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Ranking NFL team campaign contributions to federal elections

Manipulate the graph above by selecting or unselecting your favorite team. 19 NFL teams donated to federal campaigns over the

Saturday’s nation-wide Women’s March may have turned out to be this country’s largest nation-wide movement ever, and a number of

Red Sox Renew Push to Rename Yawkey Way Amid Monument Debate August 18, 2017
The team’s principal owner, John Henry, said the club would make a new effort to have Boston rename a street outside Fenway Park that honors a former owner who resisted efforts to integrate baseball.
BILLY WITZ
On Baseball: Thomas Yawkey, the Red Sox Owner Who Resisted Integration August 19, 2017
Yawkey owned the team for 44 seasons but fought suiting up a black player to the last. Now there is an effort to rename a street near Fenway Park that memorializes him.
TYLER KEPNER
Thousands of Players, Hundreds of Events and Little Reward August 19, 2017
The lower levels of tennis can be both a proving ground for elite prospects as well a charade of mediocre athletes playacting as professionals.
DAVID WALDSTEIN

Frank Serpico joins NYPD officers for rally in support of Colin Kaepernick August 19, 2017
Colin Kaepernick, whose national anthem protests during the 2016 football season were spurred by what he views as police brutality against minorities, received support from an unlikely group on Saturday: dozens of New York City police officers, who rallied in Brooklyn to protest Kaepernick’s continued NFL unemployment. Among them was Frank Serpico, the former NYPD […]
Matt Bonesteel
One of Indiana’s top football recruits is ineligible, and it’s all Indiana’s fault August 19, 2017
Of the top 10 high school football recruits from Indiana this year, only two decided to play at the state’s flagship university. One of them was a do-it-all athlete from suburban Indianapolis named Bryant Fitzgerald, who starred on both sides of the ball in high school and was slotted as a hybrid defensive back/linebacker for […]
Matt Bonesteel
It’s Week 2 of the NFL preseason, and the games are starting to matter August 19, 2017
It’s Week 2 of the NFL preseason, which is about 100 percent more important than Week 1 but probably around 36 percent less important than Week 3 (my numbers are a little fuzzy on this). In any case, even though the games don’t mean anything in the standings, they mean everything in terms of roster-building, […]
Matt Bonesteel