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Main Entry: tokenFunc­tion: adjec­tiveDate: 19151 : done or given as a token espe­cially in par­tial ful­fill­ment of an oblig­a­tion or engage­ment 2 a : rep­re­sent­ing no more than a sym­bolic effort : min­i­mal, per­func­tory       b : serv­ing or intended to show absence of discrimination

Ok. I am NOW offi­cially trip­pin’! Just a cou­ple of days ago, I com­mented that I have no appetite to hear about the details of Tiger’s fam­ily tur­moil. Let him work it out.  Since that post, just about every cloud in the sky has fallen and Tiger is now look­ing like the Don Draper of […]

I sat down for a leisurely morn­ing with a freshly made omelet and bacon. The chan­nel was on ESPN, and the show Out­side the Lines just started. The lead story this week was called “White Out.” The piece exam­ined the small num­ber of white, American-born play­ers in the NBA. I said “as if on cue,” […]

Some­thing that has befud­dled me for years, but I sel­dom talk about, is how com­par­isons of  celebri­ties and ath­letes are made. Now, we all do–make com­par­isons; but I’m specif­i­cally talk­ing about how com­men­ta­tors, jour­nal­ists, and peo­ple in every­day con­ver­sa­tions are locked into only com­par­ing some­one of a par­tic­u­lar race with some­one of the same race.I […]

Ugh!

I was on the fence about Allen Iver­son for a num­ber of years. There was no ques­tion that he was one of the most tal­ented play­ers in recent his­tory. My pri­mary issue was off-the-court behav­ior and act­ing as a respectable role model. How­ever, like with many peo­ple and issues in our lives, my issues with […]