ESPN: Pro sports figures more invested in this presidential campaign
Database of pro sports donations
Most of the athletes (except for golfers) donate to Obama; most of the owners to McCain.
Most athletes don't give to either political candidate despite their enormous salaries. What do they care?
Here are some things to read about my favorite political athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, and the price they paid for a simple gesture which was meant to convey their support for civil rights:
[W]hile the gesture was redolent of the militant Black Panthers, it was actually a plaintive cry for civil rights. Indeed, the athletes were figurehead members of the Olympic Project for Human Rights, a non-violent student organisation that transposed racism in sport into the civil rights agenda.
BBC ON THIS DAY: 1968: Black athletes make silent protest
Times (uk): Olympics: Tommie Smith and John Carlos warn of the price of protest
Times (uk): America finally honours rebels as clenched fist becomes salute
Tommie Smith and John Carlos were hailed as heroes this week but it was not so 37 years ago
JohnCarlos.com
SI: John Carlos
Party to one of the most incendiary moments in the history of sports, he's gone from pariah to hero over the course of four decades—but not without paying a high cost
SI: A matter of civil rights
Dr. John Carlos supports, speaks out on the 'Jena 6'
Counterpunch: The Living Legacy of Mexico City
an Interview with John Carlos
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