Distinguished leaders in the field of athletes rights and representation who can speak to a number of current challenges facing athletes across the movement. As we do, i want to take a moment to remind our witnesses and to all those who are here with us and listening on the live stream, that this commission is not just focused on olympic sports, but paralympic sports as well and i hope we will all be mindful of that. Id like to introduce our witnesses. First we have donald. Until last year he served as executive director of the National Hockey League Players association and he was previously the executive director of the Players Association for major league baseball. He has spent nearly half a century as an advocate for athletes and in doing so, not only help make our favorite pastimes more equitable and fair, but stronger and more commercially successful as well. We are also joined by a former prosecutor, champion athlete, pastor of the u. S. Opc, a longtime advocate for athletes Due
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A dangerous decision that could have deep repercussions across the middle east that is a warning from World Leaders including important allies as President Trump prepares to announce u. S. Recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel palestinian state it will amount to a declaration of war and have already begun protesting live reports from palestine israel and washington d. C. Also on the graves more than syria more than iran and more than yemen the democratic republic of congo is a country with the highest number of displaced people in the world a new report describes the situation as a mega crisis with millions of people being forced to flee their homes well find out why and seeking a solution to pollution government leaders and scientists from more than one hundred countries are meeting in kenya to raise awareness about global pollution especially the huge amount of plastic rubbish in our oceans but can they be Real International cooperation. When we live in nairobi what is dr
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He was just having fun. Its been a while since he left the field as a winner. Were headed to detroit on saturday. Then the second game of that doubleheader is the chargers and the chief s huge game for a Division Lead in the west. And it matters a lot to the team you and al will see on sunday night, the raiders a iz they take on the cowboys and one where the marquee looks great but both teams better get a win. Yeah. Its sort of win or its over, really. When you look at the whole thing. I think the chargers deserve a bit of the recognition here as well. I sensually, a lot of the times they been playing road games every week. Even in their own stadium. You wonder now if those fans are going to start becoming chargers fans out there. Because they have been playing so well of late. And the way they can play defense and rivers is hot, maybe another team to keep an eye on. The cowboys, you know youre looking at dallas here. Ezeke yal elliott comes back if they can get this win, keep themselv