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Players stress importance of unity and describe how war affects their preparations for the tournament
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Donald Trump is the schoolyard bully who bullies all around him until he comes up against the big boys in the playground and against them he meets his match.
His tasteless tirade against NFL players who chose to kneel rather than stand for the United States national anthem has backfired.
With his long history of being a bombastic bully, Trump challenged team owners to fire the players, or the “sons of bitches” as he so eloquently put it, but players and owners defied Trump’s despotic diatribe.
PATRICK CHURA reflects on the mass murder of civilians in wartime and his own visit, 10 years ago, to My Lai where US soldiers slaughtered over 500 men, women, children and infants
HANK KENNEDY contends that US military attacks in the Caribbean amount to modern piracy driven by Venezuela’s oil wealth
Still the only black man to win the US Open tennis title, a statue of the legendary champion, Arthur Ashe, is now the only one remaining on Monument Avenue in his Richmond, Virginia hometown, where confederate leaders of the Civil War were also once displayed, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
JAMES NALTON discusses how Fifa claims to be apolitical, but as Infantino and Juventus players stood behind Trump discussing war, gender, and global politics, the line between sport and statecraft vanished