Sports are loud, victory is hard and the struggle never ends.
As Major League Baseball pauses to celebrate Jackie Robinson at the end of another tough week in the United States, we can appreciate the 75 long years since a summer day in 1945 when a young African-American infielder met with Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey and hatched a bold plan to break the sport’s color barrier. But on this contentious Friday, fans can also look around arenas and stadiums throughout North America to see protest disrupting nearly all the games pro athletes play.