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Fox News
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Grant Napear opens up about 2020 firing on 'The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show'
Grant Napear, the former broadcaster for the Sacramento Kings fired for a post that said "All Lives Matter," joined "The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show" on Friday for an interview. As Dan Zaksheske wrote on Thursday, Napear has finally landed another radio broadcasting job. He will host his own show on FOX Sports Radio station in Sacramento that will air on weekdays from 3-6 PST, starting on September 2nd. Before this, he broadcast games for the Kings for 26 years, and was fired for this simple tweet he posted in 2020. Napear joined Travis and Sexton's show and talked about his experience of getting fired. He mentioned that many people in his circle and within the industry privately spoke with him and voiced their support. "Privately, people were outraged, they were blown away," Napear said. "I had some of the biggest names in the sportscasting industry reach out to me, talking about how they couldn't believe it. They were telling me they were going to be nervous about saying something they shouldn't or (that) it was going to be misconstrued." However, Napear said that he had no one come to his defense, because they were afraid of the repercussions of sticking up for someone who had said something deemed offensive. "But what was amazing is, every single one of them said, 'I would love to speak up for you publicly, but I can't.' They were too afraid. That's what it was like. People were too afraid to speak out and come to my defense," Napear said. While that must have been disheartening (on top of the five-year wait to get a job back in the industry), justice has smiled on Napear and restored him back to doing what he loves. It's good that this wrong - at least in part - has been rectified.
New York Post
3 days ago
- Sport
- New York Post
Sacramento shock jock, ex-Kings voice fired over ‘All Lives Matter' tweet finally has a new job — five years later
Five years after being fired by his radio station and resigning as the Kings' play-by-play announcer, Grant Napear is back on Sacramento's airwaves. The exiled broadcaster announced Wednesday that he would be taking over the weekday afternoon slot on Fox Sports' local station in California's capital city starting Sept. 2, marking his return to the city he called home for more than three decades. 'I'm competitive. I'm not only coming back to Sacramento. I'm coming back to win,' Napear said Wednesday on his YouTube show. 'I'm gonna put [Fox Sports Sacramento] on the map. I want people to know that I'm not doing this because I'm desperate. I'm doing this because I want to do it. It's been a void in my life. There is nothing like the community of Sacramento.' Advertisement 4 TV analyst Jerry Reynolds and Announcer Grant Napear look on prior to the game between the Dallas Mavericks and Sacramento Kings on January 15, 2020. Napear is returning to the airwaves five years after his controversial firing. NBAE via Getty Images Napear, a graduate of Syosset High School on Long Island, was canned by KHTK 1140 after 32 years with the station after tweeting 'All Lives Matter…Every Single One!' in June 2020 in response to former Kings star DeMarcus Cousins, who asked for his view on the Black Lives Matter movement. Shortly after that, Napear resigned as the Kings' lead television announcer, a role he had been in since 1988. Advertisement The back and forth with Cousins came in the thick of the George Floyd protests and was met with significant backlash in Sacramento and the sports world beyond, including other former Kings players like Chris Webber and Matt Barnes. Others, like fellow radio personality Chris Russo, stuck up for Napear in the aftermath. Bonneville International, the parent company of KHTK, said 'the timing of Grant's tweet was particularly insensitive' after his firing. Advertisement 4 TV announcer Grant Napear of the Sacramento Kings during the game between the Los Angeles Clippers and Sacramento Kings on April 17, 2013 at Sleep Train Arena in Sacramento, California. NBAE via Getty Images At the time, Napear told the Sacramento Bee he was 'not as educated on BLM as I thought. I had no idea that when I said 'All Lives Matter' that it was counter to what BLM is trying to get across.' In an interview with The Post on Thursday, Napear said he has few regrets for the controversial social media post that put his broadcasting career in tatters. 'I got caught up by being politically incorrect in a very turbulent time,' Napear said. 'I understand that, but I stick up for what I believe in. That's how I was raised and I still believe 'All Lives Matter' and I'm not ashamed to say it.' Advertisement 4 TV announcer Grant Napear of the Sacramento Kings during the game between the Los Angeles Clippers and Sacramento Kings on April 17, 2013 at Sleep Train Arena in Sacramento, California. NBAE via Getty Images Napear said he's received 'hundreds and hundreds and hundreds' messages of congratulations since announcing the news less than 24 hours ago. Given his history, which included plenty of run-ins with fans and players even before his 'All Lives Matter' comment, he will no doubt have his critics, but that's far from the outspoken Napear's mind. 'Joe Buck has people who don't like him,' Napear said Thursday. 'Jim Nantz has people who don't like him. I don't worry about that. I don't worry about people that don't care for my work or don't want me back. I don't care about that. I care about my supporters and the people who have been with me through thick and thin.' Still, Napear is coming into his new job a different person, saying in a press release, 'I've listened, I've learned, and I've grown' in the half-decade away from the mic. 4 Grant Napear had been the Kings' play-by-play announcer since 1988. NBAE via Getty Images Napear, who has been hosting his own YouTube show and podcast for the past few years, said he was over the moon to get started. 'I can't wait for Sept. 2,' he said. 'If you would have asked me six months ago, nine months ago, a year or two years ago, I would have never thought this was possible,' he said. Advertisement Napear said the new program will be just like his self-titled show that aired before his firing in 2020, talking about the Kings, NFL and 'whatever [his] callers want to get into.' 'It's going to be exactly the same,' he said. 'I'm going to take phone calls. I'm going to have guests. I'm going to be opinionated.'
Yahoo
16-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Lakeville Area Schools OKs $30,000 settlement on Black Lives Matter posters
Following a lawsuit involving posters featuring Black Lives Matter, the Lakeville Area Schools Board of Education approved a $30,000 settlement April 8. In a lawsuit filed more than two years ago, a group of residents alleged their First Amendment rights were violated when the school district allowed posters featuring 'Black Lives Matter' to be placed in classrooms, while not permitting the display of posters that read 'All Lives Matter' or 'Blue Lives Matter.' In a 5-1 vote, with board member Amber Cameron absent and member Carly Anderson opposed, the board approved the settlement April 8. 'We appreciate the many different perspectives shared. Lakeville Area Schools remains committed to continuing to partner with our families and community to provide a safe, respectful, engaging, rigorous, and collaborative learning environment where every student belongs, is valued and can succeed,' the district said in a statement provided Wednesday. Ahead of voting, Anderson said she felt the settlement approval was a premature decision, referencing the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision in June to reverse the lawsuit's dismissal by a lower court. 'The Eighth Circuit decision was based on assuming that everything that the claimants were claiming could be possible in any scenario. And so to me, I believe we should have gone through the discovery process, which would have meant gathering all the information relevant to the case. In that situation, what I've understood from our legal counsel is that we are on very good footing, that they felt like what our district did was within the grounds of government speech, and that we had an excellent case,' Anderson said. In January, the Lakeville school board voted to remove the series of posters from district buildings. The posters are part of a series of 'inclusive' posters ordered by the district in 2021, two of which said 'Black Lives Matter,' and were distributed to staff members when requested. Upper Midwest Law Center represented plaintiffs Bob and Cynthia Cajune, Kalynn Kay Aaker, and Aaker's minor children in the lawsuit, which argued that the district violated their First Amendment rights 'by engaging in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination.' 'With the Eighth Circuit's decision clearly signaling that the school district's policy was constitutionally unsound, Lakeville Schools wisely reversed their policy and removed the posters from district facilities,' Upper Midwest Law Center said in a statement on its website. 'Because that was what the plaintiffs had sought in the lawsuit, they agreed to dismiss their claims in the settlement in return for the District paying $30,000 in legal fees to the Upper Midwest Law Center.' Lakeville North basketball coach John Oxton announces retirement High school hockey coach, Lakeville officer returns home 2 months after injury Jury convicts alleged ringleader of massive Feeding our Future fraud scheme Another Buck Hill skier wins Alpine worlds medal: Paula Moltzan High School Football: Cretin-Derham Hall hires Ben Burk as football coach
CBS News
14-04-2025
- Politics
- CBS News
"Black Lives Matter" posters taken down at Lakeville schools; district settles lawsuit
Lakeville schools have taken down "Black Lives Matter" posters at district facilities and have agreed to a settlement on a lawsuit over the signs, according to the district. The school board ordered the around 3,000 posters be taken down across all buildings in the district during spring break, which was between March 30 and April 4. No teacher was required to put any of the posters up, but some parents had complained that that teachers were not given options of slogans like "All Lives Matter" or "Blue Lives Matter." A 2022 lawsuit, according to the Upper Midwest Law Center, had argued the school district's selective policy violated the First Amendment rights of Bob and Cynthia Cajune, Kalynn Kay Aaker and her children. The plaintiffs, who were represented by the Minnesota-based law firm, agreed to settle with the district on April 8 after the posters were taken down. "Because that was what the plaintiffs had sought in the lawsuit," the firm said in a release, "they agreed to dismiss their claims in the settlement in return for the District paying $30,000 in legal fees to the Upper Midwest Law Center." There were eight variations of the posters, but two of them had the term "Black Lives Matter." The cost to design and print them was more than $10,000, according to the district. In January, the school board voted 4-to-3 to remove the posters , but Superintendent Michael Baumann said at that time they would remain in place until a future poster series is ready. The school district said the following in response to the settlement: Note: The above video first aired on Jan. 29, 2025.
Chicago Tribune
28-03-2025
- Politics
- Chicago Tribune
Heidi Stevens: If your rally cry is that all lives matter, show us — with your actions and your policies
Remember All Lives Matter? It began as a rejoinder, invented to strip power from the Black Lives Matter rally cry born after George Zimmerman was acquitted in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, a Black teenager killed on his walk home from a convenience store. As a phrase, Black Lives Matter was almost immediately twisted by critics to imply things it didn't imply — that Black lives matter more than other lives, for starters. The twisting was convenient, because it steered the public discourse away from what Black Lives Matter invited the nation to reckon with, which was the continual deaths of Black Americans like Martin in Florida and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in New York City and George Floyd in Minneapolis. All Lives Matter became a way to shut out and shut down that conversation. It became a frequent chant at Donald Trump rallies, starting with his 2016 run for the presidency. 'You're going to hear it once,' Trump told Black Lives Matter demonstrators at a Virgina rally in February 2016. 'All lives matter.' In 2020, Trump supporters could be heard chanting 'all lives matter' at rallies from Washington to Nevada and beyond. The phrase faded a bit by 2024, but its staying power remains undeniable — as a rally cry, as a hashtag, as a bumper sticker, as an ethos. Taken at face value, All Lives Matter is hard to argue with. All lives do matter. All lives should matter. All lives do deserve our attention and protection and honor and wonder and grace. It's why I'm opposed to the death penalty. What I would like to say, now that the rallies are over and the All Lives Matter chants have quieted and Donald Trump has been, once again, elected president, is this: Show us. Show us that all lives matter. Show us that you believe every life is worth protecting. Show us that you believe every life is worth honoring. Show us with your policies. Show us with your appointments. Show us with your executive orders. Because so far it's hard to look around and discern that all lives matter. It's hard to read about a 281-page spreadsheet that the United States Agency for International Development just sent to Congress, listing which foreign aid projects are about to be terminated — including funds to combat malaria, one of the deadliest diseases on the planet — and conclude that all lives matter. It's hard to read about the Pentagon purging military heroes from Defense Department websites and social media pages because those heroes weren't white men and conclude that all lives matter. It's hard to read about the Agriculture Department canceling $1 billion in federal spending to supply school lunches, fill food banks and support local farmers and conclude that all lives matter. It's hard to read about all the ways that eliminating the Department of Education will harm children with physical, mental and learning disabilities and conclude that all lives matter. It's hard to read the ongoing play-by-play of the text messages inadvertently sent to Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg — extremely sensitive text messages that outlined the timeline of a pending military attack in Yemen — and conclude that all lives, especially service members' lives, matter. 'It's by the awesome grace of God that we are not mourning dead pilots right now,' Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut said to intelligence officials at a hearing two days after the text leak went public. Intelligence officials will quibble about the word 'classified,' about whether the texts were truly a 'war plan,' about semantics that aim to distract us from the gravity of the situation. But Leon Panetta, former defense secretary and director of the Central Intelligence Agency, had this to say on PBS NewsHour: 'There are very serious consequences to leaking information about a potential military attack. If that information is leaked to an adversary, not only does it jeopardize very important intelligence resources that are being used to be able to determine military plans, but, in addition to that, that kind of leak would give a potential adversary an advantage of being able to strike first and going after whatever weapons, whatever naval vessels were going to be used for the attack. 'So it could cost lives of our men and women in uniform if that information was leaked,' he continued. 'That's the danger here. And, furthermore, it weakens our national security, very frankly, if we cannot protect that kind of sensitive information.' If your rally cry is all lives matter, there's no time like the present to start leading like they do.
