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happy Yankees Elimination Day to all who celebrate!

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Steven Godfrey @stevengodfrey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Take a second today and check out @fmckindra.bsky.social on his reckoning with Arkansas fandom as a gay black man, and the story of E. Lynn Harris (which I certainly didn't know about) arktimes.com/food-and-cul...

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Can a Black gay man still call the hogs? - Arkansas Times

White heteronormativity has long dominated the University of Arkansas. What does that mean for Black gay Arkansans?

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 02/10/2026

The Protect College Sports Act got 77 votes in the Senate. It doesn't do what its backers say it does, but it DOES achieve a lot of other things. One of them is perpetuate the diversion of $$ from black football players to a largely white class of ADs, coaches, and agents slate.com/culture/2026...

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Ted Cruz Is Getting His Way With a New Law. Democrats Are Letting Him. No One Wants to Admit What It Does.

Donald Trump is eager to sign the bill. Democrats shouldn't let it get there.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I want to unpack this a tiny bit, which I think I can do without getting anybody in too much trouble: One verrry underreported aspect of campaigns like this, for obvious reasons, is “which TV pundits have the same agents as athletes they’re covering”

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He’s right of course. Player pay and coaching pay ARE totally different markets. That’s why in every pro sports league on earth, the best players are paid significantly more than the best coaches. They’re way more valuable. College sports is unique in flipping that

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

dave portnoy sexual "misconduct," barstool as commodification and expansion of frat culture...it's obviously not everything but it's also not nothing

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Bryan Grantham @bryanmgrantham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Taps the sign

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

hey just curious where did the “protect women athletes” crowd get off to

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Lesley Ryder @lesleyryder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Some frequently asked questions from last weeks report by me and @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social on the multiple complaints received by the NWSL

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Sam Westmoreland @swestmoreland.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ruh roh Clemson. Things might be hitting rock bottom there sooner than later at this point.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I know I say all the time that people who talk like this aren't so much stupid as they think YOU'RE stupid but Kirk thinking anybody will buy him saying "I don't know anything about Ted Cruz's political views" is an UNPRECEDENTED stress test of this theory

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Sam Westmoreland @swestmoreland.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Huh, weird. I can't imagine why they wouldn't want to report this. Surely an anti-trans rights organization's finances are all definitely on the level! Can't wait to watch these carpetbagging fucks eat shit this fall.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Jesus Christ they killed this kid

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Rachael @rachaelt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

see, if he did this as a statement in front of people someone might be able to ask him what changed in the 18 hours since he had a room of adults rolling on the floor and agreeing with him that violence against women is in fact comedy. ah well.

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Matt @mbunchanumbers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Also not just “a woman”. Maybe the most prominent and respected woman in the sport.

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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the thread line from the Wired article this morning abut the burnerverse harassment campaigns to this moment with Arch Manning laughing at an AI assault video is a pretty direct and short one

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Amie Just @amiejust.com · 12/09/2026

Win or lose. Forever and always.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/09/2026

they don’t even try to hide the fact that this is not about women’s sports this is about crushing anyone who doesn’t conform to their particular view of gender and what they actually want is to never see the wnba or its fandom ever again

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Sam Westmoreland @swestmoreland.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

@mollyknight.bsky.social Looks like both teams are sticking up for Rincon tonight.

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Sam Westmoreland @swestmoreland.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Good god @hollyanderson.bsky.social brought the heat on this. She gave words and shape and voice to the thoughts I've been wrangling with about the sport I love, equal parts evisceration and hopeful balm, and something that's going to be seared into my brain for a long, long time.

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

i also want to be very clear again, one of the two girls he interviewed in the spiked column who insists it’s not an anti-trans movement did this

During the February 6 game, Staudt said she grew upset that Rooks was allowed to play. She then admitted to misgendering Rooks in front of several people.
"I was put on the spot in the whole entire gym, I looked over and I said, 'You are a man,' because that is my first amendment right," she said.

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

this is very simple and applies to them all

At the same time, Cunningham is a backup who is probably past the midway point of her career, and it makes total sense for her to be thinking about what comes next. There are plenty of after-basketball paths Sophie Cunningham could explore that do not involve further emboldening vile bigots obsessed with driving trans people from public life. But none of those paths are as easy or as lucrative as this one. That's why she's taking it.

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Erika is still using women's toilets 🖕(she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erristarling.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is because our allies NEVER push the science that we don't have an advantage in sports Its always "there are hardly any trans athletes" as though thats a defence of us because the implication to that is "if there were more then it would be an issue"

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🏳️‍⚧️ UNBAN LINK @biancamack.co · 30/08/2026

Love a direct, to the point queen. Say it plainly and leave no space for bad-faith bullshit.

Asked why the WNBA continues to experience these heightened distractions, Cloud said, "Men."
"The men now that are like 'Oh, we need to protect the WNBA,’ y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't be paid," Cloud continued. "Y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't have been invested in, saying we're a joke, the same ones that don't respect Black women. So, if you're going to protect women, that means all women. That includes Black women, trans women and the list goes on."

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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/08/2026

Sophie Cunningham Claims Any Woman Who Averages More Than 8 Points Per Game Should Not Be Allowed To Play In WNBA theonion.com/sophie-cunningham-clai…

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Thinking about Dolly Parton/Tim Curry and sometimes separating the art from the artist works the opposite way it’s conventionally used where sometimes you can’t separate them not because it’s bad but because you know the person is making the art in an expression of joy and it helps you connect more

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David at FOIAball @foiaball.com · 26/08/2026

Wanna know something I think would be crazy? It would be crazy if XX-XY Athletics, the apparel firm stoking outrage against the WNBA, had a secret, Koch brothers-aligned, oil rich family fortune behind it. But that would be crazy, right??? www.foiaball.com/p/xx-xy-athl...

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The oil money lurking behind the WNBA outrage

XX-XY Athletics has an interesting paper trail.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/08/2026

they will institute a league-wide ban at some point, they are just asking to put their players through additional humiliating incidents with this clown first a cowardly approach that will make everything worse

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

You’ve got to understand the WNBA’s dilemma here: on one side are the hardcore, dedicated socially liberal fanbase who supported the league during the dark days when it was barely profitable and on the other side are the people who hate women and don’t think the WNBA should exist.

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Basketball Fan, of the Sixers and LeBron James lmao! @drewhamm5.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If I were trying to sabotage a professional sports league from the inside I don’t know if I could do better than what the WNBA/NBA leadership are currently doing. Pathetic, embarrassing, harmful stuff.

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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 25/08/2026

she was 100x braver about this shit in 1985 than country artists are now

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Loser behavior from a guy who’s clinging like a shriveled old barnacle to a sport he doesn’t actually care about in a desperate bid for relevance. Do not cede one inch to him or anyone who acts this way.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It took the NHL 13 seasons to reach the first time a Montreal team drunkenly forgot the Stanley Cup somewhere, and only 3 years for the PWHL to reach the same milestone... what a leap for women's sports

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Upton Sinclair - “In my 1906 novel The Jungle, I wrote about the horrors of the meatpacking industry as a cautionary tale.” REPUBLICANS - “At long last, we have created the horrors of the meatpacking industry from the classic literature novel, The Jungle.”

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

you do not get a free run as a columnist at a paper and columnists whining about this thinking they can publish whatever they want is a misunderstanding of how this works. there are editors for a reason, they empowered and required to spike bad copy. if you want free reign, go publish on substack

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dan favale @danfavale.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“trust our investigative processes and findings!” -league that vetted mark walter when he bought the lakers

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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 16/08/2026

still lingering on this and wow it occurs to me that shedeur is Black Tebow in basically every way

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026

Black person plagarizes: they take your job, your money, they sneak into your house and steal your dog White person plagarizes: they’re very sorry, of course they’ve lined up a new job writing for the nation, isn’t it great that we all had a teachable moment together?

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/08/2026

I've donated and encourage other sf/f professionals and fans to do the same

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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/08/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff

Vimes knew about life below stairs, hell, yes, he did! Not so long ago a policeman summoned to a big house would be sent around to the back door to be instructed to drag away some weeping chambermaid or not-very-bright boot boy accused without evidence of stealing some ring or silver-handled brush that the lady of the house would probably find later, perhaps when she had finished the gin. That wasn’t supposed to be what coppers were for, although in reality, of course it was what coppers were for. It was about privilege, and young Vimes had hardly worn in his first pair of policeman’s boots when his sergeant had explained what that meant. It meant private law. In those days an influential man could get away with quite a lot if he had the right accent, the right crest on his tie or the right chums, and a young policeman who objected might get away without a job and without a reference.

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 09/08/2026

“I’m transgender. I’m a woman… I identify as sometimes identifying as a woman for purposes of… professional basketball." You want to choose to be a woman on a basketball court? Do it every second of your life what are you afraid of? Come on take the estrogen, let's so how much a woman you are.

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Matt Hodler @mhodler.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

A thing to remember about Riley Gaines is that she ignored several credible sexual assault allegations against her own swimming coach at UK, Lars Jorgensen, who she wrote glowingly about in her biography. She had a chance to actually protect women in sports (her own teammates) and she didn’t.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/08/2026

this is such a vile political stunt to pull congratulations to sophie cunningham and everyone who has decided to turn the wnba into the latest GOP political football, I hope she gets drummed out of the league

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Sam Westmoreland @swestmoreland.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Straight up horrifying. It just keeps getting worse and worse.

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