Political Contributios of Sports Owners]
ESPN: “NBA, NFL, NHL, WNBA, MLB and NASCAR reveals that this deep-pocketed group has sent $34.2 million (72.9%) to Republican campaigns or super PACs purely supporting Republican causes, compared to $10.1 million (21.5%) to Democrats over the past three elections.”
Photo: Facebook
MLB
Adam Wainwright: Black Lives Matter to Me
[Adam Wainwright]
Wainwright: “People will come to me and say the reason you’re the way you are is because you have a Black son now. But I’m still the same amount of human as I was yesterday. And I still have the same love today for my fellow brother that I did yesterday.”
Photo: YouTube
Yankees and Nationals Kneel in Solidarity before Opening Day Game
[New York Yankees and Washington Nationals ]
CNBC: “We’ve got a lot of guys in this clubhouse with different beliefs, different feelings, different walks of life and from different countries,” Judge said. “And we want to respect all that and as a team we came to the decision to kneel right before the anthem.”
Photo: YouTube
NFL, NBA and MLB Players to Congress: End “Qualified Immunity” for Police
[NFL\NBA\MLB\Qualified Immunity]
Player’s Coalition: “It is time for Congress to eliminate qualified immunity…When police officers kill an unarmed man, when they beat a woman, or when they shoot a child, the people of this country must have a way to hold them accountable in a court of law.”
Photo: YouTube
“GEICO PRESENTS WORLD TEAM TENNIS” AIRS THIS SATURDAY ON CBS
[Tennis News]
WTT CEO Carlos Silva: “The 2019 World TeamTennis season will go down as one of the biggest growth years in the league’s long and storied history.”
Photo: Facebook