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The Indigenous Basketball Team Fighting Gas Sponsorship
“The All Native Basketball Tournament has been held annually in Prince Rupert, British Columbia for 56 years and attracts up to 1,400 people per game in a community civic centre. The whole week has turned into a celebration of Indigenous sport and culture with a big party element that some people call Second Christmas. But with liquified natural gas companies now sponsoring the tournament some First Nations, led by reigning champions the Skidegate Saints, are bringing active protest to the week’s contest.
VICE Sports discovers why this event is so important to the communities, what makes their style of basketball unique and how politics has started to work its way into the games”
After marches protesting Trump’s policies turned out crowds that swamped the inauguration, the new President sent his press secretary out on Saturday to read a vinegary statement denying that the turnout for the inauguration was low at all; the statement was written in the swinging-dick syntax familiar from Trump’s Tweets, and focused on some Tweets that the President saw that were so dishonest, so dishonest. It was ridiculous and widely ridiculed in turn, but what was uncanny about it all was the realization that the things bothering Trump on one floundering, anarchic, brain-eating website are now his whole world, and our news. Every stupid thing he says is now exactly as important as he has always imagined it to be; his feed has eaten everything.
Enjoyedthis piece by David Roth on how Trump’s asinine Twitter account has swallowed up our country
Seerat Sohi of Rolling Stone, VICE Sports, and ESPN joins us to talk Toronto’s struggles, Curry’s unanimous MVP, Tim Horton’s cream cheese, crop tops, Cleveland’s dominance, Billy Donovan vs. Scott Brooks, and MORE!
OnThe Rest of the Show (starting @ 45:36) Brad and James throw down in an epic beat off judged by friend of the show Evan. Join us!
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