The Cincinnati Bengals once were a team, not that long ago, that the NFL could tout as a sign of progress with coaching diversity, rather than being an example of all that is still wrong, writes @nrarmour https://t.co/OUnQjVyYS7

— USA TODAY Sports (@usatodaysports) September 29, 2022

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Former Cincinnati Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis, left, was the NFL's seventh Black coach. His staff, including special assistant to the head coach Hue Jackson, right, continued the team's history of championing diversity.

Hue Jackson was a champion of diversity. As a head coach of the Cleveland Browns, he proved that Black men could also be the worst to ever do their jobs by going 3-36-1 over the course of two and a half seasons.

The Bengals have the least-diverse staff in the NFL this season, with non-white coaches making up 24% of Zac Taylor’s staff. No other NFL staff has less than 30% non-white coaches.

Now I ain't no fancy mathematically-inclined city slicker, but I do believe that those numbers are not very far apart.

White coaches at the “thinking person” positions and Black men in the running back and wide receiver rooms?

Is this b-word implying that runningbacks and wide receivers are stupid? She may be right, but she's got some balls to say so, if I say so!

Yet no one’s going to say too much or look too hard because Taylor led the Bengals to their first Super Bowl appearance since 1989 last year, so whatever he’s doing — and whoever he’s doing it with — must be working.

Yeah, it's funny how that works. Go 0-7 in the playoffs with a Black head coach over 16 years and people want to fire him, but go to the Super Bowl with the NFL's least diverse staff and no one seems too keen on shaking things up. I can't puzzle it out.

Now, this isn’t to say owner Mike Brown, who also acts as the Bengals GM, or Taylor are racist.

Now, I would NEVER accuse you of being racist! I would simply write an article on USAToday strongly implying it.

The author of this piece, Nancy Armour, never once mentions the 16 year long playoff win drought that led to Marvin Lewis's firing. His firing is only mentioned in a passing line about Zac Taylor replacing him in 2019. If you knew nothing about the Bengals or the NFL coming into this article, I wonder what conclusions you might draw from that.

If Southgate leaves after Qatar and England want to win the European Championship, they have a ready-made replacement: someone they already employ, who has twice won the European Championship. https://t.co/T5N6J0fe8x

— Michael Cox (@Zonal_Marking) September 29, 2022

https://x.com/JackJoseph95/status/1575383819695292416?t=WE6hvvLKEsox0BMxyNrVRw&s=19

https://x.com/steevjames/status/1575384330540556290?t=A6xReiByoow3Ph7Fby_jkQ&s=19

https://x.com/Jacobkrich/status/1575385924841635840?t=aDOBATWXN4-B4dnz_RM06A&s=19

https://x.com/genwilliams/status/1575402499443499015?t=h6aYQAW1qcszmrlcVoo9Bw&s=19

https://x.com/OLC517/status/1575414755128496131?t=wB9OUkAcKWp6S_1-v-j6gA&s=19

https://x.com/anyaxhudson/status/1575421288822226950?t=ZVjUVDxOoOT-L9JQwBWfWQ&s=19

https://x.com/LS22_CAFC/status/1575416660772659202?t=7cKiK-jAobjy-wn9YCkgUw&s=19

I could go on but just take a look yourselves, basically every reply is a disagreement from both directions

Lmao

Anthony Edwards apologizes for the anti-gay comments he made during the offseason.

"I respect everybody. I know what I posted was immature. And I’m sorry for that, if I hurt anyone." pic.twitter.com/YVo2deeNc8

— ESPN (@espn) September 26, 2022

Source of conflict:

The NBA has fined Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards $40,000 for making anti-LGBTQ remarks in a video on his Instagram account. In it, Edwards, who was in a vehicle and being recorded, rolls down a car window and calls a group of shirtless men “queer."

Video has been deleted but it's on TikTok if you search "Anthony Edwards saying queer".

We've got tempers boiling over at @MartinsvilleSwy

Andrew Grady takes out his frustration on Davey Callihan after an accident in Heat 1@FloRacing pic.twitter.com/DeBkUQ27Xy

— NASCAR Roots (@NASCARRoots) September 24, 2022

Bills offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey didn't get the memo about destroying tablets pic.twitter.com/Yi3LRkTYLy

— Christian D'Andrea (@TrainIsland) September 25, 2022

SNEEEEEEEEED pic.twitter.com/9xSJyZJe0n

— Kansas City Chiefs (@Chiefs) September 25, 2022

Thanks to Tom Brady, all 32 teams received a memo from the NFL this week threatening punishment for breaking tablets and/or other league-issued equipment, per @JayGlazer.

— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) September 25, 2022

"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of the human mind"

I hate Clemson but that game was fun to watch. too bad Wake Forest cant run the ball

Frick ESPN for interrupting the games today and Frick the Yankees too.

Also Auburn still fricking sucks

Generated from TLDR This:

For most of his life, former President Donald Trump has been obsessed with football.

There are failed bids to become the owner of an NFL team, taking control of the New Jersey Generals in a past version of the USFL, and calling players like Colin Kaepernick who knelt during the national anthem to protest systemic racism a “son of a b-word” before becoming an insurrectionist piece of shit that’s accurately called one of the worst Commander in Chiefs in America’s history.

He’s famous for his “executive time” where he watched Fox News instead of running the country.

Describing things as “one-hundredth of 1%” isn’t precise language, but Trump got the details right about the Jets’ comeback.

So, just let the insane geriatric man ramble.

There is a difference from overrated national teams like Germany, England and Spain and actual top teams like Portugal, France, Brazil and Argentina

After cross-referencing the entire active UFC roster with USADA's athlete test history database, I found that Conor McGregor was the lone active fighter, (aside from some athletes who signed after Aug. 1) to not be tested by USADA.https://t.co/vn3W3z5CjQ

— Aaron Bronsteter (@aaronbronsteter) September 23, 2022

Hmm, surely just an accident! Don't mind the bodybuilder pics that he's always uploading

Work was slow today so I took the opportunity to revisit this legendary fight.

Naturally, I respect the heck out of Ali but I do find his “larger than life” persona, constant shit talking, and facial expressions kind of abrasive. So it’s nice to see him get laid out for once. That’s not to say he didn’t perform admirably. He delivers some nasty blows to Frazier. Frazier’s face looks like a single blister by the end of the fight.

You can tell that both men are pretty much dead on their feet by round 15 and holding onto each other for dear life. It’s actually kind of sweet 🥹

🇦🇱 Switzerland has "banned" ethnic Albanian players from making the eagle hand gesture 👐🏼 ahead of game with Serbia in the Qatar World Cup. pic.twitter.com/OJ53oaLqyk

— kos_data (@kos_data) September 23, 2022

Dramabros, have you ever gone to work while on LSD?

The Boston Celtics have suspended head coach Ime Udoka for the entire 2022-23 season.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) September 23, 2022

https://old.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/xlji2z/charania_the_boston_celtics_have_suspended_head/

https://old.reddit.com/r/bostonceltics/comments/xld3o5/haynes_boston_celtics_head_coach_ime_udoka_will/

https://old.reddit.com/r/bostonceltics/comments/xljib8/ime_suspension_for_the_season_now_official/

https://old.reddit.com/r/bostonceltics/comments/xljioj/the_boston_celtics_have_suspended_head_coach_ime/

https://x.com/JaredWeissNBA/status/1573120606517837824

Scott Coker just told us that he called Anderson Silva’s rep a couple months ago and offered a fight against Fedor Emelianenko.

No real talks then but now that Silva said he wants one more MMA fight in Japan he is going to reach back out.

We are live! https://t.co/4d7RKK31Tk

— Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) September 22, 2022

haha what the frick silva would get murdered

i'd still watch it tho

Fede Valverde used to sound like Mickey Mousepic.twitter.com/Zm8K85mNWF

— Troll Football (@TrollFootball) September 22, 2022

A 21-year old Utah student was arrested after she threatened to detonate a nuclear reactor that is located on campus if the Utes lost to San Diego State Saturday, @KSLcom reports. She was booked into Salt Lake County Jail Wednesday. Fortunately, Utah won 35-7

— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) September 22, 2022

And they say foids can't be truly passionate about sports.

>On Saturday, the University of Utah football team hosted San Diego State at Rice-Eccles Stadium. The woman "posted threats of violence" on the Yik Yak app before the game, stating that "if the football team did not win the game, (she) was going to detonate the nuclear reactor that is located in the University of Utah causing a mass destruction," according to a police booking affidavit.

>Police note in their affidavit that the student does have knowledge of the nuclear reactor and "is aware of where the reactor is located and attends class in the same building where the reactor is housed."

https://www.ksl.com/article/50480786/student-arrested-for-allegedly-making-nuclear-threat-unless-utes-won-/p>

Who is ready? How do you like your country's chances?