"Publicly funded sports stadiums are like crack cocaine to local politicians and business bigwigs.  These folks are just like addicts:  They deceive everyone around them for the sake of a fix and rarely take no for an answer when voters decline to subsidize their schemes."

— Michael W. Lynch, Reason Magazine *      

NFL fans 'cause earthquake' during game in Seattle.  So loud were the fans during their side's 34-7 victory that they measured between a magnitude 1 and 2 earthquake.  Fans of the Seahawks are growing a reputation for their ear popping shows of support.  In 2011, the fans were picked up by a nearby seismic recording station while earlier this year, CenturyLink Field entered the Guinness Book of World Records for the noise created.

This isn't going to help:
Jacksonville Jaguars Offer Fans Free Beer To Buy Tickets.  The winless Jacksonville Jaguars have released their own strategy to increase ticket attendance to this week's game and prevent a blackout: free beer.

You step out of line, the man comes and takes you away.
Seattle cops to don opponents' jerseys.  The Seahawks announced Wednesday that undercover law-enforcement officers will wear opposing team jerseys at games this season in an effort to quickly detect fans exhibiting unruly and inconsiderate behavior.

Ravens fans celebrate Super Bowl win by car tipping and looting a Baltimore 7-11.  But AP told us there were no reports of "disturbances" after the Ravens' Super Bowl win.  Once again, Twitter has the news first.

Police in riot gear stop brawl among parents at kids' football game.  Police in riot gear flooded the field of a youth football game in Southern California to stop a brawl that involved dozens and possibly hundreds of adult spectators.

Imane Khelif is a biological man, new 'leaked' report claims.  New calls for Olympics gender row boxer Imane Khelif to be stripped of her [sic] gold medal have emerged after a 'leaked' report claimed she [sic] is a biological man.  Khelif and Taiwan boxer Lin Yu-ting were at the centre of a 'gender row' controversy at the Olympics after both were given the green light to compete despite failing gender eligibility tests at last year's world championships.  Both boxers shrugged off criticism and went all the way to winning top Olympic gongs in their respective weight categories as their participation was defended by IOC president Thomas Bach.

Leaked Reports Confirms That Manly Looking Algerian Woman Who [Defeated] All The Other Women In The Olympics Is Actually A Man.  The gender identification of Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer who just won the Olympics gold medal, has come under scrutiny due to a leaked medical report.  Experts from the Kremlin-Bicêtre Hospital in Paris and the Mohamed Lamine Debaghine Hospital in Algiers drafted the report in June 2023. The report describes Khelif's biological traits, such as the existence of internal testicles and the lack of a uterus.  Additionally, an MRI revealed the presence of a micropenis, as reported by Redux.  In a surprising turn of events, the gender identification of Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer who just won gold in women's boxing at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, has come under scrutiny due to a leaked medical report.  According to the document, which French journalist Djaffar Ait Aoudia was able to secure, Khelif has internal testicles and XY chromosomes, hinting at a disorder called 5-alpha reductase insufficiency.  [Video clip]

The Editor says...
Ordinarily, one would expect that a one-in-a-million freak of nature would keep to himself and stay out of the spotlight, but this guy insisted on being an international boxing star, and with the fame comes the scrutiny.

Stealing Women's Medals.  Both Imane Khelif (25) of Algeria and Lin Yu-Ting (28) of Taiwan competed in the 2021* Tokyo Olympic Games, but this year's appearance was after the International Boxing Association (IBA) had barred them from competing against women on the grounds that tests had confirmed that both athletes are not female.  The IBA reports, based upon two tests in Istanbul 2022 and in New Delhi in 2023, that not only did both have very high testosterone levels, but they have XY chromosomes, making them genetically male and functionally more akin to men than women.  Given that neither athlete successfully appealed the decision (Khelif began the appeal process but withdrew it), the decision was legally binding.  Therefore, it's safe to assume, as famed biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins does, that "genetically male boxers such as Imane Khalif (XY undisputed) should not fight women in the Olympics."  Dawkins says that his Facebook account was deleted for having made this entirely reasonable observation publicly.

International Olympic Committee President Says Chromosomes Don't Determine Sex: 'Not True Anymore'.  The president of the Olympics's governing body no longer believes in basic human biology when it comes to determining a person's biological sex, a testament to the influence of progressive gender ideology across many major institutions.  International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach suggested during a press conference Friday that identifying people's biological sex based on their chromosomes is outdated.  His comments came in response to a question about the recent controversy over two boxers competing in the women's division after failing sex-identification tests administered by an outside sports body last year.  "This is not a question of inclusion... this is a question of justice," Bach said in response to a question about whether inclusion is being prioritized over women's safety.

Olympic Punchline.  It takes courage to make a stand publicly about one's private opinion.  Martina Navratilova, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk embody this.  All weighed in last week on the controversy surrounding the boxing match between Olympians Imane Khelif of Algeria and Angela Carini of Italy.  The bout lasted only 46 seconds after the Algerian landed a blow to the face of the Italian.  The latter, in apparent severe pain, threw down her helmet and cried out — "this is unjust."  Under normal circumstances that should have been the end of it.  But we are all still talking about it today.  The Algerian boxer was born male, the Italian female.  And that is where the controversy began and remains.  The three notables mentioned above claim an injustice has been committed by the IOC and on the person of Angela Carini, the Italian competitor.  And while the IOC is claiming innocence, our three celebs are suggesting more testing is needed (DNA, testosterone etc.) to ensure fairness in competition, and this just to determine who is and who is not female.  Tests may not be the answer, but genetics is.

China Pulls Olympic Broadcast After Taiwanese Team Nabs Gold.  Chinese state television shut down a live broadcast of the 2024 Summer Olympics Sunday after the Taiwanese team beat China in the men's doubles.  Taiwan took home the gold medal during the men's doubles, who play under Chinese Taipei, on Sunday with Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin beating Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang, according to Radio Free Asia (RFA).  China still took home silver in the event but state media CCTV cut the broadcast to omit the parts of the match where Taiwan were clearly winning.  The medal ceremony and audience celebrations were also axed from the airwaves, according to the report.  In total, only 40 minutes of the 76-minute match were shown to Chinese state viewers.  [Tweet with video clip]

Six Christians Arrested in Paris for Driving a Bus Around That Said 'Stop the Attacks on Christians'.  According to Citizen GO, 6 of their team members were forced to spend the night in jail for denouncing the Olympic opening ceremony.  Three women were forced to undress so police could "look for drugs" according to Carolina Farrow.  The arrests come as CitizenGo has gathered 380,000 signatures demanding the International Olympic Committee issue an apology for the opening ceremony.  French authorities reportedly demanded that they remove the messaging from the side of the bus.  [Video clip]

We Now Have Answers About Testing Done on Olympic Boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting.  Algerian boxer Imane Khelif gave an interview Sunday night [8/4/2024] urging folks to not bully Olympic athletes online, but her [sic] compassion was completely misplaced — it focused solely on her [sic], not the women she [sic] and fellow alleged XY-chromosome holder Lin Yu-Ting have physically bullied over the past week, women whose lifelong dreams were shattered. [...] Thanks to a Monday press conference held by the IBA we know at least a few tests Khelif has undergone, and that while the organization couldn't come right out and say it due to privacy laws, that those tests show she [sic] has XY chromosomes.  That should clear up some misconceptions.

The Editor says...
A person with XY chromosomes is a man.  A man pretending to be a woman is a transvestite, not a woman.

The New Olympic Sport:  Woman Beating.  The Olympics went dark in the 4th century A.D. until the first modern games in Athens in 1896.  Over the next hundred-plus years, winter games were added, professional athletes were allowed to participate, the number of sports expanded (who knew break dancing and skateboarding would now be Olympic sports?), and politics had an increasing presence in the games to the point that they are now eclipsing the athletic events.  The Paris 2024 Olympics, instead of featuring an opening ceremony celebrating the home country of France, offered an anti-Christian, LGBTQ smorgasbord depiction of The Last Supper featuring a drag queen defending the offensive show as, "a multifaceted, multiethnic France with people of different ethnicities and orientations."

A Swim in the Sewer.  Unlike many competitions of the past, I have watched very little of the Olympics this year because I will not reward broadcasting stations with my viewership that would in any way count in their ratings.  This is my boycott.  I am not boycotting the athletes — they deserve their places there, competing against fellow international athletes (of the same gender, where appropriate), and to show their talent on the world stage.  I am boycotting NBC and any other live media outlet that can report back to the IOC how many people are watching.  Athletes like those fighting for their medals at the Olympics would do so without any media coverage at all, because that's just who true athletes are.  They are not actors that feed on a fawning audience.

Vox: If You Oppose Men Beating Up Women, You're A Nazi.  If you, like the majority of Americans, oppose men infiltrating and dominating women's sports competitions, you might be falling for Nazi propaganda.  At least, that's what Vox's latest article "Discrimination against trans Olympians has roots in Nazi Germany" implies.  Since the beginning of time, humans have recognized the fundamental differences between men and women.  In recent years, the widely recognized distinctions between the sexes, however, have suffered attacks from a radical ideology that prioritizes the wishes of gender-bending men ahead of women and their protected spaces.  There is no doubt that males have an indisputable physical advantage over women.  The American College of Sports Medicine says males "are stronger, more powerful, and faster than females of similar age and training status" which is why a whopping 69 percent of Americans are against letting males play on female teams.  According to Vox, however, anyone who counts themselves among the percentage of people who value the importance of preserving women's sports is drawing on a narrative created by Nazis.

A Gold Medal for the Marquis de Sade.  In view of the ideals the Olympics is supposed to represent, it was a great shock to millions of people who watched the opening ceremony of this year's Olympics to see an actor's body dished up as if a meal.  The human served up on a domed silver platter was presented as if he were a piece of rancid and decaying meat to be devoured in a quasi-cannibalistic rite.  The bloated, blue, corpselike entity's writhing suggested a swinish sexuality as well as a decayed spiritual and emotional life — the exact opposite of the celebration of the human body.  Certainly, the actor's puffy body was the antithesis of the Greek ideals that inspired the reintroduction of the games by visionary Frenchman Pierre de Coubertin.  The ceremony managed to achieve a twofer, mocking both the Greek ideal of the human form and the Christian belief in the beauty and sacredness of the human body, particularly the body of Christ as represented in the Last Supper.  The entire spectacle also was meant to be [...] an ugly and vicious parody of Leonardo da Vinci's sublime painting, "The Last Supper."  It mocked the beauty of Christ's sacrifice, distorting the sublimity of his expression and even his identity as the Son of Man.  A porcine persona of indeterminate sex was substituted for Christ's divine image.

More on the Male Olympic Boxer Knocking Out First Female Opponent in Under a Minute.  Unfortunately, the fight was allowed to proceed and Imane Khelif was matched up against female Italian boxer Angela Carini.  As predicted by many, including yours truly, the fight didn't even last one minute into the first round.  The referee declared a technical knockout after 46 seconds.  Kheif came out and hit Carini so hard that her headgear was dislodged by the first blow.  The second sent her to her knees.  She could be seen crying after the results were declared, saying that she had never been hit so hard in her life.  Somehow Kheif was still awarded the victory and recorded his first "win" in Olympic women's boxing.

Italian Female Boxer Lasts Just 46 Seconds Against Fighter Who Failed Gender Test.  Forty-six seconds.  That was the sum total of time a female Italian boxer lasted in the ring at the Paris Olympics before she retired from a bout against an Algerian fighter caught in an eligibility furore.  Twenty-five-year-old Imane Khelif was cleared to compete at the 2024 Olympics, even after being disqualified from the International Boxing Association (IBA) 2023 World Boxing Championships for failing gender-eligibility tests, according to Fox News.  The International Olympic Committee, which uses different criteria to determine eligibility, ruled Khelif eligible to compete.

Algerian boxer in Olympic gender row wins in 46 seconds.  Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who failed a gender eligibility test last year, won her opening bout at the Paris Olympics in just 46 seconds on Thursday against her distraught opponent.  Khelif advanced to the quarterfinals of the women's 66 kg category after unloading two strong punches on Angela Carini, who shrugged off attempts by the Algerian to shake her hand and collapsed to her knees in floods of tears.  An Italian coach said Carini had suffered a badly hurt nose and the official decision was listed as an abandonment.  Khelif and Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting, who fights on Friday at 57kg, were disqualified from the world championships last year but deemed eligible to box in the women's competition in Paris.

Cultural Decay Can Hardly Go Further.  The opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics was bad enough, with the nation joyfully celebrating its decline into sub-mediocrity and bureaucratic incompetence, where people wait two years for routine surgeries.  The ceremony this weekend in Paris was far worse.  It could have been designed by the propaganda department of Islamic State.  Apart from the generalized vulgarity of it, by comparison with which King Farouk had the taste of Lorenzo the Magnificent, the parody of the Last Supper by transvestites and others would have been more than enough to convince any Islamist that the West was a fruit ripe for the plucking, and many an ordinary Muslim that Islam, at least, should not, and probably could not, descend to this.

Associated Press Celebrates Trans-Infused Olympics Opening Ceremony as 'Unprecedented Display of Inclusivity'.  After the exercise in debauchery seen in the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics, the Associated Press raced to praise the transgender-infused program.  The AP was agog over the program created by gay French artist Thomas Jolly.  Aside from the scores of obviously gay dancers, the large number of transgenders, and the dance scene suggesting a bisexual three-some sex encounter, Jolly was also condemned for a gross parody of the famed "Last Supper" painting that depicts the last time Jesus Christ met with his disciples.  Despite the widespread criticism of the bacchanalia of the opening ceremony's dance and fashion program, the AP was ebullient over the display.

NBC faces FCC complaint over airing 'obscene' Olympics Last Supper parody.  The legal watchdog Judicial Watch filed a complaint on Monday with the Federal Communications Commission against NBC for airing an "obscene and indecent" Olympic opening ceremony skit that some say mocked the Last Supper.  The group said the skit included a man exposing himself during the ceremony watched by millions, including children.  The French Catholic Church hit the opening ceremonies because they "included scenes of derision and mockery of Christianity."  "NBC and its various stations/outlets on TV, cable and internet carried (and continues to make available) the Olympics Opening Ceremony on July 26, which included an adult male purposefully exposing (himself) in the presence of a child/children.  This content is both obscene and indecent and, to make matters worse, it was aired during viewing hours when it was likely seen by millions of children and minors," the complaint said.

You'll Never Work in This Town Again!  [Scroll down]  Many complained that the show portrayed Christianity in a less than favorable light.  Ya think?  The next day, the Paris-24 organizing committee offered the world an apology of sorts.  Spokesperson Anne Descamps explained that the idea was "to celebrate community tolerance."  Or, shall we say, to test it?  Apparently, it flunked the test.  Director of the extravaganza, Thomas Jolly, said (translation), "Our intention was never to be impertinent."  Of course, he lies, and of course it is the foundational premise of those in the Satanic fold to lie about everything. (Just as America's Democratic Party lies about everything.)  Within hours, sponsors revolted and pulled their support for the games altogether.

S. Korean swimmers forced to vacate Paris Olympic Village: 'Non-air-conditioned bus' a 'sauna' — 'Cooler outside than inside the bus'.  South Korea's swimming stars have had enough of the Olympic Village and are making a splash by leaving it entirely.  French authorities have emphasized their efforts to make the Games more sustainable, saying, "We have looked to reduce everything that can be reduced, for Games that emit less carbon and consume fewer resources."  While this eco-friendly approach is admirable, it seems the athletes are paying the price for it at the behest of their comfort.  According to Reuters, six South Korean swimmers were forced to vacate the Olympic Village.  Swimmers Kim Woomin and Hwang Sunwoo are among those who have complained about the stuffy conditions on buses due to taped windows, and lack of air-conditioning.

"Pride Month" never ends.
The 2024 Olympics Turns into Demonic Pride Parade.  France unveiled a decidedly family-unfriendly spectacle last Saturday for over 28.6 million viewers worldwide as the four-hour opening ceremony for the 2024 Olympics, which unfolded along a 4.5 mile stretch of the River Seine in Paris, turned into the world's most-watched Pride Parade.  Because Western cultural elites today are overwhelmingly cultural Marxists, the organizers of the 2800-year-old athletic competition decided to jettison any connection with sports, athletic excellence, or national pride, and instead promote the normalization of sexual perversion, gender ideology, and anti-Christian bigotry.  As always with Pride parades, the celebration of sexual libertinism, masked as "love" and "tolerance," was the order of the day.  The show featured the provocative dancing of scantily-clad, apparently non-binary performers.  Polyamorists, transgender models, and bearded drag queens abounded.

Bishop Barron: 'Apology' by Paris Olympics a 'Masterpiece of Woke Duplicity'.  What's the only thing worse than no apology at all?  A so-called apology that blames people for taking offense.  Offering up a lie to gaslight the offended makes it even worse.  American political figures often offer these "I'm sorry you were offended by my brilliance" non-apologies and end up making matters worse, although these days they don't tend to give a hoot one way or the other.  If you missed this example of typical hard-Left elitist sneering at the normies, here's one report on it from over the weekend:  [Video clip]

Two "Female Boxers" Set To Compete At Paris 2024 Were Previously Disqualified From Women's World Championship For Having "XY Chromosomes".  Two athletes competing at the Paris Olympics as "women" were previously disqualified from a women's world championship for having "XY chromosomes."  Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan are scheduled to compete in Olympic women's boxing next week despite past questions surrounding their biological sex.  The Women's World Boxing Championships took place in March of 2023 and was hosted in New Delhi, India.  A total of 324 boxers from 64 nations competed during the 10-day trial, marking the largest participation in any iteration of the championship ever recorded.  However, the grand event was marred by controversy after Umar Kremlev, president of the International Boxing Association (IBA), announced the disqualification of multiple boxers from the championship.

Apparently they're baffled.  How could this be?
Financial cause for concern?  Some 600,000 Paris Olympics tickets unsold.  The Paris Olympics opening ceremony is nearly upon us yet more than a quarter of a million tickets are still available as fans react to ticket prices.  The number of unsold tickets for the Paris Olympics has raised concern about the financial impact it will have on organisers of the event, with some 600,000 tickets reportedly still up for grabs.  An original analysis done by the Financial Times shows listings on resale sites rose to 270,465 on Monday 22 July, a jump from 180,000 a month ago.  The most expensive tickets cost €2,970 with fans on social media also expressing outrage at the prices.

Here's one explanation:
Gayest Olympics Ever.  From the moment that the 2024 Paris Olympics launched its opening ceremony with an elaborate street dance scene, it became clear that pushing the LGBTQ agenda was at the top of the program with a sequence that made the opening the "gayest opening ceremony ever."  The opening dance number featured women flung around on poles as rain fell on the ceremonies.  Others danced in the streets, including men lovingly embracing each other as they cavorted onto one of the many bridges across the Seine River in Paris.  However, one of the prerecorded dance segments was even more explicitly LGBT, as three dancers in gender-ambiguous costumes ran through the streets of Paris and into a building.  Their segment ended with the three — two males and one female — nearing each other in dramatic kisses, then entering a room to further their amorous acts.

The Editor says...
This would have been an ideal moment for the earth to open up and swallow a large part of Paris.  God is patient and merciful, but he won't be forever.  What does a blasphemous obese transvestite have to do with athletic competition anyway?

Every day is Halloween in Lefty World.
Apparent drag 'parody of Last Supper' at Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony sparks controversy.  A crew of drag queens and dancers performed an apparent "parody of the Last Supper" at the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony Friday, drawing intense criticism across social media.  "This is crazy.  Opening your event by replacing Jesus and the disciples at the Last Supper with men in drag," Clint Russel, the host of the Liberty Lockdown podcast, fumed on X.  "There are 2.4 billion Christians on earth and apparently the Olympics wanted to declare loudly to all of them, right out of the gate NOT WELCOME," said Russel.

Daily Caller Columnist Mary Rooke Slams Olympics Opening Ceremony.  Daily Caller columnist Mary Rooke criticized the Olympics opening ceremony during a Friday appearance on [Newsmax].  In a scathing critique of the 2024 Olympics opening ceremony, Rooke voiced concerns that the event represented a broader cultural shift away from Western traditional values.  Rooke's commentary highlighted what she perceives to be a deliberate exclusion of Christians and traditionalists from the cultural narrative.  [Tweet]  "Yeah, you're literally watching the fall of the West right now.  That's what we're watching.  It's like it's the minority standing up and going, 'Christians, traditionalists, you're not welcome here,'" Rooke told [Carl] Higbie.

Olympics Opening Ceremony Features Dancing Drag Queens And Bizarre Symbology.  Several X accounts that posted videos and/or screenshots about the absurdities of the Olympics' opening ceremonies have been hit with Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) complaints enforced by Elon Musk's social media platform. [...] "They're now targeting anyone who dared to complain about the blasphemous woke agenda during the @Olympics opening ceremony," X user Dr. Simon Goddek wrote. [...] Another X user said, "Lots of DMCA takedowns of Olympic opening ceremony footage.  Weird, it's almost like they don't want you to see it now." [...] As we penned earlier, the opening ceremonies were just absolutely bizarre — and, in some cases, inappropriate for children to watch.

Blasphemous depiction of Last Supper at Olympic ceremony sparks outrage.  A growing number of prominent public figures are rebuking the opening ceremonies of the 2024 Olympic Games in France for featuring drag queens and demonic-looking figures that carried out a grotesque parody of the Last Supper.  The ceremony was conducted in Paris on Friday night amid light rain.  The games are being held in the country despite a surging migrant problem that has resulted in the government bussing homeless people out of Paris to temporary lodging in the city's outskirts until the games conclude on August 11.

Would They've Dared Mock Islam in a Similar Way?  The bishop of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, who is one of the most Catholic media voices, called out the theatrical opening of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris for mocking Christianity and the Last Supper, and asked if the Olympic organizers would consider insulting the Muslim faith.  "A question I would pose — we all know the answer to it:  'Would they ever have dared mock Islam in a similar way?'" asked Bishop Robert E. Barron, who is also the founder of the "Word on Fire" ministry, in an X-post.  [Tweet with video clip]

France's high-speed rail network paralyzed by 'coordinated' arson attacks hours before start of Olympics.  France's high-speed rail network was hit Friday with widespread and "criminal" acts of vandalism including arson attacks, paralyzing travel to Paris from across the rest of France and Europe only hours before the grand opening ceremony of the Olympics.  French officials described the attacks as "criminal actions" and said they were investigating whether they were linked to the Olympic Games.  The disruptions as the world's eye was turning to Paris were expected to affect a quarter of a million people alone on Friday and endure through the weekend, and possibly longer, officials said.

PETA urges Olympic Games to remove equestrian events.  A video of an English horsewoman beating a horse while training it four years ago has spurred PETA senior vice president Kathy Guillermo to demand the Olympics end equestrian competitions.  "The message to the International Olympic Committee should be clear by now:  Remove equestrian events from the Olympic Games," Guillermo said in an online statement Tuesday.

Who Cares About the Olympics in a World without Patriotism?  The Olympic Games return to Paris after a century's absence, yet there is little excitement in the air.  In Middle America, I really don't hear anybody talking about them.  Occasionally, some sports commercial reminds viewers about athletes whose names have largely been forgotten since their last appearance on the world stage.  A few Big Box stores are selling Olympic-themed t-shirts, toys, dog leashes, drink mugs, and other sundries.  Now and then, someone remarks that this would be a terrible time to visit the City of Light.  Besides the knickknacks and small talk, though, few seem to care.  The television ratings over the last several Olympics bear out this general apathy.  The well-produced spectacle has been steadily losing eyeballs during the first quarter of the present century, and there is no sign that the trend will reverse. [...] Passion for the Olympics is not what it once was.  Water-cooler conversation about which American heroes will win gold medals and which foreign athletes pose the greatest challenge has all but disappeared.

With Olympics days away, Paris, organizers dash to scale back green agenda, make Seine swim-able.  The start of the Paris Olympics is still a couple of weeks away, but already organizers are struggling to combat a series of problems related to the swelter summer, an over-ambitious green-energy agenda — and poop.  When Paris won the right in 2017 to host the Summer Olympics, there were boasts of making them "the greenest in Olympic history," including solar panels on buildings, low-carbon transport, a reliance of locally-sourced food, the widespread use of temporary structures, and a major cleanup effort in the Seine, the scenic river that winds through the city.  "I want the Paris Games to be exemplary from an environmental point of view," Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said during the launch of some of the initiatives, boasting the games would have half the environmental footprint of the 2012 Olympics in London or the 2016 edition in Rio de Janeiro and predicting the Olympics would be a springboard to accelerate the city's green transition.  But as the start of games approaches, organizers are having to back off some of those pledges.

The Olympics and the United Nations are the two biggest White elephants in the world.
The End of the Olympics?  Everyone seems to like the Olympics.  Every two years, people rally behind their country's athletes and root for them even in the most unusual sports we usually don't pay much attention to.  This year, though, it seems like everyone likes the Olympics except the French, since 44 percent of Parisians believe hosting the Olympics is a bad idea.  You might not be too surprised about that, after all French people have rarely been characterized for staying quiet when they don't like what their government is doing.  There seems to be a repetitive pattern in which citizens of the host city for the Games usually are not their biggest fans, 83 percent of Japanese didn't want the games in Tokyo when they were less than a month away either.  Cities are constantly going over budget when it comes to organizing them and taxpayers are the ones left to pay the bill.  If people don't like them and host cities struggle to keep them under budget, are we seeing the beginning of the end for the Olympics?

Teams Bring Their Own AC Units to Paris:  Exposing the Absurdity of "Sustainability" at the Olympics.  Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has been quite vocal about her commitment to making the 2024 Olympics an exemplar of environmental responsibility.  The decision to forgo traditional air conditioning in favor of passive cooling techniques is touted as a major step toward reducing the event's carbon footprint. [...] But let's be clear:  sustainability, as currently promoted, is a nebulous concept that often amounts to nothing more than vapid virtue signaling.  It's an easy catchphrase, with no real objective definition for politicians and organizers who want to appear forward-thinking.  The idea that passive cooling could sufficiently counteract the summer heat in Paris is more of a fanciful notion than a feasible plan.  Instead of applauding this so-called innovation, teams are responding with pragmatism.  The U.S. teams, for instance, have decided to bring their own portable air conditioning units to ensure their athletes perform at their best.

Greenest Olympics Ever:  US Team To Bring Their Own AC.  There have been numerous stories about the Paris Olympics, which they said will be super climate cult compliant, so, they were cutting air conditioning, because AC is Bad for global boiling.  But, many nations have said "nah, we're bringing our own, to go with our massive fossil fueled jet and SUV travel."  [Tweet]  This has nothing to do with the environment, just a doomsday cult, where all the people who believe in it always want Other People to bear the burden for their beliefs

Trans athletes dehumanised by term 'biological male', says Olympics.  The International Olympic Committee has been accused by Martina Navratilova of waging a "1984 version of war on women" after asking journalists attending this summer's Paris Games not to use terms such as "born male" or "biologically male" to describe transgender athletes.  It argued that such labels were "dehumanising" and constituted "problematic language".  In a 33-page "Portrayal Guidelines" document, the IOC have told the 20,000-strong media contingent that "a person's sex category is not assigned based on genetics alone" and "it is always preferable to emphasise a person's actual gender rather than potentially calling their identity into question by referring to the sex category that was registered on their original birth certificate".  Navratilova, the nine-time Wimbledon champion and a consistent voice in upholding the integrity of women's sport, responded witheringly to these statements, saying:  "The IOC has been captured.  This is 1984 version of war on women.  Total erasure."

Chinese Swimmers Test Positive For Banned Substance, Win Olympic Gold Anyway While WADA Looks Other Way.  The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) confirmed on Saturday that 23 Chinese swimmers had tested positive for a banned substance before the Tokyo Olympics.  But WADA let it slide after China claimed the positive results were a result of accidental contamination.  Multiple reports said the swimmers tested positive for trimetazidine months before the COVID-delayed Games began in July 2021. Typically found in heart medication, trimetazidine is listed as a "metabolic modulator," which can help with endurance in physical activity.

Paris Won't Air-Condition Athlete Housing At Summer Olympics Because Of Climate Change.  The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are still a few months away, and they're already one of the most ridiculous athletic competitions yet.  Not because of any one individual athlete, or the qualifying process, or the introduction of new sports.  It's all due to the political views of the event organizers and their laughable desire to virtue signal on a global stage.  In a recent interview, the head of the organization in charge of building athlete housing for the 2024 games revealed that they didn't add air conditioning to lower the event's "carbon footprint."

Let them Drink Water: Alcohol Ban at Paris Olympics for All but VIP Elites.  Alcohol consumption at the 2024 Paris Olympics will be restricted to special VIP areas only, a report Tuesday confirmed, meaning the elites can happily quaff Champagne while those in the cheap seats will be forced to look on and sip water.  Thanks to an edict called Elvin's Law which began in 1991, alcohol sales have long been banned to the general public in France's sports stadiums.

China 'asked Putin to delay invasion of Ukraine until after Winter Olympics'.  China asked Vladimir Putin to delay any invasion of Ukraine until after the Winter Olympics in Beijing, according to a Western intelligence report.  It suggests officials in China may have had some indication of Mr Putin's plans before he went ahead.  Beijing denied the assertion as "baseless speculation" and an "attempt to smear China".  A Western official told the New York Times the report did not make clear if it was Putin and Xi Jinping who discussed the matter, or some of their officials.  The Olympic closing ceremony took place on Feb 20.  On the following day Putin recognised two breakaway areas in Ukraine and sent troops in to help separatists.  Then, on Feb 24, the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began.

AP: NBC Olympics [was] a ratings "disaster" — and [is] now a tainted brand.  How bad was it?  The best night for Olympics ratings was February 13, when NBC had 112 million Super Bowl viewers ready to watch even more sports.  How many stuck around?  The New York Times reports ... not many: [...] Almost eight in ten viewers didn't even want to just leave the channel on after the end of the Super Bowl, but actively chose to tune out.  This had nothing to do with the performance of the athletes.  Viewers knew after NBC's atrocious brown-nosing of Vladimir Putin's Soviet iconography in Sochi's opening games that they already knew what the coverage from Beijing would be like.  And they turned out to be correct.  This time, though, the moral issues were even more obvious, and yet produced no real shame in Beijing's corporate partners.

NBC's Beijing Olympic Ratings Called A 'Disaster' For Network.  A sobbing Russian figure skater berated by one of her coaches for a poor routine.  Grim-looking cooling towers in the background of acrobatic snowboard jumps.  Diplomatic boycotts.  Half-empty stands.  Announcers covering the games from Connecticut.  It all played out in a host country engaged in human rights atrocities that was also the origin site of a global pandemic.  For NBC, it wasn't exactly Olympic glory in China.  The media adjectives pouring in to describe the legacy of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics aren't pretty:  "Disaster."  "Joyless."  And NBC's $7.75 billion investment in 2014 that gave it exclusive American media rights to the Olympic Games through 2032 is under question after a second consecutive ratings dud.

Olympics Close Out With Brutally Low TV Ratings.  Sunday [2/20/2022] was the final day of the 2022 Beijing Olympics and the overall numbers for how many people watched this year's winter games were the worst ever for NBCUniversal.  The games, which started Feb. 4 and went through Sunday, averaged 11.4 million viewers across all of the network's platforms in primetime, according to the Hollywood Reporter in a piece published Monday.  Those numbers are down from the average number of 19.8 million who watched the games in 2018 in Pyeongchang, South Korea, the report noted.  Not only were the average number of viewers down by 42%, but this year's winter games were down some 26% from the summer Olympics held in Tokyo in 2021.

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The Olympics still exist for two reasons:  [#1] It's a proxy for World War, in which each country demonstrates that their young athletes are stronger and tougher than all others.  Cheating abounds, even though it's strictly forbidden.  But that happens in real wars, too.  [#2] The Olympics exists to sell exclusive television rights to one American TV network, which will then sell commercial time for lots of money.  Even so, the commercial revenue will not be enough, if nobody's expected to watch, and the network will lose money.  But wait and see — that same network will eagerly bid for the TV rights next time.  The whole show is about glamorous and prestigious international competition:  Part of it is sports, and part of it is a soap opera; therefore, it's a lucrative TV series.  Except the monetary wheels come off if nobody cares any more about the stinkin' Olympics, as millions of non-viewers have demonstrated this year, when the event was held in Communist China.

The great Olympic figure-skating debacle.  Congratulations to Russia, which took first, second, and fourth places in women's figure-skating while turning the competition into a [fiasco] so repellent that sportswriters were using terms like "child abuse" afterward to describe what went down.  I wrote a few days ago about Kamila Valieva, the 15-year-old Russian superstar who was heavily favored to take gold in Beijing.  News broke this week that Valieva had tested positive in December for a banned substance, a heart medication capable of enhancing endurance.  But she wasn't banned from the Olympics:  Because of her tender age, the Court of Arbitration of Sport deemed her a "protected person" who'd be allowed to compete while an investigation into her drug test proceeded.  That threw the competition into chaos, with the International Olympic Committee declaring that no medal ceremony would be held if Valieva finished in the top three due to the uncertainty over her status. [...] Oh, just to round things off, the World Anti-Doping Agency has now accused the Court of Arbitration of Sport of having essentially rewritten the rules to let Valieva compete, further tainting the process.

Worst.  Olympics. Ever.  Ten days ago, this newsletter noted that the opening days of the Genocide Games — er, the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing — had generated a "cataclysmic loss of audience" for NBC.  Over the past week or so, the audience size hasn't gotten any better — and it's not just here in the United States: [...] Viewers around the world have a lot of reasons for antipathy toward China these days — from the ongoing Uyghur genocide, to the crackdown on Hong Kong, to the aggressive moves towards Taiwan, to that virus that started in Wuhan which has killed almost 6 million people around the world officially and perhaps many, many more.  There are no live audiences or cheering crowds at the events, a television correspondent got dragged away on air, waiters and bartenders in the hotels are wearing full hazmat suits, and there's not even the usual pretty scenery — the ski-jump platform was built next to a steel plant with structures that reminded American audiences of nuclear reactors.  There's something absurdly dystopian about this whole debacle.

Olympic ideal exposed as farce on sad night in China.  No matter how the IOC tries to spin it, the enduring symbol of the Beijing Games — and really, the entire Olympic movement — is a sad little girl put in an untenable position by adults who have no shame.  A lot of serious issues will need to be addressed after the flame is extinguished, from doping rules to age limits to tyrannical coaches, but we shouldn't lose sight of the bigger questions:  What will it take for the Olympics to truly live up to its ideals?  Is meaningful change even possible at this point?

Chinese Athletes at the Olympics get 5-Star Food, Nice Hotels, This is what the Rest of the Worlds Athletes Get.  It's no surprise the Communist Chinese are doing everything they can to make the lives of the Winter Olympic athletes pure hell.  From sleep deprivation to absolutely horrific living conditions and terrible food.  Here is a video showing yet another 'water main break' in a brand new building.  These seem to always happen on the same floors that the competitors who will soon be competing occur on.  History will show you, we should never again have the Olympics in China.  They cheat!  This video was filmed by Finnish athletes who were set to compete the next day.  [Video clip]

Finnish athlete posted pictures of water leaking into her apartment, ordered by Chinese officials to delete them.  The habits of tyranny are hard to break.  China expected that the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing would once again impress the world with China's ability to build shiny new venues and organize vast and impressive mass ceremonies.  But, instead, what is becoming known as the "Genocide Games" is exposing the autocratic authoritarianism of China's governing officials and the downright shabby nature of its treatment for foreign athletes, some of whom dare to complain in public.  Unlike Chinese citizens, they don't have to worry about their social credit scores once they leave the Middle Kingdom.

Beijing's Olympics are Downright Dangerous:  Here's Why.  The 2022 Winter Olympics have just begun in Beijing.  It's China's second opportunity to export its ideology since the 2008 Summer Olympics.  It's happening despite China's harsh repression of its ethnic minorities, including the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, which has been condemned by many countries as genocide.  Nevertheless, all but 14 countries (plus North Korea) appear to be responsive to the IOC's "Sports without political interference" initiative in sending delegations and athletes to the Beijing.  Little do they know, the Chinese government uses its hosting of the Olympics as a propaganda tool precisely to silence this criticism of its human rights record.  The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is like the 1936 Berlin Olympics.  Each event is being used to showcase the host country's glamour and fearful power.

American skier ditches Team USA to compete for communist China in Olympics.  American-born-and-raised Olympic skier Eileen Gu reportedly gave up her American passport and was naturalized as a Chinese citizen to compete in the Beijing Winter Olympics for communist China, new reports highlighted last week.  After growing up and training in the United States and competing as a member of the U.S. freestyle ski team, Gu revealed on Instagram in 2019 that she had decided to compete for China in the Beijing Winter Olympics.  "This was an incredibly tough decision for me to make," Gu wrote at the time, according to a The Wall Street Journal report last week.  Gu, whose mother was born in China, said she hoped the controversial move would "inspire millions of young people where my mom was born."

Uyghur Concentration Camp Survivor:  NBC 'Supports Genocide' by Airing Olympics.  Tursunay Ziawudun, a survivor of China's brutal concentration camp system for Uyghur people and other Muslim ethnic groups, accused NBC and Comcast of supporting genocide by airing the 2022 Beijing Olympics in an interview with Breitbart News on Saturday [2/5/2022].  Ziawudun joined a large group of mostly Uyghur protesters in front of the White House on Saturday to observe the anniversary of the 1997 Ghulja massacre — which resulted in thousands of arrests and an estimated hundred dead after Uyghurs organized peaceful protests against the communist regime in Beijing in the northwestern city that year — and to protest the Beijing Olympics.  Opponents of the Games argue that a country openly engaging in genocide should not receive the honor of hosting such a prestigious event and that focusing on sports competition in China distracts from the long list of atrocities that government is committing.

Olympics Viewers, Onlookers Scratch Heads Over Controversial Call DQing US, Russian Skaters As China Wins Gold.  Some Olympic viewers were left perplexed during the weekend when a speed skating judge's decision disqualified the United States and helped China win a gold medal.  The United States had finished second in its semifinal race of the mixed team relay event in short track speed skating Saturday, joining first place Hungary to advance to the finals.  That was until an official's review after the race determined that the United States and Russia, the fourth place finishers, had impeded skaters from team China, causing both teams to be disqualified.  Team China, the world's number one ranked team in the event, had initially finished third and not qualified for the finals.  However, thanks to the penalty against the U.S., China took their spot in the final and went on to win the gold, the country's first medal of the games.

Olympians lament inedible food and 'unreasonable' conditions.  As many athletes watch their Olympic dreams get dashed by a positive COVID test, more and more are taking to social media and speaking out against the conditions of the Beijing "quarantine hotels" into which they are being forced to check in.  "My stomach hurts, I'm very pale and I have huge black circles around my eyes," said Valeria Vasnetsova, a Russian athlete competing in the biathlon, in an Instagram post shared from isolation.  "I want this all to end.  I cry every day.  I'm very tired."  Thursday, Vasnetsova posted a picture of her food tray.  On it sat a bit of plain pasta, some charred meat, a sprinkling of potatoes, and some orange sauce.  According to Vasnetsova, that was "breakfast, lunch and dinner for five days already."

TV Ratings Tank For The Olympics In Communist China.  The ratings are in for NBC's first day of coverage for the 2022 Winter Olympics being held in communist China and they are down from the previous year.  The network's coverage in prime-time Thursday for the opening ceremony to kick off the games averaged 7.7 million total viewers, according to a report published Friday by TV Line.com.  The Olympic viewership also landed with a 1.3 rating in the coveted demographic of ages 18-49, the outlet noted.  While those numbers helped the network lead the night, those numbers are down over the last decade, Outkick's Clay Travis noted.  He appeared to be noting numbers from Sports Media Watch.

Chinese official physically removes Dutch reporter covering Olympics during live broadcast.  Gold or Gulag?  It's a question on the minds of many anxious athletes and journalists as the Olympics kick off in Beijing — one made more urgent by the physical removal of a reporter by Chinese officials on live television.  "Our correspondent @sjoerddendaas was pulled away from the camera by security guards at 12:00 p.m. live in the NOS Journaal," tweeted Dutch public broadcaster NOS, Friday [2/4/2022].  "Unfortunately, this is increasingly becoming a daily reality for journalists in China.  He is fine and was able to finish his story a few minutes later."  The not-so-subtle move from the Chinese is further proof that the Beijing Organizing Committee (BOC) meant business when it announced it would punish those foreigners who spoke out in a manner the Chinese Communist Party deems is "against the Olympic spirit."

Goons Drag Reporter Away on Live TV at Beijing Games Opening Ceremony.  The Beijing Winter Olympics are officially underway — but, before the Opening Ceremony even finished on Friday [2/4/2022], Chinese authorities proved to the world once again that it won't tolerate any kind of free press.  In an extraordinary clip from Dutch broadcaster NOS, one of its reporters who is in Beijing to cover the Games can be seen being manhandled by a security guard sporting a red armband.  The reporter, Sjoerd den Daas, attempted to carry on his broadcast while being grabbed and yelled at by the guard, then NOS decided to cut away back to the studio.

Protesters Surround NBC HQ Asking for Ban on Genocide Olympics.  Tibetan exiles and supporters of Tibetan freedom gathered outside Chinese embassies, Olympic headquarters, and NBC studios to protest the Beijing Winter Olympics, derided by critics as the "Genocide Games" because the event risks validating Communist China's brutal suppression of minorities like the Tibetans and Uyghur Muslims.

China's Olympic tyranny.  Why are Americans participating in the Winter Olympics while the host nation, China, perpetrates a genocide and menaces its neighbors?  The Biden administration has announced a diplomatic boycott, meaning no "high-level" U.S. officials will be going to China.  But American athletes are still going, along with diplomatic, consular, and security personnel to protect them.  NBC Sports is still televising the Games.  Corporations such as Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, and Visa are still paying millions of dollars to sponsor them.  Why?

Winter Olympics guests describe 'dystopian' scenes inside the village.  'Dystopian' scenes from inside Beijing Olympic village include barmen in full PPE mixing cocktails and robots spraying clouds of disinfectant into the air as China attempts to host a Covid-free Games.  Video shot inside the Nanshanli Condotel on Thursday reveal journalists and Olympic personnel in light-touch masks mixing with hotel staff wearing full hazmat suits due to fears the Games could become a super-spreader event.  A Reuters reporter inside the hotel described the atmosphere as 'dystopian', saying the air smells like disinfectant due to the number of times floors and walls are sprayed, while all food service arrives in hotel rooms plastic-wrapped.

Big Brother Olympics:  Beijing to feature Uighur surveillance company as major sponsor.  The Olympics, which are all dedicated to peace, human dignity, and brotherhood, have a pretty creepy sponsor now that the host is Beijing. [...] That so-called artificial intelligence firm, which translates languages, is neck deep in China's surveillance of ethnic Uighurs, the Turkic people in China's northwest, millions of whom have been systematically forced into labor camps in order to wring any vestige of non-communist culture out of them.  This company's 'products' provide China's "Lives of Others" surveillance apparachiks the means to know what individual Uighurs may be saying or writing in private, the better to abuse and imprison those who do not conform mindlessly to China's communist party line.  It's as Big Brother as such things get.

Boycott the Beijing Olympics.  If ever there was an Olympics that should be boycotted, this is it.  The purpose of the quadrennial games is, or ought to be, to promote goodwill among nations while allowing athletes a stage where they can test their skills against world-class competition.  No one believes that is the purpose of the Beijing Olympics.  In the opening ceremony, President Xi Jinping could apologize to the world for allowing the coronavirus virus to spread from Wuhan throughout the planet while authorities hushed it up and worked hard to prevent its spread to the rest of China.  That would be a demonstration of goodwill and a modicum of decency, given the millions globally who have died.  That is not going to happen.

China Insists 'No Lockdown' for Genocide Olympics as More Regions Go Under.  Organizing officials for the 2022 Winter Olympics said Tuesday the Games' host city, Beijing, has no plans to lock down any sections of the capital to prevent the spread of the Chinese coronavirus during the event — scheduled to take place from February 4 through February 20 — despite mounting lockdowns in surrounding areas.  "Beijing won't need to be sealed off for the Games next month," Huang Chun, who leads the 2022 Winter Olympics' coronavirus prevention efforts, told reporters on January 11, adding that a lockdown order for either Beijing or its surrounding province of Hebei remains "off the table" for now.

NHL Considers Not Sending Players to Beijing's Genocide Games over Coronavirus Fears.  On the heels of its decision to postpone many of its games through December, the NHL is also now contemplating withdrawing its players from the Beijing Olympics, all because of its concerns over the coronavirus.  The National Hockey League had intended to take a three-week break in February to make room to send its players to Beijing for China's "genocide" Olympics.  Still, after delaying as many as 40 games this year over fears about the coronavirus, the make-up games have put the Olympics in doubt.

China Plans to Pay American Influencers to Promote Beijing Olympics Amid Boycotts.  China is paying American social media influencers to promote the Beijing Olympics and tout U.S.-China cooperation on climate change, according to government filings.  The Chinese consulate in New York City hired the public relations firm Vippi Media to run the influence campaign, according to disclosures filed with the Justice Department under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.  For $300,000, Vippi Media will hire prominent Instagram, TikTok, and Twitch users to tout the games and promote China-U.S. cooperation on issues like climate change, the contract says.  The firm's founder, Vipp Jaswal, tells the Washington Free Beacon he has not yet chosen the influencers to be used for the campaign.

The Concentration Camp Olympics.  This February will see U.S. participation in the winter Olympics at Beijing.  The games will occur amid the knowledge that Xi Jinping is committing some of the most appalling human rights abuses on the planet.  A million Uighurs are being persecuted, as are Falun Gong practitioners.  Hongkongers have had their liberties crushed.  Since Joe Biden's election, Xi is increasingly menacing Taiwan.  In 2018, Xi named himself "president for life," and has been busy returning China — an authoritarian state as-is — to totalitarianism.  Xi continues to make unwarranted claims on the South and East China Seas, militarizing these international waters.  Both are vital to U.S. and global trade.  Imagine Mexico or the U.S. claiming the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean as territorial waters.  Xi is growing more bellicose, threatening Asia Pacific nations, including U.S. allies Australia, Japan, and South Korea, among others.  The Biden administration's diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics is an empty gesture.  It signals weakness, not strength.  An apex predator like Xi only respects actions that have real teeth.

Why we must boycott the Olympics in China.  Back in 1936, the Olympic games were held in Hitler-led, fascist, Nazi Germany.  In Berlin, to be specific.  For years afterward, the world shook its head in wonder at how the International Olympic Committee (IOC), could ever have been so out of touch with reality that it honored a dictatorial, despotic nation.  Now, they've done it again.  The Communist Party of China (CCP) is scheduled to hold the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.  Stupid knows no limits.  Before we go into the decades of China's human rights violations and utter disregard for international laws, the latest outrage from this totalitarian state is the disappearance of a three-time Chinese female Olympian tennis star, Peng Shuai, after she accused a former vice-premier of sexual assault.  She's obviously paying the price for outing a Commie biggie and is either dead or tucked away for life in some rancid prison.

Boxing bouts [were] fixed at [the] 2016 Olympics, investigation finds.  Boxing bouts for medals at the 2016 Olympics were fixed by "complicit and compliant" referees and judges, an investigation reported on Thursday [9/30/2021].  Investigator Richard McLaren was appointed by the International Boxing Association, known as AIBA, and found AIBA officials selected referees and judges to ensure that bouts could be manipulated in Olympic qualifying and at the Rio de Janeiro Games.  He also found signs the 2012 Olympics in London were affected.

China Hosting the Winter Olympics Is an Extremely Bad Idea.  The Summer Games in Japan, which organizers and the world had hoped would mark a milestone toward the end of the sixteen-month-long global shutdown, unfortunately fell prey to the COVID-19 virus.  In Tokyo, the delta variant has impacted how the Olympics have been staged and can only lead to speculation on how the upcoming Winter Games might play out.  One thing is certain:  testing and more testing of athletes will undoubtedly remain a greater part of any participation in future sporting events.  Fast-forward to the XXIV Winter Olympics, to be held in Beijing in February.  There's talk that under the guise of widespread COVID-19 testing, the People's Republic of China will have carte blanche access to the collection of DNA samples from the world's highest-ranked athletes.  A sufficient amount of genetic material is readily available from each PCR swab test collected from an individual.  This massive data sweep will allow the Chinese government to embark upon an extensive analysis of the samples, enabling it to configure the information toward applications of its own design.

Viewership Ratings for Woke Olympics Continue to Crash.  Not even the USA winning the gold for all-around gymnastics lifted the ratings for the 2020 Woke Olympics anywhere close to respectable territory. [...] Even more disastrous for the Olympics has been the crashing and burning of all their woketard athletes and icons.  Megan Rapinoe's all-girl soccer team was supposed to be on the easy path to Olympic gold and then lost in a major upset to Canada. [...] Honestly, who loses to Canada?  Gwen Berry, the insufferable hammer thrower who disrespected the flag during her Olympic trials and then threatened to do so again if she won an Olympic medal, did not win anything.  In fact, out of 12 competitors, she came in 11th. [...] And then there's my all-time favorite, a 43-year-old fat guy named Laurel who competed as a woman weightlifter.  But even with all the advantages of being a guy, he still blew it.

Take A Knee, Then Take A Seat.  It was a weird position in which to find myself — actively rooting against the United States Olympic team.  Not the whole team, though I've been rather open about my indifference on that subject, but the women's soccer team.  Or should I say, the wymxn's soccer team?  Who knows, and who cares?  They lost and it's glorious. [...] Led by Megan Rapinoe, the Americans lost to Canada in the semi-finals, ending their chances at a gold medal.  Excellent.  I love the country, I don't support those to take it for granted or those who would protest against it while in the midst of representing it.  If it's so awful, don't play for it.

Did a terrorist actually just win an Olympic gold medal?  The woke Tokyo Olympics doesn't discriminate.  No matter your race, gender identity, or affiliation with a terrorist organization — all are welcome and celebrated!  You may have heard of a little group called the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which was labeled a terrorist organization by the United States in 2019.  Well, one of their members just won a gold medal in the Olympics and even gave a military salute on the podium.

Laurel Hubbard, transgender weightlifter, exits Olympic competition early after failing on all three attempts.  Laurel Hubbard, a transgender weightlifter from New Zealand, was knocked out of the women's 87+ kilogram competition early after failing on all three of her attempts.  Hubbard failed on her first attempt to get 120-kg above her head, bailing out early.  On her second attempt at 125kg, she was able to get the weight up and pumped her fist after in satisfaction, however judges ruled it a "no lift."  She returned quickly for another attempt at 125kg only to fail to be able to stand up with the weight above her head.  Hubbard was the only one of the 13 finalists to not complete at least one lift.

The Editor says...
Go home, be a man, and accept reality.  Not necessarily in that order.

Paris 2024 Olympics logo roasted for looking like a 'Karen'.  The "Karen" meme is back, and it's funnier than ever.  The 2020 Tokyo Olympics are currently well underway but that doesn't stop the fact that people are already talking about the 2024 games.  The next cycle of the Olympics is set to be held in Paris, and while the logo was released back in October 2019, fans can't help but roast the design again.  The logo is very reminiscent of the "Karen" meme — a Caucasian woman with a short haircut who always "needs to speak to the manager."  The Parisian emblem is meant to depict three symbols: the Olympic flame, a gold medal and the hair and lips of Marianne, the personification of France since the 1789 revolution.  She represents liberty, equality and fraternity.

A Disaster of Olympian Proportions.  Is it wrong that I'm rooting for the U.S. Women's National Team to lose, and humiliatingly so, this Olympics?  Of course it's not wrong.  The USWNT, led by America's favorite histrionic Megan Rapinoe, protested against racism and discrimination by taking the knee before their first Olympic match.  Though the stadium was empty (certainly nothing new to the USWNT), the attending "reporters" revived each other with smelling salts to swoon and gape at the unparalleled fortitude exhibited by these privileged virtue-signalers in what was dubbed a "social justice reckoning".

U.S. Olympians: gold-worthy performances in social protest; in athletic competition not so much.  The U.S. Olympic team is off to a sluggish start in Tokyo, to put it mildly.  U.S. athletes failed to deliver a medal on the first day of competition, something that hasn't happened in nearly 50 years.  It's only gotten worse from there.  The women's soccer team, expected to snag the gold, got shut out in its very first match against Sweden.  That shocker ended the team's 44-game unbeaten streak, and it couldn't have come at a worse time.  They beat an overmatched New Zealand squad 6-1 but had to settle for a 1-1 tie against Australia to squeak into the next round.  The squad, most notably lavender-locked team captain Megan Rapinoe, famously kneel before each game, but not during the playing of the U.S. National Anthem.  Other teams in the Olympics also kneel before games to protest racism.  The formerly invincible USA basketball squad is nothing of the sort these days.

NBC has 33-year low viewership for Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony: 'Not a happy' benchmark.  The Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony, delayed a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, drew 16.7 million viewers for NBC on Friday, the smallest audience for the network broadcast in the past 33 years, according to data from the Comcast-owned NBCUniversal on Saturday [7/24/2021].  The TV audience dropped 37% from the Rio de Janeiro opening ceremony in 2016, when 26.5 million people watched, and 59% from 2012, when 40.7 million people watched the London opener.  The Tokyo ratings factored in both the live broadcast early Friday morning and a primetime re-airing.  Reuters described Friday's fall, the lowest since the 1988 Seoul Games, as a "steep drop."

Woke USA Women Soccer Team Lose 3-0 at Olympics.  Perhaps if they spent a little more energy on soccer skills, and a little less energy attempting to be the woke champions of US sport, the outcome may have been different.  Alas, there's a great number of Americans who shrug because USA women's national soccer has evolved into a political assembly who happen to play soccer.  The team's egotistical, arrogant, pompous and virtue-signaling attitude is a considerable turn-off.  This is the same team that wears 'Black Lives Matter' on their uniforms, and kneels instead of stands for the U.S. national anthem to showcase to the world just how woke they are.  Team Captain Ms. Rapinoe refuses to sing the U.S. national anthem; kneels during ceremonies to make her hatred for America visible; and grabs every microphone to tell the media about her politics in an effort to increase her woke resistance credentials.

Deaf-blind Paralympian quits Team USA when told she can't bring assistant to Tokyo.  Becca Meyers is a six-time Paralympic medalist with three golds from the 2016 Rio Games.  She was expected to compete for up to four medals in Tokyo.  Instead she's not going.  After the 26-year-old deaf-blind swimmer was told she couldn't bring her mother and personal care assistant (PCA) Maria Meyers to help her navigate Tokyo and the Olympic facilities, Meyers informed Team USA that she was quitting the team.

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Athletes to sleep on 'anti-sex' cardboard beds at Olympic Games amid COVID.  Lustful Olympic athletes should think twice before making the bed rock in Tokyo.  The world's best sports competitors are set to spend their nights on cardboard beds — allegedly designed to collapse under the weight of fornicators to discourage sex amid COVID-19.  Olympic officials — who already warned 2021 Games participants to avoid two-person push-ups because of the coronavirus — have set up 18,000 of the cardboard beds in the notoriously sex-crazed athletes' village, according to Dezeen magazine.  "Beds to be installed in Tokyo Olympic Village will be made of cardboard, this is aimed at avoiding intimacy among athletes," American distance runner Paul Chelimo tweeted.

Everything that's gone wrong for the Tokyo Olympics so far.  With the opening ceremony just days away, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are off to a rough start.  After being delayed a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the games are seeing serious challenges in the days leading up to them, including COVID-19, inclement weather, and suspension for marijuana use.  Here's everything that's gone wrong at the Tokyo Olympics so far:  Olympians testing positive for COVID-19 [...] Opening ceremony composer resigns [...] Top sponsor pulls ads [...] U.S. Men's Basketball team loses members [...] Fans banned from events after state of emergency declaration [...] Rising temperatures [...]

With Spectators Banned, Tokyo Olympics Look Like an Even Bigger Money Pit.  Spectators will be banned from all 339 events to be held during the upcoming Olympic Games, which are scheduled to begin in Tokyo on July 23, after a state of emergency was declared in that region of Japan this week.  These Olympics had already been dubbed the "No-Fun Olympics" — and by none other than the typically stoic Associated Press — due to pandemic-related policies of testing, quarantining, and limited attendance that were expected to severely curtail the usual athletic bacchanalia enjoyed by athletes and fans (previously, events were expected to be capped at 10,000 spectators each). Now they will be the No-Fans Games as well.  More than 30 venues, some of which predate the Olympics but many of which were purpose-built at public expense, will be occupied solely by coaches, athletes, and judges.

The Editor says...
With no spectators, the event could be held in a big city in almost any country!  For TV coverage, the Olympic venue would have to be somewhere with satellite access and plenty of electricity, but with no crowds on hand, there is no great demand for hotel rooms, mass transit, crowd control, sanitation, and and many other factors.

Members of U.S. Women's Soccer Team Turn Away from the Flag as WWII Vet Plays Anthem.  Several members of the U.S. Women's National Team (USWNT) did not face the flag as a 98-year-old WWII veteran played the national anthem.  The incident occurred Monday [7/5/2021], just before the USWNT took-on Mexico in their final tune-up before the Tokyo Olympics. [... Update:] An account representing U.S. Soccer teams denies that the video shows any players disrespecting World War II veteran Pete DuPré and posted a video of players, including Megan Rapinoe, greeting him and signing a ball.  Breitbart News' story never said the players disrespected Pete DuPré; rather, it said some players disrespected the American flag.

Base Olympic competition on biological sex, not testosterone levels.  A pair of female sprinters from Namibia can't compete in the Olympics this year, even though the biologically male Laurel Hubbard can compete in weightlifting for team New Zealand.  Sprinters Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi cannot compete in the 400-meter dash due to naturally high testosterone levels.  World Athletics requires that for women to compete in events such as the 400-meter and one-mile runs in track, they must lower their testosterone levels to 5 nanomoles per liter.  It's unclear if these athletes are intersex and have XY chromosomes as well as internal testes instead of ovaries.  However, what is clear is that these two not being able to compete while Hubbard can compete is a failure of liberal compromise.

Olympic Jiggery-Pokery.  Jiggery-pokery is a perfect phrase to describe recent Olympic news, especially decisions on who is allowed to compete and who is not. [...] Third is transgender New Zealand weightlifter, Laurel Hubbard.  A successful male weightlifter until age 35, Hubbard now identifies as a female and the Olympic committees think it is perfectly fair that he competes against biologic women.  Guys outlift gals by over 20 percent meaning that the guy who identifies as a gal is a lock for a medal.  Talk about performance enhancement.  This makes Lance Armstrong's blood doping look like child's play.  Missing a few random doping tests or smoking a joint is disqualifying but growing up as a male, muscles, and bones bathed in testosterone during puberty, is not a performance enhancement?  Jiggery-pokery.  Finally, the woke media overlook the obvious racism and sexism at play here. [...] If anything, this confirms that transgenderism sits higher on the intersectionality and victimhood totem pole compared to being female or Black.

Several Women on US Soccer Team Turn Away From US Flag as 98-Year-Old Veteran Plays National Anthem.  Several women on the US soccer team on Monday turned away from the US flag as 98-year-old WWII veteran Pete DuPré played the national anthem on a harmonica.  The US Women's soccer team is playing against Mexico in East Hartford, Connecticut in a pre-Olympic sendoff game before heading to Japan.  These women should not be allowed to represent the US at the Olympics.

Photos From Gwen Barry's Website Reveal That Her Anthem/Flag Protests Are Nothing But A PR Stunt.  Hammer thrower and activist Gwen Berry has received fierce backlash after she appeared to turn her back to the American flag as the national anthem was being played at the U.S. Olympic Trials over the weekend.  Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) called Monday for US Olympic track and field athlete Gwen Berry to be kicked off the squad after she turned her back on the American flag while the national anthem was played over the weekend at the Olympic trials in Oregon.  "I don't think it's too much, when athletes are competing to wear the Stars and Stripes — to compete under the Stars and Stripes in the Olympics — for them to simply honor that flag and our anthem on the medal stand," Cotton, a former Army infantry officer, told "Fox News Primetime".  "If Ms. Berry is so embarrassed by America, then there's no reason she needs to compete for our country.  She should be removed from the Olympic team."  Cotton's remarks echoed those of Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), a former Navy SEAL, who told "Fox & Friends" Monday that Berry should not travel to Tokyo for next month's Games.

Dan Crenshaw Calls For Gwen Berry to Be Removed from Olympic Team.  Rep. Dan Crenshaw called for Gwen Berry to be removed from the U.S. Olympic team after the bronze medal-winning hammer thrower in the weekend trials expressed frustration and appeared to protest the national anthem played while she was on the podium.  As Steve Doocy explained earlier in Fox & Friends, the national anthem is played once during the evening event, and it just so happened to play while Berry was on the podium.  Berry was displeased by the anthem and expressed her frustration by holding up a tee-shirt that read "Activist Athlete."  The hammer thrower has predictably been an immediate subject of criticism in conservative circles, evidenced by the extensive coverage she received on just Fox & Friends alone.

Crenshaw Calls for Olympic Qualifier Who Snubbed the National Anthem to Be Removed.  U.S. Olympic qualifier Gwen Berry is under fire for turning away from the national anthem on the podium at the Olympic Trials over the weekend.  The Hammer Thrower felt she was "set up" by having to hear the national anthem, and draped a t-shirt reading "Activist Athlete" over her face during the anthem. [...] Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) had harsh words for Berry's unpatriotic behavior, and called for her to be removed from the team.  "We don't need any more activist athletes.  She should be removed from the team.  The entire point of the Olympic team is to represent the United States of America.  That's the entire point," Crenshaw said on Monday morning.  "It's one thing when these NBA players do it, okay fine, then we'll just stop watching.  Now the Olympic team, multiple cases of this, they should be removed.  That should be the bare minimum requirement: that you believe in the country you're representing."

Olympic hammer thrower Gwen Berry [angry] national anthem was playing at Olympic trials.  A US hammer thrower turned away from the American flag as the national anthem played while she and two other athletes stood on the podium at the Olympic trials Saturday [6/26/2021], later saying she was "pissed" that "The Star-Spangled Banner" played as she received her bronze medal.  Gwen Berry — who qualified for her second US Olympic team during the trials — shifted to face the stands rather than the flag before holding up a black shirt that read, "Activist Athlete."  "I feel like it was a setup, and they did it on purpose," Berry said of the anthem being played.

Furious backlash against Olympic hammer thrower Gwen Berry for turning her back on flag during national anthem.  White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended hammer thrower Gwen Berry's right to 'peacefully protest,' after the Tokyo-bound athlete turned her back on the US flag during Olympic trials.  Psaki told Fox News' Peter Doocy at Monday's press briefing that while she and President Joe Biden hadn't spoken specifically about the incident, Biden is 'incredibly proud to be an American and has great respect for the anthem and all that it respresents, especially for our men and women serving in uniform all around the world.'  'He would also say, of course, that part of that pride in our country means recognizing there are moments where we are, as a country, haven't lived up to our highest ideals, and that means respecting the rights of people, granted to them in the Constitution, to peacefully protest,' Psaki added.

COVID Wins Again:  Olympics Bans Cheering, Advises Crowds to 'Feel Joy in Their Hearts' Instead.  Japan's released its COVID guidelines, and this year won't be a particularly uproarious affair.  As reported by Agence France-Presse, for one, alcohol is banned.  So for attendees hoping to booze it up, sobering disappointment awaits.  Another thing:  Due to germs, no autographs will be allowed.  And affection's taking a back seat to safety:  No hugging. [...] And everyone entering will have their temperature checked.  Masks will also be mandatory.  For those who don't pass muster, no refund will be issued.  Once inside, Seiko explained, folks will be forbidden from "making direct contact with other spectators."

Former NBA star Jalen Rose says US should have sent all-black team to Olympics, calls inclusion of single white player, Kevin Love, 'tokenism'.  Team USA's inclusion of white forward Kevin Love on the Olympic roster is an example of 'tokenism,' according to retired NBA star Jalen Rose, who says black Phoenix Suns center Deandre Ayton would make a better choice even though he's from the Bahamas.  'Kevin Love is on the team because of tokenism,' Rose, now an ESPN commentator, said on his podcast. [...] Love and 11 African-American NBA players will be vying for the country's fourth-consecutive gold medal in men's basketball at the Tokyo Games next month.

New Zealand Sends Male Weightlifter to Defeat Women in the Olympics.  New Zealand will set a transgender first by sending a biological male to the Olympics to compete against women in weightlifting.  Former Olympians have condemned the decision.  Other males competing in women's weightlifting have set new records, demonstrating the common-sense principle that sports are sex-segregated for a reason.  Laurel Hubbard, who set New Zealand junior records in weightlifting in 1998 before he transitioned to identify as a woman in 2013, qualified for the Olympics in women's weightlifting due to a 2015 International Olympic Committee (IOC) rule change, CNN reported.  According to the Olympics guidelines, males can compete in women's divisions so long as their testosterone levels stay below 10 nano moles per liter for at least 12 months before their first competition.

Transgender Olympic Athlete Wants to Win Medal So He Can Burn US Flag.  And they say the Left isn't patriotic.  I don't know what they're thinking.  What could be more patriotic than this?

Lola Goes to the Olympics.  Women first competed in the Olympic Games in 1900 in Paris, participating in tennis, sailing, croquet, equestrianism, and golf.  By 2016, 45 percent of participants were women.  Men and women competitions were separate for obvious reasons of strength and speed.  Yet this summer at the Tokyo Olympic Games, these two distinct categories may be blurred with transgender athletes competing, specifically transgender biologic males competing against biologic females.  Lola, who "walked like a woman but talked like a man" will be an Olympian.  New Zealander Laurel Hubbard, is a biologic male now aged 43, who competed as a male weightlifter until transitioning into a female in her [sic] mid 30s.  She [sic] won a silver medal at the 2017 world championships and has a serious shot at winning a medal in Tokyo.

The Editor says...
The man is a transvestite.  He has not "transition[ed] into a female," and never will, because he is a biological male.  Every cell in his body has the DNA of a man.  Wearing women's clothes and assuming a woman's name does not "transition" a man into a woman.

Report: Athletes Told To 'Be Quiet' About Trans Weightlifter Ahead Of Olympic Qualification.  A former Olympic weightlifter claims that female athletes are being told to "be quiet" about transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard ahead of his Olympic debut.  Hubbard is a 43-year-old biological male competing as a woman.  Should Hubbard pass the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) fitness and performance standards, he would become the first trans athlete to compete in the Olympics.

Olympics ban 'Black Lives Matter' apparel, could punish athletes for political demonstrations.  The IOC says athlete protests and political messages will remain banned at the Olympics after a survey found that a majority of competitors were in favor of keeping the ban in place.  That means raising a fist on the podium or taking a knee would still risk punishment at the Tokyo Games this year.  The IOC also said that slogans such as "Black Lives Matter" will not be allowed on athlete apparel at Olympic venues, though it approved using the words "peace," "respect," "solidarity," "inclusion" and "equality" on T-shirts.

Olympics Bans 'Black Lives Matter' Apparel, Again Threatens To Punish Athletes Who Protest.  Athletes will not be allowed to wear clothing with the slogan "Black Lives Matter" at the Tokyo Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee has decided, reiterating that it plans to enforce the Games' "Rule 50," which bans political or social justice protests of any kind at the international athletic event set to take place in just a few weeks.  The Associated Press reported Tuesday that the IOC's rules against "slogans" with a political or social justice meaning are "granular" this year and that the IOC has specifically banned apparel bearing the racial justice mantra, "Black Lives Matter."

The Editor says...
The Olympics might not exist without the income generated by the sale of exclusive television rights.  Those rights would be worth a lot less if the BLM decimates the audience numbers in the same way that they've ruined the TV ratings for the NFL and NBA.

U.S. State Department backs away from the idea of a Beijing Olympics boycott.  The State Department denied Tuesday evening that it was considering a joint boycott alongside allies of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.  "Our position on the 2022 Olympics has not changed.  We have not discussed and are not discussing any joint boycott with allies and partners," a senior State Department official wrote in an emailed statement to CNBC.  Department spokesman Ned Price had initially suggested during a press briefing earlier on Tuesday that a boycott of the Olympic Games was among the possibilities for addressing China's human rights abuses.  The Olympic Games are due to take place between Feb. 4 and Feb. 20.

China now dominates the world, thanks on large part to senile and corrupt Joe Biden.
State Department Backs Off US Boycotting Beijing Winter Olympics as China Threatens "Robust Response".  China has once again beat the US into submission.  The State Department backed off of talks of the US boycotting the Beijing Winter Olympics as China threatened a "robust" response.  State Department spokesman Ned Price on Tuesday said a boycott is something that the US wishes to discuss with our allies.  "It is something that we certainly wish to discuss," Price said, "A coordinated approach will not only be in our interest but also in the interest of our allies and partners."

Japan bans foreign spectators for 2021 Olympic Games.  Foreign spectators will not be allowed into Japan to attend the 2021 Olympic and Paralympic Games because of concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic, Japanese government and Tokyo 2020 officials announced Saturday [3/20/2021].  International Olympic Committee and International Paralympic Committee officials were informed of the decision in a virtual meeting with Tokyo 2020, Japanese government and Tokyo Metropolitan Government officials.  "In many ways the Tokyo 2020 Games will be completely different to any previous Games," Tokyo 2020 president Seiko Hashimoto said in a statement. "

A tough-on-China GOP is split on whether to boycott the China Olympics.  President Joe Biden is under growing pressure from hawkish Republicans to use the 2022 Winter Olympics to punish the Chinese government over its human rights abuses.  But even within the GOP, there's disagreement over how far to push.  Some are calling on Biden to outright boycott the Beijing Games, which China is hosting.  Others say they oppose boycotts, arguing that only the athletes get punished.  Many are instead pressing Biden to push the International Olympic Committee to revoke China's role as host and stage the Games in another country — or at least to delay the competition.

Breakdancing now an Olympic sport, will debut at Paris in 2024.  Breakdancing has been confirmed as an official Olympic sport.  The International Olympic Committee's pursuit of urban events to lure a younger audience saw street dance battles officially added to the medal events program at the 2024 Paris Games.  The IOC executive board also confirmed skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing for Paris.  Those three sports will make their Olympic debuts at the Tokyo Games which were postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

LA told to cancel 2028 Olympics 'privilege'.  Tokyo would have begun hosting the Olympics on Friday [7/24/2020] had not the coronavirus gripped the globe.  As it turns out, the 2028 Summer Games slated for Southern California might also be in doubt, for political not pandemic reasons.  NOlympics of Los Angeles launched a campaign calling on city leaders to scrap the competition eight years from now, boosted on Twitter by the trending hashtag #CancelTheOlympics.  "We are years away from the proposed 2028 games but we know that they'll be used not only to boost the LAPD budget but to once again run with the recovery narrative," NOlympics LA declared in a manifesto this week.

Meet the Olympic Athletes Who Probably Don't Belong There.  The history of the modern Olympic games is littered with stories of dreamers.  These athletes work hard, sometimes in obscurity, training long hours for that moment of glory as the world watches.  Sometimes those moments end in medals, but obviously the vast majority don't make it to the podium.  And some of the athletes who finish nowhere near the gold have the most fascinating stories.  And these unbelievable Olympians have done what they've done without the left-leaning politics that seem to have permeated these games.

Guess I won't be rooting for Poland in these 2018 Olympics.  The recently enacted Media law says that it is forbidden to make public any statement that links Poland to Germany's evil in the Holocaust.  Up to three years in prison if you are caught saying "Polish death camps" out loud, especially through the press.  So let's keep this private.  Make sure not to pass this around... that the Poles were not innocent bystanders.  They were horribly complicit before, during and after.

Stop pretending the Olympics are about world peace.  The Olympics are the United Nations of sports — high-minded principles and feel-good sentiments exploited by hypocrites to the detriment of the cause of freedom.  The Olympics are great for athletes and for a network like NBC that ponied up billions for the rights to cover them.  They're sports for casual fans, and they make great television.  More than that, the games thrive because of notions about sports transcending conflicts that are essential to the Olympic myth.  The reason the North Korean gambit worked so well is because these fables have always been a load of baloney.  The worst example was the 1936 Berlin Olympics hosted by the Nazis.

The Disgrace of the Olympics.  The 2018 Winter Olympic Games have opened in the mountains of northeastern South Korea.  The next two weeks will showcase some of the finest athletes in the world: men and women who've trained relentlessly and, whether they win a medal or not, deserve our esteem and best wishes.  The United States has sent 244 competitors — 109 women, 135 men — and we have every reason to think they will bring credit to our country.  Yet we will not enjoy these games with an untroubled conscience.  Stories of sexual abuse and rampant cheating are everywhere in the news, both here and abroad — more so this year than in years past.  The Olympics have become so scandal-ridden and cynically unsportsmanlike as seriously to raise the question of why we continue them.

Maybe the Olympics should be held in a civilized country.
Olympic Venue Surrounded by Dog Meat Farms, Dog Soup on Menus Despite Protests.  The South Korean government offered restaurants serving dog-meat soup money to take it off the menu during the 2018 Olympic winter games taking place in Pyeongchang but most refused, according to media reports.

Black Lives Matter Goes to the Olympics.  Race became the National Football League theme this year, as a bunch of privileged young athletes, being paid millions of dollars for playing a game, supported by an organization worth $75 billion, found it necessary to take a knee against the National Anthem.  There they were, protesting the very country leaving them on the winning end of such income inequality.  The NFL season, thankfully, is in our rearview mirror for the next six months.  Ahead is the Winter Olympics.

Going for Broke — Can Los Angeles Afford to Host the Olympics?  By now you probably know that Los Angeles has the honor, or should I say heartburn, of hosting the 2028 Olympics.  Long gone are the days when such an announcement would fill the locals with pride, as it is now generally understood that local residences will have to put up with increased traffic, never-ending infrastructure headaches and a soul crushing financial commitment by the host city that gets little financial return for its investment.  Within moments of the announcement, the blogosphere was full of articles of how this could become a financial boondoggle for Los Angeles.

Chicago is still paying for its failed Olympics bid.  The site of the now-closed Michael Reese Hospital on the South Side was supposed to be where the athletes village for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Chicago.  But despite Barack Obama flying out to Copenhagen to personally plea for the games to be held in his hometown, the International Olympic Committee members chose Rio de Janiero.  Meanwhile Chicago taxpayers are in a familiar situation--paying for the expensive mistakes of the people they put in power.

Rio's Olympic warm-up pool has turned a disgusting shade of orange as the village continues to fall apart.  Rio de Janeiro spent about $4.6 billion to host the 2016 Summer Olympics.  Six months later, four months after the end of the Paralympic Games, the city's Olympic infrastructure is falling apart.  Over the weekend, the Brazilian news outlet O Globo published footage of various abandoned and decrepit Olympic venues.  According to O Globo, limited security has resulted in theft, and the ceilings are falling in.  Other venues appear to not have received any necessary upkeep.  Even the Maracana, Rio's Olympic stadium, is without power as city officials argue about who should pay the electricity bills.  Most shocking is a warm-up pool that has turned orange.

4 months after Olympics, organizers unable to pay some bills.  Almost four months after the Olympics ended, Rio de Janeiro organizers are unable to pay some of their bills, including $3.7 million owed to the International Paralympic Committee.

Three months after the Olympics, Rio de Janeiro is broke.  The state of Rio is broke.  It hasn't been able to pay its bills since long before the games.  A federal bailout kept police on the streets and hospitals open while Olympics tourists were in town.  But now the money has dried up, and public employees aren't being paid.  The state government is voting on an austerity package that could slash state workers' wages and pensions by 30 percent.  That's triggered violent protests and led demonstrators to briefly storm the state Legislature last month.  Meanwhile, crime is surging across the state.

Rio Olympic golf course eerily empty three months on.  Built specially for the Olympics on what had been a nature reserve next to the beach in western Rio, the links-style course was meant to convert Brazilians to a sport they barely know and put Rio on the international golfing map.  Instead, the $19 million facility created by star US designer Gil Hanse risks turning into a white elephant.

Europe's top Olympic official taken to maximum security prison.  International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Pat Hickey was sent to Brazil's Bangu maximum security prison on Friday while police investigate his involvement in a plot to illegally resell Olympic tickets, civil police said.  The elderly Irishman was arrested in his dressing gown during a dawn raid at his luxury beachfront hotel on Wednesday, where Hickey had been staying with his wife and fellow IOC members.  Police said they had discovered evidence linking Hickey to an international scheme to illegally pass tickets to touts who were reselling them at well above their original price.

Looks like Rio police were the biggest liars in the Lochte drama — if anyone still cares about the truth.  You heard it all weekend:  "Four American swimmers trashed a Rio bathroom in a drunken rage and then lied to investigators about an armed robbery to cover-up their story."  It's become conventional wisdom from network anchors trying to paint a rosy picture on a troubled Olympics to journalists who embrace the narrative of "ugly Americans" taking advantage of the downtrodden, third world Brazilians.  There's only one problem with this narrative:  It appears it's completely false.

British Athlete Robbed at Olympics, Officials Say.  A British athlete was robbed in Rio during the Olympics, according to officials.  'We can confirm there has been an incident of theft involving a Team GB athlete returning to their accommodation.  All members of our delegation, including the individual concerned, are accounted for, and are safe and well," Scott Field, a spokesman for Team GB, said in a statement to NBC News Thursday [8/18/2016].  No other details were provided.

Ryan Lochte, James Feigen Indicted in Brazil After Robbery Claim.  The U.S. Olympic Committee Thursday night apologized to Brazil for the "distracting ordeal" stemming from what Brazilian authorities call a fabricated claim of a gunpoint robbery by a group of swimmers in Rio de Janeiro.  "The behavior of these athletes is not acceptable, nor does it represent the values of Team USA or the conduct of the vast majority of its members," the statement said.  "We will further review the matter, and any potential consequences for the athletes, when we return to the United States."

Dozens of Robberies Caught on Video in Rio — in Broad Daylight.  It's actually not a new video — it's been making the rounds for several months — but it's shocking and informative nevertheless.  It shows mostly young males (in some cases very young boys) grabbing wallets and bags from people passing through a busy intersection in Rio.  In one instance, a two thugs appear to grab the necklace right off a man's neck, attacking him several times before they successfully get what they're after.  In some cases, fearful looking individuals just hand over their things to the robbers to avoid confrontations.

Olympics-Brazil judge orders U.S. swimmers not to leave country — daily.  A judge in Brazil has issued an order to prevent U.S. swimmers Ryan Lochte and James Feigen from leaving the country on the grounds they gave conflicting accounts of their robbery outside the Rio Games on Sunday, a Brazilian newspaper said on Wednesday [8/17/2016].

Olympic-Sized Climate Propaganda.  XXXI Olympiad competitors are joyfully showcasing their skills and sportsmanship, while delighted fans revel in their amazing efforts.  But opening ceremonies featuring colorful history, dance, song and athletes were rudely interrupted by an unprecedented propaganda film.  As audiences around the world were getting pumped up in eager anticipation for the upcoming events, a slick but deceitful video soured the mood by inserting partisan climate change politics.

If you're at the Rio Olympics, you've probably already been hacked.  While athletes head to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to compete for medals in the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, hackers in the area have their eyes on a different prize: the personal information of unsuspecting travelers.  According to a new report from mobile security firm Skycure, visitors to the former capital of Brazil are being targeted by malicious actors who have set up fake Wi-Fi hotspots designed to steal information from connected devices.  These phony wireless networks were spotted by Skycure around the city, but they were most prominent in locations where travelers were most likely to look for a place to connect, like shopping malls, well-known coffee shops, and hotels.

Olympic officials opt to drain green pool, say they learned 'painful lesson'.  After the diving pool was closed for a scheduled practice session Friday [8/12/2016], Germany's Patrick Hausding posted a couple of pictures, one holding his nose with the caption "Good morning from the green lake!"

Rio Olympics:  Green Pools Caused by Hydrogen Peroxide Dump.  Olympics officials on Saturday [8/13/2016] gave what they said was a definitive explanation why the water in two competition pools turned green this week.  Someone, the officials said, mistakenly added 160 liters of hydrogen peroxide on Aug. 5, neutralizing the chlorine and allowing the growth of "organic compounds" that might have included algae.  On Saturday, the water in the diving pool was still a murky bottle-green color, while the water in the second pool, used for water polo and synchronized swimming, had begun to look a bit lighter and a bit bluer.  Athletes have been complaining that the water or the chemicals treating it hurt their eyes, and that murkiness makes underwater visibility impossible.

Rio 2016: Food and Drink is Running Out.  There is not enough food and drink for visitors at the 2016 Rio Olympics, even though the Games started just six days ago.  Attendees queued for hours at food stalls, only to find that everything had run out when they reached the counter, reported the Sydney Morning Herald.  On Saturday [8/6/2016], food stalls at the Future Arena — where handball games are played — were forced to shut early because there were no more supplies left.

America First.  The Olympics tend to be the Island of Misfit Spectator Sports, showcasing competitions that got left by the wayside of popularity, such as volleyball and diving.  So every couple of years when the Olympics roll around, there is much grumbling about how outmoded they are.  Yet large numbers of people always seem to end up watching the Olympics anyway and having a good time.  Why?  Nationalism.

Olympians officially terrified of green '[foul]-smelling' water.  There's something in the water in Rio — and it's getting worse.  The Olympic diving pool was closed Friday morning [8/12/2016] as the water continues to be a disturbing, murky shade of green.  The concern for those who have been diving into the pool has grown as the problem persists.

Queasy, being green:  Olympic diving pool making the wrong kind of splash.  It's primordial, this pool.  You expect a cold, dead hand to come jutting up out of it.  The Olympic diving tank is dark and seemingly bottomless, and as a rule in life, nothing good grows or happens in dark-green water.  Things that are green and wet: spoiled kale.  Decomposition.  Industrial subatomic runoff.  Old ceiling leaks.  Dead seaweedy things that clutch at your ankle.  Would you wade in that, much less put your face in it?  Mothers all over the world are worried about that pool:  They know what the toddler section of a public aquatic park looks like late in the day.  Anyone who has stared at the bottom of an old fountain is worried about that pool.  "The swamp pool," British gold medalist Chris Mears called it.

Rio's infamous green diving pool closed.  The Olympic green pool saga has been through more twists and turns than the divers plunging into it.  On Tuesday [8/9/2016] the diving pool was green.  Then on Wednesday, the water polo pool also turned green.  Now on Friday it appears that the diving pool has been closed to training altogether — so as not to disturb the water and help it turn blue again.

Fake wi-fi hotspots at the Olympics.  A cybersecurity report reveals several fake WiFi hotspots have been set up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in order to take advantage of the influx of people attending the 2016 Olympics.  Skycure, a mobile security firm, found that places like Rio Galeão Airport are unaware they were inadvertently hosting several nefarious networks, according to Forbes.  In other words, tourists arriving in the city are leaving themselves vulnerable to hackers once they turn on their phones or turn off airplane mode.  Another report, published by Kaspersky Lab, discovered that 18 percent of the available networks were highly unsafe.  Another 7 percent used antiquated encryption technology.

Judo medalist beaten up while celebrating on Copacabana Beach.  Dirk Van Tichelt probably didn't envision one of the greatest days of his life ending in the hospital.  But that's exactly where the Belgian judoka found himself Monday night hours after winning his first-ever Olympic medal.  Van Tichelt won bronze in the 73-kg judo competition on Monday.  Naturally, he went off to Copacabana Beach that night to celebrate the achievement.  And that's where things went awry.  Van Tichelt was reportedly assaulted by a thief on the famous beach, and was struck in the face.  He was taken to the hospital after the incident.

The 2016 Olympics In Rio Are A Hotbed For Hackers.  A cybersecurity report reveals several fake WiFi hotspots have been set up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in order to take advantage of the influx of people attending the 2016 Olympics.  Skycure, a mobile security firm, found that places like Rio Galeão Airport are unaware they were inadvertently hosting several nefarious networks, according to Forbes.  In other words, tourists arriving in the city are leaving themselves vulnerable to hackers once they turn on their phones or turn off airplane mode.  Another report, published by Kaspersky Lab, discovered that 18 percent of the available networks were highly unsafe.  Another 7 percent used antiquated encryption technology.

Protesters Are Legally Allowed To Ruin The Olympics.  The Rio 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro may be in danger of constant disruption by protesters since a Brazilian federal judge ruled Monday night that protesters can peacefully voice dissent at the Games.  Brazilian Federal Judge João Augusto Carneiro Araújo decided that to block protesters from demonstrating their discontent with the Games is to prevent them from freely expressing themselves.  While Brazilians opposed to the Olympic Games see the judge's ruling as a victory for free speech, Olympic organizers will likely appeal the judge's decision.

Reports claim Olympic kayaker capsized after hitting underwater sofa.  The report, which immediately sparked the #kayaksofa hashtag on Twitter, was not corroborated by anyone else.  Nevertheless, the organizers are taking it seriously enough as to investigate it.

Olympic venues see thin crowds for some sports in Rio.  Olympic athletes have been competing in near empty venues and before thin crowds in other locations during the opening days of the Rio Games — a problem that can be traced to long security lines, traffic and a lack of familiarity in some sports.

Rio 2016: Two Australian coaches robbed at knifepoint by teens near Ipanema beach.  Two Australian rowing coaches were robbed at knife-point by teenagers in Rio, just before their athletes were due to compete, as they walked back to their hotel near the city's Ipanema beach.  The pair were forced to handover their mobile phones, a wallet and even an Olympic team jacket in the incident.

Olympic network NBC vows full Rio coverage, woes included.  Bob Costas and other top members of NBC's Olympics coverage team veered between optimism and caution in predicting Rio de Janeiro's ability to pull off a successful Summer Games and said NBC will cover the good and bad.

NBA stars get mega-yacht to avoid filthy Olympic digs.  Another reason the rest of the world will loathe Team USA. As leaking pipes and exposed wiring — to name two disasters — continue to plague the athletes settling into their digs at Rio's Olympic Village, Carmelo Anthony and his teammates will be resting their heads at night aboard a luxurious liner.  The Daily Mail reported on Wednesday that the Silversea Silver Cloud will house the US men's and women's basketball teams throughout the Games.  The 196-cabin, nine-deck supership boasts 7-foot beds and access to a pool, spa and shops.

U.S. Deploying Over 1,000 Military, Intelligence Officials for Olympics.  The United States is prepared to deploy more than 1,000 law enforcement, special operations, military, and intelligence officials to Brazil with the Olympics set to kick off Friday.  Hundreds of personnel have already arrived in Rio de Janeiro as part of a highly classified effort to protect the 2016 Summer Games, including American athletes and staff, according to a U.S. intelligence report obtained by NBC News on Friday.  The U.S. Special Operations Command has also sent more than a dozen highly skilled Navy and Marine Corps commandos to Rio to work with the Brazilian Federal Police and the Brazilian Navy, senior military officials told NBC.

Huge queues and angry fans mar the start of Rio Games.  The Rio Olympic Games got off to a shambolic start on Saturday [8/6/2016] as fans queued for hours at security checkpoints to enter venues, with some missing their events and many athletes competing in front of eerily empty stands.  Games organizers apologized for dropping the ball on the first day of full competition, the morning after a dazzling opening ceremony, as iconic venues such as beach volleyball on the famed Copacabana beach saw only a few hundred spectators.  Outside, lines stretched for several blocks as angry fans stood in full sun, waiting as security staff struggled.

Rio Olympic Golf Problems 2016: Capybaras, Crocodiles, Sloths All Over The Course.  After a 112-year absence from the Olympics, golf's return to the world's biggest sporting stage at the Rio games has hit a number of speed bumps.  The latest trouble:  the golf course is "overrun with wildlife," as People Magazine put it in a report Tuesday night [8/2/2016].  The list of critters spotted thus far on the course is impressive.  It includes sloths, mini crocodiles, boa constrictors, mico monkeys, burrowing owls and dozens of capybaras, the world's largest rodent.

Expert to Rio athletes: 'Don't put your head under water'.  Just days ahead of the Olympic Games the waterways of Rio de Janeiro are as filthy as ever, contaminated with raw human sewage teeming with dangerous viruses and bacteria, according to a 16-month-long study commissioned by The Associated Press.

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Intersex athletes to take center stage at Rio.  Caster Semenya is a South African runner who could emerge as one of the most compelling figures of the Rio Olympic Games.  She is favored to win gold at 800 meters while perhaps breaking track's longest-standing world record, even as her stunning speed is leading to uncomfortable controversy at the uncertain intersection of gender and athletics — and of human rights and athletic fairness.  Semenya has never said she is intersex — a word preferred to the stigmatizing hermaphrodite — but speculation follows her around the globe, her private parts a mortifying matter of public debate.  Track observers believe Semenya is hyperandrogenous, meaning her body naturally produces high amounts of testosterone, the hormone that helps build muscle, endurance and speed.

Athlete with No Womb or Ovaries but Internal Testes Will Compete with Women in Rio.  With reports of dead bodies and excrement floating in the water, the threat of Zika and the Russian doping scandal, the Rio Olympics appears the Frankenstein of athletic events.  And now Rio seems dopey in another way:  owing to political correctness, a runner with, reportedly, no womb or ovaries but internal testes will be allowed to compete with women.  This person is South African middle-distance competitor Caster Semenya.

Semenya wins gold in the 800 as testosterone controversy simmers.  The South African Caster Semenya, world champion in 800 meters in 2009, ran in 1:55.28 to become the Olympic champion with gold in Rio, as controversy still simmers over her condition of hyperandrogenism.

Rio Mayor Says What We're All Thinking: 'Obviously This Is a City That Has Problems'.  The Olympics are now just four days away, and the serious concerns about whether Rio is up to the task of hosting continue to mount.  Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes is already in damage control mode, blaming an international organizing committee for some of the problems in the Olympic Village.  In an interview with Matt Lauer on Today [8/1/2016], Paes finally said what we're all thinking:  "Obviously this is a city that has problems," Paes admitted to Lauer.

Australia hit again: computer, shirts stolen at Rio Olympics.  A laptop and team shirts have been stolen from Australia's accommodation at the Olympic athletes' village while the building was being evacuated because of a small fire, the head of the team's delegation at the Rio Games said Sunday [7/31/2016].  Kitty Chiller said other computer equipment was "rifled through" but was left behind during the theft on Friday.  She said security seems to have improved, but called the theft "concerning."

Explosion at Rio's Olympic stadium just days before opening ceremony.  An explosion has rocked the Olympic stadium in Rio just days before it's set to host the opening ceremony after police found a suspicious toolbox.  Authorities sent in a robot to investigate the toolbox on Sunday at the Maracana Stadium as rehearsals for the ceremony were underway.  The toolbox is believed to have exploded when the robot touched it.

Corpses, excrement, litter: welcome to Rio Olympic sailing venue.  When Olympic sailors compete in Rio the cameras will show a made-for-television scene of sparkling tropical waters and mountains.  Luckily, the billions of viewers won't catch the revolting stink.  More than nine million people live in Rio and towns around the rest of Guanabara Bay.  At best only half the sewage they produce is treated before it pours into the city's watery heart.

Brazil cuts ribbon on much-delayed $3B subway expansion crucial for Olympics.  Brazil's highest officials celebrated the completion of a much-delayed $3 billion subway expansion that will play a crucial part in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, holding a ribbon-cutting ceremony Saturday just days before the games are set to kick off.

Rio Olympics security firm fired, maligned police force takes over.  Less than a week before the 2016 Rio Olympics are set to start, the Brazil Ministry of Justice terminated its contract with a private firm that was supposed to provide security for the games.  The ministry cited "incompetence and irresponsibility" from the Rio de Janeiro-based firm Artel, and moved to strip them of their duties.  It's not hard to see why the Ministry of Justice reacted so harshly.  With only a few days left until the first venues are set to open, Artel admitted that they have only hired 500 security personnel.  They were supposed to hire 3,400.

Rio Athletes Village faces leaks, power outages; Australia refuses to move in.  Thousands of athletes arriving for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics could find major plumbing and electrical problems in their rooms at the Athletes Village with the games opening in just under two weeks.

American Jordan Spieth drops out of Rio over 'health' concerns.  Jordan Spieth withdrew from the Olympics on Monday [7/11/2016], leaving golf without its top four players when the sport returns to the games for the first time since 1904.  The decision was announced by International Golf Federation President Peter Dawson.

Armored cars, soldiers in camouflage secure Rio Olympics.  Rio's rising crime rate is at the top of a long list of problems confronting South America's first games:  the Zika epidemic, severe water pollution, a crushing recession and slow ticket sales.

'Super bacteria' discovered in Rio's waters as Olympics near.  A group of Brazilian scientists have detected a drug-resistant bacteria growing off of some of Rio de Janeiro's most stunning beaches, one month before the city is due to host the 2016 Olympic Games.  According to lead researcher Renata Picao, the "super bacteria" entered the city's waterways when sewage coming from local hospitals got channeled into the bay.

Brazil's Olympic Catastrophe.  On June 17, fewer than 50 days before the start of the Games, the state of Rio de Janeiro declared a "state of public calamity."  A financial crisis is preventing the state from honoring its commitments to the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the governor said.  That crisis is so severe, he said, it could eventually bring about "a total collapse in public security, health, education, mobility and environmental management."  The authorities are now authorized to ration essential public services and the state is eligible for emergency funds from the federal government.  Measures like these are usually taken for an earthquake or a flood.  But the Olympics are a man-made, foreseeable, preventable catastrophe.

Body parts wash up on popular beach near Rio Olympic venue.  Authorities in Brazil said Wednesday [6/29/2016] that body parts washed up on shore of a popular Rio de Janeiro beach near where the beach volleyball Olympic event is set to take place in August.  The latest gruesome discovery is another obstacle the city has to grapple with among the laundry list of concerns athletes and fans will have to deal with.  The finding was first reported to Brazilian media by a Rio street vendor.  A police officer standing near a security perimeter confirmed the discovery to Reuters.  However, it's unclear how the mutilated body wound up on Copacabana Beach.

Cops and Firemen Warn Olympics Visitors Rio Won't Be Safe.  When tourists arrive for the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro this summer, they might be taken aback by the police and firemen who meet them at the airport.  Brazil is in a state of disarray, and the confused priorities of big government have led to fire and police layoffs.  As a result, cops and firefighters meet tourists at the airport with this sign, "Welcome to Hell."  The sign adds, "Police and firefighters don't get paid, whoever comes to Rio de Janeiro will not be safe."  These public servants have been forgotten in the country's massive corruption scandal.

Rio de Janeiro's acting governor:  Olympics could be a 'big failure'.  The headache for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games organizers shows no signs of subsiding.  Six weeks before the Games are set to begin, Francisco Dornelles, the acting governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro, told the Brazilian newspaper O Globo that the state has not yet received recently-approved federal funds to beef up security and transportation for the quadrennial competition.  "I am optimistic about the games, but I have to show the reality.  We can make a great Olympics, but if some steps are not taken, it can be a big failure," Dornelles told O Globo.

Call for More Rio Security After Paralympic Athletes Robbed.  An estimated 85,000 police and soldiers will be patrolling the streets during the Olympics and Paralympics, but violent crime remains a fact of life in Rio.

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Next time, perhaps they should select a city that isn't saturated with criminals, that isn't going bankrupt, and doesn't have sewage in the river.

Rio state government declares financial disaster as Olympics loom.  The acting governor of Rio de Janeiro's state government declared a state of financial disaster Friday [6/17/2016] in an effort to change budgetary priorities without disrespecting Brazil's fiscal laws.  Francisco Dornelles' move will let him adopt exceptional measures to pay costs related to the upcoming Olympic Games as the state grapples with the country's steep economic recession.  Dornelles' office said in a statement that the decision was made because a dip in revenues from taxes and oil royalties was "stopping the state of Rio de Janeiro from honoring its commitment to the organization of the Olympic and Paralympic Games."  He said the state is facing a "public calamity."

Studies find 'super bacteria' in Rio's Olympic venues, top beaches.  Scientists have found dangerous drug-resistant "super bacteria" off beaches in Rio de Janeiro that will host Olympic swimming events and in a lagoon where rowing and canoe athletes will compete when the Games start on Aug. 5.  The findings from two unpublished academic studies seen by Reuters concern Rio's most popular spots for tourists and greatly increase the areas known to be infected by the microbes normally found only in hospitals.  They also heighten concerns that Rio's sewage-infested waterways are unsafe.

Trash creates obstacles for Rio 2016 Olympic sailors.  When Victoria Jurczok and Anika Lorenz rip through the water aboard their racing skiff, they are doing far more than sailing at the fastest possible speed.  The two athletes from the German Olympic Sailing team are also learning the unique currents, tides and wind patterns of Rio De Janeiro's Guanabara Bay, to try to get an edge when they compete in the upcoming Olympic Games.  And they are keeping a look-out for floating obstacles.  "Its possible you hit while sailing some plastic or you don't know what," says Jurczok, a 26-year old from Berlin.

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UN Health Agency Rejects Call to Postpone Rio Olympics.  The assessment, in a statement early Saturday [5/28/2016], came a day after 150 health experts issued an open letter to the U.N. health agency calling for the games to be delayed or relocated "in the name of public health."

Corruption, doping, instability:  Is it the end of the Olympic Games as we know them?  The ideals of the Olympics are noble and worthwhile.  In sports, nothing is better than the gathering of a peaceful, friendly competition, where the youth of the world can display the best in athletics that the planet can offer.  The corruption of Russia, through its state sponsored sanctioning of doping of their Olympians, threatens the entire institution and the games themselves.  Cheating and doping is nothing new.  It's been going on in Olympic competition for a long time, and it's not confined to Russia.  It's just much worse there, and now that it's unraveling, it is certain to have wide reaching effects and reverberations.

Stop the Olympics.  Discredited long ago by the very corruption and nationalism they were originally meant to transcend, the Olympic Games are embroiled in a wave of scandal that's embarrassing even by the sorry standards of this hypocritical "movement."  It's hard to say what's more outrageous: credible new allegations of a clandestine state-sponsored doping scheme carried out by the 2014 Winter Olympics' host nation, Russia — or the fact that the International Olympic Committee entrusted the event to a despotic regime run by a glory-hungry former KGB agent in the first place.  Meanwhile, the integrity of the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing — another dictatorship's showcase — has been retrospectively undercut by the discovery of previously undetected doping by a reported 31 athletes from 12 countries; similar findings may be about to taint the 2012 London Games.

U.S. Athletes Told to Skip Rio Olympics if Concerned About Zika.  The U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) has recommended that any athlete or trainer concerned about the Zika outbreak in Latin America should consider not attending the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.  Two anonymous sources told Reuters that the USOC issued the suggestion late in January on a teleconference call.  President and board chairman of USA fencing Donald Anthony said no person should travel if "they don't feel comfortable going.  Bottom line."

Can the Rio Olympics survive outbreak of head-shrinking Zika virus?  Rio's Olympics are on the verge of disaster as fear grows over the Zika virus, which has left more than 4,000 newborns with shrunken heads.  Female spectators and even athletes of childbearing age are being warned by countries and medical professionals around the world to reconsider their plans to travel to Brazil for fear of what could happen to their unborn children after the country was overrun by the mosquito-borne disease.

Why Boston's Sports Fans Rejected the Olympics Boondoggle — and L.A. Said Bring It On.  How Boston's rabid sports fans rejected the Olympics — and how chumps in Los Angeles enthusiastically stepped up to potential bankruptcy — is a tale worth understanding, especially the next time your city or state tries selling voters on a new stadium or venue for billionaire sports team owners.  The Summer Games routinely use billions of taxpayer dollars to throw the equivalent of a three-week-long international party that ends with a trashed house and a financial hangover that lasts for years. [...] As sports economist Andrew Zimbalist has noted, the Summer Games might generate $6 billion in total revenue, half of which goes to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) while costing the host city $20 billion (London) or even $40 billion (Beijing).  And don't think that any new stadiums or infrastructure will have much of an economic afterlife.

AP test: Rio Olympic water badly polluted, even far offshore.  A new round of testing by The Associated Press shows the city's Olympic waterways are as rife with pathogens far offshore as they are nearer land, where raw sewage flows into them from fetid rivers and storm drains.

Russia fights back after being slammed over doping.  The Russian government has begun fighting accusations that the country operated a vast state-sponsored doping program, even as the first punishment was handed down Tuesday [11/10/2015].

Russia used spies, secret lab in massive Olympics doping: report.  Russian track and field athletes could be banned from next year's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro after a devastatingly critical report accused the country's government of complicity in widespread doping and cover-ups.

Terror prep may be LA's biggest card in campaign for '24 Olympics.  Los Angeles' 2024 Summer Olympics bid has a lot going for it — ready-made venues and hotels, countless tourist attractions and a massive media market that guarantees top-notch coverage and a huge international audience.  But the ability to provide security against terror attacks may be LA's best card to play.

Audit: Boston Olympics would have cost $970M more than estimate.  A scathing independent audit of Boston 2024's Bid 2.0 ordered by state government leaders found the economic impact likely would have been lower than projected by Olympics supporters and the costs likely would have been at least $970 million higher, according to the report released today [8/18/2015.  "Past experience suggests that Boston 2024 would have been unlikely to meet those cost estimates, and a more reasonable cost estimate would have been over $970 million higher than reported in Bid 2.0.," the report said.

The Winter Olympics problem — nobody wants them.  Beijing has won the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.  Now all it needs is some snow.  China 's capital — a city with scant snowfall and a limited winter sports experience — was chosen last week to host the Games, beating out Almaty, Kazakhstan.  While Beijing boasts sparkling facilities left over from its 2008 Summer Games, the International Olympic Committee's decision perplexed many observers.  But the governing body may not have had a choice.  Despite the IOC's efforts to make bidding and hosting more appealing, some of the stronger possible host cities have shied away in recent years.

With only one year to go until the Rio 2016 Olympics there are major concerns over construction, security and pollution.  A year to go until Rio 2016 and there are still serious issues facing the organisers.  Pollution will top the agenda this week, mainly because sailors, rowers, triathletes and marathon swimmers are all in town for test events during August.  Yet there are also major concerns over security — London 2012 470 sailing silver medallists Hannah Mills and Saskia Clarke were held up at knifepoint and robbed last December on a training camp.

A Winter Olympics in a City Without Snow.  China's northern plain is extremely dry, and what precipitation that falls in the capital tends to occur during the summer.  Beijing's Olympic planners have assured the IOC this won't be a problem — the country will simply use artificial snow to accommodate events, such as skiing, that require it.

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What kind of "carbon footprint" will be required to cover the Olympic Village with snow?  One would think the environmentalists would be upset about this plan, yet they are all completely silent.

WHO and Sailing Body Seek Virus Tests in Rio Olympic Venues.  The World Health Organization has asked the IOC to analyze virus levels in Rio de Janeiro's Olympic waters, and the governing body of world sailing says it will start doing its own independent virus tests.

Filthy Rio water a threat at 2016 Olympics.  The waters where Olympians will compete in swimming and boating events next summer in South America's first games are rife with human sewage and present a serious health risk for athletes, an Associated Press investigation has found.

Olympic teams to swim, boat in Rio's filth.  Athletes in next year's Summer Olympics here will be swimming and boating in waters so contaminated with human feces that they risk becoming violently ill and unable to compete in the games, an Associated Press investigation has found.

No Countries Want to Host the 2022 Olympics.  Add Krakow to the growing list of cities who do not want to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.  The Polish city withdrew its bid this week after residents overwhelmingly voted against the plan, according to the Associated Press.  Now only four cities remain in the bidding process, and two of those may soon be ruled out — leaving only Kazakhstan and China as contenders.

Why Sochi?  In all the comment about this month's Sochi Olympics, there is bewilderment above all about Sochi itself:  Why on earth would the Kremlin decide to host the Games in an underdeveloped place where terrorists lurk nearby — a place that a front-page New York Times story this week describes as "the edge of a war zone"?

At the Sochi Olympics, you have to be a Russian politician to know it's not raining.  Ignore the attacks from the rear by the perfidious Western conspirators and propagandists, our common enemies who falsify their reports about the Sochi Games.  This great national festival has dissolved all dissent, and every fear and problem has been resolved.  The Olympics are gigantically staged, and a smiling mood reigns.  We see no evidence that it is raining here.

The Media's Most Outrageous Olympic Outbursts: Saluting the Socialists.  Sports fans checking in on coverage of Team USA at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia might want to brace themselves for unexpected outbursts of liberal preaching from reporters covering the games.  Over the years the [Media Research Center] has documented lefty reporters and writers using the games to celebrate socialist policies, bash expressions of patriotism and even work in jabs against Republicans, like when Bryant Gumbel, in 2006, complained that the "paucity" of black athletes "makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention."

Russian Village Used, Abused, and Forgotten by the Olympics.  If any one place embodies the allegations of corruption, abuse, and alarming human cost of the Sochi Olympics, it's here.  Ashtyr, a tiny, impoverished village in the foothills between the coastal and mountain parks where the upcoming Winter Games will be held, has been used by Olympic planners for its limestone deposits, suffered from the effects of nearby construction, and had its pleas for help ignored.

Olympic visitors' horror at hotels awash with stray dogs, brown water, bugs and no light bulbs.  Journalists checking in were left stunned as they arrived for bookings made last summer to be told they would have to wait indefinitely.  The few that did get rooms, were met with stray dogs, half-built walls, and toxic yellow water spitting from the sinks.

The many, many problems of the Sochi Olympics.  [Scroll down]  "The Sochi Olympics are an unprecedented thieves' caper," says former deputy prime minister and opposition leader Boris Nemtsov.  He claims that some $26 billion in phony costs may have been creamed off by contractors, many of whom are Putin cronies.  Consider the new 31-mile road and railway that run from the beachfront town of Adler to the Krasnaya Polyana ski resort, overseen by Vladimir Yakunin, a former KGB general and Putin pal who heads Russian Railways.

The Most Expensive, the Most Corrupt, and the Most Dangerous Olympics in History.  There is a good summation of the problems with the Sochi Winter Olympics by Frances Weaver in The Week today.  It's about what you'd expect from modern day Russia ruled by former KGB agent Vladamir Putin.  In fact, the Olympic movement hasn't seen anything remotely like it.  First, the cost:  $51 billion.  By contrast, the Vancouver Olympics in 2010 cost around $8 billion.

IOC Makes U.S. Hockey Goalie Remove Constitution From Mask Before Olympics.  The International Olympic Committee is requiring U.S. women's hockey goalie Jessie Vetter to remove an inscription of the U.S. Constitution from her custom mask.  The IOC says the inscription is propaganda which promotes the United States above other countries.

Messiah Obama Turns 2014 Winter Olympics into Sexuality Games.  Anyone who thought the Olympics was about sports competition among nations apparently was wrong, at least according to President Barack Obama.  Just like he has tried to reinvent America off her throne of greatness, Obama uses the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia to remake the games into a forum on gay rights.

Olympic outsourcing: Team USA snowboarders' uniforms foreign-made.  The newly-unveiled uniforms for the U.S. Olympic snowboarding team are star-spangled and red, white and blue — but they're not made in America.

Olympic-Level Corruption in Putin's Russia.  Last week, there were two amazing, related stories out of the Putin dictatorship.  In the first one, the brilliant Russian journalist Andrei Soldatov, who specializes in watching the Russian secret police, broke the deeply disturbing news that Putin is planning a massive campaign of eavesdropping on all attendees during the Winter Olympics to be held next year in Sochi, Russia.

Russia planning 'near-total surveillance' of visitors, athletes at Sochi Winter Olympics.  Security measures at the Sochi winter Olympics will include such extensive electronic eavesdropping and surveillance that the US State Department has advised Americans headed to Russia to leave smart phones and laptops at home, an investigation has revealed.  Research by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, two Russian investigative journalists who specialise in covering the security services, reveals a picture of near-total surveillance, Soldatov said.

The IOC's Biggest Scandals.  Juan Antonio Samaranch ruled the International Olympic Committee from 1980 to 2001.  Once a youth organizer for Spain's fascists, he was considered a pioneer in the modern Games.  He wanted to be called "Your Excellency."  He created bidding wars for the chance to host the Games, which also makes him the father of modern Olympic corruption, the architect of selling committee votes to the highest bidder.

Washington DC to Bid for 2024 Summer Olympics.  The inconveniences of the daily routine in the nation's capital will be a selling point as Washington, D.C., makes a push to host the 2024 Olympics.

D.C. bids for 2024 Summer Olympics; Capital tired of being snubbed.  Officials in Washington Tuesday announced plans to seek the 2024 Summer Olympics, a bid to finally bring the world games to one of the few major capital cities to never hold the event.

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The selection of the host city for the Olympics isn't about finding adequate sports arenas and hotels — it's all about politics.  Washington is run by left-wing Democrats, which makes it a perfect match for the Olympics, which promotes a massive world-wide government under which any given country is equivalent to any other.  The Olympics paints a picture of affirmative action on a global scale:  Obscure countries that produce nothing get the same standing as major countries that drive of the world's economy.

Enough with the Kumbaya Olympics. Let's keep wrestling.  The International Olympic Committee issued a surprise decision on Tuesday [2/12/2013] to exclude wrestling from the 2020 Olympic Games.  For a number of years, the committee has drawn fire for its lack of transparency.  With its secret vote to remove one of the original Olympic sports — one that dates back 2½ millennia to the first games in ancient Greece — it has added another decision that deserves scrutiny.

Women golfers rejoice after LPGA bars post-puberty males from female competition.  Multiple women's golfers came forward to praise and celebrate the LPGA's rule change on Wednesday that bars post-pubescent males from competing against females in pro competition.  The organization said in a news release that male players who have gone through male puberty are barred from competing in the LPGA Tour, Epson Tour, Ladies European Tour and all other elite LPGA competitions.  The new rule will go into effect for the 2025 season.  "Players assigned male at birth and who have gone through male puberty are not eligible to compete in the aforementioned events," the organization said.  "The policies governing the LPGA's recreational programs and non-elite events utilize different criteria to provide opportunities for participation in the broader LPGA community."

How To Stop Trans Insanity In Women's Sports.  The trans madness continues, as biological males continue to smash glass ceilings and female faces in women's sports.  This past Monday, a Marxist activist in a black robe decreed that neither civil rights nor biological science factor into his reasoning process, and that biological male Brayden Fleming has every right to continue playing for the San Jose Spartans girls volleyball team.  Brayden goes by his stage name Blaire, but I'll be referring to him as Brayden.  Without a hint of irony, judge Kato Crews opined that the delay caused by the filed injunction "would risk confusion."  Um...I'd say there's already plenty of "confusion" afoot, and not on the part of the plaintiffs. [...] At this point, if you still think men belong in women's sports, there are no conclusions we can logically draw other than you're a misogynist, you support sexual predators, or that you're on a postmodernist binge to destroy as much of Western culture and its social norms as possible.  You're despicable, and I have nothing more to say to you.  But, as with all things left, full steam ahead.  Neither election results nor public opinion nor established law nor the safety of innocents nor basic decency were ever serious impediments to a leftist with a Cause.  Yes, we have the Trump presidency due to arrive shortly, but even he will only be able to do so much to stop this madness.

Navratilova condemns New York Times for calling female athletes 'non-transgender women'.  Martina Navratilova has criticised The New York Times for describing biological females as "non-transgender women".  The description was included in a story about women's college volleyball teams forfeiting games against San Jose State University, which has a trans player in its line-up.  In the story, the outlet used the term "non-transgender women" when explaining the sport's rules on varying levels of testosterone.  The term has been met with a backlash by readers, among them Navratilova, a feminist campaigner and one of the greatest tennis players of all time.

Bravo to the brave women athletes who are standing up to trans madness.  A quiet revolt is stirring in women's sports:  Female athletes are saying "enough" and refusing to play unfair match-ups against biologically male opponents.  This season, woman volleyballers at the University of Wyoming, Utah State, the University of Nevada, Reno and Southern Utah have forfeited games against San Jose State instead of playing against a reportedly transgender athlete on the Spartans, Blaire Fleming.  The Boise State squad not only forfeited twice during the regular season, it made the painful decision to sit out the Mountain West Conference semifinals game against the Spartans.

Women's volleyball players urge judge to block transgender athlete from upcoming competition.  Twelve women's volleyball players asked a federal judge on Thursday to grant an emergency motion to block a transgender athlete from playing in next week's Mountain West Conference Volleyball Championship in Las Vegas.  "The evidence points in a single direction: allowing males to play women's volleyball violates women's Title IX rights," the athlete plaintiffs' attorney William Bock argued Thursday.  San Jose State University recruited Blair Fleming from Coastal Carolina University's NCAA Division I team in 2022 with the offer of a full scholarship.  Fleming, a transgender woman, played with permission from her athletic director and the Mountain West Conference, though her teammates say they didn't know her life history.  In 2022, the Mountain West Conference adopted a rule allowing schools to roster transgender athletes at their discretion.

High School Volleyball Team Cites the Bible as it Forfeits Playoff Game Against Opponent with Trans Player.  The diabolical madness that has consumed the Western world in recent years has once again stolen young girls' dreams.  Fortunately, these particular girls, though criminally betrayed by dishonest adults, care more for truth than for their own earthly glory.  On Friday, the girls volleyball team at Stone Ridge Christian High in Merced, California, cited the Book of Genesis in announcing via news release that it would forfeit Saturday's playoff game against San Francisco Waldorf, which boasts a male player posing as female.  "At SRC, we believe God's Word is authoritative and infallible.  It is Truth," the school explained in a statement posted to the social media platform X.

The Great 'Splainin' Cometh.  The Woke Democrats of recent times were our Jacobins, and the election of November 5, 2024, marks the kick-off of America's Thermidorian Reaction.  The crazies have been overthrown and our country awaits a restoration of norms in culture and law.  No more sexualizing of children, no more flood of criminal mutts across the US border, no more furtive censorship of public speech, no more creative lawfare, no more women on the battlefield, no more "anti-racist" racism in the workplace, no more intel takeover of everyone's private life... you get the picture. [...] The voters, subject to years of trips laid on them, were eventually able to see through all this induced psychodrama as to how they were being manipulated, and on November 5, they finally revolted.  Their quandary was probably epitomized by the absurdity of watching men in women's sports — spiking volleyballs on the girls' heads, bashing them on the lacrosse field, humiliating them in the swim lanes — and, more to the point, being helpless to do anything about it, because the officials in-charge under "Joe Biden" said it must be, no matter what you think and feel about what you are seeing.

Schools That Forfeited Volleyball Matches Asked to Pay 'Damages" To San Jose State University.  Two of the five schools which chose to cancel and forfeit their women's volleyball matches rather than compete against biological male player Blaire Fleming have been asked for money from San Jose State University (SJSU).  [Advertisement]  Boise State University (BSU) and Utah State University, have been asked by SJSU to pay the school $1,250 each to compensate for revenue lost when the matches were forfeited.  [The same advertisement again]  [Tweet]  [Advertisement]  According to emails obtained by Outkick in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to Boise State, SJSU Athletic Director Jeff Konya wrote to BSU Athletic Director Jeremiah Dickey asking that the school pay SJSU for the forfeit.

Unbelievable: Two 'Bearded Guys' Competed in a Women's Soccer Match.  Two women who think they're men competed in a women's soccer match in Spain, according to multiple reports.  The women are taking hormones to "transition" to live as men.  Reportedly, Club Esportiu Europa, based in Barcelona, played this past weekend.  Two players, Alex Alcaide Llanos and Nil Alcon Labella, are "transitioning" from female to male.  The New York Post noted that both players had "facial hair clearly visible" and that both are banned from playing in the men's leagues because they have not completed their transitions[.]

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I've got a news bulletin for you:  They will never complete their "transitions," because there is no way to change from a man to a woman or vice versa.  A man who dresses and acts like a woman is a transvestite, not a woman.

Female athletes lost staggering amount of medals to biological males, study finds.  Arguments about the rarity of men and boys stealing opportunities from women and girls crumbled as a United Nations report quantified the growing number of medals lost.  Too often, leftist claims of troubling matters being rare and of little consequence have proven to be neither.  Now, according to the findings of U.N. special rapporteur Reem Alsalem, such was the case for gender ideology's impact on sports as nearly 900 medals that would have been awarded to females had gone to males as of March 2024.  In the report initially published in August, Alsalem indicated, "The replacement of the female sports category with a mixed-sex category has resulted in an increasing number of female athletes losing opportunities, including medals when competing against males."

Hundreds of female golfers demand removal of transgender player Hailey Davidson.  Hundreds of female golfers have complained about the participation of Scottish-born transgender player Hailey Davidson in the penultimate stage of the LPGA Tour's qualifying competition.  Davidson, a 31-year-old professional originally from Ayrshire but now based in Florida, has said that the intention is "to make Scotland proud" by earning a card on the women's premier circuit.  But after progressing through August's first stage of Q-School, the former player on a US male college team was accused of acting "unfairly", with Amy Olson, a two-time major runner-up, railing against Davidson being allowed to compete.  "These women have worked too hard and too long to have to stand by and watch a man compete for and take their spot," she said.  It has now emerged that this view was held by many in the field, with the International Women's Forum revealing that 275 signed a letter sent to the LPGA, the US Golf Association and the International Golf Federation, urging Davidson's removal from the tournament.

Kamala Harris can no longer hide from her dangerous stance on men playing in girls' sports.  For over a decade now, the issue of trangenderism has gained increasing prominence in American politics, which is natural when personal choices begin to intersect with public policy, and for Vice President Kamala Harris, it has risen above the surface at the worst possible time.  There have always been policy concerns around the idea that men can simply decide they are women.  There were questions about women's shelters and prisons, locker rooms and bathrooms, but nothing puts quite as fine a point on the issue as men competing in women's sports.

Fifth Women's Volleyball Team Chooses to Forfeit Rather Than Play Against a Biological Male.  Collegiate women's volleyball is in crisis over transgenderism.  A fifth volleyball team has decided to forfeit a match rather than play against San Jose State University (SJSU), which features Brayden (aka Blaire) Fleming, a male-born player who now claims to be female.  Thus far, the list of teams to forfeit rather than play against Fleming includes Southern Utah, Boise State, Utah State, and Wyoming.  Unlike the other forfeits, the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) team made quite clear why they wouldn't be playing SJSU. [...] As with the previous forfeits, politicians joined the conversation.  U.S. Senate candidate Sam Brown used it as a way to target his Democratic opponent, incumbent Jacky Rosen.  "Jacky Rosen VOTED to allow biological men in GIRLS' sports, betraying every female athlete.  As parents, this issue is personal," Brown posted on X.

Georgia University Leaders Ask NCAA to Ban Transgender Athletes From Women's Sports.  The regents who govern Georgia's 26 public colleges and universities voted Tuesday to ask the NCAA and the National Junior College Athletic Association to put a ban in place on transgender athletes participating in women's sports.  The vote was unanimous.  Reportedly, the vote was instigated by Republican Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones' oath to ban men who think they are women from women's sports[.]

Boise State Women's Volleyball Forfeits Match Against Team with Male Player.  The Boise State women's volleyball team has forfeited an upcoming match against San Jose State University (SJSU) amid controversy over a male member of that team.  Boise State released a statement to Outkick announcing their decision.  [Advertisement]  "Boise State volleyball will not play its scheduled match at San José State on Saturday, Sept. 28," the statement said.  "Per Mountain West Conference policy, the Conference will record the match as a forfeit and a loss for Boise State.  The Broncos will next compete on Oct. 3 against Air Force."  [Advertisement]  Boise State is the second team to forfeit a match against San Jose State this month.  [Advertisement]  While Boise State's statement did not explicitly mention the male athlete, it is known that Blaire Fleming, a transgender player who transferred from Coastal Carolina, is on the San Jose State roster.  [Tweet with video clip]

School Bans Parents Wearing XX Wristbands From Girls' Sports Event.  Sometimes people can take the entire idea of complying with ridiculous government mandates several bridges too far.  That appears to have been the case during a recent sporting event held in New Hampshire.  A girls' soccer game was scheduled between Plymouth Regional High School and their rival Bow High School.  Bow High School was fielding a boy who "identifies" as a girl to compete, but when the Plymouth Regional parents heard about this, they asked the Bow High athletic director to withdraw the boy from the roster.  He refused, saying that "his hands were tied" by a federal ruling allowing anyone who "identifies as female" to compete.  Having run out of other options, the parents decided to wear red wristbands to the match that were marked with two letter "X" symbols, signifying the women's chromosomes shared by all females as a silent protest.  That wasn't good enough for the Bow High School team who insisted that the wristbands be removed.  The parents refused.  That's when they called the police and had the offending parents removed from the venue.

Valentina Petrillo's Paralympics was a victory for sport's cowardice masked as inclusion.  After seeing the beauty of these Games defaced by the spectacle of Valentina Petrillo, a 51-year-old father-of-two, taking semi-final places in female sprinting from two women barely half the Italian's age, you might have expected Andrew Parsons, president of the International Paralympic Committee, to commit — at the very least — to a review of the ridiculous policy that let this happen.  Instead he seemed, at his closing press conference, almost to celebrate it as a watershed.  "When it comes to transgender athletes, they are breaking barriers everywhere," Parsons said. [...] The IPC knew about the Petrillo case:  after all, at last year's World Championships, this self-declared "trans dad" had won two bronze medals as a woman in the 200m and 400m for visually impaired runners as a woman.  But rather than intervening, they sat back and did nothing, only to acclaim Petrillo's presence in Paris as a breakthrough.

We need to kick men out of women's football.  It's a shame that whenever women's sport makes the headlines these days, it's often because a man has ruined it.  Over the weekend, a South East Regional Women's League football match became national news not due to the hard work and dedication of the players, but because of a biological male intruding on their sport.  On Sunday, Sutton United's women's team were due to play an away game against Ebbsfleet.  But just a few hours before kick-off, Sutton called the match off, citing their inability to field enough players.  Though Sutton didn't say why, the Telegraph reports it is 'understood that the cancellation was related to increasing disquiet' over the team's newest recruit.  Sutton's sudden inability to field a team came hours after news broke that they had signed a transgender goalkeeper — 34-year-old, six-foot-tall Blair Hamilton.

Female darts players threatened with disciplinary action for refusing to play transgender rivals.  Female darts players have been threatened with disciplinary action if they refuse to play transgender opponents.  Almost four months after a British female player forfeited a match against a trans woman at a World Darts Federation event, the governing body has begun a controversial crackdown on such protests.  Ahead of announcing the provisional fields for this year's World Championship, the WDF said in a statement: "The WDF wishes to clarify its position on player withdrawals.  "Once the first dart has been thrown in a tournament, any player that subsequently withdraws from playing a match may be considered to be bringing the game into disrepute and could face disciplinary action.  "This stance has been taken to suitably protect our member countries, their tournaments and tournament sponsors, as well as to preserve the integrity of the WDF ranking system."

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What they're saying is that the normal people — the ones who still have common sense — are "bringing the game into disrepute."  What reputation is being developed or preserved here?

IOC: Zero Scientific Way to Identify Female Athletes.  The president of the International Olympic Committee stunned reporters when he declared there is zero chance of using science to identify a woman.  The question came amid growing outrage after two male boxers were allowed to compete in the Paris games as women.  Scientifically speaking, XX does not equal XY.

Science Brings Nuance To The Problem Of Bio-Male Athletes.  The Olympic controversy in Paris surrounding biological men competing in women's boxing brought the Gender Wars to the attention of millions around the world, as two medals in women's boxing are poised to land around the necks of two bio-males:  Algerian Imane Khelif and Taiwanese Lin Yu-ting.  That says it all.  Or does it?

The Erasure of Women in Sports.  Originally, the 1972 Title IX of the Education Amendments permitted "separate but comparable toilet, locker room, and shower facilities on the basis of sex." [...] The Biden/Harris changes to the Title IX amendment that just went into effect on August 1, 2024 will change women's sports forever.  The left's militant expansion of its ideas never ends.  In true progressive fashion, definitions of words change in order to drive radical ideas into the public square.  Thus, sex is redefined to "force schools to create special privileges based on gender identity."  In essence, Title IX is completely undermined.  In fact, the term "gender identity" is a term that was never mentioned in the original law.  Consequently, the updated 1,500-plus-word document seeks to erase women.  It will force colleges and universities that accept federal funding to "embrace the cultural radicalism of the left."

Where do you draw the line on biological men competing in women's sports?  Olympic boxing sunk to a new low last week.  An Algerian boxer with XY chromosomes — the ordinary definition of "male" — and commensurate male testosterone levels — beat up a woman in front of thousands of cheering spectators.  The woman who was beat up had to quit 46 seconds into the match, apparently with a broken nose.  In tears, she said in her native Italian "not fair, not fair" and explained afterward that she'd "never been hit so hard in my life."  The XY boxer was declared the winner.  Yesterday, the XY boxer won again in a decision where all three judges favored the XY boxer in all three rounds — it was effectively a 9-0 decision — and is headed toward the finals as a clear favorite for the gold medal.  This XY person had previously been disqualified from competition by the International Boxing Association for having tested positive for XY chromosomes and testosterone levels well above the normal range for women — and within the normal range for men.  But the International Olympic Committee disregarded those tests in a feud between them and the IBA.  The IOC says the XY has a passport with "female" checked on it, and that's good enough for them.

The simple way to protect women's sport at the Olympics.  The International Olympic Committee (IOC) needs to find some far better answers to the transgender question if it is to restore its credibility in eyes of those who care about women's sport.  We might not have the spectacle of Laurel Hubbard — the transgender weightlifter who displaced a woman from the last games in Tokyo — but the debate is far from settled.  Some potential transgender competitors, such as the American swimmer Lia Thomas or British cyclist Emily Bridges, were excluded ahead of the Games in Paris by their own governing bodies.  There was no place for them there.  That is a good thing.  Nobody is excluding Thomas, Bridges or any other male transsexual from competing altogether; rather the rules quite rightly prevent them from competing in categories reserved for the female sex.  But, nevertheless, a row has blown up over two boxers, Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan, who — according to the president of the International Boxing Association (IBA) — have taken DNA tests that 'proved they had XY chromosomes and were thus excluded from the [women's] sports events'.

Female volleyball player, 17, left paralyzed with brain damage by transgender opponent who 'cackled with delight' after knocking her to ground.  A volleyball player left partially paralyzed by a transgender opponent has slammed the Olympics over its boxing controversy.  Payton McNabb was 17 when a ball spiked by a trans opponent with force struck her in the face, threw her to the ground and shut off her consciousness.  The 5ft 11in trans player cackled in delight, Ms McNabb said, after sending her to the floor.  As did other players in the opposite team.  Ms McNabb was left with brain damage and paralysis on her right side, which ended her dreams of getting a volleyball college scholarship and has made it difficult to walk without falling.

Italian Female Boxer Lasts Just 46 Seconds Against Fighter Who Failed Gender Test.  Forty-six seconds.  That was the sum total of time a female Italian boxer lasted in the ring at the Paris Olympics before she retired from a bout against an Algerian fighter caught in an eligibility furore.  Twenty-five-year-old Imane Khelif was cleared to compete at the 2024 Olympics, even after being disqualified from the International Boxing Association (IBA) 2023 World Boxing Championships for failing gender-eligibility tests, according to Fox News.  The International Olympic Committee, which uses different criteria to determine eligibility, ruled Khelif eligible to compete.

Algerian boxer in Olympic gender row wins in 46 seconds.  Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who failed a gender eligibility test last year, won her opening bout at the Paris Olympics in just 46 seconds on Thursday against her distraught opponent.  Khelif advanced to the quarterfinals of the women's 66 kg category after unloading two strong punches on Angela Carini, who shrugged off attempts by the Algerian to shake her hand and collapsed to her knees in floods of tears.  An Italian coach said Carini had suffered a badly hurt nose and the official decision was listed as an abandonment.  Khelif and Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting, who fights on Friday at 57kg, were disqualified from the world championships last year but deemed eligible to box in the women's competition in Paris.

Brittney Griner reveals she wants her newborn son to call her 'POPS' not mom, leaving fans to question 'why is he in the WNBA?'.  WNBA star Brittney Griner revealed a controversial name she wishes her newborn son to call her.  Griner and wife Cherelle welcomed their first child together 19 months after the WNBA star's release from a Russian penal colony.  The 33-year-old revealed over the WNBA All-Star weekend that their baby boy had arrived, admitting she is over the moon to welcome their bundle of joy to the world.  However, the basketball star also revealed that she did not wish to be known as 'mom', opting instead for 'pops'.

The trans superiority narrative.  Trans lunacy is forcing its way into every aspect of life, but is perhaps most obvious in sports, where we are told there are no differences between boys and girls/men and women.  Mediocre male athletes, who competing against males would have no chance to win, pretend to be female and suddenly become champions.  There is no right to deprive females of their athletic accomplishments and scholarships.  Reality imposes itself when females identify as male and try to compete with men.  In those cases, females aren't winning, yet if there are no differences between men and women, shouldn't they be champions?

Bush-Appointed Judge Blocks Biden's New Title IX Rule in 6 More States.  A Kentucky federal judge blocked the Biden administration Monday from implementing its Title IX expansion for LGBTQ+ students in six states.  Bush-appointed U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves sided with Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman's lawsuit against the United States Department of Education in blocking the Biden administration's new Title IX rule in Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia, according to the court documents.  The new Title IX rule, set to take effect on Aug. 1, 2024, expands protections for LGBTQ+ students by preventing discrimination based on "gender identity."  The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, and it alleges "the Department has used rulemaking power to convert a law designed to equalize opportunities for both sexes into a far broader regime of its own making."  Reeves limited the injunction to the six plaintiff states.

Behold the Monster You Created.  [Scroll down]  Well, my friends.  You miscalculated.  You supported the LBGTQ agenda without question when it was being shoved in the noses of uppity Christians.  But you have since discovered that what "love is love" really means is that mediocre males are allowed to dominate women's sports (and invade their locker rooms) and that you are expected to applaud along.

Federal Judge Rules Texas Can Ignore Joe's New "Guidelines".  Biden doesn't seem to learn his lesson even after his leftist pet projects fail upon judicial scrutiny. [...] The judge's 112-page ruling hammered Biden's Education Department Title IX changes and the overarching gender and sexual orientation ideology.  U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Texas Reed O'Connor stated that nothing in the statute expressly prohibits discrimination based on gender identity or other unexpressed grounds.  "And where Title IX allows for differentiation based on sex due to biological differences — such as intimate facilities and athletic teams — recipients may treat persons in accordance with their biological sex without regard to subjective gender identity," O'Connor ruled.  The Texas lawsuit followed a June 22, 2021, Education Department memo changing how the federal entity interprets the Title IX prohibition on discrimination "on the basis of sex."  The new guidance included discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity as part of the interpretation.

Swiss Court Confirms "Lia" Thomas Is a Dude and Therefore Cannot Compete Against Actual Women at the Olympics.  Former collegiate swimmer and current conservative activist Riley Gaines shared excellent news following a Swiss court ruling against Lia Thomas, the male swimmer pretending to be a woman so he can demolish the sport at every level. [...] Thomas dominated women's collegiate swimming at Penn State, winning the national championship in 2022 by competing against girls despite being a 6'1" man.  But World Aquatics, swimming's international federation, established a policy against men competing against women in "elite" events, including the Olympics.  For now, the Swiss court ruling will keep Thomas from living out his female fantasies at the highest level of his sport.

At WNBA Ceremony, Biden Urges America to Support the Women's Sports He's Destroying.  In previous years, people might have missed the irony.  But not now — not after the meteoric rise of women's basketball.  When the WNBA champs visited the White House last week, reporters didn't cover it out of obligation.  They covered it because it was a real story.  And President Joe Biden's betrayal of girls' sports only made it more of one.  The timing of the photo op couldn't have been more politically inconvenient for the president, whose administration has been lit up by lawsuits over the dismantling of the very thing the team was there to celebrate — women.  While Biden was applauding the champs for "showing that the future of women's sports is brighter than the Vegas lights," most people couldn't help but notice how utterly disingenuous he was being.  After all, Biden is the one trying to eradicate 52 years of women's progress.  He's the one insisting biological men make better girls than our daughters.  And it was his idea — not Congress' — to turn Title IX into a manifesto of transgender rights.

Women Forced to Compete Against Men?  Just Say No!  During the Reagan presidency years, one of first lady Nancy Reagan's initiatives was the "Just Say No" approach to drug abuse. [...] Another social pathology, not much of an issue in the 1980s, is transgenderism.  LGBTQIA2S+ and whatever additional letters are needed to make the letter salad current and incoherent, wasn't a buzzword during Reagan's years.  In the 1980s, no person of rational mind believed men could become pregnant or breastfeed, that men should use women's bathrooms or locker rooms, or that men could fairly compete against women in sports.  But here we are in 2024, when these concepts are in many quarters, as seemingly normal as sunrise and sunset.

Lawyer up, Republicans.  Late Friday night, Sarah Parshall Perry of the Heritage Foundation wrote, "The Department of Education just released its long-delayed Title IX rule — a rewrite of the 50-year-old civil rights law so vast that it promises to turn Title IX's guarantee of sex equality in education completely upside down. [...] Most of the attention to this unconstitutional legislation by a president — not Congress — has focused on turning over women's sports to trannies and drag queens.  But Biden's Law — and hold him, not bureaucrats, responsible for this travesty of justice — also strips men accused of rape of their rights to due process and the presumption of innocence.  She's a lawyer and she ended her column on a positive note:  "The Independent Women's Law Center has already indicated it is readying a lawsuit against the Department of Education.  Others are likely to follow.  Let's hope so."  That's good because for once conservatives are fighting back.  Well, MAY fight back.  Democrats would have gotten an emergency national injunction from a Hawaiian judge over the weekend.

Biolgical Girls Refuse To Throw The Shot Put Against A Biological Male In West Virginia.  Five middle school female athletes in West Virginia refuse to throw shot put against a male, Becky Pepper-Jackson.  This comes just 2 days after the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the WV law that says you must compete in the category that matches your sex.  West Virginia's transgender sports ban violates the rights of a teen athlete under Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools, an appeals court ruled Tuesday.  [Video clip]

WV Middle-School Girls Protest, Refuse to Compete With Transgender Athlete.  As my colleague Jeff Charles reported, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down West Virginia's "Save Women's Sports" law, saying it violated transgender student Becky Pepper-Jackson's right to compete with the school's women's track and field team.  [Advertisement]  [Tweet]  The ACLU brought the original suit in 2021 on behalf of Pepper-Jackson, and they are celebrating it as a victory.  Former collegiate competitive swimmer and activist Riley Gaines took to X to speak out against the ruling and excoriate the ACLU.  [Tweet]  The texts from the young female athletes expressed their fear, disappointment, outrage, and anger over this violation of their rights and safety.

Biden Admin's Title IX Rewrite Obliterates Female Spaces, Free Speech, And Due Process.  The Biden administration's Department of Education unveiled a sweeping set of rules on Friday that effectively erase protections for sex-based spaces by expanding the Title IX prohibition against sex discrimination to include "gender identity" — a term that's never mentioned in the original law.  A majority of Americans agree that males who claim to identify otherwise should not be allowed to infiltrate girls' and women's sports teams.  As of now, some 25 states have laws or regulations aimed at keeping boys and men out of female-only spaces, on and off the field.  Yet, come Aug. 1, the Democrat regime's radial redefinition of "sex-based discrimination" poses a threat to sex-based protections and welcomes males into female spaces including athletic competitions, locker rooms, and sex-specific clubs such as sororities, despite state laws.

Critics Blast Biden's New Title IX Regulations Championing 'Gender Identity'.  On Friday, the Biden administration released its new Title IX regulations, and its strictures engendered anger and outrage for those defending traditional values.  The document, which runs over 1,500 pages, states that the Department of Education "disagrees with the contention that including sexual orientation and gender identity in the scope of §106.10 harms women.  Recognizing these bases of sex discrimination under Title IX in no way lessens the force of Title IX's protections against discrimination that limits educational opportunities for girls and women.  Further, discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity is typically motivated by the same sex stereotypes that limit opportunities for women regardless of whether they identify as LGBTQI+."

Biden Admin Adds 'Gender Identity' as Protected Class in New Title IX Rules.  The Biden administration on Friday released its long-anticipated rewrite of Title IX, but left out any mention of transgender-identifying male athletes in women's sports.  The Biden administration's draft proposal included a radical revision that would have forced forced federally funded educational institutions to allow men to compete on their women's sports teams unless they demonstrate it compromises student safety.  Under that rule, the burden of proof would have been shifted to schools, which in effect would have to create separate policies for every sport.  But with the 2024 contest against former president Donald Trump in full swing, the Biden administration opted to punt on the issue of males competing in women sports.  With so much litigation surrounding the issue, it's unclear when the trans sports guidance will come down.

Federal Court Overturns West Virginia Law Protecting Women's Sports from Male Intrusion.  A federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned a West Virginia law that prohibits male athletes from competing in women's sports in the state, arguing that it violates Title IX, the federal law barring sex-based discrimination in schools.  In a 2-1 ruling, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals allowed transgender-identifying males to participate on women's sports teams in the state.  This was one of several pending lawsuits addressing the issue of male participation in women's sports, with both sides laying claim to Title IX to support their cases.

Nadler Claims No Men Are in Women's Sports.  As leftists go about remaking reality to suit themselves or fooling themselves into thinking they're getting away with doing so, there are still a few pockets of resistance here and there.  But Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-New York SSR) has just done his part to shore up the party line, insisting that "men do not compete in women's sports."  Back in the real world, meanwhile, men who demand that the world treat them as women have now won nearly 300 titles in female sporting events.  LifeSite News reported Tuesday that during a recent congressional hearing, Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-Wyo.) "wanted to enter into the record stats on females injured by male athletes as well as stolen titles." [...] If the record books could remind the public of such distinctions, why not notify them also when the holder of a women's sports title was really a dude?

Men who claim to be 'transgender' have won nearly 300 titles in female sports.  Gender-confused men have won nearly 300 titles in female sports, according to the website SheWon.org.  But a leading Democratic congressman denies not just biological reality, but this reality as well.  "Men do not compete in women's sports," far-left New York Democratic congressman Jerry Nadler claimed during a congressional hearing several weeks ago.  "Transgender women [sic] may compete in women's sports," he said.  However, it is a biological fact and moral truth that no one can change his or her gender.  He said he objected to entering "mistruths" into the congressional record.  Republican congresswoman Harriet Hageman of Wyoming wanted to enter into the record stats on females injured by male athletes as well as stolen titles.  SheWon.org has cataloged the stolen titles, proving that men, in fact, do compete in women's sports.

WI Dem.  Gov. Tony Evers Vetoes Bill to Protect Girls' Sports from Trans Athletes.  Wisconsin's liberal Democrat Gov. Tony Evers arranged a showy veto ceremony Tuesday to deny passage to a bill that would protect girls' sports in the Dairy State.  The bill would have banned transgender students from picking and choosing which team aligns with their gender identity at any given time and would have restricted them to playing on teams that align with their birth gender, the Milwaukee Sentinel reported.  Evers put his veto on the bill in the state capital in Madison surrounded by progressive Democrats and extremist trans activists.  [Tweet]

Female Swimmers Sue NCAA over Male Competition, Demand Return of Trophies, Monetary Damages.  A group of female athletes on Thursday sued the National Collegiate Athletics Association for permitting male intrusion into their sex-specific sports and private spaces.  Spearheaded by the Independent Council on Women's Sports, the lawsuit accuses the NCAA and Georgia Tech — the site of the 2022 NCAA Swimming Championships, where male University Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas won the 500 meter freestyle — of knowingly violating Title IX.  That federal statute prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in educational institutions that receive federal funding, serving as the basis for sex-segregated school athletics.  The lawsuit, first reported by the Free Press, demands that males be disqualified from participating in women's sports.  It asks the NCAA to rescind awards given to trans athletes in women's competitions and to "reassign" them to the female players who lost trophies and titles to the men.

Letting trans players participate in girls' and women's sports is a ticking time bomb.  Another day, another example of how our illiberal "inclusivity" mandates are taking a jackhammer to the integrity and fairness of female athletics.  We've seen it in golf, swimming, skateboarding, cycling, surfing and volleyball.  The latest entry for the women's sports hall of shame happened on the hardwood.  During a girl's hoops game earlier this month in Massachusetts, Collegiate Charter School in Lowell forfeited a game against KIPP Academy at halftime because they had three players go down with injuries.  The team, already battered and bruised, wanted to preserve themselves for the upcoming playoffs, according to the school's athletic director.  An official statement from the school read, "In an effort to maintain safety for his team, [the coach] decided to forfeit."  There was no mention that KIPP's squad, according to the Daily Item, has a biological male player standing "more than 6 feet tall with facial hair" who identifies as female, reports Fox News.

High school basketball game ends after multiple girls get injured by 6-foot-tall player "with facial hair".  "He has a playoff game on Monday, so he didn't want to have any more of his girls go down."  That's a real quote from Collegiate Charter School of Lowell Athletic Director Kyle Pelczar.  His girls' basketball team had to forfeit at halftime because of stuff like this:  [Tweet with video clip] 

Finally! A swim mom speaks out about perversity in the pool!.  Astute viewers of Rebel News are no doubt aware that the Nicholas Cepeda fiasco continues to fester.  Cepeda is the 50-year-old man who "identifies" as a 13-year-old girl (his alias is Melody Wiseheart), and claims he's a "transwoman."  This charade allows Cepeda to swim and change and shower with REAL teenage girls.  It's gross.  But even more gross is the fact that this gender-bending grifter is being accommodated by the authorities.  [Video clip]  Apparently, Cepeda is an example of diversity, equity and inclusion — at least according to Canada's human rights tribunals (which identify as kangaroo courts). Indeed, swimming's international governing body, World Aquatics, decreed last year that trans swimmers must swim in a "other" category — not that any trans swimmers showed up to compete at the World Swimming Championships last October in Berlin, Germany.  Golly, why would that be?  Maybe for some of these creeps it's less about competing in the pool and more about getting into the changeroom and shower?  Then again, maybe we have it all wrong.  Maybe there is a valid reason why a 50-year-old male should be deemed a teenage female.  But Swim Ontario won't respond to our questions.

The 'Black National Anthem' Gets Almost Non-Existent Applause from Super Bowl Audience.  The "Black National Anthem" — "Lift Every Voice and Sing" — was played yet again during Super Bowl LVIII, as it has been before during the last few Super Bowls.  One big difference between this year's edition and years past, however?  This year, the "Black National Anthem" didn't get much applause.  In fact, the massive crowd in attendance at the biggest football game of the year didn't react much at all. [...] When is the NFL going to get wise?  There is only one national anthem.

Scientists Shocked to Discover That Male and Female Athletes are Different!  It was once a commonsense belief and universal truth that men and women, boys and girls, are different, especially in the realm of athletics.  With rare exceptions, men and women compete in their own categories, from high school level through college to the Olympic games and professional sports.  Mixed competitions place women and men on the same team, such as mixed doubles in tennis, or dancing, either in the ballroom, or on ice.  Equestrian sports are an exception, but the fact that a horse is a major part of the sport reduces the sex difference between competitors.  Based on strength and power, two major determinants of success for many sports, males have a clear advantage over females.  For decades, this was not in dispute with rare exceptions, the most notable that of tennis player Renee Richards.

Florida high school [is] punished [and] fined thousands for allowing [a] boy to play on [the] girls' volleyball team.  A Florida high school was fined and put on probation for allowing a boy to compete in girls' sports, a violation of state law.  The Florida High School Athletic Association reportedly informed Monarch High School and its principal that the school "permitted a biological male to participate on the girls volleyball team during the 2022-2023 and 2023-24 Girls Volleyball seasons," a violation of the law, the Daily Signal reported.  This followed an investigation that was started approximately two weeks prior, when the Broward County Public Schools district reassigned several staff members while the district looked into the incident.  The letter to the school's principal stated the school violated Bylaw 8.6.2, which states that "biological males may not participate on a female team in any sport."

AOC says preventing trans athletes from competing against women is racist against black women.  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioned Fatima Goss Graves during a hearing on Title IX on Tuesday, and claimed that boys should be allowed to compete in girls' scholastic athletics because preventing them from doing so would not only be transphobic, but racist against black women.  AOC believes men should be allowed to compete against women in order to protect women, specifically black women, despite so many women and girls having suffered injuries at the hands of male athletes who say they are trans and compete in women's athletics, and women losing out on awards, prizes, or scholarships as a result of men beating them in those games.

Principal Allegedly Removed After Transgender Athlete Discovered On Female Sports Team.  A Florida high school allegedly removed several staff members, including its principal, after a transgender athlete was allowed on a female sports team, according to NBC6, a local media outlet.  Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) made the announcement via email Monday, stating that Principal James Cecil of Monarch High School, who has been a principal for Broward County for 25 years, had been removed pending an investigation into "allegations of improper student participation in sports," according to the Miami Herald.  Though the statement gave little insight into the decision, several sources with BCPS told NBC6 that the investigation has to do with a transgender athlete on one of the high school's female sports teams.

Ontario Museum Scrubs Female Powerlifter From Exhibit Following Her Calls For Fairness In Women's Sports.  A museum in London, Ontario, has removed a female powerlifter from an exhibit on resilience in apparent retaliation for her vocal opposition to males participating in women's sports.  April Hutchinson said the move quickly followed her suspension from the Canadian Powerlifting Union.  Launched in October at the Museum London, the exhibition, titled "Resilient London:  Meet Your Neighbours," was intended to be an inspiration for the community and featured a diverse panel of locals alongside obstacles they had overcome.  Hutchinson was featured not just as a local athlete, but also as a survivor of addiction.

Transgender Soccer Player Injures Female Opponent, Threatens Legal Action After Other Teams Cancel Games.  Sometimes it's not only OK to quit.  Sometimes it's necessary.  That's what some female athletes in England did when they learned they were going to have to play against a man claiming to be a woman, the U.K.'s Daily Mail reported Monday.  They refused to play.  They weren't being transphobic.  They refused to play because they were afraid.  What caused the fear?  A female soccer player suffered a broken knee when blocking a shot from Francesca Needham, a 30-year-old man.  They were afraid that if they took the field against Needham, they could be injured too.

Female pool player Lynne Pinches forfeits final against trans opponent.  A female pool player received a round of applause when she forfeited a pool tournament rather than compete against a trans woman in the finals.  Lynne Pinches opted to walk away from the finals of the English Pool Association's 2023 Champion of Champions Ladies on Sunday rather than play versus Harriet Haynes.  A video of the moment shows that Pinches and Haynes vied to see who would break.  Pinches won and shook hands with Haynes, but then walked toward the tournament official and apparently declared a forfeit.  Pinches proceeded to unscrew her pool cue and pack it up as Haynes raised her hands in disbelief.  Realizing what was happening, the crowd loudly cheered and applauded Pinches for walking away.

Female Boxer Takes a Stand, Refuses to Fight After Finding Out Last Minute Opponent Was "Not a Woman by Birth".  Of all the sports where biology gives men who went through puberty as males an advantage over women, combat sports is at the top of the list.  You wouldn't stand for watching a dude punch a girl in the face.  Yet if that dude says they identify as a girl, we're supposed to accept it in the name of equality, tolerance, and all that gay stuff.  One female Canadian boxer took a stand and said that, no, she was not going to let a guy punch her in the face.  Katia Bissonnette was set to fight in the 2023 Provincial Golden Glove Championship.  Then an hour before her fight, she learned that her opponent was born a he while competing now as a she.

The Power of Love.  According to the left, which now controls most public schooling along with media, corporate culture, and politics in America, there is no difference between men and women.  Those very words, "men" and "women," must be eliminated and replaced by something like "person" or "womyn."  According to those on the left, men and women are interchangeable entities, equal and even identical in every respect.  Any biological differences that do remain can be removed by denying again and again that they exist to the point that no one dare point out that women are biologically and psychologically intended to nurture children or that men are better suited for some physically demanding and dangerous occupations.  The inconvenient truth that most men are physically stronger than most women is suppressed so that the "rights" of transgender athletes — many of them male but simply professing to be female — can be supported.

Federal judge sides with DeSantis on transgender athletes, upholds ban on biological males on female teams.  A federal judge in Miami sided with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the transgender athlete debate, upholding a ban on biological males competing with female sports teams.  DeSantis, now running for president in 2024, signed the Fairness in Women's Sports Act back in 2021, championing the legislation for empowering women and girls in Florida to continue to "compete on a level playing field" and ensuring "opportunities like college scholarships will be protected for female athletes for years to come."  Also known as SB 1028, DeSantis said the state law was based off "biology, not based off ideology."

Florida can ban boys from competing in girls sports: court.  A judge has upheld a Florida law that prohibits boys who identify as female from competing in girls' scholastic sports, arguing that the measure does not discriminate against trans-identified youth.  In an order released Monday, United States District Judge Roy K. Altman, a Trump appointee, granted the state's motion to dismiss, concluding in part that "promoting women's equality in athletics is an important governmental interest" and that "not all gender-based classifications violate the Equal Protection Clause."  "Courts around the country have similarly held that — given the historic (and ongoing) imbalance in the athletic opportunities that are available to male and female students — the government has an important interest in protecting and promoting athletic opportunities for girls," wrote Altman.  Altman also rejected the claim that the law discriminates against trans-identified students, noting that it lacks any confirmed animus in either its text or in the stated intentions of its sponsors.

Women Abandon Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Tournament After Being Forced To Fight Males.  Female martial artists have come forward to reveal that male athletes claiming to be transgender have completely overtaken the women's categories of a major grappling association, leaving them fearing for their safety in many instances.  One of the men, Corissa Griffith, took home four gold medals in the women's category during a tournament in Georgia on October 21.  The North American Grappling Association (NAGA) is the largest submission grappling association in the world, and facilitates standards and tournaments in various martial arts, including Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.  But while NAGA has provided competition categories for males and females since its inception in 1995, it has recently become the subject of controversy after a number of female athletes were found to have been matched up against trans-identified males.

Trans Athlete Takes Title Away from 14-Time Female Fencing Champion.  A biologically male "transgender female" athlete has removed the championship title from a 14-time female fencing champ at the 2023 FIE Veteran Fencing World Championships.  American Liz Kocab beat 14-time champion Marja-Liisa Someroja of Finland in the Women's Epee in Florida on Oct. 15, Fox News reported.  "I wanted to support USA Fencing," Kocab said after the win.  "I really did.  Otherwise, I was actually thinking of stepping away.  But the fact that it was in America, I thought that was important to support the USA.  This is my way of saying thanks to USA Fencing."

Transgender world champion fencer branded 'entitled cheat'.  A transgender fencer competing in the over-70s women's category has been branded an "entitled cheat" after beating a 14-time champion for a world title.  Liz Kocab, representing America, claimed victory over Finland's Marja-Liisa Someroja, 77, in the Women's Epee of the 2023 Veteran Fencing World Championships in Florida over the weekend.  Ms Kocab, 71, and USA Fencing came in for criticism following her [sic] victory with critics arguing the fencer should not have been allowed to compete in the women's category.  USA Fencing implemented a transgender and nonbinary athlete policy last year which allows competitors to participate "consistent with their gender identity", regardless of the "sex they were assigned at birth".  The sporting body said the policy was an "important first step" towards expanding access to the sport and promoting "equality and fairness for all".

The Editor says...
[#1] This policy does not promote "fairness for all," obviously, since it allows a man to beat a woman.  [#2] A transvestite does not "represent America."  [#3] One's sex is not "assigned at birth."  It is determined at the moment of conception by genetics.  The obstetrician who delivered me did not decide that I was a boy; he merely observed the evidence.  I was a boy the previous day, and had been for the previous nine months.  If you are confused about matters of this sort, you shouldn't have attended public schools.

Man wins women's poker tournament.  The latest "Florida Man" story to pop up in the news comes with a number of twists.  Typically, any story with that tag involves someone doing something incredibly stupid and either getting arrested or seriously injuring themself.  But Dave Hughs didn't do either of those things.  While visiting the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida, Dave wound up winning the "Ladies No-Limit Hold'em" poker tournament.  But Mr. Hughs is not a transgender woman.  He's just a guy who likes to play poker.  In fact, he's "100% against" men competing in women's sports.

The Editor says...
What is the purpose of a poker tournament exclusively for women?  What disadvantage do women face while playing cards?

High school football team forfeits game against team with 2 female players.  A high school football team in California has elected to forfeit rather than play another team with a female player on the roster.  This is despite the fact that the team forfeiting the game recently settled a Title IX lawsuit after forfeiting another game against a team with a female player.  Valley Christian Academy in Santa Maria, California, forfeited its Sept. 30 game against Coast Union in Cambria, California.  This is not the first time Valley Christian has forfeited games for this reason.  In fact, it's the fourth year in a row they've elected to forfeit a game because the opposing team had a female player, and it's the second time they've forfeited against Coast Union.

Official Ruling:  Trans Competitors Banned from Women's Categories in International Fishing Competitions.  Male-born anglers have been banned from competing in women's categories in an official ruling made by the governing body of the international angling sport federation.  The new rule revealed by Prof Ugo Claudio Matteoli, the president of the Confédération Internationale de la Péche Sportive (international sport fishing confederation), maintains that male-born transgender fishing contestants will not be allowed to compete as women.  [TWeet]

Coach ousted after speaking against male athletes competing against women.  Oberlin College's head women's lacrosse coach, Kim Russell, has been "reassigned" to a desk job after she spoke out against allowing biological men to compete in women's sports, the Independent Women's Forum (IWF) reported.  Russell shared a post on social media praising Emma Weyant as the "real winner" when Weyant placed second after transgender athlete Lia Thomas during the 500-yard freestyle at the 2022 NCAA women's swimming championship.  Two weeks after the IWF released a documentary about Oberlin's response to her post, the college has given her a new role as an "Employee Wellness Project Manager," where she will have virtually no contact with students, according to IWF.

Oberlin College coach: 'Felt like I was burned at the stake' over opinion on trans athletes in women's sports.  Oberlin College women's lacrosse head coach Kim Russell broke her silence about transgender inclusion in women's sports in a documentary for the Independent Women's Forum on Tuesday.  Russell, who became the head coach of the Yeowomen before the start of the 2019 season, talked about how administrators and her players ridiculed her after she posted on her personal social media account a message about Lia Thomas winning an NCAA Championship in the 500 in 2022.  In the video, Russell reposted a headline sarcastically congratulating then-Virginia swim star Emma Weyant for the victory over Thomas, a transgender female.

Dare to acknowledge reality at your own risk.  David Bloch, a high school snowboarding coach, has filed a lawsuit against his former employers alleging that he was fired for intimating that men can typically outperform women in sports.  The federal lawsuit, against the leaders of Woodstock Union High School, was filed in Vermont and states that Bloch was wrongly accused of violating the school district's harassment and bullying policy — for referencing a student "in a manner that questioned the legitimacy and appropriateness of [a] student competing on the girls' team."  Yes, because that student is a boy.

What did they expect?  For many months now, the transgender movement has defied biology, sociology, and logic, and yet it seems to barrel forward, a locomotive crashing through longstanding social mores with the false authority of the stubbornly ignorant.  Even though we are at last seeing some glimmers of hope in the resistance movement, it is utterly astonishing that matters ever got this far.  It is as if the Royal Astronomical Society were to have declared that Planet Earth is flat and that any dissent from that "fact" is a form of bigotry.  Evidence for a round Earth would be forbidden in the discussion.  Even those who are pushing back seem to have buckled under the pressure of that locomotive.  The recent women's power-lifting competition in Canada illustrates the point.  As if it were some sort of surprise, a male weightlifter dominated the event by a Canadian mile, leaving all the women in the dust.  He was allowed to enter the event simply by declaring himself a woman.  The appalling audacity of that policy is apparently entirely unnoticed by the social left, which insists that "trans-women are real women."  Even those who oppose the policy often do so only in tepid terms.  They focus on the details, such as testosterone levels and bone mass, instead of the elephant in the room.  Discussing blood chemistry is not going to win this vital confrontation.  The elephant is the moral issue, and any attempt to frame the matter as anything else is doomed to failure.

Wisconsin Parents Pulling Daughters From Sports Team After Transgender Player Leaves Them With Welts and Bruises.  Parents are pulling their daughters off a sports team in the Green Bay Area Public School District in Wisconsin after a transgender biological male player left them with "welts and bruises" during practice.  The biological male student has reportedly left girls with bruises and welts during summer practices.  The names of the students involved and the sport have not been revealed for privacy reasons.  "They're just not used to the ball coming at them that hard," said Ryan Gusick, one of the parents, according to a report from WTAQ.  "A lot of these girls are specifically quitting this team because they're concerned for their safety."

Disc golf org to cancel female divisions after trans activist pressure.  On Friday, Disc Golf Pro Tour announced that it would relocate the Female Professional Open (FPO) division at some of the largest events of the season to other states while canceling other FPO divisions completely in order to avoid more legal troubles as a result of lawsuits from Natalie Ryan, a male disc golfer who identifies as a female and has sued DGPT in California and Minnesota over gender eligibility policies that restricts him from competing.  In disc golf, players use plastic discs instead of balls and attempt to throw discs into baskets or targets situated on a golf course.

Mayo Clinic professor suspended after saying testosterone improves athletic performance.  A Mayo Clinic College of Medicine professor was recently suspended — and remains under the threat of termination — after he told a news outlet his stance on trans-athletes in women's sports and plasma treatments for COVID-19.  Administrators suspended Professor Michael Joyner without pay for a week, citing his "use of idiomatic language" and comments he made in a June 2022 New York Times article as justification for the disciplinary actions, according to a March 5 disciplinary letter that recently came to light.  The memo also told him to refrain from speaking to the media unless given permission.

'Fastest girl in Connecticut' Chelsea Mitchell suing state after losing to trans athletes.  "At the end of the day, this is just about fairness," Chelsea Mitchell told The [New York] Post.  "This is about biology."  The 20-year-old is fighting for the integrity of women's sports after she lost more than 20 races over the course of her high school career — thanks to a Connecticut policy that allows transgender athletes to compete in girls' sports.  Now, Mitchell, who has declared herself "the fastest girl in Connecticut," is challenging her state's policy in court.  Mitchell is teaming up with fellow Connecticut residents Selina Soule, 20, Ashley Nicoletti, 19, and Alanna Smith, 19, who ran high school track in the state at the same time she did.

It Was Always Only About Power With the Left.  Title IX was an addendum to the 1964 Civil Rights Act that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex.  Through liberal lawsuits and the intervention of activist courts, the statute soon was transmogrified into a sports equity act.  Title IX then began to revolutionize high school and college sports programs by demanding equity — in the sense of mandating equal budgets and facilities for women's and men's sports.  The rationale was that women's athletics could only achieve parity with male sports if they were gifted the same sorts of budgets, infrastructure, and institutional support.  Whatever the intent of the original statute, whatever the effects of activist court intervention, the result was that women's sports did achieve a much higher social and cultural profile.  So how ironic, then, that a half-century of athletic transformation has been completely undermined by the current ritual takeover of the sport by biological men declaring themselves transgendered women.  The transgendered have done more damage in three years to women's sports than a century of chauvinist pigs.

British Cycling Bans 'Transgender' Males from Women's Competitions.  So-called "transgender" males are to be banned from women's cycling competitions in the UK, the country's regulatory body has announced.  British Cycling, the regulatory body in charge of the eponymous sport in the country, has confirmed that it will be banning "transgender" males from taking part in women's events, which will now be limited to biological females only.

Transgender high school athletes no-show state track championships following backlash.  Two transgender female high school athletes were no-shows for their race at the California State preliminary Track and Field Championship on Friday — a week after they clinched a spot in the elite race.  Athena Ryan, from Sonoma Academy, and Lorelei Barrett of Sherman Oaks Buckley, opted not to participate in the scheduled girl's 1,600-meter run at Buchanan High in Clovis, Calif., according to The Los Angeles Times.  "The CIF is disappointed for two of our student-athletes and their families because due to the actions of others, they found it necessary to withdraw from the State Track and Field Championships out of concern for the student's well being," the California Interscholastic Federation, the governing body for high school sports in California, wrote in a statement to the outlet.

The Editor says...
Notice that the school bends over backwards to express their disappointment that the two men chose not to compete with the girls.  That shows you whose side they are on.  The school is actively promoting mental illness.

Jill Biden Praises "How Far Women's Sports Have Come" as Biological Males.  This is unbelievable gaslighting.  Joe and Jill Biden on Friday hosted a ceremony for the Louisiana State University Tigers Women's Basketball team to celebrate their 2022-2023 NCAA Championship season.  Dr. Jill told the female athletes how proud she was of how far women's sports have come.  Biological males posing as 'transgenders' are destroying women's sports.  The Biden Regime is also waging a war on women's sports with a proposed change to Title IX which would make it illegal for schools to ban transgender students from sports teams that so-called align with the gender they 'identify with.'

Cycling Champ Who Lost To Trans Competitor Speaks Out About Being Silenced.  A 35-time cyclocross champion said Wednesday that she retired after losing a podium place to a biological male competitor in a championship race.  "I was on form, did all the training right, been doing this for many years, so I've honed in the skills, but it was just not enough," Hannah Arensman, who retired at the age of 25, told Fox News host Dana Perino.  "It didn't matter that Austin couldn't ride a lot of the sections that were pretty technical.  He could run a lot faster than most women and it turned out that power that day won over skill and power honed over many years."  Arensman finished fourth in the USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships in December behind Austin Killips and ahead of Jenna Lingwood, both of whom are biological males who identify as female, Fox News reported.

The demise of fairness in women's sports.  In 1972, thanks to the efforts of many, mostly women, a follow-on to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a clause in the 1972 Federal Education Amendment, known as Title IX, was created to protect people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance.  On the day President Biden took his oath of office, he signed Executive Order (E.O.) 13988, adding new wording to the Title IX law to prohibit "discrimination based on gender," which effectively opened the door for males who identify as females to compete in women's sports.  Then, on March 8, 2021, President Biden released E.O. 14021 "Guaranteeing an Educational Environment Free from Discrimination on the basis of ... Gender Identity."  Elections have consequences!  These orders and directives have effectively ruined women's sports.  Now genetic males can declare themselves females for the purpose of participating in women's sports.  Keep in mind that Biden's E.O.s were implemented without congressional concurrence, debate, or approval, and they amount to the establishment of policies, "laws," and rules via administrative action.  The rising number of these actions creates an administrative state that denies appropriate accountability to Congress and all of us voters.

Robert Kennedy Jr. opposes allowing trans women to compete in female sports.  Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said in a new interview that he does not support transgender females participating in women's sports.  The Democrat told CNN on Saturday that "biological males" threaten the integrity of women's athletics.  "I am against people participating in women's sports who are biologically male," Kennedy, 69, said,  "I think women who have worked too hard to develop women's sports over the past 30 years I watched it happen and I don't think that's fair."

ESPN and the Democrats Throw Women Athletes Under the Bus.  ESPN in recent years discovered a new sport, wokeness, in keeping with most of corporate America.  From the usual America bashing to playing Chinese genocide apologist, sports has become a sideshow for ESPN with their main event competing with CNN, MSNBC, and the New York Times in the woke world series.  Women's sports have come a long way over the past decades, with most sports having both men's and women's divisions, including world championships and the Olympic Games.  But wokeness and leftist groupthink is threatening to send women athletes to the back of the bus to favor male athletes who choose to "identify" as women.

The Religion of the Left.  [Scroll down]  Accordingly, the Left's rhetoric is couched in the name of freedom, justice, charity, and so forth.  A biological male wants to play on the women's sports team.  They are all for it, since.  It is the height of morality to support the biological male; it is, they say, only fair.  But there is nothing fair about it:  to go along is to dismiss and ignore the effects, all negative, upon the women and girls.  Presumably they are not second-class citizens; but no, there is a choice made between the biological males and the females, and it is supposed to go against the females with no consideration for them whatsoever.

Female Athlete Injured by Fake Female Competitor Calls for an End to the Madness.  The funny thing about waging war against reality is that reality always wins.  There is simply no way around it.  Leftists will never prevail in their quest to claim that men can become women and women men.  Even if technology advances to the point where every single cell of an individual can be transformed, that person will still have a male or female mindset that will manifest itself in all manner of unexpected ways.  And the real-life downside of the transgender madness has still only partially emerged.  Another aspect of it became clear in North Carolina recently, when a female high-school athlete was seriously injured in competition against a male she should never have been forced to face.

High school volleyball player details 'severe' injuries she received during game with trans opponent.  Payton McNabb, a North Carolina high school volleyball player, is calling for a ban on transgender athletes after one spiked a ball into her face last fall allegedly causing a concussion and long-term physical and mental injuries.  The transgender athlete was able to compete on a girls' team at Hiwassee Dam High School in Murphy, NC, because of a policy put in place by the state's high school athletic association.  McNabb spoke at a press conference on Wednesday, calling on state legislators to pass the Fairness in Women's Sports Act, HB 574, that would ban biological males from competing on girls' sports teams.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries Says Men in Women's Sports is an Issue 'That Doesn't Exist'.  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries claimed today that men in women's sports is an issue 'that doesn't exist.'  He said this after House Republicans passed a bill to protect girls and women in sports with zero votes from Democrats.  The whole country is talking about this issue.  For Jeffries to claim that it doesn't exist is a blatant lie.  [Video clip]  Note how Jeffries talks about 'trans kids' as if that is a totally normal thing.  It isn't.

Zero Democrats Vote For House Bill To Protect Women's Sports.  The House of Representatives passed legislation on Thursday to protect women's sports leagues by banning male athletes who identify as females from competing.  The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023 would amend Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 such that recipients of federal financial assistance which operate sports leagues cannot "permit a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls."  The legislation passed with 219 affirmative votes, all of which came from Republicans, and 203 negative votes, all of which came from Democrats.

Democrat Left Goes All in on Hate, Disruption, and Violence.  A gang of thugs at San Francisco State University who objected to swimmer Riley Gaines's opposition to having to compete against biological males forced her to take refuge in a classroom for three hours while some demanded money to let her leave.  A man, and I use the term loosely, allegedly used his fists on this woman, which normally constitutes misdemeanor assault.  I cannot give legal advice, but my understanding is that a demand for money backed up by a threat of physical force constitutes robbery or extortion.  False imprisonment, which can be charged as a misdemeanor or felony depending on the circumstances, also comes to mind.  SFSU's President, Lynn Mahoney, said of these events, "Last Thursday, Turning Point USA hosted an event on campus that advocated for the exclusion of trans people in athletics.  The event was deeply traumatic for many in our trans and LGBTQ+ communities, and the speaker's message outraged many members of the SF State community."  The President of SFSU is of course lying about anybody wanting to exclude trans people from athletics.  Nobody is going to stop Lia Thomas from competing against other men in a sport in which upper body strength conveys an advantage.

University Athletics Director Claims There's No 'Competitive' Difference Between Men And Women.  The San Francisco State University athletics director claimed there is no "competitive" difference between men and women following the alleged assault of University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines, who spoke on campus in favor of sports being separated on the basis of biological sex, according to the Golden Gate Express.  Stephanie Shrieve-Hawkins said that believing men have an athletic advantage over women in sports is a common "mistake," according to the Golden Gate Express.  Shrieve-Hawkins' comments come after Gaines was allegedly "ambushed and physically hit" on campus after speaking out against transgender athletes on April 6.

US Supreme Court Rules Transgender Students (Males) in West Virginia Can Compete Against Female Athletes.  The US Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that transgender students (biological males) can compete against female sports teams.  The high court rejected an emergency request from West Virginia to lift an appeals court's injunction.  The transgender athlete will be able to compete against females until the appeals court makes a decision.

Biden administration's Title IX changes would prevent broad bans on transgender athletes.  Blanket bans on transgender athletes participating on school sports teams consistent with their gender identity would constitute a violation of Title IX under a set of proposed changes unveiled Thursday by the Biden administration.  Under the administration's proposal, schools would be prohibited from adopting or applying a "one-size-fits-all" policy that categorically bans transgender students from participating on sports teams consistent with their gender identity.

Megyn Kelly Loses It After Man Wins Women's Professional Golf Tournament: 'It's a Fraud, It's Immoral...'.  Megyn Kelly is making her feelings clear after a man claiming to be a woman won a women's professional golf tournament.  Over the weekend, Breanna Gill won the Australian Women's Classic in the city of Bonville in New South Wales, according to WPGA Australia.  While little has been reported on Gill's personal history, Golf Monthly and others have noted his transgender status.  Many on the left, naturally, will celebrate this as another momentous victory for the LGBT community.  But sane-minded people will have a rather different take on the whole affair.

NPR Issues Correction, Admits There Is Evidence Proving Male Athletes Have Advantage over Females.  NPR issued an official correction following a story published Friday which argued "there is limited scientific research" supporting the idea that males have a "physical advantage" over females in competitive sports.  "Correction: An earlier tweet incorrectly stated there is limited scientific evidence of physical advantage.  Existing research shows that higher levels of testosterone do impact athletic performance.  But there's limited research involving elite trans athletes in competition," the outlet's official Twitter account noted on Sunday afternoon.  [Tweet]

Girls Basketball Team That Refused to Play Against a Transgender Athlete Banned From Sporting Events.  A private Christian school in Vermont that forfeited a girls' basketball game against a team with a biological male "transgender" player has been banned from participating in upcoming sporting events.  The Vermont Principals' Association, which oversees school sporting events, announced on Monday that Mid Vermont Christian School would be ineligible to participate in sporting events and other activities done through the organization.  "The VPA again reiterates its ongoing support of transgender student-athletes as not only a part of building an inclusive community for each student to grow and thrive, but also as a clear expectation by Vermont state law(s) in the Agency of Education Best Practices, and in VPA Policy regarding transgender student athletes," the announcement said.

USA Powerlifting forced to allow biological males to compete against females following court order.  Women will now be forced to compete against gender dysphoria-suffering men after a Minnesota judge ruled against USA Powerlifting (USAPL) in favor of pseudoscience and progressive legislation.  Since 2019, JayCee Cooper, a male weightlifter who wants to compete as a woman, has undertaken a legal challenge against USAPL that began as a complaint to the Minnesota Department of Human Rights.  Late February, that challenge that had grown into a 2021 lawsuit turned into a loss for women competitors as District Court Judge Patrick Diamond ruled in favor of Cooper.

Court rules men may compete as women in powerlifting.  A Minnesota state court ruled that USA Powerlifting must permit men to compete as women in its industry.  [Tweet]  In 2019, powerlifter JayCee Cooper, a man who identifies as a woman, filed a complaint with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights, stating that USA Powerlifting violated the state's Human Rights Act by prohibiting him and other athletes from competing in the female division.  Cooper then filed a lawsuit against the organization in 2021.

A Minnesota judge has issued an order that will destroy women's powerlifting.  One of the most disgusting things about so-called "transgender women" is their insistence that they should be able to have their cake and eat it too.  It should be enough that these disturbed men get people to go along with the pretense that they are women.  However, in today's environment, that's never enough.  In addition, they must destroy actual women.  And thanks to a Minnesota judge, USA Powerlifting, a national powerlifting organization, will soon be forced to enact policies that will effectively erase women's accomplishments.

Christian high school girls' basketball team takes a stand, forfeits playoff game rather than compete against male opponent.  A varsity girls' basketball team at a Christian high school in Vermont has forfeited a playoff game rather than compete against a team with a male participant.  On the evening of February 21, the No. 12 Mid Vermont Christian School Eagles of White River Junction were scheduled to take on the No. 5 Long Trail Mountain Lions of Dorset in the first round of the Vermont Division IV girls' varsity tournament.  However, the Eagles dropped out of the tournament and therefore forfeited their chance to compete for a state title after they learned that one member of the Mountain Lions is actually a male.  "We withdrew from the tournament because we believe playing against an opponent with a biological male jeopardizes the fairness of the game and the safety of our players," MVCS head of school Vicky Fogg stated in an email to Fox News Digital.  "Allowing biological males to participate in women's sports sets a bad precedent for the future of women's sports in general."

Jiggery-Pokery Wokery.  The woke love to destroy whatever they touch — culture, infrastructure, social cohesion, rational thought.  To be woke is to embrace chaos and injury as a philosophy.  From an anthropological perspective, wokeism is fascinating because its practitioners believe they are creative freethinkers while they act as lobotomized sheep.  Whatever the woke wizards posing as priests tell their needy followers, the woke herds accept as truth. [...] If deception, violence, and obedience are all part of the woke creed, then contradiction is its life-force. [...] We must believe all women unless those women are speaking out against men pretending to be women — in which case, we must first believe all men pretending to be women, no matter how much they do not appear to be women at all.  Biological sex is nothing more than a social construct, yet a man who wears a dress and wig and demands society treat him as he desires is somehow a demonstration of objective reality.  Women's and men's sports divisions and the separation of their locker rooms recognize the reality that women and men are physically different, yet physically different men who mentally pretend to be women are miraculously physically indistinguishable from women and should be allowed to compete against them.  Furthermore, any woman who objects to the imposition of men competing in her sport or undressing in her locker room is bigoted for acknowledging a fact out loud that can no longer be acknowledged as politically correct.  Science demands that reality be based on emotion.

The Coup We Never Knew.  Did someone or something seize control of the United States? [...] Was some state or federal law passed that allowed biological males to compete in female sports?  Did Congress enact such a law?  Did the Supreme Court guarantee that biological male students could shower in gym locker rooms with biological women?  Were women ever asked to redefine the very sports they had championed?

All normal girls banned from locker room because one cross-dressing boy demanded it.  They're coming for you next: This story, which broke on September 28, 2022, is so absurd that at first glance it is hard to believe:  Officials running Randolph High School in Vermont have banned from the girls locker room all girls from the school's volley ball team because one cross-dressing boy was using it and the girls had the unmitigated nerve to express strong discomfort changing clothes in the presence of a male.  The quote below tells the tale, but in order to make it more precisely describe reality, I have replaced the meaningless words ("trans", "transgender" "they") that our queer dictators have imposed on mainstream news sources with words that actually describe the facts. [...] This story illustrates perfectly the real goal of the queer agenda, all part of the larger critical race theory movement.  These goons aren't interested in "equity".  What they want is power.  In Randolph High, this one cross-dressing unstable boy now rules.  Don't you dare challenge him or question him in any way, for if you do, the school will punish you.

Vermont girls' high school volleyball team are barred from their OWN locker room after complaining about transgender student.  Members of a Vermont girls high school volleyball team have been banned from using their own locker room and now have to change in a single bathroom stall after they complained about a transgender teammate.  Some teammates allege that the transgender player at Randolph Union High School made an 'inappropriate remark' to some of them while they were changing in the locker room.  They now want the school to relocate the transgender player, who hasn't been named.

People still want boy-girl divide in school sports.  When hundreds of Virginia students this week left classrooms to protest Gov. Glenn Youngkin's effort to scale back pro-transgender policies in schools, it was heralded by some media outlets as a slam-dunk sign that teenage LGBT rights have won out.  But coming on the anniversary of when former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe blew his chance in the 2021 election battle with Youngkin by suggesting parents shouldn't tell schools what to do, it reminded others that the issue is far from closed.  In fact, Youngkin's office sent Secrets a handful of stories about parents walking out of school board meetings across the commonwealth to protest proposed policies to give transgender students new rights, such as the right to enter bathrooms or participate in sports as their desired sex, not the one "assigned at birth."

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One's sex is determined by immutable genetics at the moment of conception.  It is not "assigned at birth," or assigned at any other time.

Most Americans Less Likely To Vote For Candidates Who Let Biological Males Compete In Women's Sports.  More than 60% of voters are less likely to back candidates who support allowing biological men to compete in women's sports, according to a September CRC Research poll obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.  Approximately 49% of voters are "much less likely" and 13% of voters are "somewhat less likely" to choose a candidate who is in favor of permitting biological men to compete in women's athletics, according to the poll.  About 86% of Republicans, 65% of Independents and 37% of Democrats said they were less likely to vote for a candidate who support transgender athletes.  Of the voters, 57% believe the transgender movement undermines "significant opportunities and essential protections for women," the poll showed.  Nearly 45% of Democratic voters and 69% of Republican voters believe this statement to be true.

Nonbinary Nonsense: Boston Marathon Creates New Division For 2023.  Boston Marathon Registration began Monday for next year's Boston Marathon, with a new pronoun category for nonbinary runners.  They, them and their will compete in a separate division for the first time and will no longer have to suffer the agony of checking the box for male or female upon registering.  Aiming to please demanding LBGT fascists, the Boston Athletic Association is "currently working on expanding opportunities" for nonbinary athletes in the Boston Marathon and other road races, according to Huffington Post's Sanjana Karanth.  "While we do not currently have qualifying standards for non-binary athletes, we are working on ways nonbinary participants are accepted into the event," the Boston Athletic Association said.  "Discussions are ongoing with non-binary athletes in an effort to further promote inclusion at all BAA events."

Biden's New Title IX Proposals Will Codify the Gender Derangement of the Left.  If there is anything that has advanced American society, you can be sure that 'woke' leftists will destroy it.  So it is with Title IX — a one-sentence statute of the Education Amendments of 1972 that ended sex-based discrimination in educational institutions, opened the doors for women aspiring to become doctors, engineers, or experts in any field of choice, brought parity to college sports, and launched the battle against sexual harassment.  In this fiftieth year of that landmark law, the Biden administration wants to rewrite it to suit the radical leftist ideology of gender identity and fluidity.  This is dangerous because it codifies the spreading gender derangement of the left.  Worse, it will immerse young minds in learning environments that condition them to believe, without critical thinking, that the biological idea of sex is false.  It will unleash other complications as well.

WaPo Op-Ed Claims Trans Athletes Will Help Girls Learn to Lose Gracefully.  An op-ed in the Washington Post has argued that men in women's sports could actually be a good thing for young girls by teaching them the art of losing gracefully.  According to Alyssa Rosenberg, the aim of school athletics is not to teach children the art of achieving excellence but rather to build character, and what better way to build character in a teenage girl than having her experience the frustration of losing that championship title to a biological male?  Her argument largely hinges on the unicorn of "sports-crazed parents" who will theoretically use transgender athletes in women's sports as an excuse in the event their daughter loses.

A man is competing in the Ladies Professional Golf Association.  Before going any farther with this, I have a major complaint about conservative outlets: they keep referring to people as "transgender."  There is no such thing.  It's like calling people "unicorns."  You can say that Jill Biden is a unicorn, but that doesn't make her one because there is no such thing.  When you use the word, you're accepting the delusional premise.  There are definitely transvestites, because that refers to a real phenomenon: men who sexually fetishize women's clothing by wearing it.  Some are gay men; some aren't — but they are real.  However, there is no such thing as crossing over from one sex to another.  There is no medical literature supporting this.  There are no studies saying, aside from the minute number of people born genetically intersex, that a man can be a woman simply because he wants to be or vice versa.  What we call transgenderism is a form of mental illness called dysphoria, and it's identical to the person whose weight is normal but nevertheless insists she is obese.

Another Biological Male Dominates in Women's Sports, This Time It's Women's Golf.  In another women's sport, another biological male competes with women.  As we saw with Lia Thomas, the transgender who dominated in women's swimming but lost badly in men's swimming, and as we saw with Laurel Hubbard, the transgender who competed in the women's Olympic weight lifting competition. Hubbard lost, but the media turned it into a "historic" achievement because Hubbard became the first transgender to compete in the Olympics. Hubbard won the University of Otago "sportswoman of the year award."  Thomas was nominated for NCAA "Woman of the Year."  Now, transgender golfer Hailey Davidson is competing at The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) as the professional women's golf qualifying school tournament is underway.  Davidson finished the first round at 2-under, which puts the golfer in a strong position to win. Davidson is competing against 310 biological females.

Federal Judge Blocks Biden Admin's Guidance Allowing Biological Males In Girls' School Bathrooms.  A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Biden administration's Title IX guidance on gender identity and sexual orientation.  U.S. District Judge Charles Atchley in the Eastern District of Tennessee ruled last week that the administration's guidance misquoted the Supreme Court to equate sex and gender identity, likely violating federal law.  The administration's guidance effectively forced states to allow biological males to use girls restrooms, forbade states from barring males from participating in female sports, and forced employers to use employees' preferred pronouns, all at the risk of losing federal funding, according to the state attorneys general who sued the administration.  The guidance was released last year by the Education Department and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Rationalizing Transgender Sports.  Much has been said about categorizing transmen as men and transwomen as women for purposes of sport competition.  Many oppose this vehemently.  Many support this vehemently.  Just about any system of categorizing will have some weakness.  Hence, the exception to the rule.  The idea is to make a system of categorization as solid as possible.  My modest proposal is to categorize athletes according to the presence or absence of the Y chromosome.  This will assist in making athletic competitions fairer, as in like competing against like.  In essence, athletes can be divided into Ys and Y-Nots.  Such a system would avoid the current tensions in the Men-Male/Women-Female system.

Federal Judge Blocks Biden Administration's Effort to Allow Males to Compete in Women's Sports.  A federal judge has blocked the Biden administration's recent rules giving gays and transgender people extended rights in schools and the workplace because Biden's regulators bypassed a critical requirement of federal law that must be satisfied before issuing such a regulation: giving the public notice of the regulation, time to file comments, and forcing the agency to respond to those comments.  U.S. District Judge Charles Atchley Jr. agreed with 20 state attorneys general that the regulations may infringe on states' rights and could be seen as having been improperly drawn.  Atchley blocked the implementation of the rules until a lawsuit addressing the changes could be resolved, the Associated Press reported.

Will Transgendered Athletes Now Give Back Their Medals and Titles?  A decade or two ago, who would have thought a topic such as this would be newsworthy or relevant?  Athletic competitions and sports leagues were always separated by age, gender, weight class, or other physical attributes which could convey an unfair advantage to some athletes, with a goal of creating a "level playing field."  Yet here we are today, in the age of wokeness and virtue-signaling, with biologic males, under the guise of transgenderism, competing against biologic females, putting the latter at a huge and often insurmountable disadvantage.

This used to be called bullying.
Trans-Identified Adult Male Takes First Place Against 13-Year-Old Girl in Women's Skateboarding Event.  Netizens are expressing outrage after an adult man beat out a 13-year-old girl for first place in a women's skateboarding competition held today [6/25/2022] in New York.  Ricci Tres, also known as Ricci And Tres, took top spot in the women's division of The Boardr Open today held in New York City, taking home a $500 prize for a first place win.  Tres, a 29-year-old trans-identified male, came in first place against 13-year-old Shiloh Catori.  Of the 6 competitors, 4 were under the age of 17, with the youngest being 10-year-old Juri Iikura.

Biden Administration Moves to Expand Title IX to Eliminate Gender-Exclusive College Facilities, Sports Teams.  The Biden administration on Tuesday proposed changes to the federal civil-rights statute banning sex discrimination in federally funded education programs, including expanding protections to sexual orientation and gender identity.  One proposed change "would make clear that preventing any person from participating in an education program or activity consistent with their gender identity would subject them to more than de minimis harm on the basis of sex and therefore be prohibited, unless otherwise permitted by Title IX or the regulations."  If adopted, the rule change would bar universities any other federally funded institutions from maintaining men and women's sports and sex-segregated spaces like locker rooms and dormitories.

US women's soccer legend Megan Rapinoe says she is '100% supportive' of including transgender women in women's sports.  US women's soccer hero Megan Rapinoe has come out strongly in favor of including transgender women in women's sport, labelling the arguments against 'cruel and disgusting'.  The veteran soccer star, who co-captained the United States Women's National Team in 2019 as they won a second successive World Cup, was dismissive of the notion that trans women are dominating women's sports and thus need regulating.  Instead, she argued that excluding them from competing at lower levels is cruel, as people value their 'kid's high school volleyball team' ahead of the lives and wellbeing of transgender people.

This battle is all about creating "rights" which have never existed before.
Title IX's next battle:  The rights of transgender athletes.  When the gender equity legislation known as Title IX became law in 1972, the politics of transgender sports was not even a blip in the national conversation.  Today, it is one of the sharpest dividing points in American culture.  As the transformational law heads into its second half-century on the books, the Biden administration wants transgender athletes to enjoy the same protections Title IX originally gave to women when it was passed 50 years ago.  That stance is at odds with efforts in states across the country.  "We're at a time where Title IX is going to be exploited and celebrated," said Donna de Varona, the Olympic champion swimmer who heads the Women's Sports Policy Working Group, which seeks a "middle way" to be inclusive of transgender athletes while also not "forcing" what it sees as unfair competition.

International Swimming Federation Will Ban Some Biologically Male Athletes from Women's Competitions.  The international swimming federation FINA announced a new policy on Sunday to ban biologically male athletes who have gone through male puberty from competing in women's competitions.  To qualify for women's competitions, the swimmers must either have never gone through male puberty or had male puberty suppressed at the stage when physical changes begin to appear or before the age of 12, whichever occurred later, according to the policy.  The athletes also have to prove that they have continuously suppressed their testosterone levels since that time.  "We have to protect the rights of our athletes to compete, but we also have to protect competitive fairness at our events, especially the women's category at FINA competitions," FINA president Husain al-Musallam said in statement.  The policy also includes proposals for an additional open competition category.  FINA is set to form a new working group that will spend six months studying the most effective ways to set up the new category.

Teammate Says Trans UPenn Swimmer Lia Thomas is 'Mentally Ill'.  A teammate of Lia Thomas, the transgender swimmer who upended college swimming last season, says that Thomas is "mentally ill."  According to an interview the University of Pennsylvania swimmer anonymously gave to the Washington Examiner, Thomas spent the 2021/22 swimming season refusing to come to terms with the damage he was doing to his "real" female opponents and teammates.

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All transvestites are mentally ill.

Republicans Introduce a Bill That Defines What a Woman Is.  Arizona Rep. Debbie Lesko is doing something for women, and not the kind no one can define.  The Republican has sponsored a "Women's Bill of Rights" to provide ladies legal protection against gender ideology.  "[T]here are important reasons," H.Res.1136 asserts, "to distinguish between the sexes with respect to athletes, prisons, domestic violence shelters, restrooms, and other areas, particularly where biology, safety, and privacy are implicated."  The initiative goes so far as to claim it knows what a woman is.

Indiana Lawmakers Override Governor's Veto to Enact Law Banning Males from Girls Sports.  GOP lawmakers in Indiana voted Tuesday [5/24/2022] to override a veto by Governor Eric Holcomb (R) and enact a law banning male athletes identifying as female from competing in girls' sports.  Indiana joins at least a dozen other U.S. states in enacting similar laws.  "State senators voted 32-15 in favor of overriding Gov. Eric Holcomb following the same action in a 67-28 vote by the House earlier in the day," the Associated Press reports.  "Holcomb had said in his veto message that bill did not provide a consistent policy for what he called "fairness in K-12 sports" when he unexpectedly vetoed it in March."  Dozens of pro-trans activists protested at the state capitol but to no avail.

New South Carolina law bans biological males from women's sports.  Gov. Henry McMaster (R-SC) signed a bill that bans biological males from participating in women's sports into law.  The Save Women's Sports Act was passed by the South Carolina General Assembly on May 10 and signed by McMaster on Monday [5/16/2022].  The law seeks to "ensure that fair opportunities are preserved for all children to compete in sports" based on "a student's biological sex on the student's official birth certificate."  "Athletic teams or sports designated for males, men, or boys shall not be open to students of the female sex, unless no team designated for females in that sport is offered at the school in which the student is enrolled," the bill reads.  "Athletic teams or sports designated for females, women, or girls shall not be open to students of the male sex."

World Swimming Coaches Association Announces Stance on Transgender Athletes.  On Friday, the World Swimming Coaches Association (WSCA) released its official position on transgender athletes.  This comes after biological male swimmer Will "Lia" Thomas made headlines for competing on the women's swim team at University of Pennsylvania after competing on the men's team for three consecutive years.  At the NCAA women's swimming championships in March, Thomas came in first place in a race against female swimmers, as Townhall covered.  The WSCA's position is that the "grounds of fairness" in swimming cannot be maintained with the inclusion of transgender athletes in women's sports.  This was published in a lengthy statement on the organization's website.

Don Quixote and the Trans Madness.  The Spanish novel, written by Miguel de Cervantes, El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha, is often credited as the first modern novel in Western literature. [...] In short, Alonso Quixano is delusional, and, in throes of his madness, he is bent on imposing his own self-perception upon the world around him. [...] Alonso Quixano imagines himself to be the wealthy and revered Don Quixote, and he makes efforts to look, dress, speak, and act in a manner that the society around him would recognize as authentic.  Similarly, a perfectly average male collegiate varsity athlete named Will Thomas of the University of Pennsylvania imagines himself to be a woman named Lia Thomas, making some efforts to look, dress, speak, and act as the society around him would expect of an authentic woman.  Both fail at that task in the eyes of the audience and onlookers, of course, and both appear as caricatures rather than authentic.  But both have people around them that find the delusion fascinating, and who are eager to take part.

LGBTQ+: Leftism's corruption of God's sacred gift to humankind.  In other news, one Lia Thomas, a twenty-two-year-old man masquerading as a woman, finished first in a freestyle swim race.  This unsurprising result seems readily explained as deriving from Thomas's masculine physique, easily outclassing the feminine physiques of the other competitors.  The only thing actually surprising is that a substantial number of officials and observers see this outcome as the result of anything other than overt, deliberate fraud.  Or maybe, in this current age of sexual confusion, it's not so surprising anymore.

Oklahoma Governor Signs Bill Barring Male Students from Girls' Sports.  Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt signed legislation that bans transgender athletes from participation in girls' high school or college sports on Wednesday [3/30/2022].  The Save Women's Sports Act passed the Oklahoma House by a 79-18 vote last week, and was subsequently approved by the state Senate.  "This bill... to us in Oklahoma is just common sense," Stitt, a Republican who is running for reelection this year, said at the signing.  "When it comes to sports and athletics, girls should compete against girls.  Boys should compete against boys.  And let's be very clear:  That's all this bill says."

Utah legislature overrides veto of transgender sports bill.  The Utah State Legislature has voted to override the governor's veto of the bill banning transgender children from participating in school sports.  The House voted 56-18, while the Senate voted 21-8 for House Bill 11 on Friday, overturning the governor's veto of the bill.  It came after some passionate debate in both chambers.  Outside the Utah State Capitol, people for and against the bill demonstrated at times shouting over each other "trans rights" and "girls rights."  "It preserves the integrity of women's sports," said Rep. Kera Birkeland, R-Morgan, who sponsored HB11.  The bill, which was amended in the final hours of the legislative session, now bans transgender children from middle and high school sports.  In the event of a lawsuit, however, the bill defaults to a special commission that would evaluate transgender children's eligibility to play a sport that matches their gender identity.

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"In the event of a lawsuit," they say.  That's amusing.  Of course there will be a lawsuit.

Arizona, Oklahoma pass bills banning transgender youth in girls' sports.  Arizona and Oklahoma passed bills on Thursday that would ban transgender youth from participating in girls' sports, the latest in a flurry of state legislation passed by Republicans on the hot-button, election year issue.  In addition to the Republican-sponsored "Save Women's Sports Act," Arizona lawmakers passed legislation that would prohibit physicians from providing gender-affirming surgery to minors.  Both bills are now headed to the desk of Governor Doug Ducey, also a Republican.  The votes largely fell along party lines.

Call Him William Thomas.  [Scroll down]  You'll know exactly how we got here by how every mainstream media outlet, even the ones that feign rage, has reported on the man who, pretending to be a woman, has secured a position in the NCAA Women's swimming finals this year.  That man's name is William Thomas.  He was ranked in the mid-500s when he competed as a man — after being recruited as a man to swim for the University of Pennsylvania.  Naturally now, he ranks first among women.  But even as, say, Fox News (with the exception of Tucker Carlson), makes noise in opposition to the unfairness of it all, even as they opine the physiological differences between men and women, they call him "Lia Thomas."  They call him "her."  They bring on Bruce Jenner and call him Caitlyn and nod enthusiastically as he, too, says this is a bridge too far.  If sex differences matter, they matter.  If they don't, they don't.  Actions speak louder than words:  by conforming to the delusion of transgenderism by any degree, the issue is lost completely.

4 Reasons Why Lia Thomas Is Not the New Jackie Robinson.  In an op-ed piece for NBC News, Cheryl Cooky, professor of American studies and women's, gender and sexuality studies at Purdue University, likened "Lia" Thomas (formerly Will) to Jackie Robinson.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  In fact, Prof. Cooky's editorial is a slap in the face to female athletes and an insult to the legacy of Jackie Robinson, who courageously broke the color line in professional sports.  Yet, according to Cooky, and with reference to Thomas's blow-out victory in a national swimming competition last week, "For anyone who cares about the advancement of sports, and women's sports in particular, her win should be celebrated."  To repeat: nothing could be further from the truth.  To the contrary, and in the words of Haley Tanne, a female, college athlete (herself a runner), "My teammates and I are watching our records, our scholarships and our competitive opportunities slip away... wondering if anyone in authority is going to have the courage to step up and save women's sports."  This is a travesty, and it must be stopped.

Men Now Dominate Women's Sports.  Last week University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, formerly William Thomas, became the first transgender athlete to win the NCAA title in the women's 500-yard freestyle.  During the award ceremony, Thomas towered over the biologically female runner-ups, including University of Virginia's Emma Weyant, a silver medallist at the Tokyo Olympics who finished 1.75 seconds behind Thomas.  [Podcast]

Lia Thomas saga highlights instances of biological men winning women's sports.  University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas is only the most recent and most visible example of biological men competing and winning against female athletes, with examples now dating back several years.  Thomas, who is biologically male, finished first in the women's 500-yard freestyle event at the NCAA championships last week over three swimmers who had each won silver medals at the last Olympics.  The result capped the collegiate swimming season with a shadow of controversy while providing the most high-profile image of a biologically male transgender athlete competing in women's sports.

DeSantis Dismisses Lia Thomas, Declares NCAA Women's Swimming Event Winner the Second Place Finisher.  Many may have to play along with declaring Lia Thomas as one of the greatest female athletes of all time, but everyone else lives on planet Earth where dogs bark, the sky is blue, and men can't suddenly be women because they said they were.  Thomas is definitely a man and there's no escaping that fact.  It's why when he was declared the winner of the NCAA women's swimming championship, many people immediately rejected his first-place victory and focused on the girls who finished below him.  In one stunning moment, the girls did the same.  [Tweet]

DeSantis Turns the Tables on the Gender-Bending NCAA Women's Swimming Wokesters.  We've got quite a post-modernist culture war on our hands over transgender issues.  Former Navy SEAL and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis just went kinetic with fiery remarks about the NCAA.  On Tuesday, DeSantis issued a proclamation announcing that native Sarasota, Fla., athlete Emma Weyant, who swims for the University of Virginia, logged "the fastest time among all women swimmers" at the NCAA championship in the NCAA Division I final over the weekend.  He accused the NCAA of "destroying opportunities for women" and perpetuating "a fraud on the public," and berated them for "putting ideology ahead of opportunity for women athletes."

GOP Indiana governor vetoes transgender girls sports ban.  Indiana's governor on Monday vetoed a bill banning transgender females from participating in girls school sports.  Opponents of the transgender sports bill argued it was a bigoted response to a problem that doesn't exist, with the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana saying it planned a lawsuit against what it called "hateful legislation."  Republican sponsors of the bill said it was needed to protect the integrity of female sports and opportunities for girls to gain college athletic scholarship but pointed out no instances in the state of girls being outperformed by transgender athletes.  Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb signaled support for the bill last month but said in his veto letter that the legislation "falls short" of providing a consistent statewide policy for what he called "fairness in K-12 sports."

Social Media Users Congratulate Emma Weyant for Winning 'First' Instead of Lia Thomas.  University of Virginia swimmer Emma Weyant won second place in the women's 500-yard freestyle championships, losing to a man, Lia Thomas.  Many viewers took to social media to congratulate Weyant for actually winning first place.  A tweet by the University of Virginia (UVA) Swimming and Dive account, which congratulated Weyant — who attends UVA — for winning second place, "with the third-fastest time in UVA history."  Weyant also won a silver medal in last year's Summer Olympics.

Congratulations to Emma Weyant, the real woman who won the NCAA 500-yard freestyle event.  Until sanity is restored in our country, records will show that Lia Thomas was the winner of the 2022 women's NCAA 500-yard freestyle event.  However, we all know the story behind Thomas by now.  Lia is not a woman, but a man identifying as a woman.  Anyone interested in the sanctity of competition, biological integrity, and saving women's sports, should celebrate Emma Weyant, the actual woman who won the 2022 women's NCAA 500-yard freestyle event on Thursday night.  The records will show that Weyant finished in second place behind Thomas.  But Weyant is the actual she who should be recognized as champion.  Thomas's victory represents everything that detractors feared would happen in the national championships: that females would not be able to compete against a man claiming to be a woman.

Rep. Vicky Hartzler's account locked for tweet criticizing transgender athletes in women's sports.  Rep. Vicky Hartzler, Missouri Republican, was locked out of her Senate campaign account for a tweet declaring that "men pretending to be women" don't belong in female sports.  Hartzler campaign manager Michael Hafner posted a shot Monday of the Twitter message saying that his boss' account had been "locked for violating the Twitter Rules," specifically for violating prohibitions on "hateful conduct."  Her tweet said:  "Women's Sports are for Women, not men pretending to be women."

UPenn, Philly DA ignore complaints about Lia Thomas's male nudity in women's locker room.  Imagine you are a parent to a female college student-athlete.  Now, imagine, what would you do if your daughter told you that someone who was a man and still had male genitalia was frequently naked in front of your daughter every day after practice.  How would you feel as a parent?  That is a current predicament at the University of Pennsylvania.  A letter was sent to city and school authorities addressing the vast concerns over the situation.  It appears to have been ignored by all those addressed in the letter.

Lia Thomas is a bad man.  I don't hate Lia Thomas because she's a transsexual; I hate her because she's a cheat.  At the Ivy League Championship Swim Meet last weekend, Thomas easily won four events, setting pool and league records.  She may be the most-improved swimmer in history.  She was ranked 462nd in the country a few years ago, and is now ranked Number 1.  The difference is not that her swim times have gotten better.  It's that her competition has gotten worse.  Her Number 462 ranking was against men, while her Number 1 ranking is against women.

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I don't hate Will Thomas.  He is obviously a confused young man.  But he should keep that confusion to himself, instead of using it as a weapon.

Dude Looks Like a Lady — Ivy League Swimming Style.  Rock group Aerosmith released a song in 1987 entitled, "Dude looks like a lady" about a man with an effeminate appearance who could be mistaken for a woman.  Today the inverse is playing out in the athletic world, where a lady who looks like a dude — a male who has transitioned to a female as much as basic biology permits — is making a mockery of women's sports.  I speak of Lia Thomas, a transgender University of Pennsylvania swimmer who last week, "Dominates 200 yard freestyle at Ivy League swimming championships and sets a new tournament record."  But Lia wasn't always a woman swimmer.  In fact, not too long ago she was a dude, but she looks more like a lady these days, yet she still swims like a dude, and that is where the problem lies.

Lia Thomas Has Exposed The Fallacy Of The LGBTQ Narrative.  Guys competing in girls' sports is becoming a real thing.  Lia Thomas is all over the news these days. [...] Lia is the male swimmer on the University of Pennsylvania women's swim team, who stuffs his man parts into a girl's Speedo, and struts out onto the pool deck — while the crowd is expected to pretend as if it's all perfectly normal.  Never mind that as a male swimmer he was mediocre at best.  On the female team, he's the star — both of the media and the statisticians.  He's in the news, and he's breaking all of the collegiate swim records — for women.  It seems sex is no longer defined by anatomy or genetics.  It is defined by wishful thinking.  Of course, wishful thinking is the definition of fantasy, not reality.

16 Penn Swimmers Say Trans Teammate Lia Thomas Should Not Compete.  Is the dam finally breaking on maintaining the fantasy that trans women do not have an inherent advantage over biological females in competitive sports?  Sixteen members of the University of Pennsylvania women's swim team sent a letter to the school and to the Ivy League, asking them not to take legal action that would challenge the new NCAA rules for transgender athletes to compete.  The new rules would make it very difficult for their trans teammate, Lia Thomas, to compete as a female.  The 16 swimmers — out of 39 on the team — are asking that Thomas be sidelined.

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It is impossible to "transition" from a man to a woman or vice versa.  The DNA in every cell in your body shows you're male or you're female — permanently.  But today's college students have been indoctrinated for years already, and badly mis-informed about homosexuality, individual expression, and "inclusion."  You can't have it both ways:  You can't insist that it's okay for a male transvestite to claim he's a woman, and then be offended when he shows up in the women's locker room — or restroom, or dormitory, or anywhere else.  This can of worms will remain open indefinitely, so now you have to decide if swimming is really that important to you.  Or, for that matter, a college degree.

I Will Stop Crying Out When the Transanity Stops.  One of my colleagues has been combating LGBTQ extremism for several decades, working tirelessly for almost no money, and with constant vilification as his main reward.  I asked him one day on the air, "Why don't you just stop?"  He answered, "I'll stop when they stop."  That is exactly how I feel.  When I no longer have to read headlines like this, I'll stop:  "'We're uncomfortable in our own locker room.'  Lia Thomas' UPenn [female] teammate tells how the trans swimmer doesn't always cover up her male genitals when changing and their concerns go ignored by their coach."  Seriously?  Her male genitals?  What kind of madness is this?  And the fact that a biological male with male plumbing (who, by the way, is attracted to females), shares a locker room with women — where they disrobe and shower — is absolute insanity, not to mention terribly unfair.  In fact, it is outright abusive.

Female Swimmers Complain Trans Teammate Lia Thomas Exposes Male Body Parts in Locker Room.  There are plenty of legitimate objections raised against allowing transitioning transgender athletes to compete as a gender other than the one they were assigned at birth.  But it's the practical objections that resonate the most with the rest of us.  And for those objections, trans activists have no good answers.  One such practical objection is the locker room situation.  Anyone who has ever competed in any sport — either as an individual or as a member of a team — knows that segregating the sexes in a locker room is necessary to maintain a comfort level for everyone.  And comfort is vitally necessary to aid in creating an atmosphere that allows for peak performance from an athlete.  But what if a transitioning male athlete is allowed to walk around naked in a locker room full of women?  That's the situation that is facing members of the University of Pennsylvania women's swim team who are forced to share a locker room with transitioning male Lia Thomas.

Lia-bility Issues and the Dictatorship of the Subjunctive Mood.  "Penn swimmer Lia Thomas came away with wins in the 100 meter and 200-meter freestyle races against Harvard on Saturday," Fox News reported last week. [...] Based on the new NCAA policy, "there is nothing that would preclude Lia from racing in March at the NCAA Championships."  Michael Phelps, who won 13 individual Olympic gold medals, has problems with the policy.  "I believe that we all should feel comfortable with who we are in our own skin, but I think sports should all be played on an even playing field," Phelps told reporters.  "I don't know what it looks like in the future.  It's hard.  It's very complicated and this is my sport, this has been my sport my whole entire career, and honestly the one thing I would love is everybody being able to compete on an even playing field."  The Olympic champion might rethink the "very complicated" part.  The pool is already perfectly level, and the disparity belongs to Thomas.  This swimmer transitioned from the Penn men's team to the women's team, where Thomas now demolishes the competition.  That could send a signal to other athletes.

Lia Thomas' UPenn teammate tells how the trans swimmer doesn't always cover up her male genitals when changing.  Sharing a locker room with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has become a point of contention for some of her University of Pennsylvania teammates, who feel uncomfortable changing in the private space with someone undergoing gender transition, the DailyMail.com can reveal.  'It's definitely awkward because Lia still has male body parts and is still attracted to women,' one swimmer on the team told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview.  Lia has told her teammates that she dates women.

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Fifty years ago, a man caught in the women's locker room would have been immediately expelled from any university in the U.S.  Five years ago, what newspaper editor would have permitted the phrase, cover up her male genitals?  Wake up, fools!  It's a man!  This problem will persist until you get rid of the people who caused it.

Maybe that's because he's a man.
Teammates say they are uncomfortable changing in locker room with trans UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas.  A member of the University of Pennsylvania women's swim team said some team members are uncomfortable changing in the locker room with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, according to a teammate.  Thomas, 22, who spent the previous three years swimming with the men's team before she began transitioning to a woman, has created an uneasy environment in the locker room, as she still retains her biologically male genitalia — which are sometimes exposed — and is attracted to women, one teammate told the Daily Mail in an interview.

The girl is a man.  Our insane world has hit woke bottom.  This is from Fox News:  ["]Penn swimmer Lia Thomas came away with wins in the 100 meter and 200-meter freestyle races against Harvard on Saturday.  The victories came days after the NCAA updated its policy for transgender participation and how it will be determined on a sport-by-sport basis.["]  What did Thomas do?  He, and he is a he, shattered women's records.  Who knows what women were denied scholarships because of this?  The answer is for men to compete with men and women with women.  It's not discrimination.  It's common sense.

NCAA changes transgender athlete participation policy amid calls for reevaluation.  The NCAA changed its policy regarding transgender athletes, it announced Wednesday.  The new approach to allowing transgender athletes will follow a sport-by-sport model similarly adopted by the U.S. and international Olympic committees, Sports Illustrated reported.  The NCAA said if there was no international federation policy then the "previously established IOC policy criteria would be followed."  "We are steadfast in our support of transgender student-athletes and the fostering of fairness across college sports," John DeGioia, Georgetown University's president and the NCAA board's chairman, said in a statement Wednesday, announcing the change.

Lia Thomas Is Guilty of Institutional Cheating and Gender Eugenics.  You were born a biological male.  You have XY chromosomes that irrevocably designate your sex as male.  You began to identify as either non-binary or female around two years ago.  You are currently a member of the University of Pennsylvania's women's swim team where you recently were victorious against Cornell University women's team.  As a transwoman with the physical advantages of still being a biological male, you have broken several of the University of Pennsylvania's women's swim records.  In your 1,650-meter freestyle win, you beat second-place finisher and teammate Anna Kalandadze by 38 seconds.  Because of you, women such as Kalandadze who held records no longer hold them.  You, as a biological male, have unfairly stripped them of their hard-fought honors.

USA Swimming official who resigned over trans swimmer Lia Thomas says athlete is 'destroying women's swimming'.  A USA Swimming official who resigned in protest of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas told Fox News on Monday that she can't stand by and watch as girls are "thrown under the bus" by "biological" male competitors.  Cynthia Millen stepped down last week after officiating USA Swimming meets for over three decades.  Her decision came days before the U.S. Paralympics Swimming National Championships in Greensboro, N.C.  "The fact is that swimming is a sport in which bodies compete against bodies.  Identities do not compete against identities," Millen said in an appearance on "Tucker Carlson Tonight."  "Men are different from women, men swimmers are different from women, and they will always be faster than women."

It's Time to Stop Denying Reality About Transgender Athletes.  A transgender athlete, Lia Thomas, dominated during a Nov. 20 women's swim meet with athletes representing Cornell, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania. [...] Just a few weeks after Thomas trounced biologically female teammates, President Joe Biden's Department of Education announced plans to amend Title IX regulations to conform to the president's executive order on what it calls "Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation."  Such amendments by the Education Department would allow biological males to compete against women in the name of "equality" and "preventing discrimination."  But the truth is, these amendments would contradict reality, equality, and popular opinion.  Hormone levels alone don't make someone a woman.  And no amount of cross-sex hormones can undo the biological benefits of male genetics and development.

Kristi Noem Advances Bill Requiring Trans Athletes to Compete According to Their Birth Gender.  South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) has advanced a bill in the state legislature that would codify her executive orders limiting transgender athletes to competing only in categories that correspond to their birth gender.  Noem filed the bill on Tuesday to limit K-12 girl's school sports and state-funded colleges to allowing only natural-born girls to compete in girl's categories, according to the Argus Leader.  The governor issued her two executive orders in March after the legislature rejected her revisions of House Bill 1217.

The Real War on Women is From the Left.  Remember how the left not long ago went on and on and on about the supposed "war on women" from the right?  The irony is that according to current leftist dogma, women no longer exist.  After all, the Biden Administration's Department of Health and Human Services is insisting in referring to mothers (once understood as a significant subset of beings known as "women") as "birthing persons," because current leftist dogma says men can have babies, too.  Which means women no long have anything naturally distinctive about them. [...] Which brings me back to the story I've commented on before of Lia Thomas, the "woman" swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania who is shattering women's swim records after having competed for three years as an average male swimmer for Penn.

Men Make the Best Women.  There is no difference between men and women, we're told by leftist activists, none whatsoever.  We're also told by these same people that there's nothing a man can do better than a woman, [...] We've all heard about the high school sprinters who were not very good as boys, but mopped up the track when they started competing as girls.  I couldn't care less how someone chooses to live in their personal life, my problem with the idea of "trans" is when I'm forced to deny reality to make someone else feel comfortable.  If you're a man and you want to wear a dress and be called Betty, I'll call you Betty.  But if you want me to pretend you can get pregnant or have to worry about cervical cancer, you've lost me.  In the UK, they are spending good money reminding women to get screened for prostate cancer and other absurd things that simply are not real.  Forcing me to pretend they are is when you lose me, and you're not getting me back.

Why I'm celebrating news that a man is breaking women's swimming records.  Will Thomas is a strapping 22-year-old man who swam competitively at the University of Pennsylvania for three years.  This year, though, Will announced that he's a woman named "Lia" and, thanks to Biden's executive orders regarding so-called "gender identity," got a place on UPenn's women's swim team where, to no one's surprise, he swam faster than the women.  Frankly, I think it's wonderful.  That's not because I've gone woke; it's because this is so blatantly unfair to women, and Will is so obviously a man, that Americans are finally saying that the emperor is wearing the wrong dress.  I will never, absolutely never, use female pronouns for a man who claims to be "transgender."  He is either mentally ill, which is sad, but does not make him a woman, or he's a sleazy, skeezy opportunist.  It's amazing how many of these so-called "transgender" men who suddenly get to compete in women's sports and use women's locker rooms and restrooms (and women's prisons), have kept their original biological equipment and are "lesbians," rather than real women who like men.  Let me say this as clearly as possible:  There is no such thing as "transgenderism."

Boys Replacing Girls in Sports — Feminists Yawn.  Women's sports are again under attack.  Decades ago, it was due to tradition and patriarchy, with funding and attention lavished primarily on men's sports.  Title IX came in 1972, leveling the playing field.  At the time, there were just over 300,000 women and girls participating in high school and college sports.  Female athletes only received 2 percent of college athletic budgets and few if any women received athletic scholarships.  Forty years later in 2012, great progress was made with 3 million girls participating in high school sports and 190,000 in college sports, a sixfold increase since 1972.  But instead of continued progress, our new woke culture is turning back the clock on women's sports, all in the name of equity, tolerance, and diversity, setting female athletes back decades.

Male Swimmer Dominates UPenn's Women's Swim Team.  Will Thomas was a moderately successful swimmer on the University of Pennsylvania's men's swim team for three years.  But then he took a year off, reemerged as transgender, and started dominating the women's swim team.

The 'Equality' blues:  Feminists cry foul when boys' netball team wins girls' tournament.  The Queensland Suns won the Nissan State under-18 netball tournament last month, and the wrath of many, by easily defeating seven other teams.  The issue?  The Suns are sons — not daughters like the rest of their competitors.  Netball is a variation on basketball played in many Commonwealth countries.  The game also apparently doesn't have many male competitors in Australia, which is why the Suns were allowed to compete with the lasses.  As Netball Queensland, the organization running the Nissan tournament, stated, it was choosing "inclusion over exclusion."

Texas Senate Passes Bill Requiring Athletes To Compete On Team That Matches Birth Gender.  The Texas Senate passed a bill on Friday night [10/15/2021] that requires student athletes to play on sports teams that match their birth gender and not the gender with which they identify.  "The legislation is primed to become law after the state Senate voted 19-12 on Friday to pass House Bill 25, authored by state Rep. Valoree Swanson, R-Spring," The Texas Tribune reported.  "The Senate floor vote followed a swiftly held committee meeting where a 24-hour notice rule was suspended and the Senate's Health and Human Services Committee voted to advance the legislation.  Under HB 25, students would only be permitted to compete on sports teams that correspond to the gender listed on their birth certificate that was assigned at or near the time of birth."  The Texas House must now approve an amendment that the Senate added before it heads to Governor Greg Abbott's desk.

Texas House Passes Bill Banning Students from Competing against Opposite Sex in Sports.  The Texas House of Representatives passed a bill on Friday [10/15/2021] mandating that transgender athletes participate in school sports teams corresponding to the biological sex listed on their birth certificate.  The bill passed 76 [to] 54 after failing to advance on three previous attempts, and will now be sent to the state Senate for deliberation.  Representative Valoree Swanson, the bill's sponsor, said it would protect women and girls from unfair competition.

Christian Schools Join Fight To Protect Female Athletes From Transgender Competitors.  A coalition of Christian schools and female athletes are fighting back against President Joe Biden's efforts to redefine sex to be based on "gender identity," not biological sex.  If successful, female athletes would have to compete in sporting events against biological men who "identify" as women and force them to share private spaces such as bathrooms and locker rooms.  The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a nonprofit Christian legal organization, filed a motion on Monday asking a federal district court to allow the Association of Christian Schools International and three female athletes in Arkansas to intervene in the case, State of Tennessee v.  United States Department of Education.

Piers Morgan:  Transgenders in women's MMA will get someone killed.  It's no longer a surprise when Piers Morgan weighs in on hot-button cultural issues in favor of the conservatives, as he does today in the question of transgender access to women's sports.  Today, he writes in the Daily Mail that such crossovers in MMA are likely to get someone killed, and uses one bout this weekend as a prime example: [...] Morgan makes his pitch against transgenders in women's sports on a broader basis than safety.  It's not only "incredibly dangerous" in the context of MMA, but also unfair and unequal for all women forced to compete with biological males.

Leftists cheer as a violent man assaults a woman.  Mixed Martial Arts took a serious hit the other day when the sport allowed a man to beat a woman brutally and then claim a victory for having done so.  ESPN, others in the leftist establishment, and the Combate Global competition were all incredibly excited about this violent, misogynistic event.  Worse, the man had trained for years in the United States Army's Special Forces.  Why was this all condoned, indeed, applauded?  Because the man suffers from body dysphoria which has led him to believe that he's a woman.  I feel sorry for him but — and this is the important point — he's not a woman and it's a travesty that people pretend he is.

Transgender MMA fighter who used to be in US Army special forces wins debut — reigniting debate over trans women in sports.  The second openly transgender MMA fighter in the US has won her debut match — reigniting the debate over trans women in sports.  Alana McLaughlin, 38, won her first professional fight in the Combate Global prelims Friday against Celine Provost, ending the match with a rear-naked choke 3 minutes and 32 seconds into the second round.  McLaughlin, from South Carolina, began her transition in 2010 after spending six years in the US Army special forces.

Reporter Asks Women Weight Lifters About Trans Competitor, Room Goes Completely Silent.  During their press conference after medaling in the women's +87 kg weightlifting competition, the three medalists gave a very telling reaction when a reporter asked them about the "historic" participation of transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, a biological male.

If They Can Make You Believe a Big Strong Man Belongs in the Women's Division, They Can Make You Believe Anything.  Today, Monday, August 2, 2021, a big strong man bombed out of the superheavyweight class of the Women's division of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.  Read that sentence again:  We are living in a post-truth society.  The best that can be done with it is to finely hone your cynicism, question everything you are told, and learn to appreciate dark humor.  Gavin Hubbard is 6'1" at 285 pounds.  He was most assuredly born a physical male and competed somewhat successfully in the Men's Division of Olympic weightlifting up until 2001.  Psychological issues caused him to reevaluate his gender identity, previously based on his physical sex, and he was reportedly "surgically re-assigned" in 2012 to reflect his commitment to his new gender identification as "Laurel."  All of this is entirely his own personal business and has nothing to do with the rest of humanity.  If a guy wants to castrate himself and have cosmetic surgery, he should have the freedom to do so.  But being born a male — having developed in utero under male levels of testosterone exposure — makes you forever and always different from having been born a female, whose congenital development took place without testosterone at those levels.

Olympic Medical and Science Official Says "Everyone Agrees" That Trans Women Are Real Women.  International Olympic Committee (IOC) Medical and Science Director Dr. Richard Budgett recently made some eyebrow raising comments when he claimed that "everyone agrees" that trans women are real women.  The comment came during a press conference on Friday [7/29/2021] when Budgett was praising male-turned-female New Zealand trans weightlifter Laurel Hubbard for their "courage and tenacity."  "To put it in a nutshell, the IOC had a scientific consensus back in 2015," Budgett explained as he came up with an excuse for the IOC's decision to let a man compete with women.  "There are no IOC rules or regulations around transgender participation.  That depends on each international federation."

We Are Doctors.  Here's the Truth About Transgender Females' Bodies and Athleticism.  The International Olympic Committee ruled in 2015 that transgender athletes "who transition from male to female are eligible to compete in the female category" so long as their testosterone level has been below a certain threshold for at least 12 months.  At least two recent peer-reviewed studies challenge this rule.  One published in the journal Sports Medicine found "the muscular advantage enjoyed by transgender women [men on estrogen] is only minimally reduced when testosterone is suppressed" for 12 months.  A second review article found the male strength advantage to remain even after three years of testosterone suppression.  Even if the strength advantage could be eliminated, however, to reduce the definition of female human being to having a certain level of testosterone in your body for a certain amount of time completely ignores the scientific reality that genetics — not testosterone — is at the root of all that makes the two sexes different.  When males are allowed to compete in athletic leagues designed for females, they deprive female athletes of the opportunity to safe and fair participation in sports.  As Vanbellinghen said, "Life-changing opportunities are missed for some athletes — medals and Olympic qualifications — and we are powerless."

Judge blocks West Virginia law banning transgender students from girls sports.  A federal judge blocked a West Virginia law banning transgender athletes from competing in girls sports, saying the legislation likely runs afoul of the Constitution.  Judge Joseph R. Goodwin, a Clinton appointee, said if West Virginia wants to treat people differently, there must be a compelling reason to do so.  "I have been provided with scant evidence that this law addresses any problem at all, let alone an important problem," the judge wrote in a 15-page opinion.

Biden administration 'erasing the borders' of biological sex, women's sports activist says.  The first half of 2021 has been marked by a series of fierce cultural and legal battles over policies relating to transgender athletes participating in girls' and women's sports.  More battles loom as the Biden administration and some states take significantly divergent positions on the hot button issue.  One of the first actions President Joe Biden took following his inauguration was to sign an executive order preventing discrimination against people based on gender identity, which said children "should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to the restroom, the locker room, or school sports."  Opponents — including leaders in states such as Florida, Tennessee, and Idaho, and activists including Beth Stelzer — insist that female-identifying biological males playing against women is unfair to biological females.

The Problems with Laurel Hubbard's Qualifying for the Olympics as a Woman.  Weightlifting has always been an Olympic sport, practiced in Ancient Greece.  At the modern revival of the Olympics in 1896, and for the next 100 years, only men were allowed to compete.  But since the Sydney Games of 2000, there have been women's events too, in weight categories like the men's events.  Equity of the sexes is important to the Olympic movement nowadays.  The International Olympic Committee (IOC) says that inclusion is important, too.  To that end, it has decreed that males who feel themselves to be women may compete in the women's events.  The only stipulation, besides declaring their commitment to their desired "gender," is that such athletes take a pill daily to lower their testosterone to below 10 nanomoles/Liter (nmol/L).  The typical female testosterone range is below 1 nmol/L.  So, we have Laurel Hubbard, born male 43 years ago, and now presenting as part of the New Zealand women's weightlifting team for Tokyo 2020, to be held this summer.

Laurel Hubbard is the beginning of the end of Women's sports.  The decision to allow Laurel Hubbard, a 43-year-old weightlifter who transitioned from male to trans woman in 2012, to compete in the forthcoming Olympic Games against female competitors is the beginning of the end of women's sport.  Why does women's sport exist at all?  Because biology in sport matters.  Separate categories give females equal opportunities of sporting success.  Australian Weightlifting Federation's chief executive, Michael Keelan has spoken out about how unfair Hubbard's inclusion is to female competitors.  We all know it is unfair, even those speaking out in support of Hubbard's inclusion in the Olympics — they just don't care about women.

Cece Telfer, Champion Transgender Hurdler, Ruled Ineligible For US Olympic Trials.  Cece Telfer, a transgender woman who won an NCAA Division II championship in 2019, was ruled ineligible Wednesday [6/23/2021] to compete in the U.S. Olympic trials.  USA Track and Field (USATF) said in a statement Telfer failed to meet the World Athletic requirements to be eligible for trials.  She had initially been on the list for Friday's opening heats but an updated list Wednesday did not include her name.  World Athletics' guidelines, released in 2019, stated that female athletes' testosterone levels were at 5 nanomoles per liter or more were barred from events between distances of 400 meters and a mile.  Telfer was readying to compete in the women's 400-meter hurdles at Olympic trials.

The Editor says...
A man who wears women's clothing is not a champion.  A man with low testosterone levels is still a man.

Women's Olympic Weightlifters Should Take a Knee if Trans Athletes Are Allowed to Compete.  The International Olympic Committee has laid the groundwork for the destruction of the women's divisions in Olympic sports by permitting New Zealand to enter a congenital male in the women's division of Olympic weightlifting in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics.  And as odd as this sounds, the only way to save women's sports is for the female competitors to boycott the event in its entirety. [...] It is why we have men's and women's divisions in all sports, with no sport allowing direct competition between men and women.  It has been apparent throughout human history that the sexes are different in terms of physical capacity, that this is true from birth, and I shouldn't have to point this out to anybody.

I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar, Just not at the Olympics.  Helen Reddy sang a Grammy Award-winning hit in 1972 called "I Am Woman," an ode to the newly blossomed feminist movement. [...] Remember a time when major sporting competitions, like the Olympic Games, separated men from women, perhaps not in the Olympic Village, but on the track, in the pool, and in the gym.  One time, this was commonsensical as men and women differ greatly in terms of size, strength, and power due to a hormone called testosterone, abundant in growing boys, but not so in girls, leading to higher bone density, larger muscle mass, and more efficient power generation.  In last week's Olympic Trials, these differences were quite evident.

NFL legend Brett Favre blasts transgender Olympian as 'unfair': 'It's a man competing as a woman'.  Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre built a legendary career out of being on target when it counted.  But he was never more on target than when he nailed the issue of transgender "women" competing against true females on the biggest stages in sports.  Liberals are going to hate it, but no sane, honest person — man or woman — could disagree.  "It's a man competing as a woman," Favre said with characteristic bluntness.  "That's unfair."  The issue arose during Tuesday's [6/22/2021] episode of Favre's podcast "Bolling with Favre," co-hosted by former Fox News personality Eric Bolling.

New Zealand weightlifter to become first trans athlete to compete in Olympics.  A New Zealand woman has become the first transgender athlete to be selected to compete in the Olympics — a decision that is expected to launch debate about gender identity in sports.  Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, 43, who was born male but transitioned to female, was picked to participate in the upcoming summer games in Tokyo, New Zealand Olympic Committee chief Kereyn Smith said in a Monday [6/21/2021] statement.  "We acknowledge that gender identity in sport is a highly sensitive and complex issue requiring a balance between human rights and fairness on the field of play," Smith said in a statement.  "As the New Zealand team, we have a strong culture of manaaki (caring) and inclusion and respect for all."

Law banning trans athletes from women's sports unconstitutional:  DOJ.  The Department of Justice is mounting a case arguing that laws in West Virginia and Arkansas that bar transgender athletes from competing in women's sports are unconstitutional, despite the overwhelming majority of Americans supporting biological gender segregation in sports, according to a report citing court papers.  "The United States has a significant interest in ensuring that all students, including students who are transgender, can participate in an educational environment free of unlawful discrimination," the DOJ said in court documents filed in a West Virginia court case Thursday [6/17/2021], according to a report by the Daily Mail.  The DOJ asked a judge to overturn the West Virginia rule — signed into law by Republican Gov. Jim Justice in April — which blocks transgender athletes from playing in women's sports from middle school through college, the outlet reported.

San Francisco Giants Become First MLB Team to Wear Pride-Themed Uniforms.  The San Francisco Giants told fans Tuesday that the team will add gay pride colors to its hats and uniforms in recognition of Gay Pride Month.  "The 11 colors of the new Pride logo are emblematic of the Progress Pride Flag and signify inclusion and progression with the six pride colors," the team said in a statement, "red (life); orange (healing); yellow (sunlight); green (nature); blue (serenity); purple (spirit); and black and brown to recognize LGBTQ+ people of color and light blue, pink and white to recognize people who are transgender."

Our Increasingly Unrecognizable Civilization.  Over the same period as the pandemic lockdowns, we have seen an escalation of so-called wokeness.  And if you look at one of the most startling manifestations of this, transgender fanaticism — which involves, after all, the abolition of biological sex and, I'm sorry to have to say it, the physical mutilation of children — one notices that America is farther down this road than any other country in the Western world.  In other words, at this moment of crisis for Western Civilization, or for what we used to call Christendom, the leading country of the free world is pulling the wrong way.  Think of it.  Your daughter has been training since she was a little girl to run in school sports.  Now at 17, she's in the state high school track championships, and you are forbidden even to notice that she's competing against a woman who is 6'2" with thighs like tugboats, a great touch of five o'clock shadow on her face, and the most muscular bosom you've ever seen.  You're not supposed to notice the craziness of this, and the craziness is at its craziest right here in America.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs bill barring transgender athletes from female sports.  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday signed legislation barring transgender athletes from competing in girls' and women's sports, joining seven other states in what he described as an effort to protect female sports.  Mr. DeSantis, a Republican, gave the Fairness in Women's Sports Act his signature flanked by teenage athletes at Trinity Christian Academy in Jacksonville.  "I can tell you that in Florida, girls are going to play girls' sports, and boys are going to play boys' sports," Mr. DeSantis said at the event.

Trans Golfer Who Played On Men's College Team Wins Women's Title, Eyes LPGA.  Hailey Davidson, who is biologically male but identifies as female, played in women's golf last week and won a professional title after competing against biological women.  The transgender golfer, who previously played in men's college golf, now hopes to qualify for the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) for female golfers.  According to a Golkweek report, Davidson beat LPGA player Perrine Delacour to win the women's title at Providence Golf Club in Orlando, Florida last week.

The NCAA Was All Threats and Bluster Against Non-Trans Athlete States, But It Just Crumpled Like a Cheap Suit.  The NCAA was threatening states that if they didn't allow men to compete in women's sports then they would pull tournaments from those states.  The entire issue even caused a once-loved Republican governor, Kristi Noem, to lose her support within the party after she bent the knee and refused to sign a bill banning biological men from declaring themselves women and signing up to compete against them out of fear of losing the revenue.  As it turns out, the NCAA was totally bluffing and picked three states for their tournaments to happen in.  According to Breitbart, the NCAA has announced that Alabama, Arkansas, and Tennessee will be host to the Women's College World Series softball regionals.

So much for fairness:  Transgender woman golfer wins mini-tour event, aims for LPGA.  Last week, Hailey Davidson, a transgender woman, won her first professional title in Florida, topping LPGA player Perrine Delacour for the win.  The same day, she was sent an email by the USGA saying she's met the organization's Gender Policy eligibility criteria and can now compete in its championships and she's hoping to hear similar news from the LPGA via a reciprocity agreement, according to Golfweek.  So much for fairness in women's sports.  In January, Ms. Davidson underwent gender reassignment surgery, and she's been undergoing hormone treatments since 2015.  Since transitioning, Ms. Davidson said she hits shorter and swings slower — yet she still was born a man, and obviously, has a physical advantage over biological women.

NCAA Caves, Will Allow States [Which] Place Restrictions on Trans Athletes to Host Events.  The NCAA made loud proclamations in April that it could pull events from states with limits on transgender athletes.  Still, now the college sports governing body has caved and will allow tournaments in states including Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas despite their laws restricting trans athletes.  The NCAA sided with transgender athletes only last month, saying they may cancel events in states that aren't "free of discrimination" against transgender athletes.

Transgender Female to Compete as Weightlifter in Olympics — Never Competed in Weightlifting as a Male.  Tell me a story about how it's just about letting little boys compete in sports using the gender identity that they are most comfortable with.  New Zeland transgender female weight lifter Laurel Hubbard, who lived life for 35 years as a man, will likely participate in this summer's Olympic Games in Tokyo as a 43-year-old female weightlifter.  Hubbard finished 2nd in the 2017 World Championships in the Women's Super Heavyweight division, but a serious elbow injury in 2018 put his/her career in jeopardy.  Under the revamped qualifying rules announced earlier this week due to the inability of most countries to have qualifying competitions, Hubbard will automatically be included as New Zealand's only entry in the Super Heavyweight Division if New Zealand decides to nominate Hubbard to be part of its Olympic Team.  At 43 years old, Hubbard would be the oldest weightlifter competing in Tokyo.

Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard set to make history at Tokyo Olympics.  History and controversy is expected to be made at the Tokyo Olympics this summer after the transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard was effectively guaranteed a place in the women's super heavyweight category.  While the 43-year-old has not yet been named in the New Zealand team, an International Weightlifting Federation insider confirmed to the Guardian that she [sic] would automatically qualify because of amended rules approved by the International Olympic Committee.

Alabama Enacts Law Banning Transgender Athletes From Participating in Biologically Inconsistent Public School Sports.  Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed into law a bill that bans transgender student-athletes from competing on K-12 public school single-sex teams that match their gender identity, making her state the second in the nation to enact such a ban.  House Bill 391, which was overwhelmingly approved by the Republican-controlled state legislature last week, mandates that those who aren't biologically male or female won't be able to participate in school-sponsored sports events that are inconsistent with their sex assigned at birth.  "A public K-12 school may not allow a biological female to participate on a male team if there is a female team in a sport," the bill reads.  "A public K-12 school may never allow a biological male to participate on a female team."

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One's sex is determined by genetics at the moment of conception.  It is not "assigned at birth."

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Texas Senate passes transgender sports bill that critics decry as another 'bathroom bill'.  The Texas Senate approved a controversial transgender sports bill Thursday [4/15/2021] that would force young athletes in Texas to compete in sports that align with the sex designated on their original birth certificate rather than with their gender identity.  The 18-12 vote followed a marathon March 26 hearing that featured emotional testimony on the bill, which foes decry as discriminatory and anti-LGBTQ.

USA Today Beats Up On 'Hateful,' Ignorant Red States For Opposing Trans Athletes.  USA Today ultra-leftist Nancy Armour swung a big bat Tuesday [4/13/2021], verbally bludgeoning hateful, ignorant conservative state lawmakers working to protect women's sports.  She accused them of trying to "otherize" trans athletes and open a new front in the culture war, repeated LGBT talking points and urged the NCAA to hurt conservative states in the pocketbook.  Nearly half the state legislatures are trying to protect women's sports from the intrusion of confused males competing with females.  Armour accused them of passing bills that aren't based on scientific facts.  It's bigotry that comes with a price, and she exhorted the NCAA to inflict financial pain on conservative states.

NCAA backs biological males competing in women's sports, as showdown looms with Florida over pending law.  The National Collegiate Athletic Association, a cartel controlling the multibillion-dollar college athletics business, may be painting itself into a corner.  Probably because it is a creature of the higher education industry that has gone off the deep end in its commitment to far-left politics, the NCAA is taking an extreme position on transgenderism and apparently seeking a confrontation with the State of Florida if it passes a law currently under consideration that would limit participation in women's sports to women.

NCAA Upholds Policy of Transgender Women Competing in Women's Sports.  The NCAA reaffirmed its decision to refuse to hold college championships in states where laws "discriminate" against male athletes who identify as female.  The board of governors issued a statement that "firmly and unequivocally" supports the inclusion of transgender athletes in college sports.  The statement comes after several states have passed laws preventing biological males from competing in girls' athletics.  Apparently, the NCAA, which governs rules on competition in college sports, thinks it's OK for biological males to compete against biological females.  The only way they can allow this is if they ignore the biology in favor of being fashionable.

NCAA issues stern warning as Texas Senate prepares to debate transgender sports bill.  Amid all the talk of boycotts and corporate criticism of election bills going through the Texas Legislature, major resistance is shaping up to another top priority of Republican state lawmakers.  With the Texas Senate set to debate a bill to ban transgender girls from competing in girls' interscholastic sports, the NCAA recently issued a warning that it is watching the legislation.  NCAA policies allow transgender athletes to participate without limitation.  "The NCAA continues to closely monitor state bills that impact transgender student-athlete participation," NCAA officials said in a statement to the Houston Chronicle.  "The NCAA believes in fair and respectful student-athlete participation at all levels of sport.  The association's transgender student-athlete participation policy and other diversity policies are designed to facilitate and support inclusion."

America's creation of the transgender child.  [Scroll down]  One might imagine the locus of concern would be the ethics of medicating and operating on children physically to alleviate mental distress, but it is the impact on sport which has captured the public imagination.  The repeated triumph of biological males who identify as girls over actual girls in athletics has left the "transwomen are women" mantra looking a little flimsy.  There has already been one legal case challenging the fairness of allowing competition on the basis of "gender identity."  In some states, laws are coming into effect to ensure that girls are given a fighting chance and that events are divided by physical sex.  The evidence is clear, as developmental biologist Dr Emma Hilton explained in a 2019 review of the International Olympic Committee guidelines:  "Males can run faster, jump longer, throw further and lift heavier than females.  They outperform females by 10 percent on the running track to 30 percent when throwing various balls...  Males have around 40 percent more muscle mass, even when height is taken into account, and 40 percent less body fat."

TN governor signs transgender sports bill, will require students to prove their sex before playing.  Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Friday [3/26/2021] signed a bill into law that will prohibit transgender students from playing on the team of the sex with which they identify, one of numerous such bills currently working their way through statehouses around the country.  Tennessee's H.B. 3 directs that "a student's gender for purposes of participation in a public middle school or high school interscholastic athletic activity or event must be determined by the student's sex at the time of the student's birth, as indicated on the student's original birth certificate."  The rule effectively bars transgender athletes from selecting a team based on their internal sense of "gender identity."

SD House Speaker to Reject Gov. Kristi Noem's Request to Rework Bill on Transgender Athletes.  The battle over legislation in South Dakota to prevent biological men from competing against biological women in school sports will come to a head on "Veto Day," which takes place on Monday [3/29/2021] — also the last day of the state's legislation session.  And now House Speaker Spencer Gosch, a Republican, announced he would recommend lawmakers reject Gov. Kristi Noem's controversial stance to not veto House Bill 1217 but to ask for revisions to it, including removing the language to eliminate the ban in collegiate sports and removing the requirement for birth certificate sex to be proven annually.

Governor signs bill barring transgender athletes from female sports in Arkansas.  Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed Thursday [3/25/2021] legislation barring transgender athletes from competing in girls' and women's sports, an issue gaining steam in Republican-led state legislatures despite pushback from LGBTQ and business groups.  The Republican governor signed SB 354, the Fairness in Women's Sports Act, shortly after it passed both chambers by wide margins.  The bill was delivered to his desk Tuesday.  "I have studied the law and heard from hundreds of constituents on this issue," Mr. Hutchinson said.  "I signed the law as a fan of women's sports from basketball to soccer and including many others in which women compete successfully.  This law simply says that female athletes should not have to compete in a sport against a student of the male sex when the sport is designed for women's competition."

Cancel the 'Cancel Culture' Defense of Terrible Republicans.  South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem claims she's a victim of "conservative cancel culture."  After vetoing a popular bill to defend women's sports from the transgender lobby, Noem insists she did no such thing.  She claims she only rejected the bill because legendary (but unnamed) conservative legal scholars told her she would lose a fight with the National Collegiate Athletic Association.  "If any number of conservative pundits are to be believed, that same governor who refused to cave is now caving to the NCAA and Amazon on the issue of fairness in women's sports.  What?  Apparently, uninformed cancel culture is fine when the right is eating their own," Noem spokesman Ian Fury said in a press statement.  "Furthermore, the bill picked a fight with the NCAA — a fight that renowned conservative legal experts advise Governor Noem that she will lose, especially considering South Dakota's unfriendly federal bench."  Apparently, if the NCAA threatens a lawsuit, you get a pass to betray your constituents.

The Worst Thing About Kristi Noem's Sports Capitulation Is Her Lies.  South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem raised some valid concerns when she returned House Bill 1217 to the state legislature for "style and form" changes.  But two of the proposed amendments to the bill that legislators drafted to prevent males from competing as females in athletic events, coupled with the spin since Noem announced she would not sign H.B. 1217 as written, give the governor's game away:  She caved.  As I explained earlier this week, H.B. 1217 originally consisted of four sections, with Section 1 providing that elementary, secondary, and collegiate athletic teams must be defined as male, female, or coeducational, then further stating that teams or sports designated as female are "available only to participants who are female, based on their biological sex."

Oh Noem, Not Another Squish!  You know who is laughing right now?  Nikki!  Haley is, because Kristi Noem may have derailed her own electoral freight train as it rolled down the conservative governortrix tracks toward the GOP nom in 2024. [...] What did she do?  She vetoed a bill defending women athletes from the insanity of letting men dominate them, a "style and form" veto, and then offered the most weaksauce weasel word explanation imaginable.  Here tweet thread trying to explain it was lame; her appearance on Tucker was condescending gibberish.  Watching it, woke cons started out disappointed with her and ended up infuriated at her.

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Have We Lost Nuance?  What did [South Dakota Governor Kristi] Noem do that upset so many of my fellow conservatives?  She didn't sign a bill banning boys from playing in girls' sports in South Dakota.  That sounds simple enough, it's something she's said she's for and she went against it.  But, like everything in life, it's more nuanced than that.  But nuance isn't allowed anymore.  If Noem had signed the bill, it would have been immediately tied up in court and there would have been years of litigation, likely blocked by a court throughout.  Noem didn't veto it, she sent it back to the legislature to be revised.  How?  She wants the part about the law applying to colleges removed.  That might sound bad, and it's certainly not what most people want, but it's important to avoid that injunction and long legal battle because the governor has little to no say over college sports.  State governments have enormous influence over public schools K-12, but very little over private schools and universities.

Dakota Gov. Noem says she'll sign legislature's transgender sports bill after minor fixes made.  South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem said Monday she'll sign a state legislature bill that would ban transgender athletes from competing in women's sports — after creating a conservative uproar last week by vetoing the measure.  Noem, considered a top potential 2024 presidential candidate, said at a press conference that she'll sign the bill after legislators make what she considers minor changes — limiting the ban to high school and elementary schools for male athletes who identify as female athletes.  The governor does want such a ban on college athletics at this time, she said, over concerns about the National Collegiate Athletic Association's standing on the matter.

Kristi Noem v. NCAA.  Kristi Noem should have paid attention to some of the history behind her own name rather than the listen to the advice of attorneys and lobbyists.  She didn't realize that she had the power to wreck the NCAA if it didn't bow to her wishes.  If she had signed the "women's protection" legislation she would have stayed on the path to the presidency.  Now, that future has almost certainly vanished. [...] By standing firm she would have directed a brilliant and withering light onto the power-mad cowards that run the NCAA.  She could have easily created the coalition against men-in-women's-sports that she desires.  Maybe she still can.  But now, all perceive her as weak.  Will she recover politically?  Maybe.  Probably not.

Bowing To Corporate Demands For Watered-Down Bill, Gov. Kristi Noem Sells Out Women's Sports.  On Friday [3/19/2021], South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem balked on signing House Bill 1217 when the bill to promote fairness in women's sports crossed her desk.  But instead of vetoing the legislation, Noem returned the bill to the House with what she called "recommendations as to STYLE and FORM."  The Republican governor's spin, however, cannot withstand scrutiny — most specifically her claimed reasoning for removing collegiate athletics from the bill's protections.  As finalized by the South Dakota legislature, Section 1 of H.B. 1217 provided that athletic teams and sports in the state, including at institutions of higher education, must be expressly designated as male, female, or coeducation.  It also stipulated that teams or sports designed as female must be "available only to participants who are female, based on their biological sex."

Gov. Kristi Noem Sends Transgender Athletes Bill Back to Legislature for Changes.  South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) returned a bill designed to prevent biological men from competing in biological women's sports back to her state legislature on Friday for changes.  Noem cited in a public letter changes she is requesting to the bill, specifying they are revisions of "style and form." The changes include removing collegiate athletics from the bill, thereby limiting its application to K-12 athletics, and modifying language about civil liability and performance-enhancing drugs.

Track star's dream dashed by transgender rules.  The Louisiana State University Lady Tigers have won 25 national championships in track and field, and Alanna Smith dreams of contributing to another someday.  She just doesn't think she should have to beat guys to get there.  "When I didn't have to run against biological males, I felt I had a chance," said Alanna, 17.  "Whether I came in first or fifth place, I knew that was the spot I deserved.  Now it's dispiriting to know who is going to win."

Where Are All the Girls In Boys' Sports?  It's probably a question I'm not allowed to ask, but I honestly don't care.  And the fact that it will upset a bunch of pearl-clutching leftists and gender fascists just makes me want to ask it more, and louder.  But with all the talk from the left about transgender rights and how boys who believe they are girls should be allowed to compete in any sport they so choose, why aren't there any stories of the opposite happening?  Where are the girls in boys' sports?  It's pretty easy to find stories about boys competing in girls' sports, particularly track and field events, largely because they tend to win... by a lot.  Records are being broken, record books rewritten, and scholarships awarded to boys who "identify" as girls, but has there been one case of a girl identifying as a boy, not only competing in boys' sports, but dominating?  I can't find one.

Tate Reeves Signs Bill To Ensure 'Young Girls Are Not Forced To Compete Against Biological Males'.  Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves signed the Mississippi Fairness Act into law on Thursday so that "young girls are not forced to compete against biological males."  "This is an important day for the women and girls of Mississippi," Reeves said.  "This important piece of legislature will ensure young girls in Mississippi have a fair playing field in public sports."  "I never imagined dealing with this, but POTUS left us no choice," Reeves wrote on Twitter.  "One of his first acts was to sign an EO encouraging transgenderism in children.  So today, I proudly signed the Mississippi Fairness Act to ensure young girls are not forced to compete against biological males."

Mississippi Governor Bans Transgenders From Participating In Female Sports.  Not everyone is bowing down to the Biden regime.  The Governor of Mississippi has just banned transgender athletes from competing in female sports.  Gov. Tate Reeves's new ban defies Biden's Executive Order that called on schools to allow students to participate in athletics under their chosen gender identity.  Hats off to Gov. Reeves for standing up for woman's rights!

Arkansas Advances Bill Protecting Girls From Having To Compete Against Biological Males In Sports.  The Arkansas state Senate will vote on the "Fairness in Women's Sports Act" after the state's Senate Education Committee endorsed the measure with a 5-3 vote at the start of the week.  "Senate Bill 354 by Sen. Missy Irvin, R-Mountain View, would allow students 'deprived of an athletic opportunity' or suffering 'direct or indirect harm' as a result of a kindergarten-through-12th-grade school or higher-education institution not maintaining separate teams for cisgender female students to seek injunctive relief against the school, as well as monetary damages," the Arkansas Democrat Gazette reported.

Saying 'No' to the Cancel Culture.  [Scroll down]  On second thought, don't laugh.  If there's one thing we've learned from chronicling the inimical antics of the cultural-Marxist left for more than half a century, there's no idea too stupid or malignant for them to advocate and then channel into public policy.  Notions too absurd for words just a few years ago — such as allowing biological males in sports bras to compete with real women in various sports, including wrestling and boxing — are now mandated in some places.  Meanwhile, the breach of the Capitol on Jan. 6 has become an "insurrection" and supporters of former president Trump have become "far-right extremists."  And if you object, you're a "bigot" or a threat to "our democracy."

Biden Celebrates International Women's Day by Forcing Girls to Share Bathrooms, Sports Teams, With Boys.  President Joe Biden pulled out all the stops for International Women's Day on Monday, but he arguably undercut women's advancement while paying lip service to it.  He issued a glowing statement about women's empowerment, launched a Gender Policy Council, and signed an executive order barring "sex discrimination" — including discrimination on the basis of gender identity — in public schools.  On one hand, Biden celebrated women's advancement, and on the other, he forced schoolgirls to share bathrooms and sports teams with biological boys.

These girls are hurt by transgender competition.  Alanna Smith's dedication to her sport is profound.  Just listening to the elite high school track star explain her training schedule is exhausting.  Yet no matter how hard she trains, if she has to compete against biological males, she stands no chance of winning.  "There is simply a biological advantage that males have over females," explained the daughter of baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Lee Smith.  "Here is a perfect example," Smith told me.  "I have a twin brother who is an athlete but does not run competitively for his sports.  We raced against each other recently, and he beat me.  Not because he trained harder, but because there are biological and physical advantages boys have over girls in some sports."

I Refuse to Play Make Believe Any Longer.  Unfortunately we have tens of millions of people still playing make believe, pretending that something is true when it absolutely isn't.  The simplest example on this is this whole idea that a teenage boy can declare himself a girl and now join the high school girls track team.  This requires everyone around him to suspend belief and pretend that he isn't a boy.  In fact, they DEMAND that we do so.  Even when it is patently obvious that it is simply not true.  Think about it.  If they can make you go along with the idea that a human body with a penis is actually a girl, in spite of all science saying otherwise, they can make you believe anything.  The make believe is designed to destroy the concept of absolute truth.

Judge Rules Miss USA Can Exclude Transgender Women.  A federal judge on Thursday [2/25/2021] dismissed a lawsuit brought by a transgender woman who accused Miss United States of America of discriminating against her after they denied her the right to compete because she was not a biological female, according to reports.  Pageant contestant Anita Noelle Green sued Miss U.S.A in December of 2019 after she alleged the pageant denied her application and refunded her entry fees on the day she applied.  The Miss U.S.A pageant only allows "natural born biological females" to compete, according to a Motion to Dismiss filed by the pageant.  The pageant argued that under the First Amendment it has rights to free association.  The pageant argued that the pageant is meant for biological women and that allowing Green to participate would "undermine its vision" and that had the court ruled in favor of Green it would be undermining the pageants "message about empowering only biological women."

Connecticut girls lose support from Biden administration in transgender athlete case.  The Biden administration has withdrawn from a Connecticut lawsuit that aims to ban transgender athletes from competing in girls' high school sports.  A group of three female runners sued state and local education officials after losing state titles to transgender athletes in 2018.  Backers of the lawsuit contend that athletes who were born male have a natural and unfair advantage over competitors who were born female.  Supporters of the transgender athletes in the case argue that once hormone therapies take effect, the male genetic advantage fades away — although those effects aren't immediate, and many teens don't begin taking such drugs until after puberty.

DOJ withdraws from transgender athletes case.  The Biden administration has withdrawn its support for a federal lawsuit in Connecticut that seeks to ban transgender athletes from participating in girls' high school sports.  Connecticut allows high school athletes to compete in sports according to their gender identity.  The lawsuit was filed a year ago by several cisgender runners who argue they have been deprived of wins, state titles and athletic opportunities by being forced to compete against two transgender sprinters.  The Justice Department and the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights withdrew their support for the case ahead of a hearing scheduled for Friday on a motion to dismiss the lawsuit.

Governor: Transgender athletes will 'destroy women's sports'.  Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Wednesday [2/10/2021] that transgender girls should be banned from playing on middle and high school sports teams or they will "destroy women's sports."  "I do believe that transgenders participating in women's sports will destroy women's sports," Lee, who is up for reelection next year, told reporters.  "It will ruin the opportunity for girls to earn scholarships.  It will put a glass ceiling back over women that hasn't been there in some time.  I think it's bad for women and for women's sports."

Psaki When Asked About Biden's EO Forcing Girls to Compete Against Biological Males:  Transgenders are More Important Than Your Daughters.  What about the rights of young girls?  When asked about the White House's message to young girls being forced to compete against biological males, Psaki said Biden's belief is trans rights are human rights.  In other words, Joe Biden believes biological males who identify as transgender, are more important than your daughters.  Psaki then deferred the reporter to the schools that are forced to allow biological males to compete with biological females — because of Joe Biden's executive order.

Girls will be Boys, and Boys will be Girls.  [Biden's] January 20 executive order, "Preventing and combating discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation" means that women's sports are now open to males who "identify" as females, [...] Not only sports, but also restrooms, locker rooms, and any school sports.  If members of the boys' high school soccer team decide to identify as girls, they can join the girls' soccer team and shower with them too.  What could go wrong?  Joe Biden instinctively knows there are biologic differences between boys and girls.  There are multiple photos and videos of Biden inappropriately touching and sniffing girls and women, but not boys or men.  He is disregarding his own executive order by discriminating based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

Rand Paul Denounces Biden Transgender Sports Policy.  Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) challenged President Joe Biden's Education Secretary nominee on his statement it is "appropriate" to allow boys to compete in girls' sports by asking, "What planet are you from?"  During a confirmation hearing Wednesday [2/3/2021] of the Senate committee that oversees education, the Kentucky senator asked Miguel Cardona if he thinks it is "fair" to allow boys claiming to be transgender to participate in girls' sports, and about how it affects girls competing in these athletic events.  "I think it is appropriate," Cardona replied.  "It is the legal responsibility of schools to provide opportunities for students to participate in activities and this includes students who are transgender."

Be a tribe of one.  Suppose you're a die-hard Democrat.  What do you do about such issues as:  Transgenderism in women's sports.  Do you side with persons having male chromosomes but identify as women when they want to compete in sports against women, simply because such persons are overwhelmingly Democrats?  Or do you side with genetic women — who are also predominately Democrats — who are concerned that subjecting genetic women to competition from persons who've spent most of their lives developing height, girth and muscle mass as a man with male chromosomes and testosterone levels will destroy women's sports?

Retired NFL Player Calls For Separate Transgender Category Of Sports After Biden Executive Order.  Retired NFL defensive end Marcellus Wiley suggested a separate category for transgender athletes after President Joe Biden recently issued an executive order allowing males who identify as female to participate in women's sports. [...] Biden's executive order mandates that any school that receives federal funding must allow males who identify as females to play on girls' sports teams or face repercussions from the Department of Education.

So much for Joe Biden, moderate.  [For example,] allowing men in women's sports.  My guess is that Biden's day-one executive order that vastly expands the Supreme Court's 2020 Bostock v. Clayton County decision will come back to haunt both him and Democratic political candidates.  The order's language with respect to public schools says, "All persons should receive equal treatment under the law, no matter their gender identity or sexual orientation."  Schools will likely interpret that as saying boys who simply identify as girls must be allowed to compete in girls' sports.  Ironically, the Supreme Court's 6-3 Bostock decision specifically excluded the Biden approach.  Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the majority, "we do not purport to address bathrooms, locker rooms, or anything else of the kind." — which is exactly what Biden's order does.  Given the undeniable additional strength, speed, size and stamina of most male athletes when compared to their female counterparts, it means that male athletes who identify as females will dominate their respective sport.  There are perks to being the top athletes in a class, including college scholarships and high-paying professional opportunities.

Kamala Harris undermines her historic vice presidency by supporting policies ruinous to women.  Kamala Harris made history when she became our country's first female vice president.  While electing the first woman to a nationwide office serves as an important milestone, Harris's policy positions themselves provide little comfort to women.  On numerous issues, Harris will undermine, rather than advance, causes that are important to women.  Take, for instance, Harris's support for the Equality Act.  This legislation, which adds gender identity and sexual orientation as protected categories to the Civil Rights Act, would be bad for those born biologically female.  If enacted, the Equality Act would functionally give individuals born biologically male federal approval to enter sporting competitions previously reserved for those born biologically female.  It could also subject parents who prohibit their underage children from undergoing gender transition procedures to potential civil rights enforcement actions.

On Day One, Biden Destroys Women's Sports With Anti-Science Executive Order.  President Joe Biden issued an executive order on his first day in office, mandating that any schools that receive federal funding must function as if biological males who claim to be females are the same, and vice versa, or risk losing that funding.  This pro-transgender policy extends to male athletes who claim their gender identity as a female should allow them to compete on women's teams, receive women's scholarships, and be admitted in women's locker rooms.  "Children should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to the restroom, the locker room, or school sports," the executive order reads, promising that the Biden administration is committed to "prevent and combat discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation."

Activists: Biden's Embrace of Transgender Athletes [is] a Blow to Women's Rights.  President-Elect Joe Biden's promise to embrace transgender ideology will likely include supporting biological men who say their gender identity is female to compete in sports against biological women.  Attorneys representing transgender athletes and women athletes expect Biden's Department of Education to reverse course in two lawsuits in Idaho and Connecticut that the Trump administration had backed to protect women's rights.

Equality Laws Should Protect Biological Women, Not Those Claiming to Be.  Title IX is landmark legislation that was passed to ensure that women would have the same opportunities as their male counterparts in any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.  While Title IX did not explicitly mention athletics, it's come to be known for its impact on women and their participation in collegiate sports.  Fast forward a few decades.  Whereas it was clear that Title IX would apply to women, it has become increasingly difficult to define what, exactly, qualifies as a "woman" or more specifically, a female.  That is because the trans rights movement has made biological certainty less important than "identification."  Now we have biological men identifying as women, even though they were born with male genitalia, and may in fact still have that genitalia.  We have individuals who have all of the biological attributes of males, including their strength and innate athletic abilities, who present themselves as females.

Keeping Male Bodies Out of Women's Rugby.  From November 2015 until February 2020, World Rugby, rugby's global governing body, incorporated guidelines established by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on transgender participation in sports.  According to these rules, males who wish to self-identify into women's rugby could do so if they committed to reducing their testosterone levels to 10 nmol per liter or lower for at least 12 months.  (The average level for men is about seven times that level.)  During this period, instances of biological males playing in the women's game increased, and some participants began to express alarm.  One rugby referee posted on the website Fair Play for Women, for instance, that "being forced to prioritize hurt feelings over broken bones exposes me to personal litigation from female players who have been harmed by players who are biologically male.  This is driving female players and referees out of the game."

New Bill Would Ban Biological Males From Women's Sports.  There is a reason why, even when discrimination based on sex is outlawed, we still allow separate sports teams (not to mention separate bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers) for males and females.  That reason has nothing to do with their psychological "gender identity."  Instead, it has everything to do with the fact that males and females have different anatomies from birth, with those differences accentuated after puberty.  The average man is larger, stronger, and faster than the average woman, so women would simply have no chance of reaching elite levels of competition if forced to compete against men.  Female high school track athletes in one state alone (Connecticut) have lost 15 medals to biological males in state competition in the last two years — reducing their chances for college athletic scholarships in the process.

Judge Blocks Idaho Law That Prevents Transgender Women From Participating In Female Athletics.  U.S. District Judge David Nye of Idaho ordered a preliminary injunction on Monday temporarily halting a state law that prohibits transgender girls and women from competing in female athletics, The Idaho Statesman reported.  Nye's ruling will allow transgender girls and women to participate in women's sports this upcoming fall at colleges and in secondary schools as the lawsuit proceeds, the Statesman reported.

High School Runner Who Lost to Transgender Athletes Will Compete in College.  By now, millions know the story of Selina Soule, the high school track star from Connecticut who missed qualifying for the New England track and field regionals by two spots in her top event.  Those two spots were taken by biological boys who identify as girls.  Soule, who is wise beyond her years, was well aware that she could face consequences for speaking out about being forced to compete against biological males.  But she recognized a greater need.  Little did Soule know that she would do more than speak out.  She became one of the most well-known faces of the movement to protect women's sports from being erased.

Ted Cruz:  Biological Males Should Not Be Allowed to Compete in Girls' Sports.  When asked whether biological males who identify as females should be allowed to play girls' sports, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said, "no," and explained that it would undermine girls' sports and be unfair to be millions of female athletes.  At the Capitol on Wednesday [6/24/2020], CNS News asked Senator Cruz, "When the House Judiciary Committee considered the Equality Act it rejected an amendment that said the act would not require biological females to face biological males in sports competition.  Should biological males who say they identify as females be allowed to play girls' sports?"  "No.  I think it is unfair to girls to force them to compete against biological males," the senator said.  "And we're seeing a serious undermining of girls' sports — as state championships, state records in locations across the country, one after the other, after the other, are falling and being taken by biological males.  And I think that's unfair to millions of female athletes."

Congressional Dems Sign Letter Demanding Education Dept.  Allow Males in Girls Sports.  A group of congressional Democrats signed a letter on Wednesday demanding that the Department of Education allow males to participate in girls sports.  Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal and 27 other Democratic members of Congress signed the letter, which stated that the department's order "discriminates against transgender youth" by ruling that it is a violation of women's access to education and athletics for public schools to allow biological males who identify as female to participate in female sports.

I'm a female student athlete.  Please protect women's sports from transgender athletes.  A female athlete at Idaho State University who is seeking to defend Idaho's new Fairness in Women's Sports Act has shared her story in the pages of the Idaho Statesman.  The law bars biological boys from participating in girls' sports and it faces a challenge from the ACLU.

Connecticut transgender sports policy discriminated against biological girls, feds conclude.  The U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights has determined Connecticut schools' transgender athletics policy improperly discriminated against biological girls.  The finding was contained in a Letter of Impending Enforcement Action dated May 15 that concluded biological females were negatively impacted because the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference and public schools allowed biological males to compete against them.  "For the aforementioned reasons, OCR also determined that the CIAC, Glastonbury, Bloomfield, Hartford, Cromwell, Canton, and Danbury treated student-athletes differently based on sex, by denying benefits and opportunities to female students that were available to male students," the letter states.

Idaho Bars Biologically Male Athletes From Competing in All-Female Sports.  Idaho governor Brad Little (R.) on Monday [3/30/2020] signed the Fairness in Women's Sports Act to prohibit biologically male students from participating in all-female sports.  "Athletic teams or sports designated for females, women, or girls shall not be open to students of the male sex," the bill states.  The law cites differences in male and female physiology that results in distinct athletic capabilities.  "Under this bill, boys and men will not be able to take the place of girls and women in sports because it is not fair," state representative Barbara Ehardt told Reuters.

Trump DOJ defends female athletes.  The Justice Department has filed a statement of interest in a case challenging a Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) policy that enables biological males to compete against biological females. [...] From a legal standpoint, it's important to note that Title IX of the Civil Righs Act and its implementing regulations prohibit discrimination "on the basis of sex," not on the basis of transgender status.  Therefore, the law neither requires nor authorizes CIAC's transgender policy.  Moreover, as the Attorney General explained, one of Title IX's core purposes is to ensure that women have an "equal athletic opportunity" to participate in school athletic programs.  This purpose is fulfilled by the establishment of separate athletic teams for men and women and by ensuring that those teams are on equal footing.

Transgender sports:  Trump's Justice Department weighs in on the side of science.  Title IX says that, in the education setting, people cannot be discriminated against based on their sex.  Congress passed Title IX in 1972, at a time when people had the old-fashioned idea that there were two sexes, one with XX chromosomes and the other with XY chromosomes.  Fast-forward almost fifty years, and you have Connecticut government entities insisting that if a boy claims to be a girl (and there's no requirement that he actually believes this false notion), schools must allow him to compete in girls' sports events.  That's how these two boys ran away with the Connecticut High School track championships and, in all probability, with the college scholarships that could go with them.

Ohio Joins Fight To Keep Boys Out Of Girls' Sports.  The battle lines are still being drawn in the effort to save women's and girls' competitive sports in the United States and the fight has now moved on to Ohio.  In the Buckeye State, legislators have introduced a new bill with the appropriate name of the Save Womens' Sports Act.  Much like similar legislation being debated around the country, this measure would bar boys who "identify" as girls from competing in girls' sports for all of the usual and obvious reasons.  This measure would apply to all public schools and colleges, as well as private schools and colleges that are members of a state or national athletic association.  As I'm sure you've already guessed, the proposal is drawing howls of protests from the usual suspects.

Arizona House passes ban on transgender females in women's sports.  Arizona House Republicans passed a controversial bill that would ban biological males who identify as transgender females from participating in women's sports.  Supporters say the "Save Women's Sports Act" is intended to prevent young girls and women in K-12 schools, community colleges, and state universities from being forced to compete against biological males, but opponents argue it allows for discrimination.  House Bill 2706 passed along party lines 31-29 and is headed to the state Senate, FOX 10 reports.  The bill is strongly opposed by Democrats.

Feminists Created the Monster Now Devouring Women's Sports.  [Scroll down]  They ought to point the finger at Equality Dogma, at whose altar moderns worship and which has been preached, incessantly, to advance an agenda.  The idea was that if you could convince people the sexes were basically equal in worldly capacities, no one would think there was any reason to keep women out of what traditionally had been male realms.  Voila!  Goodbye, discrimination!  This was convenient when girls/women wanted to join police forces and fire departments, enter military academies such as the Citadel or Virginia Military Institute, join boys' sports teams and Little League, and previously all-male clubs.  It's not so convenient now that the thinking is being taken closer to its logical conclusion.  But the point is this:  If because the sexes "are basically equal in capacities" there's no reason to keep women out of men's arenas, there's also no reason to keep men out of women's arenas.  In fact, not only is this turnabout an imperative of equality, there isn't even a good reason to have separate, sex-specific arenas in the first place.

Should Transgender Athletes Compete Against Women?  On February 12, three female high school students in Connecticut filed a federal lawsuit against the participation of transgender athletes (with male anatomy) in female track and field events.  The three students, represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, have a fairly simple and straightforward argument:  They claim allowing biologically male students to compete against biologically female students is unfair and runs afoul (no pun intended) of their basic civil rights.  They also argue, quite convincingly, that allowing biologically male students to compete against them has undermined their ability to win races as well as opportunities for scholarships.  Alanna Smith, who is a sophomore at Danbury High School, described her frustration running against males who identify as women, "Mentally and physically, we know the outcome before the race even starts."

Summertime Blues for the Olympics.  Although we are currently in the dead of winter, summer will be here before we know it.  Democrats may be singing the Summertime Blues along with Eddie Cochran, "I'm gonna raise a fuss, I'm gonna raise a holler" when they are forced to nominate a socialist to represent their party in the upcoming presidential election.  Or alternatively alienate half of their base.  There will also be a bit of fussing and hollering over the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.  Assuming the coronavirus outbreak doesn't turn into a science fiction movie leading to a near extinction event, gender politics and intersectionality are likely to provide a healthy dose of dyspepsia for Olympic committees and organizers.  As a preview of coming summertime gender wars, a biological male was invited to the US Olympic track and field trials to compete against American women.

Biologically Male Runner To Compete In USA Women's Olympic Trials.  A biologically male marathon runner who identifies as a transgender woman is set to compete in the USA Olympic trials later in February.  Megan Youngren "is set to make history on Feb. 29 as the first openly transgender athlete to compete at the U.S. Olympic marathon trials," Sports Illustrated reported.  Youngren qualified for the trials after a strong performance on Dec. 8, 2019 in the California International Marathon. [...] The International Olympic Committee requires transgender athletes in women's sports to keep their testosterone levels below a certain threshold, but scientific research suggests that suppressing testosterone isn't enough to neutralize biologically male athletes' inherent physiological advantages.

Three female students file lawsuit against Connecticut transgender-athlete policy.  Three female high school athletes filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging Connecticut's prep sports rules that allow biological males to compete against girls, arguing that the policy robs them of competition and scholarship opportunities.  The lawsuit argued that teen track athletes Selina Soule, Chelsea Mitchell and Alanna Smith have been deprived of "honors and opportunities" after losing track-and-field races to biological males who identify as females, thanks to the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference's policy allowing students to compete based on their gender identity.

Families Unite to Prevent Transgender Athletes From Competing in Girl's Sports.  When men compete against women in sports, men compete with an advantage over their female opponents.  Denser bone and muscle structure, more lung capacity for extra oxygen, and more lend to a physical advantage that usually makes it easy for a man to come out on top.  This is why transgender athletes, specifically biological men competing as women, tend to easily win competitions meant for women.  It's unfair, and three families are doing something about it.  According to ABC News, these three families from different high schools are coming together to file a federal lawsuit that would block transgender athletes from competing in competitions not meant for them.

NH bill limits women's sports to girls born female.  Legislation to prevent students born male from competing on female sports teams drew passionate testimony Tuesday, with supporters defending it as a way to ensure fairness and opponents decrying it as a violation of state anti-discrimination law.  Victoria Galla of Chesterfield told the House Education Committee she moved from Massachusetts and New York City to get away from the gender-identity politics she believes are destroying the lives of confused young people.

Georgia Introduces Bill to Make Transgender Students Compete as Assigned Birth Gender.  The Georgia legislature is set to debate a bill that would require students to compete in the category of their birth gender.  The bill was filed by Philip Singleton, a recently elected Republican State Representative from Sharpsburg, Georgia.  Singleton said that his bill aimed to eliminate the "unfair advantage" transgender athletes might have, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Male Transjacking Will Ultimately End Women's Sports.  This Friday, the top four NCAA Division III women's soccer teams face off in the national semifinals.  One of the final four teams' goalkeepers, Isa Berardo, is a male transgender playing as a female for Pomona-Pitzer Colleges.  Not surprisingly, the male goalie has dominated the field against opposing female players, giving his own a chance to win the national championship thanks to his physical advantages in a key position.  This is increasingly happening throughout women's sports, at all levels from elementary school through professional competitions.  It's creating not equality, but inequality.

Transgenderism and the Olympics.  Next year's Tokyo Summer Olympics may spell the swift death of the transgender movement as a dominant politically-correct touchstone.  Biological men, self-identifying as women, are poised to make a clean sweep of the Women's Olympics, triggering a very public debate on this third-rail subject.

Rachel McKinnon Is a Cheat and a Bully.  Rachel McKinnon — the so-called defending "world champion" of women's track cycling — is a man.  I'll repeat that so my meaning cannot be misconstrued.  He is a man.  Maybe my kind-hearted reader is offended by this blunt phrasing.  Why am I calling McKinnon a man — when, perhaps for complicated reasons, he would rather be called a woman?  Why don't I compromise and call him a "trans woman," as others do?  Or be polite and address him by "she/her" pronouns, like everyone else in the media?  Well, I'll tell you why, since you asked.  This is precisely the well-meant, tragically naïve logic that has enabled a structure of lies and tyranny to be erected around us, a structure that most cannot opt out of without incurring an enormous social cost.  It is a structure in which cheating and viciousness are rewarded while civility and truth-telling are punished.

Male Runner Wins NCAA Conference's 'Female Athlete of the Week'.  Earlier this week, the Big Sky Conference named a male runner as the female cross-country athlete of the week.  Jonathan Eastwood (yes, I'm deadnaming, sue me) previously competed on the men's team but joined the women's cross-country team at the University of Montana this fall.  By joining the women's team and competing under the name June Eastwood, he became the first "transgender" athlete to compete on an NCAA Division I women's running team — which is likely the only reason he was given the honor.

Biologically Male NCAA Runner Named Conference Female Athlete Of The Week.  The Big Sky Conference named University of Montana runner June Eastwood, a biological male who identifies as a transgender woman, the cross-country female athlete of the week.  "June Eastwood finished second in a field of 204 runners at the Santa Clara Bronco Invitational," helping "Montana place seventh as a team," the conference noted in its announcement Tuesday.  Eastwood previously competed on the University of Montana's men's team.

Transgender Woman Wins 'Female Athlete of the Week' in NCAA Conference.  The Big Sky Conference named University of Montana runner June Eastwood, a biological male who identifies as a transgender woman, the cross-country female athlete of the week.  "June Eastwood finished second in a field of 204 runners at the Santa Clara Bronco Invitational," helping "Montana place seventh as a team," the conference noted in its announcement on Tuesday.  Eastwood previously competed on the University of Montana's men's team.

Feminist Democrat:  Media Won't Let Us Speak Out Against Transgender Agenda.  In an interview on his Fox News show Wednesday night [10/23/2019], host Tucker Carlson spoke with Women's Liberation Front board member Kara Dansky — a self-described "lifelong" Democrat — about the controversy swirling around the latest championship won by a biological male in a women's sports competition.  In response to Carlson's questions about transgender cyclist Rachel McKinnon — a biological male who just set a world record in a women's track cycling championship — Dansky said that many on the Left strongly oppose the transgender agenda but are "subjected to a media blackout."

Transgender cyclist Rachel McKinnon dominates as competitors raise questions.  Transgender cyclist Rachel McKinnon keeps dominating women's cycling.  And she keeps creating controversy all the way.  Last weekend at the Masters Track Cycling World Championships in Manchester, England, the 37-year-old Canadian first set a world record in qualifying for the 35-39 age category 200-meter sprint, then went on to defend her title in the finals.

Transgender Cyclist Wins Female Cycling World Championship, Claims Only Objections Come from 'Losers'.  Cyclist Rachel McKinnon, a biological male who presents as a woman, won the women's world championship on Saturday, and set a women's world record in the qualifying event.  McKinnon, a Canadian philosophy professor at the College of Charleston, won the same event in 2018.  In a Friday [10/18/2019] interview with Sky News, McKinnon said that attempts to level the playing field for women's sports by discriminating against transgender athletes was the equivalent of "denying their human rights."  "All my medical records say female," McKinnon said.  "My doctor treats me as a female person, my racing license says female, but people who oppose my existence still want to think of me as male...["]

Democrats Are Making Girls' Sports A 2020 Campaign Issue.  Establishment Media Aren't Telling You.  Democrats have made girls' sports a 2020 campaign issue, but establishment media outlets are keeping their viewers and readers in the dark.  Every Democratic frontrunner has pledged their support of the Equality Act, which would make "gender identity" a protected characteristic under federal anti-discrimination law.  Among other things, the bill would force public schools to expand female athletic teams to include biological males who identify as transgender girls.  Every Democratic frontrunner for president has pledged their support for the bill, which passed the House in May with unanimous Democratic support.  But when establishment media outlets have covered the Equality Act in relation to the 2020 election, the girls' sports issue has gone missing.

Poll: 'Transgender' Men Ads Lead to 8-Point Voter Swing to Republican Matt Bevin from Democrat Andy Beshear.  A conservative group notes polling data shows an eight-point swing in voters' shift to incumbent GOP Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin from Democrat candidate Andy Beshear after they view ads highlighting Beshear's support of biological men competing in women's sports.

Transgender athletes deserve compassion, but not the right to transform women's sports.  Since the advent of Title IX — a federal law that expanded athletic and educational opportunities for women — millions of girls and women have benefited from their own teams and chances for growth.  But these opportunities risk being redefined and obliterated, because of a case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.  The case, R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, will be argued this October.  The case centers on the question of whether the meaning of the word "sex" in employment law (Title VII) also covers gender identity.  While its outcome obviously matters for the people immediately involved, the Supreme Court's ruling on the meaning of the word "sex" has direct and profound implications for other parts of federal law.  It matters for the millions of girls and women affected by analogous laws such as those that ensure equal opportunities for education and athletic opportunities "on the basis of sex."

Dems' Transgender, Sexual Assault Policies Wage War On Both Sexes.  A new ad supporting Republican Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, who is in a tight race with his Democratic opponent Andy Beshear, shows female track athletes being left in the dust by a male competitor who identifies as female.  The looks on the faces of the girls watching the male athlete celebrating are unforgettable.  "Andy Beshear supports legislation that would destroy girls' sports.  He calls it 'equality.'  Maybe.  But is it fair?" asks the ad's female narrator.

Liberals Embrace Anti-Feminism in Transgender Sports Debate.  Anti-feminists continue their unapologetic efforts to destroy women's sports at all levels.  Not satisfied to just ruin high school girls' athletics, they are setting their sights higher.  This week's headline indicated that Juniper Eastwood, a University of Montana cross-country runner, will become the first transgender (i.e. biological male) athlete to compete as a female in division I cross country.  Anyone want to bet against him completely dominating his sport?

Is It Trans Discrimination or Legitimate Concern for Women?  The landscape of women's sports has changed drastically in the last few years.  Natural-born males who now identify as women can compete athletically against natural-born women simply by stating they identify as a woman.  This includes quite masculine males who have long since passed the age of puberty before their purported "transition."  What has been buried under the identity politics cacophony are facts of biology, and the indisputable differences between the two sexes.  Those who have spoken out against the sudden turn of events say they are being censored; some professionals have been fired for not following the trans activist narrative that prevails in public discourse.

This Is What LGBTQ Organizations Are Doing to Society.  Last month, a transgender weightlifter won multiple gold medals at the 2019 Pacific Games in Samoa.  Laurel Hubbard of New Zealand won two gold medals and a silver in the three heavyweight categories for women weighing more than 87 kilograms, or 192 pounds.  Hubbard is physically male.  Last year, two biologically male sophomores at different Connecticut high schools competed in the female division of the state open track and field competition.  They came in first and second place in the 100- and 200-meter dashes.  Because the Western world cowers before LGBTQ demands, no matter how unfair they are to women athletes, men who deem themselves female must be allowed to compete against women.  They almost always win.

Feds Investigating Violation Of Girls' Civil Rights In CT After Trans Athletes Smoke Competition.  The U.S. Department of Education Office has agreed to investigate a violation of girls' civil rights in Connecticut following a complaint filed in Boston concerning two biologically male transgender teens triumphing over biologically female competitors in high school track.

Democrats Denied Transgender Athletes Have Advantages In Women's Sports.  Science Says They're Wrong.  Suppressing testosterone levels in male athletes isn't enough to eliminate their natural advantages over female athletes, according to a recently published paper in the Journal of Medical Ethics.  The paper's findings contradict congressional Democrats' claim that male athletes who identify as transgender don't have an inherent advantage over their female competitors.  The paper, "Transwomen in elite sport: scientific and ethical considerations," concluded that male athletes who identify as transgender women have an "intolerable" advantage over their female competitors.

Democrats, Transsexuals, and Women's Sports.  The gradual subversion of women's sports by the LGBTQ movement could receive a steroidal-like boost with a victory by Democrats in the 2020 elections.  All Democratic presidential candidates have pledged their support for the Equality Act, which declares one's sex to be whatever he or she self-identifies as, regardless of the "designated sex at birth."  House Democrats voted overwhelmingly in May to approve the measure.  Joe Biden says getting the act passed would be his top legislative priority.  Critics say it could devastate girl's and women's sports.  It comes down to a numbers game.  Transgenders are just now coming out, much as gays came out 40 years ago.

Transgender weightlifter wins two gold medals in women's competition.  The transgender conquest of women's sports continued over the weekend as a New Zealand weightlifter took home multiple gold medals at the 2019 Pacific Games in Samoa.  Laurel Hubbard won two gold medals and a silver in the three heavyweight categories, for women weighing more than 87 kilograms, or 192 pounds, finishing first in the snatch-lift and combined categories and second in the clean-and-jerk.  The 41-year-old weightlifter was born as Gavin Hubbard and reportedly transitioned while in the mid-30s.

Sorry, Ladies:  It's Just Biology, Psychology, and Economics.  The "inequality" that exists in women's sports is nothing new, and in spite of what many on the left would have us believe, it involves nothing nefarious.  The fact that consumers overwhelmingly prefer men's sports to women's sports is merely a matter of biology and psychology and not due to some mythical misogynistic plot.  The facts and the data clearly bear this out. [...] Unless the Left continues down this road, where gender-deluded (or financially savvy?) men are allowed to compete as women, there will never be "equal pay" or "gender equality" when it comes to athletics, because human sexes are not — and will never be — equal.

Female athlete alleges retaliation by coach because her mother complained about transgender policy.  Boys are competing in girls' track and field events in Connecticut, at the direction of the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, so that transgender students don't feel invalidated.  They are often winning, and the girls are afraid to publicly object for fear of "retaliation," according to Selina Soule, one of the female competitors.  That's why Soule and two of her unnamed female peers are asking the U.S. Department of Education to investigate CIAC for Title IX violations.

Understanding Leftists in Three Easy Steps.  America is fighting a culture war and the Progressive Left is the aggressor.  The latest front was opened on June 21 when the House of Representatives passed the so-called "Equality Act," which would allow boys who self-identify as girls to compete in school sports as girls.  Conservatives point to the Democrats' embrace of transgender ideology as further evidence the party has gone off the rails, but typically left unexplained is how and why Leftists get to the positions they hold.  Here is an attempt to do that.

Hey, 'Trans' Men in Women's Sports:  Good Luck, Fellas — Go for the Gold!.  "Equality" cries were cherished by feminists when they gave females entry into military academies, boardrooms and the ranks of police; prize-money parity in some sporting events; and access to boys' athletics.  But with these appeals now putting sexually confused men in women's sports, well, feminists' cries are a tad different.  Equality can be a real downer when it's principle and not ploy.

Survey: 1 in 4 okay with trans athletes competing in women's sports.  The survey, conducted by ScottRasmussen.com, was conducted in mid-April 2019 — and according to the findings, less than a quarter of respondents (23%) believe men should be able to compete in women's competitive sports events.  But Steve McConkey, president of 4 WINDS Christian Athletics, is concerned that individuals under 35 are evenly divided on the question (41% yes, 44% no).  "[The poll] showed that the younger generations ... are not opposed to transgenders in sports — [whereas] the older adults ... are more situated in their belief, thinking there are two sexes," he summarizes.

High School Track Star Who Lost Race to Transgender Athletes Explains Why She's Fighting Back.  The female high school athlete who was forced to sit on the sidelines at a major track tournament because two transgender runners landed the No. 1 and No. 2 spots isn't just speaking out about the unfairness of her situation — she's fighting back.  Hours after filing a complaint with the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, Selina Soule and her attorney, Christiana Holcomb of Alliance Defending Freedom, sat down with Kelsey Bolar on this week's edition of "Problematic Women" to discuss the latest developments in her case.

Transgender Policy Forces Catholic Girls School Out Of Athletic Conference.  ConservativeHQ.com has obtained exclusive information that Oakcrest School, an independent Catholic school for girls in grades 6-12, has withdrawn from the Potomac Valley Athletic Conference (PVAC) due to the athletic conference's decision to allow boys who "identify" as girls to compete in the conference's girls athletic programs.  According to information shared exclusively with CHQ, back in March the Potomac Valley Athletic Conference (PVAC) voted to amend its constitution to allow students to participate in athletics in a manner that is "consistent with their gender identity."

High School Girl Who Lost Race to Transgender Athletes Files Federal Complaint.  A female high school athlete who didn't qualify for a track event because two boys who identify as girls ran faster filed a complaint Monday with the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.  "No one in the state of Connecticut is happy about this, but no one has enough courage to speak up," Selina Soule said during an interview with Tucker Carlson that aired Monday night [6/17/2019] on his Fox News Channel show.

Girls file federal discrimination complaint after transgender track wins.  Three Connecticut girls who have run high school track have filed a federal discrimination complaint saying a statewide policy on transgender athletes has cost them top finishes in races and possibly college scholarships.

Female Track Runner Sidelined By Male Competitors Petitions The Department Of Education For Justice.  It's striking how quickly the culture can change.  Just a short time ago, surely few would've believed that a common viewpoint — that it would be unfair to let guys take away athletic victories from girls by allowing them to compete in women's sports — would be labeled the result of an irrational fear.  Yet here we are:  What was considered common sense and common goodness is now a symptom of mental illness.  "Transphobia" has gotten so much traction, in fact, that Brazil just criminalized it — it's punishable by a half decade in prison.

Run-of-the-mill as a man, champion as a 'woman'.  Last year, Craig Telfer (pictured, center) was a solid but not dominating athlete competing in men's track and field at Franklin Pierce University.  But this year, Telfer — now identifying as a woman — competed in women's events, setting numerous school and conference records, and ended up qualifying for the Division II NCAA championships in two events: 100-meter hurdles and 400-meter hurdles.  Steve McConkey of 4 WINDS Christian Athletics says that's unfair because "the physical characteristics of this athlete ... are far superior than women — the length of the joints, the top parts of the leg are far superior than women for hurdling, [the event] in which this person was successful in doing."  McConkey is opposed to this trend, claiming it will ruin women's sports.  However, he says that some notable female athletes are beginning to speak out.

Finally! A poll on transgender athletes competing as women.  The concerted push for the public to accept the notion that men can become women by an act of will, perhaps with the aid of hormones and surgery, has always struck me as a measure intended to ratify mind control by means of institutional pressure and ostracism of non-compliant people.  The fact that transgenderism is blatant scientific nonsense makes the exercise all the more important.  A subject population that can be made to assent to such nonsense will accept totalitarianism as it creeps up.  That's why until now I have not been able to find any poll asking the public what it thinks.  The danger in mass mind control exercises is that people will recognize they are not alone in [questioning] what the media, the deep thinkers, and the activists tell them.  But, as I expected, it turns out that a majority of the public isn't buying the party line that the media, the education establishment, Hollywood, and the entire arts and culture establishment fanatically push.

Transgender hurdler easily wins NCAA women's national championship.  A hurdler who competed as a man last year won an NCAA championship in women's hurdles over the weekend.  CeCe Telfer of Franklin Pierce University easily won the 400-meter hurdles at the NCAA Division II outdoor track-and-field championships Saturday, winning the final race by more than a second.  Telfer also finished fifth in the 100-meter hurdles, earning All-America honors.

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them
  than to have them and not deserve them."

— Mark Twain         

Transgender Woman, Who Remains A Biological Male, Wins NCAA Women's Track Championship.  A biological male won the first Women's Track and Field NCAA title, even though she was previously competing as a man named Craig as recently as 2018. CeCe Telfer, a transgender woman from New Hampshire attending Franklin Pierce University, won the first ever NCAA title for the sport, and also made history as the first biologically male competing on a woman's team to do so.

The Editor says...
EVERY "transgender woman" remains a biological male.  You can make drastic surgical alterations to your body, but you cannot change your chromosomes.

Liberals Are At War With Science In The Transgender Athlete Controversy.  [Scroll down]  Nowhere is this disconnect between science and modern liberal ideology (and its harm to those the party claims to champion) so evident as in the dispute over transgender athletes who demand to compete in women's sports.  On one side of the debate you have people like Jaycee Cooper, a transgender woman who is in a dispute with USA Powerlifting because the federation doesn't allow biological men to compete with women.  USA Powerlifting says Cooper has an unfair advantage over them as a biological male, but Cooper says it's discriminatory to ban transgender people from competing with the sex they identify with.  "I really do love this sport, and it's not fair to genetically eliminate an entire group of people," Cooper told NBC News.  The federation rules do allow transgender athletes to compete freely in competition with people of their biological sex, with the exception of biological women who use testosterone.  But more importantly, Cooper's discrimination argument disregards the fact that women's sports are designed to exclude an entire group of people — men — from the competition in order to level the playing field.

Trans Powerlifter Stripped Of Titles In Women's Championships.  This is the latest in our apparently endless series of stories covering the destruction of competitive women's sports by the introduction of "transgender women" into the events.  This time we're back to the sport of weightlifting.  A transgender powerlifter named Mary Gregory recently "dominated" the field at a Powerlifting Federation competition last month, smashing four world records for that weight class in the process.  This had the actual women competing in the event understandably upset and protests were lodged.  But after an investigation was conducted, the federation chairman posted an announcement saying that the record lifts were being taken off the books.

Sports League Rejects Transgender Athlete's Claim to Female Weightlifting Records.  A weightlifting league has revoked awards to a transgender weightlifter who claimed to have broken several women's weightlifting records.  "Our rules, and the basis of separating genders for competition, are based on physiological classification rather thana identification," said a statement from Paul Bossi, president of 100% RAW Powerlifting Federation.

8th Place:  A High School Girl's Life After Transgender Students Join Her Sport.  When two high school athletes who were born male but identify as female took first and second place at Connecticut's girls indoor track championship this year, it wasn't just a local news story.  To some, it was a story of triumph and courage.  The winner, a junior from Bloomfield High School, set a girls state indoor record of 6.95 seconds in the 55-meter dash, and went on to win the New England titles in both the 55-meter dash and the 300-meter dash.  To others, it was a story of shock and disappointment:  Is this the end of women's sports?

Girls and Women Deserve Single-Sex Sports.  Our culture is so steeped in the idea of equality (in most ways, a very good and noble commitment) that we lose sight of obvious but important facts that we must acknowledge if we are to create a truly level playing field and make functioning equality possible.  Take sports.  Today, most people recognize that participating in athletics is associated with positive benefits for both males and females.  It's just as important to encourage our daughters to join a team as it is to encourage our sons.  Individuals of both sexes have the capacity to be great athletes.

Man Competes In Women's Powerlifting, Sets Four World Records.  Do people no longer realize the extreme difference between XX and XY muscle?  Reality keeps rearing its ugly head in sports, as a liberal position eliminates women from competition like Dolly Parton crashing a Men's Largest Chest championship.  Case in point:  Mary Gregory.  On Sunday [4/28/2019], Mary — who's a man — shattered four women's division powerlifting world records.  Due to his dominance in girls' deadlift, squat, and bench press, he set a Masters total record.

Transgender Athletes Dominate at Connecticut Girls' Track State Meet.  According to FairPlayForWomen.com, a nonpartisan grassroots campaign based in the UK dedicated to fighting for the sex-base rights of women and girls, there are a number of skeletal and muscular differences between men and women.  Women are, on average, 9 percent shorter than men, and have shorter and weaker bones.  Women also have shorter arms and legs relative to body size — one can easily see where longer legs might benefit males in track sports.  As for muscles, women "are around 30-35% muscle by weight, while men are 40-50% muscle."  Women's ligaments are also thinner and softer than men's.  The impact these biological differences have when it comes to competitive sports is undeniable — and there are victims whose concerns are not being heard.

Every House Democrat But One: 234 Elected Officials Demand The Extermination Of Women's Sports.  Sarah Warbelow of the left-wing Human Rights Campaign testified before a House subcommittee Tuesday [4/9/2019] that the notion of men having an athletic advantage over women is not "rooted in fact."  Here's a secret:  The very much "rooted in fact" fact that men have an advantage is the very reason there's such a thing as women's sports in the first place.  If there's no advantage, then just eliminate women's sports.  Which, effectively, they're doing.

All but one Democrat in the House co-sponsors a bill to allow males to compete on female athletic teams.  It may be counterintuitive to rationally examine an irrational proposal, but it's the only way to defeat it.  Not all male athletes will be able to beat all female athletes.  This is especially true at the highest levels of competition.  But it is also true that the best male athletes will defeat the best female athletes every time.  And in some sports — field events in track — even average male athletes will have a competitive advantage over females.  This hardly matters to female athletes who train for years, bringing their bodies to peak conditioning, only to find that their best wasn't good enough because a biological male who might be an average or above average male athlete was allowed to compete against her.

Former Olympic medalist:  Female athletes afraid to speak out about males competing as women.  British former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies said Monday that she knows of "quite a lot" of female athletes who are afraid to publicly share their concerns about biological males who identify as transgender women competing in women's sports.  Davies told Sky News that she's had "many" conversations with female athletes who are afraid to speak out, especially "people who are competing at the moment."  "They're worried that their governing bodies will frown on it, they're worried that their sponsors will think it's not PC and that they're not allowed to do this," said Davies, who won a silver medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

First They Came for the Catholics, Then for the Christians, and Then for the High School Kids.  [Scroll down]  Meanwhile, in Colorado, they now have disqualied Brendan Johnston from the state's high-school wrestling championships.  Johnston is a Christian teen boy who politely, as a matter of religious principle and personal conscience, refused to wrestle a girl.  As he explained, "There is something that I really do find problematic about the idea of wrestling with a girl, and a part of that does come from my faith and my belief.  And a part of that does come from how I was raised to treat women.  I don't think that I am looking at them as not equal.  I am saying that they are women, and that is dierent than being men, because I do believe that men and women are different, and we are made differently.  But I still believe that women are of equal value to men.  I don't think that seeing men and women as different... [opposes] the idea of equality."

Girls' sports being decimated by biological males claiming to be females.  There are only two genders in this world of ours, male and female, and it doesn't matter how someone "identifies," that biological fact is established and unalterable. [...] With that being said, the Left is nevertheless hard at work trying to convince us that gender is a 'fluid' thing and in some cases, an outright choice, so old societal constructs like "male" and "female" sports are no longer necessary or relevant.  That's why they go along with allowing biological males to participate in (and dominate) all-female events simply because they 'identify' as a girl, claiming — remarkably and unbelievably — that there are no physical differences between the sexes.

If You're A Biological Man Competing In A Women's Sport, You're A Cheater.  It's one thing to have someone shout that they are female when they're really male.  If they just kept it to that, then that's not something I particularly care about.  You do you, just don't force everyone else to pretend along with you and we're good.  However, it's another to not only force everyone else to agree with you but then applaud you as you put women down.  That's exactly what's going on in the sports community, as headline after headline comes out detailing victories by transgendered "women" in women's sports as highlighted by my colleague Elizabeth Vaughn on Tuesday [2/26/2019].  These are only being celebrated today as triumphs because the current trend says people not only should cheer it on, but they have to.  Any talk to the contrary evokes the wrath of the mob, and God have mercy on your soul if you become their target.

The Testosterone-Fueled He-Men of Women's Sports.  Female sprinters (good ones) tend to have broader shoulders and narrower hips, but still cannot match the anatomical advantages that a biological male does.  In addition, all females, even masculine ones, have a wider Q-angle.  That's the hip to knee ratio.  And here, that difference is again obvious.  Finally, look at the muscle density.  The biological girls could work out their whole lives and not build that muscle naturally.

Boys Will Be Boys, Except When They Are Girls.  In the recent Connecticut girls' state indoor track championships, two men calling themselves women finished first and second place in the 55-meter sprint, one of them setting a state record.  Connecticut is one of 17 states allowing high school athletes to compete without restriction with members of the opposite sex.  States, in an effort to be diverse, tolerant, and woke, have passed anti-discrimination laws requiring students who so desire to be treated in school as members of the opposite sex.  Interestingly, the sporting competitions are binary:  male or female.  If these school administrators were true to their intentions, they would have separate sporting events for each of the 60 genders in order to make things fair.

Trump-Hating Lesbian Tennis Champ Destroyed for Saying Men and Women Are Different.  Navratilova defected from communist Czechoslovakia in 1975 and became a U.S. citizen in 1981. That same year, when there was still a price to be paid for doing so, she came out as a lesbian and has since engaged in a long career of LGBT activism.  She lent her name and support to ballot initiatives, spoke at LGBT marches, and in 2000 was the recipient of the National Equality Award from the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBT lobbying group.  She is active on Twitter and firmly in the Orange Man Bad camp.  No one could ever accuse Martina of not being down for the cause.  All this was not enough to protect Navratilova from ostracization and accusations of bigotry last week when she questioned the wisdom of allowing men pretending to be women to compete in women's sports.

Martina Navratiola Removed From Board of LGBTQ Organization.  Tennis legend Martina Navratilova was officially removed Wednesday from the advisory board of a prominent LBGTQ organization after making comments about transgender athletes.  Navratilova released an op-ed in The Sunday Times on Feb. 17 discussing her opinion on why transgender athletes should not be able to compete against female athletes.  She wrote that having men compete as women is unfair because of the physical advantage.

Political Correctness Is Ruining Sports.  For the second consecutive year, Mack Beggs, an 18-year-old transgender wrestler, has won the Texas girls' Class 6A 110-pound division.  Born a female, Beggs is in the process of transitioning to a male, or so she thinks.  Beggs, who takes a low dose of testosterone, had wanted to compete against boys, but Texas public high schools, which have yet to get with the progressive times, require athletes to compete under the gender on their birth certificate.  Last year two girls, not wanting to risk being injured by her, forfeited against Beggs.  So did a girl this year.  Whether they were compelled to undergo empathy training I don't know. [...] Transgenderism is a problem in the Olympics, too.  Per the latest rules, transgender "women" must test below a specified level of testosterone for more than one year in order to compete.  But while this is doubtless somewhat effective, aren't these athletes, with their still bigger, still stronger, and still more durable bodies, out of place even so?

Man "Identifying" As Woman Wins Women's World Cycling Championship.  Having covered the topic of transgender athletes extensively here, this is a story I've been expecting to cross our path for quite a while now.  At the 2018 UCI Masters Track Cycling World Championships in Los Angeles this weekend, the winner of the women's 35-39 age bracket was Canadian competitor Rachel McKinnon.  McKinnon is a male who identifies as a female.

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If a heavyweight boxer "identified" as a middleweight, and then beat his opponent to a pulp, would that be unfair?  Yes, because there are pragmatic ways (involving a calibrated scale) to determine (before the contest begins) who's a heavyweight and who's not.  Similarly, there are ways to determine if one has XX chromosomes or XY chromosomes; and indeed, there are no others.

World cycling bronze medalist cries foul after transgender woman wins gold.  The American bronze medalist who lost a world-championship cycling race to a transgender woman from Canada has criticized the results as unfair.  "First transgender woman world champion...ever," Rachel McKinnon, an assistant professor of philosophy at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, bragged Sunday in a tweet that set off a massive debate.

Biological Male Wins World Championship In Women's Cycling.  A biological male who identifies as a transgender woman won a women's world championship cycling event on Sunday [10/14/2018].  Rachel McKinnon, a professor at the College of Charleston, won the women's sprint 35-39 age bracket at the 2018 UCI Masters Track Cycling World Championships in Los Angeles.  McKinnon, representing Canada, bested Carolien Van Herrikhuyzen of the Netherlands and American cyclist Jennifer Wagner to take home the gold.

It's time to end women's sports.  It's time to end women's sports — especially since they're not just "women's" sports anymore.  A case in point is "Rachel" McKinnon, Ph.D., a man masquerading as a woman (MMW), or a "transgender," as the enlighteners say, who just won a women's masters cycling event.  As The Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft (almost) put it, he "whooped them little girls."  McKinnon isn't alone, as many MMW have won women's sporting events during the last decade.  To name just a few, a 55-year-old MMW won a women's long-drive competition (golf) in 2008.  Last year, a 39-year-old MMW won a women's weightlifting event.  Then there were the Connecticut's State Open track and field championships in June; the top two finishers in the 100-meter dash were both MMW (okay, being boys, they were BMG), with one of them setting the girls' state record in both the 100- and 200-meter runs.  Hey, you go...uh...girl.

State of Modern Sports:  Boy Identifies as Girl, Boy Competes as Girl, Boy Wins Everything.  A high school in Connecticut has accepted a new boy on their track team.  Except, he won't be going to the boys track team, he'll be going to the girls team.  Andraya Yearwood, a freshman and biological male from Cromwell High School in Connecticut, identifies as a girl and recently received permission to join the girls track team after competing as a boy in middle school.  Not surprisingly, Yearwood has been extremely successful as a male competing against females.

NFL: Hey, you know what would really improve our ratings?  A transgender bathroom bill fight.  You may have missed it in the rush of "other news" last month, but Texas is considering implementing their own transgender bathroom bill similar to the one in North Carolina which we spent most of 2016 fighting over. [...] One unexpected entrant into this particular field of battle seems to be the National Football League.  For reasons which currently baffle me, the NFL decided to weigh in on the subject this week and issue what sounds something like a warning to the Lone Star State, hinting that Texas may not be hosting any more Super Bowl events if they follow such a path.

NFL more forceful on Texas 'bathroom bill' after Super Bowl.  The NFL sharpened its warning to Texas on Friday [2/10/2017] about a "bathroom bill" targeting transgender people, suggesting for the first time that the football-crazed state could miss out on hosting another Super Bowl if the proposal is enacted.

NFL Warns Texas There Could Be Consequences for 'Bathroom Bill'.  Days after the Super Bowl in Houston, the NFL is warning Texas that legislation requiring individuals to use public bathrooms in accordance with their biological sex could cost the state future opportunities to host the big game.

Seattle Mariners apologize after lesbian couple are told to stop kissing at the baseball team's first ever gay pride night because it was against their 'family-friendly' policy.  The Seattle Mariners had to make a groveling apology after a lesbian couple were told off for kissing at the team's first ever Pride night.  Mary McHale and her partner Sara Hinton had enjoyed the game against the Milwaukee Brewers — which the Mariners won 7-6 — and were waiting for a ride afterwards when a steward told them to stop smooching because it was a 'family-friendly' event.

Trans-thinking: When 98 Percent of Students Would Let Men in Women's Sports.  Imagine a fairly muscular, athletic young man, acting like a man and dressed as a man, tells you he identifies as a woman and asks you to sign a petition supporting his effort to play on his college's women's basketball team.  Your response?  If you're like 49 out of 50 students approached at the University of Maryland recently, you may sign and say "You go, (girl?)!"  And, no, according to Campus Reform's Cabot Phillips, who masqueraded as the aspiring woman, he didn't show just the eyebrow-raising responses.  He says that he asked only 50 students for support, and 49 offered it.

7 Reasons Why the Equality Act Is Anything But.  [#4] It would allow more biological males to defeat girls in sports.  Two biological males who identify and compete as women easily defeated all of their female competitors in an event at the Connecticut State Track Championships.  Transgender athlete Terry Miller broke the state record in the girls'100-meter dash.  Andraya Yearwood, also transgender, took second place.  Selina Soule, a female runner, not only lost to the biological males in the championships but also lost out on valuable opportunities to be seen by college coaches and chosen for scholarships.  Soule said about the 100-meter event:  "We all know the outcome of the race before it even starts; it's demoralizing."

Transgender Prof Claims Excluding Men from Women's Sports is Like Excluding Black Women.  This comparison seems awfully unfair to black women, but what do I know?  I'm not a professor.

Opera singer becomes first transgender woman to sing national anthem at professional sporting event.  History was made at the Oakland Athletics stadium this week when a transgender woman sang the national anthem at a professional sporting event for the first time ever in the country.  Classically-trained opera singer Breanna Sinclaire took the mic at the O.co Coliseum for a sold out game between the A's and the San Diego Padres on Wednesday [6/17/2015].  Sinclaire had a 30,000 audience at the A's LGBT Pride Night as she belted out the Star-Spangled Banner, and that wasn't counting the people who were watching the game on television.

Transgender Woman Sings National Anthem at Pro Sports Event for First Time.  Transgender woman Breanna Sinclairé made history Wednesday night [6/17/2015] by becoming the first transgender person to sing the National Anthem at a professional sporting event.

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I'd be at the ticket counter demanding a refund before the first batter took a swing.

Men will now compete against women:
Olympics Loosen Rules to Allow Pre-Op M-to-F Transsexuals to Compete with Women.  There's great news for adventurous male Olympic hopefuls:  if they declare themselves women and reduce their testosterone below 10 nmol/L for at least 12 months prior to competition, they can compete against ladies.  There's even better news for these men; according to transgender guidelines approved by the International Olympic Committee, genitalia does not serve as a prerequisite.  The guidelines state:  "To require surgical anatomical changes as a pre-condition to participation is not necessary to preserve fair competition and may be inconsistent with developing legislation and notions of human rights."

The problem with the FA's rainbow laces furore.  The suits who run football in this country can always be relied upon to make a pig's ear of things.  The latest example of their capacity to cock up matters is the farce over this week's return of the rainbow laces campaign in the Premier League.  This campaign, now in its eleventh year, is an initiative backed by the charity Stonewall, in which team captains wear rainbow armbands and laces to signal support for LGBT+ inclusion and the fight against homophobia.  It would be fair to say that things have not exactly gone to plan.  The England and Crystal Palace defender, Marc Guehi, chose not to play ball at the weekend, writing 'I love Jesus' — with a love heart drawn instead of the word 'love' — on his rainbow-coloured captain's armband during his team's match against Newcastle.  Cue horror and panic from those in charge of the game.  Why?  This is, technically speaking, a breach of Football Association rules which state: 'For any offence the player and/or the team will be sanctioned by the competition organiser, national football association or by Fifa.'

The NFL needs to freshen up its messaging.  After having watched another Sunday of NFL games, I must say I am sick and tired of the virtue-signaling the league engages in via the trite sayings in the backs of its end zones and on the backs of its players' helmets. [...] Rhetorical question:  has anyone who has ever seen one of these 'messages' ever promptly changed their outlook or behavior because of them?  Of course not.  That's not the point.  That's not the point of any 'progressive' message aimed at us by giant corporations, 'social justice warriors,' Democrat politicians — or their brain-dead sycophants in mainstream media and 'entertainment.'  The point is to make them appear to be something they are demonstrably not:  smarter, better, and more caring than us.  Which is ironically self-defeating, as no one who might conceivably be smarter, better, or more caring than us would so shamelessly attempt to parade that 'fact.'

NFL hands Nick Bosa $11K fine for crashing interview with MAGA hat.  Star 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa was fined $11,255 by the NFL for crashing a postgame, on-field interview while wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat on Oct. 27, according to multiple reports.  Bosa donned the hat following San Francisco's "Sunday Night Football" victory less than two weeks before the 2024 election, showing his support for Donald Trump, who ended up defeating Vice President Kamala Harris to become the country's President-elect.

49ers Nick Bosa fined for wearing 'MAGA' hat in postgame interview despite appearing on-screen for less than 5 seconds.  The NFL has fined San Francisco 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa for sporting a "Make America Great Again" hat during a post-game interview.  Following a 30-24 win over the Dallas Cowboys on October 27, Bosa crashed an interview on NBC's "Sunday Night Football" where several of his teammates were speaking to network reporter Melissa Stark.  Bosa ran up behind quarterback Brock Purdy, pointed to his white and gold "MAGA" hat, and ran off-screen.  The entire incident lasted less than five seconds.

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Cowardly NFL Waited Until After the Election to Fine Nick Bosa for MAGA Hat Display.  It's often said that timing is everything, and when it came to the right time to fine 49ers star defensive end Nick Bosa for crashing an interview while wearing a MAGA hat, the league decided it was after the election. [...] According to the NFL Football Operations website, fines for the previous week are posted at 4 p.m. EST on the following Saturday, making the nearly two-week delay in Bosa's case highly unusual.  Why would the league wait before deciding whether to fine Bosa and for how much?  [Advertisement]  As Breitbart Sports reported earlier, the NFL has had a policy of not allowing former President Trump to "weaponize" the league, going back to the Kaepernick protests.  [Advertisement]  If the NFL were to have announced a Bosa fine on the Saturday following the offense, It would have given President Trump ample time to blast the league before Tuesday's election.

Buffalo Bills Security Dork [Tells a] Man With A Trump Shirt He Can't Wear It At The Game.  An NFL fan who was at Highmark Stadium to watch the Buffalo Bills take on the Miami Dolphins on Sunday was asked to remove his shirt supporting former President Donald Trump's re-election.  The incident was seen in a video shared by the Erie County GOP. It appeared one man was concerned about the Trump supporter's T-shirt while he was sitting in the first row of the stadium.  "It's an NFL policy he cannot wear his Trump shirt in the first row of a game," a man in the video can be heard saying to a security guard right below the fence separating the field from the seats.  It is unclear if the NFL has a separate dress-code policy for fans sitting in the front row at stadiums.  [Video clip]

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How much do front-row seats cost?  Quite a bit.  And that's the treatment you get when you spend that kind of money?

NFL Get-Out-The-Vote Initiative Partners With Democrat Activist Groups.  The all-powerful National Football League says the "League-wide, nonpartisan initiative supports and encourages civic engagement among NFL players, and legends, club and league personnel, and fans."  Launched in 2020 as a joint effort between the NFL and NFL Players Association, NFL Votes "focuses on three key components of the electoral process: voter education, voter registration, and voter activation," according to the league's website.  Sounds noble enough.  But if you're scoring along at home, the NFL's teammates include some of the most left-wing activist organizations on the election field today.  Starting on the campaign's roster is Rock the Vote, Voto Latino, and I am a voter.

The NFL Kicked Off Its Season By Commiting Suicide By Opening With The Black National Anthem.  The NFL started off their season by playing the Black National Anthem before playing the Star Spangled Banner at the Baltimore Ravens vs.  Kansas City Chiefs Game.  [Video clip]

Larry Elder blasts hurdler who said 'this is for everybody that looks like me' after she made US Olympic team.  Conservative commentator Larry Elder blasted hurdler Alaysha Johnson for saying "this is for everybody that looks like me" after she took second place in the 100-meter hurdles final at the U.S. Olympic Trials Sunday, which earned her a spot on the team heading to the Paris Games later this month.  A clip Elder posted on X showed Johnson after the race saying, "It was all God. ... everybody all the time said that I wasn't good enough, said that I didn't deserve.  And so I did this my way, my team's way, and just the way that it was meant to be.  This is for the hood babies.  This is for the people who are poor and come from nothing. [...]"

Texas Rangers Still Won't Join The MLB's Rainbow Antics, And Corporate Media Can't Stand It.  The Texas Rangers are once again the target of leftist media attacks because of the team's refusal to comply with the LGBT agenda that has infiltrated the MLB.  The Texas team has for years chosen not to participate in the league's "pride night" campaign, so left-wing media outlets have targeted it every June since 2021.  But the Rangers continue to side with their fans' values despite the mounting pressure.  This year, corporate media have again reached a fever pitch about the Rangers' refusal to celebrate "pride night."  "The Texas Rangers are frustrating LGBTQ+ advocates as the only MLB team without a Pride Night," reads an Associated Press headline from June 24.

Soccer player from Monaco faces discipline after he covers LGBTQ message on jersey.  Mohamed Camara, a midfielder for the soccer club AS Monaco, is facing potential disciplinary action after covering an anti-homophobia badge on his jersey and refusing to participate in a pre-game photo promoting LGBTQ inclusion.  French Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra has called for sanctions against both Camara and the club.  During Monaco's last game on Sunday, French Ligue 1 teams were required to wear badges featuring the word "homophobia" crossed out as part of a pro-LGBTQ campaign.  Camara instead taped over the badge.  He also decided not to join the other players in a pre-game group photo holding a banner with the same message, according to the Associated Press.

Fifa to hold urgent meeting to decide if Israel should be thrown out of football.  Fifa will hold an urgent meeting to decide if Israel should be thrown out of world football over its response to the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks, Gianni Infantino has announced.  Infantino confirmed the governing body would carry out a "legal assessment" of the matter following a proposal submitted by the Palestine Football Association (PFA) for inclusion on the agenda for its annual congress in Bangkok this week.  The proposal, which was backed by the FAs of Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Syria and Yemen, was not put to a vote of Fifa member associations on Friday, with Infantino revealing the issue would decided upon at an emergency meeting of the organisation's council in late July.

Time for the Bud Light Treatment:  NFL Denounces Player for Advocating Traditional Values.  Harrison Butker, a kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, is in a heap of trouble these days.  The NFL has issued a statement distancing itself from him, there is a petition at Change.org calling for him to be released, and outraged commentators across our fair land have lined up to condemn him and declare him unworthy to be in the company of decent people.  What Butker did to get all this abuse is a sad indication of what life is like in this Age of Absurdity.  If this were a sane society, you might get the impression that Butker did something like take a knee for the National Anthem in protest against an imaginary "systemic racism." [...] Yet Harrison Butker did not do those things; Colin Kaepernick did.  Butker's outrageous crime was that he gave a commencement speech at Benedictine College, and took aim at some of the most cherished idols of our age.  He encouraged the graduates to take pride in themselves and their accomplishments: "Not the deadly sins sort of Pride that has an entire month dedicated to it, but the true God-centered pride that is cooperating with the holy ghost to glorify him."

It Would Have Been Super to Have One National Anthem at the Super Bowl!  Did you watch the game?  If you said yes and you're a MAGA Patriot, the question is WHY?  Why did you support the National Football League (NFL)?  The NFL has included the black national anthem since 2021, following the "mostly peaceful" George Floyd 2020 Riots that resulted in 500 million "mostly peaceful" dollars lost to looting and burning.  Florida Republican Representative Matt Gaetz, who is every MAGA's favorite in Congress, explained on X/Twitter why he did not plan to watch the Super Bowl:  ["]They're desecrating America's National Anthem by playing something called the 'Black National Anthem.'["]

'Shame on the NFL': Performance of 'Black National Anthem' Sparks Backlash.  As they have done for the past several Super Bowl broadcasts, the NFL opened the Super Bowl with a performance of the song Lift Every Voice and Sing, the so-called "black national anthem."  But not every voice appreciated the left-wing gesture.  The song was performed by R&B singer, Grammy Award winner, and actress Andra Day:  [Tweet]  The reaction was immediate and many were not enthused.  [Tweet]

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The last big football game is supposed to be a distraction from politics and nation-wide problems.  Dragging race-based politics into it at the outset of the game is not what the fans paid big money to see.

The Things We Love Are the Things They Claim.  We have just had the US Superbowl.  As a Brit, even one long interested in the US, its never been of much interest to me.  But this year British mainstream TV has acted as if every single Brit cares.  It's been plastered over our TV screens and reported in our news in a way that previous Superbowls never were. [...] Look what has been done to what was once a shared and unifying piece of fundamental Americana.  Look at what they did to the thing you loved.  They, meaning progressive-globalists, took it away from ordinary Americans.  They purchased it and they soiled it.  They made the national sport into a place where national self-hatred was raised up and worshiped.  They ditched the National Anthem for the Black Anthem.  They asked white working class sports fans to take a giant [...] dose of anti American, anti white, anti male propaganda with their favorite leisure activity, with what had been their most American and most male and most patriotic cultural experience.

NFL fans show the proper disdain for the so-called 'Black National Anthem'.  The Star-Spangled Banner is America's national anthem.  This isn't a traditional position.  This is per American law, passed in 1931 and codified at 36 U.S.C. § 301(a).  There is one United States of America and one legal national anthem, which applies to all people regardless of race, creed, sex, etc.. Long ago, America's sports teams began the tradition of playing the anthem before games began. [...] But then there's that hymn.  As I said, it's a very nice hymn celebrating God and liberty, and the melody is lovely.  It is an essentially American song.  The problem is how the left is using it.  By focusing on its title as "the Black National Anthem," leftists are essentially saying that Black Americans are a nation within a nation.  There is, of course, no such thing.  Even playing it at the Super Bowl right before the National Anthem itself isn't going to make it an actual national anthem.  Instead, it just takes a beautiful piece of music and makes it divisive.

'Hey NFL, the United States only has one National Anthem'.  Outrage is brewing over the NFL's decision to play what many refer to as "the black national anthem" at the start of this year's Super Bowl game.  Called "Lift Every Voice and Sing," the song was originally written as a poem in 1899 by James Weldon Johnson, then the NAACP's executive for 10 years, according to Today.  "The poem became a song when Johnson's brother John Rosamond Johnson composed an instrumental arrangement for it.  The song was first performed in 1900 during a celebration of former president Abraham Lincoln.  It was sung by a choir of 500 children at their segregated school in Florida," Today notes.  In times past, the song "became a rallying cry against the realities of lynching, segregation and discrimination," but these days, it's mostly viewed as divisive and unnecessary given that lynching, segregation and discrimination are mostly gone, save for on the "woke" left.  [Tweet]

The NBA Sells Out To Middle East.  The NBA has announced what some view as a questionable partnership with Emirates Airlines that would change the name of the league's in-season tournament and also add sponsored jersey patches on referee's uniforms.  In a statement released today, the NBA boasted that it would be renaming its newly announced in-season tournament the "Emirates NBA Cup," with all NBA, WNBA and G League referees donning the Emirates patch on their outfits.  "Emirates NBA Cup," rings right off the tip of your tongue, no?  If the NBA thought that people didn't care about its pointless in-season tournament before, naming it something that sounds like some sort of soccer event sure as hell isn't going to solve the problem.

NFL keeps pushing the LGBT agenda, announcing another 'Night of Pride with GLAAD'.  The NFL is continuing to promote the LGBT agenda, announcing that it will host "A Night of Pride with GLAAD" just days ahead of the Super Bowl next month.  GLAAD is a pro-LGBT advocacy group.  "The NFL family and partners will gather to spotlight advances in the future of LGBTQ inclusion in professional sports as well the NFL's commitment to LGBTQ former and current players," the NFL announced.  "Sponsored by Smirnoff, A Night of Pride with GLAAD also includes a panel discussion on how inclusion in sports advances acceptance for LGBTQ people, featuring NFL Legend Carl Nassib.  Additional partners for the evening include Starter and Google."  This is not the first time the NFL has held such an event.

NFL Plans an Incredibly Ridiculous 'Night Of Pride' Super Bowl Event.  This year's Super Bowl is being held in Las Vegas, and though the Super Bowl is always glorious, it's a little bit more special in 2024 with it being held in Sin City.  So why is the NFL ruining it with a "Night of Pride?"  That's right, the league is hosting their third "Night of Pride" event during Super Bowl week, and though I guess LGBTQ+ (or whatever they're named today) and a city of sin mixes well, I don't want them to have this one.  NOT VEGAS.  This event is more for a boring city like Minneapolis, where the first "Night of Pride" was held in 2018.  In the official press release from the NFL, they say they're hosting this event with GLAAD (Gay, Lesbian, Alliance Against Defamation) and that Smirnoff is sponsoring the social justice shindig — it's being held Feb. 7.

Utah Jazz Order Rabbis to Remove Pro-Jewish Signs.  The Utah Jazz is facing national backlash after they ordered four rabbis to remove signs that read, "I'm a Jew and I'm Proud."  Rabbi Avremi Zippel was at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Monday night to see the team face the Dallas Mavericks.  "He and three other rabbis took the signs to protest the involvement of Kyrie Irving, now a Mavericks player, who was suspended from the Brooklyn Nets in 2022 for tweeting a link to a movie widely considered to be antisemitic and for initially failing to disavow it," NBC News reported.  The Jazz said in a statement that the signs were in breach of the team's audience code of conduct, which maintains games must be played "without distraction or disturbance."

Georgia hasn't changed.  MLB is in business to make money.
Good News:  MLB Says Georgia Is No Longer Racist!  Throughout the Peach State, people are breathing a huge sigh of relief.  On Thursday, Major League Baseball (MLB) finally decreed that Georgia is no longer racist when the league awarded the 2025 All-Star Game to Atlanta. [...] The announcement came three years after MLB removed the 2021 game from the city over Georgia's voter integrity law, which Stacey Abrams tricked MLB and certain corporations into believing disenfranchised black voters.

Fans Note That Only MLB Team Not to Celebrate 'Pride' Just Won World Series.  The Texas Rangers, who won their first World Series in 63 seasons Wednesday night, is also the only team in Major League Baseball not to hold a "Pride Night"-style event celebrating LGBTQ individuals.  The Rangers bested the Arizona Diamondbacks in four out of five games to take the series.  Baseball fans who don't think professional sports teams should devote money and resources to "Pride" events were among those noting the Rangers' lonely stand on X, formerly Twitter, and other social media.  [Tweet]

NHL bans Pride stick tape months after getting rid of Pride jerseys.  So apparently some genius thought it'd be a good idea for NHL players to "show their solidarity" with the LGBTQIA2+ community by throwing rainbow tape on their sticks.  Unfortunately for the flamboyant person who thought this up, the NHL is not going to do it, and they've in fact banned the tape altogether.  [Tweet]

Foreign NBA Player Complains About Americans Owning Guns, Wants Them Banned.  Phoenix Suns player Jusuf Nurkic isn't a fan of Americans owning guns.  Owning firearms is enshrined in the Bill of Rights with the Second Amendment, and the United States of America has a very proud gun culture.  At the same time, the issue is incredibly divisive.  Some people love the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms, and some people absolutely despise the fact regular citizens have access to firearms.  The Suns center from Bosnia and Herzegovina definitely falls in the latter category, judging from some comments made Monday.

Kansas City Chiefs Fans Rain Down Boos After the NFL Plays the "Black National Anthem" BEFORE the Real National Anthem.  The Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl title defense got off to an inauspicious start Thursday night after falling to the Detroit Lions 21-20.  But an arguably bigger story before the contest has Americans across the country up in arms.  The National Football League (NFL) made the decision to play "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which is considered the "Black National Anthem."  To add insult to injury, they decided to do so before the "Star Spangled Banner" as Fox News reported.  In the NFL's eyes, pandering to woke radicals is more important than promoting simple racial harmony

Megan Rapinoe and Necessary Schadenfreude.  Megan Rapinoe is a hard person to like. [...] Rapinoe felt like she deserved more because she was the best women's soccer player in the world and she wasn't making as much as men were.  So what?  Women's sports don't bring in nearly as much as men do, so the pay should be less.  Draw a crowd, sell some merch and the cash follows.  She didn't want to earn it, and it turns out she didn't have to.  The US Soccer governing body caved to the demands and now offer the equivalent of socialism in pay to both teams.  Of course, Megan was already raking in the cash — probably the highest paid player with all her endorsements, bringing in an estimated $7 million.  Can you imagine a world where she is worth $7 million?  Megan Rapinoe might have been worth that much when she was good, but she's not good and hasn't been for a long time.  She had no business being on this team this year, let alone on the field when they finally lost.

Here's the Real Game Colin Kaepernick Is Playing.  It's Not Football.  It's NFL training camp season again, and that means it's time for us to hear yet again about how far-left race hustler and former quarterback Colin Kaepernick, despite having derided the NFL for years as a racist enterprise that treats its employees like slaves, is trying to get back into the league yet again.  If you're tired of Kaepernick's cynical act, you're not nearly as tired of it as is Terence Garvin, a former NFL linebacker who had a few choice words for the attention-seeking apparatchik this time around.

NASCAR Driver Noah Gragson Suspended for 'Liking' a Meme About George Floyd.  Legacy Motor Club and NASCAR have suspended driver Noah Gragson.  This comes after the driver allegedly "liked" a meme about George Floyd, the man who died in police custody in May 2020.  The death of Floyd resulted in mass riots around the country then went on for several months despite Covid and well into election season.  Gragson apologized but it didn't keep him his place to drive. [...] Josh Berry will drive the #42 car on Sunday's race in Michigan instead.  No one knows if the suspension will be permanent or not.  While everyone is aware of the delicate nature of the George Floyd subject, it seems like "liking" a meme is something that many would not expect to have such a ripple effect, especially since it's easy to accidentally like the wrong thing sometimes or perhaps like something you haven't fully looked at.

You don't have to play if you don't like the anthem.  Once again, we have athletes making fools of themselves.  The latest episode from the ingrates comes from the Women's World Cup soccer match.  For the record, I am not a big soccer fan but it's always nice to cheer for the home team.  In my case, it's the nice country that adopted my family years ago.  In the case of these young women, it's the country that gave them this opportunity.

Fans blast USWNT over silence during national anthem at World Cup.  The US Women's National Soccer team was victorious in its opening match of the 2023 FIFA World Cup — but they're not winners to fans left fuming after the most of the athletes stayed silent during the national anthem.  Before the reigning women's World Cup champion team went on to crush newcomer Vietnam 3-0, many of the players stood quietly as the "Star Spangled Banner" blared through New Zealand's Eden Park arena.

USWNT players largely silent during national anthem in 2023 World Cup opener against Vietnam.  Most members of the US women's soccer team stayed silent during the national anthem before its World Cup opener Friday against newcomers Vietnam — who passionately belted their nation's tune.  The majority of the reigning women's World Cup champion team stared stoically ahead as the "Star Spangled Banner" blasted across New Zealand's Eden Park arena.  Only five of the 11 players who stood on the field for the anthem — with young, aspiring players standing before them — placed their hands over their hearts, while their six teammates kept their digits clasped behind their backs, video shows.

Megan Rapinoe Announces Retirement — Good, and Good Riddance.  No one loves Megan Rapinoe like Megan Rapinoe loves Megan Rapinoe.  She's been in the spotlight for years now — with ESPN's social justice warriors clambering over themselves to pat her on the back and forward her agenda.  She was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Joe Biden, because why not?  That award has no meaning any longer.  Barack Obama gave one to Joe Biden at the end of his presidency.  It was supposed to be his "go-away" gold watch.  Like Obama's Nobel and Biden Medal, Rapinoe was given one of the nation's highest citizen awards because of her big mouth.  And because of what side she is on:  the obnoxious left.

Is the NBA Going the Way of Bud Light?  Over the past several months, we've seen corporations take big financial hits for embracing wokeness.  Disney took a massive blow to the bottom line after going woke, while Target and Ben & Jerry's have seen their market values tumble following far-left stands.  But the, umm, gold standard for the "go woke go broke" model is Bud Light, whose fortunes continue to tumble after it partnered with Dylan Mulvaney for a marketing stunt.  The sports world is notorious for embracing wokeness in recent years as well.  Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League have recently been under fire for pride month antics, and let's not forget how MLB moved the All-Star Game from Atlanta based on lies about Georgia's voter integrity law.  But the godfather of wokeness in both sports and business is the National Basketball Association (NBA).  The NBA embraced wokeness when embracing wokeness wasn't cool, and Outkick's Clay Travis asserts that the NBA's downward slide over the past few years is a slow-burn version of what's happening with corporations like Bud Light.

Corporate America Doesn't Hear Anybody.  [Scroll down]  But the people are listening and are fed up.  Bud Light still shows no signs of recovering, nor does Target.  Threats against Target which the media tried to blame on conservatives actually came from LGBTQ+ groups, claiming betrayal of that community.  Major League Baseball, while not eliminating "Pride" events, has scaled back on them.  There was a huge protest at the LA Dodgers "Pride Night" event where the Dodgers were honoring a hate group that denigrated and mocked Catholicism.  The silent majority appears to be finding its voice.  We are learning that we can impact the bottom line of corporate America.  And that may be the only way to make them listen, that they should concentrate on business and not politics.

NHL Teams Will No Longer Wear LGBTQ Pride-Themed Jerseys.  National Hockey League (NHL) teams will no longer wear rainbow-colored LGBTQ-themed jerseys during pregame warmups for Pride nights.  NHL Pride Nights became a hot topic of conversation earlier this year when Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Ivan Provorov refused to participate in his team's Pride Night due to his orthodox Christian faith, sparking outrage from leftists who proceeded to accuse him of bigotry and homophobia.  However, the Philadelphia Flyers kept him in the lineup, and the team even went on to win the game against the Anaheim Ducks.

Dodgers Swept, Suffer Worst Home Loss in 125 Years After Honoring Anti-Catholic Drag Queens.  Not that this had anything to do with anything, but the Los Angeles Dodgers were humiliated by their archrival this weekend after deciding to host and honor a group of anti-Catholic drag queens at their Pride Night event on Friday.  The weekend began as awfully as it ended for the Dodgers.  On Friday, the team bestowed the "Community Heroes" award on the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of drag queens who routinely mock the Catholic faith by performing grotesque sexual acts while using religious imagery, garb, and symbolism.

Kaepernick Hooks up With 'Prominent Black Marxists,' Says 'White Supremacy Persists' Because of Capitalism.  Colin Kaepernick.  The former San Francisco quarterback turned out to be a disappointing enigma to an untold number of NFL fans.  Despite earning nearly $40 million while playing football and $20 million from Nike, "Kap" not only intentionally threw away his career; he hypocritically now blasts capitalism.  More precisely, Kaepernick believes "black liberation" isn't "possible under capitalism."  And whose fault is that, according to the quarterback-turned-racial-activist?  Two words:  "White supremacists," who else?

Empty Stadium as LA Dodgers Honor Anti-Catholic Group 'Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence' Amid Protests.  Opposition is in full swing to the Los Angeles Dodgers' on-field ceremony honoring the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, an organization of "drag nuns" that the Catholic League calls an anti-Catholic hate group.  Thousands of Catholics, other Christians, and even some people of the Jewish faith gathered in a parking lot near the Dodgers' stadium on Friday afternoon to pray ahead of the game.  Later, the religious groups marched to Dodger Stadium, shutting down one entryway on Vin Scully Avenue.  Weeks of momentous opposition led to the drag nuns being announced on-field to a mostly empty stadium, while receiving some boos from baseball fans in attendance.

The Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team is facing a Bud Light-style boycott.  The Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team is facing a Bud Light-style boycott after inviting a controversial LGBTQ group of drag queen 'nuns' to a Pride Night ceremony — enraging the Catholic community and sparking protests on Friday.  The group, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, was invited to appear before the Dodgers' game against the San Francisco Giants, and receive an award for their community work.  The ceremony to award the Community Hero Award to the 'nuns' was held before an almost-empty stadium, ahead of the game — but outside, protesters gathered.

What if the Dodgers honored the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and nobody came?  Well, they did it.  The Dodgers went ahead with their plan to honor the Catholic- and Christian-mocking bigot group known the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence as community "heroes" last night ... and just about nobody showed up.  The bleachers were almost empty — and among the few who did come, there was nothing but booing — loud enough to be reported.  The photos are astonishing.

MLB quietly tells teams to drop use of Pride uniforms.  Major League Baseball has quietly ordered its teams not to wear any Pride uniforms throughout their Pride events.  The decision comes amid several companies and organizations facing consumer pushback for promoting LGBT acceptance.  News of the MLB directive gained recognition last week when the Tampa Bay Rays reportedly announced its Pride festivities would have a different look, with players not sporting jerseys and hats featuring Pride rainbow patches and logos.  The league reportedly announced its decision at an owners meeting in February.

Major League Baseball panics, tells teams to kill Pride logos.  Anheuser-Busch teamed with a female-identifying man to promote its Bud Light beer to cowboys, truck drivers, suburbanites, NASCAR fans and more.  It lost some $27 billion in corporate value, and analysts predict the brand never will regain its customer base.  Target plunged head-first into promotions of transgender clothing and other LGBT ideology even for children, and lost some $15 billion in value.  One analyst called the losses, triggered by pushback from American consumers against the "woke" ideology, "staggering."  Now, it appears, Major League Baseball is trying to avoid any such collapse.

Red Sox Pitcher Cut Loose After Offending the Thought Police.  Many people are warning these days that the jaw-droppingly corrupt weapon of partisan vengeance known as the "Justice" Department, with its indictment of Donald Trump after steadfastly ignoring the crimes of Hillary Clinton and Hunter Biden, is taking the nation down the road to dictatorship.  And while that is a very real concern, some of the hysteria is overblown, not because the Biden regime actually respects loyal opposition and free discourse, but because the freedom of speech is already so severely eroded.  The Boston Red Sox just showed that anew in their treatment of a pitcher who dared to utter unapproved ideas.  Yeah, in America we have the First Amendment that supposedly protects the freedom of speech, but just try saying something publicly that goes against what the Leftist elites want you to believe.

The Devouring of a Christian Baseball Player.  [Scroll down]  [Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Anthony] Bass threw them all a curve.  When asked by the media on Thursday [6/8/2023] if the video he shared was "hateful," he refused to oblige them.  "I do not.  That's why I posted it originally," he said.  "When I look back at it, I can see how people would view it that way, and that's why I was apologetic."  This failure to capitulate only infuriated the Canadian Maoists.  They had expected Bass to reject his Christian beliefs or at least renounce them out of expedience, but Bass's faithfulness rescued him from any further degradation.  As Nick Ashbourne of Yahoo News reported, "GM Ross Atkins ... might've been surprised by the degree to which Bass stuck to his guns."  Ashbourne adds without even a hint of self-awareness, "The team appeared to be attempting to rehabilitate the pitcher's image."  "Rehabilitate," right.  Next stop, re-education camp!  On Friday, Atkins, the Pontius Pilate of the story, chose to wash his hands of the affair by designating the 35-year-old Bass for assignment, a euphemism for cutting him from the roster.  "Performance was a large part of this decision," he lied.  "Distraction was a small part, but it factored in."

Conservatives Need to Support Boycotts.  Recently the LA Dodgers scheduled an event for one of their "Pride Month" celebrations featuring a group called the "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence" (SPI).  This vile and blatantly anti-Catholic (and anti-Christian) group should be classified as a hate group, but instead the Dodgers wanted to celebrate them.  Normal people were up in arms and protested, resulting in the Dodgers cancelling the Sisters.  Then the LGBTQ+ community whined loudly and the event is on again.  A number of Dodger players have made statements objecting to their endorsement by the Dodgers organization including future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw.  So far, the Dodger management have not changed their minds to honor this hate group.  I gave up professional sports years ago, thanks to the has-been Colin Kaepernick, a former pro quarterback who decided to kneel during the playing of the national anthem.  My advice for all of the Christian players in Major League Baseball (MLB) would be to refuse to play in any game involving the Dodgers.  As for fans, I would refuse to watch any Dodgers game.  Those numbers are important as they determine ad revenue among other things.

Our Descent into Clown World.  I once naïvely thought that men's professional sports would remain a small redoubt from the insipid idiocy of "political correctness."  Stadiums where rowdy fans cheer on strong men engaging in physical acts of confrontation — and sometimes bloody violence — seemed like sturdy cultural ramparts capable of keeping leftist indoctrination at bay.  Alas, owner-imposed ideology across leagues and organized intimidation campaigns against individual players have combined with enough force to crash through the gates.  Now grown men who have spent their lives training for battle meekly embrace ever-changing Marxist planks before millions of spectators, who likewise are allowed to watch only if they implicitly accept the State's woke dogma.  Will players and fans be forced to kneel during the National Anthem this week?  To reject their religious faith as an expression of "hate"?  To applaud child-grooming and predation?  To cheer the World Health Organization's dictatorial control over their lives?  Stay tuned.  The sports leagues will let you know what to believe just as soon as the Marxist brigades lay down new marching orders.

One by one, the ball players are coming out against that Dodgers plan to lionize the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.  One by one, major league ball players are coming out to express their opposition to the Los Angeles Dodgers' management's decision to honor anti-Catholic bigot group, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, with its "Community Hero Award." [...] That the first three players have stepped forward and thus far have not backed down is a very good sign, though.  It also indicates to fans that ball players and their corporate bosses are not the same thing, which is good for baseball itself.  The fact that the ball players are on the public's side suggests that their fans will stay loyal to them.  That's doing the Dodgers a favor.

To Beat The Dodgers' Anti-Christian Hate, MLB Stars Must Refuse To Play Ball.  The Los Angeles Dodgers' appalling decision to honor an anti-Christian hate group called the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence during their "Pride Night" on June 16 has been met mostly with a deafening silence from the vast majority of Major League Baseball players.  Even Catholics, whose faith is particularly singled out for mockery by this LGBT hate group, have been largely mute.  As of this writing, only four players in the entire league have said anything about it, and one of those four has already caved to the rainbow mob.  The only Catholic player to come forward has been Trevor Williams, a starting pitcher for the Washington Nationals.  Williams denounced the Dodgers and called on his fellow Catholics "to reconsider their support of an organization that allows this type of mockery of its fans to occur."

Toronto Blue Jays Player Looks Like He Just Got Out Of A Reeducation Camp After Being Forced To Appologize For Supporting Target And Bud Light Boycotts.  Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Anthony Bass apologized on Tuesday for sharing a social media post that explained why Christians should participate in boycotting companies like Target and Bud Light, who have been at the height of national scrutiny over their failed marketing campaigns chalked full of LGBTQ propaganda.  Bass briefly shared the faith-based video to his Instagram stories on Monday evening, which called on Christians to stop patronizing US companies that go against biblical teachings, but quickly deleted it following backlash.  [Video clip]

Toronto Blue Jays pitcher apologizes for offending alphabet crowd.  There is only one approved line of thinking in the West, and you know exactly what it is.  Blue Jay pitcher Anthony Bass, who apparently is a conservative Christian, made the serious mistake of siding against the alphabet people in the brand wars.  He cut a video siding with the people who are boycotting Target and Bud Light, and apostasy on this issue is apparently not allowed.

Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw disagreed with the organization's decision to honor Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.  The Los Angeles Dodgers have faced immense backlash for the decision to honor the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence before the team's Pride Night game on June 16.  Their star pitcher is not on board with the decision.  Clayton Kershaw, a three-time Cy Young Award winner, announced last Friday that the team will relaunch its Christian Faith and Family Day.  The veteran pitcher said it was in response to the organization's decision to honor the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.

No Dodging the Democrats' Degradation, or, "We're All San Francisco Democrats Now".  You would think a team named "Dodgers" would know how to dodge a culture war battle they can't win (see: Target, Bud Light), but no, the Los Angeles Dodgers managed to get picked off in the most embarrassing fashion in a pickle-style rundown entirely of their own ineptitude.  Surely the conservative (and Catholic) O'Malley family that used to own the Dodgers — before the onerous estate tax forced the family to sell the team back in the 1990s after Walter O'Malley died — are rolling in their graves.  But there's a larger lesson here. [...] I predict that next year's Democratic Party platform (if they have one at all) will see a similar fight over two issues: an embrace of unlimited transgenderism and "gender-affirming health care" for children, and reparations for slavery.  I doubt Democrats can dodge these self-generated impulses of their most vocal base any better than the LA Dodgers have.

CatholicVote calls Dodgers 'faith and family' night a 'band-aid' amid anti-Catholic group fallout.  On Friday, nine-time MLB All-Star Clayton Kershaw announced a "relaunch" of another themed day at Dodger Stadium — Christian Faith and Family Day.  "Excited to announce the relaunch of Christian Faith and Family Day at Dodger Stadium on July 30th," Kershaw wrote in a tweet.  The Dodgers later confirmed the event and said more details will be released at a later time.  "Join us at Dodger Stadium on 7/30 for Christian Faith and Family Day.  Stay after the game to celebrate and be part of a day of worship." the Dodgers official Twitter account wrote.  "Stay tuned for more details."  The announcement comes after the Dodgers invited, then uninvited, and then re-invited the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.

CatholicVote launches $1M campaign calling for LA Dodgers boycott over anti-Catholic drag queens.  One of the nation's largest Catholic advocacy organizations has issued a letter to the Los Angeles Dodgers announcing an upcoming ad campaign calling for a boycott of the baseball club.  CatholicVote President Brian Burch addressed the letter to Dodgers principal owner Mark Walter and CEO Stan Kasten.  "I represent the nation's largest lay Catholic advocacy organization," Burch wrote.  "We are supported by millions of devoted Catholics across America who believe that the time-honored values of life, family, and freedom — which the Dodgers used to celebrate — are demonstrably good for America, and worthy of respect, not ridicule."  "We wrote to you last week with a reasonable ask:  Please do not honor this anti-Catholic hate group," Burch told the Dodgers' administrators.  "There is no place for anti-Catholic bigotry, mocking of religious sisters, or celebrating a perverse activist group whose identity is marked by blasphemy and mockery of Catholics."

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It's About Time Christians Educated Themselves!  The Los Angeles Dodgers' apology letter re-inviting the anti-Catholic Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to Pride Night reads like the unwinding of a grueling struggle session.  And it ends in a predictably pitiful way, with the reactionaries promising "to better educate" themselves in the future.  In contemporary parlance, to "educate" oneself means allowing intellectually and morally stunted clowns — literally, in this case — to bully you.  Because LGBT activists, like BLM activists, never need to be "educated" about anything.  They have achieved enlightenment.  No, it's the slack-jawed yokels who cling to thousands of years of intellectual and theological tradition who need lessons from the geniuses who spend Easter Sunday dressed in Virgin Mary drag, passing out condoms on a 13-stop bar crawl mocking the Stations of the Cross.  The Dodgers are merely celebrating diversity by sponsoring a group that simulates sex scenes on crucifixes.  Why are you fanatics starting another culture war?

I'm Boycotting Major League Baseball.  I truly love baseball.  But more than baseball, I love God.  Given the decision between being a fan of any sports team and supporting my religious beliefs, I know that God is my real captain and I will always choose my faith.  And I believe that when push comes to shove, most people feel the same.  I also recognize that it is my religious obligation to support other people of faith in their journey.  Which is why I am so sad that I will not be attending baseball games thanks to the irresponsible management of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Major League Baseball, following the team's blatant attack on Catholics by deciding to honor one of the most public anti-Catholic fringe groups in the country, "The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence."

The Anti-Christian Los Angeles Dodgers Deserve The Bud Light Treatment.  In a predictable act of cowardice, the Los Angeles Dodgers announced on Monday they are reinviting a radical, anti-Catholic LGBT group to the organization's "Pride Night" next month.  Originally, the Dodgers invited the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence — a radical LBGT organization whose drag members mock Catholicism by dressing up as so-called "queer and trans nuns" — to its June 16 "Pride Night" game.  The MLB team was slated to present the group with a "Community Hero Award."  After receiving much-deserved backlash from fans, Catholic groups, and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., the Dodgers announced last week the Sisters would no longer be honored at this year's "pride" celebration "[g]iven the strong feelings of people who have been offended by the sisters' inclusion."  As it turns out, the Dodgers were just throwing faithful Christians a curveball.  Capitulating to a bunch of mean tweets from Twitter bots and unhinged leftists, the team reversed course on Monday, reinviting the organization to take part in the June 16 event.

Dodgers Re-Invite Anti-Catholic Drag Group To Pride Night, Issue Apology to LGBTQ+ Community.  After "much thoughtful feedback from Los Angeles' diverse communities" the Dodgers have decided to re-invite the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to its 10th annual LGBTQ+ Pride Night.  They also issued an apology to the drag group, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and their friends and families.  The decision to reincorporate the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence comes less than seven days after the team chose to remove the group from the event.  Los Angeles was initially set to give the group an award as part of its Pride Night celebration.  The "Sisters" of Perpetual Indulgence use "go and sin some more" as their motto, and frequently dress as Jesus, Mary and other religious figures.

LA Dodgers condemned for honoring anti-Catholic transgender drag nuns: 'Blasphemous'.  The Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team is facing accusations of anti-Catholic bigotry after the team announced it would honor a gay and transgender group that uses Catholic imagery in sexualized contexts.  The Dodgers and LA Pride announced earlier this month that the team would be marking "Pride Night" on June 16, 2023, and that the celebrations would include the presentation of the Community Hero Award to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a self-described "leading-edge Order of queer and trans nuns."  In a letter to Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) noted that the group has "mocked and degraded Christians, and especially Catholics, since its founding on Easter Sunday in 1979."  He also noted that the group's motto is "go and sin some more," which perverts the words of Jesus Christ, who said "go and sin no more."

Muslim Player Fined For Refusing to Wear Rainbow Flag, Still Won't Submit.  Mostafa Mohammed, an Egyptian footballer (soccer player) for the French side Nantes, was fined by his club for refusing to wear a gay pride rainbow flag on his arm during a game against Toulouse on Sunday [5/14/2023].  Nantes announced on Monday, May 15, that Mohamed was fined an undisclosed amount, with the money going to a French LGBT charity called SOS Homophobia.  On Sunday, "[t]he numbers on shirts of all players in France's top two divisions, as well as armbands worn by captains and officials, were rainbow-coloured as the French league staged a campaign against homophobia," reports Insider Paper.  Mohamed made a statement regarding the matter on Twitter, "I respect all differences.  I respect all beliefs and all convictions.  This respect extends to others but my personal beliefs must be respected as well."

We've won the culture war, but that's not enough.  The NFL and NBA have discovered that their brands soured horribly as they insulted their audience by kneeling and wearing rainbow colors.  Only after the NFL gave up virtue signaling for football has their audience returned.  They'd probably hire a woman to play if that woman could do the job better than a man.  But somehow, genetics has proven its superiority over gender.  The NBA hasn't learned its lesson yet.

Legendary Coach Phil Jackson Blasts the Woke NBA, Says He Doesn't Watch Games Anymore.  Eleven-time NBA champion coach Phil Jackson has lost interest in the basketball league because it's simply gotten too political.  The former coach of the Chicago Bulls and the Los Angeles Lakers appeared on the "Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin" podcast earlier this month and said he didn't stop watching the game immediately after stepping away from coaching — it was the league's woke messaging during the 2020 COVID lockdowns that turned him off.

Goalie declines to wear jersey celebrating LGBTQ community on Pride Night, takes heat.  The San Jose Sharks recently hosted a Pride Night celebration, as nearly all professional sports teams have done.  Moreover, they tweeted pride-themed information throughout the game.  Yet this was not enough to please the ungrateful mob that constitutes the hard-core activists in the LGBTQ community.  You see, one player, Sharks goalie James Reimer, declined to don a rainbow-colored jersey, citing his "religious beliefs." [...] Why should a professional athlete be mandated to wear a jersey celebrating any group other than the team for which he or she plays?  Yet, Reimer — and a handful of other NHL players who have chosen not to wear pride-themed jerseys this season — have been the victims of vitriolic attacks from many of those who otherwise routinely plead for "acceptance," "tolerance," and "inclusion."  Transgender activists, in particular, can be brutal to those who have the audacity to believe in the existence or primacy of just two sexes or genders.

The Sweater.  A couple of National Hockey League players have refused to be bullied into wearing pride jerseys during pregame warmups and much of the response has been madness — and worse.  It's another sign that Western culture is in a steep decline. [...] But even in 2023, when so many among us are either part of the social bullying culture or so fearful of it that we've surrendered to it, there are still men of strength and principle.  On Jan. 17, Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Ivan Provorov declined to wear a pride jersey in warmups, citing his Christian (Russian Orthodox) beliefs.  So he sat in the locker room, banished, while his teammates took their pre-game skate.

San Jose Sharks goalie boycotts pregame warmups over NHL pride jerseys.  A Christian goalie for the San Jose Sharks boycotted pregame warmups over the weekend, saying the team's decision to wear NHL pride-themed jerseys went against the teachings of the Bible and his "personal convictions."  Canadian James Reimer, 35, did not play in Saturday's game against the New York Islanders after the team released a statement on his behalf in which he said that while he has "no hate in my heart for anyone," he would not "endorse something that is counter to my personal convictions which are based on the Bible, the highest authority in my life."

Dallas Mavericks Donates $25,000 to Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz.  Woke celebrities, businesses, and now professional sports teams are lining up to support the largest abortion business in the United States, Planned Parenthood.  Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas posted on Twitter Tuesday photos of the Dallas Mavericks honoring the abortion giant with a $25,000 check.  [Tweet]  Since the reversal of Roe v.  Wade, Planned Parenthood cannot commit elective abortions in Texas but has kept its Texas clinics open, functioning as abortion "travel agencies" to send pregnant women out of state so abortionists can kill their preborn children.

The "national divorce" comes to Vermont women's sports.  Not too long ago, Marjorie Taylor Greene raised a lot of eyebrows when she began teasing the possibility of a "national divorce."  While nobody wants to see another disastrous civil war (with much better weapons), she posited that the nation is splitting in two along social lines with the two sides embracing ideas and morals that are so far apart that there may not be any compromise left to be found.  I'm still not entirely sold on that concept, but one example that might support the phenomenon has popped up in Vermont and it brings us back to the ongoing debate over males who "identify" as females competing in girls' and women's sports.

Raptors delete video recognizing Women's History Month as it goes horribly wrong.  Why is it so hard to state the definition of a woman?  March is Women's History Month.  The Toronto Raptors quickly found out that pandering to women by using a lame video tribute doesn't always work out so well.  The Canadian basketball team released a 13-second video on Twitter this week that features three of the team's players answering a question — "Beyonce said girls run the world.  Why do you think that's true?"  The result is so lame it is cringe-worthy.  [Tweet]

Woke NBA Enters New Strategic Partnership — With a Chinese Company, Naturally.  The NBA has been insufferably woke for a few years now.  They love to virtue signal for Black Lives Matter and everything else the left embraces.  And now they're entering into a new partnership with a company in China, a country that uses slave labor, poisons the environment and even has what are effectively concentration camps.  It's all about money.  The NBA wants those dollars that come from selling jerseys and sneakers in China.

NBA Boycotted North Carolina Over Transgender Bathroom Bill, but Ignores Utah.  The NBA may be quietly acknowledging that their commitment to woke ideology may be slipping.  That's the implication of their actions on transgender legislation, anyway.  Due to legislation on transgender bathroom use, the league decided to move their All-Star Game out of Charlotte, North Carolina.  At the time, the league issued a statement saying they did not believe they could "successfully host' the game there because of the "climate" created by the bill.  "While we recognize that the NBA cannot choose the law in every city, state, and country in which we do business, we do not believe we can successfully host our All-Star festivities in Charlotte in the climate created by HB2," the statement read.  With profound hypocrisy, just a few years later, the league hosted preseason games in the United Arab Emirates.  The UAE criminalizes homosexuality, and has previously detained transgender individuals attempting to enter the country.

'Black National Anthem' at Super Bowl Divides NFL Fans.  NFL fans on social media were divided over the performance of the so-called Black National Anthem for the first time on-field during Sunday's championship game.  While it's the third time "Lift Every Voice and Sing" made an appearance in some capacity during the Super Bowl, actress and singer Sheryl Lee Ralph's performance was the first time it was on the Super Bowl field, according to The Hill.  [Numerous tweets]

NFL to Play 'Black National Anthem' at Super Bowl LVII.  This year's Super Bowl will feature the singing of Lift Every Voice and Sing, otherwise known as the black national anthem, before the start of this year's game.  The song will be sung before the U.S. national anthem.

Super Bowl Protests on Chiefs' Name Continue Politicization of Society.  "People think they're honoring us with these mascots and logos, but they're mocking us," complained Michael Spears, an actor from a South Dakota tribe, as leftists take the opportunity of the upcoming Super Bowl between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs to continue their practice of using sports — as they use everything else that they can — to advance their narrative that our society is full of oppressors and the oppressed.  The name "Chiefs" was chosen by Kansas City's team owner, Lamar Hunt, after the team moved there from Dallas — where they were the Texans in the old American Football League.  The name was picked after it proved quite popular in a pick-the-name contest.  In fact the Kansas City Chiefs played in the very first Super Bowl in January 1967, losing to the Green Bay Packers, and it was Hunt who first used the term "Super Bowl" to refer to the pro football championship game.

You Will Be Forced to Care — Gay Hockey Edition.  The Pride Police are on the prowl again, this time in the National Hockey League.  One of the more tedious aspects of the woke crusade for "inclusivity" is that we now have to be bombarded with radical messaging in what used to be escapist activities, like sports fandom.  Hardcore sports fans like me watch games to get away from the regular world for a while.  We don't want to be preached to.  About anything.  I don't even care if it's something I support, I don't want it polluting my gametime.  But the pollution is happening, much to the chagrin of those of us who find it difficult to break our sports addictions.  The latest heavy hand of wokeness has fallen upon the NHL, and it perfectly illustrates all that is wrong with the overwrought efforts to make us care.

Media Loses It Over New York Rangers Not Wearing Special Jerseys on Pride Night.  Here at the sports desk [it's] time to look at the newest sports non-controversy.  Namely, the New York Rangers not plastering rainbows on their practice jerseys prior to their home game against the Vegas Golden Knights on January 27th. [...] Let's turn this on its side.  If an NHL team held a Faith and Family Night, as part of the event placing an ichthus on the team's warm-up jerseys, and a player said I'm not wearing that, how would the sports media world respond?  The columns would write themselves.  "How DARE a team push religion!"  Plus a plethora of laudatory prose on behalf of the player's heroic stance, never mind that the brave atheist cliché grew stale sometime around 1967.

The Editor says...
Why is "pride night" necessary if there is a "pride month" later in the year?  Why is it necessary to acknowledge either one?  Why do sports teams have to promote passing fads that most of their audiences probably abhor?

Flyers' Ivan Provorov skips warmups over refusal to wear Pride Night jersey.  Flyers defenseman Ivan Provorov did not participate in warmups before the team's home game against the Ducks on Tuesday night because he refused to wear a Pride Night jersey and use sticks wrapped in rainbow Pride tape.  Provorov, who said he is Russian Orthodox, cited his religious beliefs as why he chose not to partake in the warm-ups.  [Tweet]  "I respect everybody.  I respect everybody's choices," Provorov told reporters after the game, declining to get into any further detail.  "My choice is to stay true to myself and my religion."  The Flyers released a statement on the matter but did not mention Provorov by name.  "The Philadelphia Flyers organization is committed to inclusivity and is proud to support the local LGBTQ+ community," the statement said.

NHL Backs Down After Gov. Ron DeSantis's Office Calls Out 'Discriminatory' Job Fair.  The National Hockey League (NHL) has backtracked on the participation requirements of a job fair it is hosting in Florida after Gov. Ron DeSantis's office slammed the event as "discriminatory."  The league is set to host the "Pathway to Hockey Summit" job fair event on February 2 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where the NHL All-Star Game will take place two days later in nearby Sunrise, Florida.  However, one week ago, the league shared a now-deleted LinkedIn post promoting the event but specified participation was only open to certain groups of people.

DeSantis Admin Demands NHL Remove 'Discriminatory Prohibitions' from Minority-Only Hockey Summit.  The National Hockey League is hosting an upcoming conference for "diverse" job-seekers looking to pursue careers in the sport that is open only to racial and gender minorities.  On February 2 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the NHL — a professional association composed of 32 teams in the United States and Canada — will hold a new diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiative called the Pathway to Hockey Summit.  The event is exclusive to female, black, Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic/Latino, Indigenous, LGBTQIA+, and/or disabled registrants.  In a separate line on the advertisement, the NFL writes, "Veterans are also welcome and encouraged to attend."

Judge Approves Lawsuit by Ex-Virginia Tech Soccer Player Allegedly Benched for Refusing to Kneel During National Anthem.  A former Virginia Tech soccer player who says she was benched for refusing to take a knee during the national anthem has been given to go-ahead to sue the school for violations of her freedom of speech.  U.S. District Judge Thomas T. Cullen gave former Hokies midfielder Kiersten Hening the OK to sue coach Charles Aidair on First Amendment grounds after Hening says the coach benched her for refusing to join in with the team's kneeling in 2020 as a "unity statement."

'I feel gay', FIFA chief attempts to empathise with marginalised.  FIFA President Gianni Infantino raised eyebrows on Saturday when he attempted to show empathy with marginalised groups by telling reporters in Qatar 'I feel gay ... I feel like a migrant worker'.  Infantino opened the traditional pre-World Cup news conference on Saturday with a lengthy monologue lambasting the critics of Qatar hosting the tournament because of the country's human rights record.

USA make a statement at the World Cup in Qatar.  The United States' men's national team have made a huge statement at the World Cup in Qatar by redesigning their crest to incorporate the rainbow flag, in a bid to show solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community.  The tournament, which starts on Sunday and sees the US play their opener against Wales on Monday, has been hugely controversial in its build-up, given Qatar's human rights record and attitude to homosexuality.  As recently as this month, a Qatar World Cup ambassador told a German TV broadcaster that homosexuality was 'damage to the mind', and it remains illegal to be gay in the conservative Muslim country.

Woke Sports — Why Do We Still Watch?  The slippery slope wins again — the Disease of Wokeness is consuming sports top to bottom. [...] Canadian broadcasts are unwatchable, though admittedly I still tune in occasionally.  It's always with a measure of penance.  First, I'm treated to the Indigenous Land Acknowledgement, where I'm told I'm a horrible person and I live on stolen land.  It used to be one sentence.  Lately it's part of an extended ceremony.  Finally — blessedly — the game starts, but the lecturing is by no means over.  White Man Bad incidents are a regular feature.

So Long as Fans Acquiesce, Very Little Will Change.  The National Hockey League (NHL) recently joined the "woke train" after an internal review found that the league was "too white."  By "going woke," the NHL joined the NFL and the NBA, both of which continue to unapologetically promote woke, anti-American policies, as described here, here, and here.  Unfortunately, these professional leagues, and others like them, will continue to engage in such conduct because fans are enabling them to do so. [...] It goes without saying that, without punishment (primarily in the form of lost revenues), there is nothing compelling these leagues to slow down, stop, or reverse course.  If people continue to watch/attend games, purchase league merchandise, and/or otherwise support the various leagues, the leagues will continue to push forward, and other businesses/companies will follow their lead.  It is not enough for Americans to voice their discontent with the various policies and practices.  Rather, they should stop watching the games, buying merchandise, and supporting the players.  Only then will the various leagues learn that decisions have consequences.

Why the left went after sports.  The Cleveland Indians are the most exciting team in baseball.  They have 10 rookies on their 26-man roster.  Six others were rookies last year.  They play small ball and win.  They are managed by Tito Francona Jr., a grandpa who led the Boston Red Sox in 2004 to their first World Series championship in 86 years.  Fans in Cleveland shun the Cleveland Indians this year.  That's because the team is not the Cleveland Indians.  Management caved in to Woke Know Nothings and changed the name to Guardians this year.  Attendance was 25th among the 30 major league teams. [...] Clevelanders shun the team because it is not the Indians.  It is the Guardians, named for four stone carvings on a bridge near the ballpark.  The name change came because the left deigned naming a team the Indians to be an insult to Indians. [...] Why do left propagandists screw around with team names?  For the same reason they get players to kneel.  They want to undermine the social fabric that draws people together rich and poor, young and old, black and white, East Side-West Side.

NBA Will Not Schedule Games on Election Day.  The NBA will not be scheduling any games on the midterm election day, but all 30 teams will play the night before on November 7, the Associated Press stated.  The league looks to use this as an opportunity to encourage its fans to get out and vote to "amplify the need for civic engagement."

The Editor says...
It doesn't take all day to vote.  The polls are open for twelve hours on Election Day.  Anybody who really wants to vote can do so.

Christian female soccer player chooses to sit out match rather than wear LGBT jersey.  A professional female soccer player chose to boycott a recent game instead of wearing an LGBT pride jersey.  Jaelene Daniels, a defender for the North Carolina Courage team, chose to sit out during a July 29 National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) game rather than don the "Pride" jersey her team was scheduled to wear.

Jaelene Daniels is forced out of North Carolina Courage's game against Washington Spirit after refusing to wear a Pride jersey.  Jaelene Daniels refused to play for North Carolina Courage in the NWSL game against Washington Spirit on Friday because her team were wearing a Pride jersey.  The Courage held its first ever Pride Night on Friday around the game but a spokesperson for the team told WRAL-TV in North Carolina that the 29-year-old Daniels, a devout Christian, had chosen not to participate.  'Jaelene will not be rostered tonight as she has made the decision to not wear our Pride jersey,' the spokesperson said.  'While we're disappointed with her choice, we respect her right to make that decision for herself.

Australian Rugby Players Revolt After Being Told to Wear Gay Pride Jersey.  Up to seven players from the Manly rugby league club in Sydney, Australia, are threatening to boycott their match Thursday after a decision was made without consultation for them to wear a gay pride jersey in the fixture.  Management of the Sea Eagles, as they are known, announced on Sunday night [7/24/2022] players would wear an LGBTQIA+ jersey for the match, with a rainbow design replacing the strip's traditional white hoops.  That decision has caused unrest among some players unhappy they were not consulted by club management, ABC News Australia reports.

Conservatives need to stop supporting people who hate them.  In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood, the corporate and entertainment world have joined the pro-abortion chorus in denouncing the decision, the Court, and the pro-life movement.  Their reaction has been swift and predictable. [...] Not to be outdone, the NBA and WNBA released a statement saying in part:  "We stand in solidarity with those who fear for the repercussions of the Supreme Court decision."  NBA star LeBron James, who plays nice with the Chinese Communist Party, says the Dobbs decision is about "power and control."  Megan Rapinoe of the U.S. national soccer team described the decision as "cruelty."  Former Tennis star Billie Jean King said, "It is a sad day in the United States."

Sports Illustrated says SCOTUS ruling for praying coach 'erodes democracy'.  Sports Illustrated is taking heavy fire over a tweet suggesting that a Supreme Court ruling in favor of a former high school football coach who was fired for kneeling in silent prayer after games would be a blow against democracy, the latest example of the sad decay of a magazine that was once an American institution before it became a propaganda vehicle for radical leftist ideology.  The nation's highest court will decide the case of Joe Kennedy, a retired USMC gunnery sergeant and combat veteran who in 2015 was fired by the Bremerton School District in Washington State for honoring God at the 50-yard-line at the completion of games.  He was unceremoniously dumped from his job after refusing to obey orders to cease and desist resulting in a long legal battle that has made its way to the SCOTUS.  SI, which has celebrated cop-hating, anti-American heel Colin Kaepernick as its sportsperson of the year and specializes in evangelizing for the "woke" left, has a serious problem with the bedrock principle of religious freedom guaranteed by the Constitution and decried a ruling in Kennedy's favor as a danger to "democracy" — a term that has been hijacked by power-drunk Democrats and the cultural revolutionary left.

Washington Commanders coach fined $100,000 after calling Jan. 6 a 'dust-up'.  Washington Commanders defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio was hit with a $100,000 fine Friday for calling the Jan. 6 Capitol riot a "dust-up."  Commanders head coach Ron Rivera made the announcement in a statement posted to social media.  "This morning I met with Coach Del Rio to express how disappointed I am in his comments on Wednesday," the statement said.  "His comments do not reflect the organization's views and are extremely hurtful to our great community here in the DMV.  As we saw last night in the hearings, what happened on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 was an act of domestic terrorism.  A group of citizens attempted to overturn the results of a free and fair election, and as a result, lives were lost and the Capitol building was damaged."

The Editor says...
Almost every aspect of Mr. Rivera's statement is either untrue or misleading.  There was no "free and fair election."  The 2020 presidential election was stolen, and the proceeds given to Joe Biden, who is just venal enough to accept the position to which he knows he was not genuinely elected.  There was no "domestic terrorism," except on the part of the FBI agitators placed in the otherwise harmless crowd.  The televised circus last night proved no such thing.  Why do football teams have political positions, anyway?

Coach's comments deal another blow to Commanders reputation.  The NFL's Washington Commanders once again find themselves at the center of an off-the-field issue that has nothing to do with football, dealing another blow to their rapidly sagging reputation as one of the most dysfunctional franchises in professional sports.  The fallout from the latest misstep requiring an explanation or apology — assistant coach Jack Del Rio comparing the protests in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol — could have far-reaching consequences beyond the locker room.  It immediately scuttled the team's best opportunity to reach a deal to build a new stadium, which was the most important long-term project facing owner Dan Snyder amid a lengthy drought without a playoff victory and a dearth of fan enthusiasm.

The NFL fines a Redskins coach for failing to take January 6 seriously.  Jack Del Rio, the defensive coordinator for the Washington Redskins (and yes, I'm deadnaming a football team originally named to honor the Native American fighting spirit), very politely suggested that, if the Democrats are going to get hysterical about January 6, they also need to take seriously the summer of BLM riots.  For his temerity in failing to respect Saint George Floyd, the drug-addicted ex-con, and not taking sufficiently seriously the worst day in American history since Southerners fired on Fort Sumter in 1861, the Redskin's head coach fined him $100,000.  It all started when Del Rio tweeted out that he cannot understand why so much attention is being paid to January 6, a day of minimal destruction and only one death (at the hands of a Capitol police office), and so little to the BLM riots, which caused dozens of death and billions of dollars of damage across America:  [Tweet]  In a subsequent press conference, Del Rio doubled down on his query, stating it calmly and respectfully, while reminding assembled reporters that free speech is an American right.

Commanders NFL Coach Fines Assistant $100K Over 'Dust up' Remarks, Comparison of BLM Riots and Jan. 6.  [Scroll down]  Unfortunately, as we have seen happen time and again in these high-profile situations, Jack Del Rio decided he had better bend the knee, take his lumps — and keep his high-paying job.  Later on in the day, he made his mea culpa through an obviously forced press release, via social media:  [Tweet]  On Friday, the coach of the Commanders, Ron Rivera released his own statement — not only highlighting his employee's apparent failure as a good enough soldier for the left's narrative du jour about what happened on January 6 in D.C. — but fining Del Rio $100,000, to boot.  When this is the obvious result of apologizing to the mob, I can't feel much sympathy for Del Rio.  He made his own bed.

Baseball players attacked for not wearing 'Pride Night' special uniforms.  [The Tampa Bay Rays] recently decided to engage in a little shameless virtue signaling by literally wearing their support for the LGBTQIIA+ Community on their sleeves. [...] Rays' president Matt Silverman stated, "Our Pride Nights continue to grow both in terms of visibility and participation.  By doing this, we extend an invitation not just for this game but for all of our games that the LGBTQ+ community is invited, welcomed, and celebrated." Apparently, heterosexual Christians need not apply, so to speak.  However, not every Rays player was eager to be used in this manner.  The Times reported that at least five members of the squad removed the rainbow burst logos from their jersey sleeves and donned the team's standard cap instead of the Pride cap sporting a rainbow-colored "TB" on the front.

At least five Tampa Bay Rays players refuse to wear uniforms with LGBTQ rainbow logos for Pride month.  A number of Tampa Bay Rays players decided not to wear rainbow-colored logos on their uniforms as part of the team's annual 'Pride Night' on Saturday [6/4/2022].  In the buildup to Saturday's MLB game against the Chicago White Sox, which also marked the franchise's annual 16th Pride Night celebration, the Rays added rainbow-colored logos to their uniforms, caps and on the right sleeve of their shirts.  'Our Pride Nights continue to grow both in terms of visibility and participation,' Rays president Matt Silverman told the Tampa Bay Times.  'By doing this, we extend an invitation not just for this game but for all of our games that the LGBTQ+ community is invited, welcomed and celebrated.'

The Editor says...
Homosexuality is nothing to celebrate.  Neither is pride.

Milwaukee Brewers to Host Drag Queen Night.  It's Pride Month again, and that means corporations all over are busy virtue-signaling.  In Milwaukee, the Brewers baseball team is getting into the spirit of the season by hosting Pride Night next Wednesday at their ballpark, a place whose name has taken on a new irony:  American Family Field.  The family fun Wednesday will include at least four drag queens, and hey, if they already strut their stuff on a routine basis in public libraries and elementary schools (and even Taco Bell), featuring them at baseball games at this late date just shows how hidebound and conservative the Grand Old Game is.  The first thing that Pride Night (no word yet on when the Brewers are hosting Anger Night, or Lust Night, or Sloth Night) at American Travesty of the Family Field is about, of course, is making money.  Drag queens have never, to my knowledge, been big baseball fans, but now that we're all woke and love the LGBTQ alphabet soup, the Brewers are clearly hoping to attract a new fan base that, if it doesn't care anything about the game, can at least ogle the players.

NASCAR continues to abandon its customer base.  Last Sunday NASCAR held its All-Star Race at the Texas Motor Speedway.  There's a big NASCAR fan base in Texas.  If you go to the list of NASCAR tracks, you'll notice that the seating at the tracks is, on average, bigger in conservative states than in progressive states.  Thus, the Texas Motor Speedway seats 137,000 fans while the Watkins Glen International in New York seats 33,000 fans.  The biggest track, in Indiana, seats 257,325 fans, while the track in Portland, Oregon, holds only 30,000 fans.  It's not a perfect political alignment but it's plenty close.  NASCAR fans are male, older (over 45), White, and live in the rural South or Midwest.  Oh, and they're much more likely to be Republicans.  These are, on average, people like me who neither want to punish nor celebrate the LGBTQ+++ crowd and who support Texas's willingness to define as child abuse surgical and chemical "gender" treatments performed on children.  NASCAR, though, has been having a bit of a problem keeping fans.

'Woke' NASCAR Apologizes to LGBTQ Community After Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Waves Green Flag at Event.  NASCAR issued an apology Wednesday for "recent actions" that are "not aligned" with its mission after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) waved the green flag ahead of last week's All-Star Race at Texas Motor Speedway.  The world-famous auto racing and operating company, headquartered in Daytona Beach, Florida, marked the first day of LGBTQ+ "Pride Month" with a unique version of the pride flag along with a message apologizing for actions it deemed uncharacteristic of its mission.  "As we celebrate the LGBTQ+ community, we acknowledge that recent actions have not aligned with NASCAR's mission to be a welcoming sport for all," the company wrote.

The Editor says...
This is a huge marketing mistake on the part of NASCAR.  What percentage of NASCAR fans are homosexuals — particularly in Texas?  If I were to pick the nearest whole number, I'd select ZERO.

MLB's Detroit Tigers to funnel ticket sales to 'gender-affirming' procedures for kids.  The Detroit Tigers will send money to organizations that pay for so-called "gender-affirming surgeries" for minors and adults as part of its "Pride Night" game on Wednesday.  Fans who buy tickets for Wednesday's game can donate a portion of the proceeds to a number of LGBT organizations, including the Ruth Ellis Center, as first reported by National Review.

San Francisco Giants Manager Boycotting National Anthem Until He Feels Better About Direction Of America.  San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler told reporters prior to his team's Friday night game against the Cincinnati Reds that he will not be taking the field for the national anthem and will not be doing so until he feels better about the direction of the country in the wake of the Uvalde school shooting that occurred earlier this week.  Journalist Andrew Baggerly tweeted, "Gabe Kapler told reporters in Cincinnati that he doesn't plan on coming out for the national anthem and that will be his plan going forward 'until I feel better about the direction of our country.'"

Miami Heat blatantly politicize Texas tragedy.  Decent people — and organizations — do not politicize a tragedy.  They do not use a tragedy to further their own aims or agenda.  Nor do they take advantage of a calamity in a blatant, public attempt at virtue-signaling.  There is no virtue in that.  Prior to Wednesday night's NBA playoff game between the Miami Heat and the Boston Celtics, the stadium announcer stated:  "The Heat organization, the Boston Celtics and the NBA family also mourn those who lost their lives in the senseless shooting that took place yesterday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas." [...] A moment of silence was then observed for the 19 children and two teachers who were slaughtered by an apparently mentally ill 18-year-old named Salvador Ramos.  And then the Heat broadcast the following announcement:  "The Heat urges you to contact your state senators by calling 202-224-3121 to leave a message demanding their support for commonsense gun laws.  You can also make change at the ballot box.  Visit Heat.com/vote to register and let your voice be heard this fall."  This is unprecedented and deeply disturbing.  So now major league professional sports teams are going to urge fans attending games to contact their representatives to lobby for or against specific causes, policies and bills in a manner that fits their political agenda?

MLB teams go political over gun control on social media accounts.  Two Major League Baseball teams announced a collaboration on Thursday to use their social media accounts to post facts about gun violence instead of posting updates from their game.  The New York Yankees and the Tampa Bay Rays cited recent mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde. [...] The Tampa Bay Rays donated $50,000 to Everytown for Gun Safety, billionaire Michael Bloomberg's pet project promoting gun control. [...] The teams shared gun violence statistics on their Twitter and Instagram accounts.  Sorry, legit baseball fans looking to catch the score.  You're being lectured by baseball teams on the evils of gun ownership.

Activist Who Renounced US Citizenship Knocked Out of French Open in First Round.  Naomi Osaka, the leftwing activist and former tennis champion who renounced her American citizenship to represent Japan at the Tokyo Olympics, suffered an embarrassing loss in the first round of the French Open on Monday.  New Jersey native Amanda Anisimova, 20, defeated the four-time Grand Slam winner 7-5, 6-4 at Roland Garros.  Osaka, 23, said following the match that she didn't know if she would be "motivated" enough to take part in next month's Wimbledon tournament.  "I'm not 100 percent sure if I'm going to go [to Wimbledon]," Osaka said.

Muslim soccer player refuses to wear rainbow jersey backing LBGTQ, sits out game — now leftists smell blood: 'Homophobia is not an opinion but a crime'.  Idrissa Gueye — a Muslim soccer player for French team Paris Saint-Germain — refused to wear a jersey adorned with rainbow-colored numbers in support of an LBGTQ agenda and sat out his team's 4-0 Saturday win against Montpellier, the Daily Mail reported.  Now, one activist group wants an investigation, and others want Gueye punished.  The Daily Mail said players across France wore the special jerseys over the weekend in solidarity with the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia, which takes place Tuesday [5/17/2022].  Gueye's manager Mauricio Pochettino said the player's absence from the match was for "personal reasons, but he is not injured," the outlet added.

America-Hating WNBA Player Brittney Griner's Russian Nightmare Goes From Bad To Worse.  Brittney Griner had been one of the premier players in the WNBA.  She is undeniably a blessed athlete, standing at 6'9" tall with remarkable coordination and agility for such a large athlete.  She's an Olympic gold medalist, a league champion, and has received scores of individual awards honoring her athletic achievements.  And along with those physical blessings have come financial rewards as well, with Griner reportedly worth in excess of $3 million.  One might assume that someone like Brittney Griner would have been grateful for her gifts.  For her natural size and abilities.  For her good fortune in being able to stay healthy despite a rigorous athletic schedule.  And considering that Griner is both gay and a racial minority, we certainly might expect Griner to have been thankful for being an American and living in a country that provides unequaled opportunity and tolerance.  But that wasn't the case.

Megan Rapinoe Hardest Hit as Finger-Pointing Begins After 'Subway' Releases Dismal 2021 Numbers.  Women's soccer star Megan Rapinoe is in the news again, and this time around the story doesn't involve any goals she's hit or missed (though the NWSL's 2022 regular season started Friday) or any complaints from her about alleged gender pay gap issues but rather the finger-pointing that has begun in her direction after public filings from the Subway fast-food franchise revealed some pretty dismal 2021 numbers.  Per the New York Post, Subway had to close "1,043 more outlets across the US than it opened in 2021," which diminished "Subway's total footprint by nearly five percent."  It lost more in 2020 (1,609), presumably in part due to the coronavirus pandemic.  But as for what's at the root of the 2021 closures, there are a number of issues potentially to blame, including "tougher" efforts from the company's CEO to get locations stay open more days during the week and work more hours to cover all meal shifts, and also how some customers turned their backs on Subway after they ran several ads in 2021 featuring Rapinoe, a prominent woketivist known for kneeling during the national anthem and being a lousy spokesperson for "women's equality."

Woke Company Still Suffering After Featuring Angry, Far-Left Megan Rapinoe In Ads.  I don't really know anyone that eats at Subway anymore — it offers stale bread, tasteless lunch meats, and soggy vegetables.  At least back in the day you could get full for $5, but even now a basic sub runs almost double that.  The sinister Covid lockdowns didn't do much for Subway's business, either.  Of course, no analysis of Subway's futile decline would be complete without accounting for their hair-brained hiring of pink-haired ingrate Megan Rapinoe. [...] Megan Rapinoe is tanking the Subway brand, but her embarrassments don't stop there.  Just a few months ago, she was snubbed by her coach and program, being left off the next internationally-competing squad.  The thirty-eight-year-old self-centered brat is closing in on the tail end of her career, and not a moment too soon.

ESPN Host Goes On EPIC Rant, Torches Colin Kaepernick For Four Whole Minutes.  Stephen A. Smith is someone with whom sane people rarely agree.  He is loud, obnoxious, and intentionally controversial.  Rational dialogue doesn't get clicks, and credit to him for carving out a niche where people love to hate him.  I mean, I don't know who can stand watching him and he's absolutely part of the corporate media problem, but he gets paid by ESPN for doing his schtick, so there's that.  The free market works.  On the subject of the enslaved millionaire Colin Kaepernick, ingratitude personified, Smith has had some of the worst takes. [...] Somehow, though, this raving leftist lunatic saw the light.  It was dimmed, because he still threw in hackneyed lines about Kaepernick getting screwed over and the system being rigged, but overall, his rant is on point.  Credit where credit is due, this guy nailed what we've been saying for years.

Colin Kaepernick reveals he's desperate to return to NFL.  Colin Kaepernick has claimed his decision to take the knee during the national anthem was good for the NFL's bottom line.  Speaking in a newly-released interview, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback also took issue with claims made by league executives that re-hiring him would be 'bad for business'.

NY Hockey Fans Show Their Gov Hochul What They Think Of Her By Booing Her Mercilessly.  Gov. Kathy Hochul was met with loud jeers as she donned a New York Rangers jersey for the ceremonial puck drop before the team's Tuesday night home game against the Anaheim Ducks.  The chorus of jeers rang down from the rafters as Hochul walked to center ice to kick off the game and she was introduced over the PA.  The state's first female governor was honored as part of "Women's Empowerment Night" at the Garden, announcers told fans over the loudspeaker, according to footage shared to social media.  [Video clip]

The Editor says...
[#1] Is it no longer possible to attend a hockey game without having to listen to a political speech delivered by the PA announcer?  [#2] Politicians attend events like this for their benefit, not yours.  There are very few cases where this is not necessarily true, and the only one that comes to mind is the long-standing tradition of the President of the United States throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at the beginning of the baseball season.

MLB players who refused COVID shot won't get paid for missed games in Canada: report.  Major League Baseball (MLB) players who have chosen not to take one of the abortion-tainted COVID shots will likely not get paid for missed games due to Canada's vaccine passport system.  The latest collective bargaining agreement reportedly does not protect players who cannot travel to play the Toronto Blue Jays due to Canada's restriction on visitors who have declined to get jabbed.  The MLB season starts April 7.

Brittney Griner Hates America and Deserves to Languish in a Russian Prison.  Despite allegedly happening a few weeks ago, news is now circulating that WNBA standout Brittney Griner is being detained in Russia for the reported crime of traveling with hashish oil.  The charge comes with a possible sentence of up to ten years in prison. [...] In the summer of 2020, following the drug overdose by George Floyd, Griner explained that she would be protesting the playing of the national anthem before games by remaining in the locker room.  She went on to say that:  "I honestly feel we should not play the national anthem during our season.  I think we should take that much of a stand."  Before that, Griner felt called to social activism when Republican-led states sought to restrict male pedophiles from entering women's restrooms.  Desite her young age and limited impact anywhere, one article even promoted her to one of the "most influential social activists" in sports history because of it.

Toyota Ad Says Kaepernick Anthem Protest Was 'Sign of Respect to the Military'.  A new Toyota commercial featuring Colin Kaepernick claims the former NFL quarterback's controversial national anthem protest was a "sign of respect to the military."  The ad, which aired Friday morning on Howard University's radio station, says Kaepernick's decision to go "on one knee" during the national anthem "came as a sign of respect to the military" and "changed the world."  The commercial also calls Kaepernick a "two-time Super Bowl quarterback," which is false.  Kaepernick appeared in one Super Bowl, a 34-31 loss to the Baltimore Ravens.

Woke Soccer Player Megan Rapinoe Left Off U.S. Women's Team Roster.  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.

As the Racing Season Opens, NASCAR Finds Itself With Some Political Engine Trouble.  [Scroll down]  There is a difference, however, between the political actions with NASCAR, and those seen in recent years in other sports, as the energy behind the issues seems to be flowing in the opposite direction.  Unlike, say, in the NFL with national anthem protests, or the NBA going all-in with Black Lives Matter activism, NASCAR has repeatedly been in the position of having to act against the intents of its fan base, rather than attempting to foist a message onto those watching the sport.  The governors have repeatedly taken action seemingly in an effort to appease those outside the sport — and in opposition to those who support racing.  It began years ago, when the sport's offices put out a message imploring fans to refrain from flying the Confederate flag at NASCAR events.

Brandon Brown signs '8-figure' LGBcoin sponsorship despite NASCAR ban.  [Brandon Brown, the] NASCAR Xfinity series driver has inked a two-year sponsorship deal worth with the cryptocurrency worth a reported "eight figures," even though he has been banned from advertising it on his race car.  The exact dollar amount of the deal was not announced, but LGBcoin said Brown is now a "holder" of the currency and his spokesperson confirmed to FOX Business that he is being paid in "both cash and coin."

NASCAR driver reverses stance on 'Let's go, Brandon'.  NASCAR driver Brandon Brown has turned a corner and decided to completely and outwardly embrace the political slogan inadvertently inspired by his namesake, "Let's go, Brandon" after previously trying to distance himself from the phrase.  The 28-year-old racecar driver unveiled a new racecar that uses the popular acronym for the phrase, "LBG," [sic] as part of a cryptocurrency promotion for LBGCoin [sic] which promotes itself on Twitter as a "meme coin inspiring patriotism."

The Editor says...
It's LGBcoin, not LBGcoin.  I suppose LGBTcoin is something else altogether.

Xfinity Driver Brandon Brown Unveils Anti-Biden-Themed Cryptocurrency As 2022 Partner.  NASCAR Xfinity driver Brandon Brown tweeted that he has a primary partner for the 2022 season — LGBCoin, a "cryptocurrency meme coin" whose first three letters stand for "Let's Go Brandon."  However, NASCAR has not approved it nor has the approval process begun as of Thursday evening despite Brandonbilt Motorsports' announcement.  "We are thrilled to partner with Brandonbilt Motorsports and Brandon Brown for the 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series season," said James Koutoulas, LGBcoin HODLer and founder of Typhoon Capital Management, in a news release.  "Brandon is not only an incredibly talented driver, but also a thoughtful individual wise beyond his years.  His commitment and singular focus on his profession is inspiring and his personal story is one that we can all be proud of — an American story of success and perseverance.  Brandon is truly America's Driver."

NASCAR Caves! 'Let's Go Brandon' Race Car Put on Hold.  As Joe Biden's popularity and approval rating continue to fall, the popularity of the "Let's Go Brandon" slogan continues to rise.  However, NASCAR driver Brandon Brown was told by NASCAR authorities that his "Let's Go Brandon"-sponsored car will have to be re-evaluated.  Is NASCAR caving to the left?  [Video clip]

NASCAR is throwing away one of the best marketing opportunities in its history.
NASCAR rejects Brandon Brown's 'Let's go, Brandon'-themed car.  NASCAR has officially rejected Brandon Brown's "Let's Go Brandon" sponsorship deal.  According to multiple news reports, the auto-racing giant told Mr. Brown's team that cryptocurrency firm LGBCoin cannot sponsor his car.  The company's first three letters are an allusion to "Let's Go, Brandon," the coded form of a vulgar insult of President Biden.

Does NASCAR have a death wish?  A pair of reports yesterday lead me to question the sanity of the management of NASCAR, the privately held giant of the sport of stock car racing.  While I am far from an expert on auto racing, and have never been to a NASCAR race, I have a rough idea of who attends their races and what the political preferences of the fans are. [...] The entire "Let's go Brandon" craze began at a NASCAR track when an NBC reporter pretended the crowd chanting "F--- Joe Biden" were instead chanting "Let's go Brandon," in celebration of the victory of Brandon Brown, whom she was interviewing live on-air.  So, we have pretty good idea that NASCAR fans tend to be political conservatives.  If the sport's Southern origins and male, blue collar atmosphere were not clues enough.

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Linguistic Weaponry and the Rhetorical Mechanics of "Let's Go Brandon!"  For those who are unfamiliar with the phrase, "Let's Go, Brandon!" has become a rallying cry for those opposed to Biden and his agenda.  Only a few months after the inauguration, as the nation sat in stunned awe of the new administration's remarkable ineptitude, crowds across the nation began impromptu chants of "[...] Joe Biden" at public events.  Personally, I use very little profanity and I still hold to the old idea that even if you can't respect a particular President, some respect is owed to the office.  But over the course of decades, the left has worked aggressively to normalize the practice of telling the President to [get lost] (when he isn't a Democrat).  Their victory was consolidated when Trump's ascendancy brought with it a 4-year tsunami of vulgarity from leftists of all stripes, bravely "speaking truth to power" by inexplicably telling others to do to Trump what Stormy Daniels did.  But only months after Trump's exit, leftists lamented the new norm they created:  they were aghast at Americans' lack of decorum in speaking of the President.  Wherever calls of "[...] Joe Biden" arose, there were efforts undertaken to distract from them, avoid broadcasting them, or otherwise silence them.  Then, in the aftermath of an October auto race, as the victor Brandon Brown was interviewed on a television broadcast, the crowd began the familiar chorus of "[...] Joe Biden."  In a predictable effort to redirect attention from Biden's failure to the matter at hand, the interviewer said "And you can hear the chants from the crowd: 'Let's Go, Brandon!"  In that moment, a meme was born.

The NFL is funding 'defund the police' groups.  The NFL funds groups that openly advocate for defunding the police.  Through the Inspire Change program, funded by the League, the NFL backs the Vera Institute of Justice, the Oregon Justice Resource Center, and the Community Justice Exchange.  Each of these support defunding or even abolishing police.  Fox Business uncovered that the NFL gave $300,000 to the Oregon Justice Resource Center, which has called for police defunding as well as other social justice measures. [...] The Vera Institute of Justice advocates for the abolishment of prisons, and for language changes to be put into effect in order to not "dehumanize" criminals.

NFL funding 'defund the police' groups through 'Inspire Change' program.  The National Football League's "Inspire Change" partners, which receive financial backing from the multibillion-dollar league, include multiple groups that have openly advocated for defunding the police, a Fox News Digital review of the program found.  Groups who have received funds as part of "Inspire Change," the NFL's social justice initiative, include the Vera Institute of Justice, the Oregon Justice Resource Center and the Community Justice Exchange.  All three of those groups support defunding or abolishing the police, a review of their public statements shows.  While the NFL's general support of social justice causes is widely known, the fact that the league is propping up groups trying to defund police departments has not been previously reported.

A Brief Guide to Leftist Destruction.  Until last year, sports was a great American unifier.  It was one place Americans could go and, leaving politics behind, Left and Right, Democrat and Republican could root for the same team.  No longer.  The Left has ruined it by radically politicizing baseball, football and basketball.

Perception is Not Reality.  Television ratings for sports, cable news, entertainment and children's programming are all nose-diving in direct proportion to the amount of agenda-driven ideology being pumped into the content.  No amount of denial, self-deception or spin among the left can change the fact that the public wholly rejects their nightmarish fever-visions for humanity.  What was once a subtle and nuanced bias in the media has become a sledgehammer of over-the-top propaganda, and the viewers are voting with their wallets and TV remotes to reject such indoctrination tactics.

NBA coach compares Christopher Columbus to Hitler.  The coach of the San Antonio Spurs, Gregg Popovich, actually compared Christopher Columbus to Hitler today in a manner of speaking as he was trashing schools in San Antonio for not getting rid of the holiday altogether:  As Popovich expressed dismay that any school in his city would honor Christopher Columbus at all, he also dismissed his anti-Columbus hate as an attack on Italian Americans:  "It's no knock on Italian Americans.  That's a silly argument.  It's like saying, 'We should be proud of Hitler because we are German.'  It makes no sense.  It's about Columbus.  It's not about Italian Americans."  Popovich calls Columbus a genocidal monster, when that's the furthest thing from the truth.

College Football and the NFL: Two Different Americas.  Football is back — and so are the fans.  America no longer sees empty stadiums on TV, as people return to watching the games in person.  But Americans will notice sharp differences between college and professional football, and it's not just the skill of their players.  The pros seem to embrace Biden's New America, while college ball still evokes the old America.  The pros embrace social justice messages, while college ball steers clear.  Unlike other pro leagues, the NFL decided to carry on wokeness for the 2021 season.  The NBA famously painted Black Lives Matter on its courts and encouraged players to turn their jerseys into social justice billboards.  The basketball league suffered a ratings decline and consequently decided it would be unwise to continue this practice.  The NFL also saw its ratings drop, but league officials wouldn't let that get in the way of their BLM advocacy.

The Editor says...
If you watch a football game on TV, and the game is about to start, and some BLM ceremony breaks out, the so-called Black National Anthem is played, or some other repugnant insult is hurled your way, don't just turn the sound off.  Switch to another TV channel for a few minutes.  If your "smart" TV is connected to the internet, and it probably is, this will send a clear message to the Nielsen ratings people (and thus to the networks) that you won't put up with that stuff.

NFL will allow social justice phrases on helmets this season.  The NFL will allow players to choose from six different social justice phrases to wear on the back of their helmets for the 2021 season as the league re-ups its efforts in their Inspire Change initiative.  The league also said teams will be allowed to have the phrases "It Takes All of Us" and "End Racism" emblazoned in their end zones.

New Texas Law Requires Pro Teams In The State To Repay Money If They Don't Play The National Anthem.  Pro sports teams in Texas refusing to play the national anthem will be making a very expensive decision.  According to Outkick, a new Texas law took effect September 1 that requires all pro sports teams to play the national anthem or repay any government money received.  [Tweet]  Seeing as how most pro sports arenas are at least publicly funded in part, teams that refuse to play the national anthem could be on the hook for an outrageous amount of money.  For those of you who might not remember, Mavericks owner Mark Cuban tried to stop his team from playing the national anthem and his choice caused massive backlash.

Biden Takes a Knee During Photo-Op With WNBA Champions.  The WNBA champions apparently do have time for losers.  Even as thousands of Americans have been left stranded in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, the Seattle Storm came to the White House for a photo-op with Joe Biden to celebrate their victory.  The Storm are the first NBA or WNBA team to visit the White House since the Cleveland Cavaliers came in 2016.  But their return to the White House came with an awkward, cringeworthy moment, when Biden, during a photo-op, bizarrely kneeled in front of the team as he showed off a jersey that read "Biden 46"

Time to Convert to Soccer?  A lifelong baseball fan, I abandoned the game this year after MLB sided with the Democratic Party in its campaign against ballot integrity in Georgia.  It wasn't just that: my home town team has put a "Black Lives Matter" sign and a memorial to George Floyd in right field.  If I can't escape politics at a baseball game, I'd rather go somewhere else.  For the first time in decades, I haven't seen a major league baseball game this year.  Not only that, I haven't watched or listened to a single pitch on radio or television.

Losers, in more ways than one.
U.S. Women's Soccer Team Takes Stunning Loss After Kneeling For BLM At Olympic Opener.  The U.S. women's soccer team took a devastating 3-0 loss to Sweden early Wednesday morning in their Tokyo Olympic opener, breaking their 44-game winning streak.  All 22 players on Team USA took a knee in solidarity with the radical leftist group Black Lives Matter before the game, a major point of contention with U.S. fans.

Joe Biden's Misery Index Rises.  [Scroll down]  Other highlights in this week of continuing political disappointment include [...] the news that the National Football League will play what is generally regarded as the African-American anthem "Lift Every Voice" prior to the national anthem at their games this year, and have "social justice messaging" interspersed among other diversions at the games and on the players' outfits.  If one looks hard enough, the social justice of an NFL game is probably not found in the affront to the U.S. flag and anthem of obscenely overpaid athletes milking their natural gifts through 20-hour week/seven-month work years.  Instead of rolling over like poodles, the NFL owners should have contracted the league, expelled the most demonstrative malcontents, and chucked the invertebrate commissioner, Roger Goodell.  If they had done that and asked the fans for support they would have received it, and the anti-American players would have straggled back eventually.  At least, unlike the National Basketball Association, they haven't yet been suborned by the Communist Party of China.

NFL launches new ad proclaiming 'football is gay, football is lesbian...'  The National Football League (NFL) recently joined virtually every other American institution in lauding — and marketing to — the LGBTQ Community during Pride Month in June.  It did so by releasing a new 30-second commercial proudly proclaiming that "football is gay, lesbian, queer, transgender, bisexual and exciting."  The ad begins by stating "football is gay" to the sound of drums rolling and people cheering. [...] "Football" is pandering.  Football is pathetic.  Football will say or do anything to chase down the very last potential viewer/customer.  I'm surprised the ad didn't also state, "Football is Chinese."

NFL 'will play the black national anthem 'Lift Ev'ry Voice And Sing' before the Star Spangled Banner at its 2021 season games'.  The NFL plans to play the 'black national anthem' before every game in the first week of the 2021 season, according to a new report.  Lift Ev'ry Voice And Sing, will be performed before The Star-Spangled Banner to kick off each game in Week 1, beginning with the September 10 season opener when the Kansas City Chiefs host the Houston Texans.  A source familiar with the league's discussions confirmed the controversial change to ESPN's The Undefeated on Thursday.

Report: The NFL Will Have More Social Justice Messaging During The 2021 Season.  The NFL reportedly plans on ramping up social justice messaging during the upcoming season.  According to Front Office Sports, the league "will introduce more social justice messaging on fields and player helmets during the upcoming 2021 season, following up on initial efforts from 2020."

MLB All-Star Game Limps to Second Lowest Ratings in History.  Any Guesses Why?  Go woke, go broke.  Major League Baseball is learning the hard way that catering to the far left isn't remotely helping their desperate attempts to resurrect what once was America's proud pastime.  MLB's All-Star Game, played Tuesday night [7/13/2021], predictably tanked in the Nielsen ratings, delivering the second-lowest official total in the sport's history.  According to The Hollywood Reporter, the game narrowly avoided "a third straight all-time audience low" with 8.24 million viewers, "about 100,000 more than the 2019 game's 8.14 million."  Except, it's quite possible that this could indeed be the game's lowest ever viewership.  Why?  According to THP, "It's also worth noting that the Nielsen figures for Tuesday include out of home viewing and 2019's do not."  Ouch!

Get Ready for the Wokest Olympics Ever!  [Scroll down]  Those earlier athletes never took a knee during the National Anthem.  They were Americans first and always.  Finally, when those athletes took to the field, they understood that fans came to watch a sporting event, not a protest.  When it came time to play, they let their talent do the talking.  That concept is lost on the modern day woke activist-athlete and the enablers in social and sports media.  Today, you don't even have to be that good to get noticed, so long as you openly align yourself with a cause supported by the political left.  It's often difficult to understand even what the cause is, as many of woke can only speak in platitudes.

Most Black People Oppose Olympic Protests Like Gwen Berry's:  I&I/TIPP Poll.  When hammer thrower Gwen Berry decided to protest the national anthem at an Olympic trials event last month, she raised the prospect that athletes will try to use the Tokyo Olympics to disparage their own nation.  If they do so, they will get precious little support at home.  The latest I&I/TIPP poll finds that the public overwhelmingly rejects athletes showing disrespect for the American flag at international games.  The poll found that 79% of the public say it's important "for professional athletes to publicly respect the American flag on the international level," with 60% saying it is "very important."  Just 16% of the adults surveyed think it's not important.

How Barack Obama Begot Gwen Berry.  "I never said that I hated the country," said Gwen Berry, the world's most famous hammer thrower — male, female or non-binary.  "All I said was I respect my people enough to not stand or acknowledge something that disrespects them.  I love my people point blank, period."  Berry, who finished third in the female hammer throw at the U.S. track and field Olympic Trials, was attempting to explain why she turned her back on the National Anthem.  If her subversive pout appalled half of America, it surprised no one.  In the year 2021, sports fans have come to expect athletes, black and white, to disrespect symbols of national pride.  It didn't use to be this way.  When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, race relations were better than they had ever been.  As to athletic protests, it had been forty years since any Olympian grabbed the kind of attention Berry got.

I Shouldn't Be Forced Into Politics To Play College Sports.  "Black Lives Matter is not political, it's basic human rights," my coaching staff and teammates heading our new "Call to Action Committee" told me and the other team members after practice.  They were responding to some of the concerns I had expressed prior to the team meeting.  By the next game, while running out of the tunnel 10 of my 13 Davidson College teammates and all four of my coaches were wearing T-shirts with "Black Lives Matter" bannered across the front.  When the national anthem played and with our U.S. Army veteran team doctor behind us, most of my team dropped to one knee in protest of America's "institutional racism."  The virtue signaling was clear: those wearing the T-shirt and those on their knees supported basic human rights, and the rest of us simply did not.  Political messaging in sports isn't new, but the grip and scale this possesses over sports is.

Biden BACKS anthem tantrum athlete.  White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended hammer thrower Gwen Berry's right to 'peacefully protest,' after the Tokyo-bound athlete turned her back on the US flag during Olympic trials.  Psaki told Fox News' Peter Doocy at Monday's press briefing that while she and President Joe Biden hadn't spoken specifically about the incident, Biden is 'incredibly proud to be an American and has great respect for the anthem and all that it respresents, especially for our men and women serving in uniform all around the world.'  'He would also say, of course, that part of that pride in our country means recognizing there are moments where we are, as a country, haven't lived up to our highest ideals, and that means respecting the rights of people, granted to them in the Constitution, to peacefully protest,' Psaki added.

Psaki defends Gwen Berry's anti-America Olympic tantrum as right to peaceful protest.  As if the Biden administration couldn't sink any lower than it already has, in comes White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki to dig the hole deeper. [...] Is there any other leader on the face of the planet who endorses a position like that?  It almost suggests [Biden]'s not in the White House legitimately, given the contempt he holds for the flag of the nation he supposedly represents.  It's really incredible.  This is the man who sends men into battle and expects them to die for that flag.  Now he's defending an athlete who lived a cosseted existence yet who was able to develop her talents only courtesy of the United States of America, in self-centered ingratitude that insults every other American who has fought and died for the flag of her freedom and opportunity?  He doesn't care.  All he cares about is his own power by fair means or foul.  The country is optional to him.  So is the flag.

Gwen Berry, Flag-Snubbing US Track And Field Star, Defended By The White House.  White House press secretary Jen Psaki Monday defended U.S. track and field star Gwen Berry's decision to turn her back on the nation's flag, saying Berry was seeking to "peacefully protest" the moments that Americans "haven't lived up to our highest ideals."  Berry, 31, placed third over the weekend in the hammer throw during the U.S. Olympic trials, earning her a spot on the team.  As the National Anthem was played, she turned from the flag.

NFL says 'Football is gay' in new commercial that makes clear its support of LGBTQ+ community.  As Pride Month comes to a close, the NFL has released a new commercial that makes clear its support and embrace of the LGBTQ+ community.  The 30-second spot begins with the line, "Football is gay" as light cheering plays in the background.  "Football is lesbian.  Football is beautiful.  Football is queer.  Football is life.  Football is exciting.  Football is culture.  Football is transgender.  Football is queer.  Football is heart.  Football is power.  Football is tough.  Football is bisexual.  Football is strong.  Football is freedom.  Football is American.  Football is accepting.  Football is everything.  Football is for everyone."

'Pride' Night at the Old Ballpark.  Major League Baseball teams have been celebrating "Pride Month" via Pride Nights at ballparks across the Majors.  June is Pride Month, in case you've missed the hype.  Outdoing itself, the MLB is partying "all season long."  One wonders why there needs to be a month of any celebration.  Should October be refashioned as "Halloween Month?"  Is there an "Irish Month," which St. Patrick's Day is the capstone?  And why limit Groundhog Day to a day?  Yet gay pride is now LGBTQ+ (the plus is currently optional) pride because being homosexual isn't enough.  Every sexual variant not heterosexual and practiced by a tiny minority of people is to be granted a month's worth of recognition and celebration.  The Grand Old Game has no reprieve from being rainbowed.

Hate to break it to you, but Major League Baseball just got even worse.  Coming off the All-Star Game P.R. debacle, where they moved the game out of Atlanta, MLB is upping its radical chic several notches with its latest political advocacy.  On the anniversary of George Floyd's death, MLB highlighted its social justice initiatives, which are a series of suggested readings, video viewings, and social justice activities that it recommends people do.  Nothing like giving your customers a homework assignment.  And they wonder why people find baseball less fun these days.  As you can imagine, the suggestions they give are real humdingers.  For instance, they advise we read Dr. Ibrahim X Kendi.  Kendi is a totalitarian utopist who is popular on the P.C. lecture circuit.  He believes that capitalism is inherently racist and advocates for a Department of Anti-Racism.

Major League Baseball Team Becomes First in the League to Wear 'Pride' Uniforms.  Baseball just got brighter.  This Saturday, fans of the San Francisco Giants will get a multicolored treat to the tune of commemorative uniforms.  As hailed by NBC Chicago, the Giants will "become (the) first MLB team with Pride Month hats (and) jerseys."

Eugene Chung claims NFL team said he's 'not the right minority' in job interview.  NFL assistant coach Eugene Chung says he was told Asians are not the "right minority" when he interviewed for a job this past off-season.  Despite a resume that includes 55 games of experience as an NFL offensive tackle — the first Asian American first-round draft pick in history — and 10 seasons as an assistant coach under Super Bowl winners Andy Reid and Doug Pederson, Chung was turned away.  "It was said to me, 'Well, you're really not a minority,[']" Chung told The Boston Globe.  Chung is Korean, as are both of his parents.

Virginia Little League Coaches Must Attend 'Antiracist' Training.  Little League baseball coaches in Alexandria, Virginia, will be required to take a diversity, equity, and inclusion course this month.  In an email to coaches on Thursday, Alexandria Little League board president Sherry Reilly announced the league's partnership with the Positive Coaching Alliance.  All Little League coaches and board members were asked to cancel practices in order to attend the Sports Can Battle Racism workshop on May 24.  Virginia school districts have mandated similar training for their teachers.  Arlington County schools required teachers to participate in an equity training program in which they were taught how to create an "actively antiracist learning environment."  Loudoun County schools spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on teacher training sessions based on critical race theory — the idea that American institutions are inherently racist.

New Kaepernick book: 'To eradicate anti blackness, we must also abolish the police'.  A new book from controversial former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick calls for the absolute abolishment of all police departments and prisons in the United States, positions that are not popular with the vast majority of Americans, according to polling data.  "In order to eradicate anti-Blackness, we must also abolish the police," is the thesis of the book, which is a collection of 30 essays, one of which is written by the former San Francisco 49ers starter, TMZ reported Wednesday.

Did they do this on Easter Sunday?  I must have missed it.
Miami Dolphins Partner with Radical South Florida Mosque for 'Drive-Thru' Ramadan Meal.  Given all the community food drives the Islamic Center of Greater Miami (ICGM) has conducted, since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the testing and vaccinations it has co-sponsored, one could be fooled into thinking that the center is a civic minded institution.  It is easy to understand why the NFL's Miami Dolphins would want to be a part of such "charitable" endeavors.  However, there is a dark side to ICGM — a side linked to terror and bigotry — which overshadows its "charitable" activities, and this makes it incumbent upon the Dolphins or any other group which has chosen to associate with ICGM to sever ties with the Islamic center.

Talladega Superspeedway offering free laps to those who receive COVID-19 vaccine on site.  On Saturday [5/15/2021], the Talladega Superspeedway will be hosting a free drive-thru COVID-19 vaccination and testing site from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.  All participants will be asked to review educational material about COVID-19 vaccine and sign a consent form.  Vaccines will be administered by members of the Alabama National Guard, with a public health nurse present.  After receiving the vaccine, people will wait 15 minutes to be observed for any rare allergic reactions.  Registration is not required, but encouraged.

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If the vaccine is so helpful, and the disease is so terrible, why are incentives necessary?  The answer is obvious:  The disease has been inconsequential to the overwhelming majority of those who have had it, and serious questions are now being asked about what's really in that vaccine and why so many people have had adverse reactions to it.

Woke Takeover:  NFL Hires Katie Hill, Former Obama Comms Director.  The NFL continued its trend of hiring liberal former White House communications and public relations people this week by making former Obama communications director Katie Hill their senior vice president of communications.  "As Senior Vice President, Hill will be responsible for leading the NFL's day-to-day communications operation, aligning the League's communications strategy with its priorities," the NFL wrote in a press release.

Nike, NBA Silent After LeBron James Tweets 'YOU'RE NEXT' at Columbus Cop.  Lakers star LeBron James' sponsors and the league he plays for have remained silent in the wake of his tweet targeting an Ohio police officer.  On Wednesday [4/21/2021], James tweeted a photo of a white Columbus police officer with the caption, "You're next, #Accountability."  But after suffering a major backlash, the player deleted the tweet and attempted to claim that he deleted it to stop people from "creating more hate" over his message.  The explanation for his removal of the tweet did not satisfy many.  But regardless of whether the fans have accepted James' reasoning, his sponsors seem unconcerned by his tweet targeting a police officer.  Thus far, sponsors and partners including Nike, 2K Sports, AT&T, Beats Electronics, Blake Pizza, Coca-Cola, GMC, KIA Motors, Nike, RIMOWA, Upper Deck, State Farm, and Walmart have remained silent over James' threatening tweet.

Ex-Virginia Tech soccer star sues coach, claims he forced her off team because she wouldn't kneel.  Kiersten Hening, a former Virginia Tech women's soccer player, is suing her former coach after she was allegedly benched and forced off the team because she didn't want to kneel during a pregame demonstration last September.  Hening, 21, was a midfielder/defender for the Hokies from 2018 to 2020.  In a federal lawsuit filed last month, Hening said that her former coach, Charles Adair, wasn't a fan of her political views.  According to the documents obtained by TMZ Sports, Hening said during the peak of the Black Lives Matter movement last summer, she often had a difference of opinion from her teammates on social justice topics.

Trump Savages LeBron James For Threatening a Police Officer's Life.  On Wednesday [4/21/2021], NBA Lakers star LeBron James tweeted something that looked very much like an incitement to murder a police officer.  James rushed to conclusions about the shooting of 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant, a black girl who appears to have been lunging at someone with a deadly knife when the cop shot her.  James later took down the tweet, but he claimed that this shooting represents yet more evidence of systemic racism.  President Donald Trump took him to task on Thursday night.  "LeBron James should focus on basketball rather than presiding over the destruction of the NBA, which has just recorded the lowest television RATINGS, by far, in the long and distinguished history of the League," Trump said in a statement.  Recent ratings are indeed at an all-time low after the NBA painted the politically-charged slogan "Black Lives Matter" on its courts.

LeBron James Incited Millions to Murder a Police Officer.  Will It Cost Him Anything?  As America learned that a Columbus, Ohio, police officer shot and killed a teenage girl while she was in the act of wielding a knife at two other girls, NBA star LeBron James took to Twitter and incited his followers against the police officer.  James has 49.6 million Twitter followers and is a hero to millions for winning basketball championships.  He is very influential.

American Businesses can be Woke, or they can be the Best, but they can't be Both.  The fallacious ideas driving the corporate push for diversity, equity, and inclusion are not even the most problematic thing about it.  The push for DE&I is a cancer that results in organizational atrophy for corporate America, not strength or progress.  Consider what it would do to the NBA as a simple example.  Black men account for more than 80-percent of the league's talent.  That's problematic, of course, because only 27-percent of the NBA's fans share those players' skin color.  Shouldn't the product on the court look more like the fans buying the tickets and watching at home, as many corporations now insist should be their basis for hiring talent?  To ostensibly make the product better for fans, imagine that the league decided that only 50-percent of the players entering the league over the coming decade would be Black men.  The other 50-percent would, in an effort to achieve diversity, equity, and inclusion, be comprised of other identities that are underrepresented in the NBA, such as whites, Hispanics, and women, the latter of whom currently represent a shocking zero percent among the NBA's players.

Former MLB Star David Wells:  Major League Baseball Losing a Lot of Fans over Political Stance — 'They Don't Want to See That'.  Monday [4/19/2021] on FNC's "Fox & Friends," former Major League Baseball pitcher David Wells sounded off on polling, showing a drop in MLB popularity among Republicans after the league decided to move its All-Star Game out of Georgia.  The move came in response to new election integrity laws.  The two-time World Series champion said changes brought on by "knucklehead" Commissioner Rob Manfred have already turned him off of watching MLB but said the All-Star Game change "put the icing on the cake."

How corporations conspire with Democrats to hoard power at the public's expense.  Georgians adopted voter-integrity measures supported by a large majority of Americans, that are in the mainstream of state regulation and in fact are less stringent than the rules in Delaware, President Joe Biden's home state, and New York.  By more than a 2-1 margin, Americans think such rules are not unfair or discriminatory.  Nonetheless, these measures have produced an unprecedented effort by large corporations to interfere in the workings of a democratic government.  Major League Baseball moved its All-Star Game out of (majority-black) Atlanta to (majority-white) Denver in protest.  Coca-Cola's president weighed in against the changes.  And in a statement organized by Kenneth Chenault, former chief executive of American Express, and Kenneth Frazier, the chief executive of Merck, hundreds of CEOs voiced opposition.

It Sure Looks Like the MLB Made a Big Mistake by Getting Political.  One of the dumbest things a company can do in the corporate world is alienate a large portion of their consumer base.  Appealing to the widest swath of people is just good business because it maximizes the pool from which you can draw profit.  That fact is also true for sports teams, which are still businesses at the end of the day.  You especially don't spit in the face of one of your strongest demographics.  That's exactly what Major League Baseball did, though, and they are learning that lesson the hard way as new data shows just how dumb their decision to get political was.

MLB's favorability rating plummets.  Major League Baseball has suffered a massive loss in popularity among Republicans due to its intervention on the side of Democrats in the political dispute over Georgia's voting law.  According to a poll by Morning Consult, MLB's net favorability rating (the difference between the percentage of those who view the sport positively and those who view it negatively) among Republicans has dropped from 47 points to 12 points in the past month.  Until commissioner Rob Manfred moved the all-star game, MLB was the big-time sports league viewed most favorably by Republicans.  Now, it is viewed less favorably than the NFL and the NHL.  It's still viewed more favorably than the NBA, though.

MLB Is Latest US Pro Sports League to Upset Republicans.  Following Major League Baseball's decision to pull the All-Star Game out of Atlanta due to Georgia's new voting law, Republicans are now out on MLB.  MLB's net favorability rating among Republicans was 47% in the middle of March, the highest rating amongst the four major U.S. sports leagues.  Since then, it has crashed to 12%, dropping the league below the NFL (15%) and NHL (26%), according to new data from Morning Consult.  (The NBA has a favorability rating, which is calculated by taking the difference between the share of respondents with a positive opinion of the league and the share with a negative opinion, of -5 among Republicans.)  In general, Republicans have been becoming increasingly dissatisfied with pro sports in the U.S. due to players kneeling during the national anthem, messaging about social justice issues and the relatively recent embrace of the Black Lives Matter movement.  "As a result, Republicans now have a less favorable view than Democrats of all four major U.S. sports leagues," according to Morning Consult's Alex Silverman.

Brett Favre Wants Sports, Politics To Be Separated: 'I want to watch the game'.  Brett Favre thinks politics are hurting sports and would like to see both things go back to being separate.  Favre made comments earlier this week, saying sports are better off being something to unify the country rather than used as a tool to further divide people.  "I think both sides, for the most part, want to see it just remain about the sport, not about politics," the Hall of Famer said.  "At least, that's my interpretation.  I know when I turn on a game, I want to watch the game.  I want to watch players play and teams win, lose, come from behind.  I want to watch all the, you know, important parts of the game, not what's going on outside of the game.  And I think the general fan feels the same way."  Favre's comments came days after Major League Baseball moved the All-Star Game out of Atlanta to Denver over Georgia's new voting laws.  He said he's heard fans tell him they don't watch sports anymore because it has gotten too political.

Timberwolves honor Daunte Wright in pregame ceremony.  The Minnesota Timberwolves honored Daunte Wright before the NBA team's game on Tuesday night [4/13/2021].  Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, was shot and killed by a police officer Sunday in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Park.  Body camera footage of the incident has sparked racial justice protests across the city and renewed calls by activists for police reform measures.  The Timberwolves wore special T-shirts during pre-game warmups before their game against the Brooklyn Nets and held a moment of silence on the court prior to the playing of the national anthem.

Fixing Racism by Being Racist?  If diversity is such a good thing at Princeton [University] or United [Airlines], how about professional sports?  59 percent of NFL players are Black, compared to only 13 percent of the US population.  And no women play in the NFL.  If professional sports leagues are to be sufficiently woke, reflecting the diversity of America, then half of all players should be women, and only 13 percent black, 18 percent Hispanic, 6 percent Asian, and so on.  Why are woke news networks, Ivy League universities, and professional sports leagues not practicing the diversity that they preach?  Major League Baseball thinks the new Georgia voting laws are racist.  They should look in the mirror at their owners, managers, and players and see how they compare to American diversity and admit their own racism and sexism.

Fans Are Tuning Out on Woke Sports.  Last Friday, after President Biden, left-wing activists, and the national media spent weeks peddling lies about Georgia's new voting law disproportionately impacting people of color, Major League Baseball (MLB) commissioner Rob Manfred caved to the radical mob and decided to move this year's All-Star Game out of Atlanta.  In the name of equality, Manfred's decision will cost Atlanta, a city with a 50 percent black population, an estimated $100 million in economic losses.  The game will now be held in Denver, Colorado, a city that is only 10 percent black.  As nonsensical as Manfred's decision was, no one should be surprised by it.  Over the past few years, it has been fairly obvious to any impartial observer that the higher echelons at MLB, along with those in charge at the National Football League (NFL) and the National Basketball Association (NBA), have made a conscious decision to alienate a large percentage of their fanbase by conceding more control of their sports to the demands of social justice warriors and the tyrannical Left.

Baseball strikes out.  [Scroll down]  Hopefully I've established my baseball bona fides, so now I'll get to the point:  I condemn Major League Baseball, especially its spineless Commissioner Rob Manfred, for pulling the annual All-Star game from Atlanta.  Like so many other useful idiots, Manfred bent over for the left-wing mob and its lies, this time regarding Georgia's new voter ID law.  Sporting events are a diversion and should never be used as a political prop.  My response?  I'm unequivocally boycotting Major League Baseball.  If I can do it, so can you!  Yeah, I'm a lifelong baseball guy, but first and foremost I'm a patriot.  I love our Republic, for what it was before the communist cancer metastasized, and for what it can be again!  But we have to take a stand against the Marxist bullies.  Baseball is just one example of a major corporation that went "woke."

In Defense of Major League Baseball — An Explanation That Makes Sense and Seems Rational.  The MLB All-Star game over the past 20 years has become an event where some of baseball's biggest stars decline to play in order to have a 4-day break in the middle of the grind of 162 game schedule.  But the prospect of having a large number of the sport's best players publicly decline to participate because of where the game was being played was a potential PR nightmare that would last for weeks, and continue right up to the start of the game — if there was a game.  As more and more players would likely announce their intention to boycott the game under pressure from media and players in other sports — like LeBron James — a cascading effect would have like developed where the outcome might have ultimately have been that no players agreed to play.  If some players did agree to play — say some white players — the potential for conflict inside the locker rooms of MLB clubs between boycotting players and non-boycotting players would escalate.  The fallout for the sport in the aftermath of such a development would be disastrous.

Fire Manfred and return the All-Star Game to Atlanta.  If Major League Baseball team-owners don't act fast, the MLB will experience a hemorrhaging of fans that might damage the pro game for years.  The way to repair the damage is to fire Commissioner Rob Manfred and return the All-Star Game to Atlanta this summer.  An April 7 report from Fox News (via Becker News) says Manfred decided to pull the game from Atlanta after consulting with Stacey Abrams and a voting rights group associated with LeBron James and the always sketchy Al Sharpton.  The timing of Manfred's decision caught owners off-guard, reports Fox.  Manfred's decision should not only incense team-owners, but serve as grounds to dump the commissioner.

Thanks, Captain Obvious!  NBC Realizes MLB Move Hurts Black-Owned Atlanta Businesses.  After a campaign of disinformation over the Georgia voter bill that helped pressure Major League Baseball (MLB) to move the All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver, Colorado, Wednesday's [4/7/2021] NBC Nightly News stumbled onto the truth once they poisoned the well, which was the decision will have a negative economic impact on Atlanta businesses and especially Black-owned establishments.  Anchor Lester Holt stated the obvious in an opening tease that there was "unintended fallout from the MLB moving the All-Star Game out of Atlanta on local businesses."

Jake Tapper strikes out over MLB moving All Star game when reminded CNN has its HQ in Atlanta.  CNN anchor Jake Tapper's so-called inside information about the "simple facts" behind Major League Baseball's decision to pull the All-Star Game from the Atlanta area is turning out to hardly be a home run.  That's because those Twitter users — those who apparently are able to evaluate the Georgia voting law on its substance and free of the one-sided narrative pushed in Tapper's industry — are reminding him of an additional simple fact:  CNN's headquarters just happens to be located in Atlanta.  Shouldn't CNN also boycott Atlanta, too, they wonder?

Major League Baseball stupidly falls for Democrats' partisan game.  There's no defense for MLB's action pulling the All-Star Game out of Georgia.  A corporation based in New York, which has more restrictive voting laws than Georgia's, has moved the Midsummer Classic to Colorado, which, like Georgia, has the supposedly objectionable voter ID requirement.  It did so at the request of President Joe Biden, who is from Delaware, which also has more restrictive voting laws than Georgia.  Why?  Because Georgia passed a bill that generally expanded access to voting.  As Gov. Brian Kemp pointed out, when MLB issued its anti-Georgia announcement, the league didn't bother to cite a single provision of the law it was supposedly objecting to.  That's easy to explain:  MLB doesn't actually care that much about voting laws — otherwise, it wouldn't have its headquarters in New York.

Ex-MLB commissioner Fay Vincent slams successor Rob Manfred's decision to move the All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver.  Former Major League Baseball commissioner Fay Vincent has slammed successor Rob Manfred over the 'mistake' of moving the All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver in response to the new voting law in Georgia that many believe to be racist.  'Major League Baseball can't become a weapon in the culture wars, a hostage for one political party or ideology,' the 82-year-old Vincent wrote in The Wall Street Journal's opinion section.  Georgia's new law limits mail-in voting and allows for more legislative control over the election process following former President Donald Trump's baseless claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election.  Critics of the law, including Delta and Coca-Cola, say it unfairly targets minority voters in metropolitan areas.

Report: MLB Commish Pulled All-Star Game from Atlanta After Talking to Stacey Abrams.  According to a report from Fox Business Network's Charles Gasparino, sources inside Major League Baseball claim that Commissioner Rob Manfred "blindsided" MLB owners with "at least" the "timing" of his decision to pull the All-Star Game from Atlanta.  Moreover, Gasparino's report claims that Manfred spoke with defeated 2018 Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams before he decided to move the game.

MLB commissioner decided to move All-Star Game after pressure from Stacey Abrams on voting issues: sources.  Major League Baseball (MLB) commissioner Robert Manfred decided to move the All-Star Game on his own after holding extensive discussions with voting rights groups associated with Lebron James, Stacey Abrams and Rev. Al Sharpton, sources familiar with the move tell Fox News.  Abrams and Sharpton told the commissioner players would boycott the game if not.  Sources say that Abrams' current stance, that she is disappointed about the Georgia boycott, is suspect as she was a key player in the decision.  James has publicly supported the Georgia boycott.  Abrams' group and Sharpton also urged the commissioner to support other issues, including voter drives and H.R. 1, the For the People Act — sweeping election reform that recently passed the House.  Manfred decided the easiest way to deal with the matter was to leave Georgia, according to a source.

Things We Can Live Without.  The NFL was an early casualty.  The sight of players, coaches, even owners kneeling to protest demonstrably nonexistent "systemic police racism" sent me to the sidelines.  Colin Kaepernick's socks, featuring pigs wearing police hats, revealed his true feelings as the leader of that movement.  A lot of fans like me make other plans on Sundays now.  For decades I suffered with the fickle fortunes of the Boston Red Sox. [...] The Sox lost me when they plastered "BLACK LIVES MATTER" on the marquee at Fenway, in the iconic typeface used on their uniforms.  BLM organizers are Marxists who support the dismantling of the nuclear family.  Marxists perpetrated the greatest evils ever visited on mankind.  It's so hard to cheer for those who pander to them.  I stopped.  Major League Baseball has yanked its All-Star Game from Georgia because that state made a modest effort to prevent fraud in future elections.  Joe Biden expressed support. [...] Can liberals alone fill baseball stadiums?

MLB strikes out with proposed All-Star Game relocation.  Major League Baseball officials are mulling relocating the All-Star Game from Atlanta to Coors Field in Denver, though Colorado has the same voter ID requirement and fewer early voting days than Georgia.  Several outlets reported the development Monday, noting that the Colorado Rockies would be hosting the annual game on July 13 instead of the Atlanta Braves.  The league moved the game out of Georgia following an outcry by Democrats, corporations headquartered in Atlanta, and left-wing pundits that a new voter reform law unfairly targeted minorities.

MLB's new All-Star Game location — Denver's Coors Field — is steeped in its own history of discrimination.  By moving the All-Star Game from suburban Atlanta to a stadium in Denver, Major League Baseball may have gone from the frying pan into the fire in the controversial case of cancel culture.  MLB ignited a firestorm last Friday — with the support of President Joe Biden — when it announced it was moving America's pastime's biggest game next to the World Series because it disagreed with a new Georgia voting law that liberal critics say helps Republicans and hurts minorities.  But the new venue, Coors Field, in Denver, comes with its own dark cloud of controversy, and may ignite even more problems.

The Woke Left Ruined Baseball.  Is Golf Next?  On Friday, Major League Baseball announced they will move the 2021 All-Star Game and 2021 MLB draft out of Atlanta in response to Georgia's Election Integrity bill. [...] Corporations are now rushing to cave to the woke Left, with Major League Baseball joining the ever-growing list of organizations who decided that folding was easier than making a stand.  There was a time when sporting events were a wonderful way to get away from it all.  It gave us a short reprieve from days filled with doom and gloom headlines and nasty political disagreements with neighbors.  Those days are long gone.  Sports, athletes and politics are now tied together at the hip.  From athletes kneeling during the national anthem to Black Lives Matter commercials at every turn, political statements during sporting events have become our "new normal."

Biden Encourages Masters to Move Out Georgia by Continuing to Lie About State's New Election Laws.  First baseball, now golf.  Joe Biden delivered remarks from the White House on Tuesday [4/6/2021] and encouraged Americans to continue to cower in fear over a virus with a 99.98% survival rate.  Joe Biden was asked by a reporter if he supports moving the Masters Tournament out of Georgia after the MLB decided to move its All-Star game from Atlanta to Denver.  "That's up to the Masters," said Biden before he nudged corporations to bludgeon American citizens based on debunked claims about Georgia's election laws.

Stacey Abrams [is] to blame for costing Georgia $100 million in lost All-Star Game revenue:  Rand Paul.  Former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has urged people not to boycott Georgia, but Sen. Rand Paul says she and other Democrats are squarely to blame for Major League Baseball's decision to pull the All-Star Game out of Atlanta.  The founder of Fair Fight, Ms. Abrams led the charge against Senate Bill 202, the Georgia election law that requires identification for absentee ballots, expands early voting and bans electioneering within 150 feet of polling entrances, calling it "Jim Crow 2.0."  "There's all these people who are woke, but now even the woke like Stacey Abrams, are starting to see, oh, no what have I unleashed?  I just lost my state $100 million in revenue," said Mr. Paul on Fox's "The Story."  "Stacey Abrams and the Democrats cost Georgia $100 million in revenue because they complained about something they didn't read and they said something about it that wasn't true."

Strike Out Major League Baseball.  Woke pro baseball, strike one.  A cowardly MLB commissioner, strike two.  Corporate sanctimony, strike three.  Major League Baseball pulling the 2021 All-Star game and this year's amateur draft from Atlanta is batter out, game over.  As a lifelong baseball fan, I take no pleasure in declaring that I won't spend another penny on the Grand Old Game this season.  And that might turn into many seasons.  The MLB is against Georgia's sensible election reforms.  Election reforms that better ensure honest, fairer contests are critically more important than my pleasure.  They should be more important than yours.  Over the weekend, President Trump called for boycotts.  As usual, Trump hit the nail on the head.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Throws Fastball at MLB's Virtue Signaling.  The Texas Rangers baseball team had asked Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to throw out the first pitch at their home opener.  Major League Baseball then took a stand against sensible voting reforms in Georgia, reforms that include extending early voting days making it easier to Georgians to cast votes.  After Joe Biden shamelessly and repeatedly lied about that law, MLB moved the All-Star game from Atlanta.  MLB's leadership evidently did not read the law before launching an economic war against the state of Georgia.  Texas is considering similar reforms, and American Airlines is among corporate America's partisans taking shots at the law without bothering to read it first.  Gov. Abbott has decided enough is enough.  He released a letter Monday telling the Rangers that he will not support the politicization of baseball and therefore will not throw out the first pitch.

White House Spins Biden's All-Star Game Remarks:  He Didn't Definitively Say He Supported Moving All-Star Game From Georgia.  On Monday [4/5/2021], White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki tried to mitigate the effect of comments President Biden made last week in which he stated that he supported major league baseball players who wanted to relocate the All-Star game from Atlanta because Georgia GOP Governor Brian Kemp signed into law a bill that dealt with voting law.  Biden stated, "I would strongly support them doing that."  At the White House press briefing on Monday, a reporter asked, "I just wanted to ask you a question about Major League Baseball.  The league decided to move its All-Star Game out of Atlanta.  That's something that the President said he supported before.  Does he then agree with their decision to move that game out of Atlanta because of the voting law?  Psaki framed Biden's answer as being supportive of the players' capacity to make a decision rather than the decision itself.

MLB All-Star Game to be played at Coors Field after league strips event from Braves: reports.  The Colorado Rockies will host the 2021 MLB All-Star Game after the decision to move the event from Atlanta over Georgia's restrictive voting law, according to multiple reports.  ESPN and Altitude TV reported the game was going to be moved to Coors Field in Denver on July 13. [...] MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred made the announcement to strip the Braves of the event on Friday in response to the mounting pressure to change the location of the July game in response to Republican-backed election reform legislation recently signed by Gov. Brian Kemp.

MLB relocates All-Star game to state with voter-ID laws, and fewer early-voting days.  That'll show 'em! After caving to a boycott of Georgia over its new election law, Major League Baseball has relocated its All-Star Game event from Atlanta to Denver. [...] However, let's not overlook the blow that MLB has struck for solidarity with the black community.  They moved the All-Star Game from a state where 31.2% of the population is black, and moved the $100 million business opportunity to a state where 4.1% of the population is black.  This is what's known as "redistribution of wealth," at least to progressives and the MLB.

Why did baseball capitulate?  Jim Geraghty wonders why Major League Baseball pulled its all-star game from Georgia, but major sporting events are still scheduled to take place in that state.  He cites the Masters Golf Tournament, as well as all home games for professional Atlanta teams and Georgia's collegiate athletic programs.  In addition, the following events are still a go, as of now:
      The 2021 Chick-fil-A Kickoff Games in Atlanta
      The 2021 SEC Championship Game
      The Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl
      The PGA Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in September
      The USTA Atlanta Open
Why, Geraghty asks rhetorically, if there is a moral imperative to move the baseball all-star game, is there no obligation to move other sporting events to a different state?  The answer, of course, is that there is no such obligation.  That, I take it, is Geraghty's point.  But why has baseball moved the all-star game, while comparable events will still take place in Georgia?

Oops: Chuck Schumer Invites MLB All-Star Game to NY, but Then Facts About the State Get Dropped.  As we've previously reported, President Biden, White House press secretary Jen Psaki, and other Biden officials are outright lying about Georgia's new voting law, so much so that even Democrat-friendly fact-checkers are not letting them get away with it.  The Biden administration's falsehoods and those of failed 2018 Georgia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams have now cost the state the Major League Baseball All-Star game, which was yanked Friday just two days after Biden said he would "strongly support" them doing so.

Georgia County That Voted For Biden To Lose $100+ Million Over MLB Relocating Game After Biden Remarks:  Report.  The Georgia county that was set to host the 2020 Major League Baseball All-Star Game said over the weekend that it will lose more than $100 million after the league pulled the game and draft out of the state — a decision that comes after Democrats Madeline number of false claims about the state's new election law and signaled they would support the league boycotting the state.  Holly Quinlan, president and CEO of Cobb Travel and Tourism, said that the "estimated lost economic impact" for the county was more than $100 million.

(Censored) Major League Baseball.  [Scroll down]  I am also, like most conservatives, not a big believer in boycotts.  I even wrote a newspaper column several years ago arguing against them.  But once again, there is a time for everything.  And once again, this is that time: time for every conservative in America, along with anyone else who cares about the future of our republic — who cares that it has a future that doesn't include full-on totalitarianism — to utterly abandon Major League Baseball.  Don't go to a game.  Don't watch games on TV or listen to them on the radio.  Don't buy any official gear.  Just pretend like MLB no longer exists.

A Biden Advisor Is Asked About the MLB Boycott of Georgia, Her Response Is Mind-Boggling.  With the MLB pulling the all-star game out of Georgia, the questions for Democrats are piling up.  Specifically, what exactly did they accomplish by lying about the election reform bill except costing Georgia business owners over $100 million in revenue?  Stacey Abrams has been the least self-aware in the aftermath, claiming that she's not to blame despite clearly being to blame.  Others like Raphael Warnock haven't even tried to pretend they don't the result.  Of course, it wasn't just Georgia-centric figures in the mix here.  Joe Biden also voiced his support for the boycott, and one of his advisors was asked about it this morning [4/4/2021]. [...] This is what being out of touch looks like.

Boycott boomerang:  Genius Dems start to realize Georgia boycott will cost them votes in the Peach State.  Democrats thought they had a brilliant plan to force Georgia to permit widespread voting fraud by getting their woke pals in corporate America to bully the state into repealing its brand-new voting integrity law that mandates voter ID and other commonsense measures.  Two Atlanta-based corporate giants, Coca-Cola and Delta Airlines, denounced Georgia's new voting integrity bill, and Major League Baseball announced it was moving the All-Star Game away from Atlanta.  Oops!  Guess who gets hurt in the estimated $100 million impact from the loss of the MLB showcase.  That would be the little guys who work at hotels and restaurants, who are vendors at the game, and who work in other service industries.  The local Dem pols realized this quickly.

The Democrats' rash behavior is due to a lack of foresight.
Boycott boomerang:  Genius Dems start to realize Georgia boycott will cost them votes in the Peach State.  Democrats thought they had a brilliant plan to force Georgia to permit widespread voting fraud by getting their woke pals in corporate America to bully the state into repealing its brand-new voting integrity law that mandates voter ID and other common-sense measures.  Two Atlanta-based corporate giants, Coca-Cola and Delta Airlines, denounced Georgia's new voting integrity bill, and Major League Baseball announced it was moving the All-Star Game away from Atlanta.  Oops!  Guess who gets hurt in the estimated $100 million impact from the loss of the MLB showcase.  That would be the little guys who work at hotels and restaurants, who are vendors at the game, and who work in other service industries.  The local Dem pols realized this quickly.

MLB requires photo ID to pick up tickets from Will Call, but boycotts Georgia for voter ID law.  Major League Baseball responded to calls to boycott the state of Georgia over a controversial new voter-ID law by moving the All-Star game out of the Peach State.  But teams still requires fans to show photo ID to pick up their tickets from the Will Call booth.  South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace called the league out on Twitter.

What's More American than Coke and Baseball?  [Scroll down]  The immediate target of these corporate actions was efforts by Georgia and Texas to revise their election laws, laws which in many states have resulted in widespread disbelief that the 2020 elections were conducted on the up and up.  When people believe election procedures are untrustworthy, it shatters voluntary acceptance of the election results.  Under pressure from racist propagandists of the left and using COVID as an excuse, jurisdictions in several states so loosened the election rules that widespread fraud was made easier.  One state in particular was Georgia, where asleep at the switch (or corrupt — your choice) officials permitted the sloppy, untrustworthy, opaque, and disputed election procedures.  In an effort to prevent a repeat, Georgia enacted a new election law.  (In pdf form it's 104 pages, and that makes it unlikely to me that any of the corporate bleating about it was made with knowledge of its contents.)

Baseball is the last straw.  Time to start boycotting.  Under the influence of racist organizations such as BLM, and in response to ignorant denunciations of Georgia's new election integrity bill by an ignorant president, it [major league baseball] has thrown in with the woke mob that would judge the worth of individuals on the basis of the color of their skin rather than on the content of their character.  In the process it has begun to unravel the progress made in the preceding half-century.  Now, not even baseball, the all-American game, is a haven from the culture wars unleashed by the ruthless left.  It would not have been hard for Rob Manfred and the big businessmen who run MLB to resist the demands of the radical left to take sides in a political dispute.  All they needed to say was that the business of MLB is baseball.  Not politics.  But that would have taken courage — courage that they do not have.

Major League Baseball and the Voting-Rights Con.  It has been years since I've watched the All-Star Game, the can't-miss event of my youth.  When I learned that the woke Left had gotten the woke commissioner to accede to the woke White House's instruction that the game be moved out of Atlanta — part of the campaign to slander Georgia's voting law as racist — it was the first time I'd even heard that the game was scheduled to be in Atlanta.  They could play it on Mars for all I care, or, better yet, not play it at all.

Major League Baseball's Cowardly 'Stand'.  Major League Baseball (MLB) commissioner Rob Manfred announced that it would not be holding its 2021 All-Star Game or draft in Georgia as originally planned because of the state's much — and unfairly — maligned new elections law. [...] What a humiliating spectacle for the league and the country.  Manfred doesn't state what the MLB's problems with the bill are because he either can't or is embarrassed to have to articulate them out loud.  The move comes after President Biden — who called the law "Jim Crow on steroids" — said he agreed with the suggestion that the MLB move the All-Star Game, and as he continues to deceive the public about the legislation's contents.

Georgia Democrats stare down a mob of their own making.  Leftist activists are busy whipping up a national boycott of Georgia-based businesses over the state's new election integrity law.  The boycott has the support of Hollywood and the White House, with President Joe Biden saying this week that he would support moving the MLB's All-Star Game out of the state as a sign of protest.  Georgia Democrats are now left trying to talk the mob down.  "I absolutely oppose and reject any notion of boycotting Georgia," Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff said in a statement on Thursday [4/1/2021].  "Georgia welcomes business, investment, jobs, opportunity, and events.  In fact, economic growth is driving much of the political progress we have seen here."  Stacey Abrams, who, having lost Georgia's governorship in 2018, rebranded herself as a voting rights activist, agreed and reminded Democrats that economic boycotts would hurt the very communities they claim to represent.

LeBron James, Liberal Elites Celebrate After MLB Takes All-Star Game from Georgia.  On Friday [4/2/2021], Major League Baseball decided to take its All-Star Game away from Atlanta's Truist Park in response to the state's new voter integrity law.  Liberal supporters exploded with delight after the MLB announcement. [...] Unsurprisingly, the baseball player's union supported the move.  After all, they had already been pushing for it.  [Numerous tweets]

MLB is fine with ball games in Cuba and training in China, but Georgia is the human-rights problem.  You could tell that the Major League Baseball (MLB) decision to pull its All-Star game out of Atlanta was a deeply unpopular one, based on the ambivalent reaction of far-left failed gubernatorial candidate, Stacey Abrams. [...] After all, isn't she the one who pushed through most of the fraud-enabling laws on the books in Georgia which triggered the recent legislative action?  The blacks-are-too-dumb-to-have-voter-ID idiotic notion, so by extension, nobody should have to show voter ID to vote, even though everyone needs to show ID to buy a beer at a MLB ball game, or buy a ticket to one?  She needs to make up her mind.  So which is it?  Not wanting to see families hurt, or being all-in for the boycott of Atlanta, which certainly should affect the city tax base?  She wants to have it both ways, boycott but nobody hurt.  That's because unlike MLB, she wants to win public office, and knows that screwing over black businesses, which will get it in the teeth with this MLB maneuver, is going to make her unpopular.

This is How To Do It — President Trump Calls for Boycott of Major League Baseball.  This is exactly how to fight back against the insufferable leftist politics that is infecting everything.  Today President Trump has called for a boycott of Major League Baseball.  If these corporations realize their actions will cause 80 to 100 million people to stop using their products, they will feel the scale of their financial position being crushed.  Keep in mind MAGA supporters are the people who economically represent the largest audience with a greater percentage of their income available for recreational purchasing decisions.

GOP Senators Propose Revoking MLB's Antitrust Status.  Republican lawmakers, including Senators Ted Cruz (Texas) and Mike Lee (Utah) have called for an end to Major League Baseball's antitrust exemption after the league announced it would pull the 2021 All-Star Game out of Atlanta.  The league's decision came in response to a Georgia voting law that critics claim makes it more difficult for individuals, particularly black voters, to exercise their constitutional right to vote.

Joe Biden might just have killed Major League Baseball.  One of the highlights of the baseball season is the All-Star Game, which was set to be played on July 13 in Atlanta.  Since 1933, midway through the MLB season, fans pick their favorites from the American League and the National League and then the chosen stars compete.  I'm not a baseball fan but I'm willing to bet that, in terms of ad revenue and merchandise sales, it's an important part of the business end of pro-baseball.  And it certainly brings revenue to the city hosting it.  On Thursday [4/1/2021], Biden made one of his little scripted appearances, this time on ESPN. It's worth noting that ESPN, which Disney owns, long ago transferred its allegiance from sports to leftism with a serving of sports on the side. [...] Remember, there are only 30 baseball teams but there are around 80 million Trump voters.  We can make the franchise hurt for its decision to weaponize America's game against the integrity of America's elections.

The Editor says...
The quickest and easiest thing you can do about this issue is to turn off ESPN.  Step two:  Don't watch another baseball game this year.  (Do you have nothing else to do?)  The Democrat fans may be able to keep the politicized sport afloat, but I doubt it.

Woke to Broke:  Moving All-Star Game Costs Atlanta Tens of Millions in Revenue.  Major League Baseball announced this year's All-Star Game would be relocated out of Atlanta, Georgia, costing the city as much as $190 million in revenue, according to official estimates.  Bill Volckmann, Finance Director for Cobb County, appraised the All-Star Game's economic impact to fall somewhere between $37 million and $190 million in his 213-page agenda packet.  While some dispute the high-end of those projections, it's safe to say the city — especially lower-wage workers who would have worked the event — would have benefited greatly.

Atlanta Braves Fire Back After MLB Moves All Star Game.  Major League Baseball has been under intense pressure from Democrats to move the annual All-Star Game out of Atlanta over Georgia's election integrity law and on Friday [4/2/2021], the league caved.  On the second day of the 2021 season, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred sent a clear message to all MLB fans that his league takes its marching orders from activists and politicians.

The Editor says...
Throw the ball.  Hit the ball.  Catch the ball.  Big deal.  Play your big game somewhere else.  Or don't play at all.  Who cares?

Trump Calls For Boycotting Major League Baseball After They Cave To 'Radical Left Democrats'.  Former President Donald Trump called for people to boycott Major League Baseball (MLB) on Friday night after the league caved to pressure from leftists to cancel the All Star Game, which was scheduled to take place in Atlanta, after Georgia passed a law to tighten up voting security around the state.  Trump's statement comes after MLB Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr. announced earlier in the day that the league was moving both All-Star Game and MLB Draft to a new host city following a misleading pressure campaign from leftists about the state's new laws.  "Baseball is already losing tremendous numbers of fans, and now they leave Atlanta with their All-Star Game because they are afraid of the Radical Left Democrats who do not want voter I.D., which is desperately needed, to have anything to do with our elections," Trump said in a statement.  "Boycott baseball and all of the woke companies that are interfering with Free and Fair Elections.  Are you listening Coke, Delta, and all!"

Et tu, baseball?  I can easily overlook the flamboyance and over-the-top showmanship of many of today's players in the interest of letting them have a bit of fun while they play.  But I can't go along with this calculated, political move on the part of the owners.  The commissioner works for the owners, and the possibility that a move like today's could have been made without a majority of owners going along with it is more than unlikely.  It is impossible.  So baseball has joined the NBA and NFL in their wokeness.  Politics has contaminated every form of entertainment in our country.  I am beyond sad and beyond furious for this latest insult.  I have never before been so upset with "my" game that I have been tempted never to watch another inning.  I may get over it, but then again, I may not.

Remember when baseball brought us together?  My guess is that there is going to be a huge backlash against this decision.  I trust that the commissioner understands that.  It would have been wiser for the commissioner to have responded to the wokes by saying we play baseball, not get involved in partisan politics.  Twenty years ago, baseball brought us together.  Now it will add to the growing polarization in the land.  Sad but true.

MLB yanks All-Star Game out of Atlanta over Georgia's new voting law.  MLB is taking its ball and leaving Georgia.  The league announced on Friday that it is moving the 2021 All-Star Game out of Atlanta as backlash grows over a new Georgia law that is seen as an attack on voter access.  "I have determined the best way to demonstrate our value as a sport is relocating this year's All-Star Game and MLB Draft," commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement.  "MLB fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box."  The Braves, in a statement, opposed the move.

Biden 'strongly supports' moving MLB All-Star game over new Georgia voting law.  President Joe Biden said he would "strongly support" moving the Major League Baseball All-Star Game out of Atlanta because of Georgia's new voting law that critics say may suppress turnout at the ballot box.  Biden spoke to ESPN's Sage Steele in an 11-minute interview Wednesday night, saying he would back the MLB if the league decided to move the July 13 game out of Georgia in response to the GOP-backed election reform signed last month by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp.

After promoting this behavior for decades, now they say it's forbidden.
Cleveland Indians prohibiting fans with redface, Native American headdresses into Progressive Field.  In a long list of what fans can expect at Progressive Field for the 2021 season, the Cleveland Indians announced it will not allow fans into Progressive Field with "headdresses and face paint styled in a way that references or appropriates American Indian cultures and traditions."  Anyone wearing inappropriate or offensive images, words, dress or face paint must be covered or removed, and failure to do so will constitute grounds for ejection or refusal of admission, the organization stated.

The Editor says...
The professional baseball teams derive their income by selling tickets to baseball games; and to a certain extent, by selling the television rights to those games.  (I suspect that every major league game is attended by a TV crew, whether the entire game is televised or not, just in case something extraordinary happens.)  The fans come to the game in person, expecting to have an enjoyable experience.  In Cleveland, for the last several decades, part of that experience has been the opportunity to root for the Indians while dressing and acting like stereotypical cartoon Indians.  Until very recently, nobody thought for a moment that such behavior was offensive to Indians in general.  But the fans don't like to have their traditions uprooted, and they don't like to see leftist politics injected into their favorite sports, after paying to attend the game (and park the car).  If specific teams or the MLB organization put a wet blanket on the fans' enthusiasm, they can expect to make less money.

Because the game is more important to them than their country:
U.S. soccer will now allow players to kneel for national anthem.  The U.S. Soccer Federation will no longer require players to stand for the national anthem, voting to repeal a 2017 policy that called on national team players to "stand respectfully" during the Star Spangled Banner before national team games.  During a virtual conference of the group's annual general meeting on Saturday, 71.34 percent of National Council members voted to repeal the policy which had already been nixed by the USSF board of directors last summer.  Hundreds of voters make up the National Council, including representatives for youth, adult amateur and professional populations, in addition to the athletes' council.

If College Basketball Players Don't Want to Stand for the National Anthem, Yank Their Scholarships.  The men's basketball team at East Tennessee State University disrespected the national anthem by dropping to a knee on Feb. 16th.  That act of defiance led state lawmakers to fire off a letter to every public university in the state.  "We expect all those who walk onto the field of play representing our universities to also walk onto the field of play to show respect for our National Anthem," read a letter written and signed by Lt. Gov. Randy McNally along with 26 Republican state senators. [...] Unfortunately, many student athletes cannot be persuaded to do the right thing because of patriotism or human decency.  It's all about dollars and cents.  So lawmakers should present the basketball players an offer they cannot refuse.

No Kneeling:  Scotland And Wales Players All Remain Standing Before Rugby Game.  Players for Scotland and Wales all remained standing ahead of their Six Nations rugby match on Saturday, defying uproar over many players not kneeling to Black Lives Matter at the earlier Scotland vs England fixture.  While players for England — with some notable exceptions — decided to "take a knee" for Black Lives Matter before facing off against the Scots team in their home stadium, only a handful of Scottish players followed suit.

Virginia College Forfeits Basketball Game After Suspending Players For Kneeling During Anthem.  Bluefield College, a small Baptist liberal arts school nestled in the Appalachian mountains in Bluefield, Virginia doesn't seem to be a likely place to make national news.  But when players on the men's basketball team took a knee during the playing of the national anthem — after being warned several times it was against school policy — the school president promptly suspended the players and forfeited a game.  The players had knelt several times before games in January and February, at both home and away contests.  After being warned about the practice, the players decided to stay in the locker room during the playing of the national anthem before an away game.

College suspends basketball players for kneeling during anthem because of how 'it's perceived by some'.  The dean of a small Baptist liberal arts college in western Virginia suspended basketball players after they repeatedly knelt before games during the playing of the National Anthem in violation of the institution's rules.  The suspension of several Bluefield College players by President David Olive led to a forfeit against NAIA rival Reinhardt on Thursday [2/11/2021], the New York Post reported.  Olive, who is white, said in a statement he made the decision to suspend all the team's players after discovering that they had knelt prior to several games this season.

The Editor says...
If Mr. Olive were a man of some ethnicity other than white, would that have been mentioned in this article?  Of course not!

Minnesota colleges adapt as 'Star Spangled Banner' stirs dissimilar emotions.  When it comes to the national anthem and sports, Americans remain divided.  Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban reignited the issue last week when he said he had stopped playing the anthem at games.  The mention of NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who last played in the league three years ago, still angers people upset by his choice to kneel during the anthem.  But some schools, including St.  Thomas and the University of Minnesota, are incorporating social justice messages into their pregame anthem presentations.  The Tommies' statement is one of several new anthem introductions developed by the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference for use by its teams.  The Gophers are playing "Lift Every Voice and Sing," often called the Black national anthem, before "The Star-Spangled Banner."

Mark Cuban Insists The Dallas Mavericks Won't Play National Anthem Anymore.  Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said Tuesday [2/9/2021] that his franchise would no longer play the national anthem prior to his team's NBA home games.  It's a long-standing tradition to play the anthem before home games in all major professional sports, and even all the way down to high school athletics.  Cuban said that will come to an end with the Mavericks.  The national anthem hasn't been played at any Mavericks games so far at the American Airlines Center this season — preseason or regular-season games.  Cuban told ESPN that he consulted with NBA commissioner Adam Silver before letting the rest of the world know about his decision, ESPN reported.  A team source told ESPN that no players, coaches or referees have mentioned the anthem's absence so far.

The Editor says...
If you hate America, don't play the National Anthem before the game.  Your customers will let you know if they concur.

Jen Psaki:  Mark Cuban's attempt to ditch national anthem educates people on U.S. failures.  White House press secretary Jen Psaki says Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban's attempt to ditch the national anthem was an acknowledgment of U.S. shortcomings.  The White House spokeswoman was asked about the billionaire's move, which was quickly torpedoed by the league as the news went viral.  "I haven't spoken with the president about the decision by Mark Cuban or the Dallas Mavericks," Ms. Psaki said of the plan to omit the national anthem from the Mavericks' first 13 home games.  "I know he's incredibly proud to be an American, and has great respect for the anthem, and all that represents, especially for our men and women serving in uniform around the world."

The Editor says...
Now you know where Psaki stands — as an official representative of the President.

White House Supports Mavericks Scrapping The National Anthem Because America Fails 'Often'.  White House press secretary Jen Psaki expressed support for Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban's decision to remove the national anthem from the team's home games because they "feel [the anthem] doesn't represent them."  During the Wednesday [2/10/2021] press briefing, Fox News's Peter Doocy asked Psaki about the Biden administration's stance on Cuban's decision.  While the press secretary acknowledged that President Joe Biden is "proud to be an American and has great respect for the anthem," she also said he would support the Mavericks for calling out the frequent times when "we as a country haven't lived up to our highest ideals."

The Editor says...
Cuban, Psaki, and Biden have made it clear:  They are annoyed by the National Anthem, apparently because they hate America.

Update:
NBA Responds after Mark Cuban Skips National Anthem for Home Games.  The National Basketball Association announced on Wednesday [2/10/2021] that all teams would play the national anthem before games.  The announcement marks an apparent rebuke of Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who decided he would not mandate the playing of the anthem before the team's home games.  The Mavericks have already played their first home games without the anthem, including their first home game with fans in the audience.

But at least now you know where Mark Cuban stands.
Dallas Mavericks PLAY national anthem before home game against the Hawks - just hours after owner Mark Cuban relented.  The Dallas Mavericks have played the national anthem before a home game against the Atlanta Hawks, just hours after billionaire team owner Mark Cuban relented to the NBA's demand that the song be played at all games.  A recorded version of the Star-Spangled Banner was played before Wednesday night's game at American Airlines Center, while Mavericks and Hawks players and staff stood lined up on the court.  As the anthem concluded, the smattering of fans in attendance broke out in applause and cheers.  The Mavericks are currently allowing 1,500 fans at home games, with tickets available to vaccinated healthcare and essential workers.

Did Biden Get Booed?  Bidens Make Creepy Video Appearance at Super Bowl, Tell Americans to Wear Masks and Get Vaccinated.  Super Bowl LV: Kansas City Chiefs v. Tampa Bay Buccaneers kicked off Sunday [2/7/2021] at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.  According to reports, 22,000 fans attended the Super Bowl on Sunday.  The Bidens barged in and made a creepy video appearance before kickoff to lecture Americans about "social distancing."  Americans just can't get on with their lives because the Democrats have to drone on and on about Covid every second of every day.  Joe Biden and his  handler  wife Jill made a video message from their Delaware basement bunker that played on the jumbotron — as if people watching football and drinking beer want to hear from Dementia Joe.

The Editor says...
The attendance at the big game might have been 24,835, which is less than 40 percent of the previous year's attendance.

Super Bowl LV Kicks Off with' Black National Anthem'.  Super Bowl 55 kicked off Sunday with recording artist Alicia Keys singing the so-called black national anthem, "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," along with a poem.  Hitmaker Alicia Keys was tasked with a virtual performance of the 121-year-old spiritual song that has come to be known alternately as the "black national anthem" after being introduced in 1899 for Abraham Lincoln's birthday.  The poem read in 1899 was set to music in 1900.

Roger Goodell Praises Colin Kaepernick — Says He Deserves 'Our Recognition And Admiration'.  NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell praised former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick during his annual state of the league address.  Fox News reported that Goodell said that Kaepernick deserves "our recognition ... and our appreciation" for talking about systemic racism in 2016, when he began taking a knee during the national anthem before his games in protest.  "I said very clearly back in June that we wish we had listened to our players earlier, and we had a lot of players that were coming and bringing these issues to us," Goodell told reporters.  "It didn't start last summer; it started over two years ago and we've been working with the Players Coalition over that period of time."

The Thirty Tyrants.  A decade ago, no one would've put NBA superstar LeBron James and Apple CEO Tim Cook in the same family album, but here they are now, linked by their fantastic wealth owing to cheap Chinese manufacturing (Nike sneakers, iPhones, etc.) and a growing Chinese consumer market.  The NBA's $1.5 billion contract with digital service provider Tencent made the Chinese firm the league's biggest partner outside America.  In gratitude, these two-way ambassadors shared the wisdom of the Chinese Communist Party with their ignorant countrymen.  After an an NBA executive tweeted in defense of Hong Kong dissidents, social justice activist King LeBron told Americans to watch their tongues.  "Even though yes, we do have freedom of speech," said James, "it can be a lot of negative that comes with it."

Megan Rapinoe rips woman wearing USWNT hoodie and Trump mask: 'That is not the kind of fan we will welcome'.  Megan Rapinoe had a clear message for any so-called fans of the U.S. women's national soccer team who support the Trump administration:  "Don't bring that [...] here."  Rapinoe, 35, the national team's outspoken leader and social justice activist, watched in horror from the team's January training camp in Orlando as white supremacist and domestic terrorists wreaked havoc on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.  Their purpose?  Trying to undermine democracy and overthrow a government at the behest of President Trump, who was unhappy he lost re-election to Joe Biden.  A photo was snapped and shared of someone trying to return home after the insurrection wearing a USWNT sweatshirt while also dawning a TRUMP 2020 face mask, which of course caught the attention of the team and Rapinoe, who stand against the man who has continued to lie and spew hatred about non-white, BIPOC.

The Editor says...
[#1] I really doubt if there were any "white supremacist(s)" in the DC crowd last week, and the only "domestic terrorists" were from the political left.  [#2] At least 9,999 out of every 10,000 people in the crowd were assembling peacefully, which the Constitution guarantees their right to do.  [#3] Nobody was "trying to undermine democracy [or] overthrow a government at the behest of President Trump."  That is a vicious canard.  Trump never asked encouraged anyone to engage in violence.  [#4] President Trump is not just "unhappy he lost re-election to Joe Biden."  He is justifiably indignant because his re-election was stolen, and the counterfeit victory given to Biden, by means of wholesale voter fraud.  Joe Biden is one of the few people who is corrupt and venal enough to accept such a gift.  [#5] One can easily imagine that the rest of the article above — and the entire web site — is replete with further lies and disinformation.

Confessions of a Sports Dropout.  [Scroll down]  Common sense still mostly prevails at the amateur level.  I've not seen a Black Lives Matter banner at a Little League game yet.  But it's early days, and we all know what rolls downhill.  The NFL, MLB, and NBA are now adjuncts of Black Lives Matter, complete with banners, sweatshirts, and sappy and misleading television commercials.  League executives have given no indication whether their loyalty is to the sentiment — which is unassailable but irrelevant, as no one ever said black lives don't matter — or to the Marxist organization, which has a much more toxic agenda than racial peace and equity.  In fact, racial peace is the last thing BLM wants.  It would put them out of business.  The price of attending or viewing one of these now-political leagues' games, in addition to the usurious ticket or cable package tariff, is to see America insulted by kneeling athletes, indulged young prats whom America has made rich and privileged beyond their wildest dreams.

NBA coach Stan Van Gundy calls white people 'racist,' says he's a 'poster boy for white privilege'.  New Orleans Pelicans head coach Stan Van Gundy said white people are "racist" and need to change to help African Americans.  "We're the ones that are racist," Van Gundy told ESPN's The Undefeated in an interview.  "It's a white person's problem that affects people of color, and so we're the ones who have to change. ... Certainly you want to promote Black voices, right?  But if they're the only ones speaking out, a lot of people just push it aside.  There needs to be people saying, 'No, wait a minute.  This is wrong, and we need to correct these things.'"  Van Gundy said that he is part of the problem, calling himself a "poster boy for white privilege."

Soccer Team Bans Fans From Booing Team Members Taking A Knee.  Cambridge United have handed a stadium ban to fans who booed players taking a knee before their home game against Colchester.  Other fans have been asked to undertake education around discrimination and equality before they are allowed back into the Abbey Stadium.  A handful of fans could be heard booing ahead of kick-off in the League Two fixture on December 15, even though it was quickly drowned out by applause.  [Video clip]

BLM Leader Who The Red Sox Honored On The Field Is Arrested For Punching An 80 Year Old Woman On Video.  A 32-year-old Black Lives Matter leader who was honored by the Boston Red Sox during an August "Hats off to Heroes" ceremony, normally used to honor members of the military, was arrested Saturday in Swampscott, Massachusetts for punching an 80-year-old female Trump supporter in the chest.  Jacques Jr., who was released on $550 bail, can be seen in a video posted by Trump supporter Dianna Ploss unloading a right to the 80-year-old woman.  According to his Facebook page, Jacques Jr. was approached by the Red Sox back in August.  The team planned to honor the BLM leader on a night normally reserved to honor members of the military.  [Video clip]

NFL Honors Gunman Killed While Trying To Murder Cops.  The National Football League (NFL) has chosen to honor a gunman who was killed while shooting at police by allowing players to wear his name on their helmets.  Protesters have demanded that Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) Officer Dejoure Mercer be sent to prison for murder for returning fire after 21-year-old Dreasjon Reed shot at him on May 6, The Indianapolis Star reported at the time.  Special Prosecutor Rosemary Khoury announced in November that a grand jury determined the shooting was justified, according to The Indianapolis Star.  The Indiana State Police (ISP) said evidence in Reed's phone indicated he was involved in two drive-by shootings prior to livestreaming the police chase and gun battle with Officer Mercer, The Indianapolis Star reported.

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U.S. Olympic Committee Will Allow Athletes To Kneel In Protest, Raise Fists.  The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) announced Thursday that it won't sanction athletes who raise a fist or take a knee on the medal stand at the Tokyo Games in 2021.  USOPC said on Dec. 10 that it agreed with the calls from American athletes that asked the committee to change the rule prohibiting inside-the-lines protests at the Olympic Games, according to ESPN.  The provision known as Rule 50 in the Olympic Charter has been under scrutiny and International Olympic Committee (IOC) has told its athlete commission to explore other options, according to The Washington Post.

Social Justice Bowl?: Ad Agency Predicts 'Black Lives Matter' Theme for Super Bowl LV.  TV advertisers may be preparing to turn the NFL's biggest game into the "Social Justice Bowl" with hours of woke commercials and messaging.  If reports on the ads coming for Super Bowl LV are to be believed, the funny and heartwarming ads, the cute kids and heroic animals will be running alongside Black Lives Matter themes.  Along with social justice activism, advertisers may be preparing commercials filled with coronavirus messaging as well, according to Front Office Sports.

U.S. Women's Soccer Team Wears Black Lives Matter Jackets to International Match.  The U.S. Women's National Team (USWNT) wore Black Lives Matter Jackets to their international friendly match against the Netherlands on Friday.  In a message posted before the game, USWNT star Alex Morgan said the team chose to wear the jackets as a way to "affirm human decency," and as a stand against "racial injustice and police brutality."

The Colin Kaepernick spectacle needs to end now.  Last week, the man who has made millions stirring racial anxieties and allying himself with massive corporations that profit mightily from slave labor, decided to use his voice not to promote harmony and unity, but to once again stoke discord.  One would think that a man who has profited so handsomely by turning a blind eye towards the human rights abuses that fund his underwriters would experience at least a modicum of shame before attempting to lecture humanity on matters of "justice."  But Colin Kaepernick has proven he is nothing if not shameless.  So at a virtual conference last Monday [11/23/2020], the Nike millionaire zoomed in to lend his voice to the cause of freeing Wesley Cook, the former Black Panther who, after shooting white police officer Da