Sports
Marlins’ outbreak of COVID-19 blamed on ‘false sense of security’
Infected were 21 members of the traveling party, including at least 18 players. None is seriously ill, Jeter said, and he expects all to return this season.
August 4, 2020
Black coordinators establish Super Bowl history in Tampa Bay
February 2, 2021Diversity matters to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the first team to reach the Super Bowl with a trio of Black assistant coaches serving as coordinators.
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Major league baseball integrated in 1947, now it’ll integrate its record book
December 18, 2020This newspaper’s predecessor, the Daily Worker, and the Black press led the campaign for integrating white major and minor league baseball.
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Baseball rewrites history, says Negro Leagues now a major league
December 17, 2020“It is MLB’s view that the Committee’s 1969 omission of the Negro Leagues from consideration was clearly an error that demands today’s designation,” the league said in a statement.
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Soccer league players announce partnership with Communications Workers of America
December 11, 2020The USLPA and the CWA, a labor union representing hundreds of thousands of working people across many different sectors, have signed a partnership agreement to build solidarity, increase collaboration, and provide collective support.
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In Paris, soccer players lay down ‘marker’ in fight against racism
December 10, 2020Players have taken a knee, unfurled slogans and demanded tougher action only to find soccer — their working environment — remains infected with racism.
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