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RELATED STORIES Akin to how the MLB opened its own pandemic-derailed season — but even more so — the teams that restarted the NBA season on Thursday night donned Black Lives Matters shirts and took a knee ahead of their tip-offs. Ahead of the basketball league’s re-opening game on TNT, players on the New Orleans […]
Turkey has accused Donald Trump of leading an attack on its national currency. The lira lost about 40 percent of its value against the US dollar this year and, to reduce its volatility, Ankara has prepared an urgent action plan. “The currency of our country is targeted directly by the US president,” Finance Minister Berat […]
Published time: 20 Nov, 2017 16:25 Hundreds of National Football League (NFL) fans gathered outside AT&T Stadium in Texas before the game between the Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, in a show of support for players who kneel during the national anthem. The crowd of protesters, some of whom wore Colin Kaepernick jerseys, […]
Many Houston Texans players knelt on Sunday after team owner Bob McNair made a controversial comment over national anthem protests. McNair referred to the need to stop anthem protests as “inmates running the system.” McNair faced considerable backlash after making the comment, for which he apologized. A majority of Houston Texans players knelt during the […]
All but 10 members of the Houston Texans took a knee during the national anthem Sunday, as the vast majority of the team protested the owner’s “inmates running the prison” comment. The Texans had indicated there would be some type of protest following the comments by owner Bob McNair. McNair issued two apologies attempting to […]
AP Photo/Michael Conroy Vice President Mike Pence left an NFL game Sunday after several players took a knee during the national anthem as part of a broad protest against racial injustice and police brutality. Shortly after several San Francisco 49ers players knelt during their game against the Indianapolis Colts, Pence announced he had left the […]
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Some football fans are raging against players’ decision to demonstrate during the national anthem. After more than a year of Colin Kaepernick and other NFL players sitting and kneeling during the national anthem, the controversy over their protests has reached a tipping point. More players than ever before knelt or sat during the anthem on Sunday, after Trump […]
Bruce Maxwell of the Oakland Athletics has become the first major league baseball player to kneel during the national anthem. Maxwell dropped to a knee just outside Oakland’s dugout on Saturday, adopting a protest started by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in response to police treatment of blacks. Maxwell’s teammates stood in a […]
Christian Petersen/Getty Images Just one day after President Donald Trump ripped NFL players for kneeling during the national anthem, Oakland A’s rookie catcher Bruce Maxwell became the first Major League Baseball Mark Canhaplayer to do the same. Here is a photo of Maxwell kneeling from Santiago Mejia of the San Francisco Chronicle. Teammate Mark Canha placed […]
