导出博客文章NATIONAL ANTHEM PROTESTSDENVER -- Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall, a college
teammate of Colin Kaepernick, took to a knee during the playing of the national
anthem before Denvers season opener against Carolina.Kaepernick refused to stand
for the anthem during San Franciscos preseason games , explaining it was to
protest racial oppression and police brutality in the United States.Marshall
sounded a similar theme after Denvers 21-20 win.Im not against the military, Im
not against America, he said. Im against social injustice.Kaepernicks gesture
opened a wide debate and put the microscope on a pregame tradition that has, for
decades, been routine.Marshall was standing with his hand over his heart during
the anthem before a preseason game on Aug. 20.He made no mention of his plans
for Thursdays opener but shortly after the large American flag was unfurled, the
fifth-year linebacker out of Nevada went to the end of a long row of Broncos and
took a knee.Broncos Super Bowl MVP Von Miller said he supported Kaepernick, too.
Im not going to kneel for the national anthem but I feel it should be a change.
His actions really brought the topic, brought it into the conversation. Im with
Colin all the way.SWIMMINGRyan Lochte is banned from swimming through next June
and will forfeit $100,000 in bonus money that went with his gold medal at the
Olympics, part of the penalty for his drunken encounter at a gas station in
Brazil during last months games.The U.S. Olympic Committee and USA Swimming
announced the penalties Thursday. Lochte agreed to a ban that includes next
years world championships.Hell get no monthly funding from either organization,
cant access USOC training centers, must perform 20 hours of community service
and will miss Team USAs post-Olympics trip to the White House.Agreeing to
four-month suspensions were Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger and Jimmy Feigen, who were
with Lochte at the gas station. Those sanctions, which end Dec. 31, also strip
funding and training access and preclude them from the White House visit.Bentz,
20, will also serve 10 hours of community service for violating a curfew rule
for athletes under 21.BASEBALLNEW YORK -- Having flopped with the New York Jets,
Tim Tebow will try to revive his career as an outfielder with the Mets.Four
years removed from his last regular-season snap as an NFL quarterback, the
29-year-old agreed Thursday to a minor league contract with the Mets that
includes a $100,000 signing bonus.He will report Sept. 18 to the Instructional
League in Port St. Lucie, Florida, and test his baseball skills for three weeks
against players just months removed from high school and college.The Mets then
will decide whether he goes to the Arizona Fall League, a winter league or gets
personal tutoring to prepare for spring training.Bo Jackson, Deion Sanders and
Brian Jordan are the only significant players to have extensive careers in both
Major League Baseball and the NFL during the past three decades.PRO FOOTBALLEDEN
PRAIRIE, Minn. -- Minnesota Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater has had
surgery on his severely injured left knee, the first step toward what will
undoubtedly be a long, arduous recovery.Vikings coach Mike Zimmer confirmed the
operation took place Thursday, nine days after Bridgewater went down in practice
while dropping back to pass during a routine non-contact drill that drastically
altered the teams highly anticipated season.Zimmer said he spoke by phone to
Bridgewaters doctor after the procedure and was told no major problems were
encountered beyond the initial diagnosis of a knee dislocation and complete tear
of the anterior cruciate ligament. The Vikings said after the injury that
Bridgewater also suffered other significant damage.Thanks for the thoughts (and)
prayers, Bridgewater said on Twitter . Ill be back!The 23-year-old will miss the
2016 season, and the nature and timing of the injury will make it difficult for
Bridgewater to be at full strength for 2017, too.
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Mondays hard-fought loss, the wait seemed longer than usual. Getting set to go
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Collaros, 25, was solid last season, posting a 5-2 record as the starter while
incumbent Ricky Ray was injured. Collaros also started Torontos 23-20
regular-season finale loss to Montreal — Ray didnt dress because the Argos had
already clinched first in the East Division — but was one of three quarterbacks
to play that day. Carlin Isles can provide the U.S. with the spark they need to
win the Olympic sevens title, according to teammate Danny Barrett.Isles, a
former track athlete, has been dubbed the fastest man in rugby -- he has a 100m
personal best of 10.13sec -- and it has been claimed that he is quicker than
Usain Bolt over 20 metres.He will be part of a U.S. squad that is being widely
backed to make a major mark on the mens rugby sevens tournament, which kicks off
next week.And his blistering pace promises to be one of the Rio sevens
highlights if his American teammates can play their part in allowing him to
potentially wreak havoc.The first time I saw Carlin run, it just looked so easy,
Barrett said.You just dont have a chance. He is so fast, he makes fast people
look slow. There are some guys out there who are under 11 seconds for 100
metres, and he makes them look slow. Its unreal.His acceleration is so quick. I
am sure that everyone has seen that stat that over 20 metres, he is faster than
Usain Bolt, so thats a pretty special athlete to have on your team.If hes that
fast and he has got a ball in his hand, its unfair. It is kind of like having
your trump card. He is one of the guys we can count on.People have to play him
differently because hes so fast, and that opens up other opportunities for the
other guys.Isles, meanwhile, revealed it was an early morning telephone
conversation with former England scrum-half Nigel Melville helped launch his
rugby career.And Melvilles foresight could be underlined in dazzling fashion at
the Rio Olympics by the 26-year-old speed machine.But it could have been a
different story altogether, as during the build-up to London 2012, Isles was
preparing for American trials -- in track and field.ddddddddddddIn 2012, I was
getting ready for the US Olympic trials in track and field, he said.I was
studying, and I came across some rugby. I started watching it, and I thought oh
man. It was a tough, tenacious sport, and I thought I could be pretty good at
it.I looked up Nigel Melville (then USA Rugby chief executive, and now Rugby
Football Union director of professional rugby) on Google for his contact
information.He rang me at five in the morning, and started talking to me, and
four days later I packed up all my stuff -- I was living in Austin, Texas at the
time -- and drove to Aspen, Colorado, played rugby there for about a month and
then got invited to a US development tour in Canada. I toured there, and the
next day, I signed a contract.While Isles is now among the biggest box-office
talents in world rugby, he has got there helped by a ferocious drive for success
borne from a difficult childhood that saw him up grow up in an Ohio foster home
before being adopted at the age of seven.My childhood was a fight and a struggle
to be somebody, and not be another statistic, he added.When times got rough, it
was just having the mindset to keep going. You have got to motivate yourself,
and I taught myself that.You can be anybody you want to be, but you have got to
work hard and have a vision. For me, its just having a drive to never stop and
keep going, no matter how tough it is. Ultimately, it is up to you. ' ' '
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