Two national anthem heroes during the 2016 National Football League season, Kenny Stills and Michael Thomas, were recently re-signed by the Miami Dolphins, and received raises to boot. In the 265,748…
Until 2012, I had no interest in football, professional or otherwise. I would check in during the Superbowl, and then that was mainly for the commercials. I just wasn’t feeling it. Running the ball…
As is correctly pointed out in this SF Chronicle article by Scott Osler, plenty of mediocre quarterbacks are finding homes as backups or even starters, while Kaepernick remains unsigned. Mike Glennon…
The concept is a relatively simple one. It’s called deterrence. Deterrence is defined as “the action of discouraging an action or event through instilling doubt or fear of the consequences.” This m…
So, at a rally last night, Donald Trump took it upon himself to brag about reports that a factor in National Football League owners’ reluctance to sign Kaepernick is the possibility that The Donald ma…
Interesting and thoughtful analysis by Aidan Gilchrist-Blackwood on the relationship between Black athletes and activism. Gilchrist-Blackwood’s view is that the latest wave of protests by Colin Kaepe…
This Huffington Post contributor is clearly distraught over this entire Colin Kaepernick situation as evidenced in his piece, subtly entitled, “Colin Kaepernick is a Punk Who Needs to be Silenced.” S…
This article by retired Air Force Colonel Edward Pernotto is one of the more absurd and fascist-lite pieces of writing in the entire anthem protest discourse. Pernotto starts out by extolling his gra…
This piece by Michael Cooper describes the angst felt by Metropolitan Opera tenor Lawrence Brownlee when Brownlee was asked to sing the Star Spangler Banner for a Jets-Ravens game. Brownlee describes…
Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, whom I truthfully have always thought of as kind of weird, hit the nail on the head regarding the national anthem protests in this reported recent interview. …