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PublishedAugust 27, 2020
Sports protests extend to NHL and NFL, while NBA players vote to continue playoffs
The NHL joins the NBA in postponing playoff games on Thursday, several more baseball games are postponed, and some NFL teams cancel practice.
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PublishedAugust 27, 2020
Pence aide calls NBA protests over Kenosha ‘absurd and silly’
“If they want to protest, I don’t think we care,” Marc Short said after three NBA games were postponed on Wednesday.
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PublishedAugust 27, 2020
Bill Russell, 86, led an NBA boycott in 1961, and now he’s saluting those doing it today
Racist treatment before his Boston Celtics played in a 1961 game in Lexington, Kentucky, caused Russell and Black players from both sides to sit it out.
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PublishedAugust 27, 2020
NFL teams cancel practice in response to Blake shooting
The New York Jets, Indianapolis Colts, Washington Football Team and Green Bay Packers all canceled practices.
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PublishedAugust 27, 2020
Kyle Rittenhouse, charged with killing 2 in Kenosha, was fixated on supporting police
Media reports indicate he attended a Trump rally in Des Moines on Jan. 30, sitting in the front row and posting a TikTok video from the event.
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PublishedAugust 26, 2020
Three MLB games called off in wake of Kenosha shooting
The Reds-Brewers, Mariners-Padres and Giants-Dodgers games are not played as players across the sports landscape react to the shooting by police of Jacob Blake, a Black man, in Wisconsin.
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PublishedAugust 26, 2020
NBA playoff games called off as players protest social and racial injustice
Three games scheduled for Wednesday are postponed, and players meet to discuss whether or not to continue the playoffs but don't reach a consensus.
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PublishedAugust 26, 2020
Celtics, Raptors players discuss boycott of playoff games as protest in wake of Jacob Blake shooting
Members of the teams met Tuesday night at their hotel to discuss options in an effort to affect change in the ongoing fight against racism, injustice and brutality.
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PublishedAugust 25, 2020
Black Wisconsin man shot by police not likely to walk again, lawyer says
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers calls for calm Tuesday, while declaring a state of emergency in Kenosha, where crowds destroyed dozens of buildings and set more than 30 fires on Monday night.
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PublishedAugust 24, 2020
National Guard called out after police shoot Black man in Wisconsin
Kenosha becomes the nation’s latest flashpoint city in a summer of racial unrest.
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