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Los Angeles (AFP) – National Football League Players Association chief DeMaurice Smith hit back on Monday after fresh criticism of athletes who kneel or sit during the playing of the US national anthem.

There’s no real nice way of saying this, but people just don’t seem to care about the NFL anymore. On a day that saw a Vice President leave his seat in protest, the ratings for Sunday Night Football once again fell below the number for the previous week.

Monday on ABC’s “The View,” while discussing Vice President Mike Pence leaving the NFL game between the Indianapolis Colts and San Francisco 49ers, to protest players who took a knee during the National Anthem, co-host Joy Behar said Vice President

Fox Sports 1’s Shannon Sharpe said Monday that Vice President Mike Pence walking out on the San Francisco 49ers-Indianapolis Colts game after players knelt for the national anthem was “staged” and a “mockery of the presidency.” “We can agree that it was staged,” Sharpe said

Actor Jesse Williams and singer John Legend are currently developing a documentary film about the black power salute at the 1968 Olympic Games, Deadline has revealed.

A regional airport commission in Minnesota is standing up against the NFL for allowing the constant protesting during the playing of the national anthem. The commission floated a resolution looking to bar flights into the area for the upcoming Super Bowl LII.

MSNBC “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough hammered Vice President Mike Pence Monday for the “stunt” he pulled at Sunday’s San Francisco 49ers-Indianapolis Colts game where he left after players knelt for the national anthem. Scarborough said Pence is trying to “deflect” from Bob Corker and “everything else.” “This was a stunt,” Scarborough argued. “You

Vice President Mike Pence headed west for three days of fundraising after walking out of the Indianapolis Colts’ Lucas Oil Stadium after several players on the opposing San Francisco 49ers took a knee during the national anthem.

Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones had had it with anthem protests. Just how tired of it is he? Tired enough that Jones has now publicly said that if his team doesn’t respect the flag, they’re not going to play.

Liberals have a funny habit of only getting stingy about spending public funds in two very specific circumstances: military spending, and anything perceived to be politically beneficial to Republicans. The latter cause, seems to have turned California Representative Adam Schiff into a fiscal conservative.

Now free from the constraints of her former liberal overseers at ESPN, Britt McHenry is free to say what she wants. What she wanted to say on Sunday about Vice President Pence walking out of a Colts game, would definitely have not pleased her former employers.

As the saying goes, “It takes one to know one.” Such a saying might have particular application to 49ers safety Eric Reid, one of Colin Kaepernick’s original anthem-protesting buddies.

It’s quite appropriate that a man who refuses to actually speak on his own future, would choose to subtweet the retracted story about his promise to stand for the anthem. It’s even more appropriate that he would choose to subtweet it while channeling someone else.

Sunday on CNN’s “Newsroom,” while discussing Vice President Mike Pence leaving the NFL game between the Indianapolis Colts and San Francisco 49ers, “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter said it seemed “like it was a staged moment.” Stelter said, “I got to

President Trump issues a tweet giving further background on Vice President Pence’s decision to leave the Colts game on Sunday after several 49ers protested. It turns out, it was Trump who asked Pence to leave if he saw any players protesting.

NFL anthem protests have cost the league fans of every race, color, creed, and political affiliation. On Sunday, those protests also cost them the Vice President of the United States.

It took 5 weeks, but one NFL team has reportedly been told what all teams should have been told before the season even started: stand for the anthem, or stay in the locker room.

National anthem protests have now come to the National Hockey League, Tampa Bay Lightning forward J.T. Brown raised a fist while the anthem played at Saturday’s game.

Professional football is no longer viewed as America’s favorite sport as the NFL wanes in popularity due to the NFL players’ national anthem protests, according to a new poll.

Earlier this week I predicted that Cam Newton would wear Gloria Steinem decals on the side of his helmet, in order to atone for giving offense to the liberal sports media by belittling a female reporter. Well, he won’t be wearing Gloria Steinem decals, but I wasn’t that far off.

A lot of terrific match-ups in the NFL this Sunday, including Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers traveling to Texas to face the Dallas Cowboys, and Carolina flying to Motown to face the Detroit Lions.

A Texas high school student has filed a lawsuit against the school district after she was suspended for sitting during the pledge of allegiance. Seventeen-year-old India Landry says, “I don’t think that the flag is what it says it is for, for liberty, and for justice and all that. It’s not obviously what’s going on in America today.”

ESPN might want to send President Trump a check this month. Why should the four-letter network that allows their talent to call Trump a white supremacist with impunity, do such a thing? They should do it because their highly publicized feud with the president gave ESPN a nice little ratings bump.

Evangelical Bishop Aubrey Shines blasted the NFL players protesting during the National Anthem, demanding that they stop being ‘stooges and pawns’ for a Democratic Party and a news media ‘that incites a fake news narrative.’

Friday, ESPN Radio “The Dan Le Batard Show” host Dan Le Batard reacted to Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton losing his sponsorship deal with Dannon Yogurt as part of the fallout from telling a female reporter he found it “funny” to

With the NFL’s Week 4 more or less in the rearview mirror, a review of TV ratings shows a massive loss of viewers among all ethnicities across this great nation. The loss shows that nearly every sector of the country is turning against the National Football League with whites, blacks, Asians, Hispanics, men, and women are all finding other things to do with their time.

The NFL just learned a tremendously useful lesson, that will serve them well if they choose to continue to apply it. What is that lesson? Simply this: if you don’t protest, more people will watch your games.

The NFL recently made clear, that they will ban any fan who uses a racial slur at one of their stadiums. That’s if, they ever actually find proof of any fans using racial slurs at one of their stadium’s.

Fox Sports 1 “Undisputed” co-host Shannon Sharpe argued Friday that Dannon Yogurt pulled Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton from their advertising because he raised a fist Sunday after a touchdown — not because of the “sexist and disparaging” comments the quarterback

The NFL had some big moments on Thursday night: Cam Newton issued an apology in response to the worst, most manufactured controversy in the history of the NFL, and another thing happened, there were no protests during the anthem.

Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton faced backlash this week when he told a female beat writer he found it “funny” to hear her discuss routes. As part of the fallout, the star quarterback lost Dannon as a sponsor. Newton released

Denver Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall claims Colin Kaepernick is not without a job due to a lack of trying. Marshall, a former college teammate of Kaepernick, told Fox Sports 1’s Colin Cowherd Thursday that Kaepernick still works out regularly and

The consequences for Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton continue to mount after his reaction to a question by a female sports reporter. Today, sponsors Dannon Yogurt dropped him as a spokesman.

If you ever wondered why the NFL Players Association has never cracked down on their players for disrespecting the flag, and advocating leftist politics. Well, it turns out the NFLPA is just as radical as their players. The proof of that, coming from documents showing that the players union has been bankrolling radical liberal advocacy groups.

After recent allegations of fans screaming the n-word at players, the league has come up with a plan to deal with spectators who scream racial slurs: ban them.

TMZ Sports released video of Washington Redskins wide receiver Terrelle Pryor flipping off a fan following the team’s 29-20 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs Monday night. In the video, a fan called Pryor a “b****” as he headed into