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The New York Times resorted to hysterics Thursday in an editorial calling for total sports league shutdowns. The op-ed claimed the nation is “at war” with COVID-19, is losing the battle and all professional leagues should shut it down for a few months.

Okay, vaccinations and protocols are not working, and professional sports were not supposed to be looking at a COVID-induced long dark winter. The experts and the politicians had all the “scientific answers.” Talk of temporary shutdowns and bubbles were supposed to be things of the past.

The National Football League seeks to inspire change, but it’s repeatedly keeping bad company and pursuing the wrong kind of change. Its latest blunder is to fund numerous defund the police groups through its “Inspire Change” social justice program.

On Tuesday, ESPN knowingly tweeted a lie as the worldwide leader in liberally slanted sports created a workplace environment that incentivizes employees to lie by exposing racism and white supremacy – real or imagined, says Outkick’s Bobby Burack.

Move over, Big Tech. Titleist, the company that boasts of making the No. 1 ball in golf, is now part of the corporate censorship movement. Titleist will allow you the opportunity to order customizable golf balls with anti-Trump statements, but don’t even think about using “Let’s Go, Brandon!” This anti-Joe Biden phrase was originally allowed by Titlist, but is now strictly forbidden as a…

Courtesy of “transphobes,” an “anti-trans panic” has come to the Ivy League swimming pool at Pennsylvania University. Lia Thomas, “the latest trans woman athlete,” has become the “villain,, says SBNation Outsports trans writer Karleigh Webb (no conflict of interest here though). Thomas is a man who’s smashing women’s swimming records to bits, while violating Webb’s…

There’s trouble in the NBA, the so-called paragon of how to successfully slam dunk the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite a 97 percent vaccination rate, an outbreak of the coronavirus is fast-breaking through the league. Despite a 60 percent player booster shot rate, the league has already lost just as many players and coaches to the dreaded illness as it did last season when fewer had been jabbed,…

The late Vince Lombardi once said, “Winners never quit, and quitters never win.” He was wrong. Quitters claim Time magazine Athlete of the Year honors. Pouty American gymnast Simone Biles withdrew from this year’s Summer Olympics because she wasn’t doing as well as expected. Time insulted the real achievers in 2021 by handing their annual award to her.

It was a well-known fact that the National Basketball Association pressured Enes Kanter Freedom to stop upsetting China, but now we have the specifics. The Boston Celtics center told Megyn Kelly on Sirius XM that two representatives of the NBA told him to stop wearing shoes with the message “Free Tibet.” When he refused, there were repercussions.

Florida’s Sen. Rick Scott is mad as heck at the NBA over its ties with “murderous and tyrannical” China. And he’s not going to take it anymore. The Republican senator called on the NBA to meet with him over its silence on the commies’ “ongoing genocide.” He also wants the league to support his call for removal of the 2022 Winter Olympics from China.

Last week’s Supreme Court oral arguments over abortion prompted hysterics about so-called “reproductive rights” from many on the Left. Including former tennis player Billie Jean King, who wrote an inane op-ed in the Washington Post defending Roe v. Wade. She tried to make a point that so-called “reproductive rights” are necessary, but also admitted her own abortion in 1971…

The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) is getting roasted for its pathetic treatment of China in the wake of Peng Shuai’s recent disappearance. Unlike the Women’s Tennis Association (WTP), the ATP issued weak statements without even mentioning China. It’s feeble response to China’s human rights violations is drawing a lot of criticism.

Illinois State University is getting hauled into court for intolerance. Former assistant football coach Kurt Beathard is suing the university that fired him in 2020 for removing a Black Lives Matter poster from his office door and replacing it with a Christian-themed "All Lives Matter" sign.

At last, a professional sports association has the guts to stand up to China. It’s the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (Rep-Texas) says it possesses more of a certain male characteristic than China’s whipping boy, the National basketball Association.