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FILE - In this June 27, 2020, file phohto, Chicago Red Stars’ Julie Ertz, second from left, holds Casey Short, center, while other players for the team kneel during the national anthem before an NWSL Challenge Cup soccer match against the Washington Spirit at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman, Utah. The National Women’s Soccer League revised its anthem policy after most players knelt during the anthem before season-opening games last weekend at the Challenge Cup. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) ORG XMIT... Читать дальше...

Red Stars forward Kealia Watt shoots the ball during a game against the North Carolina Courage on July 5 in Herriman, Utah. | Rob Gray/isiphotos.com

NERTZ is the name of the game, and because of the stress involved, players cautiously carve out time in the day for a game so they don’t disrupt important events, such as sleep.

Jonathan Bornstein controls the ball during Wednesday’s friendly against Minnesota United. | Courtesy of the Fire

The Fire’s first game of the MLS is Back Tournament was postponed and safety has been a question since the event was first announced.

WNBA training camps opened Friday — almost three months after they originally were scheduled to do so — at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, and it’s unlike anything anyone has experienced. | AP Photos

WNBA training camps opened Friday — almost three months after they originally were scheduled to do so — at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, and it’s unlike anything anyone has experienced.

Police are warning residents about a pair of robberies July 8, 2020, at basketball courts on the Northwest Side, including at Norwood Park School, 5900 N. Nina Ave. | Google Maps

In each case, two men approached a group of teenagers playing basketball, implied that they had a weapon and demanded the victims’ phones and valuables, police said.

Police at the scene of a fatal shooting in Englewood on July 4th, one of the most violent weekends this year. | Pat Nabong/Sun-Times

Police Supt. David Brown should quit falling back on that disproven claim. But he’s right that the best way to stop violence is to prevent it in the first place.

Kim Foxx speaks to the media after winning the Democratic primary in March. | Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times

Foxx is asking her supporters to diversify their staff, operations, communications and spending in a pledge to bring “equity in all aspects” of politics.

A man was fatally shot July 9, 2020, in the 200 block of Lincoln Street in Joliet. | Adobe Stock Photo

The 24-year-old Joliet man was shot multiple times and taken to Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

In this photo provided by the Mountain Area Health Education Center, doctors, residents and staff from the facility in Asheville, North Carolina, take a knee to show support for renewed calls for racial justice after the police killing of George Floyd. | AP

The pandemic has made it even more difficult to manage chronic diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure — which disproportionately affect Black people

The Blackhawks and Oilers will begin their best-of-five qualifying round series on August 1. | AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast

The Blackhawks’ first series will begin August 1 and end by August 8.

A federal court on Friday ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reassess decisions it made that allowed counties in Illinois and other states to get a pass on stricter pollution rules. | Sun-Times file

Decisions on air quality made by the Trump Administration were challenged in court by the city of Chicago, Illinois Attorney General and environmental groups.

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Two men were shot, one fatally, in the 4000 block of South Kedzie Avenue July 8, 2020. | Sun-Times file photo

Two men were in a vehicle when someone fired shots from a silver-colored sedan, police said.

A teenage boy was shot July 10, 2020, in Jeffery Manor. | Sun-Times file photo

The 15-year-old was in the street when a light-colored vehicle pulled up and someone inside fired shots, striking him in the back, police said.

Chicago Police Supt. David Brown greets community activist William Calloway in West Woodlawn on Friday morning. | Pat Nabong/Sun-Times

What’s worked in Dallas, we hope and pray, can work in Chicago. Let’s give it a chance.

Chicago police investigate an Edgewater apartment building after the body of a 58-year-old man was found inside of a refrigerator, July 9, 2020. | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times

Officers initially responded to the building for a well-being check called in by someone from the condo association, police said.

Young people enjoy an open fire hydrant at 14th and Harding in 1966. | Chicago Sun Times

“I have always wondered what caused such a catastrophic change,” one reader writes. “Too many good people are living in war zones.”