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during the national anthem as a protest against racial injustice. Stills took a huge stand Wednesday, essentially calling Dolphins owner Stephen Ross a hypocrite for hosting a fundraiser for President Trump in the Hamptons later this week. Tickets for the event run from $5,600 to $250,000, according to the Washington Post. The billionaire owner has invested millions in the Ross Initiative in Sports for Equal- ity, according to the Miami Herald. RISE’s mission statement states: “We are a national nonprofit that edu- cates and empowers the sports community to elimi- nate racial discrimination, champion social justice and improve race relations.” But, Stills declared on Twitter, “You can’t have a nonprofit with this mission statement then open your

Antonio Brown needs to
cover his feet.
That’s advice the Oakland
Raiders receiver should take
now — we really don’t need to
see those nasty things on
social media ever again — and
it’s something he also should
have done last month, when
he reportedly used a cryo-
therapy chamber without
proper footwear.
Multiple media outlets
have reported that the myste-
rious foot injury that has
prevented Brown from prac-
ticing is frostbite, however
some medical professionals
are not in agreement with
that diagnosis.
Cryotherapy involves the
use of sub-zero temperatures
for medical purposes. Some
athletes use the treatment for
muscle soreness or other

ailments as an alternative to more uncomfortable options, such as ice baths. But because the air tem- perature in a cryotherapy chamber can exceed minus 200 degrees, proper clothing is essential. Otherwise your feet might end up looking like Brown’s: a mass of peeling discolored skin. Google “An- tonio Brown feet” and sit back in horror. Keep small children away and try to make sure you have an empty stomach. Brown has seen at least one foot specialist and hasn’t practiced since July 30. The Raiders say he is day-to-day.

Dolphins player calls out owner Kenny Stills has no problem taking a stand for what he believes in. The Miami Dolphins receiver was one of a handful of NFL players last year who continued to kneel

doors to Trump.” Trump has been outspo- ken against players taking a knee during the anthem. He also has been criticized for racist comments.

Ross has publicly sup- ported players’ right to protest during the anthem. But even though he and the president don’t see eye to eye on that matter, the two are longtime friends who are said to share some political views. Stills is a seven-year veteran who has led the Dolphins in touchdown receptions in two of the last three seasons. He has two years remaining on his contract.

Your favorite sports moment What is your favorite all-time L.A. sports moment? Here’s the next one in our occasional series. Email me your favorite sports moment (houston.mitchell @latimes.com) and it might run in a future Morning Brief- ing and Sports Report news- letter. Today’s moment comes

from Sam Weissman of Los Angeles: “No question in my mind that my favorite moment in sports was the first time I saw the Dodgers play. “It was Sunday, May 4, 1958, the Dodgers’ first year in L.A. They were playing a doubleheader at the Colise- um against the Phillies. I was 11 at the time and my fifth-grade teacher took us boys to the game. He bought us the best tickets he could afford, seats in right field. Those seats were some 250 feet from home plate at the very least. Players looked like ants scrambling around looking for food. But it didn’t matter. The Dodgers won both games, 8-7 and 15-2. We had the greatest time ever. And to this day, I bleed Dod- ger Blue. Now if we could only watch the games on DirecTV I’d be a happy 72-year-old fan.”

MORNING BRIEFING

Brown needs to keep his nasty feet out of sight

By Houston Mitchell
and Chuck Schilken

MIAMI’S Kenny Stills is not buying what owner Stephen Ross is selling.

Wilfredo LeeAssociated Press

The same tweets and comments come rolling in like clockwork every time a picture, video or story is posted calling the Los Angeles Sta- dium at Hollywood Park the future home of the Rams and Chargers. Variations of “it’s the home of the Rams; the Char- gers are just renters” come flooding in from Rams fans and former Chargers fans in San Diego. It’s understandable. Rams fans don’t want their team to share the stadium and former Chargers fans in San Diego will never understand why the team would leave their home of 56 years to be an afterthought in the crowded Los Angeles sports land- scape. The problem with calling the Chargers renters and needling them with chants of “pay your rent” is that they aren’t alone. There are only four teams in the NFL that own and operate the stadiums they play in. When the Chargers called San Diego home, they had a lease agreement to play at Qualcomm Stadium, which is owned and operated by the city of San Diego. The Char- gers were never the stadium’s lone tenants, sharing it at various times with San Diego State and the San Diego Padres. Some of the most iconic stadiums in the league aren’t owned by the teams that play there. The Dallas Cowboys play at AT&T Stadium, which is nicknamed “Jerry World” after Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. However, the stadium is owned by the city of Arlington and the Cowboys pay $2 million per season in rent. The Chicago Bears pay $6.3 million annually to play at Soldier Field, which is owned by the Chicago Park District. The Green Bay Packers pay almost $1 million annually to play at Lambeau Field, which is owned by the city of Green Bay and the Brown County Pro Football Stadium District.

Every team in the NFL, except for the Miami Dol- phins, New England Patriots, Washington Redskins and Carolina Panthers, is techni- cally a renter when it comes to its home stadium. When the Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park opens next year, it will be owned by Stadco LA LLC, a third party controlled by Rams owner Stan Kroenke. Chargers ownership holds an interest in the company as well. Though much has been made of the Chargers paying $1 per year to rent the stadium, the Rams will be paying the same amount. Though Kroenke controls Stadco LA LLC, the Chargers are more partners than tenants. Each team is paying $200 million from their NFL G4 loan toward the stadium’s construction. Each team will keep its local revenue from the stadium, which includes money from tickets, parking, concessions and other game- day-related sponsorship and advertising deals. Each team will get an 18.75% cut from naming rights deals and jointly sold suites and person- al seat licenses. And the stadium will have equal-sized home locker rooms for each of the teams. The Rams and Chargers were both present Tuesday for the stadium’s first naming

rights deal, as the plaza in between the stadium and performance center was announced as American Airlines Plaza. As part of the deal, American Airlines became the official airline of the Rams and Chargers, and airline officials said their company would have promi- nent branding during Rams and Chargers game days. Expect similar equal partnerships later this year when naming rights deals are announced for the 70,000-seat stadium and the 6,000-seat performance center. “The partners that come into this building will share an official designation with both teams, and I think that’s right,” Rams chief operating officer Kevin Demoff said. “We’re partners in this stadium and we’re partners in making the NFL as strong as possible in Los Angeles. “We want to make L.A. a true NFL city with the L.A. Rams on the NFC side and the L.A. Chargers on the AFC side, and hopefully in 2022 we’ll be the first teams to host and play in the same Super Bowl.” When Fred Maas, the Chargers’ chief of staff, shows off renderings of the stadium, there’s a massive Chargers logo on the canopy of the stadium, Chargers logos on the 70,000-square-foot Oculus display that will hang from

the roof, Chargers logos on the field and on the televi- sions in suites and con- courses. It looks like the home of the Chargers. There’s no sign of the Rams, who have similar renderings of their home games. “New York having one stadium for the Jets and Giants was a great experi- ment and opportunity for us to learn,” Maas said. “There will be no doubt that this will be the home of the Chargers when we have a home game.” The divide will come on days the NFL isn’t playing there. Kroenke will get all non- NFL revenues and the Char- gers will not have a role in the mixed-use development planned on the 298-acre site. Kroenke could make everything outside the stadium Rams-centric and ignore the Chargers, but the plan is to make the development a neutral destina- tion. “There’s a tremendous amount of collaboration that’s going into the stadium, the naming rights and the founding partners,” said A.G. Spanos, Chargers president of business operations. “Those partnerships are done in collaboration with both teams and we’re really working together to make this the best stadium in the NFL.”

SHARING THE RENT

Rams and Chargers are equal tenants of their future NFL stadium

ARASH MARKAZI

A RENDERINGprovided by Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park shows the southeast seating view for the new stadium, which opens next year.

Associated Press

important because the Ga- laxy, who don’t have an open designated-player spot, are limited in what they can pay Pavon this year. Just to fund the deal for the rest of 2019, the team had to raise $386,000 in TAM by sending midfielder Ema Boateng to D.C. United and trading $200,000 in gen- eral allocation money to Orlando City. But the DP contracts of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Romain Alessandrini expire at the end of the year, giving Te Kloese salary flexibility going forward. The Galaxy, and especially coach Gui- llermo Barros Schelotto, are convinced Pavon — once on the radar of European clubs such as Roma and Arsenal — will be well worth whatever headaches it took to get him here. Schelotto coached Pavon at Boca Juniors, for which he scored 21 goals and had 24 assists in 80 games in the Argentine first division. However Pavon has fallen out

of favor with the club and is counting on a reunion with his former coach to get his career back on track. Schelotto and the strug- gling Galaxy, who have lost nine of their last 14 to drop to fifth in the Western Confer- ence standings, hope Pavon can energize an offense that is 21st in the 24-team MLS in

goals. An excellent passer who can also play in the middle, Pavon will be counted on to get the ball to Ibrahi- movic before becoming the focus of the attack next year. For LAFC, the deal to acquire Rodriguez, 19, follows equally complicated negotia- tions that included an agreement to play a 2020 friendly

with Penarol as well as an exchange of coaching, acade- my and player resources. Details of the signing were not released and it was not announced until an hour after the team sold forward Chris- tian Ramirez to the Houston Dynamo for as much as $325,000 in allocation money. Rodriguez had one goal and four assists in nine league games in Uruguay this season and also started five of the six group-stage matches in the Copa Libertadores, picking up three assists. The addition of Rodriguez makes the league’s best team even better, but its real value could come later if Diego Rossi, who joined LAFC from Penarol as a teenager last season, leaves for Europe. Sky Italia said this week that Serie A club Fiorentina is preparing a $17-million offer for the player, although an LAFC executive questioned that report, saying it’s un- likely Rossi will leave during the current European trans- fer period.

Galaxy land Pavon; LAFC gets Rodriguez

[Baxter, from D1]

CRISTIAN PAVON is a 23-year-old Argentine World Cup veteran.

Gregory BullAssociated Press BRIAN RODRIGUEZ, 19, is transferring from Uruguay team Penarol.

Mauro PimentelAFP/Getty Images

NFL
TODAY
Favorite Line (O/U) Underdog
at Arizona 21 ⁄ 2 (36) CHARGERS
N.Y. Jets 11 ⁄ 2 (33^1 ⁄ 2 ) at N.Y. Giants
Indianapolis 3 (34^1 ⁄ 2 ) at Buffalo
New England 1 (35^1 ⁄ 2 ) at Detroit
Washington 11 ⁄ 2 (35^1 ⁄ 2 ) at Cleveland
at Miami 31 ⁄ 2 (35^1 ⁄ 2 ) Atlanta
at Philadelphia 3 (36^1 ⁄ 2 ) Tennessee
at Baltimore 41 ⁄ 2 (31^1 ⁄ 2 ) Jacksonville
at Green Bay 21 ⁄ 2 (35^1 ⁄ 2 ) Houston
at Chicago 3 (36) Carolina
Denver 21 ⁄ 2 (36) at Seattle

FRIDAY
at Pittsburgh 21 ⁄ 2 (37) Tampa Bay
at New Orleans 21 ⁄ 2 (37) Minnesota

SATURDAY at Oakland 51 ⁄ 2 (35) RAMS at Kansas City 31 ⁄ 2 (37) Cincinnati at San Francisco 4 (36) Dallas

Major League Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE Favorite Underdog Atlanta -190 at Miami +175 Chicago -116 at Cincinnati +106 at San Francisco -105 Philadelphia -105 at San Diego -106 Colorado -104 AMERICAN LEAGUE Favorite Underdog at Boston -235 ANGELS +215 New York -180 at Toronto +165 at Detroit OFF Kansas City OFF at Minnesota -106 Cleveland -104

ODDS

TIME EVENT ON THE AIR BASEBALL 4 p.m. Angels at Boston TV:FSW R:830, 1220 BASKETBALL 4 p.m. WNBA, Indiana at Washington TV:CBSSN 7 p.m. WNBA, Phoenix at Sparks TV:ESPN2 GOLF 7:30 a.m. LPGA Tour, Aberdeen Standard Investments Scottish Open, first round

TV:Golf

11 a.m. PGA Tour, The Northern Trust, first round TV:Golf 1 p.m. U.S. Women’s Amateur, rounds of 32 and 16 TV:FS1 3 p.m. PGA Korn Ferry Tour, WinCo Foods Portland Open, first round

TV:Golf

GYMNASTICS 5 p.m. U.S. Championships, men TV:NBCSN HORSE RACING 10 a.m. Saratoga Live TV:FS2 Noon Saratoga Live TV:Prime 1 p.m. Trackside Live! Del Mar TV:TVG 6 p.m. Race Night featuring Charles Town TV:TVG LITTLE LEAGUE 8 a.m. Midwest Regional, Iowa vs. Minnesota TV:ESPN 10 a.m. New England Regional, New Hampshire vs. Rhode Island

TV:ESPN

Noon Northwest Regional, Idaho vs. Oregon TV:ESPN 2 p.m. Great Lakes Regional, Kentucky vs. Michigan TV:ESPN 4 p.m. Mid Atlantic Regional, Washington, D.C. vs. New York

TV:ESPN

6 p.m. West Regional, Northern Calif. vs. Hawaii TV:ESPN MIXED MARTIAL ARTS 5 p.m. PFL, light heavyweights/heavyweights TV:ESPN2 PAN AMERICAN GAMES 7 a.m. Archery, swimming, athletics TV:ESPNU 4 p.m. Women’s volleyball and swimming TV:ESPNU PRO FOOTBALL 4 p.m. Exhibition, New York Jets at New York Giants TV:NFL 7 p.m. Exhibition, Chargers at Arizona TV:7, NFL R:640, 980 SOCCER 5 p.m. CONCACAF, San Francisco vs. Alianza TV:UDN 7 p.m. CONCACAF, Marathon vs. Comunicaciones TV:UDN TENNIS 8 a.m. ATP/WTA, Rogers Cup, early rounds TV:Tennis 9 a.m. ATP, Rogers Cup, round of 16 TV:ESPN2

TODAY ON THE AIR

PRO CALENDAR

THU. FRI. SAT. SUN. MON. 8 9 10 11 12

DODGERS

ARIZONA 7 SNLA

ARIZONA 6 SNLA

ARIZONA 1 SNLA

ANGELS

at Boston 4 FSW

at Boston 1 FSW

at Boston 10 a.m. FSW, TBS

PITT. 7 FSW

GALAXY

at D.C. United 4:30 FS1

LAFC

N.Y. RED BULLS 7 FS1

SPARKS

PHOENIX 7 ESPN2

CHICAGO 2 SpecSN

Shade denotes home game

CHARGERS:Tonight at Arizona (exhibition), 7, Ch. 7
RAMS:Saturday at Oakland (exhibition), 5 p.m., Ch. 2, Ch. 5

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