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Shakira is 43 and JLo is 50. You can’t tell me they’re not the most impressive athletes in that stadium tonight, my god.
You can be sad John McCain died, respectful to his family, thankful for his service to the country, and also acknowledge some incredibly troubling parts of his legacy. These things are not all mutually exclusive.
I have been very upfront about how I felt about Kobe and his legacy, but this is devastating news and I’m honestly just sitting here stunned. Give yourself and others room to feel complicated feelings of grief. Thinking of his wife and daughters, and also of survivors.
Can Anderson Cooper follow me around to all of my meetings?
"Please let her talk, she didn't interrupt you."
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One thing I’ve tried to stop doing both in my writing and on twitter and in private is praising people who say they work 24/7 and never sleep. It’s not a personality trait or a skill or proof of anything other than bad time management.
Four years ago, Adam Rippon and MIrai Nagasu were eating in-n-out burger in California, crying and watching the Sochi Olympics from their couch. Look at them now.
1. Don't you dare forget the role that the players had in launching this wave of activism last summer.
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It’s not officially a panel until a man raises his hand and has “more of a comment than a question.”
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Also, while you’re here, the phrase “do what you love and you’ll never work another day in your life” is extreme bullshit!!!
This is truly life-changing information and I’m so mad I’m just finding it out!!!
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The reaction to the rumors/reports about Dwight Howard show you everything you need to know about why male pro athletes stay in the closet. So much homophobia and transphobia, it is absolutely sickening.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but it is OKAY to unapologetically celebrate this win. There are caveats. There is much more work to do. There are no guarantees. But this is a huge deal and it matters and will save lives and take a day or two to exhale and soak it in.
A terrifying amount of Americans are racist and sexist and xenophobic. That's how he's winning. It's depressing, but it's not complicated.
THIS IS LITERALLY THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER READ AND WILL EVER READ theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles
The Team USA women trained for most of their national team careers only making $6,000 every 4 years. Last year, they risked it all to boycott the world championships and fight for a better present and brighter future for the sport. Now, they're Olympic champions. #BeBoldForChange
So, this is the very first Carolina Panthers team photo, back in 1995, their inaugural season. Look who is right behind Jerry Richardson, front and center.
I’ve never related to an Olympian as much as I do to Suni Lee, who announced she might stay away from social media until beam finals so she wouldn’t be distracted, and then very clearly went straight to twitter and Instagram.
Two things can be true:
1. Serena did not lose because of Carlos. She lost because Osaka played lights out better than she did. And stayed composed.
2. The game penalty was absurd, and this is a devastating end to the tournament.
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It’s HARD, though. For me, too! I’m trying to count successful days as days when I achieve a balance, not days where I write for 15 hours straight.
Of course there will always be times (in sports media, this is often playoffs) when hours extend. But it shouldn’t be the norm.
Let's never, ever forget: Venus is the reason for equal prize money at . Perhaps her most significant victory.
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The Seattle Storm are the only all-female ownership group in the WNBA composed of women with names worth saying. #westan
Carli Lloyd is so mad she’s going to do windsprints on the field after the game.
The last five Olympic all-around champions have all been from the USA -- Carly Patterson, Nasta Liukin, Gabby Douglas, Simone Biles, and now, Sunisa Lee.
The last 3 are all WOC, w/ Lee being the first Hmong-American ever in the Olympics.
Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.
PSA: basketball is not over until the fall, the wnba exists!
it's fine if your sad that the nba is over until the fall, but just don't accidentally do a sexism while you're lamenting it.
Everyone say it with me: *MEN’S
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Texas Tech will be first Under Armour team to play for the college basketball title.
Here’s at the White House, laughing as she surveys the Big Macs and Pizza and Fries and BBQ Sauce on display.
“Okay, Donnie. Coooool.”
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When WNBA players endorsed on August 4, 2020, he was polling at just 9%, behind D. Matt Lieberman (14%), R. Doug Collins (20%), and Loeffler (26%).
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I've seen enough. Raphael Warnock (D) defeats Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R) in GA's special Senate runoff. #GASEN
This game alone should be the end of amateurism. So many — Duke, ticket scammers, sponsors, and businesses all throughout Durham — are making so much more money than usual b/c of Zion. He makes nothing, and gets hurt in the game, months before he can cash in. It’s disgraceful.
so many people are tweeting out a photo of the Storm in "Vote Warnock" t-shirts and captioning it, "thank the Atlanta Dream," and CONSIDER THIS ME YELLING AT THEM TO FUCKING PAY ATTENTION TO THE WNBA AND NOT JUST TWEET ABOUT THEM FOR CLOUT
I’m not saying to ignore the tough parts of Bryant’s legacy. But be careful not to “well, actually” someone’s grief. This is a tragedy.
Remember, the USWNT gets more money if the USMNT does well at the World Cup, so patriotism away, fellow USAins.
the fact that men first swam the 1500m free in the olympics in 1904, and yet women were just permitted to swim the event in the olympics *today* is just another example of the absurd barriers mediocre men have historically placed on women to artificially enforce their superiority
Kelsey Plum will earn ~ $50k her rookie year in WNBA.
Markelle Fultz will earn ~ $6mil his rookie year in NBA.
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History made.
For the first time, the No. 1 selections in the NBA and WNBA draft have come from the same school and conference.
#ProDawgs
A Katie Ledecky tribute.
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“I’m going to do whatever it takes” says man unwilling to do the one thing it takes.
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Kirk Cousins, who refuses to get vaccinated, says he’s willing to sit inside a plexiglass structure at work to avoid getting infected with Covid
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I kept it together until she said “I wouldn’t be Serena if there wasn’t Venus.” Now I’m loudly sobbing.
Love this: ’s friend made her a makeshift orange carpet since she missed All-Star, and also gave her a trophy for being picked last in the draft 😂 Great impressions of Cathy and Holly, too.
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Dwyane Wade on ABC said he's already gotten calls from other NBA alums asking about getting involved in WNBA ownership. We love to hear it.
Reporters teasing potentially serious allegations that have real victims and basically telling everyone to get their popcorn ready is super gross
I don't see how Jill Ellis can remain involved with the league or women's soccer in general in any way, shape, or form after this. San Diego needs to act.
This is going to piss off both wnba haters and wnba twitter and I would just like to remind everyone that fiancés are allowed to be biased it’s okay!!!!!!!
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"Congratulations on like, arguably the best career that anyone has ever had in the history of any sport ever."
-Megan Rapinoe to Sue Bird 
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I repeat: YOU CANNOT “SETTLE” FOR AN OLYMPIC MEDAL THAT IS NOT HOW THIS WORKS
Remember: Lindsay Whalen was one of the first white athletes to get involved in the BLM movement. In 2016 she joined the 3 other Lynx captains -- Moore, Augustus, and Brunson -- to hold a pre-game press conference about police brutality. This was months before anyone took a knee.
“Our lawsuit is in the fucking trees. Pay us, bitch.”
My god this is legendary.
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Me: I’m a sports reporter
Guy I’m talking to: Oh, do you like sports?
This is the #1 response I get from men I’ve just met when I tell them what I do. It happens All. The. Time. I’m assuming male sports reporters don’t get asked this question?
A cop killed Ruffin-Pratt's cousin the day she made the . She helped organize the team's media blackout.
Could we maybe not be promoting relationship advice from Kobe Bryant?
Giannis is on IG Live being driven to get 50 chicken nuggets by his very pregnant GF, with one trophy on his lap and the other on the floor between his legs, singing “I woke up like this, I woke up like this” and talking about how he stole the championship trophy from the team 😂
I honestly cannot get over this story. She was sent a $857 check from USA Bball after she led them to a gold medal. She cashed it. They told her it was a mistake. SHE RETURNED THE $857. And yet, Alabama HS Sports Assoc is acting like they're doing the NOBLE THING banning her.
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In my latest story, Alabama is doing the impossible, and making the NCAA seem *reasonable* when it comes to amateurism: thinkprogress.org/alabama-suspen
WOW, Delle Donne’s opt-out request was denied. She has to either play this summer, or sit out and forego her salary.
My latest, on Wisconsin’s Marsha Howard, who is still protesting racism during the national anthem and has no plans to stop. We spoke about Grassley’s attack, the support of her team, and the responsibility she feels to black students at UW, just 2% of pop
Oh *NOW* you think we should listen to the voices of players?!?!?!?!?!?!
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College universities and athletic conferences need to put politics aside and come together to find a way to safely play college football this season.
The players want to play. Shouldn’t their voices be heard too? espn.com/college-footba #WeWantToPlay #GoDawgs
Check on your strong friends, check on your friends who are falling apart, check on your silent friends, check on your loud friends, check on your successful friends, check on your struggling friends, just check on everyone because you never know.
i'm sorry i know with everything going on in the world i shouldn't be caring about nick cannon's procreation schedule, but 3 babies in 3 months with 3 different women -- two born just two weeks apart -- is truly just BANANAS.
While I’m not sleeping, I might as well share the best thing in the world, 6’7” ‘s tiktoks with their 4’9” girlfriend.
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just putting this here: Tara VanDerveer hasn’t hired a male assistant coach in 35 straight years
These drugs seem dangerous?
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"California is gonna have to ration water. You wanna know why? Because they send millions of gallons of water out to sea, out to the Pacific. Because they want to take care of certain little tiny fish, that aren't doing very well without water." -- Trump
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hi joe. she is literally playing right now, on abc. I MEAN.
more 30-for-30 documentaries about women, fewer 30-for-30 docs about men who abuse women
Does he think the subs carry over game to game????!!!!!!!! Like phone minutes in 2008??!!
thoughts and prayers to the developer who is about to have to pull an all-nighter.
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@nba GameTime App 2016-2017 can we please fix the box score portion. It's to challenging scrolling through it and remembering previous stats
LaToya Sanders played today’s game with a secret weapon stashed in her sports bra: Her father’s military card. He died in 2012. She wanted a piece of him with her today.
Obsessed that Naomi's bae has on a "Defund the police" shirt, and ESPN just showed it, how much do you think the commentators and producers are sweating right now?
If you support Barstool in any way, you are complicit in this. Thank you, , for this well reported piece.
Male sportswriters criticizing Cam: How often do you have women on your podcast? How often do you cite them as experts or share their work?
i accepted a long time ago that i will have to google "affect vs. effect" about once a week, and will still use the wrong one 95% of the time, it is a piece of information my brain simply refuses to properly interact with
why do i feel like "mac daddy santa" was not a character he started with his kids
There is no way to overstate how remarkable Adia Barnes’ coaching job at Arizona has been.
Always fun to see the bar move in real time.
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What do you make of the fact that most U.S. Women’s soccer players refused to sing the U.S. national anthem at the World Cup? Does that bother you? Is standing enough? The 2023 Women's World Cup is being co-hosted in Australia and New Zealand
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My latest, on this devastating story, which shows how little our entire system cares about violence against women. Women are told to come forward, to report, to ask for help. But when they do, they often put themselves in more danger, and don't get the help they need.
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College track star warned police about her ex-boyfriend 6 times in the 10 days before he killed her
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He should be a 15 year-old enjoying the holidays with his family. If your racist uncles start complaining about NFL player protests tomorrow, #sayhisname.
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Three years ago Tamir Rice was killed by police & I can hardly begin to imagine how many more Tamir Rice’s there are whose names we’ll never know.
Okay one last thing: I promise you Caitlin Clark is fine lmao. She doesn’t need you to protect her. She gives it and she can take it.
And your daughters will be fine, too. They will need to know how to trash talk to survive in this world, trust me.
Everything in the Summer Olympics looks exhausting but everything in the Winter Olympics looks like a death wish.
decide it on penalty kicks, you cowards twitter.com/johnpemble/sta
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I have to head out for the next few hours, but watching the main CBS channel switch from a WNBA game to a NWSL game on a Saturday afternoon just gave me the confidence of a superhero, WOMEN'S SPORTS ARE TAKING OVER AND YOU CAN'T STOP THEM SO GET ON BOARD!!!
twelve hours and 22,000 hateful comments directed at Black women later, espn makes a correction
I hate giving those in men’s sports credit for the bare minimum in women’s sports, but I actually really give kudos to Mark Davis for prioritizing an Aces finals road game over a Raiders regular-season home game. Genuinely awesome to see. The right decision and an important one
the wnba hate seems louder right now because the league and its players are growing more powerful and influential by the second, and it is terrifying for all those small people out there who base their superiority on top of misogyny and racism and homophobia and transphobia.
Color me not pumped that Ionescu Liberty jerseys are already sold out. IMO it's another case of completely underestimating women's sports on the supply side. How are you not prepared to sell as many of those as humanly possible tonight?!?!
Men are way too emotional, they honestly shouldn’t be allowed to play sports.
1. I feel it’s that time of year when I really need to spell out how incredible the Shey Peddy story is for everyone again. This is going to be a long thread, so hang tight.
The Washington Mystics won the WNBA title just over 3 weeks. Yesterday, I went on a quest to find Mystics championship gear — or any Mystics gear, period!— in the DMV area.
Five hours. Eight stores. Zero luck.
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you can think becky hammon deserves to make $1million+ and also think it's absurd and frankly insulting that a coach can make 4x the max salary in the wnba, it's called #range.
also, as many others have pointed out, if you're not mentally there on the soccer field, you're like, a little slow and probably have bad passes and get a little embarrassed.
if you're not mentally there in GYMNASTICS?!?!?! you could actually die.
Last month, I went to South Bend and spent time with Muffet McGraw and her all-female coaching staff.
We talked about her journey to the top of women's basketball, double standards, Geno, and her vow to never hire another male coach.
My latest:
Every time the Nets or another NBA team is imploding with bullshit I like to head on over to the Bucks feed and check in on Giannis. Never disappoints.
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Giannis is making sure people are wearing his shoes by any means necessary. 
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I wrote about what's at stake for the USWNT at the men's World Cup:
If the USMNT wins today, and loses in the R16, the U.S. women would earn more this tournament than they did for winning the 2015+2019 World Cups COMBINED!!
The #equalpay deal matters.
A reminder that this year, NWSL players reported to camp on February 1. The season ended today, November 20. The minimum salary in the league is $22,000.