athletes

‘Train hard and prove these losers wrong!’ – Women’s sports and the 2024 Olympics

August 16, 2024 By Taryn Fivek

VIDEO: Were the 2024 Olympics another battle in the war on women's sports, a case of trans panic, or both? For the right wing, the answer was all of the above.

NLRB General Counsel Abruzzo: College athletes can organize

October 7, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo has told agency officials those athletes at private colleges and universities are “employees” who can organize and bargain collectively.

Simone Biles carries weight of the world on her shoulders

July 28, 2021 By Al Neal

Greatest gymnast of all time an outspoken advocate for the female athletes of the world.

Mandatory college football practices at time of pandemic are nuts

July 1, 2020 By Jesse Jackson

In this time of Black Lives Matter protests, the lives of these young athletes — black, white, brown and yellow, male and female, must matter.

Survey finds “elite” Olympic athletes struggling financially

February 25, 2020 By Eddie Pells

Rule 40 often leaves the athletes, without whom there would be no Olympics, in the position of taking what they’re given, without much chance to negotiate.