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This week. they say this is all theyre going to say for the time being. we embrace the role and responsibility of everybody involved with this game to promote meaningful and positive change. the social issues that colin and other professional athletes have raised deserve our attention and action. and speaking of action, once it became clear and it was announced earlier in the week that kaepernick would be a part of the just do it campaign, people went into action, taking action against nike and ...

Nike boycotts have been the province of the left. theyve been the province of student movements. theyve been the province of organizations like united students against sweatshops. recently just earlier this year, nike had a me too problem where the women at the company revolted against the culture inside nike. and so nikes got its own issues that you would hardly call progressive. and so now them branding with colin kaepernick has people saying im going to go out and buy nikes to support the cau...

Using their stage and their platform to bring awareness to an issue, and i think its unfair and unjust. >> dave, vice president mike pence tweeted #winning. is this being viewed as the nfl bending to the trump administration? >> capitulating, absolutely. and yet it didnt work because one of the things i think we all know is that you cant appease a bully, and one of the first things donald trump said was that he didnt think that players, maybe they shouldnt even be in this country if theyre prote...

Hospital, thats their right to do that. if roger goodell had said that, this would have been a one-day news story. instead, were still talking about it. >> ephraim, quickly, dave makes the point the first thing people are going to be thinking about on week one of the nfl season is how are players going to react to this. what do you think will happen? will there be players kneeling on the sideline week one? nigh thi . >> i think there will be. the chairman of the new york jets said i support my p...

The president, the nfl is trying to stop its players from kneeling on the field during the national anthem. under a new policy announced this week, the nfl says it will fine players who do not stand and show respect for the american flag. players, however, do have the option to stay in the locker room during the anthem. heres how commissioner roger goodell explained it. >> we think that weve come up with a balanced process here, procedure and policy that will allow those players who feel that th...

Place. were going to talk about athletes and graduate students working, faculty. particularly faculty contingent who are not protected. i do want to point out that northwestern put out a statement saying that northwestern believes the decision of the nlrb overlooked or completely ignored much of the critical testimony supporting the universitys position that student athletes are not employees of northwestern. stay with us. when we come back, dave, im going to come to you and push a little bit ab...

Like medical coverage, and access to care that they will need because of these injuries, thats huge. thats part of whats at stake here. but also, whats at stake is these are young men and women who are also on a path to an education to get a career. and often are denied being able to go to classes. >> right. exactly. >> theyre being told you cant go to classes because its going to interfere with your practice. >> yep. dave, you want in on this. >> yep, just once we dispense with the niceties, th...

Yesterday that was a huge step in the path for players to have a voice and seat at the table. >> the ncaa signaled its disappointment with a statement that read in part, quote, while improvements need to be made, we do not need to completely throw away a system that has helped literally millions of students over the past decade. northwestern university itself signified its intention to appeal and had until april 9th to do so. if the university follows through, what chance do the athletes have at...

Have their rights vindicated. they will be the first talent pool to win collective bargaining rights before they have individual bargaining rights. college players, as quarterback colter said, do not -- not only do they not have a seat at the table, they are demonized if they even ask for anything, if they even speak up. they are literally searched because of the fiction of the student athlete. this is a wake-up call for most people to recognize that college athletes are generating billions of d...

Ready? we know how the replacement referees perform. are they ready to turn this around in 24 hours? >> probably not given the fact there are a host of rule changes that have taken place this year. there will be emergency clinics over the next three days to bring the referees up to speed. but the typical nfl referee at his absolute worst on his worst day is better than what weve seen on the field of play over the first three weeks of the nfl season. >> dave, whats the damage if any to the nfl? m...