born every bit Martians. Which means that the business of sexual activity in space is a serious one. And the science behind how that would work for humans is actually fascinating.
Last week, it was the 20th anniversary of Biggie's death. We'll always beloved Big Poppa, of course, but one of the women who held him down during his fourth dimension was of grade his wife, Faith Evans. It's sad considering unfortunately her music career has always been sort of overshadowed by the fact that she is B.I.G.'s widow, but Evans has bangers, y'all. If anyone can give y'all a reasonably level-headed breakdown of what exactly was going on in those hectic years of regional battles in rap, she tin. She sabbatum downwardly with Desus & Mero to talk about the sometime days.
A couple of years dorsum, Larry Sanders walked away from the NBA. At the time, he'd violated the league'due south drug policy a few times and ostensibly left basketball game due to mental health issues. It was a tough story considering many couldn't understand why he'd leave and then much money on the tabular array in the prime of his career. But, in the time since, he's emerged every bit an creative person of multiple disciplines. Now, he's coming back. The eye has signed with the Cleveland Cavaliers, who demand aid after Andrew Bogut'south flavour-ending injury. It's a heck of a gamble, to say the least.
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Java Break: In that location was a time when The Big Bang Theory was a major office of my life. I loved that show. I grew away from it and since then it's become one of the about pop shows in America. At present, CBS is launching a prequel series for Sheldon's grapheme, which is all wrong. That needs to be set aside for Raj. Come on, y'all.
Snack Time: Toads get a bad rap. Somewhere along the line they were associated with ugliness, which doesn't assistance their cause. But, for the well-nigh role, they're pretty arctic. Cheque out this story of a guy who makes hats for i. Dearest it.
Dessert: Behold, the all-time GIF from the White Firm Printing Room of all time.
Locker Room Lawyer, Episode 14: Andre Iguodala and the N-give-and-take
The 2015 NBA champion recently delivered some racially charged postgame remarks
five:50 PMIn this week's edition of Locker Room Lawyer, Clinton Yates and Domonique Foxworth take the instance of Golden State Warriors swingman Andre Iguodala to The Undefeated courtroom.
During a postgame interview after the Warriors' 103-102 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves on March 10, Iguodala delivered the following racially charged remarks.
"We gotta score more than the other team. Yep, they want dumb n—-s, so I'm going to give y'all a impaired n—-south."
"Nope, no clue. I exercise what master say," Iguodala said subsequently he was asked whether he knew he and three of his All-Star teammates would exist sitting the next night.
Couple interesting postgame Andre Iguodala quotes tonight pic.twitter.com/4F44eZnVtM
— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) March eleven, 2017
Iguodala'south comments might have been a poor choice, only neither Steve Kerr nor our Locker Room Lawyer Domonique has a problem with what he said. Clinton doesn't either, then in that location isn't much of a argue. Just we discuss the matter anyhow. Later the taping of this episode, the NBA penalized Iguodala for his words:
Warriors frontwards Andre Iguodala has been fined $10,000 by the NBA for making inappropriate comments during a postgame media interview.
— Marc J. Spears (@MarcJSpearsESPN) March thirteen, 2017
Cheque out the video, and if y'all have whatever professional person athlete in mind (by or present) who needs the Locker Room Lawyer'due south representation, feel gratuitous to e-mail usa at allday@andscape.com with episode ideas. Besides, check out our weekly All Solar day Podcast, equally well as Domonique and Clinton every Sun on The Forenoon Roast.
Blackness Lives Matter Video calls Michael Brownish 'robbery' in Ferguson into question
Not that he deserved to die over the matter, anyhow
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New footage challenges the police narrative that #MikeBrown committed stiff-armed robbery! https://t.co/LTD4QjqnqY moving picture.twitter.com/kKSFjC4nv8
— Ashton P. Woods (@AshtonPWoods) March 12, 2017
What if I told you lot that the entire of the case against Ferguson, Missouri'southward Mike Brown was built on a prevarication? Some of you would say that such a thing was obvious. Others would say that yous needed proof. Probably fifty-fifty more of you would say that regardless of whether he committed a petty crime, he certainly didn't deserve to be shot expressionless in the street past a police officeholder.
At present, we know what happened the day before Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson killed Brownish. To review, in case y'all forgot nigh the shooting that sparked the #BlackLivesMatter motion, the entire situation started similar this. Wilson was responding to a robbery call when he approached Brownish. That commutation clearly ended with Brown expressionless and bleeding in the street, with Wilson stating that he feared for his life and thus had to kill him.
If you are surprised that the police lied near #MikeBrown, you're one of the reasons the protests in #Ferguson & beyond were so necessary.
— Sam Whiteout (@samwhiteout) March 12, 2017
Mike Brownish was in a bodega trading weed for cigars. Weed, you know the stuff making dispensaries millions of dollars? That stuff.
— ๐น Ferrari Aristocracy Sheppard (@stopbeingfamous) March 12, 2017
Simply every bit for the case, there's new evidence from a movie by filmmaker Jason Pollock chosen Stranger Fruit, which shows the initial purpose of stopping Brownish at all might exist in question, thus leading to a couple different issues. No. 1: Why did the police telephone call this a strong-arm robbery to begin with? And, secondly, how is it possible this video is just now coming to light?
This New York Times story explains the blow by blow, but the gist of information technology is that Chocolate-brown returned the next day to pick up something that was his based on an arrangement made before. He didn't but walk in common cold off the street and decide to outset arguing and pushing people to steal cigars. One can see how omitting that large part of the story would be disquisitional in smearing someone's name, which is exactly the tactic that leads g juries to not charge officers in fatal shootings. The law enforcement official gets the benefit of the doubt, while the victim who tin can no longer speak for himself is painted as "no angel."
Heed you, this is all predicated on the notion that even if he had washed all this, would it have been reasonable to gun him downwardly in the street? It was non. Later the nation protested and people started whipping out cellphones everywhere in social club to protect themselves, we see it happen with enough regularity to give major pause. Not that black folks haven't been telling people this for years — just whatever.
I don't empathize why the Mike Brown video is being treated every bit a revelation. He shouldn't accept been harassed and murdered to brainstorm with
— Ur Fat Uncle (@themrd81) March 12, 2017
https://twitter.com/GaziKodzo/status/841034238287843328
Whether he robbed a store or not, Brown's life was stolen from him. The fact that he didn't rob it and everyone at an official level knew it and did their best to suppress it is merely more heartbreaking in the context of the value of black life.
Daily Dose Daily Dose: iii/13/17
Michelle Obama gives a little help to Yara Shahidi
12:30 PMThe Morning Roast produced a fantastic photograph this week, which features me, Domonique and Mina riding on a motorcycle with a sidecar. Y'all've got to listen to the episode to get it, but information technology's actually pretty funny, stand-alone.
I wouldn't be able to tell you who wrote my college recommendations if I tried. What I exercise remember, even so, was that being one of the nearly stressful and shameful experiences of my life. Nothing says, "I've wasted my whole high school career" like not knowing where to begin on that front, merely luckily it worked out, I guess. Just for black-ish actor Yara Shahidi, she drew upon a rather crawly resource in her quest for higher instruction: Michelle Obama. I mean, I can't imagine that anyone volition say no, at that bespeak.
Rep. Steve Male monarch (R-Iowa) is living in a different time. For whatsoever reason, he decided to testify solidarity with a Dutch politician who is looking to "de-Islamize" the Netherlands should he be elected to the land's acme post. By doing then, he drew on some hyperracist philosophies, saying "Nosotros can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies." If yous're wondering, yes, that's a mindset rooted in white nationalism with a little sprinkling of supremacy on top. Even other Republicans are saying he's mode out of pocket.
Hither'southward the thing nearly President Donald Trump'south "America First" outlook: Information technology'south not effective. Hypernationalist economic policies never really have worked, because, call up about it, isolation is just a impaired way to try to make money. Guess what! I can do everything myself! Oh, yeah, well you tin likewise sell those things to yourself because no one wants to deal with that. Certain industries, aka most, tin can't survive without global participation. Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party ruined Federal republic of germany's fashion industry and some are worried that Trump's America might exercise the same here.
NASCAR is full of thugs. That'southward what people would say if most of the drivers weren't white guys, but alas, they're simply hard-nosed men who dear to grind, correct. In all seriousness, these pit row fights have go what feels like a regular part of the racing these days. This time it involved Joey Logano and Kyle Busch. At this point, they might also make it an official part of the race. Just ready two guys up in an ad-hoc boxing ring right at that place on the infield, and let willing participants duke it out.
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Coffee Break: In 2017, music radio program directors aren't the ones moving the needle when information technology comes to picking the music that tops the charts. That tastemaker job now has been taken over by those that curate playlists for streaming music services. Check out this profile of Spotify's Tuma Basa.
Snack Time: I don't like to make fun of guys and their weight problems afterward they leave whatever league they play in, but this tweet near Antoine Walker is funny.
Antione Walker built similar somebody grandma now moving-picture show.twitter.com/C6nu8kcSwt
— TG. (@TGTheTruth) March xiii, 2017
Dessert: Here's a story about the life of a Jesuit-owned slave from Maryland in the early 1800s. For perspective.
What Are Those?! What Are Those?!: 3/10/17
John Ross' tape-setting 40-grand dash in Nikes and Paul George's debut signature sneaker
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Marcus Matthews is dorsum from vacation. You know what that means? A new What Are Those?! podcast! Marcus returned from a trip to Republic of colombia, joining me to chop it up virtually what types of sneakers he packs for trips and the key to finding exclusive shoes in any given destination.
On this week's testify, we also hash out the conclusion of former University of Washington wide receiver and NFL draft prospect John Ross to wear Nikes instead of Adidas cleats while running the fastest 40-m dash in the history of the NFL combine. Ross ran a four.22, breaking Chris Johnson's nearly 10-twelvemonth-quondam record, and if he would've worn the Adizero 5-star 40 cleats while doing and then, Adidas would've given him his own $ane million island. Nope. He went with the Nike Vapor 4.2 cleats, and his reason behind not going with Adidas is glorious.
John Ross response on why he didn't wear Adidas shoes and try to win island is FANTASTIC! ๐๐๐motion-picture show.twitter.com/Kz4G5jZT4k
— TotalProSports (@TotalProSports) March iv, 2017
Adidas afterwards John Ross ran that time in a pair of Nike. pic.twitter.com/NYkw1XIxBG
— Jacques Slade (@kustoo) March 4, 2017
Next up is a what we all dear to do when it comes to sneakers: Contend! Nike recently debuted the first signature sneaker in Indiana Pacers star Paul George's career. The question is, Should PG-13 actually have his own shoe? Marcus argues why he shouldn't. I argue why he should.
Lastly, if there's i matter we learned this week, it's that Marcus is holding out on the heat! He's got a pair of "Must Be The Beloved" LeBron Xs that he's only worn a few times. He'south thinking almost selling them. Right now, they're on eBay from $1,650. What should he do?
Give information technology a listen, and if y'all have any feedback or bear witness ideas, feel free to email us at allday@andscape.com.
Daily Dose Daily Dose: 3/ten/17
Nicki Minaj replies to Remy Ma, sort of
3:00 PMIf you missed The Morning Roast filling in for The Right Time with Bomani Jones, you tin check out all three hours. Nosotros're on again this afternoon from 4 to vii p.m. EST. You can listen live hither.
Nicki Minaj is taking a different route. Expect, how she chooses to accost her beef with Remy Ma is her selection, but she's taking an interesting path to an endeavor at victory. Afterwards Remy Ma came for Nicki'south whole life with "shETHER," the latter took quite a bit of fourth dimension to reply. Now, she has, only with 3 divide songs, two of which are collaborations. Ultimately, she's probably fabricated the better tracks, which will gain her more cash in the long run, but in the world of musical insults, this wasn't exactly an earthshaker.
Nicki should have put EJ on the runway… #NoFrauds pic.twitter.com/XVYTHT22me
— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) March 10, 2017
Hither's the thing virtually Leave . Information technology'southward the circumstance that'southward the well-nigh terrifying, not the specific jump-out moments. The premise seems normal, then something extremely bizarre seems to be unfolding, only to give way to something far more sinister that, if yous were paying attention, you might accept seen all forth. Only equally extreme every bit that conclusion is, it only works because the plausible deniability of the situation existence real actually makes sense. You know why? Because black folks go missing all the fourth dimension and nobody cares.
The dreaded hour lost to sleep is here over again. Daylight savings time, the affair that'due south been responsible for so many missed classes, botched chore interviews and otherwise blown appointments is coming up this weekend. For some people, the alter is life-altering. Slumber schedules are not easy to institute, and i switch of the clock can throw yous all off. It doesn't bother me that much personally anymore specifically, but when I was in high school it was the death of me. Here are some tips for surviving the change.
So, the Washington NFL franchise is notwithstanding up to no expert. On Thursday, Washington fired Scot McCloughan and did then with all the grade in the world. Sike. A team official completely threw the quondam full general director under the bus, claiming that he was such a abiding drunk that it was impossible to work with him. Meanwhile, the culture there amidst the front office wasn't any different. Back on the field, now, quarterback Kirk Cousins has signed with the team, which means that if the team want to start shopping him, it can. What a mess.
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Java Pause: It never ceases to amaze me when countries discover massive monuments or statues but chilling underground or underwater. And, at present, in a Cairo slum, archaeologists accept uncovered a massive statue that just from the flick looks like it'll take a while to unearth.
Snack Time: If you've somehow managed to get in this far throughout the twenty-four hours without seeing this video of a dad talking on television and then having his kids bust into the room, you must alive nether a rock. It'due south hilarious.
Dessert: Here'southward a great video to go your weekend started, kiddos. The Weeknd in full Michael Jackson mode.
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