Beijing 2022: “Choose morals over money” – Enes Kanter Freedom NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom has urged athletes to boycott the Winter Olympics in China. Three weeks before the opening ceremony in Beijing, the Boston Celtics player said athletes should choose “morals over money”. In an interview with Dan Roan on the BBC The...
Read MoreIt’s no secret that athletes pocket millions of shillings after winning medals at famous world events. The athletes are congratulated for putting Kenya on the map of the sports industry. However, in some cases a number of athletes have been profiled for wasting their income and later living a life of destitution. Nonetheless, in...
Read MoreLike other varsity athletes in Ontario, Japhet John will not have the chance to compete or train for most of January. John is a fourth year geography student at Algoma University and a competitive wrestler. Due to an injury early in the season, he missed three competitions at other universities last year. And with...
Read MoreWith NIL more prevalent than ever, popular amateur athletes have the opportunity to maximize their value depending on where they go. For some athletes like CJ Stroud of Ohio State, it will take good performances for them to increase their worth, but some players like Quinn Ewers of Texas have the cachet before they...
Read MoreThis is an excerpt from The Buzzer, CBC Sports’ daily email newsletter. Stay up to date with what’s happening in the sport by signing up here. Unbridled sports stars dominate the headlines The vast majority of professional athletes are vaccinated against COVID-19. But three notoriously unvaccinated superstars are currently making the news for a...
Read MoreThe Ole Miss football program has lost another member of its staff after its historic 10-game winning season. According to On3 Sports’ Matt Zenitz, Rebel general manager Matt Lindsey is expected to leave Ole Miss for a position with sports agency Athletes First. While she was managing director of Ole Miss, Lindsey’s priority was...
Read MoreAwakened Texas University Professor Accused Late NFL Coach And Beloved Former Broadcaster John Madden Of “Dehumanizing And Taking Advantage Of Black Athletes” And Creating A “Digital Plantation” With His Huge Popular Video Game Franchise “Madden NFL”. Andrew McGregor, a history professor at Dallas College in Texas, also claimed the video game to be “glamorous...
Read MoreNEW YORK NEW YORK – OCTOBER 19: Paige Bueckers # 5 of the Connecticut Huskies (photo by Mitchell … Layton / Getty Images) Getty Images Today marks the sixth anniversary of several new state laws that guarantee college athletes the right to approve products without being punished for doing so by the NCAA....
Read MoreAfter playing for the Mizzou soccer team and a number of NFL teams, Jerrell Jackson has seen his name in the lights more than the average person in Colombia. Although his time in the field is over, Jerrell has found his place as a part owner and trainer at API Project Fitness. However, Jerrell...
Read MoreDecember 28, 2021 1:40 p.m. ET From the Seahawks-Bears NFL game in Seattle, December 26. Photo: Stephen Brashear / Associated Press Covid testing policies in professional sports are being violated (“NFL vs. Covid Magical Thinking” by Holman Jenkins, Business World, December 22). Worse than that, they don’t make athletes safer. About 95% of NFL...
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