Take one for the team! Coaches Who Have Gone Above And Beyond For Their Players Coaches can be make or break a star athlete and bring out the full potential of any team. Although it seems like the ballers can take the spotlight, a good coach is the foundation behind any winning team. In anticipation of the new movie ‘From the Rough,’ starring Academy Award nominees Taraji P. Henson and Michael Clarke Duncan and Tom Felton, which tells the inspirational true story of Catana Starks from historically black university Tennessee State, the first woman ever to coach an all-men’s team at the collegiate level. Through grit and determination, she overcame incredible odds and deep-seated prejudice from all corners to guide a rag-tag group of golfers to an all-time record championship season. From the Rough celebrates this remarkable woman’s triumph. Check out more great coaches who have gone above and beyond for their players next!
Preference To Strongly Date Within Own Race Is Considered Racist? Anti-Swirling is not a good look??? One Slate Magazine writer says it is indeed racist to prefer to date within your own race. Via Slate: A few weeks ago, OkCupid, the popular “freemium” dating service, started offering its paid subscribers a very cool new tool. Rather than just sort through potential dates by using familiar filters like age and height, you could use the answers OkCupid members gave to various questions, such as “Do you like to watch sports on television?” or, my personal favorite, “Do you find British comedies entertaining?” Questions are an important part of what makes OkCupid work. The site nudges you to answer as many questions as you can stand, and it also nudges you to make your answers public, as you can only see the answers of potential dates if you disclose your own answers. Answering questions allows OkCupid’s fancy algorithms to identify people who might be a good fit for you. Though these algorithms can be cleverly gamed, the basic idea that answering questions honestly will allow you to find people who share your sensibilities, goals, and quirks makes intuitive sense. In a somewhat similar vein, one of OkCupid’s questions reads as follows: “Would you strongly prefer to go out with someone of your own skin color/racial background?” I was struck by the not inconsiderable number of people who answered “yes”—including some people I know “in real life,” many of whom are hilariously self-righteous about their enlightened political views. Keep in mind that OkCupid users can skip a question with ease. The people who answered this question had every opportunity not to do so. What I found surprising about the fact that a fair number of people answered that they would indeed strongly prefer to go out with someone of their own skin color/racial background was not that this phenomenon exists in the world. Racial preferences in dating are quite common, and women appear to exhibit stronger same-race preferences than men. Rather, I was surprised that people would be willing to openly state that they had strong same-race preferences. One assumes that many people who do have such preferences would either chose not to disclose them publicly, or chose to skip the question entirely. Is a strong same-race preference something one ought to be ashamed of? Or is it enough to say that the heart wants what it wants and to leave it at that? This is a more important question than you might think. To be sure, dating is about more than the sharing of bread, and OkCupid users who express strong racial preferences may well be doing the world a favor by being open and honest about their wants. But I don’t think it’s too much to ask those who do express such preferences, and those who live them in practice, to reflect on them, and on how there might be more to fighting racism than voting “the right way.” Discuss… Shutterstock
I think Nicki Minaj is one sexy human blow up doll. Here she is at “The Other Woman” premiere busting out the goodness and causing this celebrity website owner a major pant-fire. I honestly think this is the best Nicki has ever looked and hope she keeps it up because if she does, I know I won’t have any problems keeping it up either. Ow!
. NeNe continues to be team Porsha. NeNe Says Kenya Started RHOA Brawl NeNe seems happy Kenya got her wig pushed back. According Radar Online: NeNe Leakes is once again coming to the defense of her Real Housewives of Atlanta co-star Porsha Williams, claiming she isn’t to blame for the explosive reunion brawl that ended in her arrest. “When is it ‘okay’ to BULLY someone, then question retaliation?” she asked, claiming the former Miss USA “taunted, pushed, provoked and lied” all season to get her co-stars to react violently. Leakes continued to rail against the former Miss USA on social media. “NOT @Porsha4real fault! She was provoked her the same way she tried provoking me by pulling my ear on episode 1. Maybe I should press charges,” Leakes wrote on Twitter during Sunday night’s reunion episode. Do you agree with NeNe? One thing is for sure: Kenya will never point a scepter or bullhorn in someone’s face again.
Rih Rih decided to do a little shopping at the Petit Tresor baby boutique before grabbing a bite to eat at Sunset Plaza all while looking fierce in a pinstripe top and cutoff shorts. Hit the flip for more pics.
