Sports

It’s not just the woke culture surrounding professional sports that turns people off. It’s the decadent rap culture, too. The NBA and its broadcast partners have lowered their standards so far that unless you’re a fan of loud, ugly rap music, you cannot be a true basketball fan, says New York Post columnist Phil Mushnick. 

A former member of the Seattle Seahawks’ “Legion of Boom” defense is headed for the slammer. Earl Thomas allegedly violated a protective order for his estranged wife multiple times, and a judge has issued a warrant for his felony arrest. He will be the 12th current or former NFL player to be arrested this year.

Sunday’s Washington Post Magazine carried an article on black conservative Herschel Walker’s campaign for Senate, and you could tell it would accentuate the negative. The headline asked: "For this Trump-endorsed candidate, does a troubled past even matter?"

Dwyane Wade was an NBA champion and all-star who’s now in retirement and shilling for the LGBT agenda. His son, Zaya, announced at the age of 12 he was a “girl, but Wade is now saying he held his “daughter” in the hospital the day “she” was born. This startling contradiction of family history appeared in a Variety magazine interview Wednesday. 

Open mouth, insert presidential foot. While appearing on the South Lawn of the White House at a photo opportunity with Olympic and Paralympic athletes Wednesday, President Joe Biden committed another gaffe by telling wheelchair-bound athletes not to jump during a photograph. 

The woke WNBA begins another season Friday, and the league is desperately hyping a Brittney Griner campaign in hopes of attracting some attention. Griner has been detained by Russia since February, when she attempted to enter the country with drugs. 

Sports fans are voting with their remote control and playing hardball with Major League Baseball. It’s gotten so bad that a college women’s softball game between Virginia Tech and Tennessee on April 21 out-drew MLB broadcasts over a two-week period (excluding Sunday night baseball).

What’s that bad taste in Subway’s mouth? It’s the bitter flavor of a fast-shrinking franchise and the fall-out from hiring the notorious Megan Rapinoe as a national pitch-woman. Subway is losing franchises hand over foot, and its Rapinoe ad campaign is getting some of the blame for the company driving customers away. 

Each of the National Football League’s 32 teams attempted to strengthen their rosters over the weekend by drafting promising young college talent. Former Baltimore Ravens’ player Bart Scott, now an ESPN football analyst, said what each team really needs, though, is a couple more felons. His outrageous comments played right into the hands of critics who already regard the NFL as the National “…

Conservative Americans are hailing a rebirth of free speech with Elon Musk gaining ownership of Twitter. Nutty leftists are citing – of all people -- Colin Kaepernick to “prove” conservatives are hypocrites about free speech.

The NFL is in many ways a sleazy organization with more than its share of felons, drug abusers, wife beaters, woke nut jobs and drunks. Add another log on the fire as tonight’s first overall draft pick has been offered a “freebie” by a Las Vegas “sex worker.” 

The list of who’s politically correct enough to speak at Harvard University is certainly shrinking. Dr. Devin Buckley, a board member of the far-Left feminist organization, Women’s Liberation Front (WOLF), doesn’t even qualify to give a guest lecture at the woke Ivy League school. She was de-platformed because she and WOLF believe in the integrity of women’s sports. 

The National Football League instituted the process of drafting college players in 1936, but we’ve just learned from NBC Pro Football Talk’s liberal host Mike Florio that this is an “anti-American” activity. He made this sensationalistic claim in his book Playmakers: How the NFL Really Works, released last month.  

To say this hasn’t been a banner year for the NFL is a classic understatement. Make no mistake: it’s operating under a dark cloud. Eleven players have been arrested, six for alleged acts of violence. The league keeps embarrassing itself with ridiculous hiring mandates. Additionally, the Deshaun Watson scandal continues to fester.