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Beyond the screaming, there's a (winning) method to Mick Cronin's madness at UCLA
He looks like a madman, stomping around the sideline as if he’s smashing grapes.
Yelling at officials and his own players with equal abandon, his howls can be heard in the upper reaches of any arena.
Win or lose, the words flow freely in his public comments afterward, no one spared from biting critiques.
Some see these animated displays and wonder if Mick Cronin is being abusive.
His players have come to invite the invective, knowing where it will lead them.
“He doesn’t care about how you feel,” said Jaylen Clark, the Minnesota Timberwolves rookie who went from a lightly recruited high school player to a Final Four participant and the Naismith college defensive player of the year under the guidance of the UCLA basketball coach. “He’s going to get everything he feels like he can get out of you even if you don’t see it yourself.”
UCLA coach Mick Cronin talks with Jaylen Clark (0) during the team’s January 2023 game against Arizona State in Tempe, Ariz. UCLA won 74-62.
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It usually doesn’t take long for the Bruins to see it. Center Kenneth Nwuba, who signed up to play for the easygoing Steve Alford only to find himself sticking around for five more seasons under the demanding Cronin, once approached the latter mentor with a startling message.
“Coach,” Nwuba told him, “we play better when you yell.”
That’s not much of an ask. Type “Mick Cronin” into a YouTube search and one of the auto-populated options on a drop-down menu is “Mick Cronin mad.”
Yep, he can run hot beyond the three technical fouls he’s earned this season, the redlining going back to his days at Cincinnati.
Among the videos that pop up are “Mick Cronin very upset after Shootout brawl,” “Mick Cronin tries to fight Xavier bench” and “UCLA coach puts players on BLAST!!”
He’s freely ripped since his arrival in Westwood, calling out nearly everyone on the roster. Just listen to Cronin’s takes from earlier this season …
On freshman guard Sebastian Mack: “On a veteran team, he’d play about five minutes a game.”
On freshman guard Ilane Fibleuil committing a turnover: “First time you touch the ball, you try to be Michael Jordan and look what happens.”
On freshman forward Berke Buyuktuncel throwing a bad cross-court pass: “We invent new ways to turn it over.”
Former shooting guard David Singleton got a sense of the verbal volleys to come in his first meeting with Cronin in the spring of 2019, not long after the coach had taken the UCLA job.
“I didn’t know who he was talking to,” Singleton said, “but he looked up and said, ‘Why isn’t the video ready? If you were working for coach [Rick] Pitino, you would have been fired already.’ And I’m like, who is he talking to? Is he serious? He was talking to the video guy. So that was like, ‘Oh, OK, this guy means business.’”
UCLA coach Mick Cronin talks with Jaime Jaquez Jr., David Singleton, Prince Ali and Tyger Campbell during a 2020 game against Colorado in Los Angeles.
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Some fans have called him Cronin the Barbarian, a playful twist on the fictional warrior Conan. His influences include his father, who was a warm but no-nonsense high school coach, in addition to two former bosses who are crusty college icons — Bob Huggins is notoriously gruff, even under the best of circumstances, and Pitino openly berated his St. John’s players last weekend after they lost for the eighth time in their last 10 games, saying “about five guys are slow laterally.”
Cronin’s Bruins (14-12 overall, 9-6 Pac-12) are on a different trajectory, having won eight of their last 10 games heading into a rivalry showdown against USC (10-16, 4-11) on Saturday night at Pauley Pavilion. It’s just another late-season surge for a coach who has taken UCLA to two Sweet 16s in addition to the 2021 Final Four as part of his three NCAA tournament appearances with the team.
He’s also helped four players get selected in the NBA draft — two in the first round — while sending a handful of others to the G League and overseas professional teams. Leaning heavily on the teachings of a legendary predecessor, Cronin favors results over public opinion.
“Sometimes people think I’m testy or edgy or I don’t care,” Cronin said, “and I don’t say this as arrogance, I don’t care because coach [John] Wooden tells you not to care about praise or criticism, just do your job and be a good person and I try to get [my players] to do the same thing.”
Those watching from afar might be surprised to learn that Cronin has a soft side, like flipping over a Brillo pad to find cashmere. After his team beat Stanford and California during a recent trip to the Bay Area, the coach visited for several minutes with a young special-needs fan who attended both games, ending each exchange with a hug.
The feel-good vibes carried over to the locker room. Addressing his team after the 61-60 victory over the Golden Bears, Cronin quipped, “It was a one-point blowout.”
Cracking up his players as much as he challenges them, Cronin loves to drop pop culture references during practices. He quotes lines from old movies — few of which his players get — and last season told star forward Jaime Jaquez Jr. after an egregious traveling violation that “Ray Charles could have called that one.”
If you hear Cronin refer to Uncle Smitty, he’s using a catch-all phrase for anyone in a player’s entourage who might have strong opinions about things that don’t matter, like failing to score 20 points in a game.
Chris Smith, a forward for the Iowa Wolves of the G League who spent his final two college seasons under Cronin, said part of the coach’s genius was connecting basketball to other things.
“You play basketball how you live life, you know?” Smith said. “If you’re half-assing it on the court, then you’re most likely half-assing in life.”
“Sometimes people think I’m testy or edgy or I don’t care and I don’t say this as arrogance, I don’t care because coach [John] Wooden tells you not to care about praise or criticism, just do your job and be a good person and I try to get [my players] to do the same thing.”
— UCLA men’s basketball coach Mike Cronin
Half measures never fly with Cronin. After watching Clark fail to box out a San Diego State player as instructed in his college debut, Cronin threatened to never play the freshman again. The next day, even as the Bruins went to triple overtime against Pepperdine and two players fouled out, Clark never got off the bench.
“They looked at me,” Clark said of assistant coaches contemplating putting him in the game, “and [Cronin] said, ‘No, somebody else.’”
Clark eventually worked his way out of the dog house via relentless defense that two seasons later won him the team’s Hungry Dog Award that goes to the player who logs the most deflections.
Perhaps the best measure of Cronin’s popularity among his players is that only four have transferred in five seasons and those who now play professionally flock back to see their former coach. Clark, Singleton, Amari Bailey and Johnny Juzang were among those in attendance Sunday when the Bruins played Utah at Pauley Pavilion.
That’s not to say they always enjoyed being the subject of a high-volume rant. Singleton recalled his coach once screaming at him to set a screen to free Juzang for a shot.
“I’m looking at him like, ‘I got it,’ and he just kept yelling at me and when it was time to inbound it and I set it and Johnny was open and he knocked it down,” Singleton said. “I looked at [Cronin] and I’m like, ‘I told you, I got it,’ and he was like, ‘All right, well, do it again.’ It was just constant, like he wanted more, he always demanded more.”
UCLA coach Mick Cronin, left, reacts as guard Tyger Campbell (10) walks by during a December 2022 road game against Washington State.
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Does all that yelling rattle the Bruins? Sometimes. In the middle of the team’s most recent Final Four season, Singleton said, players gathered to discuss the volatility.
“We said, ‘Just because he’s yelling at us, we can’t play scared,’ ” Singleton said. “So I would say after that is when we really took off as a team, to listen to what he says, not how he says it.”
Cronin, who will turn 53 this summer, likes to say he’s got a PhD in dealing with young players after spending his whole life in locker rooms beginning with his dad’s teams as an infant. He tries to tailor his delivery to each player based on their personality and experience level. That can be particularly challenging on a team with seven freshmen like this one.
“You’ve got to have some feel,” Cronin said. “You’re not always right, but you’ve got to be observant and see who responds to what through trial and error. Certain guys, the more aggressive you coach them, the better they play. Other guys may go into a shell. So you have to be observant of that.
“We’re like a starting pitcher and it’s a long season, you’ve got a lot of different battles. You can’t throw fastballs all season to every hitter, right? So you’ve got to have a changeup at times. You know, there’s times where they need a little softball, a little batting practice. Other times they need the fastball down the middle or maybe under the chin — they might need the brushback.”
If he’s particularly hard on a player, Cronin said, he tries to circle back to him later to let him know he’s trying to help him get to where he wants to go in his career. Whenever he yanks players for mistakes during games, the coach has an assistant check in with them to discuss the issue and make sure they’re staying mentally prepared to return.
UCLA coach Mick Cronin and some of his players watch the final moments of the Bruins’ win over Abilene Christian March 22, 2021, in Indianapolis.
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Mack has found Cronin’s messages increasingly resonating the deeper he goes into his first college season based on their prognostic prowess.
“I wouldn’t want to call him a wizard,” Mack said, unintentionally referencing Wooden’s nickname, “but, I mean, the stuff he does say usually ends up happening.”
What about Cronin’s tendency to share his unvarnished thoughts with the media? Myles Johnson, the former UCLA center once described by Cronin as “too nice” to be as dominant as he should be, said it just comes with playing for the steward of one of the best brands in college basketball.
“It’s UCLA, you’ve got to hold yourself to a higher standard playing for UCLA and we all knew that,” Johnson said, “and even if it does come out in the media and he was tough on you in the media, most of the time what he’s saying is factual, it’s not like he’s just making it up out of thin air.”
It would be easy for Cronin to say he’s mellowed since suffering a brain abnormality called arterial dissection nearly a decade ago that forced him to miss the final 25 games of the 2014-15 season at Cincinnati, but the coach conceded that’s not the case.
“It’d be a lie,” Cronin said. “You get older, you know, all of us, theoretically you’re a little smarter. So you take better care of yourself, get more rest, you know, things of that nature.”
You just don’t necessarily take it easier on your players. They don’t seem to mind given the results.
UCLA’s Kenneth Nwuba (14), Sebastian Mack (12), Lazar Stefanovic, rear, head coach Mick Cronin, second from front right, and Dylan Andrews (2) wait for a call from the referees during the second half of a road game against Arizona on Jan. 20.
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“He’s someone that tries to push you to your limits and get the best out of you every single day,” said guard Lazar Stefanovic, who was lured from Utah to UCLA before this season mostly because he figured Cronin could help him improve. The junior is now averaging career highs in points (11.1) and rebounds (6.1). “I think that’s what every young player needs.”
Maybe it’s why the quiet moments tend to stand out most for those who have played for the man some fans see as a screaming meanie. Among his favorite memories of playing for Cronin, Singleton mentioned pouring a Gatorade container full of confetti over his coach to celebrate their making the Final Four.
It was a gentle swishing that said it all.
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Eileen Gu reflects on decision to leave Team USA for China: ‘A lot of people just don’t understand’
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Eileen Gu released a statement on social media Monday, reflecting on her controversial decision to compete for Team China despite being born and raised in the U.S.
Gu’s statement tied the decision back to her passion for promoting women’s sports, and encouraging young girls to pursue sports.
“I gave my first speech on women in sports and title IX when I was 11 years old. I talked about being the only girl on my ski team, and, despite attending an all-girls’ school from Monday through Friday, becoming best friends with my teammates on the weekends through the common language of sport,” Gu wrote on Instagram.
Silver medalist Eileen Gu of China poses for photos after the awarding ceremony of the freestyle skiing women’s freeski big air event at the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Livigno, Italy, Feb. 16, 2026. (Photo by Wang Peng/Xinhua via Getty Images) (Wang Peng/Xinhua via Getty Images)
“At the same time, I was made painfully aware of the lack of representation – at age 9, I felt that I was somehow representing all women every time I stepped in the terrain park. Landing tricks was about more than progression … it was about disproving the derisive implication of what it meant to ‘ski like a girl.’”
Gu went on to express gratitude for the one season in which she did compete for the U.S.
“When I was 15, I announced my decision to compete for China. At the time, I had spent one season on the US team, and had been lucky enough to meet my heroes in person. I am forever grateful for that season, and continue to maintain a close relationship with the team. I had spent every summer in China since I was 8 setting up summer camps on trampoline and dry slope for kids and adults, ranging from 7 to 47 years old, so I knew the industry was tiny. I felt like I knew everyone,” she added.
“Skiing for Team China meant the opportunity to uplift others through the universal culture of sport, and to introduce freeskiing to hundreds of millions of people who had never heard of it, especially with the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics around the corner.”
Gu’s statement concluded by acknowledging that certain people “don’t understand” her decision to compete for China over the U.S., while insisting the choice maximized the impact she would have.
“I can look back now, at 22, and tell 12 year old Eileen that there are now terrain parks full of little girls, who will never doubt their place in the sport. I can tell 15 year old me that there are now millions of girls who have started skiing since then, in China and worldwide,” Gu wrote.
“A lot of people won’t understand or believe that I made a decision to create the greatest amount of positive impact on the world stage that I could, at this age, given my interests and passions. Three golds and six medals later, I can confidently say was once a dream is now a reality.”
Gu has become a target for global criticism this Olympics for her decision to represent China while remaining silent on the country’s alleged human rights abuses.
In an interview with Time magazine, Gu was asked her thoughts on China’s alleged persecution of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in Xinjiang.
“I haven’t done the research. I don’t think it’s my business. I’m not going to make big claims on my social media,” Gu answered.
“I’m just more of a skeptic when it comes to data in general. … So, it’s not like I can read an article and be like, ‘Oh, well, this must be the truth.’ I need to have a ton of evidence. I need to maybe go to the place, maybe talk to 10 primary source people who are in a location and have experienced life there.
“Then I need to go see images. I need to listen to recordings. I need to think about how history affects it. Then I need to read books on how politics affects it. This is a lifelong search. It’s irresponsible to ask me to be the mouthpiece for any agenda.”
More controversy surrounding Gu erupted after The Wall Street Journal reported that Gu and another American-born athlete who now competes for China, were paid a combined $6.6 million by the Beijing Municipal Sports Bureau in 2025.
Gu is the highest-paid Winter Olympics athlete in the world, making an estimated $23 million in 2025 alone due to partnerships with Chinese companies, including the Bank of China and western companies.
Her alignment with China prompted criticism from many Americans this Olympics, including Vice President J.D. Vance.
“I certainly think that someone who grew up in the United States of America who benefited from our education system, from the freedoms and liberties that makes this country a great place, I would hope they want to compete with the United States of America,” Vance said in an interview on Fox News’ “The Story with Martha MacCallum.”
Later, when Gu was asked if she feels “like a bit of a punching bag for a certain strand of American politics at the moment,” she said she does.
“I do,” she said. “So many athletes compete for a different country. … People only have a problem with me doing it because they kind of lump China into this monolithic entity, and they just hate China. So, it’s not really about what they think it’s about.
“And, also, because I win. Like, if I wasn’t doing well, I think that they probably wouldn’t care as much, and that’s OK for me. People are entitled to their opinions.”
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Silver medalist Eileen Gu of China attends the awarding ceremony of the freestyle skiing women’s freeski big air event at the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Livigno, Italy, Feb. 16, 2026. (Hongxiang/Xinhua via Getty Images)
Gu has claimed she was “physically assaulted” for the decision.
“The police were called. I’ve had death threats. I’ve had my dorm robbed,” Gu told The Athletic.
“I’ve gone through some things as a 22-year-old that I really think no one should ever have to endure, ever.”
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From Hollywood actors to Olympic athletes and politicians, California’s newest Hall of Fame class runs the gamut in talent and achievements.
Academy Award-winning actress Jamie Lee Curtis and former governor/action star Arnold Schwarzenegger, Olympic champions Janet Evans and Carl Lewis, authors Riane Eisler and Terry McMillan, chef Nobuyuki Matsuhisa, groundbreaking ensemble Mariachi Reyne de Los Ángeles and former state Democratic leader John L. Burton all earned a spot into the assembly of distinct Californians, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday.
This class, the 19th in state history, will be formally enshrined during a ceremony at the California Museum in Sacramento on March 19 as a “celebration of their contributions to civic life, creativity, and social progress,” according to Newsom’s office.
The inductees “have reshaped our culture and our communities. Resilient and innovative, these leaders and luminaries represent the best of the California spirit,” Newsom said in a statement.
To be inducted, candidates must have lived in California for at least five years and “have made achievements benefiting the state, nation and world,” according to the California Hall of Fame website. To date, 166 Californians have been selected by three governors since 2006.
Schwarzenegger, 78, served as the state’s 38th governor and last Republican head of state from 2003 to 2011. His renaissance man biography includes a career as a body builder, highlighted by his Mr. Universe titles, action film success, political stardom and even tabloid-fodder infidelity.
Curtis, 67, a Santa Monica native, is among Hollywood’s elite and teamed with Schwarzenegger in the action blockbuster “True Lies” in 1994. Her acting career dates to 1977, and she earned a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award in 2023 for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
Evans, 54, is a four-time Olympic gold medal swimmer and Fullerton native who attended Placentia El Dorado High School, Stanford University and USC. She serves as chief athletic officer for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games.
Lewis, 64, is considered by many one of the greatest athletes of the 20th century. The track star won 10 medals, nine of them gold, in four Olympics.
Eisler, 88, and McMillan, 74, added multiple bestsellers to this Hall of Fame class.
Eisler’s critically acclaimed “The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future” examines roughly 20,000 years of partnership between men and women and male domination over the last 5,000 years. The futurist, cultural historian and Holocaust survivor who has degrees in sociology and law from UCLA said she was informed of the honor last year by Jennifer Siebel Newsom and recently was honored by the Austrian government with its Cross of Honour for Science and Art, First Class.
“I am very honored at this time in my life to be inducted into the California Hall of Fame,” Eisler wrote in an email. “I have worked tirelessly to help create a better world, and firmly believe that a new paradigm, a new way of looking at our world and our place in it, is crucial.”
McMillan has written a series of smash hits, including a couple that became major studio films in the ‘90s, “Waiting to Exhale” and “How Stella Got her Groove Back,” centered on Black women’s voices.
Matsuhisa, 76, know for his iconic Japanese restaurant Nobu, which has six locations in California, owns businesses across five continents.
Mariachi Reyna de Los Ángeles, founded in South El Monte, rewrote the rules of music, becoming the first all-woman mariachi ensemble that has entertained for more than three decades.
Burton, the former chair of the California Democratic Party who died last year at 92, boasted a political career that included time in the California State Assembly and Senate and the U.S. House.
“This year’s class embodies the very best of California — creativity, resilience and a spirit of community,” Siebel Newsom said in a statement. “These honorees remind us that innovation and courage flourish when people are lifted up by those around them.”
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Ali Haji-Sheikh and Shar Pourdanesh share the fact they are retired NFL players living beyond the glow of the NFL spotlight. But they also share another distinction tying them to current events: They are part of the Iranian diaspora hoping for the downfall of the Islamic revolution.
They make up part of a small group of men who played in the NFL – along with David Bakhtiari, his brother Eric Bakhtiari and T.J. Housmandzadeh – who are decedents of Iranians.
Washington Redskins kicker Ali Haji-Sheikh (6) talks to reporters at Jack Murphy Stadium during media day prior to Super Bowl XXII against the Denver Broncos. San Diego, California, on Jan. 26, 1988.(Darr Beiser/USA TODAY Sports)
Haji-Sheikh: Self-Determination For Iranians
Haji-Sheikh, 65, played in the 1980s for the New York Giants, Atlanta Falcons and Washington Redskins. He was a first-team All-Pro, made the Pro Bowl and was on the NFL All-Rookie team in 1983 for the Giants and, in his final season, won a Super Bowl XXII ring playing for the Washington Redskins and kicking six extra points in a 42-10 blowout of the Denver Broncos.
Now, Haji-Sheikh is the general manager at a Michigan Porsche-Audi dealership and is like the rest of us: Keeping up with world events when time permits.
Except the war the United States is currently waging against the Islamic Republic of Iran is kind of different because Haji-Sheikh’s dad emigrated from Iran to the United States in the 1950s and built a life here.
And his son would like to see freedom come to a country he’s never visited but has a kinship to.
“It’s a world event,” Haji-Sheikh said on Monday. “I am not a big fan of the Islamic revolution because I am not Islamic. I would like to see the people of Iran be able to determine their own future rather than it be determined by a few people. It would be nice to see them having a stable government where the people can actually decide how they want it to go.
Green Bay Packers kicker Al Del Greco (10) talks with New York Giants kicker Ali Haji-Sheikh (6) on Sept. 15, 1985, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers defeated the Giants 23-20.
Iranians Celebrating And Americans Protesting
Haji-Sheikh hasn’t taken to the streets of his native Michigan to celebrate a liberation that hasn’t fully manifested mere days after the American and Israeli bombing and elimination of the Ayatollah.
“I’m so far removed from that,” Haji-Sheikh said. “My mom is from Michigan and of Eastern European background. My dad is from Iran. But it’s like, he hasn’t been back since I was in eighth grade, so that’s a long time ago. That was when the Shah was still in power, mid-70s, ‘74 or ’75, because if he ever went back after that he never would have left. They would have held him, so there was no intention of going back.
“But if things change he might want to go, you never know.”
Despite being removed from any activism about what is happening in Iran Haji-Sheikh is an astute observer.
“My favorite thing I’m seeing right now on TV is the Iranians in America celebrating because there’s a chance, a glimpse, maybe a hope for freedom,” Haji-Sheikh said. “And you have these people in New York protesting. What are you protesting?”
Pourdanesh Thanks America, Israel
Pourdanesh retired from the NFL in 2000 after a seven-year career with the Redskins and Steelers. The six-foot-six and 312-pound offensive tackle was born in Tehran. He proudly tells people he was the NFL’s first Iranian-born player.
Pourdanesh is much more visible and open about his feelings about his country than others. And, bottom line, he loves that President Donald Trump is bombing the Islamic regime.
“This is a great day for all Iranians across the world,” Pourdanesh posted on his Instagram account on Saturday when the war began. “Thank you, President Trump, thank you to the nation of Israel. Thank you for everybody that has been standing up for my people, my brothers and sisters in Iran across the world. This is a great day.
“The infamous dictator is dead – the one person who has contributed to deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iranians and other people around the world, if not more. So, congratulations to my Iranian brothers and sisters. Now, go and take back the country.”
This message was not a one-off. Pourdanesh has been posting about what has been happening in Iran since January, when people in Iran took to the streets demanding liberty and the government’s thugs began killing them, with some estimates rising to 36,500 deaths.
Offensive lineman Shar Pourdanesh (68) of the Pittsburgh Steelers blocks against defensive lineman Jevon Kearse (90) of the Tennessee Titans during a game at Three Rivers Stadium on Sept. 24, 2000, in Pittsburgh. The Titans defeated the Steelers 23-20. (Photo by George Gojkovich/Getty Images)
‘Islam Does Not Represent The Iranian People’
“[The] Islamic Republic does not represent the Iranian people,” Pourdanesh said in another post. “Islam does not represent the Iranian people. For almost 50 years, the Iranian people and our country of Iran has been taken hostage by a terrorist regime, and it’s time to take that regime down.”
Pourdanesh was not available for comment on Monday. I did speak to a handful of other Iranian-Americans on Monday. They didn’t play in the NFL, but their opinions are no less valuable than those of former NFL players.
And these people, some of them participating in rallies on behalf of a free Iran, do not understand the thinking of some Americans and mainstream media.
One complained that media that reports on reparations for black Americans based on slavery in the 1800s dismisses the Islamic takeover of the American Embassy in 1979 as an old grievance.
Another said his brother lives in England, where Prime Minister Keir Starmer immediately called the American and Israeli attacks on the Ayatollah’s regime “illegal” but, as the head of the Crown Prosecution Service took years to do the same of Muslim rape (grooming) gangs in the country.
(Starmer announced a national “statutory inquiry” in June 2025).
Offensive lineman Shar Pourdanesh of the Washington Redskins looks on from the sideline during a game against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Three Rivers Stadium on Sept. 7, 1997, in Pittsburgh. The Steelers defeated the Redskins 14-13. (Photo by George Gojkovich/Getty Images)
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Pourdanesh Calls Out NFL Silence
And finally, Pourdanesh put the NFL on blast. He said in yet another post that during his career, the NFL asked him to honor black history, asked him to stand for women’s rights, asked him to fight for equality for those who cannot defend themselves.
“I did everything they asked, and now I ask the NFL this: Where are you now? Why haven’t we heard a single word out of the NFL? NFL, Commissioner Roger Goodell, all the NFL teams out there, all the players who say they stand for social justice, where are you now?
“Why haven’t we heard a single word out of you with regard to the people who have been killed as of today? The very values you claim to espouse are being trampled right now. Why haven’t we heard a single word?”
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