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WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is apologizing for characterizing as dumb and disrespectful the national anthem protests by San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and other athletes. Wholesale Cavaliers Jerseys Free Shipping .The court released a statement from Ginsburg on Friday in which she said she was barely aware of the anthem protest and that her comments were inappropriately dismissive and harsh.Some of you have inquired about a book interview in which I was asked how I felt about Colin Kaepernick and other NFL players who refused to stand for the national anthem, Ginsburgs statement read. Barely aware of the incident or its purpose, my comments were inappropriately dismissive and harsh. I should have declined to respond.Its the second time in recent months that the 83-year-old Ginsburg has apologized for public comments. She said her comments criticizing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in July were ill advised.The latest controversy arose after Ginsburg commented on Kaepernicks refusal to stand for the anthem, since adopted by other football players and athletes in other sports. She said the athletes have the right to protest if they want to be stupid.Kaepernick had a measured response to Ginsburgs initial comments.It is disappointing to hear a Supreme Court justice call a protest against injustices and oppression `stupid, dumb in reference to players doing that, Kaepernick said, according to The San Jose Mercury News.Information from The Associated Press was used in this report. Cheap Cavaliers Jerseys . -- Edmontons Val Sweeting is two wins away from a trip to Winnipeg to play in Canadas Road of the Rings in December. Cheap Cavaliers Jerseys Online .J. -- Pitcher Carl Pavano is retiring after 14 major league seasons. http://www.wholesalecavaliersjerseys.com/ ;. -- Its been a long road back for Sean Bergenheim. RIO DE JANEIRO -- On Sunday night, right after the flame has been extinguished in Rio de Janeiro, another Olympic project will burst out of the starting blocks.Its the launch of the Olympic Channel, a $450 million venture designed to keep Olympic sports and athletes relevant in the years between each games and attract new, younger audiences to a sports movement that has recently been battered by corruption and doping scandals.The digital channel, which will operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, will go live after the closing ceremony of the Rio Games, providing a mix of live sports events, documentaries, archive footage, news and highlights. Its an undertaking that is still in evolution and whose success, or failure, will depend on whether todays generation finds it relevant or tunes out.This is just the starting point, not the end point, Yiannis Exarchos, the head of the new channel, said in an interview with The Associated Press. We want to be able to surprise people and make it look different. Its not an institutional tool. This is about telling stories in a way that can bring younger people to the world of sports.The project was approved in December 2014 as part of International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bachs Agenda 2020 modernization program. The free channel will be available worldwide via a mobile app and online across mobile phones, tablets and other devices.The channel is based in Madrid, home of the Olympic Broadcasting Services, the IOCs television arm. Nearly 100 staff from 25 countries are currently working at the channels headquarters in Spain.Exarchos said the channel has already prepared more than 600 pieces of original programming, including 100 hours of high-end documentaries and premium content. Much of the content will be material from the Rio Games, which will be become available in full at the end of the year when global TV rights deals expire.Beyond producing feel-good stories, the channel has another, more challenging goal -- encouraging young people to get off the couch and play sports. That sounds counterintuitive from a channel that gives kids another excuse to stare at their screens.Were trying to push video to make people active, Exarchos said. For me this will be the criteria of success. Its not enough for the channel to be popular. It would be even happier if we demonstrate that these people go out and start doing sports. The channel needs to help in that. Lets see.The channel already has formal agreements with 27 of the 35 summer and winter Olympic sports federations. The IAAF and FIFA are not among those, though Exarchos noted that wass because both had a lot on their plate this year, referring to corruption and doping issues. Wholesale Cavaliers Jerseys. But he said soccer and track and field are super eager to get involved with the channel.The channel has signed up 11 sports events that will be shown live between September and December, including triathlon, canoeing, rowing and an Olympic ice hockey qualifying tournament.What the channel wont do is compete or pay for broadcast rights. It doesnt air the Olympics themselves, which are shown by networks like NBC in the United States after paying billions of dollars to the IOC for exclusive rights. Many sports federations also have rights deals in place for their own international events.Exarchos said the Olympic Channel has huge synergies with NBC, which holds U.S. rights through 2032, and that the American market is a key target.The channel will offer documentaries that feature inspirational, dramatic or emotional stories of some of the biggest athletes in the world, he said, adding they wont be presented in a didactic way.`That may be a little bit of a surprise to those used to a traditionalist story line, he said. It will be presented in way that can be enjoyed by younger people.At the channels disposal is the IOCs rich trove of archive footage, much of it never seen before by the public, and some going as far back as the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. About 42,000 hours of footage that was stored at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, has been digitized and will form a core of the channels content.We dont simply replay the archive, Exarchos said. We work with it, creating fresh ways of looking at it, sometimes even in a funny or bonkers way.The channel will be offered originally in English, but localized versions in other languages are also in development.The IOC is kicking in more than half of the $450 million to finance the channel for the first seven years. The international federations and national Olympic committees are paying the rest. Exarchos said he expects the channel will break even within seven years.Why launch the channel at the close of the Rio Games? To keep the spirit going and stave off the letdown associated with the day after each Olympics, Exarchos said.Its a big opportunity to reverse the emotional down of this day, he said. It will be very much linked to the games and the end of the games.--Follow Stephen Wilson on Twitter: www.twitter.com/stevewilsonap. His work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/stephen-wilson