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ESPN host Sam Ponder has been fired by left-wing sports network ESPN after speaking out about the unfairness of biological males competing in women’s sports. The network, which is owned by The Walt Disney Company, claimed they fired Ponder, along with Robert Griffin III, due to “financial reasons.”

Sam Ponder, who is also known as Samantha Ponder, is a well-known American sportscaster and host of Sunday NFL Countdown on ESPN. She has found herself embroiled in a heated debate surrounding women's sports. With her extensive experience as a reporter and host, Ponder has made significant contributions to ESPN, including her roles in ESPN college football and as a basketball sideline reporter. However, Ponder's recent involvement in the discussion surrounding transgender athletes has sparked controversy. Defending young women who felt they were unfairly displaced from their sports rosters to make room for transgender women, Ponder took to Twitter to...

ESPN distributed new social media guidelines to its employees Thursday, which reinforced some existing rules about not breaking news exclusively on social media, respecting colleagues, and—oh wait, here’s a new thing: “Do nothing that would undercut your colleagues’ work or embroil the company in unwanted controversy.” The “unwanted” there is doing a lot of work. Unwanted for whom? The employee who feels so strongly about an issue, perhaps the direction his or her employer is going, that they use Twitter to provide their insight? Of course not. The controversies are “unwanted” for ESPN executives, who want to keep advertisers happy,...