By now you’ve heard about the comments of the University of South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley. A day prior to South Carolina’s victory over Iowa in the NCAA women’s championship game last Sunday, Staley was asked whether she…
Women’s basketball seems to be the locus of our stupid national controversies of late, and I’m going to surmise that is part and parcel of the legacy media push to force the game into the cultural mainstream. You’ve seen countless…
A controversy arose this week that is simultaneously a little-bitty nothing and a hornet’s nest of grand magnitude — and it must be addressed because a little bit of truth and reality needs to be shouted from as high a…
The police department of San Francisco State University (SFSU) has ruled that charges are “unfounded” and suspended an investigation into last April’s attack on NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines. The action seems odd given the nature of the attack and the…
No matter how sincere the efforts to make sports “inclusive,” every inclusion initiative ends with the reality that sports exclude. USA Cycling wanted to “prioritize the balance between fairness and inclusion” when developing its latest Transgender Participation Policy. Its solution…
Eating alone at a Bennigan’s restaurant in Steubenville, Ohio, on Tuesday evening, I couldn’t stop watching a sports event on one of the TV screens. That’s not unusual for me — that is, eating alone or watching sports. I typically…
A recent Gallup poll found that nearly 70 percent of Americans are against transgender athletes competing in sports that do not correspond with their biological sex. That is an increase over 2021, when 62 percent of Americans said the same…
There will be Americans — men and women — in the quarter-finals of the U.S. Open later this week, and at least one of each in the semis. This is serious progress, much better than the U.S. Congress’s ability to…
“Woman competes in women’s sports” should be a dog-bites-man story. Instead, it’s become a game of who’s burying what lede. American runner Nikki Hiltz and Canada’s mononymic soccer player Quinn should have been feted for winning the USA Track &…
When asked by an interviewer which memory stood out to her while playing on the U.S. women’s national soccer team, player Megan Rapinoe said, “Probably equal pay chance.” “I think this team has always fought for so much more, and…