Sports

There is much more to the story of “Lia” Thomas and women’s swimming at the University of Pennsylvania than the unfairness of his physical superiority. The Washington Examiner reported that the university failed to follow through on its promise to make Thomas, the male claiming to be a female, dress in separate quarters. 

Former NBA center Enes Kanter Freedom didn’t get the worshipful, Colin Kaepernick treatment in Thursday’s long New York Times profile by Sopan Deb, “Now Engaged in a Full-Court Press for Activism.” But the flattering headline is belied by the hostile 2,500-word profile that followed. Not even Freedom’s Muslim faith saved him from criticism.

The “kingdom” is crumbling. LeBron “King” James is playing for a losing team in Los Angeles, and his pattern when that happens is to jump ship. He says he would like to play with Steph Curry and Golden State, but with the King gaining more and more detractors, the feeling is not reciprocal. 

An entire NCAA “March Madness” Tourney just passed by and television broadcasters failed to mention one word about the serious investigation hanging over national champion Kansas. Neither CBS, TNT, TBS nor TruTv brought it up at any time in their coverage of the tournament spanning mid-March to early April. 

Golden State Warriors head basketball coach and gun control fanatic Steve Kerr came out firing after Sunday’s early morning Sacramento shooting incident. He and President Joe Biden both called for gun control laws that have been on the books since the 20th century.  

LeBron James is out with a sprained ankle, and on Sunday Kareem Abdul-Jabbar gave him a heavy dose of emotional pain. Abdul-Jabbar criticized the Lakers forward for hypocrisy and said he isn’t trustworthy. 

Though two Texas grand juries refused to bring criminal charges for sexual assault and harassment against DeShaun Watson, the Cleveland Browns’ new quarterback may not have escaped legal trouble just yet.

Don’t quit your day job, LeBron. Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James has won the dubious Golden Raspberry award for Worst Actor in his 2021 role in Space Jam 2: A New Legacy. His acting was also called “incompetent” by Mediaite. 

The National Football League’s Rooney Rule has been re-made into the “loony rule.” On Monday, the league mandated diversity Kool-Aid overdoses for each of its 32 teams. The mandate requires all of its teams to hire a minority offensive assistant coach for the 2022 season, as part of an effort to engineer greater diversity. 

Despite opposition from the ACLU and the state’s NBA team, the Utah legislature over-rode the governor’s veto of a law banning males from competing on female sports teams. LGBT sympathizers immediately raised the possibility of punishing the state for what the legislature did. 

In an interview with Breitbart Sports, Cong. Roger Williams says enough already with the woke nonsense in sports. The Texas Republican, a former college baseball player and the current manager of the Republican baseball team, said we don’t need to destroy our rich American history with wokeness in sports.

As part of the left’s relentless and stomach-churning attempt to redefine gender and sex, USA Today reacted in a piece Thursday to Republican Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn asking Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson to define “what is a woman” by insisting “science says there’s no simple answer” or “sufficient way” to identify whether someone’s a woman.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver on Thursday told The New York Times his league is not soft on China and denied accusations that it is blackballing critic and former player Enes Kanter Freedom. Given the league’s actions on both regards, his claims rank low on the credibility meter. 

There’s no longer any denying it: ESPN is the worldwide leader in creating its own news. The most recent example is the new report that network MMA analyst Chael Sonnen has been charged with 11 counts of battery for attacking six people, including a woman.