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Ethan Miller / Getty Jon Gruden Just Put It in Writing
The deposed Raiders coach expressed bigoted attitudes that are all too common in the NFL.
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Carlos Avila Gonzalez / San Francisco Chronicle / … Why LeBron James Shouldn’t Cover for Vaccine Refusers
NBA players who are vaccinated against COVID-19 can help their sport by calling out Andrew Wiggins, Kyrie Irving, and other unvaccinated stars.
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Mitchell Leff / Getty Most NFL Players Understand What Cam Newton Doesn’t
Remaining unvaccinated is bad for a pro football player’s prospects—as it should be.
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Francois Nel / Getty Simone Biles’s Critics Don’t Understand This Generation of Athletes
The world’s best gymnast doesn’t need to look invincible.
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Getty; Adam Maida/The Atlantic Gentle Encouragement Wasn’t Going to Be Enough
Amid widespread misinformation and antivaccine propaganda, pro football needed to put more pressure on players.
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Jonathan Bachman / Getty Give Reggie Bush His Heisman Back
The NCAA can never fully atone for the theft of college athletes’ labor. But it should try.
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Aaron Ontiveroz / MediaNews Group / The Denver … Chris Paul Bears the Brunt of Pro Sports’ Vaccination Problem
Leagues are seeing the downside of treating vaccines as simply a matter of personal choice.
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Emilee Chinn / Getty Gymnastics Doesn’t Know What to Do With Simone Biles’s Dominance
Her greatness is a form of resistance.
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USA TODAY Sports Naomi Osaka Is Part of a Larger War Within Sports
The tennis star’s fight with the French Open is a disagreement over who should make the rules—and how much power athletes have to protect themselves.
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Mark J. Terrill / AP Photo Athletes Will Never Be Quiet Again
A year of activism after George Floyd’s murder reframed the role of sports in American public life.
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Getty / The Atlantic Move the All-Star Game Out of Georgia
Major League Baseball can get the attention of conservative politicians who are indifferent to civil rights.
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Adam Maida / Getty / The Atlantic Conservative Donors Have Their Own Cancel Culture
University of Texas athletes have pushed their school to disavow its past. Wealthy alumni have other ideas.
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Adam Maida / Getty / The Atlantic America Didn’t Need Sports After All
The public’s emotional connection to big-money athletics has been grossly overestimated.
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Christian Petersen / Getty The Problem With Mandatory Patriotism in Sports
Amid renewed attention to inequity in American life, pro leagues shouldn’t strong-arm teams into playing “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
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Max Sansing Curt Flood Belongs in the Hall of Fame
His defiance changed baseball and helped assert Black people’s worth in American culture.
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Robin Alam / Icon Sportswire / Getty ‘Some Team Has to Want Me’
The NFL has pledged to address racism, but team owners still won’t put Black coaches in charge.
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Stephen Gosling / NBAE / Getty The WNBA Can’t Keep Kelly Loeffler Around
The defeated senator and Atlanta Dream co-owner is too far out of sync with the league’s values.
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Jim McIsaac / Getty / The Atlantic Denial Isn’t Working Out for College Football
The coronavirus keeps infecting players and disrupting game schedules, but schools are acting as if the pandemic isn’t happening.
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Mike Ehrmann / Getty Trump Attacked Black Athletes—And Paid for It in the End
LeBron James and other players mobilized to oust the president, and it worked.
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Daniel Acker / The New York Times / … She Did It
Despite the barriers, despite the pain, Kamala Harris becomes the first woman, the first Asian American, and the first Black American to be elected vice president.
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