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What Is A DAO And How Will It Change Sports

Blockchain, Crypto, NFTs, DAO, Tokens, Wallets, Web 3.0, Metaverse, etc. It’s not difficult to understand why so many people hear these…

5 min readFeb 23, 2022

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What Is A DAO And How Will It Change Sports

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Sports Washing: What is it and why is it so controversial?

You may have recently come across the term sports washing and wondered what it is, what does it mean, and in what context does is it…

5 min readDec 9, 2021

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Sports Washing: What is it and why is it so controversial?

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Why the reaction to the European Super League, highlights the hypocrisy regarding racism in…

Since the announcement on Sunday, that 12 of Europe’s biggest clubs would be coming together to form a new competition called the European…

4 min readApr 21, 2021

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Why the reaction to the European Super League, highlights the hypocrisy regarding racism in…

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How Big Tech is now hedging bets on the next sports superstars

As we are seeing an increased usage of data and analytics to drive decision making and talent identification across a number of sports…

5 min readMar 1, 2021

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How Big Tech is now hedging bets on the next sports superstars

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Why ‘Diversity of Thought’, is not the answer to the problem

In the current climate, where issues concerning Race, Diversity, and Equality are at the forefront of many conversations, many companies…

4 min readSep 23, 2020

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Why ‘Diversity of Thought’, is not the answer to the problem

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The Burden of Black Excellence

After binge-watching my way through Netflix, these last five months, I decided to rewatch the film, Queen & Slim, starring British actors…

6 min readAug 11, 2020

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The Burden of Black Excellence

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Why some people just don’t understand Anti-Semitism (The DeSean Jackson Story)

DeSean Jackson is an American football player for the Philadelphia Eagles within the NFL. He has been in the news recently for posting…

7 min readJul 12, 2020

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Why some people just don’t understand Anti-Semitism (The DeSean Jackson Story)

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Six Takeaways from Michael Jordan’s, “The Last Dance” Docuseries

Basketball fan or not, it has been hard to miss all the comments recently about the ESPN and Netflix docuseries, “The Last Dance” which…

8 min readMay 20, 2020

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Six Takeaways from Michael Jordan’s, “The Last Dance” Docuseries

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Jamal Blades

Jamal Blades

Jamal is a sports and cultural commentator with a passion for writing about stories that sit within the intersection of Sports, Business, Race and Technology

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