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TigerVols
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I could barely care less about the league but my goodness the WNBA would be a fun one to cover, as are all businesses that can’t stop stepping on rakes.
Tempo's Brondello suspended 1 game for 'inappropriate | theScore
Tempo's Brondello suspended 1 game for 'inappropriate | theScore
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The story fails to mention that Brondello is Australian, and "protected species" is a common slang term over there for star athletes (or employees in general) who receives preferential treatment or lenient calls from referees.
Should she have known better? Perhaps. But her background and culture is part of the story, too.
Should she have known better? Perhaps. But her background and culture is part of the story, too.
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I took Spartan Jr to that game. It was my first pro basketball game of any kind and his first live sporting event. It was such a great time.
The last 5 minutes of the game were insane. Valks went on a 12-0 run, draining 3s and just shutting down the Mystics. Place was rocking. Little Sparty was going crazy. I have a hoarse voice today.
A graf in Nancy Armour's column on Caitlin Clark's tendency to flop and complain for fouls.
Caitlin Clark’s flopping isn’t just annoying — it’s becoming dangerous | Opinion
It shouldn’t need reminding this country has an awful history of Black people being harmed, even killed, in the name of “defending” white women. The WNBA's All-Star Game this weekend is in Chicago, Emmett Till's hometown, and a local art gallery is currently hosting an exhibit imagining his life if he hadn't been lynched. While it’s incumbent on the WNBA to do more to protect its players, there also should be an expectation on Clark to recognize the wider consequences of her actions.
Caitlin Clark’s flopping isn’t just annoying — it’s becoming dangerous | Opinion
It shouldn’t need reminding this country has an awful history of Black people being harmed, even killed, in the name of “defending” white women. The WNBA's All-Star Game this weekend is in Chicago, Emmett Till's hometown, and a local art gallery is currently hosting an exhibit imagining his life if he hadn't been lynched. While it’s incumbent on the WNBA to do more to protect its players, there also should be an expectation on Clark to recognize the wider consequences of her actions.
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Basketball at every level needs to start dishing out instant T's for the arms-spread, eyes wide, beseeching the heavens Pagliacci dramatic productions of players screeching for foul calls.
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Maybe Clark needs to sit down until she understands what a danger she is.
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Such pained expressions after a foul call are the exclusive, copywritten property of soccer stars and may not be recreated without the EXPRESSED written consent of FIFA.
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Do it like baseball: you have 2-3 seconds following a call in the heat of action, you can scream "come on ref," or even, "I got fouled!", but once those three seconds are over, it's ****in' over: no more of the arm waving and agonized face histrionics.
I mean, she can write it - many columnists ride their emotions to such a degree that they frequently arrive at intellectual dishonesty in ways far less ludicrous than what Armour wrote - but that's what editors are for.
Hey - I hear your heart here, but introducing Emmett Till into the column won't make your point to the person you want to hear it, which is Caitlin Clark.
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My journalism professor wouldn't let me write something like that.
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“Whether it’s Emmitt Till being tied to cotton gin equipment when being lynched or Caitlin Clark dealing with online bullies, both sides have had a problem with fans.” — NY Times Pitchbot.
Here's a story running concurrent to Nancy Armour column.
In a big (and good) feature from ESPN Sophie Cunningham supported keeping transwomen/transgirls out of cisgirls sports.
She'll weigh in on how to "protect women's sports," she says, because she's in that world and feels qualified to speak to that world. "I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I'm like, 'I never once said that,'" she says. "I think that I am here to extend love. But I also think with that love is truth, being honest. And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn't have to go against biological men."
A former Indiana Fever teammate, Brianna Turner, responded to that story with this on X.
"To date there's been one out trans player in the league. They caused zero problems. An issue that has caused problems though? Last year on my WNBA team a male staff member was fired for sexual harassment, but we were encouraged to keep quiet about it. That is an issue."
Now, the two things have nothing to do with each other, but if that first sentence made you pause, the trans WNBA player in question was born a ciswoman and transitioned to nonbinary. Which...isn't exactly related to Cunningham's stance on biological men.
These are the dominant narratives going into the All-Star game.
In a big (and good) feature from ESPN Sophie Cunningham supported keeping transwomen/transgirls out of cisgirls sports.
She'll weigh in on how to "protect women's sports," she says, because she's in that world and feels qualified to speak to that world. "I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I'm like, 'I never once said that,'" she says. "I think that I am here to extend love. But I also think with that love is truth, being honest. And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn't have to go against biological men."
A former Indiana Fever teammate, Brianna Turner, responded to that story with this on X.
"To date there's been one out trans player in the league. They caused zero problems. An issue that has caused problems though? Last year on my WNBA team a male staff member was fired for sexual harassment, but we were encouraged to keep quiet about it. That is an issue."
Now, the two things have nothing to do with each other, but if that first sentence made you pause, the trans WNBA player in question was born a ciswoman and transitioned to nonbinary. Which...isn't exactly related to Cunningham's stance on biological men.
These are the dominant narratives going into the All-Star game.
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If all of my information about the WNBA came from Barstool tweets, I’m sure I’d find this deeply concerning.
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About a week ago I was listening to VSIN, the sports gambling show. They were doing a segment on the WNBA season so far, what teams have done well, and what they are looking for in the second half of the season. One of the hosts was Doug Kazerian, who used to be on ESPN's Daily Wager show. They discussed what players are playing well, what players are coming back from injury, etc. Pure sports talk about the WNBA. Zero Alma-talk. It was ****ing tremendous. It takes a gambling show to get actual real sports talk about the WNBA.
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As we used to say around here, this. Times eleventy!! The daily dose of "girl fight, girl fight " clickbait us getting a bit over the top.
