For the first time in 20 years, the NBA began its season with no Black-owned franchises. In fact, there’s been only one Black majority-owned team in league history 🏀
A century ago, one of the top pre-NBA professional franchises began play in Harlem thanks to the efforts of a Black business owner named Bob Douglas.
📘 The book "A History of Sport in Europe in 100 Objects", edited by Daphné Bolz and Michael Krüger, includes a chapter authored by Rahul Kumar dedicated to the history of Portuguese sports newspaper A Bola, first published in 1945.
Is there a link between a country's economy and its sporting performance?
The top four medal-winning countries in the Asian Games 2023 also have the biggest economies in the continent. An analysis of historical data shows that this isn’t merely a coincidence.
I’ve mainly done this with hashtags, so I may be off if it differs somewhat for keywords, but I’m pretty sure it works as a logical OR.
So if I put a bunch of hashtags in a filter for sports like #sports, #football, #hockey, etc. if a post contains any one of those tags, it should filter it for me. The nice part is you can adjust it so that it either completely hides the filtered results so they don’t clutter up your feeds, or hide with warning and the name of the filter on the warning notice, which allows you to click & review the post to see whether you really wanted it caught by your filter or not.
If you’re just starting out you’d probably want to run it with warnings first to get a sense of whether it’s working as desired, and if not adjust as needed.
Thankfully folks tend to be pretty respectful of spoiler concerns and will specifically say spoilers below when writing about them, use content warnings to hide them, and use hashtags like #[GameName]spoilers, which can help when making filters. It’s not ideal, but if I really don’t want to see spoilers for something, I’ll filter by its name and hashtag and set it not to expire (you can set filters to last only a week if you like, so you don’t forget to disable them).
I admit that football doesn't interest me much. However, the victory of the Spanish team in the FIFA Women's World Cup has been an exciting experience, because of the importance it has had in the vindication of the importance of women in professional sport and, in general, in the defence of women's rights in Spain. No matter how much progress has been made, all rights are always under threat.
On this event, I really liked these comments (in Spanish) from Amnesty International Spain: "Lessons we have learned (or not) from the Women's World Cup".
First thing we haven't learned: to use language in a correct and inclusive way.
Second thing we haven't learned: that only yes is yes.
Third thing we haven't learned: to give the protagonists the limelight.
The things we have learnt: equality, diversity, respect.
When they were called before the House Un-American Activities Committee, athletes Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson were compelled to advocate for the loyalty, value, and patriotism of Black Americans to a predominantly white society riddled with pervasive racial prejudice. As symbolic representatives for the entire Black community, they bore a burden heavy with expectations and public scrutiny.
As Twitter ditches its iconic branding in favor of owner Elon Musk's favorite letter "X," its open source competitor Mastodon is once again seeing usage numbers soar.
It takes some effort to build up and shape your Home feed on Mastodon. One good starting point is to search for hashtags that you’re interested in, like #sports or #gamedev or whatever. It may take some trial and error to find the most popular hashtags being used in your topics of interest. Once you find the hashtags with stuff that’s interest to you, follow those hashtags so you will continue to discover new people and posts in those topics in your Home feed. Once you find interesting people posting in those hashtags, follow them. The name of the game on Mastodon is to follow, follow, follow. I’ve heard it said that your feed will get pretty good when you follow around 200 people or so.
#OnThisDay, July 11, in 1924, Scottish Olympian Eric Liddell won the gold medal in the 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, after refusing to run in the heats for 100m, his favored distance, on a Sunday due to his religion (depicted in Chariots of Fire, 1981)
Need some help understanding Mastodon filters
I want to create some filters for my Mastodon account to hide certain content....
As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
As Twitter ditches its iconic branding in favor of owner Elon Musk's favorite letter "X," its open source competitor Mastodon is once again seeing usage numbers soar.