Ron DeSantis said in an interview that basketball players are “freaks of nature” and baseball players are hard workers. This wording is an old trope.
Author: Mike Freeman, USA TODAY
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Jim Brown was a Hollywood legend, an activist and highly flawed. ‘I do what I want to do’
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Ja Morant joins legions of Americans with a gun fetish in new video on social media
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Bob Huggins is a fossil who doesn’t understand most young players hate his bigotry
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