2020 election season features sports, politics, athlete activism, voting efforts

From early voting at sports venues to athletes speaking out on social and racial justice issues, from the reasons behind professional owners making campaign donations to the candidates and issues on ballots across the country, these are just some of the stories of the people, issues and moments where sports and sports figures have intersected with an election season like no other. Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3. For more coverage, follow the latest news and analysis from ABC News and FiveThirtyEight.

Athletes and voting

Led in part by players from the WNBA, NBA and college football, athletes say the fight for social justice will continue, including leading voter registration drives, fighting voter suppression and promoting get-out-the-vote efforts.

The NCAA encouraged its member schools to designate Nov. 3 as a day off for major college athletics.

• Skylar Diggins-Smith: Season is over, work is not

• LeBron James, Michelle Obama team up on voting initiative

• Milwaukee Bucks' George Hill supports local organization urging early voting

• Nuggets open practice discussing legacy of Rep. John Lewis; team to make voting PSAs

• NCAA encourages schools to give athletes Election Day off

• All NFL facilities will be closed on Election Day

• LSU players start change by registering to vote

• Missouri football players register to vote after leading march

• Gonzaga's Mark Few to cancel team activities on Election Day, wants other coaches to join him

• WNBA leads way for 'hoopers' voting campaign

• Sacramento Kings' Vivek Ranadive thinks voting should be 'as easy as ordering an Uber'

• Lyft, Social Change Fund and HBCU Heroes partner to get students to polls on Election Day

• 'I didn't think my vote counted': Why Bradley Beal is voting for the first time

• Lions defensive lineman Trey Flowers speaks from heart in virtual town hall on voting rights

• Prairie View A&M at the forefront fighting against voter suppression

• UConn Huskies' Geno Auriemma urges voters to show up, 'do the right thing'

• MLS' Black Players for Change teams up with LeBron James' voting iniative

• How one Georgia Tech assistant helped get Election Day off for all D-I athletes

Professional sports owners and political contributions

A series of stories showing how professional sports owners in America contribute to political campaigns, why they spend millions in the space and what that financial power means as athletes across sports continue to embrace activism of their own.

• Inside the political donation history of wealthy sports owners

• What motivates billionaire sports owners to donate to political campaigns?

• Dark money and why owners hide their political spending

• How the NFL's Gridiron PAC uses influence in Washington

• How political perception differs from reality in each league

• How athletes are working to create their own political change

Sports venues as polling sites

Across the country, ballparks, arenas and football stadiums have been transformed into polling centers on and before Election Day.

• Fenway Park opens for first time in 2020 for early voting

• Vote here! Ahead of the presidential election, America's sports stadiums and arenas become polling centers

• Pistons are transforming Detroit practice facility into voting site for 2020 elections

Voices and perspectives

• Black Americans head to the polls having endured a year of tragedy and change

• UFC's Dana White on Colby Covington's comments: 'We won't muzzle anybody'

• Black UFC athletes angered by Colby Covington's talk

• President Donald Trump says it'd be a 'tragic mistake' to cancel the fall college football season

• Olympian Laurie Hernandez: The world's on fire right now. Check in with yourself

• Lakers' Danny Green doesn't care how you feel about his social activism

• 'Not just a one-season thing': WNBA players haven't stopped working

Storytelling

COVER STORY: Tyrann Mathieu is changing the game

The Super Bowl champ and Chiefs MVP is the NFL's new model defender

How Trevor Lawrence became college football's most important listener

Trevor Lawrence has amassed an incredible amount of power for a 20-year-old college junior. And this offseason, the Clemson quarterback wielded that power in a monumental way -- by listening to and learning from his Black teammates.

On the ballot

Inside the WNBA-Kelly Loeffler stalemate

WNBA players are committed to promoting social justice and Black Lives Matter. Atlanta Dream co-owner and U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler is trying to win an election. During a basketball season like no other, the sides are engaged in a game of political chess.

Will Alabama fans make an Auburn coach their next senator?

The Crimson Tide faithful haven't forgotten that Tommy Tuberville beat them seven times in 10 seasons. Now in his U.S. Senate bid, he must campaign on what amounts to foreign turf.

Aux Cord Chronicles XXI: Your Election Day soundtrack

Justin Tinsley has the 21st installment of The Undefeated's flagship playlist series, Aux Cord Chronicles. It isn't telling you who to vote for. But with records from artists such as Marvin Gaye, Nina Simone, Tupac Shakur and more, it captures the historical voyage of angst, aggression and hope that we've always had once we step into the voting booth. This is a soundtrack to take with you on Election Day.