Politico published an article titled “MAGA Is Coming for the WNBA.” I doubt that any effort exists by Trump supporters to derail women’s professional basketball (at least any on par with Norm Macdonald’s prolonged war on the league).
On the other hand, an organized effort exists by liberals to artificially prop up women’s professional basketball. On Tuesday evening, I went to check scores on ESPN for the baseball playoff games. The lead article focused not on Dodgers-Reds or Yankees-Red Sox but instead a WNBA playoff game.
Like in the Soviet Union or any other command economy, ESPN, not the demand of its consumers, decides that people want women’s basketball more than professional baseball. So, we get that whether we want it or not. ESPN puts its thumbs on the scale.
Paul Finebaum, the college football analyst, notes that he had lined up an interview of Donald Trump in conjunction with the Alabama-LSU, No. 1 v. No. 2 game in November 2019. The network, which had run an NCAA basketball tournament bracket interview of Barack Obama throughout his presidency, put the kibosh on Finebaum’s interview.
“I called my boss, and they killed it,” Finebaum told Clay Travis. “I was devastated. They told me that we were not allowed to mix politics with sports.”
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