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Glad to see The Players Tribune on here. If you haven't read it before, it has some amazing content - not just from pro athletes, but college athletes you've never heard of.

The perspectives are often fascinating. Here's another great one from Bronson Koenig, a Native American and one hell of a basketball player, on his experience at Standing Rock: https://www.theplayerstribune.com/bronson-koenig-wisconsin-b....

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Have never seen the site before, but +1 to this after browsing casually.

It's great to see profiles, nuance, perspectives, and discussion from players - not the league or talking heads on ESPN who won't even really touch a lot of issues with or tangential to sports with a 10-foot pole. Sports don't have to be separated from other parts of culture.

Yeah! That site is a treasure. Everything there is very well-written, and would (I think) be interesting even to those uninterested in sports.

FWIW, some articles are written by the athletes themselves, and others are ghostwritten in close conjunction with the athletes. (I have no problem with this at all; it's still the athletes' stories)

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