Voter registration/college athletes....

[kadee79]

What a great activity and making a point....NOW, just remember to follow thru & VOTE!

Missouri star linebacker Nick Bolton joined dozens of his teammates on a half-mile march to the Boone County Courthouse on Thursday. They knelt on the ground for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, the amount of time that Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on the neck of George Floyd before he died.

From there, Bolton and his Missouri teammates headed into the courthouse and registered to vote. In all, 62 members of the Missouri football team — essentially all that are back in the Columbia waiting to report to camp — registered to vote. The mass registering delivered a signature moment to a rocketing trend in college athletics in the wake of Floyd’s death, as there’s been a massive push for players to register to vote.

“We made a point as a team that we didn’t want to just tweet about change,” Bolton told Yahoo Sports in a phone interview. “We want to be part of the commitment to help fix the problems in the world.”

On Thursday around college athletics, that sentiment was echoed in every part of the country. Florida State star defensive lineman Marvin Wilson announced on Instagram that FSU football players were all registering to vote. Gonzaga coach Mark Few told ESPN that he’ll cancel all team activities on Election Day to promote team voting. Georgia Tech assistant basketball coach Eric Reveno started social media momentum that hit a crescendo when the school announced nine teams would not hold athletic activities on Nov. 3 to promote voting.

sports.yahoo.com/college-athletes-on-voter-registration-spree-we-have-a-chance-to-change-the-world-010953352.html

[billisonboard]

Jun 5, 2020 15:27:32 GMT -5 kadee79 said:

What a great activity and making a point....NOW, just remember to follow thru & VOTE!

Missouri star linebacker Nick Bolton joined dozens of his teammates on a half-mile march to the Boone County Courthouse on Thursday. They knelt on the ground for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, the amount of time that Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on the neck of George Floyd before he died.

From there, Bolton and his Missouri teammates headed into the courthouse and registered to vote. In all, 62 members of the Missouri football team — essentially all that are back in the Columbia waiting to report to camp — registered to vote. The mass registering delivered a signature moment to a rocketing trend in college athletics in the wake of Floyd’s death, as there’s been a massive push for players to register to vote.

“We made a point as a team that we didn’t want to just tweet about change,” Bolton told Yahoo Sports in a phone interview. “We want to be part of the commitment to help fix the problems in the world.”

On Thursday around college athletics, that sentiment was echoed in every part of the country. Florida State star defensive lineman Marvin Wilson announced on Instagram that FSU football players were all registering to vote. Gonzaga coach Mark Few told ESPN that he’ll cancel all team activities on Election Day to promote team voting. Georgia Tech assistant basketball coach Eric Reveno started social media momentum that hit a crescendo when the school announced nine teams would not hold athletic activities on Nov. 3 to promote voting.

sports.yahoo.com/college-athletes-on-voter-registration-spree-we-have-a-chance-to-change-the-world-010953352.html

Gonzaga coach Mark Few told ESPN that he’ll cancel all team activities on Election Day to promote team voting.

hey Mark, all voting in Washington state is done by mail, some of your players could be registered at non-in state home addresses, and how many foreign players are you going to have this next year.

[tallguy]

Jun 5, 2020 20:09:02 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

Jun 5, 2020 15:27:32 GMT -5 kadee79 said:

What a great activity and making a point....NOW, just remember to follow thru & VOTE!

sports.yahoo.com/college-athletes-on-voter-registration-spree-we-have-a-chance-to-change-the-world-010953352.html

Gonzaga coach Mark Few told ESPN that he’ll cancel all team activities on Election Day to promote team voting.

hey Mark, all voting in Washington state is done by mail, some of your players could be registered at non-in state home addresses, and how many foreign players are you going to have this next year.

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