Today's Sports Headlines

Including: Gregor Chisholm: Baseball has the most to lose, but trails every other major sport in reopening. Here’s why [Star Logo] Sports Headlines OPINION [Gregor Chisholm: Baseball has the most to lose, but trails every other major sport in reopening. Here’s why]( [Negotiations between owners and players in the NHL, NBA, NFL and many other sports — at least this year — are child’s play compared to what baseball is trying to sort through, Gregor Chisholm writes.]( [Read More [arrow]]( OPINION [Goodell’s video tells us the NFL knows it’s at a critical moment in history. It doesn’t want to be left behind]( [The outpouring of grief and anger over police brutality, social injustice and the oppression of African-Americans are unlikely to end once sports return. The NFL commissioner would be in good company if he joined players to kneel during the national anthem.]( [Read More [arrow]]( Have you signed up yet for First Up? The Star's new morning newsletter is more than just the headlines: it's everything you need to know in just a few minutes. Start your day with more of what matters and [sign up for First Up today](. [Kneeling with Kaepernick: a timeline of the gesture and its echoes]( [Here’s a look at the 32-year-old’s pro football and post-NFL days since he first knelt during “The Star-Spangled Banner.”]( [Read More [arrow]]( [Local sports scene relaunches with Woodbine thoroughbred opener]( [Darryll P. Holland rode Majestic Fever, a 14/1 longshot to victory in the first race of the day, a $23,500 claiming event on Woodbine’s tapeta track.]( [Read More [arrow]]( [IndyCar relaunches with a familiar winner in an unfamiliar scene]( [The massive grandstands at Texas Motor Speedway that can seat well over 100,000 people were empty, and not because of the extreme heat in Fort Worth.]( [Read More [arrow]]( [Why the women’s soccer season is over in England, while the men prepare to return]( [The women’s game has grown substantially at the pro and grassroots levels. Stakeholders say it can bounce back even stronger — when it’s safe.]( [Read More [arrow]]( [‘Stop killing our sons and daughters’ — NFL star Larry Fitzgerald pleads for justice in his hometown and across America]( [In an op-ed for the New York Times as protests rage after the killing of George Floyd, the Minneapolis-born Fitzgerald writes: “What you’re seeing on the news is not the hometown of my youth.”]( [Read More [arrow]]( OPINION [You never have to wait for LeBron James to speak out. He is always right there]( [The Lakers superstar always stands up, even when phonies from Cable America like Laura Ingraham of Fox News tell him to shut up and dribble.]( [Read More [arrow]]( [Players speaking out on social justice ‘a huge moment for us’, NHL executive says]( [Kim Davis hopes these front-of-mind conversations about racism, police brutality and social justice turn into action not only in society at large, but in her sport.]( [Read More [arrow]]( [‘I’m challenging people to effect change however they can’: Michael Jordan on racism, education and $100 million for social justice]( [Jordan calls the killing of George Floyd by a white policeman a “tipping point” for decades of Black outrage over brutality toward people of colour.]( [Read More [arrow]]( [NBA clarifies playoff tiebreakers with uneven schedule]( [The league has told teams that winning percentage will determine playoff seedings, because not all teams will play the same number of games.]( [Read More [arrow]]( [Bob Costas on baseball’s return: ‘I’ll believe it when I see it’]( [Sportscaster frustrated by lack of progress between MLB players and owners amid the coronavirus pandemic.]( [Read More [arrow]]( [Kurt Thomas, first U.S. man to win world gym title, dies at 64]( [After competing in the 1976 Montreal Olympics, Thomas won the floor exercise in the 1978 world championships in Strasbourg, France, for the first U.S. men’s title.]( [Read More [arrow]]( [Chinese Football Association players suspended for six months for breaking virus curfew]( [“It was a severe violation of the team’s epidemic control regulations, and caused negative impacts on the whole team,” the CFA was quoted as saying by the official Xinhua News Agency.]( [Read More [arrow]]( [NASCAR looks to steer clear of protests over George Floyd]( [From an affinity for Confederate flags among the fan base to a driver losing his job just this season for casually uttering a racial slur, the good ol’ boys have never been known for diversity.]( [Read More [arrow]]( [Coronavirus outbreak isn’t the first calamity the NFL has confronted]( [The NFL has experience with seasons derailed by black swan events, persisting through crises involving natural disasters or man-made meltdowns.]( [Read More [arrow]]( [The Star]( If you’re not enjoying these emails, please tell us how we can make them better by emailing newsletterfeedback@thestar.ca. 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