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“The Boss” is back. The video player is currently playing an ad. It was announced early Wednesday morning that music legend Bruce Springsteen has returned to the E-Street band and launched his 2024 tour. This is great news for everybody, unless you are former U.S. Women’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe and had no desire to start trending on X. Once again, social media did not miss. — T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) March 20, 2024 Rapinoe was a large part of the 2012 U.S. Women’s National team at the Summer Olympics in London, the 2015 FIFA U.S. Women’s World Cup team,...

ESPN was bashed for an homage to US women’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe shortly after the team was bounced from the World Cup. The sports network ran a three-minute segment narrated by Rapinoe’s fiancee, WNBA legend Sue Bird, on Sunday morning that paid tribute to the soccer star’s 20-year career. The tribute, titled “Unapologetically Rapinoe,” so soon after the two-time defending champs’ stunning defeat to Sweden in the the quarterfinals — in which Rapinoe missed a key penalty kick — didn’t sit well with Clay Travis, a sports journalist and founder of Outkick, a sports-focused news site. “Here’s how ESPN...

Jason Whitlock: "Title IX is one of the greatest hustles in the history of pimping. Iceberg ‘Kims’ convinced a U.S President and the 92nd Congress to mandate that billions of dollars be siphoned away from boys and invested in creating female jocks. It didn't matter that girls are far less likely to be interested in competitive sports, or that participation in competitive sports worked against women's supernatural reproductive powers. The American government has spent 50 years and trillions of dollars creating hardcore female jocks. We owed that to women because the government previously spent billions convincing men to take an...

President Trump actually predicted the demise of the U.S. Women’s Soccer team – warning that wokeness was not a winning formula. “Woke politics takes the life and joy out of everything. Woke-ism makes you lose, ruins your mind and ruins you as a person. You become warped. You become demented​,” he said in 2021 during the speech to the Turning Point Action​ political action committee in Phoenix.​​ Trump was right. The soccer team was eliminated from the World Cup – one of their worst losses since they were beaten by that group of 15-year-old boys in 2017. There was no...

Former President Trump knocked the “woke” U.S. women’s soccer team after its loss in the round of 16 of the Women’s World Cup over the weekend. “The ‘shocking and totally unexpected’ loss by the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team to Sweden is fully emblematic of what is happening to the our once great Nation under Crooked Joe Biden,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on Sunday evening. “Many of our players were openly hostile to America – No other country behaved in such a manner, or even close. WOKE EQUALS FAILURE. Nice shot Megan, the USA is going to...

It was not the ending Megan Rapinoe had planned. She went so far as to call it "dark comedy" and a "sick joke", such was her dismay. After 17 years of putting herself on the line for the Stars and Stripes, the two-time Women's World Cup winner was in tears as she departed the global stage for the final time. On Rapinoe's 202nd appearance for the USA, the defending world champions dramatically lost 5-4 on penalties to Sweden after a last-16 goalless draw in Melbourne. Rapinoe, 38, ranks among the most successful players of her generation and announced before the...

The United States has crashed out of the Women's World Cup after losing a dramatic penalty shootout against Sweden. The Americans created most of the chances during the match – but were foiled at key moments by Swedish goalkeeper Zećira Mušović, who made crucial stops against Lindsey Horan and Alex Morgan. The Swedes will play Japan in the Women’s World Cup quarterfinals on Friday.

Megan Rapinoe has been accused of leading the US team's snub of the national anthem ©Getty Images Megan Rapinoe has been accused of leading a "shameful" snub of the American national anthem at the FIFA Women's World Cup which is currently being held in Australia and New Zealand. The majority of the defending champions' line-up has refused to sing the anthem in their group stage matches against Vietnam, The Netherlands, and Portugal. "Megan Rapinoe, she's the leader of all this," journalist Megyn Kelly said on her eponymous podcast. "She's not a starter. "So that's why she's not on camera when...

The U.S. women's soccer team stared ahead in silence while "The Star Spangled Banner" played through. Most of the U.S. players were silent with their fists behind their backs

JUNE 11: Megan Rapinoe sings to her partner Sue Bird during Bird's jersey retirement ceremony after the game between the Seattle Storm and the Washington Mystics at Climate Pledge Arena on June 11, 2023 in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images) Legendary United States women's soccer player Megan Rapinoe believes comedian Dave Chappelle is partially to blame for violence against transgender people. Chappelle has joked about the transgender community in the past. Rapinoe believes this has led to dangerous times. “I don’t want to mince words about it. Dave Chappelle making jokes about trans people directly leads to violence,...

U.S. soccer legend Megan Rapinoe announced on Saturday that she will retire following the FIFA Women’s World Cup and after the end of the NWSL season. Rapinoe is one of the most decorated athletes in American soccer history, with two World Cup titles, an Olympic gold medal and a Ballon d’Or to her name

The wokest of all U.S. national sports teams just got a little less woke. U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT) head coach Vlatko Andonovski has called up a roster that features youth and players the team will rely on in the future. It does not, however, feature noted USWNT anthem-protester Megan Rapinoe.