Chad Wheeler

USA Today: NFL, Society Too Tolerant With Domestic Abusers

Culture
January 29th, 2021 11:02 AM

Year after year, arrest after arrest, the National Football League’s domestic violence plague continues with no end in sight. It’s because the league and society simply do not care. If a player abuses off the field and has the skill or potential to contribute on the field, he’s all too often allowed to keep playing, says USA Today writer Mike Freeman.

Alberto Salazar, left, and Mary Cain

HBO Documentary Exposes ‘Progressive’ Nike’s Abuse of Athletes

Culture
January 27th, 2021 2:47 PM

Nike’s role as a cultural and "progressive" icon and the most powerful brand in sports can’t be overstated. The Swoosh logo is everywhere, and the multinational corporation is linked at the hip with social justice warriors like Colin Kaepernick and Megan Rapinoe, the LGBT movement and other left-wing causes. This image was shattered Tuesday night by a damning report on the HBO program Real…

Boo! Lefty Will Leitch Says Trump ‘Haunts’ Pro Sports

Culture
January 26th, 2021 10:13 AM

Whether or not Donald Trump goes gentle into that good night (as if), it will be a while before the lefties who loathe the former POTUS let him go. For media types, he’s been such a handy vessel for their rage and blame that they’re reluctant to let him go.

 

Biden’s Title IX Order Erased Women on His First Day. Twitter Noticed.

Culture
January 22nd, 2021 5:30 PM

It’s TERFs vs. Trans! Twitter is awash in rhetorical blood as two reliably lefty identity groups are skirmishing again. But this time, it’s Joe Biden’s fault. Biden announced Wednesday that he was reversing Trump administration limitations on Title IX and restoring the draconian gender and sexuality nondiscrimination enforcement favored by the Obama administration -- men in women’s bathrooms…

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More Woke Mania: Female Football Kicker Invited to Biden Inauguration

Culture
January 19th, 2021 5:56 PM

The Associated Press gushed about President-elect Joe Biden inviting Sarah Fuller to Wednesday’s inauguration. If her name escapes you, she was the first woman to score (she kicked two extra points with opposing players refusing to rush her) in a Power Five conference football game this past season.

NYT's Bad Sports:Red State Football Fans Spread COVID; NBA Fans Don't?

January 15th, 2021 3:55 PM

The University of Alabama Crimson Tide won another college football national championship, and the New York Times returned to its disgraceful double standards on condemning sports fans gathering in celebration during a pandemic: It’s dangerously irresponsible when done in red states, but it’s ignored when done in liberal cities. Wednesday’s Sports page featured the ominous headline, “…

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Jemele Hill Demands WNBA ‘Caretakers of Democracy’ Oust Loeffler

Culture
January 13th, 2021 12:22 PM

By campaigning for the radical U.S. Senator-elect Raphael Warnock, intolerant Women’s NBA players now insist they are the “caretakers of democracy.” They, along with radioactive writer Jemele Hill and LeBron James are trying to push Atlanta Dream co-owner Kelly Loefler out of their far-Left league to assure that there is no room in it for someone who is not on board with Black Lives Matter.…

NY Post Claims Football In Freefall With No Safety Net

Culture
January 4th, 2021 12:40 PM

Long considered essential to American culture, football is destroying itself, and it’s not just over social justice mania. The New York Post’s Phil Mushnick says the sport is in an idiot-induced freefall, as evidenced most recently by a brawl after a college bowl game Friday and unbridled anti-social behavior on the NCAA and NFL levels.

Bubba Wallace

Non-stories Rate Highly in Newsweek's Top 2020 Sports Stories

Culture
December 31st, 2020 2:20 PM

In the past year, Kobe Bryant died in a helipcopter crash, social justice activism ruined sports for countless fans, LSU won the national championship in college football, Dustin Johnson won the Master’s and Patrick Mahomes inked an astronomical $500 million contract after winning the Super Bowl. Each of these major stories have one thing in common: Newsweek ranked these and other…

Herschel Walker

Deadspin’s Idiots of 2020: Republicans Like Herschel Walker, Lou Holtz

Culture
December 28th, 2020 11:24 AM

Three qualities significantly increase one’s likelihood of making Deadspin’s “Idiot of the Year” list: you’re a Republican, you stand up for freedom over COVID shutdowns and you take a stand against the Black Lives Matter Marxists. Deadspin staff members boast of working tirelessly to select the members of the list who are the dumbest fish to swim through 2020’s sea of stupidity.

Stan Van Gundy

'Poster Boy For White Privilege:' That’s NBA Coach’s Claim to Fame

Culture
December 27th, 2020 6:30 PM

Though he’s overshadowed by the better known social justice warriors of the NBA and NFL, New Orleans Pelicans coach Stan Van Gundy is way out there on the far Left fringe. In an interview with ESPN’s black-themed blog, The Undefeated, the veteran NBA coach proudly claimed the mantle of poster boy for white privilege.

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2020 Replay: The 12 Months of Sports Media Bias

Culture
December 25th, 2020 2:11 PM

In the first month of 2020, Fox Sports gave to us its rejection of pro-life Super Bowl ads – while accepting drag queens, social justice warriors and gun control. The pro-life group Faces of Choice attempted to purchase advertising time, but never got a response from Fox. NBC reporter Liam Knox called the drag queen ad "barrier-breaking.”

NYT's Football-Hating Sportswriter Goes After Kansas City Chiefs

December 23rd, 2020 1:03 PM

Perhaps disappointed that the National Football League had the audacity to play this year, New York Times “Sports of the Times” columnist Kurt Streeter found another way to attack the league from the left – the tired old hobbyhorse of allegedly offensive American Indian nicknames. “A Growing Movement Tired of Being Your Mascots” is the latest dose of guilt-ridden consciousness-raising…

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Billie Jean King Demands Punishment of Idaho for ‘Anti-Trans' Law

Culture
December 23rd, 2020 12:22 PM

LGBT royalty Billie Jean King and Megan Rapinoe are among the 176 women who signed a friend of the court brief demanding the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (aka “Ninth Circus”) overturn Idaho’s law H.B. 500 requiring athletes to compete with the teams of their actual gender.