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Oakland Athletics’ Bruce Maxwell takes a knee during the national anthem on September 24, 2017. (Associated Press) Ready to Resist? Sign up for Take Action Now and we’ll send you three meaningful actions every Tuesday. Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in…

Oakland Athletics’ Bruce Maxwell takes a knee during the national anthem on September 24, 2017. (Associated Press) Ready to Resist? Sign up for Take Action Now and we’ll send you three meaningful actions every Tuesday. Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in…

DOVER, Del. – Danica Patrick’s future in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series remains unsettled as one of the sport’s big-name “free agents” for 2018. But she sure sounded calm and reflective Friday in advance of qualifying for the Apache Warrior 400 at Dover International Speedway. Patrick, 35, spoke to reporters about her situation, reiterating that there is no “new” news in terms of where she may race in the…

North Korea boycotted the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, the South Korean capital. And North Korea’s current leader, Kim Jong-un, is highly unpredictable. When the skaters were asked minutes after Friday’s performance if they hoped to compete at the Games, their coach, Kim Hyon-son, stepped in and said, “It is up to the North Korean Olympic Committee to decide whether they will participate or not.” The North Koreans appeared…

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Oakland Athletics’ Bruce Maxwell takes a knee during the national anthem on September 24, 2017. (Associated Press) Independent news is more important than ever. Sign up for The Nation Daily and get our hard-hitting journalism in your inbox every weekday. Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Support Progressive Journalism The Nation…

(The Sports Xchange) – The Philadelphia Phillies relieved Pete Mackanin of his managerial duties on Friday but are retaining him as a special assistant to general manager Matt Klentak. The firing is a relatively surprising move because the Phillies extended Mackanin’s contract in May. He is signed through 2018 with a team option for 2019. Also, Philadelphia has enjoyed a strong second half behind the emergence of some young players,…

Brandi Chastain celebrates after scoring the winning goal of the 1999 World Cup. Hector Mata/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Hector Mata/AFP/Getty Images Brandi Chastain celebrates after scoring the winning goal of the 1999 World Cup. Hector Mata/AFP/Getty Images Title IX is often credited with getting more girls involved in sports, but there’s another, more intimate milestone in the women-in-sports story that deserves some recognition: This year, the Jogbra turns…

The controversy over players kneeling in the NFL has revealed that the league’s embrace of American iconography has different meanings for different audiences. Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images Every aspect of our lives, whether directly or indirectly, is political. To pretend otherwise is to either be involved in a critical delusion or to have a limited understanding of the term. We tend to view politics strictly in terms of…

Gary Abernathy is publisher and editor of the (Hillsboro, Ohio) Times-Gazette. Hillsboro, Ohio I grew up in the 1960s loving the NBA. That devotion made me a member of a small, insignificant club in southern Ohio, where the Reds and Bengals reign supreme and basketball is embraced only at the amateur levels. When I was a kid, my hometown team was the Cincinnati Royals, featuring stars such as Oscar Robertson…

Oakland Athletics’ Bruce Maxwell takes a knee during the national anthem on September 24, 2017. (Associated Press) Independent news is more important than ever. Sign up for The Nation Daily and get our hard-hitting journalism in your inbox every weekday. Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Support Progressive Journalism The Nation…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Sailors and soldiers will don flannel uniforms and play baseball by century-old rules to recreate the U.S. Army versus Navy games from World War I.  The U.S. Naval War College will recognize the centennial of America’s involvement in the war by planning Friday’s game in Newport, Rhode Island. Organizers say it’s a way to teach people more about the war, mark the anniversary and have a…

Ahead of Thursday night’s game against the Bears, the Packers asked their fans to join them in linking arms during the national anthem as a show of unity. The request came days after all 32 teams staged various forms of protest in the wake of controversial public remarks by President Trump. Following the Packers’ 35-14 win, Rodgers was asked about the decision to include the fans in the pregame demonstration….

Earlier this week, Sports Illustrated used Twitter to publicize its newest magazine cover. Against the American flag, a bricolage of professional athletes, coaches and owners lock arms around the tidy and seemingly uncontroversial phrase “A NATION DIVIDED, SPORTS UNITED.” It was a clear response to Trump’s stinging attack on the NFL. The digitally altered image creates a patchwork of athletes including LeBron James (NBA), Steph Curry (NBA), Candace Parker (WNBA),…

Fair and his colleagues focused on four types of serious injuries — concussions and damage to the nervous system, bone injuries, torn tissue, and muscle and cartilage injuries. They are the sort that can sideline an athlete for months. And football players, who have the most injuries, can have one after the other, as happened to the son of Terry O’Neil, founder of Practice Like Pros, a group that focuses…

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Sid Lowe explains why Barcelona’s seven-point advantage over Real Madrid in La Liga isn’t as straightforward as it seems. With many questions surrounding Barca during preseason, Ale Moreno feels they are certainly proving their doubters wrong. The FC crew discuss Barcelona’s flying start and whether or not it’s too early to call them favourites to win La Liga. Barcelona’s future in the case of an independent Catalonia is the “great…

On his podcast this week, NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. further separated himself from other heavyweights in the sport who don’t feel like he does about the rights of NFL players to kneel during the national anthem. Earnhardt, voted by fans as the sport’s most popular driver for 14 years, tweeted this week that he supported the players’ right to protest during the national anthem despite President Donald Trump’s feelings…

Six weeks into the European season, more than a dozen teams in the continent’s top five leagues remain unbeaten and a number of them have interesting games on tap this weekend. Here are a few worth watching: English Premier League: It’s been a tough start to the EPL season for winless Crystal Palace, which has had more coaches (2) than goals (0) through six games. Things won’t get easier Saturday…

Two North Korean figure skaters are hoping to qualify for the 2018 Winter Olympic games, and, in doing so, bring a sense of peace and security to the upcoming games to take place in Pyeongchang, South Korea beginning February 9th, 2018.  Related Watch 18 Olympics Opening Ceremonies Track the parade of nations’ 86-year progression from Chamonix, France to Vancouver, Canada Ryom Tae-ok and Kim Ju-sik are hoping to become the…