I have also found myself skimming the sports section looking for mention of NFL players kneeling or otherwise protesting the National Anthem.  I have found none.  No mention of players kneeling, no mention of players staying in the locker room.  Nothing.

Should I glean from this that the practice has ceased.

Or should I glean from this that the paper has purposefully ceased reporting it.  Isn't the failure to report news just about the same as reporting "fake news"?

I heard a news report last week that the TV networks made a decision not to air the portion of the pregame that includes the national anthem - so whatever the players want to do (or not do) does not go out on the air anyway. Take away their stage, and they'll quit throwing their little bitch-fits for attention. The networks were just tired of listening to the fighting about it and being stuck in the middle while watching viewership drop and advertising revenue walk away.

So what?  There is nothing illegal here. Since it didn’t involve campaign money, it is not a campaign finance violation. Period. You may wish it to be illegal, but that doesn’t make it so.

Which brings up a point I thought about earlier, listening to Rush discuss this - if Cohen rolled over and pled guilty to a crime which is not really a crime, in order to get a slap on the wrist for his very real tax evasion - doesn't this just go further to if not exonerate, at least give defense, to Trump on the same point? It's not a crime to do what Trump did, he can't be charged for it, and ultimately Cohen can't be sentenced for it because it's not a crime. So Cohen gets off light on the tax evasion while appearing to make Trump look guilty of a crime that isn't a crime, and everybody walks away with a slap on the wrist. Did Cohen do this intentionally to screw Mueller? It sure seems to me that's the upshot here...