The New Yorker is courting controversy with a new cover depicting Seattle Seahawks anthem-protester and false race accuser Michael Bennett, and original anthem-protester Colin Kaepernick, kneeling next to famed civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr.
When news broke that President Trump planned on attending the College Football Playoff championship on Monday night, many took notice.
Much like 2016, NFL television viewership numbers went down again in 2017. Except this time, the viewership numbers dropped by a larger percentage than the previous year.
President Trump once again set his sights on protesting NFL players, in a Thursday morning tweet.
There were high expectations for the 2017 Miami Dolphins.
Yahoo! Finance Senior Writer Daniel Roberts took stock of the kind of year the NFL had in 2017, and found that it was none too kind to the league. However, even though the league appears to be on a downward trend, Roberts says the league isn’t dying; but it may have hit a “plateau.”
The NFL saw more than a dozen anthem protests on the final day of 2017.
A federal court has ruled that a high school in California cannot force a protesting player to stand for the national anthem.
Anthem-protesting NFL players have often said that their cause is worth any public scorn, or financial hardship they might have to endure.
ESPN’s Mina Kimes declared the NFL’s National Anthem protests “undeniably” her 2017 sports story of the year. Kimes reasoned on “First Take” Thursday that the protests, started by Colin Kaepernick in 2016, are so polarizing that even President Donald Trump shared
On Wednesday, the Miami Dolphins announced their team award winners for the 2017 season.
Both the NFL and the NBA had high hopes and expectations, for the ratings gifts Christmas would have in store for them.
After an entire season spent battling anthem protests, collapsing ratings, and other political controversy; on the final scheduled primetime game of the year, the NFL has decided to say: No Mas.
Most NFL teams have been wary about making public statements regarding the impact of anthem protests on their business, the Baltimore Ravens are not one of them.
Papa John’s founder John Schnatter has stepped down as CEO of the company he founded, two months after criticizing the NFL’s handling of the player-led anthem protests.
Colin Kaepernick and Steph Curry told Sean “Diddy” Combs that they wanted to join his effort to buy the Carolina Panthers.
The football world got quite the jolt on Sunday evening, when the Carolina Panthers announced that their owner, Jerry Richardson, would sell the team. The football world got another jolt only a few hours later when rapper and Hip-Hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, announced that he would like to buy the Panthers.
And then there were three….three NFL protesters to be exact.
With the NFL undergoing a nearly unprecedented decline in ratings, in-game attendance, and overall popularity; a bold and adventurous businessman with lots of resources, could consider launching a rival football league to compete with the NFL.
The NFL has struggled mightily this year to get people to watch their primetime games, as the ratings from the Week 15 edition of Thursday Night Football continue to come in, it’s clear that those struggles will continue until the end of the year.
The NFL anthem protests have sought to destroy much of what Americans hold dear: pride in what our country truly stands for, and reverence for those who fought to preserve it.
Colin Kaepernick has made very few public appearances since walking out on his contract in San Francisco nearly a year ago.
Miami Dolphins wide receiver Kenny Stills, an anthem-kneeler for the last two seasons, was named as one of the 32 nominees for the 2017 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award.
A New Orleans Saints fan and season-ticket holder has sued the franchise for reimbursement of his ticket prices and attorney fees, in response to Saints players kneeling before the anthem at home games and sitting during the anthem in a Week 3 road game.
Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee took to Twitter on Tuesday night to offer congratulations and her explanation, for why Doug Jones won the Alabama Senate election.
Monday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell shot down the notion that free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick is the victim of a blackballing by owners around the NFL due to his polarizing National Anthem protests. Goodell said that Kaepernick “is
If it seems like Seahawk defender Michael Bennett has a habit of finding himself in situations which do not become a Walter Payton Man of the Year Award winner, that’s because he does.
The plague of empty seats which has befallen the National Football League reached biblical proportions this week, as teams continued to find it hard to fill stadiums.
In what has to be the public relations equivalent of passing on the 1-yard line in the Super Bowl, the Seattle Seahawks have made the decision to nominate Michael Bennett for the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award.
Conservative commentator Tomi Lahren is no stranger to getting savaged by liberal social media types. Last month, she provoked Kaepernick fans by posting a pic of Colin Kaepernick kneeling in the back of a landing craft, as American soldiers stormed the beaches at Normandy.
Linebacker DeMario Davis has shown great leadership for the 2017 New York Jets who are playing much better than most expected.
At the rate in which Colin Kaepernick is accepting social justice awards, he might soon have to hire a social justice award speechwriter. Though, while it’s become a matter of routine to see America’s most famous jock-protester on the stage accepting an award, on Tuesday night he had to share the stage with someone a lot more famous than him.
The anthem protests begun by Colin Kaepernick last year, presented the NFL with a critical decision: Choose the side of the anthem protesters. Or choose the fans and customers of their game, who don’t want the sport polluted by politics.
Nowadays, it’s harder to find an award that Colin Kaepernick is not being considered for, as opposed to finding those that he is being considered for.
In what has become a regular occurrence for the world’s most famous unemployed athlete, Colin Kaepernick has accepted another award.
A lot of people are quite pleased that Sports Illustrated decided to give Colin Kaepernick the Muhammad Ali Legacy award. However, after reading one of his tweets sent on Friday night, it’s pretty clear that former governor and current Fox News contributor Mike Huckabee is not among them.
Friday, ESPN “First Take” moderator Molly Qerim ripped into the “audacity” of members of the NFL Players Coalition like Philadelphia Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins and former wide receiver Anquan Boldin to accept a deal with the NFL to provide financial
Even without any players protesting during the national anthem, Thursday’s match up between the Dallas Cowboys and the Washington Redskins brought the NFL another ratings dud.
In what has become undoubtedly the most award-winning and star-studded unemployment in the history of unemployment, Colin Kaepernick has won yet another award.
The National Football League and player representatives came to an agreement on Wednesday evening, that the league would throw $89 million at so-called “social justice” issues.
