Pat Tillman's mom rips ESPYs for naming Prince Harry as recipient of son's award, Pat McAfee says ESPN did it to 'piss people off'



The mother of fallen American hero Pat Tillman is "shocked" that the award named after her son would be given to Britain's Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex.

The Pat Tillman Award for Service is an annual award given to an individual or group with a "strong connection to sports who has served others in a way that echoes the legacy of the former NFL player and U.S. Army Ranger, Pat Tillman."

The award was established in 2014, ten years after Tillman died in combat in Afghanistan from friendly fire.

Tillman famously turned down a multi-year, multi-million NFL contract to enlist in the U.S. Army after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

Recent recipients of the Pat Tillman Award include the Buffalo Bills Training Staff for reviving Damar Hamlin after he suddenly suffered a cardiac arrest in the middle of a game (2023), retired U.S. Army Command Sergeant Major Gretchen Evans (2022), professional footballer Marcus Rashford (2021), and professional boxer Kim Clavel (2020).

On Thursday, ESPN announced that Prince Harry would be the recipient of the Pat Tillman Award for Service.

"In honor of his tireless work in making a positive impact for the veteran community through the power of sport, Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex will receive the Pat Tillman Award for Service, an award given to a person with a strong connection to sports who has served others in a way that echoes the legacy of the former NFL player and U.S. Army Ranger, Pat Tillman," the press release stated. "After serving for 10 years in the British Armed Forces, including two tours of duty in Afghanistan as a forward air controller and Apache helicopter pilot, Prince Harry founded The Invictus Games Foundation, continuing his service by creating an international platform to support wounded, injured, and sick servicemen and women – both active-duty and veterans – who are navigating both physical and invisible injuries."

Prince Harry will be presented the Pat Tillman Award at the 2024 ESPYs set to air on July 11.

Mary Tillman, the mother of Pat Tillman, was "shocked" that the award would be given to Prince Harry and said she was not consulted on the winner of her son's award.

Mary Tillman told the Daily Mail, "I am shocked as to why they would select such a controversial and divisive individual to receive the award."

She continued, "There are recipients that are far more fitting. There are individuals working in the veteran community that are doing tremendous things to assist veterans. These individuals do not have the money, resources, connections, or privilege that Prince Harry has. I feel that those types of individuals should be recognized."

Outspoken sports commentator Pat McAfee – who works at ESPN – was also dismayed by the selection and even ripped his own network.

McAfee said, "It's going to Prince Harry. Who I don’t even think is a Prince anymore, right? He said don’t call me that? See, why does the ESPYs do this s**t?"

"When you do something like this, you know the immediate reaction from humans and from sports fans and like people with like just common sense in brains," McAffe stated on "The Pat McAfee Show."

McAfee said that the decision to give Prince Harry the Pat Tillman Award had the intention of "trying to piss people off."

A petition has been launched to urge ESPN to "rethink" giving the Pat Tillman Award of Service to Prince Harry. At the time of publication, the petition had nearly 25,000 signatures.

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The REAL Reason Why the Left HATES Harrison Butker

The REAL Reason Why the Left HATES Harrison Butker

Baby clothier apologizes for firing woman who wanted to remain by her premature baby's side after his hospitalization



A Texas woman working for a baby clothing company was reportedly denied a work-from-home option that would have enabled her to both keep her job and care for her newly adopted, 1-pound premature baby.

Facing significant backlash over Marissa Hughes' alleged firing — off-brand for a company that caters to children and often blogs about ways to relieve parental stress — Ying Liu, the founder and CEO of Kyte Baby, has offered two separate apologies on TikTok and invited Hughes back.

According to a GoFundMe fundraiser for the baby's medical expenses, Marissa and Rawley Hughes of Dallas have faced incredible difficulties having children. In addition to losing three babies, Marissa Hughes has undergone nearly three years of extensive fertility treatments with no success.

The couple was nevertheless undeterred in their commitment to growing their family and raising children.

"We were also blessed to have been foster parents," wrote Marisa Hughes. "Now we feel the Lord truly calling us to step into long-term, earth-side parenthood. The Lord has laid adoption on our hearts."

Months after announcing they were adopting, the couple received a joyous call on Dec. 29 notifying them they had a 22-week-old premature son waiting for them in the neonatal intensive care unit of an El Paso hospital, nine hours away. Their baby boy, Judah Al Haven Hughes, weighed little over one pound.

The New York Post reported that due to Judah having "various health concerns," he required an extended hospital stay. Accordingly, he would not be released from the NICU until the end of March. The boy's adoptive parents wanted to keep their boy company and care for him in the meantime.

Marissa asked Kyte Baby to continue her work from the hospital in the interim, but was allegedly only offered two weeks. Since she has been at the company for less than a year, she does not qualify for the Family and Medical Leave Act, which would have otherwise afforded her 12 weeks of unpaid leave and continued benefits.

According to the Post, Hughes was allegedly told that if she did not turn up to work after the two-week period, she would be out of a job. Given everything she had done already to become a mother and the care Judah still required, the decision was evidently a no-brainer for Marissa Hughes.

Kyte Baby's owner, Lieu, later indicated she had been the one to veto Marissa's request for remote work.

Following Hughes' departure, considerable backlash against the company, and calls for boycotts, Liu released two apology videos on TikTok, reported People.

In the first video, Liu said, "I wanted to hop on here to sincerely apologize to Marissa for how her parental leave was communicated and handled in the midst of her incredible journey of adoption and starting a family."

After stressing her respect for biological and adoptive parents alike, Lieu noted that "such respect and good intentions were not fully communicated to Marissa in the discussion of her parental leave."

Liu assumed ultimate responsibility for the decision, stressing, "It was my oversight that she didn't feel supported as we always have intended."

The baby clothier noted further that Marissa will have a position waiting for her "whenever she decides to return to work" and wished the "best to her and her family."

The initial apology apparently did not go over well as critics slammed Liu for a supposedly canned and calculated response. Liu later conceded the "comments were right" and the video was "scripted," reported the Daily Mail.

In the second video, posted to TikTok on Thursday, Liu struck a less corporate tone and said, "Sincerely, what went wrong is how we treated Marissa and I'm the one who made the decision to veto her request to go remote as she stays in the NICU to take care of her adopted baby. When I think back, that was a terrible decision."

"I was insensitive, selfish and was only focused on the fact that her job had always been done on-site and I didn't see the possibility of doing it remotely," continued the baby clothier. "Having a bit of sensitivity and understanding would have accommodated her, and I did not accommodate her."

"I understand if you don't want to come back to work anymore, but we will continue to pay you as if you were working remotely for us for those hours that you proposed until you're ready to come back," said Lieu. "And your position, your original position, is always open for you when you come back."

Neither the company nor Hughes appear to have responded to the Post's requests for comment.

Hughes indicated in an update on Facebook that Judah was being transferred to a Level 4 NICU, suffering a blockage in his intestines, an infection, and holes in his heart and lungs.

At the time of publication, Judah's medical fund had raised over $69,000. Luna Aziz, the CEO of the lactation-assistance company Legendairy Milk, chipped in $5,000. Lactation counsler Karrie Locher of Karing for Postpartum also donated $5,000. The Texas-based baby clothing company Kate Quinn chipped in $2,000.

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Sports Illustrated 'writer' CAUGHT in high-tech CONTROVERSY

Sports Illustrated 'writer' CAUGHT in high-tech CONTROVERSY

Embarrassing: Sports Illustrated caught in AI scandal



Did you know that in order to be a good volleyball player, you need to own an actual volleyball?

Crazy concept, but thanks to writers like Drew Ortiz of Sports Illustrated, we have the latest insight into athletic development.

If you’re sitting there wondering what the heck we’re talking about, allow Glenn Beck to explain.

Drew, who is “the author of many stories” in Sports Illustrated, ”has spent much of his life outdoors. …There's rarely a weekend that goes by where Drew isn't out camping, hiking, or just back on his parents’ farm,” Glenn reads from Drew’s writer profile.

“Now Drew sounds like a regular guy, doesn’t he?”

At least that’s what everyone thought until one of his articles explained how “volleyball is very difficult, especially to practice, if you don't have a ball.”

And that’s when people started to realize that “Drew doesn’t exist.”

He’s actually a machine (and not a particularly smart one), or at least that’s what the AI testing system determined when it processed Drew’s work.

While Sports Illustrated has denied allegations that Drew Ortiz is the creation of AI, the outlet has “removed all of his writings,” which only seems to strengthen the theory that he’s not a real person.

And apparently Drew isn’t the only fictional writer at the American sports magazine.

“Looks like Drew doesn't exist as well as other writers at Sports Illustrated,” Glenn reports.

To hear more about the scandal, watch the clip below.


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Steam faces renewed criticism over game in which players assume role of Palestinian terrorist, gun down Israelis



The video game distribution giant Steam has been called out once again for continuing to sell a propagandistic title wherein players assume the role of a Palestinian terrorist and massacre representations of Israelis.

While some regard the game as a loathsome work of agitprop warranting removal, various commenters have fired back, noting that other violent games permitted on the platform — including titles in the Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty franchises — similarly enable players to virtually live out terroristic fantasies.

With Israel actively battling Hamas and anti-Semitism aggressively rising in the West, Jesse Petrilla, a former captain in the Army National Guard, took issue with how the Bellevue, Washington-based Valve Corporation is still selling Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Steam platform.

Petrilla asked, "Why do you have a pro-terrorist game on @Steam?"

Shortly thereafter, the Libs of TikTok account on X, managed by Chaya Raichik, shared footage from the game, noting, "This is available for your kids to play."

Jeremy Dale Hambly, the popular YouTuber known as TheQuartering, responded to Raichik's expression of concern over the game, writing, "Don't care, it's a video game that you have to choose to pay for and then download and then play. Cringe."

Carl Benjamin, the YouTuber known as Sargon of Akkad, noted, "This won't be the thing that turns them into terrorists, it'll be their university professors."

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Fursan al-Aqsa, a gory first- and third-person shooter released in full last year, has for its protagonist Ahmad al-Falastini, "a young Palestinian Student who was unjustly tortured and jailed by Israeli Soldiers for 5 years."

The description for the game states, "Now, after getting out from the prison, [he] seeks revenge against those who wronged him, killed his family and stolen [sic] his homeland, by joining a new Palestinian Resistance Movement called Fursan al-Aqsa."

Trailers for the game, which runs on the dated Unreal Engine 3, feature footage of the protagonist shooting, stabbing, bombing, and torturing Israelis, while frequently yelling, "Allahu Akbar." In one scene featured in the trailer, the terroristic protagonist says, "This is your end, f***ing Zionists!" while feeding an unarmed Israeli to a shark. In another featured scene, the Islamic protagonist prays beside a pile of butchered Israelis.

A play-through shared by the developer earlier this year revealed that the missions require the player to "Kill all Zionist Soldiers." In recent promotional material shared on YouTube, the developer states, "See how many different ways you'll be able to snipe Israeli Soldiers."

Another promotional video reportedly told players, "Get your knife and seek your revenge. The blood of the oppressed is calling you. Resistance is not terrorism."

While the developer claims on the Steam sales page that the game "DOES NOT PROMOTE 'TERRORISM,'" in the game, players are prompted to rank up from a "soldier" to a "general" and finally to a "terrorist."

The review section for the game on the Steam platform is crowded with anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli remarks.

One reviewer wrote, "May the zionists fall," prompting the developer to write back, "In sha Allah!"

Another reviewer wrote, "Truly a simulation of the righteous struggle of Palestinians against the colonialist oppressors."

Multiple reviewers wrote, "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" — a threat similarly made on the developer's website.

The game saw a significant spike in largely positive reviews in early October, following the Hamas terror attacks on Israel.

The developer of the game, Nidal Nijm, describes himself thusly: "I am a Brazilian, son of Palestinian Immigrants, Muslim. My father is an ex-fighter of Palestinian Resistance, he fought for the Independence of Palestinian State. From since childhood I felt too much proud of my father and the Palestine People in general, because of their Strength and Constant Resistance."

Ahead of the game's release, Efraim Zuroff, the Simon Wiesenthal Center's chief Nazi hunter, said, "There is no question that this game glorifies Palestinian terror against Jews and is not a neutral exercise," reported Haaretz.

"This is something that praises and glorifies the worst type of terror and basically promotes a result which would cost hundreds of thousands of people their lives," added Zuroff.

Nijm defended the game, noting, "There are no Jewish, Israeli civilians for the player to attack."

Steam, which takes a substantial cut of the revenue from each sale, indicated in a 2018 blog post that it had given up on most content moderation, stating, "If you're a player, we shouldn't be choosing for you what content you can or can't buy. If you're a developer, we shouldn't be choosing what content you're allowed to create. Those choices should be yours to make."

"With that principle in mind, we've decided that the right approach is to allow everything onto the Steam Store, except for things that we decide are illegal, or straight up trolling," added the company.

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The controversy over Jason Aldean's latest single has nothing to do with racism and everything to do with the fact that country music still embraces traditional values.

The fallacy of a tribute: Mayor Adams and the allegedly fake picture



On September 22, 1987, Officer Robert Venable took his last breath.

Venable was shot and killed in the line of duty as he and five other officers attempted to arrest two heavily armed men at an abandoned building in Brooklyn.

Now, Venable is being used as a prop by New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

“I still think about Robert,” Adams told the cameras, “I keep a picture of Robert in my wallet.”

Adams has even pulled out the vintage looking photo for cameras, saying Robert was one of his closest friends.

However, according to sources within the mayor’s office — the photo has not actually been kept for decades in Eric Adams' wallet as he tried to suggest.

Aides have told the New York Times that the photo was actually printed off of Google last year and was stained with coffee in order to make it appear old.

“Why not just say this is a picture of him? You don’t have to stain it brown to make it seem like this was a picture from the 1980s that you’ve just carried around this whole time,” Sara Gonzales comments.

The New York City Hall released a statement in response to the New York Times article, writing, “It is disgusting that The New York Times has chosen to have Robert Venable’s friends and family relive the tragic murder of a loved one for nothing more than feeding its obsession with dissecting every single moment of Mayor Adams’ life as the paper continues its unsuccessful campaign to paint the mayor as a liar.”

Gonzales reads the statement and scoffs, “but he did lie.”

“You gotta be a certain type of individual to lie about something like that,” Eric July says, adding, “I don’t understand it. I’m not sure what the angle is there.”

“It speaks of some sort of a character flaw, for sure,” Jaco Booyens comments. “How insecure are you, truly,” he continues, “you think that buys you favor? A coffee stain? Oh — the age of the picture buys you validity?”


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The Fallacy of a Tribute: Mayor Adams and the Alleged Fake Picture

The Fallacy of a Tribute: Mayor Adams and the Alleged Fake Picture

Christmas tree banned from public library allegedly after 'people were made uncomfortable' by it last year



A Christmas tree isn't going up in a Massachusetts public library this seasonafter "people were [allegedly] made uncomfortable" by "looking at it" last year.

What are the details?

Lisa Desmond, a branch supervisor at the Dedham Public Library, said last week on Facebook that "I found out today that my beautiful library will not have [its] Christmas tree this year. Zero explanation. When I asked I was told 'people' were made uncomfortable last year looking at it. I’m sorry WHAT?"

Desmond said in the comments section of her post that the library director made the decision; WBZ-AM said the director is Amber Moroney.

Desmond added that in her 28 years at the library, she's "never heard a negative comment. We have celebrated and included everyone in our community. In fact, I was asked to emcee Juneteenth this year. What an honor. Those who know me and my family know we celebrate Christmas Hanukkah. My Muslim friends and Western Indian friends invite me to their celebrations. What an amazing gift. ... Those who know me know I lead with positive intentions. I’m not feeling very positive today. Please bring Christmas back to my beautiful library. And always lead with love in your heart."

'For a motherf***ing Christmas tree'

Desmond added another post Tuesday with screenshots of a profanity-laced rant against her and her issues with the Christmas tree cancellation on a local Facebook page. The poster — whom Desmond said works for a local human rights commission — said Desmond is a "selfish, f***ing bitch who does not care about anyone else but herself. For a tree? A motherf***ing TREE? You have put people's lives in a lot of danger. A lot of danger. For a motherf***ing Christmas tree."

The post also read, "I hope that you — who claim to believe in Christ or whatever happy horses**t you're trying to hide behind — are the least gracious, most hateful, most disgusting trash in the world. Is this what you think your magic sky daddy wants?"

Desmond noted that "police have been notified" in regard to words in the aforementioned post.

She also said the Board of Library Trustees is meeting Tuesday and encouraged residents to make their voices heard about the controversy: "If you can’t make it, a letter to the board might help. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. However you celebrate, I wish you and your family love and peace."