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DC Area Sports Talk Hosts Suspended for Mocking 50-Year-Old Transgender College Basketball Player

By Geoffrey Dickens | December 12, 2012 | 13:25

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Two veteran DC area sports talk radio hosts, ESPN980's Andy Pollin and Steve Czaban, were suspended, on Tuesday, for making fun of Gabrielle Ludwig, a 6-6, 50-year-old former male college basketball player, who came back to play the woman's game.

According to the Washington Post's Dan Steinberg, the two were suspended for engaging in a discussion last week about the fairness of a transsexual playing against women, an exchange that included the kind of lockerroom jocularity typical of sportstalk radio. Apparently that mockery drew the ire of LGBT activists.

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WashPost Sports Section Blames Bush for Roger Clemens Prosecution

By Tim Graham | June 20, 2012 | 08:34

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The Washington Post can’t even keep the liberal politicking out of the Sports section. On Wednesday, sports columnist Sally Jenkins somehow blamed a George W. Bush speech snippet for the Roger Clemens prosecution: "The Clemens case came about because a handful of zealots who are presumably bored by their real jobs were overly empowered by former president George W. Bush’s mention of the performance-enhancing-drug issue in his 2004 State of the Union address."

On Tuesday’s Sports section, blogger Dan Steinberg mocked The Daily Caller for lauding Washington Nationals rookie Bryce Harper as a conservative hero, approvingly quoting hard-left hack Charles Pierce:

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