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2019 Sportsperson of the Year: Megan Rapinoe
Sports Illustrated ^ | 12-09-2019 | Jenny Vrentas

Posted on 12/09/2019 12:55:01 PM PST by Responsibility2nd

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Megan Rapinoe is Sports Illustrated’s Sportsperson of the Year. She is just the fourth woman in the award’s 66-year history to win it unaccompanied, a feat that is both a remarkable athletic achievement and a reflection of entrenched gender biases. Rapinoe challenged perceptions of her, of female athletes, of all women. She led her teammates, three months before their tentpole tournament, to sue the U.S. Soccer Federation for equal pay; to declare in advance that they would not visit the White House when they won the Cup; to score 13 goals in a group-stage match against Thailand, without apology.

As for The Pose? “It was kind of like a ‘F--- you,’ but with a big smile and a s--- eating grin,” Rapinoe says. “You are not going to steal any of our joy.”

(Excerpt) Read more at si.com ...


TOPICS: Sports
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To: ml/nj

I thought they would go retro..and site the golf and B-ball skills of Barry Obama...


41 posted on 12/09/2019 2:27:19 PM PST by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: 1Old Pro
SI is known for one thing, and it ain't sports.

Even in that, they have devolved from Paulina Porizkova type women, to, so I read, obese chubbos.

Transvestites will be next.

42 posted on 12/09/2019 2:31:28 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - T Jefferson)
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To: Responsibility2nd

They should’ve give it to that little high school soccer team that beat her and her other lezzies a$$e$ in that game...


43 posted on 12/09/2019 2:36:44 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Responsibility2nd

You would think that one criteria for being the “Sportsperson” of the year would be being a “good sport”, not a stuck-up glory-seeker who thinks a team victory belongs to her personally.


44 posted on 12/09/2019 2:39:38 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Well, she did more than most to burst the bubble of “72%”, by making everybody focus on how if you play half the games, and draw 1/10th the crowds, and bring in 1/20th of the money, as the males doing the same job, you are not actually “doing the same job”.


45 posted on 12/09/2019 2:41:06 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: montag813
We've gone from Lou Gehrig, Ted Williams, Arnold Palmer, Reggie White, Chris Evert to this piece of trash.

The award or the magazine? Probably both!

46 posted on 12/09/2019 2:42:04 PM PST by ssaftler ("Congressman Schiff, have you no shame?")
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To: doorgunner69

No doubt. Get woke go broke.


47 posted on 12/09/2019 2:43:57 PM PST by ThreeYearLurker
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To: Responsibility2nd

Glad I dropped this POS magazine a long long time ago.


48 posted on 12/09/2019 2:50:30 PM PST by vpintheak (Leftists are full of "Love, peace" and bovine squeeze.)
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To: vpintheak

I never subscribed to SI. But I will admit to having a Rolling Stone subscription some 35 years ago.

Just don’t tell anyone I said this.


49 posted on 12/09/2019 3:08:18 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

The rest of the players, coaches, parents of players get ZERO platform/amplification. Any dictator, tyrant, totalitarian would die for this support.


50 posted on 12/09/2019 4:00:04 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Choose an America hating, no class, pink haired lezzie.

Plus man-hating arrogant beyotch with a nasty attitude.

51 posted on 12/09/2019 4:12:10 PM PST by Boomer (Epstein didn't kill himself...)
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To: 1Old Pro

The second letter is an “l”, not a “h”...


52 posted on 12/09/2019 4:34:32 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Responsibility2nd

What a shocker! (Not)


53 posted on 12/09/2019 6:15:38 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: Responsibility2nd
October 3, 2019:

Sports Illustrated Makes Massive Staff Cuts Four Months After Sale To Authentic Brands

54 posted on 12/09/2019 8:01:19 PM PST by TChad
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To: Responsibility2nd

One more reason to NOT read SI.


55 posted on 12/10/2019 5:50:02 AM PST by RoadieFan
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