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Arizona Diamondbacks starting pitcher Caleb Smith (31) throws during the first inning of a spring training baseball game against the San Francisco Giants Sunday, March 14, 2021, in Scottdale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
The Latest: Some D-backs players, coaches receive vaccine

By The Associated Press Mar. 23, 2021 12:26 PM EDT

FILE - Driver Bubba Wallace wears a Black Lives Matter shirt as he prepares for a NASCAR Cup Series auto race in Martinsville, Va., in this Wednesday, June 10, 2020, file photo. In a most unusual year already thrown into chaos by the coronavirus pandemic, many athletes took unprecedented steps when a nationwide reckoning on race spilled into the streets of American cities after the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, while in Minneapolis police custody. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)
Athletes act: Stars rise up against racial injustice in 2020

By Cliff Brunt Dec. 29, 2020 01:41 PM EST