New York City set to lift vaccination requirement for professional athletes from MLB Trade Rumors, with Anthony Franco, and from YardBarker.com/www.yardbarker.com New York City Mayor Eric Adams will announce Thursday that the municipality’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement for professional athletes will be lifted, according to a report from Sally Goldenberg of Politico. The news means that unvaccinated players on the Yankees and Mets — who were previously prohibited from playing in home games — will no longer be blocked from playing at Yankee Stadium or Citi Field, write Adrian Wojnarowski and Jeff Passan of ESPN. ESPN writes that MLB officials had…
Kevin Durant calls out NYC mayor over vaccine policy from Larry Brown Sports with Grey Papke, and from YardBarker.com/www.yardbarker.com Kevin Durant is putting pressure on the mayor of New York City over the bizarre vaccination policy currently in place. Unvaccinated Nets guard Kyrie Irving is still not allowed to play home games at the Barclays Center due to the city’s private sector vaccine mandate. Despite this, city rules now permit him to attend games and sit on the bench with his teammates. Irving was even permitted to go into the locker room at halftime. The ridiculousness of that was not…