Jason Whitlock

“The more popular and entertaining college basketball is, the more popular the NBA would be.”

“Men do really dumb things. We see weapons of mass destruction where there are none. We over-emphasize sports. We place athletic achievement ahead of academic achievement. We spoil and pamper child athletes and then complain when they act spoiled and pampered as adults.”

“Sports culture has long been patriotic, tolerant of diverse backgrounds and perspective and celebratory of meritocracy.”

“Trust is what leads to the best conversations. People take chances and say what they really think when they trust the person they're engaging with.”

“Great wealth creates an arrogance and, to be quite frank, a god complex in some people that they start feeling like they can do no wrong, they own people, they're superior to other people.”

“ESPN is the exact network Deadspin desired. It's diverse on its surface, progressive in its point of view, and more concerned with spinning media narratives than with the quality of its product.”

“Certain people and groups seem invested in convincing black people that black people are liberal. We've traditionally been conservative, church-going people.”

“The Colin Kaepernick Kneeling Trojan Horse has turned sports into the victimhood Olympics, the most powerful venue in popular culture to preach critical race excuse-making.”

“It is not, nor will it ever be, white people's responsibility to teach black children our unique American history.”

“I wanted to leave ESPN when control of 'The Undefeated' was taken from me.”

“Baseball died in K.C. - and other small markets - in 1994 when Bud Selig and the players' union stopped the season one week after the Hal McRae-led Royals completed a 14-game winning streak.”

“I'm a bit of a rabble-rouser.”

“No other powerful public figure in the history of American media has controlled his narrative as effectively as David Stern.”

“We won. The media. We destroyed Barry Bonds, drove him crazy, turned the most disciplined and feared hitter the game has ever known into a fence-swinging hack, drained all the excitement out of his 714 home runs.”

“Sports culture has long had a major impact on American culture. The values taught and celebrated in sports are conservative.”

“I worked in Ann Arbor for two years, covering Michigan football and basketball in the early 1990s.”

“Baseball and its 162-game schedule are challenging enough, but try winning the world series of dugout poker with cards supplied by Royals owner David Glass, the Wal-Mart-trained billionaire.”

“Jim Crow had unintended benefits. It forced blacks to build and rely on their own economic, educational and social systems.”

“Dez Bryant isn't Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Drew Brees or Russell Wilson. Dez Bryant is a typical, me-first NFL receiver diva, cut from the same cloth as Terrell Owens, Chad Johnson, Randy Moss and Keyshawn Johnson, sprinkled with a heavy dash of Pacman Jones.”

“Removing Donald Sterling from the NBA solves nothing. It sets a precedent that will likely boomerang and harm the black players and coaches who are shocked and outraged that an 80-year-old man with a documented history of bigoted actions also has bigoted private thoughts.”