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UCLA must eject Mick Cronin if he can’t respect his players

UCLA must eject Mick Cronin if he can’t respect his players

Published by Sam Flores

It was the look on Steven Jamerson II’s face. That was the toughest thing to watch. That was what seared into the mind. That’s what made you want to fire Mick Cronin on the spot. It was a look of embarrassment. It was a look of confusion. It was the look of a young man who had just been cruelly pushed around by someone with more power. Mick Cronin is a classic bully, and the fact that UCLA continues to empower him with new contracts and no questions is misguided malfeasance. So, he wins games. He doesn’t win enough to compensate for incidents like Tuesday night in East Lansing, Mich., where Cronin became perhaps the first college coach in history to eject his own player from the game and order him to the locker room in the middle of the game. Yes, Cronin holds players accountable. That’s fine, as long as he also holds himself accountable, but that didn’t happen when, after his team was beaten by 23 points by Michigan State in a second …

Ai Weiwei Says London’s Royal Academy Sought to Eject Him After Post–October 7 Tweet about Jews

Ai Weiwei Says London’s Royal Academy Sought to Eject Him After Post–October 7 Tweet about Jews

Published by José Betancourt

In a new interview with The Guardian in advance of his forthcoming book On Censorship, artist Ai Weiwei talked about experiencing censorship not just in his native China but also in the West—including an incident involving his membership in London’s Royal Academy. After chronicling some of his storied challenges and acts of defiance against China’s communist regime, Ai told writer Lanre Bakare he feels “the same kind of surveillance, same kind of censorship in the west.” As Bakare recounts, “Pressed for an example, he tells me a story about the Royal Academy in London, an institution that gave him a landmark exhibition in 2015 and made him an honorary member in 2011 following his detainment in China. In November 2023, an exhibition of new works to be shown at the Lisson Gallery was pulled after he posted a tweet that began: ‘The sense of guilt around the persecution of the Jewish people has been, at times, transferred to offset the Arab world.’ The tweet was deleted, with the artist telling journalists his show had ‘effectively …