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Recently, Chamath Palihapitiya, a billionaire investor and partial owner of the NBA's Golden State Warriors, declared during a podcast appearance that he (and many people he knows) “doesn’t care” about the plight of the Uyghurs.

In a gag-worthy twist, the latest from the PennU trans swimming pool is that Lia Thomas says he is the Jackie Robinson of transgender athletics. Strange, but I don’t recall anything about a “Jacquelyn” Robinson, major league baseball’s first black player with Brooklyn in 1947, later joining the Rockford Peaches women’s baseball team (1943-54) and batting .990!

Burner phone use by athletes at the Beijing Olympics is the order of the day. Numerous nations are warning athletes to leave their laptops and cell phones at home for fear of Chinese cyber mischief at the Beijing Winter Olympics beginning Feb. 4.

Just days after the NFL’s annual dismissal of failed head coaches, the ESPN blog, The Undefeated, went on another of its patented race rants. Two of the head coaches fired at the end of the season were black, prompting veteran race baiter Jason Reid to moan “white is right.”

The Chicago Bulls rank first in the NBA’s Eastern Conference basketball standings and in putting on pride nights. Or last in the latter, depending on one's point of view. They’ll show you how basketball should be played and how to stage the allegedly best darn halftime drag show going.

Did you know that COVID-19 vaccines are one of the modern wonders of the world? One of the nation’s top athletes isn’t aware of this though. The Brooklyn Nets’ guard Kyrie Irving needs to put aside his ignorance, get jabbed, keep everyone in New York City safe and serve as a good role model for people, says SBNation sportswriter Ricky O’Donnell.

Howard Stern’s been shocking the world for a living for a long, long time, but on Tuesday, he nearly lost his mind tearing tennis great Novak Djokovic to shreds. The tennis player, he raged, should be banned from, not just the Australian Open but tennis in general, for not being vaccinated.

Last week, China fanboy/parasite Elon Musk got verbally slapped down by NBA player Enes Freedom Kanter for sucking up to China. Completely overlooking China’s innumerable human rights abuses, Musk opened up a Tesla showroom in China's Xinjiang province, drawing the ire of the Boston Celtics’ center Kanter, who has been waging an ongoing campaign against China.

Can we ever have a gender-normal Olympiad again? Last summer in Tokyo, it was all about the transgenders. Next month in Beijing, the United States will feature its first-ever non-binary winter athlete.

What happens when one high school girls’ basketball team comes to compete, and the other team doesn’t? If you are the head coach of the first team, and your squad wins in a wipeout, you are scapegoated and suspended for a game. We’ve seen this sort of ridiculous thing before when a sports team is severely punished for achievement, and it’s never a pretty outcome.

In a strict policy change, the National Football League is prohibiting questions designed to embarrass or offend potential draft selections. The Wonderlic test is also going away, and so are over-the-top interrogation techniques. Any violators will face severe penalties, according to a league-wide memo circulated Wednesday.

The NBA’s perpetual first head female coach in waiting awaits no more. Becky Hammon, a San Antonio Spurs assistant coach, has given it up and accepted a head coaching job with the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces. Widely assumed to have the right stuff to coach men, her privilege card has expired. She and the media immediately revved up glass ceiling excuses for getting passed over by NBA teams.

Almost all professional athletes are fully vaccinated. Almost all of the highest-paid athletes are fully vaccinated. Yet the nitpickers at Forbes magazine shamed the very few who have not indicated their status, including Aaron Rodgers, who isn’t even on the highest-paid list. But what does a little rule-bending hurt if you can throw a Most Valuable Player onto your list in hopes of getting…

With Week 17 in the NFL season under way, let's take the opportunity to point and laugh at the nutty professor who went on a Twitter rant on Tuesday against beloved NFL coach-turned-broadcaster John Madden for having contributed to the dehumanization of black athletes and “glamorized violence" by lending his name to the classic "Madden" series of pro-football video games through EA Sports.  …