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Entire Indiana Fever Team Kneels During Anthem Before Playoff Game
The New York Times ^
| September 21, 2016
| Jonah Engel Bromwich
Posted on 09/22/2016 2:20:13 PM PDT by EveningStar
The latest round of athlete protests during the playing of the national anthem came Wednesday against the backdrop of recent fatal shootings of black men by the police in Tulsa, Okla., and Charlotte, N.C.
Before a win-or-go-home W.N.B.A. playoff game against the Phoenix Mercury in Indianapolis on Wednesday, every Indiana Fever player knelt and linked arms as the national anthem played.
They were joined by two Mercury players, Mistie Bass and Kelsey Bone. The other Mercury players remained standing.
Even given the high stakes of the game, Fever Coach Stephanie White told her players that she had been proud to see what she characterized as an important gesture.
“I’m proud of y’all for doing that together, being in that together,” she said, according to ESPN. “That’s big. That’s big. It’s bigger than basketball, right? Bigger than basketball.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: athletes; basketball; indianafever; nationalanthem; wnba
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To: CommerceComet
Another sport I can tell all my friends to boycott.
Folks are gonna save a lot of money this year!
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posted on
09/22/2016 3:59:45 PM PDT
by
cgbg
(Warning: This post has not been fact-checked by the Democratic National Committee.)
To: x
It means “Kneel Whity B_tch or we break your arm.”
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posted on
09/22/2016 4:00:52 PM PDT
by
cgbg
(Warning: This post has not been fact-checked by the Democratic National Committee.)
To: EveningStar
To: EveningStar
Who watches these deranged perverts anyway?
44
posted on
09/22/2016 4:59:37 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Go away, Satan! -- Fr.Jacques Hamel (R.I.P., martyr))
To: cgbg
You cannot boycott a sport that no one watches or cares about.
45
posted on
09/22/2016 5:06:41 PM PDT
by
ar10
To: EveningStar
46
posted on
09/22/2016 5:13:18 PM PDT
by
GailA
(If politicians won't keep their promises to the Military, they won't keep them to you!)
To: EveningStar; campaignPete R-CT; Bender2; big'ol_freeper; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker; ...
WNBA? LOL.
Publicity stunt.
47
posted on
09/22/2016 6:53:01 PM PDT
by
Impy
(Never Shillery, Never Schumer, Never Pelosi)
To: Lizavetta
Gee, ain’t they precious? An entire team full of douchebags!
48
posted on
09/22/2016 7:11:54 PM PDT
by
NFHale
(The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
To: Sarah Barracuda
Was the final score 10-6?Don't be ridiculous. That's way too high-scoring.
49
posted on
09/22/2016 7:31:55 PM PDT
by
MuttTheHoople
(Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
09/22/2016 7:35:59 PM PDT
by
Some Fat Guy in L.A.
(Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
To: EveningStar
Oh, WNBA. No wonder I never heard of them.
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posted on
09/22/2016 7:49:25 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
To: MuttTheHoople
And I bet throughout the game there was lots of dribbling and passing..which is pretty much the whole game and then its over
To: EveningStar
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posted on
09/22/2016 8:07:32 PM PDT
by
AFreeBird
(BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
To: Bullish
The ingratitude doesn’t seem to have spread to baseball. Maybe that’s proof of what sport really does deserve the reputation as the national pastime.
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posted on
09/22/2016 8:12:14 PM PDT
by
Pelham
(DLM. Deplorable Lives Matter)
To: bigbob
You and the 4 other people in attendance.
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posted on
09/22/2016 9:25:56 PM PDT
by
SirLurkedalot
(10/10/51-7/7/16 RIP Dad, I'll be missing you until I cross over to Eternity)
To: EveningStar
Do you mean to tell me there’s a women’s basketball league...?
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