On the second of three days without NBA playoff games, some 100 hours after police shot Jacob Blake in Wisconsin, and exactly two weeks before the NFL plans to kick off its 2020 season, at least nine of the league’s 32 teams did not practice. Some things, those NFL teams decided, were more important than football. College football players are marching in protest. Pros held intimate, team-wide discussions on racial injustice.
“We’re tired of dealing with systematic oppression,” Tennessee Titans quarterback Ryan Tannehill said Thursday.