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Culture
December 14, 2024
Transgender former CFL player says attending B.C. Lions ceremony as authentic self was 'euphoric': When the B.C. Lions said they were going to honour their 2000 Grey Cup championship this fall during a halftime ceremony at B.C. Place, Maven Maurer was excited but anxious. Maurer had been a member of the plucky underdog team, the first to ever win the CFL championship after finishing the regular season with a sub-.500 record. The days leading up to the Sept. 13 ceremony were a roller-coaster. Maurer hesitated to buy a plane ticket until the day before the ceremony, unsure if attending the event as a transgender woman was a good idea.
posted by tommybiden to culture at 02:40 PM - 3 comments
November 27, 2024
In a siloed media climate, sports becomes the only place where facts matter: Sports is one of the last remaining institutions in America that is truly bipartisan. As such, figures like Mike Greenberg or Colin Cowherd, or Scott Van Pelt are among some of the only individuals in the entire country that regular people on both sides of the aisle actually listen to together.
posted by NoMich to culture at 11:09 AM - 2 comments
November 01, 2024
Ryan Clark wants to see same media response to Nick Bosa MAGA hat stunt as Colin Kaepernick protests: “It seems very clear to me Nick Bosa understands that when you wear that hat, you take a side,” Clark said. “You take a side of division in a sport that’s supposed to bring us together. I’m just waiting for all the people who comment under political and sports things to shut up and dribble or to shut up and play football, to tell him to shut up and rush. But they ain’t going to say it cuz they feel the exact same way he do.”
posted by NoMich to culture at 11:25 AM - 0 comments
July 30, 2024
Falling Out of Love With Sports — And the Russian Regime: A champion snowboarder didn’t want to bite the hand that fed her, but Moscow’s attack on Ukraine strengthened her moral conviction
posted by NoMich to culture at 12:37 PM - 0 comments
June 04, 2024
The One Downside of Gender Equality in Sports: The WNBA’s newfound popularity has triggered a boom in commentary from men who have no idea what they’re talking about.
May 24, 2024
NCAA signs off on deal that would pay student-athletes: A tentative agreement announced Thursday by the NCAA and the country’s five biggest conferences to a series of antitrust lawsuits could direct millions of dollars directly to athletes as soon as fall 2025.
posted by NoMich to culture at 01:06 PM - 2 comments
NBA great Dwyane Wade launches Translatable: NBA great Dwyane Wade has launched Translatable, a nonprofit online community dedicated to supporting transgender youth.
posted by NoMich to culture at 09:27 AM - 0 comments
April 29, 2024
For five decades, Bob Cole was Canada's hockey soundtrack: What made him famous? It was his voice, sure, but also his cadence. Every Canadian of a certain age is assuredly friends with someone who was once supremely confident in their Bob Cole impression, either in the goal call (a high, pinched “scores!”) or in pacing, which … can go … a little something … like this. At his best, Cole worked in both science and art. His catchphrases were repeated in street hockey games across the country. (In 2015, with the help of a long-time producer at CBC, Cole launched an app filled with his own recitations.) “How about that?” “Hold onto your hats” “Oh, baby.” There were more, but none so famous as that last one.
posted by tommybiden to culture at 07:52 PM - 2 comments
March 16, 2024
VP Aaron Rodgers?: Noted Sandy Hook truther and former NFL MVP now being considered as a running mate to Robert Kennedy, Jr. Former rassler Jesse Ventura, however, may piledrive his way onto the ticket instead.
posted by NoMich to culture at 09:11 AM - 0 comments
December 06, 2022
Mississippi revises demands on Favre in welfare lawsuit: The department dropped its demand of $1.1 million against Favre, acknowledging he has already repaid that money for an unfulfilled pledge of public speeches. But it made a new demand of up to $5 million against Favre and a university sports foundation, saying money from an anti-poverty program was improperly used to pay for a volleyball arena at the University of Southern Mississippi.
posted by NoMich to culture at 12:20 PM - 0 comments
October 09, 2022
Defendants Subpoena Phil Bryant For Info on Brett Favre-Linked Drug Company: “In late December of 2018, Defendant Brett Favre was the largest individual outside investor and holder of corporate stock in Defendant Prevacus, Inc., a private, for-profit biotechnology corporation in which Favre had individually invested over $250,000,” the May 2022 complaint said. “Also in late December of 2018, Defendant Brett Favre urged Defendant Jacob W. (“Jake”) VanLandingham, the Chief Executive Officer of Prevacus, to solicit Nancy New to use MDHS grant proceeds to invest in the stock of Prevacus, informing VanLandingham that Nancy New had previously provided substantial grant funds on his behalf.” This shit getting worse by the day it seems. This time, WWE legend, the Million Dollar Man, is also implicated. Now we know how he got his rassler name.
posted by NoMich to culture at 04:08 PM - 3 comments
October 01, 2022
Mississippi Welfare Scandal Timeline: Brett Favre And The Volleyball Stadium: Between 2016 and 2019, the Mississippi Department of Human Services and nonprofits associated with it allegedly misspent more than tens of millions of dollars in federal Temporary Assistance For Needy Families funds that should have gone to the poorest families in the poorest state. More than $5 million of those funds went toward a volleyball-stadium project at the University of Southern Mississippi favored by retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre and $1.1 million went to Favre himself.
posted by NoMich to culture at 09:54 AM - 2 comments
July 11, 2022
Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked into the UK using another child’s name: Think of the children, eh?
posted by billsaysthis to culture at 07:50 PM - 1 comment
March 24, 2022
First known transgender athlete to win Division I national championship: Some folks are none too pleased with Lia Thomas being allowed to compete to begin with. Two Republican governors weigh in with their own opinion or action. Former competitive swimmer, Kelsie Vaughn gets the last word on her Facebook page (posted as a comment below)
posted by NoMich to culture at 02:19 PM - 5 comments
January 28, 2022
Ricky Williams is on a Different Plane: As in, the astral one.
posted by The_Black_Hand to culture at 07:25 PM - 3 comments
October 13, 2020
Reggie Cannon: "FC Dallas wanted apology for responding to fans": "Every post saying, Let's teach this boy Reggie Cannon a lesson about what true terror is.' All this BS. So, now they're taking added security measures."
posted by billsaysthis to culture at 12:05 PM - 3 comments
June 05, 2020
NFL says it was wrong in handling of protests over racial injustice, encourages players to do so peacefully: “We, the National Football League condemn racism and the systematic oppression of black people,” Goodell said in a video released by the NFL. “We, the National Football League admit we were wrong for not listening to NFL players earlier, and encourage all to speak out and peacefully protest. We, the National Football League believe black lives matter.”
posted by tommytrump to culture at 08:12 PM - 4 comments
May 22, 2020
The same people who put Trump in office run the NFL. No wonder it's not diverse : "Only once in nearly two decades has a club been penalized for non-compliance: [with the Rooney Rule] when the Detroit Lions couldn’t keep it in their pants long enough to at least do the dance before hiring Steve Mariucci, earning them a $200,000 fine in 2003."
posted by billsaysthis to culture at 11:20 AM - 1 comment
November 13, 2019
He told a kid to slide. Then he got sued.: Losing might spell the end of organized youth sports...
posted by billsaysthis to culture at 05:29 PM - 6 comments
October 16, 2019
Opinion: LeBron James undermines values he's espoused in most disgraceful moment of career: LeBron James says Rockets GM Daryl Morey 'misinformed' on China tweet, then clarifies remark.
posted by billsaysthis to culture at 12:02 PM - 3 comments
March 08, 2019
US women's national team take legal action over discrimination: After their 2016 complaint to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission went exactly nowhere, all 28 members of the USWNT put their names down to ask for equal pay for equal work. Or better work, given their results relative to the USMNT.
posted by billsaysthis to culture at 07:05 PM - 7 comments
February 16, 2019
High Flying Bird shows athletes are more powerless and powerful than they know: Steven Soderbergh's latest looks straight into the NBA owner/player racial divide. Streaming on Netflix, shot on iPhones.
posted by billsaysthis to culture at 11:32 AM - 0 comments
May 24, 2018
Abby Wambach, Remarks as Delivered: Stunning commencement address to Barnard College.
posted by billsaysthis to culture at 12:32 PM - 3 comments
December 16, 2017
Why don't we care about the biggest sex abuse scandal in sports history?: “The case of Larry Nassar, certainly the largest [sports sexual abuse] scandal in scale, has generated a fraction of the mainstream media coverage that was devoted to the Sandusky and Baylor stories. Why that is is worthy of inspection.”
posted by rumple to culture at 03:19 PM - 7 comments
November 19, 2017
What to Read when It's Time for Sports:: "Here is a list of books that tackle the complexities of sports in America, from nonfiction to poetry to fiction. ... And just a “heads up” (as they say in the sports world): this isn’t your average sports list."
posted by rumple to culture at 03:55 PM - 2 comments
June 28, 2017
With words and a strong grip, an MLB umpire pulls a woman back from the brink in Pittsburgh : As a Major League Baseball umpire, John Tumpane often has to diffuse tense situations at the ballpark. None compared to the scene he came upon Wednesday as he walked across the Roberto Clemente Bridge around 3 p.m. on his way back from a run and lunch: A few hundred yards from PNC Park, he saw a woman climb over a railing and look toward the Allegheny River below.
posted by tommytrump to culture at 08:41 PM - 2 comments
April 20, 2017
Former Bull Craig Hodges on Jordan, Kaepernick, and dissent:: "Jordan didn't speak out because he didn't know what to say". He was one of the NBA's finest sharpshooters and a two-time champion alongside Michael Jordan, but was run out of the league for his outspoken views. A quarter of a century on, Craig Hodges is still fighting the good fight.
posted by rumple to culture at 10:27 AM - 7 comments
March 18, 2017
Heres Why the US Womens National Hockey Team Is Going on Strike: Team captain Meghan Duggan: We are asking for a living wage and for USA Hockey to fully support its programs for women and girls and stop treating us like an afterthought. We have represented our country with dignity and deserve to be treated with fairness and respect. Hashtag: #BeBoldForChange CNN: Pay fight between USA Hockey and women's players intensifies
posted by NoMich to culture at 11:41 PM - 7 comments
September 20, 2016
Mud and Glory: "Of a wet and thunderous sodden Saturday they couldnt put on any lights fifty-two years ago, there werent any to put on. It grew much darker and blacker in vilest intensity with coagulated punch-ups going oddly unnoticed due to the annoying and most profound darkness that at least cost nothing. The dark has always been on the house I think youll find. Dark and mud sponsored the game of life back then before the new artificial grass authorities put the kybosh on free thinking."
posted by owlhouse to culture at 04:38 AM - 3 comments
September 12, 2016
NCAA pulls championship events from North Carolina over HB2: Having warned the state of North Carolina at the Final Four that it risked losing NCAA events over House Bill 2, the NCAA showed Monday night just how serious it was. Bonus opinion piece by local sports writer, Luke DeCock.
posted by NoMich to culture at 08:49 PM - 7 comments
August 22, 2016
The Great Sports Myth: the widespread assumption that sport is, inherently, a force of gooddespite the fact that it can both empower and humiliate, build bonds and destroy them, blur boundaries and marginalize.
posted by rumple to culture at 06:07 PM - 2 comments
June 02, 2016
The Ringer: Bill Simmons' spiritual successor to Grantland, is open for business.
posted by yerfatma to culture at 10:20 AM - 6 comments
May 26, 2016
Baylor fires Art Briles over criminal coverups: Details are still a bit thin but apparently Coach Briles protected multiple players on his Baylor football team from sexual assault cases. Baylor President and Chancellor Ken Starr is now just Chancellor, athletic director Ian McCaw has been sanctioned and placed on probation but Briles' assistant coaches all remain in place, at least for now, including Kendall Briles. The details are nauseating so I'll leave them out of the post.
posted by billsaysthis to culture at 01:39 PM - 2 comments
May 11, 2016
Grosse Ile H.S. lacrosse team accused of killing animal before game: Members of the Grosse Ile High School lacrosse team are under investigation by police and the school district after allegations surfaced Monday that some of the teens killed an animal prior to a game.
posted by tommytrump to culture at 05:49 PM - 4 comments
April 23, 2016
Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert's career was propelled by wrestling: which also allowed him to abuse, and get away with abusing, boys for many years. "When calls for his removal from office reverberated through the capital a decade ago, Speaker J. Dennis Hastert struggled to explain why he had not aggressively investigated allegations that a Florida lawmaker had sent flirtatious messages to a teenage boy who had served as a House page. At that perilous moment, an impassioned group of supporters stepped forward to speak up on Mr. Hastert’s behalf: wrestling coaches."
posted by rumple to culture at 01:09 PM - 0 comments
December 14, 2015
It's Who We Are?: Its really not surprising that, on December 10, 2015, the school board of McLoud, Oklahoma voted to maintain their racist mascot. All of the usual arguments were made, in support of keeping the R word: Its an honor, tearful pleas of Weve been the R** for generations, and, my favorite, Its who we are. The latter is by far the most accurate and telling. Put simply, the events during the McLoud meeting was not only a by-product of American history, but an indictment of it.
posted by rumple to culture at 04:10 PM - 4 comments
November 09, 2015
Athletics doping: Wada commission wants Russia ban: The report says London 2012 was "sabotaged" by "widespread inaction" against athletes with suspicious doping profiles. Russia was also accused of running a "state-supported" doping program.
posted by billsaysthis to culture at 04:30 PM - 1 comment
November 05, 2015
"Shuttering of Grantland Hints at Corroding ESPN Culture, Competency, and Gumption": Awful Announcing's finance director on why he thinks ESPN's cancelling of Grantland is, "the networks dumbest decision in the five years I have professionally been involved in tracking the company". Linked from there, ESPN.com's former ombudsman on the situation.
posted by yerfatma to culture at 03:34 PM - 6 comments
October 30, 2015
Grantland is dead: "Grantland distinguished itself with quality writing, smart ideas, original thinking and fun. So we're junking it."
posted by DrJohnEvans to culture at 02:19 PM - 4 comments
September 23, 2015
Craig Finn's guide to the best ever sports music: Hate to have to break it to him about Ragnar.
posted by yerfatma to culture at 02:02 PM - 9 comments