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On Wednesday, the Buffalo Bills kicked off training camp and Wide Receiver Cole Beasley addressed the media about his concerns about the Covid-19 vaccine and his hesitancy to take the shot. It all boils down to a lack of transparency and the overwhelming pressure players face to get vaccinated. Last week the NFL released new […]
Simone Biles Is Back! According to USA Gymnastics, Biles will compete along with Suni Lee in balance beam final. It’s the last event in women’s gymnastics at the Tokyo Olympics. We are so excited to confirm that you will see two U.S. athletes in the balance beam final tomorrow – Suni Lee AND Simone Biles!! […]
Chioma Onyekwere, a Nigerian athlete, had trained for years to hone her discus skills. Onyekwere thought that competing at the Tokyo Games to be the pinnacle of her career, but unfortunately this opportunity was taken away from her. Onyekwere was disqualified from the Tokyo Olympics because Nigerian athletic officials hadn’t conducted enough drug tests over […]
Legendary 24-year-old Olympic gymnast, Simone Biles, made the decision to withdrawal from the Tokyo Olympic Finals to prioritize her mental health. Simone Biles spoke to NPR about her mental health and her mindset before the finals. Biles stated that she was shaking before the Olympic team gymnastics final and that she withdrew after realizing that […]
The Kansas City Chiefs announced they will not be changing their nickname, but they will be retiring their mascot, according to the organization president, Mark Donovan. The Chiefs mascot was a horse named “Warpaint.” The football team will be joining the Washington Football Team, formerly known as the Washington Redskins in fighting against discrimination. On […]
12-year- old Hend Zaza from Syria made her debut in the Toyko Olympics this year. Zaza is a table tennis player and in order to make it into the Olympics, Zaza played a woman more than three times her age at the women’s singles preliminary round. She beat a 42-year-old Lebanese player when she was […]
After a team member tested positive for COVID-19, the U.S. Women’s Gymnastics Team decided to not stay in Tokyo’s Olympic Village for safety reasons. According to NBC News, USA Gymnastics stated that the squad had always intended to stay at a hotel instead of the sealed-off, a waterfront section of Tokyo reserved for the 11,000 […]
Let the games begin. The Olympic games kicked off yesterday and some rule adjustments were made on the rights of athlete protests. Currently, the rules on expression pertain to Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter: “No kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas.” […]
The NFL sent a memo to all teams about the new COVID-19 rule update. The memo said, if a game cannot be rescheduled during the 18-week schedule due to a COVID-19 outbreak among unvaccinated players, the team with the outbreak will forfeit and be credited with a loss. Add to that, players on both teams […]
It’s been 50 years, but the Milwaukee Bucks are NBA champions! Giannis Antetokounmpo dropped a playoff career-high 50 points, 14 boards in Game 6 of the NBA Finals as the Bucks won 105-98 over the Phoenix Suns. “The Greek Freak” also joins Shaquille O’Neal as the only players in NBA history with three 40-point, 10-rebound […]