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Portland Trail Trail Blazers guard CJ McCollum was the last professional athlete to rip New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees over comments on the national anthem the quarterback made Wednesday after the death of George Floyd. But it came with a twist: praise for Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers. “We need more @ AaronRodgers12 and less @drewbrees” McCollum, 28, …

Denver Broncos coach Vic Fangio apologized Wednesday for saying he “didn’t see racism at all in the NFL” in comments he made to reporters Tuesday. “After reflecting on my comments yesterday and listening to the players this morning, I realize that what I said about racism and discrimination in the NFL was wrong,” Fangio, 61, said in a statement. statement …

New York Giants cornerback DeAndre Baker will likely be cleared of the robbery charges soon, according to his attorney. Patrick G. Patel told SNY on Wednesday that charges related to an incident of May 13 in Miramar, Florida, will be dropped in the coming days. “I think we have won the case, to be honest with you. I think it …

Two months after testing positive for COVID-19, Hall of Fame rider Javier Castellano stood out as the biggest winner on Wednesday on the opening day of Belmont Park. In Rushing Fall, Castellano won the $ 100,000 Beaugay Grade 3 bets, going wire-to-wire in the 1 1/16 mile grass race. “I am so happy to be here,” said Castellano, 42. “It’s …

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Johnny Majors, the 1976 Pittsburgh national championship team coach and former Tennessee head coach and player, died Wednesday. He was 85 years old. Majors died at his Knoxville home, according to his wife, Mary Lynn Majors. “He spent his last hours doing something he loved: looking over his precious Tennessee River,” he said in a statement given …

RENTON, Washington. – Speaking to the media for the first time since last season’s finale, Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson didn’t mind talking about the game that helped make him famous. “To be honest, I don’t even want to talk about football right now,” Wilson said during a video conference on Wednesday. “You know, that’s something I don’t even know …

Because, in 2015, it happened to him, when he was injured by the New York City police and was wrongfully arrested. Sefolosha, 36, is a 14-year-old Swiss NBA veteran who spent this season playing for the Houston Rockets before the Covid-19 pandemic halted the season. In Atlanta on Wednesday, he told CNN he could see himself in George Floyd, who …

There is a better way for everyone. It takes some thought. Some planning is needed. It takes a little faith on both sides. But it can be done. Bob Breen is here to tell you that. It can be done absolutely. In December 1965, Breen had just left the Academy, a couple of years after the old Rice High School …

Fauci was taken over by Prisoner, but horse racing still returned from the coronavirus on Wednesday at Belmont Park. At 1:21 p.m., the sanitized front doors opened and live sports officially returned to New York for the first time in 80 days after the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged the state. It may have looked different, with masks as common as the …

It took three words, “All Lives Matter,” for longtime shock athlete and the career of Sacramento Kings TV presenter Grant Napear to catch fire, but the 60-year-old remorse only goes so far. “I don’t want to call it a mistake,” the Syosset native Long Island told The Post Wednesday in a lengthy telephone interview. On the tweet and its aftermath, …