Category: Readings

Project 1 Calendar

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Readings

• “Fox News’s Laura Ingraham to Lebron James and Kevin Durant: ‘Shut Up and Dribble'”
• Jay Caspian Kang, “Should Professional Athletes be Allowed to Use Their Status to Talk about Things More Important Than the Games They Play“
• Andrew McMaster, “Why It’s Critical That Pro Athletes Be Part of Our Political Discourse”
• Dave Schilling, “The ‘Stick to Sports’ Era is Over. What’s next for protest on the sidelines and beyond? We asked athletes, owners, coaches and many more.”
• Hua Hsu, “Should We Keep Politics Out of Sports?”
• The Players’ Tribune, Shut Up and Dribble
• The Ringer, Sports and Politics Collide in Trump’s America
• Clay Travis, “The Era of the Sports God Who Shuns Politics is Sadly Over”
• MMQB, “As Anthem Protests Expand, Fans Speak Out Strongly, Pro and Con”
• MMQB, “The Fans Who Say They’re Walking Away from the NFL” and MMQB, “Fan Anthem Reactions Part II: We’ll Continue to Watch the NFL and Here’s Why”
• Jeff Fisher, “An NFL Head Coach’s View on Anthem Protests”
• Jason Reid, “The NFL and Colin Kaepernick are Done with Each Other”
• Vann R. Newkirk II, “Football Has Always Been a Battleground in the Culture War”
• Rembert Browne, “Colin Kaepernick Has a Job”
• Francis J. Deasey, “Kneeling During the Anthem [is] Disgraceful”
• Lt. Colonel William Astore (USAF, ret.), “How Pro Sports Became Part of the U.S. Military’s War Machine”
• Talya Minsberg, “Letting N.B.A. Players Have Their Voice”
• Hunter Felt, “Are NBA Stars and Coaches Hypocrites for Not Speaking Out on China?“
• Ben Mathis-Lilley, “The NBA Forgot That It Has American Fans Too”
• Rich Lowry, “The NBA’s Disgraceful Submission to its Chinese Overlords”
• Jonathan Abrams, “‘The Balling Part is Easy’: NBA Activism Got Legit. What Now?”
• David Dennis, Jr., “Criticism of LeBron James’ China Comments Rooted in Bogus Narratives”
• P. R. Lockhard, “Trump’s reaction to the NFL protests shows how he fights the culture war”
• David Leonhardt, “The Choice Between Kneeling and Winning”
• Ta-Nahisi Coates, “Civil-Rights Protests Have Never Been Popular”
• “Why the president is feuding with Megan Rapinoe, star of the US women’s soccer team”
• Howard Bryant, “International Olympic Committee’s No-Protest Rule Silences, Intimidates Athletes”
• Lauren Holiday, “I’ve Stayed Silent for Way Too Long”