Roundup: Alabama Alpha Phi Recruitment Video Comes Under Fire; Terrifying Airbnb Story in Madrid
By Jason McIntyre
Remember the Alabama Alpha Phi recruitment video? An op-ed in an Alabama newspaper is a bat signal to the internet mob: “It’s all so racially and aesthetically homogeneous and forced, so hyper-feminine, so reductive and objectifying.” Scroll to the bottom for video. [AL.com]
Well done, Mr. Newbill. Extremely well done. [The Black Cager]
Cool book excerpt on the “seduction” of Jim Harbaugh. [WSJ]
Billions of reasons Nike is so desperate to cling to Michael Jordan’s name. [Bloomberg]
Shocked to hear that Ikemefuna Enemkpali of the Bills – the guy who knocked out Geno Smith last week – isn’t really a bad guy. [NYT]
Wonder if there’s a player in the SEC who has garnered more ink this month than Texas A&M’s Myles Garrett. [Houston Chronicle]
Why are millennials so obsessed with food? [Atlantic]
David Denson, a Milwaukee Brewers minor league baseball player, came out as publicly gay. [JS Online]
Nine months after the Royals reached the World Series … here come the babies! [KC Star]
Straight Outta Compton dominated the box office, but how come nobody is talking about the rap group’s history of violence against women? [Huffington Post]
Remembering the Ki-Jana Carter era in Cincinnati. [Cincinnati.com]
“Pac-12 Networks trying to reach DirecTV deal by football season.” [Salt Lake Trib]
This debacle happened in Saudi Arabia.
Here’s the Alabama Alpha Phi recruitment video.
Connie Britton loved Amy Schumer’s FNL parody.