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#Breaking First NFL Player To Kneel During The National Anthem Is Heading To Arbitration Colin Kaepernick will get a hearing after an arbitrator said his grievances against NFL owners can move forward. The quarterback was the first player to kneel during the national anthem to protest police brutality and systemic racism. Read more on NPR

#Breaking NFL Arbitrator Moves Colin Kaepernick's 'Collusion' Grievance To Formal Hearing The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback who drew criticism in some quarters for protests during the national anthem, has accused the NFL of conspiring to shut him out of the league. Read more on NPR

#Breaking The NCAA Tells Michigan State No Rules Violated In Larry Nassar Scandal The NCAA has cleared Michigan State University of any rules violations related to the Larry Nassar sexual assault scandal. Read more on NPR

#Breaking How Sports Leagues And Associations Regulate Women's Bodies And Clothing NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with former professional golfer Anya Alvarez about the policing of women's bodies in sports via dress codes. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Amid Catsuit Attention, Serena Williams Switches To A Tutu After French Open officials banned Serena William's compression catsuit, the tennis champion hit the U.S. Open court in a tutu. Rachel Martin talks to USA Today sportswriter Christine Brennan. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Researching Heatstroke In Athletes The death of a University of Maryland player is among a number of training deaths in college football recently. Melissa Block speaks with Douglas Casa who has researched the causes. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Barbershop: Leadership And Followership NPR's Michel Martin talks with Kevin Blackistone of ESPN and the University of Maryland; reporter Joe Vardon of Cleveland.com; and Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Saturday Sports: Baseball NPR's Scott Simon talks baseball with Howard Bryant of ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. There's a little over a month left of regular-season baseball. Read more on NPR

#Breaking 'One Must Respect The Game': French Open Bans Serena Williams' Catsuit The French Tennis Federation's president reportedly said attire like Williams' Wakanda-inspired outfit will no longer be accepted. "I think that sometimes we've gone too far," he declared. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Winners Of Esport Championship Will Divvy Up More Than $25 Million David Greene talks to Matthew Black, a reporter with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, who's covering this weekend's Dota 2 tournament, about the biggest esports event of the year. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Ohio State Suspends Head Coach Urban Meyer For 3 Games Ohio State University has suspended head football coach Urban Meyer for three games without pay for his handling of domestic violence allegations against a former assistant coach. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Ohio State Suspends Football Coach Urban Meyer For 3 Games Meyer's sanction comes along with a more than two-week suspension for Athletics Director Gene Smith over their response to allegations of domestic abuse against a former assistant coach. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Anthem Protests During NFL Preseason Stir Fans' Feelings Preseason games don't typically get as much attention as regular season games but that's not the case this year. Player protests during the national anthem continue — as the league discourages them. Read more on NPR

#Breaking University Of Maryland Football Abuse Scandal And The Rights Of College Athletes The University of Maryland Board of Regents met Friday in the aftermath of the football team's abuse scandal. NPR's Lakshmi Singh speaks to Ramogi Huma of the College Athletes Players Association. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Saturday Sports: NFL Preseason, Lindsay Whalen It's a new season for the NFL but it's facing some of the same controversies. And basketball great Lindsay Whalen may be retiring from playing, but she's not going far. Read more on NPR

#Breaking 1968 Created The 'Ultimate' Anti-Sport Sport Ultimate Frisbee was invented 50 years ago this summer. The sport has its own honor system, known as the "spirit of the game," that can be traced back to the counterculture of 1968. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Calls For Widespread Change Challenge Incoming Head Of U.S. Olympic Committee The incoming CEO of the U.S. Olympic Committee faces more challenges than just sexual abuse scandals. Elite athletes are calling for a complete overhaul of the USOC financial model. Read more on NPR

#Breaking How Bad Are The NFL's Cleveland Browns? The team failed to win a game last year. This season, Bud Light has set up special refrigerators at local bars full of free beer. But smart technology will unlock them only when the Browns win. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Corey Bellemore Is Disqualified From Beer Mile Race Bellemore broke his own record in the beer mile — drink a beer, run a lap, drink another beer, etc. Race officials at the Beer Mile World Classic disqualified him for not drinking enough. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Sunday's 2nd Place Finish Was A Huge Victory For Tiger Woods David Greene talks to sports journalist Kevin Blackistone about Tiger Woods, who returned to form last weekend at the PGA Golf Championship. It's been 10 years since he last won a major title. Read more on NPR

#Breaking University of Maryland Accepts Responsibility For Football Player's Death President Wallace Loh admitted at a news conference on Tuesday that the school's athletic training staff "misdiagnosed" Jordan McNair's collapse and that their failures led to his death. Read more on NPR

#Breaking University Of Maryland Reeling After Reports Of 'Toxic Culture' Inside Football Program The university placed head football coach DJ Durkin on leave following reports of "toxic culture" and the death of a player, who had a heatstroke during practice two weeks earlier. Read more on NPR

#Breaking 'Skate Kitchen' Follows Teenage Girls Skateboarding Their Way Through NYC Director Crystal Moselle's new film explores New York City through the eyes of a group of teen female skateboarders that she met on the subway. NPR's Lakshmi Singh talks with Moselle about the movie. Read more on NPR

#Breaking The Sound Of The Golf Swing Manufacturers work to perfect the sound drivers make when the ball is hit just right. Scott Simon talks with Tom Mase, who teaches mechanical engineering at California Polytechnic State University. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Saturday Sports: NFL Protests And Trump, Baseball Payrolls President Trump has taken to Twitter again to criticize NFL players protesting during the national anthem. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Howard Bryant of ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. Read more on NPR

#Breaking NFL Players Renew Anthem Protests As Pre-Season Starts Several players knelt, raised fists or refused to take the field protesting police brutality. Last month the NFL said it would temporarily suspend enforcement of a new "must-stand" policy. Read more on NPR

#Breaking NCAA Announces A Sweeping Overhaul Of College Basketball The NCAA, the organization that oversees college sports, is making changes to stem the tide of sandals in men's college basketball. The FBI is investigating college recruiting fraud. Read more on NPR

#Breaking New Challenges To Californians' Beach Access Californians have long treasured public access to all state beaches. But now private land owners are raising new challenges to the landmark California Coastal Act which enshrines beach access for all. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Investigators Find Abuse Claims Going Back Decades Against OSU Doctor After a former Ohio State University wrestler accused a team doctor of molesting him decades ago, a school investigation has found more than 100 others made similar claims. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Remembering Nikolai Volkoff, Wrestling's Soviet Villain NPR's Don Gonyea and journalist Oliver Bateman remember wrestler Nikolai Volkoff, who died recently at age 70. He portrayed an evil Soviet but was actually a fiercely anti-Communist Yugoslav defector. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Terrell Owens Protests His Own Hall Of Fame Induction Former pro football star Terrell Owens was inducted into the Hall of Fame Saturday. But Owens, who is known to be outspoken and controversial, chose not to attend the ceremony. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Saturday Sports: Football Coming Back, Ohio State Scandal The NFL's new helmet rules and controversy for football coach Urban Meyer at Ohio State in this week's sports roundup. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Fight Against Low, Low Pay In Minor League Baseball Continues Despite New Obstacles Minor league baseball players make very little money. Congress has locked in those low wages by exempting Major League Baseball from federal wage and overtime rules. Some players are fighting back. Read more on NPR

#Breaking EA Sports Says It 'Messed Up' By Scrubbing Colin Kaepernick From Game's Soundtrack Madden NFL 19 plays a version of the song "Big Bank" that goes quiet for a moment as if censored. But the missing phrase isn't an obscenity: It's the name of the player who began a protest movement. Read more on NPR

#Breaking 10-Year-Old Swimmer Breaks Michael Phelps 1995 Record Clark Kent Apuada, nicknamed Superman, shattered a record in the 100-meter butterfly that was set by Phelps. The young swimmer is also into martial arts, science, computer coding and piano playing. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Ohio State University Football Coach Placed On Administrative Leave Urban Meyer, head football coach for Ohio State University placed on indefinite administrative leave while they investigate if he knew about an alleged 2015 domestic violence incident between one of his assistant coaches and their ex-wife. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Bill Rabinowitz, Columbus Dispatch Buckeyes beat reporter. Read more on NPR

#Breaking New Season, New Policies For The NFL There's a lot to watch this football season. Read more on NPR

#Breaking As NFL Kicks Off Preseason, Anthem Controversy Is Front And Center The NFL preseason begins Thursday night with the annual Hall of Fame game. Normally, it doesn't capture much attention. Last year's national anthem protests remain a hot button issue. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Ohio State Suspends Football Coach Amid Allegations He Ignored Abuse The Buckeyes recently fired an assistant coach after a domestic violence incident from 2015 was reported. Urban Meyer has been accused of knowing about it, but keeping the coach on staff anyway. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Opinion: Mike Pesca On The Quarterback As A Hero Commentator Mike Pesca talks about San Francisco 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garappolo and news about a date he went on. Read more on NPR