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NFL's Cluelessness on BLM Exposes Fake Team Unity & Not Caring a Lick for Players' CommunitiesIf the NFL owners and front office thought that adding Lift Every Voice and Sing to the pre-game program would mollify more players than it put off fans, they were likely wrong on both counts....

How 9/11 turned sports into the military’s biggest showroom, and why many veterans are sick of the paid patriotism. [WBUR]...

 “Patriotic displays, they mean a lot more to me when they’re spontaneous. But to learn that these had been paid for—that corporate teams, teams owned by billionaires, basically, were collecting money from the military. Paid for, obviously, by you and me, by the American taxpayer. Well, it was sad.” ...