ASSIGNMENT HELP | For this week\’s Journalism Project #5, I am asking us to specifically research and investigate a story on the intersections of Sports, Race, Class, Power, & Resistance.

For this week\’s Journalism Project #5, I am asking us to specifically research and investigate a story on the intersections of Sports, Race, Class, Power, & Resistance.
-The assignment: 2 pages typed (double space) research and reflection essay
-Consider a podcast story from Author David Zirin\’s podcast
http://www.edgeofsports.com/audio.html

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Journalism Project#5: Sports

Researched story

The story I researched was Colin Kaepernick’s refusal to PLACE YOUR ORDER NOW AT writtask.com | to Roger Goodell’s will. The story was written by Dave Zirin and focused on the quarterback’s remade league-wide tryout as he demanded transparency and access from the media and thePLACE YOUR ORDER NOW AT writtask.com | sitting or kneeling during the national anthem play as a form of protest against oppression from people of color in the United States. The article focuses on a planned assembled circus that had been arranged by Roger Goodell and the NFL, a league-wide tryout that was given to the quarterback on a three-day short notice. The NFL insisted that the player avail himself at Atlanta to work with a coach not of his choosing at the Falcon’s headquarters. Also, they did not provide the player with any information regarding who his receivers would be or which coaches will be available.

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