By Gary Norris Gray, Staff Reporter The current Black Lives Matter movement has awakened this nation to its mounting racial problems but it has left Native Americans behind and the Washington Football Club is a glaring example. African Americans will have to help our Native Brothers and Sisters in this political battle. The team recently […]
Read more "BABY STEPS"THE MISSING HALL OF FAMER By Michael – Louis Ingram, Editor – in – Chief BASN NEWSROOM PHILADELPHIA (www.basnnewsroom.com) Nicknames – are cool. They imply inclusion, oft times encompassing a trait or quirk connected to that person. In my old neighborhood, there was a brother, John, nicknamed “Pie” because of his pie-faced pallor; a […]
Read more "THE MISSING HALL OF FAMER"PADDOCK TO POST: TRIPLE CROWN 2020 – (OR: HOW TO BUILD ANOTHER SECRETARIAT) By Jennifer Thibodeaux Bourque and Michael – Louis Ingram, Editor – in – Chief LAFAYETTE, LA and PHILADELPHIA PA (www.basnnewsroom.com) The specter of the COVID -19 virus has altered our approach toward sports forever. For the things which have seemingly been […]
Read more "PADDOCK TO POST – TRIPLE CROWN 2020 (OR: HOW TO BUILD ANOTHER SECRETARIAT)"THE 25TH LETTER By Michael – Louis Ingram, Editor – in – Chief BASN NEWSROOM PHILADELPHIA (www.basnnewsroom.com) It didn’t take long to see truth exposed on a television screen on May 25, 2020: WOULD A WHITE GUY DIE FOR TRYING TO USE A COUNTERFEIT $20 BILL? Before we forget, this is how it […]
Read more "THE 25TH LETTER"PHILADELPHIA (www.basnnewsroom.com) Joseph Goebbels, propaganda man for The Third Reich, once uttered (paraphrasing) “the bigger the lie, the more people who believe it.” The Muthafuckin’ Mouse continued their tradition of faux realities and revisionist history with the presentation of “The Brady 6” – a love letter to The National Football League’s resident poster boy […]
Read more "THE MOON 14"The Gentleman’s Agreement Continues! By Michael – Louis Ingram, Editor – In – Chief BASN NEWSROOM (Editor’s Note: Although it seems as if former MLB star Alex Rodriguez has landed on his feet, the effort to attack his character wasn’t lost on us. Here’s our take on the madness – at its worst…from our archives.) […]
Read more "THE “GENTLEMAN’S AGREEMENT”- CONTINUES!!"By Gary Norris Gray, Staff Reporter As the Jackson Five sang many years ago, “Can you feel it?” they sang about the world coming together. Instead this world is falling apart under the current leadership in Washington D.C. Where is the empathy? Where is the sorrow or the grief? Can You Feel It? The Jackson 5 […]
Read more "CAN YOU FEEL IT?"LOVE MADNESS – THE ROAD TO THE FREAKY FOUR By Michael – Louis Ingram, Editor – in – Chief and the BASN Staff BASN NEWSROOM PHILADELPHIA (www.basnnewsroom.com) We began our BIG BEG TOURNAMENT on the same premise as the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments casting out our nets with 64 bands/groups spread across the […]
Read more "“LOVE MADNESS™!!” BEGGING TOURNAMENT™ 2020, Part I"HOME TRAININ’ By Michael – Louis Ingram, Editor – in – Chief BASN NEWSROOM PHILADELPHIA (www.basnnewsroom.com) The National Football League presented a virtual player Draft over three days, to much success. Sports – starved fans aching for a crumb of hope that the League calendar will ensure the season starting on time (with the […]
Read more "HOME TRAININ’"By Gary Norris Gray, Staff Reporter In a time of national crisis the President of the United States is supposed to lead his/her people out of the danger. The President is the one the American people look for guidance. This guy at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is just not it… This man is too busy trying […]
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