American Atheists joined forces with a Texas high school student and are suing the school district and her teachers. The high schooler claims she was harassed because she would not say the Pledge of Allegiance. The atheists and the girl’s lawyer assert that school officials have infringed upon her constitutional rights.
No stand, no service. That would best describe the account being told by Oakland A’s catcher and anthem protester, Bruce Maxwell. Who claims that a waiter in an Alabama restaurant refused to serve him after the server recognized him as baseball’s sole anthem protester.
It’s turning into quite the week for former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. First, he lands a $1 million book deal with a high-profile publisher. Now, the league he filed a grievance against only two weeks ago, has invited him to attend the next meeting between the players and the owners.
A group of TV executives is scrambling to solve the growing problem of crashing ratings for the National Football League by cutting games to end the perceived “over-saturation” of football on TV.
Ron Burgundy himself would be taken aback by how quickly this story escalated. Early Tuesday, we brought you reports that former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick was shopping a book deal to New York publishers. Later on Tuesday afternoon, reports surfaced that Kaepernick did indeed, ink a seven-figure book deal with a New York publisher.
Despite the NFL’s struggles on Sunday’s and Thursday’s, the Week 7 edition of Monday Night Football between the Eagles and the Redskins, saw a ratings bump.
Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) called out the “hypocrisy” of professional sports leagues like the NFL and NHL for blocking sports gambling while allowing the Oakland Raiders to move to Las Vegas and the NHL an expansion team in the Vegas
Earlier this month, four U.S. Special Forces members were killed in an ambush in Niger. The soldiers were part of a group conducting a search for a high-value target with terrorist affiliations. One of the soldiers killed in the ambush was Sergeant La David Johnson of Miami, who leaves behind two children with a third on the way.
Stevie Wonder knelt over the weekend while performing the National Anthem at Formula 1 U.S. Grand Prix in Austin, TX, following in the footsteps of NFL free agent Colin Kaepernick and other players. As Wonder performed the “Star-Spangled Banner” on
Many have wondered why Colin Kaepernick would hire a high-profile attorney to launch a collusion grievance against the NFL, especially when his case has such a low probability of success? Well, we might have just got our answer: Colin Kaepernick, reportedly, wants a book deal.
It’s been quite a while since Major League Baseball was the apple of the American sports fan’s eye, but, according to a recent survey, MLB has regained the top spot. According to the Remington Research Group, baseball has taken advantage of the NFL’s descent into protest madness, and surpassed the NFL in terms of popularity.
Something has certainly gone awry when the national anthem is better defended by a Pennsylvania donut chain, than it is by the commissioner of the NFL. However, awry, probably best describes the current state of the league.
NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL has suspended Vikings safety Andrew Sendejo for one game for violating player safety rules in Sunday’s win against the Baltimore Ravens.
Video shared Sunday shows a fan in a Buffalo Bills jersey setting himself on fire after jumping onto a burning table before the team squared off with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The fan, in a Sammy Watkins jersey, jumped onto the
Snoop Dogg has again used his music in order to attack President Donald Trump, with the release of a new song entitled “Make America Crip Again.”
A new poll finds that many African Americans think former San Francisco 49ers second-string quarterback and inventor of the NFL national anthem protest Colin Kaepernick should give up football and become a full-time leader of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Earlier this month, Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones strongly asserted that his players would respect the national anthem or, “we will not play.” Well, on Sunday, Cowboys LB David Irving raised a fist during the anthem as the Cowboys got set to take on the 49ers. And guess what? Irving, and the rest of Jerry Jones’ Cowboys, played.
Fox Sports 1’s “Undisputed” brought civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson on to discuss the National Anthem protests in the NFL. Jackson bashed Trump for referring to the anthem kneelers as “sons of b******,” and then took aim at the NFL. “To
As the National Football League’s 2017 Week 7 wound down, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was once again speaking out about the now pervasive protests against the country staged by players during the playing of the national anthem with Jones insisting that the league is suffering “negative” consequences over the continuing protests.
President Donald Trump criticized the NFL as athletes continued to protest during the national anthem.
It’s not necessarily news, that no one watches the Cleveland Browns. After all, Cleveland has lost 22 of their last 23 games and seems determined to set new marks for organizational futility. So the fact that the Browns can’t draw flies, shouldn’t necessarily cause alarm bells to go off.
Leave aside the Nielsen ratings and the empty seats for now. The fact that the statistic fans flock to involves what occurred immediately before the game, and not Tom Brady going 21-for-29 or Ezekiel Elliott rushing for 147 yards, demonstrates the trouble in which the NFL finds itself.
Sunday on New York AM 970 radio’s “The Cats Roundtable,” Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said that he did not believe former President Barack Obama, and his administration would have handled the NFL players protesting the National Anthem any differently than President Donald
The Seahawks surpassed the 49ers as the team with the most anthem protesters on Sunday . Defensive end Michael Bennett and seven other players sat on the bench during the Star Spangled-Banner, while another player, Michael Wilhoite, knelt.
If anthem protests counted as wins, the 49ers would have ranked as one of the best football teams in the NFL on Sunday. Instead, the winless 49ers will have to settle for merely being good at anthem protesting.
Because nothing exemplifies the Steelers-Bengals rivalry quite like a kick in the face, Bengals linebacker Vontaze Burfict has provided us with just that.
If you happened to be sitting there around 1 EST, wondering what was missing as NFL players seemed to just go about their business, preparing to play football games. The missing element that you might have sensed, was likely the absence of any anthem protests. In fact, no NFL players knelt or sat during the early games.
When explaining their reasoning for why national anthem protests should be allowed, many players have been quick to point out that they’re merely exercising their constitutional rights under the First Amendment. Well, someone who has forgotten more about the First amendment than any inside linebacker will ever know, says that the constitution offers the players no such protection.
It didn’t take long for the first brutal, wince-inducing moment to occur during Week 7. Nor, is it surprising that the moment would come in a game between the Vikings and Ravens.
It was once thought that Deflategate would be the signature, defining moment of Roger Goodell’s tenure as commissioner of the NFL. However, that theory prevailed in the comparatively innocent days before the advent of anthem protests. Now that it’s clear that those protests, and not mysterious psi levels, will come to signify Goodell’s tenure. Perhaps it’s poetically just that the controversy surrounding those protests, is what’s delaying Goodell’s new contract.
During Saturday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Cavuto on Business,” economist and former presidential speechwriter Ben Stein rejected what many NFL players have proclaimed to be the justification for their pre-game National Anthem protests. According to Stein, there was no
The seventh Sunday of the NFL season features a rematch of the last Super Bowl, with the Atlanta Falcons traveling to Foxboro to face the defending champion New England Patriots. The Falcons seek revenge after blowing a 28-point lead in the Super Bowl leading to an overtime loss.
Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones found himself embroiled in the NFL’s anthem controversy when he said that his players would either respect the anthem, or not play. However, as it turns out, that’s not the first time Jones has found himself mired in an anthem controversy.
When the first half of the 21st century is way back enough for a history to written unencumbered by agenda, President Barack Obama will be remembered as the worst thing that ever happened to the Democrat Party. And to the NFL.
BAGSHOT, England (AP) — Todd Gurley isn’t buying this NFL in London business. The Los Angeles Rams running back arrived with the team in London on Friday after an overnight flight from Florida, where they spent the week following their win over Jacksonville last Sunday.
Just in case you were thinking that the NFL’s speedy descent ratings oblivion would soon bottom-out and come to an end, don’t worry yourself, it’s not.
In a sit-down interview with “Fox & Friends” co-host Ainsley Earhardt, Eric Trump, son of President Donald Trump, expressed his disappointment in the National Anthem protests around the NFL, saying players should “stand for the flag.” “There’s many injustices in this
Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch was ejected Thursday night in his team’s game against the Kansas City Chiefs after he grabbed and pushed a referee. Lynch ran from the sideline onto the field during a scrum following Chiefs cornerback
President Trump has decided he will do the work that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, will not do for himself. Except this time, President Trump won’t call out the anthem protesters from a podium at a rally. This time, he will do it from the White House website.
Now that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has signaled surrender to the anthem protesters, by saying that the league won’t force players to stand for the Star-Spangled Banner. The next logical step is for the anthem protesters to demand that the founder of their movement get a job in the league. Well, that’s exactly what happened on Wednesday.
