re: SportsCenter anchor Jemele Hill on ESPN's politics: 'The athletes are dragging us here'

Hill asks us to contemplate what it would be like if Jackie Robinson happened now.

I think that's the problem right there. There are no more Jackie Robinson barriers left in sports anymore, but ESPN and others are so desperate for the next one. They would give anything to be on the front lines of a Jackie Robinson moment. So they do all they can to create a facsimile of it, no matter how small, over and over and over again. Maybe there's a large portion of America that's tired of the Jackie Robinson story. Seeing how it happened, what, 70 years ago?

There are no more racial barriers to break. So that's why they're pushing gender issues in sports especially hard, too.

Lastly, I can't wait until they're finally done making sports movies about the first black people to do something in sports. There's nothing more cliche than a sports movie where a black kid tries to play a sport, then white people tell him, "but you can't play football/basketball/tennis/synchronized swimming/jai alai! You're black!" Then the black kid plays anyway, and we all learn a life lesson. Barf.