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Colin Kaepernick Unveils #IMWITHKAP Jersey, With Proceeds Going to Charity

There’s something more than a little bit ironic about buying an NFL jersey with Colin Kaepernick’s name on the back nowadays. You’re putting money in the NFL’s hands to support a protest that the NFL doesn’t support.

Well, Colin Kaepernick came up with a solution to that very conundrum by releasing his own jersey today—devoid of NFL affiliation, of course. Moreover, the black No. 7 jersey with “#IMWITHKAP” on the front and “Kaepernick” on the back will be sold with 20 percent of the proceeds going to the Know Your Rights Camp. The Campaign is funded by the Colin Kaepernick Foundation to help empower young people by educating them on their rights and how to interact with law enforcement.

Here’s a preview of the back of the jersey:

And the website has more of the front too.

If you listen closely, you can hear the rumbling already: He just got paid by Nike, why not donate all the proceeds? That is perhaps a fair criticism, but we don’t know the actual terms of the Nike deal, and it seems fairly certain that he will never be employable in the NFL and endorsements will be his only source of income going forward. And also, did you know his new deal explicitly provides that Nike will donate to the charity? Or that 20 percent is precisely 20 percent more than would be donated to this charity if he did not sell the jerseys, which by the way did not just magically appear in a warehouse? Or that the NFL generally does not donate anything from its jersey sales, except in special circumstances like October’s breast cancer awareness month? Even with that pink breast cancer awareness gear they roll out, very little money actually goes to charity.

According to data obtained from the NFL by Darren Rovell of ESPN, the NFL “takes a 25% royalty from the wholesale price (1/2 retail), donates 90% of royalty to American Cancer Society.”

In other words, for every $100 in pink merchandise sold, $12.50 goes to the NFL. Of that, $11.25 goes to the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the NFL keeps the rest. The remaining money is then divided up by the company that makes the merchandise (37.5%) and the company that sells the merchandise (50.0%), which is often the NFL and the individual teams.

When word first spread that Kaepernick was protesting during the national anthem, his jersey sales skyrocketed to tops in the league. In response, he donated whatever proceeds he received to charity. Now that he’s out a job (and a jersey) he’s finding a way to keep donating to a cause he believes in.

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UFC 228 Recap: Tyron Woodley smashes Darren Till

Fans were cautious regarding UFC 228’s main event. Both Darren Till and Tyron Woodley were coming off snoozers, but Till was still carrying all the hype in the world as a young, surging talent from the UK. When fight time came, Tyron Woodley put it on the young challenger in a fashion. Showing himself to be more than just a big right hand on the feet, Woodley completely bamboozled the dangerous striker and finished him in the second round without Till even landing a shot.

Woodley’s tendency to stand by the fence and Till’s bullying style were the main elements most focused on before the fight. It seemed like the two would agree exactly where the fight should take place and it would be a case of immovable object and irresistible force. From the opening bell Tyron Woodley danced back onto the fence and invited Till in, before bursting off the fence almost immediately with strikes and following into the clinch.

And so the fight took its shape. Woodley stood on the fence, in the inferior ring position, but was bizarrely able to push the pace as he did so. Till never got comfortable for even a moment and while his usual movement was still there he seemed hung up on the possibility of what the champion would do when he stepped in. Over the course of the first round Till feinted plenty, but seemed timid to step in with actual blows.

To keep Till honest and stifle the thought of kicking, Woodley picked up legs and moved straight into clinches off them. Everything Till attempted would open him up to Woodley’s hitting power and his superior wrestling ability, and Till became paralyzed—offering nothing through the entire opening round.

After each time Woodley surged off the fence, he would retreat a step and as Till ambled back to his original position Woodley would try to clock him cold again. This seemed an attempt to punish a pattern you can see in Till’s fights: he will leap back and allow his man to lash out off the fence, and then walk them back into it without resistance. Woodley was having none of it.

As the second round began Till’s corner had begged him to throw something. As Till finally summoned the confidence to step in and commit, Woodley timed him with a counter right hand that sent the challenger to the mat.

The difference between Till’s previous fights and this one was obvious. Till doesn’t use any magic techniques that no one else can do to win fights: it’s all jabs and left straights. But he uses his excellent sense of timing, his speed, and his bewildering feints to get more out of these weapons that the vast majority of fighters in MMA today. Playing feints and legitimate strikes off each other, and subverting the opponent’s expectations is the most important thing a striker can do. Yet as soon as the real blows stop coming between the feints, or a fighter begins obviously hyping himself up before he steps in for real, that wickedly difficult style falls apart.

In rattling the challenger’s nerves early and keeping him off his game, Tyron Woodley showed himself to be the wily veteran, and while his fights are hit and miss as a box office attraction, he remains capable of beating the best fighters in the world and often making it look easy.

Darren Till, of course, has plenty of room to develop from here and one bad performance does not mean that the rest was hype. His talent and his skill are as real as they come, Tyron Woodley was just that good on Saturday night.

Odds and Sods

Elsewhere on the card, Zabit Magomedsharipov lived up to what was expected of him and bested last minute replacement, Brandon Davis. Davis is not a very highly regarded fighter but showed a cool head and demonstrated some of those same habits we examined in Zabit Magomedsharipov: Tempering Talent with Craft.

Davis did a good job of feinting and staying on top of his feet, taking away Zabit’s favorite method of countering. Zabit will give ground, give ground, and then intercept with a jumping back kick, a spinning backfist or an overhand. By staying in his stance and refusing to chase Zabit, the spinning backfists and cross buttock throw attempts caught Davis in good base and well defended rather than lunging towards his man.

As we discussed, Zabit’s long of a long stance left his lead leg hanging out there and Davis was able to get to it a good many times in the bout.

And Zabit’s constant giving of ground to set up his counters led to him getting caught along the fence several times again. Davis wasn’t able to make good use of it, but other fighters have and it will be something that top fighters and coaches see when Zabit eventually starts fighting top talent.

But a well-rounded game is what Zabit brings and while he wasn’t having much joy in the striking he was able to go to his wrestling and wear Davis out quickly. By the time the two stood up again, Davis was backing away from the Dagestani prospect and the cross buttock throw came effortlessly, with Zabit snatching up a wrist control from the turtle as he went. This absolutely beautiful, flowing offense is the reason it is so easy to get invested in Magomedsharipov.

The finish came by Suloev stretch, a very rare submission which had only been seen once in the UFC, up until Saturday night when two were hit in on the same card!

Jessica Andrade hasn’t gone through much of a tactical rebirth since she fought Joanna Jedrzejczyk for the straw-weight title, but her windmilling offense matched up extremely badly for Karolina Kowalkiewicz. Kowalkiewicz is a right hand heavy puncher who fails to “close the door” with her left hand or get back to her guard after she throws her right. This is compounded by her excellent knees from the clinch—she gets into the habit of throwing the right hand and falling forward onto the opponent. That squaring for the right hand and failing to consider a return made her a mark for Andrade’s left hook and follow up windmilling flurries.

The knockout came as Kowalkiewicz left both hands extended and had her eyes closed, awkwardly flurrying to keep Andrade off her.

A final note for Jimmie Rivera, who came back off a rough knockout loss to Marlon Moraes. It was one of those cruel ones which happened so quick that we don’t actually know how Rivera’s skills match up with Moraes, but he will have to work overtime to be able to pitch a rematch without fans laughing it off.

Rivera’s opponent, John Dodson, has largely tapered down his game to double left straights thrown while running past the opponent’s lead leg. Almost nothing of note happened in the fight but Rivera did look to land good counter left hooks as Dodson did these drive-bys. Often leading with a right hand to the body as Dodson stepped in, squaring Rivera’s hips and freeing his left hand, before attempting to catch Dodson with the left hook as he walked into it.

UFC 228 had fairly low expectations from fans going in, but for those who sat down and gave it the chance it contained far more action than it perhaps had a right to. And if you listen closely now that UFC 228 is in the books, you might be able to hear the hype machine whirring into life in anticipation of the march towards UFC 229: Conor McGregor vs. Khabib Nurmagomedov.

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In Appreciation of Don Nelson’s Bad-Ass New Look, and Badder-Ass Legacy

ONE: In his new book, Rick Pitino writes about his early basketball memories, which include making his players at Providence and other stops do morning warm ups, midday practice, and a three hour practice every night. To hear Rick tell it in his tremendously self-serving book, this is a romantic time, when you could really TEACH PLAYERS the game for, like, 13 hours a day, a time before the nosy-ass NCAA started telling coaches how to run their programs. It reads as a fairly insufferable frame of mind to an even marginally normal person. In reading about it, you yearn for a coach who cares less, who uses the game to find something more ineffable and beautiful than the trophies you get when you win. You thirst, in short, for King Don Nelson, the greatest basketball coach who ever lived.

TWO: This weekend, The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inducted their 2018 Hall of Fame class. Twenty-year Women’s Pro Tina Thompson, Philadelphia 76ers Guard Maurice Cheeks, tragic forward Grant Hill, beefy point guard Jason Kidd, and obsessive sharpshooting legend Ray Allen, among others, were brought into the fold.

The best speech of the evening, from a pure public speaking perspective, came from Steve Nash, who delivered some inspiring words for the youth, said nice things to both his current AND former wives, went through his career dude by dude, and did a fucking tremendous job not thanking anyone he played with on the Lakers. But in addition to his well crafted speech, Nash also gave us a gift that will live through the ages.

For those not familiar with their rituals, players entering the Naismith Hall of Fame are “Welcomed” by someone already in the hall. This person sits behind them at the ceremony, walks up with them onto the stage, and stands by gracefully, giving the induction a sense of continuity with the past. Honestly, it’s a good idea. Inductees pick someone for literally every imaginable reason—Kidd picked Gary Payton, who was his mentor when he was young, Allen picked Reggie Miller, his immediate stylistic predecessor. But Steve Nash, goddess bless him, picked the greatest inductor imaginable.

Don Nelson, not seen on these shores for a hot second after he retired, moved to Hawaii, and founded a pot farm that primarily grows an O.G./Hindu Kush hybrid he calls “Nellie Kush.” Don looked fucking amazing, top to bottom, sporting a lighter frame, having lived a whole new life away from the world of never-ending pre-game spreads. His grey hair was draped across his mighty shoulders, and he was sporting some silvery dust on the ol’ chin and cheeks. Nelson now has a tan that, honestly, I didn’t know a human body was capable of even producing, it’s so rich and beautiful. It’s like a tan that a redwood would have, somehow. He totally eschewed a tie— reasonable, they always seemed a little out of place below his big red face— in favor of a CLASSIC all black getup that sat somewhere between Johnny Cash and outright cult leader.

And, to top it all off: he had an unusually large gold chain draped around his neck. It is, without a doubt, the greatest NBA Style moment since Kareem sported The Jacket.

THREE: While the anxiety-ridden perfectionism of Rick Pitino or Bobby Knight or Jim Boeheim caused them to live and die from play to play—obsessing over conditioning and image and hard work and all that horse shit everyone venerates in the abstract, but actually fucking hates in their own lives—Don just seemed like he rolled out of bed, took a look at his personnel, decided to try the most extreme shit possible, and put it into practice. He coached extremely good Milwaukee Bucks teams. He set Run TMC loose in Oakland in the 90’s, a time when basketball was mostly played in the half court. He coached Dream Team II, the ACTUAL greatest squad ever assembled.

The Nash/Nowitzki/Finley Dallas Mavericks were his charges, the heralds of the era of modernist, pace and space basketball thundering into the world. Then Don got fired for being too fucking cool, went BACK to the Warriors, took a team full of what can only realistically be described as “Fucking Miscreants” to the No. 8 seed, then they BEAT HIS OLD TEAM RIGHT THERE ON THE SPOT IN SIX GAMES, personally casting Avery Johnson from the world of viable NBA Head coaches and literally sending Dirk to the woods to lick his wounds.

FOUR: In the course of this whirlwind, Nellie became the winningest NBA Coach of all time, but that’s so tertiary to his importance that I nearly forgot to mention it. Because what Don gave NBA coaching that every dorky college coach in the world never could was a fucking rebel’s spirit, and an understanding that basketball, while it fucking rules, is not the end all and be all of life, that recruiting is fucking stupid, that working day and night to make the thing perfect is a fool’s errand, that trusting your player to make decent decisions and trusting the broad scope of your vision to guide them into something awesome (or, occasionally, terrible), was way better than bleeding and dying moment by moment.

And this ethic didn’t end with him. Gregg Popovich, who was his assistant, carries himself with the same win or lose, we’re still gettin’ dinner mentality. Phil Jackson is amazing at not giving a shit, or projecting that he doesn’t, at least. Nelson himself claims he got this carefree play fast/die hard attitude from Red Auerbach, who might be the greatest NBA Coach who ever lived. It’s an attitude towards life and sports that is, like, smart, and what a fucking normal person would do. It’s the adult shit that produces actual wins when you’re coaching other adults who know how to handle themselves.

FIVE:

The best play of Don Nelson’s playing career is some truly unbelievable shit. In the last few seconds of the last game of Bill Russell’s career, Jerry West, the NBA’s all time overrated try-hard, was sitting on the precipice of notching one single Finals victory over Iron Bill and his wily crew. The Celtics are up one. John Havlicek has the ball. Keith Erickson knocks it out of his hands, and into the hands of Don Nelson and Nelson—who would someday wear an all black outfit and a gold chain to a Hall of Fame induction—grabs the ball, rises and shoots. It bounces off the back iron and drifts into the hoop, sealing the game for the Celtics and forever denying Jerry West the satisfaction of ultimate victory over his tormentor.

From this moment on, they would become the men this moment makes you. Nelson, devil may care, blowing shit up and halfway screwing it back together, changing the game through the pure force of madness that a shot that stupid going in gives you. West, doubling down on self-torment, managing his teams to the edge of existence, stressing out and doing everything in his power to convince everyone that he wasn’t a failure. Some people admire West, Pitino, all these fucking guys for that winning-is-everything bullshit. They are wrong. Nellie is the real hero we seek.

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