Should Athletes Who Don’t Stand for the Anthem Be Punished?

By Selwyn Duke

Is the real issue in the Colin Kaepernick situation that an athlete won’t stand for the National Anthem?

Or is it that the nation won’t stand strongly against unpatriotic citizens?

One man who might assert the latter and won’t be part of the problem is head coach of Team USA Hockey, John Tortorella. In fact and as Fox Sports reports, “He’s already making it known that he's not going to tolerate any national anthem protests from his players during the tournament. ‘If any of my players sit on the bench for the national anthem, they will sit there the rest of the game,’ Tortorella told ESPN's Linda Cohn on Tuesday.’”

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