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Wokeball Spurned: NCAA Title Game Doubles NBA TV Audience
The ratings are in, and Monday’s NCAA men’s basketball championship game drew more than double the television audience of the last NBA Finals. Outkick blogger/Fox Sports Radio host Clay Travis today called it further repudiation of the NBA’s woke culture, and he said the league is destroying the sport popularized by previous generations.
Deadspin FUMES After Lefties Fail to Relocate The Masters
The Masters golf tournament begins Thursday and, writing over at Deadspin, FS1 blowhard Rob Parker blew a gasket that it’s taking place in Augusta, Georgia. He blamed corporations for failing to apply enough pressure on the PGA to get it to move the tournament somewhere else in protest of the state’s new voter integrity law.
Like Jackie Robinson? WashPost’s Boswell Roasted for Stupid MLB Tweet
Inside the Beltway sportswriter Thomas Boswell reaped the whirlwind for assuming that Major League Baseball knew the nation’s pulse when it took the 2021 all-star game away from Atlanta. He drew a hurricane blowback on Twitter for his outlandish claim that it was baseball’s best move since integrating the game in 1947.
Baseball Writer Gammons Assails Gov. Kemp As '1859' KKK Racist
Legendary baseball writer Peter Gammons earned his way into the Hall of Shame Friday by calling Georgia’s Republican governor a KKK member. Gov. Brian Kemp signed election reform into law in March, prompting an insidious backlash and Major League Baseball to pull this year’s All-Star Game out of the Peach State.
Going, Going, Gone! Baseball Swats All-Star Game Out of Georgia Park
Major League Baseball flied deep to Left field politically today, removing the 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta over Georgia’s new laws aimed at ensuring election integrity. Following the advice of Democrat President Joe Biden, the political partisanship of Coca-Cola and Delta, an alliance of African American players and others, MLB delivered a major rebuke to the new Republican-led election…
ESPN Promotes Biden Trashing GA Election Law ‘Jim Crow on Steroids'
President Joe Biden won’t go to the southern border to see the mess he’s made of things down there. He does, however, have time to spend talking sports with ESPN. He spoke on SportsCenter with Sage Steele Wednesday on the topics of Major League Baseball's All-Star Game in Georgia, fan attendance amid the pandemic and pay for women’s soccer players. Truly bad optics considering the state of the…
Poll: Activism Drives Away Over 3X More Sports Fans Than it Attracts
More than three times as many people who watch sports on television say they are now watching less as say they are watching more as a result of the political and social justice messaging that has been injected into game broadcasts, a new YouGov/Yahoo News survey finds.
Oh Good. US Women’s Soccer Team Will Now Obsess Over Race
“The players on the U.S. women’s national team wish they could simply focus on soccer.” If you are at all familiar with the USWNT, you just did a spit take. That sentence opens Caitlyn Murray’s March 30 Yahoo Sports article on the team, and it’s a genuinely funny start for a piece about USWNT trying to fit race into an already bulging portfolio of things to be aggrieved about.
U.S. Olympic Trials Now Wide Open For Social Justice Protest
The U.S. Olympic governing body is caving in to social justice pressure and aiming to allow all kinds of protests at the this year’s Olympic Trials. Kneeling during the national anthem? Social justice slogans? It will be open season for all that and more.
Deadspin: Shootings End, Gun Control Starts When White Athletes Care
Deadspin race-baiter extraordinaire Carron J. Phillips declared that U.S. mass shootings will decrease if more white people stop wasting their privilege and take a knee in protest. We would have tougher gun control laws if whitey starting kneeling because it is such an effective strategy.
Now Leftists Target Masters Tournament For Removal From Georgia
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp accurately predicted the new voting bill he signed into law Thursday would draw detractors. They “will threaten, boycott, sue, demonize and team up with their friends in the national media to call me everything in the book," he said.
Media Calls For Major League Baseball To Yank All-Star Game From ATL
Georgia’s attempts to preserve election integrity may clean up future elections … at the cost of cancellation as this year’s host of the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. The MLB Players Association (MLBPA) and media lemmings are crying voter suppression over Georgia’s new election laws, and now there is a growing crescendo of calls for moving the all-star game to another state.
Sports Networks Ignore Seamy Side Of Coaching, Player Scandals
Some things are thoroughly rotten with media coverage of March Madness and Major League Baseball this spring. New York Post columnist Phil Mushnick exposed television networks airing these respective sports for celebrating cheating coaches and athletes.
Warriors Coach Kerr Blasts Away For Gun Control
Gun control nut Steve Kerr is firing on all cylinders at Republicans in the wake of Monday’s horrific mass shooting in Boulder. The head coach of the Golden State Warriors and frequent gun control screecher says Sen. Ted Cruz and other Republicans are ignoring the issue and refusing to listen to their constituents.