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Minnesota Vikings player shares racist messages received following Thursday Night Football loss

By Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — Minnesota Vikings running back Alexander Mattison said he received racist messages following the team’s loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on Thursday Night Football. Mattison shared two screenshots of messages via Instagram on Friday, saying that he received more than 60 “disgustingly disrespectful messages.” Both screenshots contained racial slurs and

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Majority of Spain’s World Cup-winning players refuse to play upcoming matches amid fallout from unwanted kiss

By Patrick Sung, Ben Church, Amanda Davies, Al Goodman and Sammy Mncwabe, CNN (CNN) — The vast majority of Spain’s World Cup-winning squad says it will refuse to be called up for the country’s two upcoming Women’s Nations League matches as it continues to push for “real structural changes” in Spanish soccer, following the fallout

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Jennifer Hermoso’s lawyer reiterates that kiss by Luis Rubiales was non-consensual as former soccer boss handed restraining order

By Al Goodman and Claudia Rebaza, CNN (CNN) — Carla Vall, lawyer for Spanish soccer star Jennifer Hermoso, reiterated that the kiss by ex-Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) president Luis Rubiales to her client after the Women’s World Cup final was non-consensual. Rubiales was in court on Friday to testify after being summoned by the

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Lewis Hamilton criticizes ‘completely unacceptable’ comments from Red Bull’s Helmut Marko about Sergio Pérez

By George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Lewis Hamilton has described comments made by Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko about Mexican driver Sergio Pérez as “completely unacceptable.” After this month’s Italian Grand Prix, Marko attributed Pérez’s form to his ethnicity, telling ServusTV: “We know that he has problems in qualifying, he has fluctuations in form,

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