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  • ESPN has built a culture of racism

    05/21/2025 3:40:09 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 17 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | May 21, 2025 | Zachary Faria
    ESPN has built a culture of racism at the network, leading its personalities to become some of the most toxic in all of media. The latest example of this comes from the latest Caitlin Clark nontroversy. In her first game of the season, Clark fouled Angel Reese, who flopped and then tried to start a confrontation. Clark was given a flagrant foul mostly due to Reese’s overreaction, as the foul was a typical foul you would see in any basketball game. Former ESPN personality Robert Griffin III said in the aftermath that Reese “hates” Clark, which is not a crazy...
  • JD Vance Gifts Pope Leo XIV Chicago Bears Jersey: ‘Good Choice’

    05/19/2025 7:42:54 PM PDT · by deks · 19 replies
    Breitbart ^ | May 19, 2025 | Olivia Rondeau
    Vice President JD Vance met with Pope Leo XIV on Monday and gave the Chicago-born pontiff a Bears football jersey inscribed with his title. Vance, a Catholic convert, brought along the present on his visit with the first American pope, who said, “Good choice,” as he accepted it. Video obtained by CBS News also shows the vice president handing Pope Leo XIV a letter from President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, inviting the new Catholic leader to the White House. “I know you have many things to do, but I wanted to make sure I gave you that...
  • High school female track star poses on first-place podium after finishing second to trans athlete: ‘Real champ!’

    05/20/2025 2:35:28 AM PDT · by Libloather · 52 replies
    NY Post ^ | 5/20/25 | Richard Pollina
    A California high school female athlete didn’t let coming in second to a male-born transgender competitor prevent her from standing in the top spot on the podium during placement at a state track and field meet. Reese Hogan, 16, was crowned second place in the triple jump at the CIF Southern Section Finals on Saturday — despite setting a new personal record for herself and the Crean Lutheran High School at 37 feet, 2 inches. Standing in first place, junior trans athlete AB Hernandez of Jurupa Valley, who won titles in the girls’ long jump and triple jump, posed with...
  • The Caitlin Clark-Angel Reese rivalry is becoming a mirror for American bigotry

    05/19/2025 1:29:29 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 76 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Mon 19 May 2025 | Stephanie Kaloi
    At first, it seemed that the Indiana Fever’s home win over Chicago Sky on Saturday would be just another spicy chapter in the rivalry between Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark. Both players were typically excellent: Clark spurred the Fever to victory with a triple-double, while Reese grabbed 17 rebounds to go with her 12 points. But it was a moment in the third quarter that WNBA fans will be talking about for weeks to come. Some of them may even do so without resorting to cheap bigotry. With 4:38 remaining, Clark reached for the ball over Reese’s head, made what...
  • When the boy got off the podium, she assumed her rightful spot as champion. The crowd erupts with applause.

    05/18/2025 1:15:06 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 12 replies
    X.com ^ | 3:02 PM · May 18, 2025 | Riley Gaines✓@Riley_Gaines_
    THIS is the way. Congrats to Reese Hogan, the REAL champ!!! Congratulations to Reese Hogan, the real champion in yesterday's triple jump at CIF Southern Section Finals.👏🏼 She set a new PR and school record.
  • Maine gov to receive human rights award amid battle with Trump admin on trans inclusion in girls' sport. (Janet Mills)

    05/18/2025 3:22:05 AM PDT · by Libloather · 50 replies
    Fox News ^ | 5/17/25 | Ryan Gaydos
    Maine Gov. Janet Mills will be one of the recipients of the Human Rights Award from the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization. A ceremony will be held next month. Mills will receive the award because of her battle with President Donald Trump’s administration over transgender athlete inclusion in women’s and girls’ sports. "I am honored to receive this recognition named for former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, a heroic champion for civil rights and the rule of law that governs our nation and inspires the world," Mills said in a news release. "Throughout my career as a District Attorney,...
  • Ex-Vikings player rips Minnesota AG as state sues Trump to keep trans athletes in girls sports

    05/17/2025 4:15:52 AM PDT · by Libloather · 40 replies
    Fox News ^ | 5/16/25 | Jackson Thompson
    Former Minnesota Vikings and University of Minnesota football player Jack Brewer shared a grievance with Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. The AG is waging a legal battle against President Donald Trump and the Department of Justice to ensure transgender athletes can continue participating in girls sports in the state. The state's ongoing defiance of Trump's executive order to keep girls sports female has resulted in a controversy involving a transgender pitcher who has dominated a girls softball season. "Clearly, Keith Ellison, the attorney general of Minnesota, has never played any major sports," Brewer told Fox News Digital. "It’s like he’s...
  • Trans athlete can't wait to trounce the girls at California state championship meet: "You gotta win now, you got to win"

    05/16/2025 6:20:32 AM PDT · by Bon of Babble · 59 replies
    Not the Bee ^ | 08/15/2025 | Hamilton Porter
    Just a dude who wants to show the world how he's faster, stronger, and better than the girls.
  • Having Fun Watching Football: The Joy Of A Beautiful Woman When Her Teammate Kicks A Goal

    05/15/2025 10:12:30 PM PDT · by Ozguy1945 · 21 replies
    I think that men and women should be treated as equal in everything except the three female spheres of activity of being pregnant, giving birth and breast feeding. But I think that there are subtle differences in abilities and tendencies between men and women such as a slight tendency for women to be more empathetic than men. Overall, empathy is also a very common quality in men, but my life experience has been to see a little more empathy in women than in men. To me there is an emotional beauty in the way that the Fitzroy footballer pictured in...
  • Hall Of Fame Ahead? MLB Removes Pete Rose, ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson, From Ineligible List

    05/14/2025 5:15:26 PM PDT · by Twotone · 21 replies
    The Daily Wire ^ | May 13, 2025 | Hank Berrien
    In a historic decision, Rob Manfred, the commissioner of Major League Baseball, announced on Tuesday that any punishment of people banned from the game ends with their deaths, leaving open the possibility that the legendary slugger “Shoeless” Joe Jackson and the all-time hits leader, Pete Rose, could be elected to the baseball Hall of fame. “Obviously, a person no longer with us cannot represent a threat to the integrity of the game. Moreover, it is hard to conceive of a penalty that has more deterrent effect than one that lasts a lifetime with no reprieve. … Therefore, I have concluded...
  • Dem Senate Candidates Running In ‘Toss-Up’ States Co-Sponsor Bill To Eliminate Women’s Sports

    05/11/2025 4:32:36 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 13 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | May 10, 2025 | Staff
    Two congressional Democrats seeking to win “toss-up” Senate contests in states won by President Donald Trump are co-sponsoring legislation that would eliminate female-only spaces and infringe on the right of girls and women to compete against only members of their own sex in sports. Democratic Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff and Democratic Michigan Rep. Haley Stevens, who voted against legislation to bar biological males from women’s sports earlier this year, are backing the Equality Act, a bill that would make “gender identity” a protected class under federal anti-discrimination law. The candidates’ decision to support the far-reaching legislation comes as Republicans accuse...
  • Boy wins girls HS track events in Maine; parents are both college professors

    05/11/2025 5:05:07 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 52 replies
    The College Fix ^ | May 10, 2025 | Staff
    OPINION: What are the chances? That thing that “never happens” happened yet again last week: A biological male competing against females won first place in two track events. It happened in (surprise!) Maine, which so far has held firm against President Trump’s executive order banning biological men from competing against women in interscholastic athletics. In what appears to have been a tri-meet, North Yarmouth Academy junior Soren Stark-Chessa won the girls 800 meter and 1600 meter (mile) runs, the latter by almost 20 seconds. As noted by Outkick, the 800 event was a closer race with Yarmouth High’s Lilah Connor...
  • “We Need Sex Screening” : Women’s Sports Watchdog Calls for Mandatory Sex Screening After Male Student Conceals Sex to Join Girls’ Softball Teams

    05/09/2025 3:04:42 PM PDT · by Morgana · 19 replies
    Reduxx ^ | April 30, 2025 | Anna Slatz
    Reduxx has learned that a trans-identified male high school student has been quietly participating in girls sports, earning accolades intended for young female athletes. Charlie Rothenberger, who now goes by “Marissa,” was transitioned by his parents at an extremely early age and is now drawing ire from his female teammates as more are becoming aware that he is biologically male. Rothenberger is a 17-year-old student at Champlin Park High School in Champlin, Minnesota. He currently plays as a starting pitcher for his girl’s high school fastpitch team, where he has been credited with helping the school dominate softball competitions. Earlier...
  • DOGE hearing on trans athletes in women's sports descends into chaos

    05/08/2025 1:27:23 AM PDT · by Libloather · 81 replies
    Fox News ^ | 5/07/25 | Jackson Thompson
    Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) Chairwoman Marjorie Taylor Greene got into screaming matches and a gavel-smashing marathon at Wednesday's hearing on protecting women's sports. The hearing on "Unfair Play: Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports" featured a signature rant by Rep. Nancy Mace, R-SC, and Rep. Lateefah Simon, D-Cal, suggest that protecting women's sports will lead to bringing back racial segregation. Mace ensured the hearing ended with a boom when she got into a heated back-and-forth with witness Fatima Goss Graves, CEO of the National Women's Law Center. Mace hit Goss Graves with one of the oldest tricks...
  • Cue the Leftist Meltdowns! HeCheated.org Is Compiling Data on Men In Women's Sports and It's MADDENING

    05/07/2025 8:02:26 AM PDT · by bitt · 15 replies
    https://twitchy.com ^ | May 06, 2025 | Amy Curtis
    The Left has decided that women and girls are truly second-class citizens these days, forcing them to take a back seat to delusional men who think they're women and allowing those men into female-only spaces and sports. It's an offensive and unpopular position. But the Left clings to it like the last life raft off the Titanic, and they're harming a lot of girls and women in the process. Someone finally created a database of all the males competing in girls' sports and it's worse than we imagined: https://x.com/ifihadastick/status/1919743952514629743 @ifihadastick No one was tracking how often males are competing in...
  • There Will Be Boundaries

    05/05/2025 3:06:51 PM PDT · by little jeremiah · 15 replies
    Clusterf**k Nation ^ | May 5, 2025 | James Howard Kunstler
    It’s vain and futile to suppose that the disordered minds of Western Civ’s entrenched Wokester Jacobins might ever be subject to polite persuasion about anything they believe. They believe only in the power of pushing their fellow citizens around, and so, alas, the only persuasion that might conceivably work to stop their infantile assaults on liberty, truth, and decency is to push back harder until they suffer and break.This is something that most parents with young children instinctively understand. You don’t negotiate with two-year-olds. You tell them how things are and what sort of behavior is required of them, as...
  • Micro wrestling show draws sold-out crowd and controversy in Colorado Springs

    05/05/2025 11:57:15 AM PDT · by dynachrome · 30 replies
    KRDO ^ | 5-2-25 | Paige Reynolds
    A unique wrestling show featuring a troupe of little people is drawing big crowds across the country and they made a stop Friday night at the Buzzed Crow Bistro in Colorado Springs. While the performers say it's all in the name of fun, others strongly disagree. The group behind the event has been touring the country for over a decade, marketing itself as a form of professional wrestling entertainment. DJ TooTall, a former wrestler and current team member, told KRDO13 the show is a way to bring joy to people and to showcase their talents. "We do it so people...
  • Caitlin Clark's new Indiana Fever teammate gets brutally shoved to the ground twice

    05/04/2025 5:11:12 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 52 replies
    The Daily Mail ^ | 03 May 2025 | JAKE FENNER
    Indiana Fever star Sophie Cunningham was on the receiving end of some brutal treatment by the Washington Mystics in the first preseason game of her WNBA season. The Fever played without star Caitlin Clark, who was absent due to a minor injury that was described as 'a little tightness' in her left leg. So it was Cunningham that led the way for Indiana. However, she didn't do so without a bit of bruising. In the second quarter, Cunningham was fighting for a rebound with Mystics rookie Kiki Iriafen. Iriafen had her arm wrapped around Cunningham's torso and then flung her...
  • Name your favorite network sports theme song growing up: The NBA ON CBS 1970s. A good one I think.

    05/02/2025 6:14:33 AM PDT · by vespa300 · 99 replies
    Give it all you got take your very best shot, and may the best team win, the time is now, the name of the game is action......
  • Premier League Winners Liverpool Set To Be Punished by UK’s Football Association After Player Displays ‘I Belong to Jesus’ Shirt When Scoring a Goal in the Final Game (VIDEO)

    04/29/2025 12:09:27 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 17 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | April 29, 2025 | Paul Serran
    It’s not usual that we see a soccer player score two goals at once. And that’s just what happened in the British Premier League, in the match where champions Liverpool massacred Tottenham Hotspur by 5-1. Dutch forward Cody Gakpo scored Liverpool’s third goal in the final match, and proceeded to reveal his undershirt with the words ‘I belong to Jesus’ were visible to millions watching the match around the world – and even greater ‘goal’. Of course, the United Kingdom being as is, Liverpool is set to be reprimanded by the Football Association (FA) for Gakpo’s actions. The Telegraph reported:...