Former Cowboys star Dez Bryant calls out Colin Kaepernick for raising awareness without action: 'Where are you at?'



Former Dallas Cowboys football star Dez Bryant called out Colin Kaepernick for raising awareness without a clear call to action to help the black community.

Bryant made the comments on the "I am Athlete" podcast in a conversation with Brandon Marshall, Chad Ochocinco, and others.

"I respect Colin Kaepernick. But there is one thing that I don't respect and I said when I get the opportunity and to get on the stage and say it, I would say it. And I love him to death. So there ain't no hate or nothing like that," Bryant said.

"But brotha, you had the biggest opportunity in the world to create jobs, to build jobs, to give jobs to people. The people that you was talking about. The people that you were so-called 'standing up for,'" he continued.

"People who stood beside you, people who lost their jobs because of you," Bryant added. "Where you at? I ain't heard from you. He brought the awareness and that's why I respect him."

Many on social media immediately attacked Bryant for criticizing Kaepernick, including Jemele Hill who called him "uninformed" about projects that Kaepernick had backed for social justice, including the "Know Your Rights Camp" for children.

Bryant responded to his critics in a tweet on Monday.

"Y'all missed the message and I'm fine with that," tweeted Bryant, "me speaking on Kap was about unity.. kap leading the charge.... a ton of us athletes have donated a lot of money and yet to own anything (ownership)."

Y’all missed the message and I’m fine with that…. I stand 10 toes down on my beliefs… me speaking on Kap was about… https://t.co/QC1rFvXkHB

— Dez Bryant (@DezBryant) 1632775822.0

Bryant also antagonized some when he wrote in 2017 that many in the black community were held back not by historic racism but by a lack of personal accountability.

The star wide receiver played for eight years with the Dallas Cowboys before playing in six games for the Baltimore Ravens in 2020. He is currently a free agent.

Here's the video of Bryant's comments on Kaepernick:

@DezBryant calls out Colin Kaepernick on @IAMATHLETEpod https://t.co/1fEgRuK5To

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Dana White blasts woke culture, slams 's*** local newspaper' for criticizing UFC 261, the first full capacity indoor event since pandemic



Dana White is the no-holds-barred president of the UFC who has no time or patience for woke scolds, politics in sports, and newspapers questioning his decision to be the first sport to return in a major way since the pandemic.

White is massively stoked for UFC 261, the latest MMA event for the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The much-anticipated event was originally supposed to be held in Singapore, but the coronavirus pandemic ended that scenario. White wanted fans to return and watch the live event, and found few places that would allow an indoor event of such magnitude. White discovered a friend in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who welcomed UFC 261 to be held in Jacksonville and advertised the Sunshine State as an "oasis of freedom."

All 15,000 tickets for UFC 261, which will be held at the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena on Saturday night, sold out in minutes, and White called it "one of the fastest sell outs in UFC history." UFC 261 will be the first major sporting event to have a full capacity crowd since COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions were implemented in the United States. The indoor event will not have social distancing and MMA fans will decide if they want to wear face masks or not: "It's up to you. It's your decision," White told Yahoo! Sports.

"This is going to be the first full-throttle sporting event since COVID hit, indoor, anywhere in the United States," DeSantis said. "I think it's fitting. We wanted to be safe, but there's a lot of stuff that comes at you from media, from social media, all this stuff. Some people don't like to handle that. Dana White goes right into the teeth of that."

Not everyone is enthusiastic about the full-capacity indoor event, including the Las Vegas Review-Journal, which wrote a story condemning UFC 261.

"At least 15,000 people are willing to risk permanent damage or death to attend a live sporting event again," the opening sentence of a Review-Journal article read. The paper cited the disclaimer that says attending UFC 261 "may lead to exposure to COVID-19 and that contraction of COVID-19 may result in severe and permanent damage to the health of the Holder and/or others including, but not limited to, death."

Hours before UFC 261 kicked off, White blasted the Las Vegas Review-Journal by calling it a "piece of s*** local newspaper." White noted that the UFC didn't lay off a single employee during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"We worked with governmental agencies in Nevada and around the world to put on every event safely, and we chose to bring our biggest fight of the year with Conor McGregor back to town July 10th to help relaunch the city," White wrote on Instagram. "Yet, this is how the Las Vegas Review Journal shows its support for a true local business."

"Go f*** yourself LVRJ, and don't bother coming to the fight in July," White concluded, making a reference to UFC 264 that will feature Conor McGregor and Dustin Poirer on July 10.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal isn't the only one that White slammed this week. The UFC president appeared on Candace Owens' new talk show, where he lambasted the mix of sports and politics.

"When you watch sports, you're tuning in to get away from all the crap that's going on in your life," White told Owens. "Whether it's personal, professional, political, whatever's going on in the world. That's your time where you tune in. Never once did we talk about COVID, we didn't talk politics, we didn't talk about anything negative that was going on. When you come in and you watch two or three hours of our fights, you're tuning in for fights. You're coming in to watch a sport. You want to hear all that crap, watch any other channel."

White also attacked sports leagues that force their athletes to have a prescribed opinion on politics and social issues.

"It's like we live in this world right now where nobody's allowed to have their own opinion," White said. "These are all grown men and women that fight for us. They all have their own beliefs, their own politics or whatever it is. They can say whatever they want to say, to a point. I mean, there's some times that some things cross the line, but at the end of the day, too, this is the fight business. Guess what? They say really mean things to each other."

"We don't put a muzzle on anyone," the outspoken White added. "We don't tell people what they can and cannot talk about. Imagine working for a company and they're telling you to believe this."

"And the other thing we don't do, we don't tell you who to vote for," White, who is a Trump supporter, said. "We don't tell you what to believe in, we don't tell you what religion, we don't tell you any of that s***. You're all grown men and women with your own ideas, your own beliefs, and good for you."

"And you shouldn't have to go to work and listen to that s***," White said of woke "big tech" companies telling their employees how to think.

Brett Favre blasts woke sports, says fans don’t want politics in their games



NFL legend Brett Favre says that sports fans aren't interested in injecting politics into sports.

What are the details?

During a recent interview with Andrew Klaven, Favre said that politics and movements simply aren't welcome in sports for many die-hard fans.

"Yeah, I think both sides, for the most part, want to see it just remain about the sport, not about politics. At least that's my interpretation. I know when I turn on a game, I want to watch the game. I want to watch the players play and teams win and lose and come from behind. I want to watch all the important parts of the game, not what's going on outside the game. I think the general fan feels the same way," Favre said during a recent interview with Klavan.

The retired quarterback also added that despite race and upbringing, teammates were family .

"We were in something together," he said. "We fought together. We won together. We lost together. And we truly were a family. So yeah ... we absolutely didn't have issues."

He added, "I don't know what issues, if any, in the locker room that they're facing now other than what I hear, or assumptions," he said. "So if there are problems within the locker room, you know, that's too bad."

Favre says sports unites Americans

Favre said that sports used to unite Americans, and it should remain doing so despite politics.

“Something's got to unite us. And the games or sport in the past has been some kind of unification," he added. "Now, it's almost like a division. I can't tell you how many people, including yourself, have said to me, 'I don't watch anymore. It's not about the game anymore.' I tend to agree."

"Again, it's a shame. There's always been differences and issues within the world, within the country, within our states. But something has to unify us. I felt like the flag and standing patriotically — because blacks and white and Hispanics have fought and died for this country. It's too bad," he added.

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Politics 'really should stay totally, completely out of sports,' retired NBA star tells Levin

Professional basketball legend Rick Barry has had enough of politics making its way into sports.

"It wasn't even something that came up," Barry told LevinTV host Mark Levin on Sunday night's episode of Life, Liberty & Levin.

"The writers used to come out with the guys and go have a beer with them after a game," Barry remembered. "I mean, now they're all looking for the sensational story; they're looking for what's happening in your life; what's happening outside of the game. They don't just stick to the game."

"Politics should stay out of sports," Barry later added. "It really should stay totally, completely out of sports."

Barry, who is the only player to have led the NCAA, NBA, and ABA in scoring, was named to 12 all-star teams during his professional career and joined the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1987. He spent some of the most notable parts of his professional career with the San Francisco Warriors, now the Golden State Warriors.

Barry also responded to the practice of NFL players protesting by taking a knee during the national anthem at football games.

"There's a time and a place for everything, okay?" Barry said. "And if you want to have an opportunity to demonstrate about something or to express your opinion about something, the time is not to do it while you're being paid at your job; I really do believe that."

He also aired out some of his frustrations with current trends in American politics.

"So many things that go on in our government today are an insult to my intelligence," Barry said. "How do you justify a country that's so far in debt to borrow more money and give it away to countries that don't like you? ... And then we spend billions of dollars on people who aren't even supposed to be in this country."

"The way that we treat our military or the people who have helped to make this country what it is today is reprehensible," Barry continued. "Why don't we take this money that we're borrowing and giving away and the billions we're spending on all of these immigrants and help our own people out first?"

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