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#2 MWSL

#2 NWSL

#3 NBA

#4 MLB

5th NFL

Last NHL

What does woke mean?

The word "woke" is a term originated in African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) see: The Cultural Significance of Aave in Sports to mean "alert to racial prejudice and discrimination." Beginning in the 2010s, it came to encompass a broader awareness of social inequalities, such as sexism, and has also been used as shorthand for some ideas attributed to the American Left involving identity politics and social justice, such as white privilege and slavery reparations for African Americans.

In the early 2000s, the word "woke" was used by African Americans to describe a state of being aware of and actively attentive to the issues surrounding race. The term was popularized by the Black Power movement in the 1960s, and it has continued to be used by Black Americans to describe their awareness of racial injustice and the true non-whitewashed history of America.

1 posted on 03/02/2024 1:06:24 PM PST by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

This writer is truly a wokehole and an idiot


2 posted on 03/02/2024 1:10:38 PM PST by freebilly
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To: DallasBiff

The WNBA couldn’t survive without subsidies from the NBA, which couldn’t survive without subsidies from China.


3 posted on 03/02/2024 1:14:22 PM PST by Dan in Wichita
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To: DallasBiff

I recall when major league baseball (it wasn’t called “MLB”) consisted of two totally separate leagues—and baseball was much better that way.


4 posted on 03/02/2024 1:16:39 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: DallasBiff

I’m about as “woke” as a bear in hibernation.


5 posted on 03/02/2024 1:17:53 PM PST by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: DallasBiff
“ The word “woke” is a term originated in African-American Vernacular English”

Thus they predominantly populate the most woke stupid and libtard leagues

7 posted on 03/02/2024 1:18:38 PM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: DallasBiff

I suppose it’s an accurate ranking but I care not for any of them. I used to but I no longer follow any of them except for FR threads. That keeps me somewhat up to date on sports stuff but other than that they’re all flatlining for me.


8 posted on 03/02/2024 1:25:14 PM PST by xp38
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To: DallasBiff

“WNBA league has also donated millions of dollars to support these causes”

Millions of dollars the league did generate that’s for sure. The WNBA is the perfect model of socialism. They only survive with other people’s money. Shame these other people are willing to give it to them. Corporations, what don’t they know?


9 posted on 03/02/2024 1:25:46 PM PST by DAC21
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To: DallasBiff

If you consider “progress” to be supporting woke causes, your reporting in more woke than the people you’re reporting.


10 posted on 03/02/2024 1:25:50 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. A)
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To: DallasBiff

Figured NHL would rank as the least Woke.


13 posted on 03/02/2024 1:38:07 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: DallasBiff

NBA, MLS, NFL, MLB, NHL, in that order. The commissioner of MLB is more work than the one that runs the NFL. However, the NFL had problems with national anthem protests and you didn’t see that in MLB. Plus MLB players tend to be more conservative than NFL even though you have a minority of NFL players who are conservative.


14 posted on 03/02/2024 1:39:27 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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...and it has been a leader in the fight for equal pay for women athletes.

LOL! If no one watches your games, and no one attends, and the only coverage you get is from a network that broadcasts your games and therefore has a vested interest in your games, and the only way you financially survive is from subsidies from the companion men's league.... why should you receive equal pay? And equal to what?!

P.S. I notice ESPN is now pushing women's soccer, in the form of the NWSL. How many viewers will they draw? In the hundreds I imagine.

16 posted on 03/02/2024 1:40:19 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: DallasBiff

Tennis went woke long before these other sports, resulting in the collapse of men’s tennis in the US.


27 posted on 03/02/2024 2:12:21 PM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: DallasBiff

Woke means psychopath.


30 posted on 03/02/2024 2:22:33 PM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: DallasBiff

No trans, not woke enough for me.

I’m not sure how the highest profile pro women’s league has managed to doge the trans circus-I’m starting to think it is very suspicious.

I did enjoy the up is down replies about the NBA.

Yea absent China, the NBA would be destitute! It’s akin to Trump is Russia.


44 posted on 03/02/2024 3:38:01 PM PST by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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To: DallasBiff

The NFL is 5th? I’ll call BS on that! The last is NHL however, it isn’t non-woke. WNBA is very woke. The Mohegan Tribe owns the WNBA Connecticut Sun.


60 posted on 03/02/2024 7:29:47 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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