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9/14/18

SERENA WILLIAMS: THE WORLD OWES YOU AN APOLOGY

The world owes you an apology
Not just the umpire
Not just the French Open
Not just racists who ask if you feel intimidated by Sharapova’s basic looks
Or being drug tested more than
The basic looking actual drug user
The nurses and doctors who ignored
Your knowledge
Of your own body
Almost causing your death
Every time they questioned your
Femininity
Ability
Strength
Integrity
Victory
They did so because of your skin
Asian parents who mold their children are
Tiger mothers
White parents who risk everything
Turn sex tapes into millions
Are momagers
But your father who made legends out of
Compton Concrete
Shaping you and your sister
Like Michelangelo chiseled David
He is loud
Obnoxious
Insane
The world owes you an apology
But we know it will never come
Because first they would have to acknowledge
The hatred
The racism
It isn’t your black panther suit
Your beauty
Your millions
You venting to a umpire
A broken racket
Or a demand of proper medical care
It’s your blackness that offends
Your power when you should be powerless
Your confidence
When you should always grovel
Always remind yourself
That you should thank them
for allowing you
To be on the courts at all
As if a Queen tells the jester
thank you for her
Throne
You are the living breathing embodiment of
#blackgirlmagic
The dream of our ancestors
The power of our foremothers
The strength that the
Middle passage
Slavery
Jim Crow
and America
Could not break
You are more than the
GOAT
You are goddess
Fearless
More than tennis
You are a living black legend
And they hate you for it” ~ Leslé Honoré

9/8/18

BLAKE LEEPER!

5/19/17

WORK-OUT WHOOPSIE!

4/24/17

"DOMINIC THIEM'S GOT A NICE, STRONG, BIG TUCHUS!"

Commentator- Justin Gimelstob took a moment to compliment tennis player on his bum.

"Dominic Thiem's got a nice, strong, big ‘tuchus’!
The butt is a huge source of power, and he’s so strong in his base. He’s so strong, and it’s a huge origin of his power”.

4/4/17

SKI STRIPPER

3/26/17

EXCERCISE BUTTOCKS FOR WOMEN

9/27/16

BRIAN ANDERSON COMES OUT

The skateboarding community worships Brian Anderson as a god,

but for many years kept his sexuality a secret from nearly everyone in his life.

Reda sat down with Brian and some of his closest friends to talk about being gay

in the professional skateboarding industry and why he chose now to come out.

9/3/16

INTERSEX ATHLETES DO IT BETTER

Heinrich Ratjen, born Dora Ratjen, was a German athlete who competed for Germany in the women’s high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics at Berlin, finishing fourth, but was later discovered to be male.

He set a world record for the high jump at the 1938 European Athletics Championships, but competed as a female at that event. His true identity was discovered while riding on a train headed for Cologne.

Ratjen was born in Erichshof, near Bremen, into a family described as “simple folk”. The father, Heinrich Ratjen, stated in 1938: “When the child was born the midwife called over to me, ‘Heini, it’s a boy!’ But five minutes later she said to me, ‘It is a girl, after all.’” Nine months later, when the child, who had been christened Dora, was ill, a doctor examined the child’s genitalia and, according to Heinrich, said “Let it be. You can’t do anything about it anyway.” Dora stated, also in 1938: “My parents brought me up as a girl [and] I therefore wore girl’s clothes all my childhood. But from the age of 10 or 11 I started to realize I wasn’t female, but male. However I never asked my parents why I had to wear women’s clothes even though I was male.”

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8/26/16

ALL ABOUT CRISTIANO RONALDO

Cristino Ronaldo

was born in Santo António, a neighbourhood of Funchal, Madeira,

the youngest child of Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro, a cook,

and José Dinis Aveiro, a municipal gardener.

He has one older brother, Hugo, and two older sisters, Elma and Liliana Cátia.

His great-grandmother Isabel da Piedade was from Cape Verde.

Ronaldo later said that he grew up in poverty, sharing a room with his brother and sisters

As a child, Ronaldo played for amateur team Andorinha, where his father was the kit man,

and later spent two years with local club Nacional. In 1997, aged 12,

he went on a three-day trial with Sporting CP, who signed him for a fee of £1,500.

He subsequently moved to Alcochete, near Lisbon, to join Sporting's other youth players at the club's football academy. By age 14, Ronaldo believed he had the ability to play semi-professionally, and agreed with his mother to cease his education in order to focus entirely on football.

While popular with other students at school, he had been expelled after throwing a chair at his teacher, who he said had "disrespected" him. A year later, however, he was diagnosed with a racing heart, a condition that could have forced him to give up playing football.

He underwent an operation in which a laser was used to cauterise the affected area of his heart; discharged from hospital hours after the procedure, he resumed training only a few days later.

Ronaldo's father, José Dinis Aveiro, died of an alcoholism-related liver condition

at the age of 52 in September 2005 when Ronaldo was 20.

Ronaldo has said that he does not drink alcohol and he received libel damages over a Daily Mirror article that reported him drinking heavily in a nightclub while recovering from an injury in July 2008.

Ronaldo became a father on 17 June 2010 following the birth of a son. The child, named Cristiano, and nicknamed by the family 'Cristianinho', was born in the United States, and Ronaldo announced that he had full custody. Ronaldo has never publicly revealed the identity of his son's mother.

Ronaldo stated that he does not own an entourage around him, and that he has only few close friends as well. Moreover, he admits to often preferring solitude while working, attributing it to his autonomous way of living, "In football I don’t have a lot of friends. People I really trust? Not many. Most of the time I’m alone. I consider myself an isolated person."

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Ronaldo has dated numerous female models, but tabloids & critics taunt his as gay. Ronaldo responded by going on holiday wearing a pink baseball cap, with a pink flower behind his ear. After the UK press went predictably berserk again—including publishing photos of a male friend while he was wearing that gay hat and gay flower—he responded:

“I don’t see what is wrong with that if you are comfortable with your sexuality.”