U.S. Olympians Push for Protest Rights Ahead of Tokyo Games

Team USA’s Council on Racial and Social Justice is publicly asking for a change to a longstanding and controversial International Olympic Committee rule that prohibits…

• By
  Emily Caron
• Other Sports
• Dec 10, 2020 11:21 am

NBA Union’s Michele Roberts: Moving Beyond ‘Shut Up and Dribble’

“No comment.” In the thirty-plus years of my professional life prior to becoming the Executive Director of the National Basketball Players Association, those words…

• By
  Michele Roberts
• Basketball
• Oct 15, 2020 2:55 am

NBA Postpones Playoffs as Players Meet Following Bucks Boycott

The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association announced that, in light of the Milwaukee Bucks’ decision to not take the floor today for Game 5 against the…

• By
  Mike Freeman, Scott Soshnick
• Basketball
• Aug 26, 2020 2:12 pm

Amid Crisis, ESPN and NFL’s Black Voices Won’t ‘Stick to Sports’

“Are we ever going to see the end of these senseless deaths?“ ESPN host and reporter Maria Taylor asked herself that question after watching a police officer kill George…

• By
  Jacob Feldman
• Athletes
• Jun 29, 2020 2:51 pm