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Article snippet: Here is our not-so-happy sports and politics recap, and all who complain about the mixture of the two are advised to register their complaints with the White House switchboard. Our president went to Alabama on Friday evening to campaign for a deeply conservative candidate and, as is his fashion, went stream of consciousness, pulling the rest of us along to his darkest corner. Before a vastly white audience — and race appears the inescapable subtext here — he seized on the athletes, nearly all of them black, who have protested police brutality by silently holding a fist aloft or taking a knee on the sidelines of football games. He jutted his chin, squinted and curled his lips. “Wouldn’t you love to see one of these N.F.L. owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now. Out! He’s fired. He’s fired!’” The president did his faux “you’re fired” hand gesture — the one from that forgettable television show of his — and the audience roared. On Saturday morning, as an encore, President Trump woke up and declared on Twitter that he would not invite Steph Curry, that whirling dervish star of the Golden State Warriors, to the White House. This is a barely recognizable president. It also is a barely recognizable generation of pro athletes. Thank God for the latter. Just as the president lays his hand on the third rail of race, the athletes are responding. The N.B.A. point guard Chris Paul: To which LeBron James added his o... Link to the full article to read more