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The return of professional sports has had many twists, turns, stops, and restarts. And each league has come up with its own solutions trying to play competitive games while keeping players and staff relatively safe. Football has been likely the biggest challenge with...

Big Ten presidents and regents overwhelmingly voted to cancel the football season on August 11. They consulted their medical advisors and decided that it was too risky for student-players and staff until 2021. While the school administrations moved on to other issues,...

The MLB has announced its postseason plan, and not everyone is happy. For the first time since 1944, the World Series will begin October 20 at a neutral site (Arlington, Texas) as will the division series and the championship series. The first-round wild card games...

Women’s professional tennis has had an activist side to it since at least the 1960s. Long before Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in 1973 in front of a television audience of 90 million, she was a vocal advocate for equal rights and equal pay for women. Other players...

It usually is politicians, community leaders, educators, and even parents who recognize society's problems and speak up. These groups weighed in (both pro and con) on police brutality acts documented in the news and on social media. But increasingly, athletes use...

Seismic shifts have occurred within the NCAA’s governing body regarding payment or compensation to athletes. Now Democratic Senators are looking at drafting a Bill of Rights so the athletes who spoke up about safety issues and social justice during the current...

It took five days into the shortened season before half of the Miami Marlins’ active roster and two coaches tested positive for Coronavirus. This incident should come as no surprise, considering the spike in cases concurrently happening outside of sports. The Marlins...

Amidst professional sports' attempts to find a viable solution for safely returning to action, baseball illustrates the many complexities involved. It took three months of negotiations for the league and the players to finally restart summer camp to prepare for a...

The NFL’s treatment of Colin Kaepernick and other players who kneeled during the national anthem in 2016 did not reflect well on the league or its owners. While the gesture was made to call attention to racial injustice and police brutality, it was deeply politicized...

Olympic athletes’ hopes and dreams were officially put on hold when officials postponed Tokyo 2020 until July 23, 2021. Of course, many athletes were already struggling to train with the closures of training facilities and shelter-in-place orders. Three months later,...