Supreme Court Rules That the NCAA Cannot Act as a Cartel to Deny Payments to Student Athletes; Notes That There Is No Anti-Trust Exemption for the NCAA

Oh, we're taking anti-trust law seriously now?

Any chance that tech monopolies who are clearly coordinating in a cartel will get a look-see anytime soon?

Anyway, now college players will be paid like professionals. Which is basically what most of the Division I football and basketball players are.

Now, as of yet, the ruling does not go so far as to say colleges can pay their moneymakers a salary. But it does open up the definition of what "educational expenses" schools can pay.

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Under current NCAA rules, students cannot be paid, and the scholarship money colleges can offer is capped at the cost of attending the school. The NCAA had defended its rules as necessary to preserve the amateur nature of college sports.
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The case doesn't decide whether students can be paid salaries. Instead, the ruling will help determine whether schools decide to offer athletes tens of thousands of dollars in education-related benefits for things such as computers, graduate scholarships, tutoring, study abroad and internships.

I don't really see how you can limit the payments to just "educational expenses." If the NCAA's decree is being struck down as the illegal actions of a cartel, how can you then say "Well they can't impose that decree, but they can act as a cartel to impose this slightly-less-restrictive one?"

That makes no sense. If it can't act as a trust, then it can't act as a trust. Period.

Well, if the Supreme Court thinks the NCAA is an illegal trust which cannot conspire to forbid payments to athletes, wait until they hear about the NCAA acting as a cartel to force schools to let men compete with women.

Nah, just kidding. They'll probably claim there's no standing to press that suit.

Meanwhile, this 42 year old will be competing at the Olympics, because it's perfectly normal for 42 year old women to still be of Olympic power in strength sports.

Good luck, women! This weightlifter will be the first transgender athlete to compete at the Olympics. https://t.co/78WRaAe3kT
— Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) June 21, 2021

Ted Cruz asks the right question: If we've decided the woman's category is now intersex, why bother having segregated women's sports at all?

Let them compete with the men generally.

Totally fair.

Test: explain, precisely, why there are separate categories for men’s & women’s sports?

Why not just have generic “basketball” & “tennis” & “track” & “weightlifting,” regardless of gender?

If you have a problem with that, explain why, exactly. https://t.co/6CKUQNxSdE
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) June 21, 2021

Enjoy watching the Olympics at home, loser!

This is Kuinini ‘Nini’ Manumua, the woman who was ultimately displaced by inclusion of Laurel Hubbard.

She’s 21, and it would have been her first Olympics. pic.twitter.com/l8RH0q0njz
— Emma Hilton (@FondOfBeetles) June 21, 2021

Posted by: Ace at 01:18 PM

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1 HI

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 21, 2021 12:19 PM (3H9h1)

2 Yeah, "sportsball." Don't GAF.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 21, 2021 12:19 PM (2JVJo)

3 I wonder if this ruling opens NCAA to lawsuits from past players. Sounds like it does.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 21, 2021 12:21 PM (ouJlr)

4 NCAA money makers to give up pretense it is anything other a free minor league system for football and basketball when it has to pay volleyball players in 3...2...

Posted by: Bete at June 21, 2021 12:21 PM (Ojki1)

5 This is Kuinini 'Nini' Manumua, the woman who was ultimately displaced by inclusion of Laurel Hubbard.

She's 21, and it would have been her first Olympics.

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"If women can't beat men in weightlifting, then they are not true women."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 21, 2021 12:21 PM (LvTSG)

6 Yea, I saw this issue as #432 on my list of things I don't give a shit about. It's in-between the NFL and NBA. I don't give a shit about those either.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 21, 2021 12:22 PM (3H9h1)

7 Any chance that tech monopolies who are clearly coordinating in a cartel will get a look-see anytime soon?

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lol this will never happen

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2021 12:22 PM (7U3R4)

8 The students lost at the District and Appeals Court level on the question of salaries. For some reason they chose not to appeal that to SCOTUS

Blame them, not the Court

Posted by: Greg Q at June 21, 2021 12:22 PM (/0a60)

9 Women have become a too reliable democrat constituency to matter in the victim Olympics anymore. Women's sports and actual femaleness itself are done.

Posted by: huerfano at June 21, 2021 12:22 PM (DzhEB)

10 That's one pissed-off Samoan chick...

I wouldn't count her out.

Posted by: SMH at June 21, 2021 12:22 PM (UoJTm)

11 Well if these schools believe in the equity bullshit they're always spewing, they will start paying these athletes.

But I suspect the short answer will be: But this is different!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 21, 2021 12:22 PM (Siz82)

12 Early

Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 21, 2021 12:23 PM (a7ZrL)

13 Ted Cruz asks the right question: If we've decided the woman's category is now intersex, why bother having segregated women's sports at all?

The GOP should turn into the ambush. If the left is going to push the notion that transgender girls are the same as biological girls, then GOP run states should do just that and kill all sex segregation using Title IX as the excuse.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at June 21, 2021 12:23 PM (jOcSX)

14 Oh, we're taking anti-trust law seriously now?
For collegiate athletics? Sure. That's big business and, in certain sports, a major way of getting attendance numbers of minorities or women up. College sports are a major policy tool and they'll go through any gymnastics (heh) to optimize it.

Any chance that tech monopolies who are clearly coordinating in a cartel will get a look-see anytime soon?
Of course not, for the same fundamental reasons.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2021 12:23 PM (Jsjd7)

15 Will any of the actual women competing speak out against this?

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 21, 2021 12:23 PM (Ez6QX)

16 My guess, they'll pay the athletes, which will make them employees, and these "employees" will inevitably argue that they should be allowed to form a union, and college sports will cease to exist as we know them.

Posted by: Lincolntf at June 21, 2021 12:23 PM (l14X/)

17 If they hand out medals by the size of the lady participant's balls, New Zealand is gonna clean up.

Posted by: Dr Spank at June 21, 2021 12:23 PM (FNZNc)

18 Good luck, women! This weightlifter will be the first transgender athlete to compete at the Olympics.

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"I'd hit that!" -- Megan Rappin' Hoe

Posted by: ShainS at June 21, 2021 12:23 PM (auIRg)

19 I've been making the same point that Ted Cruz is making forever now. It's especially applicable when whiny things like that new purple headed Victoria's Secret model complain about "equal pay for the same thing." Well it's not the same thing--"she" didn't make the men's team. So let's equalize, shall we? No more men's and women's National Soccer Teams. Just a US team, and let all 37 genders be eligible, and pay them all the same. Let's see how much xhe likes it that way.

Posted by: Mad Max in VA at June 21, 2021 12:23 PM (cBHgD)

20 If college students now can get paid, it's time for Congress to remove the tax exemptions for scholarships. It's only fair.

Posted by: John B at June 21, 2021 12:23 PM (bFC82)

21 Kuinini 'Nini' Manumua

Imagine being this baller and getting displaced by Him-Her. It's plain sad.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 21, 2021 12:23 PM (QU5/8)

22 F'n New Zealand. Whatever.

Posted by: wth at June 21, 2021 12:24 PM (v0R5T)

23 This is actually big

Colleges have been screwing athletes for decades. Now they're going to have to pay up

Since I hate the Colleges, and don't hate the athletes, this is a win

Posted by: Greg Q at June 21, 2021 12:24 PM (/0a60)

24 For collegiate athletics? Sure. That's big business and, in certain sports, a major way of getting attendance numbers of minorities or women up. College sports are a major policy tool and they'll go through any gymnastics (heh) to optimize it.

College sports are a great way for upper middle class families to get their daughters into slightly better schools than they would otherwise be able to attend.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at June 21, 2021 12:24 PM (jOcSX)

25 Will any of the actual women competing speak out against this?
Posted by: Jordan61
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Doubtful, since to do so would bring howling twitter mobs upon them.

Posted by: SMH at June 21, 2021 12:25 PM (UoJTm)

26 hiya

Posted by: JT at June 21, 2021 12:25 PM (arJlL)

27 I wonder if this ruling opens NCAA to lawsuits from past players. Sounds like it does.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 21, 2021 12:21 PM (ouJlr)

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"NCAA ordered to pay athletes over the past century back wages of over $100 trillion; Declares bankruptcy."

Posted by: ShainS at June 21, 2021 12:25 PM (auIRg)

28 And agree with Cruz. If men and women are equal, having divisions based on what they think they are is pointless.

Unless we are going to have competition for all of the (at last count) 57 genders.

Which could be fun as a freak show event in itself. Bet Chyna doesn't have many self identifying blue mage dragonkins to send. We'll sweep those medals!

Posted by: Bete at June 21, 2021 12:26 PM (Ojki1)

29 If college students now can get paid, it's time for Congress to remove the tax exemptions for scholarships. It's only fair.
Posted by: John B at June 21, 2021 12:23 PM (bFC82)

How about remove the scholarships completely?

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 21, 2021 12:26 PM (Ez6QX)

30 @20

And while we're at it, start taxing college endowments annually.

Harvard has something like 40 billion socked away.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 21, 2021 12:26 PM (Siz82)

31 Laurel Hubbard looks more like Hardy Hubbard, if you catch my drift.

Posted by: JT at June 21, 2021 12:26 PM (arJlL)

32 IT'S FUNNY BEVAUSE, IF THIS WEIGHT LIFTER DROPS A NUT WHO'S GOING TO KNOW?

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LOL ... MUMR FTW!

Posted by: ShainS at June 21, 2021 12:26 PM (auIRg)

33 So this means that we can now replace the obnoxious purple-haired woman on the US Women's National Soccer Team with a fifteen-year-old boy?

Progress!

Posted by: Blor Utar, From Zimtok-5 at June 21, 2021 12:27 PM (xxG/v)

34 Mumr doing a ben joke is... it's like...i can't even come up with a coherent simile. It's just bedlam and chaos. It's unnatural. I need a shower.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 21, 2021 12:27 PM (/EuRN)

35 At some point it's just going to all trannies all the time and there won't be girls or boys sports shit. That's what they want. Actual females and males won't be permitted to compete. That would be harmful to the LGBQXYZ whatever's being beaten by a cis normal person who identifies as one of the two actual sexes.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 21, 2021 12:27 PM (3H9h1)

36 It's no longer college then. It's a minor league sports outfit. These athletes are being paid via the scholarship and room and board.

I vote Colleges should pay students who get 1350 or higher on the SATs.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 21, 2021 12:27 PM (2DOZq)

37

Old and busted - Clean and jerk

New hotness - Jerk off and clean

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 21, 2021 12:27 PM (s2VJv)

38 Mumr doing a ben joke is... it's like...i can't even come up with a coherent simile. It's just bedlam and chaos. It's unnatural. I need a shower.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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LOL

Posted by: SMH at June 21, 2021 12:27 PM (UoJTm)

39 Will any of the actual women competing speak out against this?
Posted by: Jordan61
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I'm tellin' ya, they should take turns kicking him in the balls !

Posted by: JT at June 21, 2021 12:27 PM (arJlL)

40 Shit! Missed it by this much > <.

Posted by: East Germany at June 21, 2021 12:28 PM (A860g)

41 This is an absolutely spectacular development, and has been a long time coming. Collegiate athletics are a major conduit for minority and female enrollment. These historically-excluded groups have few opportunities to achieve and succeed due to the generally poor public education systems that serve those communities. The poor primary and secondary educational opportunity is evidence of systemic oppression that is perpetuated by supremacist local government. Colleges offer an opportunity to level the playing field with enrollment, and this ruling will improve representation by increasing demand for subsidized compensation.

This is an unalloyed good. For far too long, the oppressive structure in this country has treated minority and female enrollment for athletics as a necessary evil to improve programs, and have used unpaid labor in a manner that is distressingly similar to the slavery system on which this country's founding and development depended. This is a wonderful development in achieving restorative justice in all aspects of our national life.

Posted by: Your Kid's Physical Education Professor at June 21, 2021 12:28 PM (Jsjd7)

42 Hope his groin amputation is all healed up or he might suffer a groin injury lifting those weights.

Posted by: wth at June 21, 2021 12:28 PM (v0R5T)

43 gotta admit Bruce Jenner is a better looking...ah nevermind

Posted by: DanMan at June 21, 2021 12:28 PM (aUOqu)

44 Will any of the actual women competing speak out against this?
Posted by: Jordan61

Some have and the Maoists have come after them big time.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 21, 2021 12:29 PM (s2VJv)

45 I'm tellin' ya, they should take turns kicking him in the balls !
Posted by: JT at June 21, 2021 12:27 PM (arJlL)

That's my purse! I don't know you!

Posted by: Bobby Hill at June 21, 2021 12:29 PM (PiwSw)

46 Damn, I hate these robed freaks.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at June 21, 2021 12:29 PM (wAnMi)

47 I'm tellin' ya, they should take turns kicking him in the balls !
Posted by: JT at June 21, 2021 12:27 PM (arJlL)

That too! But I'm wondering how many of these women are woke and think this is wonderful?

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 21, 2021 12:29 PM (Ez6QX)

48 "If women can't beat men in weightlifting, then they are not true women."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 21, 2021 12:21 PM (LvTSG)

So...the best women use to be men?

M.Nightshamalan wouldn't have written that twist to Feminism's story.

Posted by: Bete at June 21, 2021 12:29 PM (Ojki1)

49 so if you are a chump who pays to go to college while college pays other students to attend, is your degree a certificate of retardation?

Posted by: x at June 21, 2021 12:29 PM (oA+QO)

50 I wonder which national women's teams will refuse to compete in the Olympics. Ours certainly will go compete and lose, but I am curious as to who will boycott the event.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2021 12:30 PM (Jsjd7)

51 That's my purse! I don't know you!
Posted by: Bobby Hill at June 21, 2021 12:29 PM

Bobby, there better be a naked cheerleader under your bed!

Posted by: Hank Hill at June 21, 2021 12:30 PM (EughT)

52 Pay my bills, Dean Wormer!

Posted by: Count de Monet, checked in to the Heartbreak Hotel at June 21, 2021 12:30 PM (4I/2K)

53 I'm gonna go seize the day.

If ya never hear from me again, that means I melted !

Posted by: JT at June 21, 2021 12:30 PM (arJlL)

54 Some have and the Maoists have come after them big time.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 21, 2021 12:29 PM (s2VJv)

Figures.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 21, 2021 12:30 PM (Ez6QX)

55 SMH, thank you for the food link below. Corn and bean prices are reflecting last year's Iowa derecho. I expect that reflects lowered supply. The farmer who tills my patch says 2022 will be a "bigger challenge".

I bookmarked that link. It's going to come in handy.

Posted by: creeper at June 21, 2021 12:30 PM (XxJt1)

56 Unless we are going to have competition for all of the (at last count) 57 genders.

Which could be fun as a freak show event in itself. Bet Chyna doesn't have many self identifying blue mage dragonkins to send. We'll sweep those medals!
Posted by: Bete at June 21, 2021 12:26 PM (Ojki1)

Not a problem. We have plenty of Uighars to convert over to those genders.

Posted by: Wang, the IT Intel guy at June 21, 2021 12:31 PM (xxG/v)

57 Yeah, but can that gal cook?

Posted by: Dr Spank at June 21, 2021 12:31 PM (N6z+V)

58 NP, creeper.

I agree, farmers here are getting nervous.

Posted by: SMH at June 21, 2021 12:32 PM (UoJTm)

59 Before everyone starts in on how the NCAA is making all this money off of the student athletes, etc. please understand that the NCAA is a non profit organization that was created originally back in the very early 1900s to provide safety rules and regulations for college football players. At that time, college football was averaging 9-10 deaths a year. The NCAA is made up and governed by ADs, presidents, etc. of all the member schools , which numbers in the thousands in the three divisions it covers. It has an executive director and some adminstration, but 99% of the NCAA is run, governed and rules are made by the above people.

This pay the poor players bullshit was started and fomented by the Democrats. Their entire goal is to remove any and all sports from colleges because it takes time and bodies away from their organizing for power efforts. Besides this latest lawsuit regarding giving athletes all this extra stuff, the player likeness issue is coming up for a vote That is where if a players image is used in any kind of ad or promotion for a school, they must be paid for it. It will allow players to sell themselves to the highest bidder for advertisements by businesses.

Posted by: Jen the original at June 21, 2021 12:32 PM (N+m97)

60 That's my purse! I don't know you!
Posted by: Bobby Hill at June 21, 2021 12:29 PM

Bobby, there better be a naked cheerleader under your bed!
Posted by: Hank Hill at June 21, 2021 12:30 PM (EughT)

Classic. I'm beginning to think KotH was the best show ever on TV.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 21, 2021 12:32 PM (2DOZq)

61 But muh college football!!! SEC!! SEC!!!!

Way past due. End the "student athlete" nonsense and let college run pro farm teams if that's what they really care about. And alumni donations show that is what they care about.

Posted by: brak at June 21, 2021 12:32 PM (4ys8a)

62 42 isn't so old.

Posted by: George Blanda at June 21, 2021 12:32 PM (4I/2K)

63 This trim, busty brunette in athletic wear would have been thrilled to have this revenue stream when she was in college:
https://is.gd/1cJJ9R

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2021 12:32 PM (Jsjd7)

64 There was a bs example when a football player from CO many years ago was denied doing commercials because he was also an Olympian snowboarder or skier. They called him a professional and it had nothing to do with football. Stuff like that brought this on.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 21, 2021 12:33 PM (r+sAi)

65 Weightlifters should have to wear string bikinis.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 21, 2021 12:33 PM (W2Pud)

66 This is Kuinini 'Nini' Manumua, the woman who was ultimately displaced by inclusion of Laurel Hubbard. She's 21, and it would have been her first Olympics.

"If women can't beat men in weightlifting, then they are not true women."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Women can do anything a guy can do.
Heard that my whole life.

Time to put up ladies.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 21, 2021 12:34 PM (OCTRt)

67 Press F for College Football.
Every bad behavior will be dialed up to 11 and glorified.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at June 21, 2021 12:34 PM (QNFpD)

68 When can I begin bidding to "pay" high school graduates big bucks to play football or basketball for my old university? Today?

Posted by: Every filthy rich college alum at June 21, 2021 12:34 PM (AMIL/)

69 Weightlifters should have to wear string bikinis.
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That's too horrifying to even picture in my mind.

Posted by: SMH at June 21, 2021 12:34 PM (UoJTm)

70

She looks like a young Ned Beatty.

Posted by: Senator Rev. Dr. E Buzz Miller, Lesbian at June 21, 2021 12:34 PM (NuVOb)

71 Also I hope that dude breaks every womens' olympic record by double.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 21, 2021 12:34 PM (r+sAi)

72 42 isn't so old.
Posted by: George Blanda at June 21, 2021 12:32 PM (4I/2K)
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I'm with you, George.

So long as you subtract 30 from that number.

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 21, 2021 12:34 PM (Jsjd7)

73 End this farce of a scholar athlete.

I'd love to see admissions laws in general about how these decisions get made.

All of the Cuomo brothers went to Ivy League schools? How'd that happen? If your a Dem politician, your kids go to any Ivy League they want.

Why are taxpayer funded schools getting to act like they are private country clubs?

Posted by: Blago at June 21, 2021 12:34 PM (qvtGK)

74
I vote Colleges should pay students who get 1350 or higher on the SATs.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 21, 2021 12:27 PM (2DOZq)
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I guess that would be nice. But they can pay whomever they please. So long as they never receive another thin dime of taxpayer funding, ever, for any reason. The whole basis for tax monies going to these buffoons is that there is a positive State interest in an educated populace.

The shine wears off that argument when you realize the Universities are worthless, they contribute nothing, they educate nobody, and they in fact produce the most ignorant fuckin' swine on offer anywhere in the world.

Same for the public schools. I'd start by immediately defunding all of it, and then have a national conversation about whether to convert all of the employees into dog food, or just plunge them into the sea.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2021 12:34 PM (7U3R4)

75 It'll only take one school, (looking at you 'Bama) to start outright paying athletes, using this case as precedent. Then the rest of the S.E.C. will jump on board. I see KU and N. Carolina BB escalating salaries into near pro-levels. The end result will be increased tuition for the students attending for, heh, educational reasons.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at June 21, 2021 12:35 PM (7Fj9P)

76 Mumr doing a ben joke is... it's like...i can't even come up with a coherent simile. It's just bedlam and chaos. It's unnatural. I need a shower.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 21, 2021 12:27 PM

The ONT is the blog's safe space.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 21, 2021 12:35 PM (DMUuz)

77 That makes no sense.
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That neve stopped us before.

Posted by: The Supreme Court at June 21, 2021 12:35 PM (xqRaG)

78 This just means the NCAA hasn't contributed enough to whoever writes the anti-trust exemptions.

Posted by: Flyguy at June 21, 2021 12:35 PM (3sOO0)

79 Pacific Islander was displaced. It's OK, her month was over anyway

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 21, 2021 12:35 PM (sJHOI)

80 65 Weightlifters should have to wear string bikinis.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 21, 2021 12:33 PM (W2Pud)

Someone has neve seen pics from the bodybuilders contests. Or you have, and like the image. Not gonna judge.

Posted by: Bete at June 21, 2021 12:35 PM (Ojki1)

81 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2021 12:34 PM (7U3R4)

I was being sarcastic of course but I agree that universities should be held more accountable on how they spend taxpayer money.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 21, 2021 12:36 PM (2DOZq)

82 So NZ replaced a young POC woman with an old white guy in a wig.

HAHAHAHA

Posted by: 18-1 at June 21, 2021 12:36 PM (DpkTQ)

83 Shit! Missed it by this much >
Posted by: East Germany at June 21, 2021 12:28 PM (A860g)

you were just ahead of your time...

Katarina Witt not withstanding...

i'll be in my bunk...

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2021 12:36 PM (8D42x)

84 70 She looks like a young Ned Beatty.

Posted by: Senator Rev. Dr. E Buzz Miller, Lesbian at June 21, 2021 12:34 PM (NuVOb)

Even the inbred "Deliverance" hillbilly wouldn't hit that.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 21, 2021 12:36 PM (s2VJv)

85 In New Zealand it used to be understood that you do not piss off the Maori.

that must have been irritating to those who live to piss people off

Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2021 12:37 PM (ySM85)

86 I can lift wights, a small car and my cookies are a delight! #SexyTime2021

Posted by: Laurel Hubbard at June 21, 2021 12:37 PM (5pO8U)

87 79 Pacific Islander was displaced. It's OK, her month was over anyway
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 21, 2021 12:35 PM (sJHOI)

"Just the tip."

- - Hank "Joo-Termites" Johnson

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 21, 2021 12:37 PM (s2VJv)

88 On the transgender thing ruining girls' sports, I say good.

All of this really is to placate suburban white women, they are only group sucked into this silliness. So seeing those women and daughters in turn get hurt by it, seems fair to me.

Let us know when you're ready to push back, until then, prepare to get stomped on the field and lose your scholarships.

Posted by: Blago at June 21, 2021 12:37 PM (qvtGK)

89 Colleges are a joke. We use them for everything *except* a serious pursuit of education.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 21, 2021 12:37 PM (DpkTQ)

90 "Totally fair."

Agreed. How many men have lost their jobs to make room for women? Not many, I know, in construction and off-shore oil rigs, but in those key management positions?

Posted by: squid_hunt at June 21, 2021 12:38 PM (Ectld)

91 It'll only take one school, (looking at you 'Bama) to start outright paying athletes, using this case as precedent.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin

That would have been OU.
The best college football team Barry Switzer could buy.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 21, 2021 12:38 PM (OCTRt)

92 Ah, she's Maori, not Samoan.

Samoans are kittehs compared to the Maori.

Posted by: SMH at June 21, 2021 12:38 PM (UoJTm)

93 IMO Amateur sports died when the Olympics said Pros could compete.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 21, 2021 12:38 PM (oHd/0)

94 All of the Cuomo brothers went to Ivy League schools? How'd that happen? If your a Dem politician, your kids go to any Ivy League they want.
_________

And Hunter Biden, son of Joey Plugs, a guy so dumb he cheated at Syracuse Law and still finished at the bottom of his class, was admitted to Yale Law.

Purely on merit, no doubt!

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at June 21, 2021 12:39 PM (k4dH2)

95 In the end, the NCAA will end up issuing salary caps for college players.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 21, 2021 12:39 PM (r+sAi)

96
Women can do anything a guy can do.
Heard that my whole life.

Time to put up ladies.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 21, 2021 12:34 PM (OCTRt)

Judging by Kuinini 'Nini' Manumua they can.

Just not as well in some things.

But imagine the pride Manumua will have watching the 42 yr old guy compete in her place. Her heart may well burst in the moment.

Posted by: Bete at June 21, 2021 12:39 PM (Ojki1)

97 Upper middle class/rich white women are destroying the world.

And apparently as long as they can afford wine and have a device to access twitter, facebook and nextdoor they do not care.

At least the minorities groups pulling the D lever think they are getting freebies out of it. All these women are getting is free, legal abortion and...after 40 or so the priority of that drops pretty f*cking quickly. Err, so to speak.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 21, 2021 12:40 PM (DpkTQ)

98 Wait a minute,
White dude who says he's a chick>Maori woman?

I'm confused. So trannys trump women of color.

Good to know.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 21, 2021 12:40 PM (W2Pud)

99
I vote Colleges should pay students who get 1350 or higher on the SATs.
Posted by: Just a side note at June 21, 2021 12:27 PM (2DOZq)

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I know

Just venting. My personal pet project is "bloody reprisal for schoolteachers."

Worst g-ddamned enemy this country ever faced. The Japanese were less destructive by an order of magnitude.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2021 12:40 PM (7U3R4)

100 What if Laurel Hubbard pops a nut when lifting? How will they explain that w/o offending LGBBQ+

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 21, 2021 12:40 PM (sJHOI)

101 IMO Amateur sports died when the Olympics said Pros could compete.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 21, 2021 12:38 PM (oHd/0)

That happened because all of the track and field athletes were being paid for a long time though continued to be call amateurs.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 21, 2021 12:40 PM (2DOZq)

102 Women said for decades they wanted total equality.

Well, here it is, good and hard.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 21, 2021 12:41 PM (oHd/0)

103 The NCAA may have started off as setting football standards and rules but those days are long past. Today, they are just another enforcement arm of the DNC. One obvious example is the Indian name mascot crap.

* and fuck that native American crap too. My ancestors have been here almost 400 years*

Posted by: Beartooth at June 21, 2021 12:41 PM (A860g)

104 Posted by: Your Kid's Physical Education Professor at June 21, 2021 12:28 PM

* suspicious sideeye *

Weren't you lecturing on astrophysics this morning

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 21, 2021 12:41 PM (DMUuz)

105 This is PRIDE month bitchezzz, AAPI was last month.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 21, 2021 12:41 PM (sJHOI)

106 there was a Vonnegut story where the colleges became just another sponsor for football teams, and one undergrad was being told he could either study or play football, but he couldn't do both. There was a side issue about this because the quarterback was getting old, and they needed the new kid to replace him.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2021 12:41 PM (ySM85)

107 101 IMO Amateur sports died when the Olympics said Pros could compete.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 21, 2021 12:38 PM (oHd/0)

That happened because all of the track and field athletes were being paid for a long time though continued to be call amateurs.
Posted by: Just a side note at June 21, 2021 12:40 PM (2DOZq)

That and a lot of the countries would enlist their people in the military, and pay them as military members... just to train.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 21, 2021 12:42 PM (oHd/0)

108 The schools that pay the most will get all the best players. It will make for more lopsided scores.

Posted by: zmdavid at June 21, 2021 12:42 PM (xqRaG)

109 College players have been getting money since Kenneth Davis was a hornfrog.
So now we are allowed to acknowledge that the emperor has no clothes.
I have to say, Trump did this country a world of good. Before, nobody knew nothing. Now everybody sees everything.

Posted by: Drc at June 21, 2021 12:42 PM (vbaSG)

110 What is the pacific islander group that converted to pacifism. Right as another group showed up and started literally eating them?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 21, 2021 12:42 PM (DpkTQ)

111 Big football schools alumni have been paying athletes for years. They're just discreet about what they call it. The athlete dorm parking garage at my undergrad looked like a Cadillac dealer with all the Escslades. Pure coincidence I'm sure.

Posted by: brak at June 21, 2021 12:42 PM (4ys8a)

112 that makes no sense
The rest wasn't up on appeal, From the concurrence:

But this case involves only a narrow subset of the NCAA's compensation rules-namely, the rules restricting the education-related benefits that student athletes may receive, such as post-eligibility scholarships at graduate or vocational schools. The rest of the NCAA's compensation rules are not at issue here and therefore remain on the books. ... And under ordinary principles
of antitrust law, it is not evident why college sports should be any different. The NCAA is not above the law

Posted by: Hank Hill at June 21, 2021 12:42 PM (EughT)

113 100 What if Laurel Hubbard pops a nut when lifting? How will they explain that w/o offending LGBBQ+
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 21, 2021 12:40 PM (sJHOI)

I have seen "Girl Boner" used as the term by people into such things.

I question some of the place on the internet I have visited, and the sewer of Twitter is chief amongst them.

Posted by: Bete at June 21, 2021 12:42 PM (Ojki1)

114 Worst g-ddamned enemy this country ever faced. The Japanese were less destructive by an order of magnitude.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2021 12:40 PM (7U3R4)

Which came first , the horrible school administrators or horrible teachers?

Posted by: Just a side note at June 21, 2021 12:42 PM (2DOZq)

115 Bob Uecker had a skit some years ago where he advocated for children to be drafted into the majors starting around 6th grade, drawing a salary that would increase each year through HS until they could be made official employees of whichever major-league team.
Looks like the NCAA heard that as well.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at June 21, 2021 12:43 PM (HaL55)

116 Continued: The NCAA profits are returned back to all member schools which is what pays for all the scholarships, competition, student athlete insurance, and other perks they get. After the exec. director and staff receive their salary and all other expenses for the physical building, etc. are paid, all additional money is returned to the schools. The AD's, retired coaches, presidents, etc. who serve on the NCAA BOD, committees etc are all volunteers and receive no pay.
So as of now, a student athlete will be eligible to receive a scholarship, a stipend, additional food, beverages, etc. during the semester while training, a computer, paid internships, travel abroad( Harbaugh of Michigan is dancing at this one) medical care, psychological care, athletic wear outside of uniforms, tutoring, outside pay for any photos, advertisements, etc. I'm sure there is stuff I haven't even thought of. All because they can throw a football, basketball ,etc. and give their school exposure . Remember the money made from ticket sales, television rights, etc. all goes into a giant pool which then is either sent in membership dues to the NCAA OR is budgeted to pay the government mandated Title IX sports

Posted by: Jen the original at June 21, 2021 12:43 PM (N+m97)

117 Well, I sure the next move is to open drug testing because these trannies are jacked on hormones and steroids. HGH? Cocaine? What's the limit?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 21, 2021 12:43 PM (HnNKD)

118 100 What if Laurel Hubbard pops a nut when lifting? How will they explain that w/o offending LGBBQ+
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 21, 2021 12:40 PM (sJHOI)

It's called a-her-nia. It would only be an issue if they called it a a-his-nia.

Posted by: Flyguy at June 21, 2021 12:43 PM (3sOO0)

119 That makes no sense. If it can't act as a trust, then it can't act as a trust. Period.

...

Tee hee

Posted by: Roberts at June 21, 2021 12:43 PM (eVlLC)

120 off sock

Posted by: Chuck C at June 21, 2021 12:43 PM (EughT)

121 Well, fuck me.

Posted by: Jim Thorpe at June 21, 2021 12:44 PM (4I/2K)

122 Weren't you lecturing on astrophysics this morning
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 21, 2021 12:41 PM (DMUuz)

Don't dead-field a person, dude. Have some respect.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 21, 2021 12:44 PM (/EuRN)

123 2021: Not only is the best female weightlifter a guy, so is the best THOT.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 21, 2021 12:44 PM (DpkTQ)

124 What is REALLY fun is to go back just a FEW years... when they were banning Female Olympic Athletes for having too much testosterone...

Oh.. Wait... THEY STILL DO!

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 21, 2021 12:44 PM (oHd/0)

125 rule one of cartels is that the members cheat on each other.

A cartel is an agreement between players to fix production or prices to allow the members to provide lower quality goods at a higher price, and to stop innovation that would upset the market. In a way it is a form of rent-seeking.

However, in any sort of free economy they members cheat on each other, and the only real way to prevent that is to make a third party with power (a government) responsible for enforcing the rules. This is a form of regulatory capture.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2021 12:44 PM (ySM85)

126 My wife had a full scholarship for track all through school. On days where she had a meet, they gave her $8 for the whole day for food and other expenses. They would also have a crappy sack lunch if you were at the right place early enough.

She is extremely grateful for the experience and she got a great education.

When I hear about how she was basically going hungry during full day meets because her family was poor and she didn't get much from the school for food, it pisses me off.

Oh, and the crappy school doctor who examined her ankle a few times when she was complaining about issues completely missed the fact that she was slowly tearing through tendons. It wasn't until she got a real doctor to look at her that she found out she basically had no tendon left and they had to rebuild her ankle tendons through several surgeries.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 21, 2021 12:44 PM (YYlyE)

127 Posted by: brak at June 21, 2021 12:42 PM (4ys8a)

I almost crashed into Leonard Smith's alumni donated muscle car when I was running from the campus police. I'll have to tell the story one day.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 21, 2021 12:45 PM (2DOZq)

128 So NZ replaced a young POC woman with an old white guy in a wig.
I think she is a US citizen although she may have dual citizenship. And I believe it is a qualification standard, they only allow so many participants in each competition.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 21, 2021 12:45 PM (r+sAi)

129 Worst g-ddamned enemy this country ever faced. The Japanese were less destructive by an order of magnitude.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2021 12:40 PM (7U3R4)

Which came first , the horrible school administrators or horrible teachers?

Posted by: Just a side note at June 21, 2021 12:42 PM (2DOZq)

teachers. Bad ones fail their way upward into positions where cowardice is highly prized

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 21, 2021 12:46 PM (sJHOI)

130 I'm so very very sorry for colleges who can no longer make billions off what is effectively slavery

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 21, 2021 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

131 Posted by: Jen the original at June 21, 2021 12:43 PM (N+m97)

Why not really good housing and transportation... you know... to and from class...

From his Penthouse apartment in his Lamborgini.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 21, 2021 12:46 PM (oHd/0)

132 Which came first , the horrible school administrators or horrible teachers?
Posted by: Just a side note at June 21, 2021 12:42 PM (2DOZq)
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As a one-off? The horrible teachers.

As a systemic corrosion? The horrible administrators. The modern education complex was invented quite deliberately as an administrative function to turn children into industrial automata that were socially and economically useful while also being compliant and indoctrinated so as to not step out of line.

John Fucking Dewey holds a whole lot of responsibility for this. He is an abject piece of human filth. If I had a time machine and a free pass, I know who I would choose to stifle in the damn cradle.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2021 12:46 PM (Jsjd7)

133 So NZ replaced a young POC woman with an old white guy in a wig.

...

And you wonder why I'm having a delicious sandwich for lunch?

Posted by: I mean at June 21, 2021 12:47 PM (eVlLC)

134 Way past due. End the "student athlete" nonsense and let college run pro farm teams if that's what they really care about. And alumni donations show that is what they care about.
Posted by: brak at June 21, 2021 12:32 PM (4ys8a)

Hear, hear!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 21, 2021 12:47 PM (YqDXo)

135 18 Good luck, women! This weightlifter will be the first transgender athlete to compete at the Olympics.
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"I'd hit that!" -- Megan Rappin' Hoe
Posted by: ShainS at June 21, 2021 12:23 PM (a

Actually I bet she wouldn't. She strikes me as one of those women that in their personally life are actually opposed to sleeping with a man no matter if he is wearing a dress. These women are known as lesbians

Posted by: Buzzion at June 21, 2021 12:47 PM (G2zl5)

136 the fun thing about regulatory capture is that there is two types: one where the members are more powerful than the government the members call the shots in closing out all but the most controlled opposition for their benefit. Where the members are not more powerful than the government the government calls the shots, the members become controlled and everything is run for the governmental authorities' benefit.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2021 12:47 PM (ySM85)

137 However, in any sort of free economy they members cheat on each other, and the only real way to prevent that is to make a third party with power (a government) responsible for enforcing the rules. This is a form of regulatory capture.
Posted by: Kindltot

Or start shooting each other. I (see Sinoloa cartel)

Posted by: rickb223 at June 21, 2021 12:47 PM (OCTRt)

138 the pic of the girl eating fries gave me a Girl Boner, I think

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 21, 2021 12:48 PM (sJHOI)

139 If we had an independent media, they would ask people like Rapinoe if she would have a relationship with a MTF tranny.
Or any number of hollywood a-listers why only have relationships with bio-women/men as the case might be.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 21, 2021 12:48 PM (DpkTQ)

140 Yeah, but can that gal cook?
Posted by: Dr Spank at June 21, 2021 12:31 PM

If she's Maori, she probably swaps recipes with Cannibal Bob.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 21, 2021 12:49 PM (m+jkK)

141 Time to watch Cartman's 'Student Athletes' scenes from South Park.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at June 21, 2021 12:49 PM (V6f9+)

142 Yeah, the Republicans on the SCOTUS refuse to rule when 17 states sue over election fraud or when several sue over Obamacare, but they can write huge long opinions micro managing the NCAA sports leagues. Incredible.

Posted by: rcocean at June 21, 2021 12:50 PM (evE25)

143 Yeah, but can that gal cook?
I hear she makes the best finger sandwiches around, and her head cheese is to die for.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 21, 2021 12:50 PM (DpkTQ)

144 Well this will fuck all the lesbians.

Posted by: Puddi Head at June 21, 2021 12:50 PM (Zxs9d)

145 130 I'm so very very sorry for colleges who can no longer make billions off what is effectively slavery
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 21, 2021 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

OTOH, they can stop pretending that their student-athletes are in fact students, a prevarication that infects the entire university. Half of those guys can barely read.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 21, 2021 12:50 PM (YqDXo)

146 How can Title IX exist when there's no difference between men and women?

Posted by: MJ at June 21, 2021 12:50 PM (gAMkn)

147 Don't dead-field a person, dude. Have some respect.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 21, 2021 12:44 PM

I apologize, and will reflect on my intersectional privilege.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 21, 2021 12:50 PM (DMUuz)

148 >--<

Posted by: Braenyard at June 21, 2021 12:50 PM (RkmKf)

149 but they can write huge long opinions micro managing the NCAA sports leagues. Incredible.
No riots over NCAA rules. And whoever has John Roberts special Epstein island pictures likely doesn't care about this.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 21, 2021 12:50 PM (DpkTQ)

150 Wake Forest, the college I watch in person the most, costs $57.000 a year. That seems like reasonable compensation for playing 12 football games a season.

Posted by: Lincolntf at June 21, 2021 12:51 PM (l14X/)

151 59 Before everyone starts in on how the NCAA is making all this money off of the student athletes, etc. please understand that the NCAA is a non profit organization

Posted by: Jen the original
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Are you a moron, or a lying hack?

All "non profit" means is that all their excess money is spent on executive pay and perks, rather than giving something back to investors.

The people whose pocket this will come out of are a bunch of Democrat suck-ups. Screw them

Posted by: Greg Q at June 21, 2021 12:51 PM (/0a60)

152 I believe the British would describe the Maori as a "martial" people, inclined to enjoy and excel at fighting, as they do the Irish, and Scots, and Sikhs, and Zulu, and Aesir, Vanir, and, of course, Cimmerians.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at June 21, 2021 12:51 PM (o5N6D)

153 Kuinini Nini Manumua

You deserve it for being born with a front-hole instead of just identifying with having a front hole. Sorry, loser.

Posted by: The Left at June 21, 2021 12:51 PM (Bmy3R)

154 Also, Peruvians.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at June 21, 2021 12:51 PM (o5N6D)

155 Well this will fuck all the lesbians.
Already got that covered for you!

Posted by: pronhub at June 21, 2021 12:51 PM (DpkTQ)

156 New going in assumption: only Democrats have legal standing for lawsuits. Conservative suits are never going to get past the circuit courts or Supreme Court.

Posted by: MKoepf at June 21, 2021 12:52 PM (1SFFr)

157 Oh, thank God! It's raining again. My mud was dehydrating and I didn't know how I was going to re-wet it.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 21, 2021 12:52 PM (OCTRt)

158 M1A SOCOM 16 7.62x51mm NATO/.308 Winchester 16.25 Inch Parkerized Carbon Barrel Black Composite Stock 10 Round; $1600; https://bit.ly/3jcAEzp

Posted by: bonhomme at June 21, 2021 12:52 PM (YYlyE)

159 As for College Sportsball, who cares. College football and basketball have strayed so far from what it was supposed to be, that I frankly don't care whether the multi-racial "Students" who get paid or not. Its amazing to think that Douglas MacArthur, Eisenhower, Ford, and George Bush played varsity sports and now its done by Semi-pro athletes who are punching their ticket so as to get rich in the NFL/NBA.

Posted by: rcocean at June 21, 2021 12:53 PM (evE25)

160 I believe the British would describe the Maori as a "martial" people, inclined to enjoy and excel at fighting, as they do the Irish, and Scots, and Sikhs, and Zulu, and Aesir, Vanir, and, of course, Cimmerians.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at June 21, 2021 12:51 PM (o5N6D

You forgot the Romulans. They're pretty bellicose

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 21, 2021 12:53 PM (sJHOI)

161 I thought a girl boner was when a woman got aroused and the blood flow to her clitoris increased.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at June 21, 2021 12:53 PM (8548M)

162 Yeah, but can that gal cook?
Posted by: Dr Spank at June 21, 2021 12:31 PM

If she's Maori, she probably swaps recipes with Cannibal Bob.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

She's probably related to him.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 21, 2021 12:53 PM (OCTRt)

163 130 I'm so very very sorry for colleges who can no longer make billions off what is effectively slavery
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 21, 2021 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

The funny part is that most colleges lose money on student athletics. Only the big boys - the ones with name recognition - make money.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 21, 2021 12:53 PM (YqDXo)

164 Going to be so much fun watching colleges pay athletes, then raise tuition in response, which will still be guaranteed by the American taxpayer in one form or another.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 21, 2021 12:53 PM (KbCG3)

165 Oh, and the crappy school doctor who examined her ankle a few times when she was complaining about issues completely missed the fact that she was slowly tearing through tendons.

Did he miss it, or did the school not want to be on the hook for expensive surgeries?

Posted by: Jean at June 21, 2021 12:54 PM (Xih1H)

166 Sportsball watched by dumbbells.

Posted by: rcocean at June 21, 2021 12:54 PM (evE25)

167 John Fucking Dewey holds a whole lot of responsibility for this. He is an abject piece of human filth. If I had a time machine and a free pass, I know who I would choose to stifle in the damn cradle.

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Indeed. Him and Wilson. They looked at the massive achievements of American education in the liberation of the mind, and hated it, and set about fixing that little problem.

Repulsive technocrat socialist authoritarians who created the world's largest and most expensive system of prisons. But prisons for the mind, where children go to be incarcerated and enslaved by perpetual ignorance. It's the single sickest feature in our history.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2021 12:54 PM (7U3R4)

168 161 I thought a girl boner was when a woman got aroused and the blood flow to her clitoris increased.
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at June 21, 2021 12:53 PM (8548M)

That's gotta be fake news I heard it doesn't exist.

Posted by: blaster at June 21, 2021 12:54 PM (4q7lA)

169 Are you a moron, or a lying hack?

All "non profit" means is that all their excess money is spent on executive pay and perks, rather than giving something back to investors.

The people whose pocket this will come out of are a bunch of Democrat suck-ups. Screw them
Posted by: Greg Q at June 21, 2021 12:51 PM (/0a60)

I'm neither. Apparently you are one or the other though. Non profits do not have investors.

Posted by: Jen the original at June 21, 2021 12:54 PM (N+m97)

170 Field of fucks is barren. I can't even be that bothered to string together words for a comment.

Posted by: flounder at June 21, 2021 12:54 PM (KnJdm)

171 M1A SOCOM 16 7.62x51mm NATO/.308 Winchester 16.25 Inch Parkerized Carbon Barrel Black Composite Stock 10 Round; $1600; https://bit.ly/3jcAEzp
Posted by: bonhomme

M1A is on my bucket list.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 21, 2021 12:54 PM (OCTRt)

172 Laughing stock Olympics are going to be lit. The looks on the faces of the girls beaten by men posing as girls is going to be fucking priceless. I really want to hear the American broadcasters spin that shit. You know all the foreign media is going to trash it... except maybe the Canadians.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 21, 2021 12:54 PM (3H9h1)

173 The semi-professionalization of college football is a cancer on our society. I'm less concerned with college athletes getting paid whatever than I am with the incredible wastage associated with athletics departments sized to cater our mass-market semi-pro football entertainment needs. That factoid along the lines of the "Highest paid public employee in state X is college Y's football coach" is true for way too many X's.

Posted by: Match Checksout at June 21, 2021 12:54 PM (dYe5S)

174 So if the athletes can get paid, that means they can sign a contract. could said contract include language that limits the athlete's transfer options? that just became a thing - transferring without penalty, or waiting a year to play at the new school.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 21, 2021 12:55 PM (uCu+5)

175 Posted by: Greg Q at June 21, 2021 12:51 PM (/0a60)
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You seem nice.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at June 21, 2021 12:55 PM (sWM8x)

176 The absolute best thing that could happen is a small country that barely wins any medals field a soccer team of all "trannies". As they kick ass on their way to gold, I may actually watch it.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 21, 2021 12:55 PM (r+sAi)

177 See?

They've even muddled the whole boner thing, which used to be the straightforward thing ever

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 21, 2021 12:55 PM (sJHOI)

178 I believe the British would describe the Maori as a "martial" people, inclined to enjoy and excel at fighting, as they do the Irish, and Scots, and Sikhs, and Zulu, and Aesir, Vanir, and, of course, Cimmerians.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at June 21, 2021 12:51 PM

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You forgot the Romulans. They're pretty bellicose
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 21, 2021 12:53 PM

* proudly standing athwart them all *

Posted by: Ewoks at June 21, 2021 12:55 PM (DMUuz)

179 Go down Moses. Slavery is now playing sportsball with free tuition. LOL! Lets help black people out, and proclaim that only white people can slave at College sportsball. Black cannot be.

Deal?

Posted by: rcocean at June 21, 2021 12:56 PM (evE25)

180 "The NCAA had defended its rules as necessary to preserve the amateur nature of college sports."

Haha. I grew up when (1980s) our local university (SMU) had the best team money could buy. The Pony Express, we called it. Twin threats of Eric Dickerson and Craig James. SMU got the "death penalty" for that, but about every 2 years another school would get busted for the same thing - Texas, Rice, Texas A&M, TCU - everyone was doing it.

"Preserve the amateur nature of college sports" LOL that's a good one!

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 21, 2021 12:56 PM (83lwH)

181 They've even muddled the whole boner thing, which used to be the straightforward thing ever
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 21, 2021 12:55 PM

ISWYDT.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 21, 2021 12:56 PM (m+jkK)

182 Yeah, the Republicans on the SCOTUS refuse to rule when 17 states sue over election fraud or when several sue over Obamacare, but they can write huge long opinions micro managing the NCAA sports leagues. Incredible.
Posted by: rcocean

Nero's fiddle

Posted by: Jean at June 21, 2021 12:56 PM (Xih1H)

183 The leftist are setting back women's rights that women worked so hard to attain. Women are being cancelled. They are even trying to cancel moms calling them birthing mothers. Where is the outrage from the WOMAN's Movement?

Posted by: redridinghood at June 21, 2021 12:56 PM (NpAcC)

184 As for College Sportsball, who cares. College football and basketball have strayed so far from what it was supposed to be, that I frankly don't care whether the multi-racial "Students" who get paid or not. Its amazing to think that Douglas MacArthur, Eisenhower, Ford, and George Bush played varsity sports and now its done by Semi-pro athletes who are punching their ticket so as to get rich in the NFL/NBA.
Posted by: rcocean at June 21, 2021 12:53 PM (evE25)

97% of college student athletes do not go on to the pros.

Posted by: Jen the original at June 21, 2021 12:56 PM (N+m97)

185 > Did he miss it, or did the school not want to be on the hook for expensive surgeries?

Either way, he's a crappy doctor.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 21, 2021 12:56 PM (YYlyE)

186 They've even muddled the whole boner thing, which used to be the straightforward thing ever
For the record, not all boners are straight.

And I don't mean any of this gay shit.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at June 21, 2021 12:56 PM (DpkTQ)

187 Never cared about college football, so meh.

Personally, I hope most colleges tank.

Posted by: SMH at June 21, 2021 12:56 PM (UoJTm)

188 Women's sports would be much better to watch if there were *cough* "trans"-women competing.

It might ruin watching the women's volleyball matches, but hey, this is "progress".

Posted by: Thrawn at June 21, 2021 12:57 PM (a+Mub)

189 So, does "Laurel" just have no shame? Wants to win a medal no matter what? Even if the process makes it meaningless? Being paid to do this shit on purpose?

The thought process escapes me.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 21, 2021 12:57 PM (Bmy3R)

190 > M1A is on my bucket list.

They're a ton of fun.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 21, 2021 12:57 PM (YYlyE)

191 172 Laughing stock Olympics are going to be lit. The looks on the faces of the girls beaten by men posing as girls is going to be fucking priceless. I really want to hear the American broadcasters spin that shit. You know all the foreign media is going to trash it... except maybe the Canadians.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 21, 2021 12:54 PM (3H9h1)

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"That definite woman just crushed the Olympic record by 100 pounds! That's amazing! What could possibly account for such a feat?!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 21, 2021 12:57 PM (LvTSG)

192 So NZ replaced a young POC woman with an old white guy in a wig.

HAHAHAHA

Posted by: 18-1 at June 21, 2021 12:36 PM (DpkTQ)

The AoS/Ya Boi Zack Style Guide instructs us to use "Party City wig" for such..... individuals.

Posted by: pookysgirl, root beer floats for everyone! at June 21, 2021 12:57 PM (XKZwp)

193 The funny part is that most colleges lose money on student athletics. Only the big boys - the ones with name recognition - make money.
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That should make the decision to quit supporting athletics easy then.
Seems like baseball has the right program with farm teams. If your goal is to be a pro athlete, why waste time at college where you don't plan to attend class and get a legitimate education in the first place ?

Posted by: Drc at June 21, 2021 12:57 PM (vbaSG)

194 There's no outage amongst feminists because they get called nasty names if they object.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at June 21, 2021 12:57 PM (5HBd1)

195 Not to get all Jonah Goldberg on the thread - but what's the point of wearing body armor if an Ewok can take you out throwing a rock at you?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 21, 2021 12:57 PM (DpkTQ)

196 Hopefully trannies will destroy women's boxing, weight lifting, shot putting, rugby, etc. - none of which should exist. Trannies may cause all the sports nuts to finally understand the stupidity of women's "sports".

Posted by: rcocean at June 21, 2021 12:58 PM (evE25)

197 The absolute best thing that could happen is a small country that barely wins any medals field a soccer team of all "trannies". As they kick ass on their way to gold, I may actually watch it.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

Who are all 16yo boys; who then decide at 17 to revert.

Posted by: Jean at June 21, 2021 12:58 PM (Xih1H)

198 For the record, not all boners are straight.

And I don't mean any of this gay shit.
Posted by: Bill Clinton at June 21, 2021 12:56 PM (DpkTQ)

Funny how yours ALWAYS pointed away from HRC

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 21, 2021 12:58 PM (sJHOI)

199 I thought a girl boner was when a woman got aroused and the blood flow to her clitoris increased.
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at June 21, 2021 12:53 PM

===

That's gotta be fake news I heard it doesn't exist.
Posted by: blaster at June 21, 2021 12:54 PM

Just because it's never been found doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Posted by: Nessie at June 21, 2021 12:59 PM (DMUuz)

200 Speaking of the whole tranny thing...
Are you still allowed to laugh at the Monty Python episodes were they put on dresses? Or is that hate speech now?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 21, 2021 12:59 PM (DpkTQ)

201 Confused. How does adding a member to New Zealand's team "displace" a member of the US team? I admit to ignorance re the Olympics but this makes no sense to me.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 21, 2021 12:59 PM (83lwH)

202 Posted by: Greg Q at June 21, 2021 12:51 PM (/0a60)

If you're going to make inaccurate statements which appear ignorant it's probably best not to call others morons at the same time,

Posted by: Just a side note at June 21, 2021 12:59 PM (2DOZq)

203 All because they can throw a football, basketball ,etc. and give their school exposure .

Nobel Prizes - in serious subjects - provide some small measure of school exposure, too.

Just sayin'.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 21, 2021 12:59 PM (YqDXo)

204 Trannies with fake pussies, will now defeat Women full of fake muscles built by PEDs.

Posted by: rcocean at June 21, 2021 12:59 PM (evE25)

205 How could a tranny from New Zealand displace an American athlete?

There are a lot of stupid people who post tweets just because they can.

Posted by: Mente de Caca at June 21, 2021 12:59 PM (K9hVs)

206 SIG SAUER 716I TREAD 7.62 NATO 16" 20+1; $1400; https://bit.ly/35HJJbe

Posted by: bonhomme at June 21, 2021 12:59 PM (YYlyE)

207 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 21, 2021 01:00 PM (Zz0t1)

208 Jonah Goldberg is still alive? I thought he died 5 years ago.

Posted by: rcocean at June 21, 2021 01:00 PM (evE25)

209 You are going to see whining and moaning about how "Female" athletes aren't being paid the same as Male Athletes.

It's a shame that I have to put "Females" in quotes because the left have destroyed the meaning.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at June 21, 2021 01:00 PM (dKiJG)

210 Hopefully trannies will destroy women's boxing
Gotta say I am not a fan of women's boxing or MMA.

While the sports are brutal enough with men - it is disgusting seeing women whale on each other like that.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 21, 2021 01:00 PM (DpkTQ)

211 I don't watch any of these nitwit sports associations or leagues. They still get nothing from me.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 21, 2021 01:00 PM (HnNKD)

212 btw, should the Olympic Committee apologize for all those East Germans and other members of the Soviet Bloc who were kept from participating because they supposedly weren't "women" or whatnot?

Posted by: Thrawn at June 21, 2021 01:00 PM (a+Mub)

213 Hopefully trannies will destroy women's boxing, weight lifting, shot putting, rugby, etc. - none of which should exist. Trannies may cause all the sports nuts to finally understand the stupidity of women's "sports".
Posted by: rcocean

Women's Rugby might be an outlier there - they play a different game. More of sexual dominance and torture in the sunshine - if they decided no trannys it would be ugly.

Posted by: Jean at June 21, 2021 01:00 PM (Xih1H)

214 196 Hopefully trannies will destroy women's boxing, weight lifting, shot putting, rugby, etc. - none of which should exist. Trannies may cause all the sports nuts to finally understand the stupidity of women's "sports".
Posted by: rcocean at June 21, 2021 12:58 PM (evE25)

Newsletter?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 21, 2021 01:00 PM (YqDXo)

215 I, for one, look forward to all the retired male athletes from all sports competing again on the world stage in drag.

Brett Favre! There's still time!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 21, 2021 01:00 PM (Zz0t1)

216 Judas priest, this thread sure has attracted morons. Like all sports.

Posted by: rcocean at June 21, 2021 01:00 PM (evE25)

217 Ace
face it you could not be competitive with women in any Olympic sport, even juiced up

Posted by: Proud Moderate at June 21, 2021 01:01 PM (+OlZU)

218 Mama sang bass daddy sang tenor
Me and little brother would join right in there

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at June 21, 2021 01:01 PM (d9FiS)

219 The silver lining is Lesbian Athletes will be hardest hit.

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2021 01:01 PM (/MaDp)

220
Jonah Goldberg is still alive? I thought he died 5 years ago.
Posted by: rcocean at June 21, 2021 01:00 PM (evE25)

--------

Yup. He died pantsless, hated, and alone, IIRC.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2021 01:01 PM (7U3R4)

221 Newsletter?

Newspaper.

Posted by: rcocean at June 21, 2021 01:01 PM (evE25)

222 Gotta say I am not a fan of women's boxing or MMA.

While the sports are brutal enough with men - it is disgusting seeing women whale on each other like that.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 21, 2021 01:00 PM (DpkTQ)

Love MMA . Hate Female MMA.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 21, 2021 01:01 PM (2DOZq)

223 While the sports are brutal enough with men - it is disgusting seeing women whale on each other like that.

Posted by: 18-1

Yes, without the oil and their clothes on, disgusting.

Posted by: Jean at June 21, 2021 01:01 PM (Xih1H)

224 Oh, thank God! It's raining again. My mud was dehydrating and I didn't know how I was going to re-wet it.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 21, 2021 12:52 PM (OCTRt)

LOL

Posted by: Count de Monet, checked in to the Heartbreak Hotel at June 21, 2021 01:01 PM (4I/2K)

225 I'm neither. Apparently you are one or the other though. Non profits do not have investors.
Posted by: Jen the original at June 21, 2021 12:54 PM (N+m97)

____

No shit, sherlock!

That's the point: "non-profit" just means no one outside the company gets $$$.

It means that NCAA execs get to take the money that would otherwise be a "profit", and turn it in to pay and perks for themselves

Posted by: Greg Q at June 21, 2021 01:01 PM (/0a60)

226
Nobel Prizes - in serious subjects - provide some small measure of school exposure, too
Ask the average American to name 5 recent-ish nobel prize winners. [SILENCE] Ok, now 5 recent collegiate sports stars [droning on and on...]

Posted by: 18-1 at June 21, 2021 01:01 PM (DpkTQ)

227 How does adding a member to New Zealand's team "displace" a member of the US team? <<<<<
See at 128.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 21, 2021 01:02 PM (r+sAi)

228 Strippers can be very educational

Posted by: MrKnowItAll at June 21, 2021 01:02 PM (1WUhC)

229 And so it begins. Went to the mall today and where a storefront was there is now an array of Amazon lockers.

Posted by: blaster at June 21, 2021 01:02 PM (4q7lA)

230 "Will any of the actual women competing speak out against this?"

I doubt it. Making "noise" would probably be suicide. No Wheaties box cover for you. Especially these days when people are afraid to say that men can't have babies.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 21, 2021 01:02 PM (83lwH)

231 217 Ace
face it you could not be competitive with women in any Olympic sport, even juiced up
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Vespa is thinking about starting professional championship Vespa Races.

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2021 01:02 PM (/MaDp)

232 No, I'm not nice to morons, to liars, and to scum who defend the Left and / or its sources of power.

Why would I want to be?

Posted by: Greg Q at June 21, 2021 01:02 PM (/0a60)

233 201 Confused. How does adding a member to New Zealand's team "displace" a member of the US team? I admit to ignorance re the Olympics but this makes no sense to me.
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 21, 2021 12:59 PM (83lwH)

The olympics (lower case is appropriate, IMO) are bullshit, too.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 21, 2021 01:02 PM (YqDXo)

234 I think you will see more and more Men that say they are female just to get free college, and why not, These fools have destroyed Female sports

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at June 21, 2021 01:02 PM (dKiJG)

235 Is it wrong to want trans 'women' to enter the world of soccer and one of them perform a hard 'tackle' against Megan Rapino and fucking end her career?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 21, 2021 01:03 PM (Zz0t1)

236 201 Confused. How does adding a member to New Zealand's team "displace" a member of the US team? I admit to ignorance re the Olympics but this makes no sense to me.

205 How could a tranny from New Zealand displace an American athlete? There are a lot of stupid people who post tweets just because they can.

She's Tongan. That's an old picture from when she lifted for the USA. 205 - Maybe don't call people stupid without doing 5 seconds of Googling.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 21, 2021 01:03 PM (Bmy3R)

237 "see 128"

Ah, thanks!

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 21, 2021 01:03 PM (83lwH)

238 You can always count on seless GOP tool Ted Cruz's priorities.

Election fraud? Nah, too busy posting tweets about trannies.

Posted by: Mente de Caca at June 21, 2021 01:03 PM (K9hVs)

239 Posted by: Proud Moderate at June 21, 2021 01:01 PM (+OlZU)

You are though a cock sucking world champion. A title once held by your mom.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 21, 2021 01:03 PM (2DOZq)

240 Cruz is close.

Abolish all non-transgendered collegiate sports. Allow only trannies to play. To do otherwise is racism.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at June 21, 2021 01:03 PM (A+FdC)

241 So, does "Laurel" just have no shame? Wants to win a medal no matter what? Even if the process makes it meaningless? Being paid to do this shit on purpose?

The thought process escapes me.
Posted by: Guy Smiley

I think a flavour of NPD precedes the whole tranny thing

Posted by: Jean at June 21, 2021 01:03 PM (Xih1H)

242 I love college football. It's the only sport I follow in any sort of regular way. I'm not at all sure paying players is a good move for the sport.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at June 21, 2021 01:04 PM (sWM8x)

243 Lisa Boothe bringing the fire.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is a member of a whites-only beach club, the Gov of Virginia either wore black face or a Ku Klux Klan robe, and Joe Biden said he didn't want his kids to grow up in a racial jungle. But Democrats want to lecture about racism in America...

https://bit.ly/3gMm5Rr

Posted by: bonhomme at June 21, 2021 01:04 PM (YYlyE)

244 The funny part is that most colleges lose money on student athletics. Only the big boys - the ones with name recognition - make money.
Posted by: Drc at June 21, 2021 12:57 PM (vbaSG)

This is true. Many of the smaller colleges have a fee they charge all students to help fund the athletic department.:0
Ohio State, the one I'm most familiar with, has made a profit the last few years (except until 2020 due to Covid) That profit was then donated back to OSU's general fund for scholarships for the general student population. Big colleges, like OSU, will separate their athletic dept from the university itself so that the athletic dept. has to maintain their own budget and not drain resources from the main university . Ohio State and Ohio State Athletics are two separate entities, both are 501c3s. My guess is the SC's ruling requiring this increased allowance for educational purposes maintains the line the 501c3s have to stay in.

Posted by: Jen the original at June 21, 2021 01:04 PM (N+m97)

245 Ask the average American to name 5 recent-ish nobel prize winners. [SILENCE] Ok, now 5 recent collegiate sports stars [droning on and on...]
Posted by: 18-1 at June 21, 2021 01:01 PM (DpkTQ)

True. Of course, ask the average American to name the three branches of government, and you'll get a blank expression.

Come to that, ask them the phone number for 911 and you'll probably get the same expression.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 21, 2021 01:04 PM (YqDXo)

246
Love MMA . Hate Female MMA.
Posted by: Just a side note at June 21, 2021 01:01 PM (2DOZq)

I don't mind it as long as they actually fight. Not that 99% grappling shit. And those broads BLEED boy.....

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 21, 2021 01:04 PM (Zz0t1)

247 The olympics (lower case is appropriate, IMO) are bullshit, too.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 21, 2021 01:02 PM (YqDXo)

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Yeah, they're just as rigged-up as the NBA. Who watches rigged sports? It's ridiculous... if that's your cup of tea, the WWE is a thing, it's much more entertaining, and they don't try to pretend it's real.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2021 01:04 PM (7U3R4)

248 I thought a girl boner was when a woman got aroused and the blood flow to her clitoris increased.
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at June 21, 2021 12:53 PM (8548M)

That's gotta be fake news I heard it doesn't exist.
Posted by: blaster at June 21, 2021 12:54 PM (4q7lA)

that's the G spot you're thinking of...

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2021 01:04 PM (8D42x)

249 Was talking with a female LIV the other day - she was complaining that the only women's sports people watch have them wearing skimpy outfits - beach volleyball, lingerie league football, figure skating, etc.

Asked her what sports she has been watching and the answer was...none. I pointed out that you can find women's hockey, b-ball, etc on the internet if not always on TV and asked if she wanted me to find some for her....and somehow the answer was NO!

Posted by: 18-1 at June 21, 2021 01:04 PM (DpkTQ)

250 16 My guess, they'll pay the athletes, which will make them employees, and these "employees" will inevitably argue that they should be allowed to form a union, and college sports will cease to exist as we know them.
Posted by: Lincolntf at June 21, 2021 12:23 PM (l14X/)

Yes, yes, please.

Posted by: Mente de Caca at June 21, 2021 01:04 PM (K9hVs)

251 The REAL question is: did SCOTUS manage to sneak in some sort of Star Wars and/or Trek pop-cultural references in its ruling? That's what all The Cool Courts are doing these days.

Posted by: Eat the Eloi at June 21, 2021 01:05 PM (V3EEC)

252 246
Love MMA . Hate Female MMA.
Posted by: Just a side note at June 21, 2021 01:01 PM (2DOZq)

I don't mind it as long as they actually fight. Not that 99% grappling shit. And those broads BLEED boy.....
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 21, 2021 01:04 PM (Zz0t1)

Classic chick MMA moment, when Rhonda Rousey talks all kinds of shit to Holly Holm, who proceeds to knock Rhonda the fuck out with a kick to the head.

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at June 21, 2021 01:05 PM (II3Gr)

253 > Love MMA . Hate Female MMA.

Same.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 21, 2021 01:05 PM (YYlyE)

254 Let's get shelving as an Olympic sport in 2026.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 21, 2021 01:05 PM (DMUuz)

255 Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 21, 2021 12:59 PM (83lwH)

Old photo but technically she could displace an athlete from any country by virtue of qualifications.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 21, 2021 01:05 PM (2DOZq)

256 Trans athlete Chelsea Wolfe has qualified as an alternate to represent the US on the BMX freestyle team has said, " My goal is to win the Olympics so I can burn a US flag on the podium."

Posted by: redridinghood at June 21, 2021 01:05 PM (NpAcC)

257 It is interesting to see aged out female athletes like Billie Jean King and Rapinoe support transgenders' right to play women's sports.

Its almost as if they've already earned their fame and fortune.

I got mine Jack.

Posted by: mr tmz at June 21, 2021 01:06 PM (m/Gc2)

258 Time Out!!

Posted by: Andy Reid at June 21, 2021 01:06 PM (4I/2K)

259 A title once held by your mom.
Posted by: Just a side note at June 21, 2021 01:03 PM (2DOZq)

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The nepotism is everywhere, these days.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2021 01:06 PM (7U3R4)

260 Or start shooting each other. I (see Sinoloa cartel)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 21, 2021 12:47 PM (OCTRt)

We can only dream.

Today in downtown Sacramento, five decapitated bodies were found outside of the Northstate University Dental College campus, in what appears to be the newest round of retaliation murders in the struggle to control dental services in Norther California. Authorities have no leads at this moment, but are asking for witnesses that may have seen a number of individuals with perfect occlusion running from the scene.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2021 01:06 PM (ySM85)

261 If we've decided the woman's category is now intersex, why bother having segregated women's sports at all?

Everyone has been asking that question. What's the point of having any gender-class sports categories at all if you're gonna just let men compete in womens' sports?

Note: there are no women pretending to be men competing with men.

And on other news, my Kindle has just decided to brick and is displaying the front ad and won't change or shut off. I guess I'll wait until the battery runs out on this one ad in like 9 hours and hope when I recharge and start it again it will work.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 21, 2021 01:06 PM (KZzsI)

262 It will be a point of pride for NZ to add the Worlds Stongest Tranny to the top shelf of their trophy case, above all those Sheep Fucker of the Year awards.

Posted by: Regular joe at June 21, 2021 01:06 PM (L9P9s)

263 This is the end of college sports. Agents and contracts come next. In 10 years, there will be no difference between college and professional football.

Posted by: Reggie at June 21, 2021 01:06 PM (6WjdD)

264 I would prefer that Pro Football just go back to running their own minor leagues. The locals would have a team to follow and the colleges could get back to educating students. Who the fuck cares about Competitive Diving?

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2021 01:06 PM (/MaDp)

265 We'll know the end is near when trannies take over MMA.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 21, 2021 01:06 PM (3H9h1)

266 Doubtful, since to do so would bring howling twitter mobs upon them.
Posted by: SMH at June 21, 2021 12:25 PM (UoJTm)

You mean twitter bots.

Posted by: Mente de Caca at June 21, 2021 01:06 PM (K9hVs)

267 My favorite women's MMA moment was Joe Rogan trying to NOT look at Ronda Rousey's ass at her weigh in.
Joe Rogan mind be the most entertaining person in the media even when he isn't trying to be.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 21, 2021 01:07 PM (DpkTQ)

268 I think the fault here lies with the legislature. I mean, the SC is limited by what the laws have created.

I think the heart of the problem is that these schools have created an accreditation system which makes an exception for schools to discriminate against certain groups, run athletic depts., and all kinds of stuff. And the gov. pays them in the form of student loans, research grants, and other ways. The whole system is rotten.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at June 21, 2021 01:07 PM (iRUzW)

269 Who watches rigged sports? It's ridiculous... if that's your cup of tea, the WWE is a thing, it's much more entertaining, and they don't try to pretend it's real.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2021 01:04 PM (7U3R4)

Wait, what? Of course WWE is real. It's on Television and everything.

Posted by: Eat the Eloi at June 21, 2021 01:07 PM (V3EEC)

270 I assume trannies would not have a huge edge in gymnastics.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at June 21, 2021 01:07 PM (cSyAR)

271 254 Let's get shelving as an Olympic sport in 2026.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 21, 2021 01:05 PM (DMUuz)

Sammich making.

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at June 21, 2021 01:07 PM (II3Gr)

272 Shame on so many for jumping to conclusions yesterday about the parade accident.

You can always immediately identify a white supremacist terror attack by the telltale screams of "Allahu Akbar".

Posted by: ... at June 21, 2021 01:07 PM (x7jF8)

273 If a tranny could serve this country as First Lady from 2009-2017, who am I to say we should keep them out of the Olympics?

Posted by: Wally at June 21, 2021 01:07 PM (Cge5i)

274 I don't like my women with large trapezoids or cauliflower ears.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 21, 2021 01:07 PM (2DOZq)

275 I thought a girl boner was when a woman got aroused and the blood flow to her clitoris increased.
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at June 21, 2021 12:53 PM (8548M)

That's hot.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 21, 2021 01:07 PM (Zz0t1)

276 Come to that, ask them the phone number for 911 and you'll probably get the same expression.

Wait 'til you ask them what color a green orange is

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 21, 2021 01:07 PM (KZzsI)

277 262 It will be a point of pride for NZ to add the Worlds Stongest Tranny to the top shelf of their trophy case, above all those Sheep Fucker of the Year awards.
Posted by: Regular joe at June 21, 2021 01:06 PM (L9P9s)

"You see that bridge out there?"

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at June 21, 2021 01:07 PM (II3Gr)

278 > Classic chick MMA moment, when Rhonda Rousey talks all kinds of shit to Holly Holm, who proceeds to knock Rhonda the fuck out with a kick to the head.

I enjoyed watching Rousey fight because I love Judo. Rousey as a person is a trainwreck. She dishes trash talk but if you dish it back she's legitimately offended and you're an enemy for life. I hate people like that.

Also, Rousey's striking was hilariously bad.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 21, 2021 01:08 PM (YYlyE)

279 219 The silver lining is Lesbian Athletes will be hardest hit.
Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2021 01:01 PM (/MaDp)

They can go home and spend more time with their husbands and children.

Oh. Wait.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 21, 2021 01:09 PM (YqDXo)

280 265 We'll know the end is near when trannies take over MMA.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 21, 2021 01:06 PM (3H9h1)

There is a tranny MMA fighter and damn near killed xher opponent. It shouldn't be allowed, for the safety of the other competitors. But being "woke" takes precedence over the lives and health of others, apparently.

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at June 21, 2021 01:09 PM (II3Gr)

281 Is it wrong to want trans 'women' to enter the world of soccer and one of them perform a hard 'tackle' against Megan Rapino and fucking end her career?
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 21, 2021 01:03 PM (Zz0t1)

she needs to be on the receiving end of a good old fashioned Roy Keene challenge...

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2021 01:09 PM (8D42x)

282 " So NZ replaced a young POC woman with an old white guy in a wig."

I call dibs on the soon to be mega-million industry of dying your skin to appear as a POC! We're gonna be rich baby!

May still ban Gingers though. Soul-eaters.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 21, 2021 01:09 PM (83lwH)

283 I assume trannies would not have a huge edge in gymnastics.
Male gymnasts can do most of the female routines physically if they want to - but of course a lot of success on gymnasts is subjective so...who knows?

How do you compare say a 90 lb bio-woman with limited upper body strength vs some 180 lb tranny that looks like well, a male gymnast?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 21, 2021 01:09 PM (DpkTQ)

284 Who watches rigged sports?

Every NBA fan. NFL look sketchy as hell to me as well. They probably try to rig MLB but its too complex and the season is too long.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 21, 2021 01:09 PM (KZzsI)

285
Classic chick MMA moment, when Rhonda Rousey talks all kinds of shit to Holly Holm, who proceeds to knock Rhonda the fuck out with a kick to the head.
Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at June 21, 2021 01:05 PM (II3Gr)

Yeah. Rhonda fucked up and was looking too forward to movie contracts instead of what actually made her famous. There's no way she should've lost to Holm and I'm shocked that the bookies haven't put Rousey in cement shoes and taken her on a boat ride.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 21, 2021 01:09 PM (Zz0t1)

286 Also, Rousey's striking was hilariously bad.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 21, 2021 01:08 PM (YYlyE)

Absolutely awful. She tried to turn herself from a lifelong judoka/grappler into a standup fighter in a couple of months, which any sane trainer will tell you just ain't gonna happen.

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at June 21, 2021 01:10 PM (II3Gr)

287 274 I don't like my women with large trapezoids or cauliflower ears.
Posted by: Just a side note at June 21, 2021 01:07 PM (2DOZq)

Pro tip: never date a woman who can kick your ass.

I've lived by this rule, and it's served me well.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 21, 2021 01:10 PM (YqDXo)

288 "she needs to be on the receiving end of a good old fashioned Roy Keene challenge..."

Vinnie Jones squeezing her balls won't get the job done.

Posted by: mr tmz at June 21, 2021 01:10 PM (m/Gc2)

289 Can we get rid of Snowboarding as an Olympic Sport?

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2021 01:11 PM (/MaDp)

290 I've seen a few liberals get seriously pissed off when people call Mooch Obama a tranny.
But if trannies are heroic people fighting for basic human rights how is that an insult...right?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 21, 2021 01:11 PM (DpkTQ)

291 So college athletes can get paid just in time for women to be totally drummed out of their own sports. Girl Power! Party of Women! 72%!!!

Posted by: ... at June 21, 2021 01:11 PM (x7jF8)

292 Male gymnasts can do most of the female routines physically if they want to - but of course a lot of success on gymnasts is subjective so...who knows?

Most of the Euro judging (the part not based on "are they from America or not?") is how pretty the routine is, so men are right out on that. No matter how spectacular or athletic, they will downgrade you for not being pretty.

Which, actually, I'm fine with.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 21, 2021 01:11 PM (KZzsI)

293 Can we get rid of the Olympics?

Posted by: SMH at June 21, 2021 01:11 PM (UoJTm)

294 264 I would prefer that Pro Football just go back to running their own minor leagues. The locals would have a team to follow and the colleges could get back to educating students. Who the fuck cares about Competitive Diving?
Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2021 01:06 PM (/MaDp)
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They had a minor league that folded and was restarted a few times. World League of American Football, NFL Europe, etc. I think they gave up.

Posted by: zmdavid at June 21, 2021 01:11 PM (xqRaG)

295 > My favorite women's MMA moment was Joe Rogan trying to NOT look at Ronda Rousey's ass at her weigh in.
Joe Rogan mind be the most entertaining person in the media even when he isn't trying to be.

Sometimes MMA fighters are REALLY close to the weigh in limit and they'll weigh in naked while screened by people holding up a towel or something. There's video of one of the female MMA fighters, I don't remember who, doing this and one of the male towel guys takes a peek. Funny stuff.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 21, 2021 01:11 PM (YYlyE)

296 Prediction, bidding wars will commence for star athletes and a lot of smaller, less competitive, or less well endowed schools might have to drop to Div III (no scholarships etc.).

In reality, this move by Scotus means a more uniform standard for colleges because there is no such cap on educational and other benefits given via scholarships, fellowships, grants, etc. The Ivies tried to cartelize student aid offers and got successfully sued for that behavior as well.

BTW, non profits are NOT and SHOULD NOT be considered more virtuous than investor owned corporations. Someone up thread mentioned correctly that the goodies that would accrue to investors are instead directed towards those within the non profit via salaries, benefits, travel, etc often to an absurd amount. Often the boards of these non profits being businessmen themselves see no problem with outsized salaries and benefits for non-profit executives because they themselves often screw over their putative bosses--the investors.

Posted by: whig at June 21, 2021 01:12 PM (pO7gM)

297
There is a tranny MMA fighter and damn near killed xher opponent. It shouldn't be allowed, for the safety of the other competitors. But being "woke" takes precedence over the lives and health of others, apparently.
Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at June 21, 2021 01:09 PM (II3Gr)

In her first fight, xhe broke xer opponent's orbital bone and knocked her out of the sport for MONTHS.

Nothing like training for years only to have your livelihood snuffed out by some dude shaving his head, putting on lipstick and kicking your ass.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 21, 2021 01:12 PM (Zz0t1)

298 The patent office denied copyrighting Washington Football Team cuz it wasn't patentable. Is this how they will bring back the Redskins?

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2021 01:12 PM (/MaDp)

299 It will be a point of pride for NZ to add the Worlds Stongest Tranny to the top shelf of their trophy case, above all those Sheep Fucker of the Year awards.
Posted by: Regular joe at June 21, 2021 01:06 PM (L9P9s)

Scotland would like a word...

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2021 01:12 PM (8D42x)

300 Can we get rid of Snowboarding as an Olympic Sport?
Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2021 01:11 PM (/MaDp)

Fuck you.

Posted by: The Flying Tomato at June 21, 2021 01:13 PM (Zz0t1)

301 I actually like good women's MMA, particularly since the talent pool has deepened and there are more competitive matches. And there are some standouts like Amanda Nunes who are just amazing to watch.

That said I would rather punch myself in the face than watch the WNBA, which looks like low powered HS mens' ball.

Posted by: Zek at June 21, 2021 01:13 PM (5RTdG)

302 Male gymnasts can do most of the female routines physically if they want to - but of course a lot of success on gymnasts is subjective so...who knows?

For my money, a "sport" is an event with direct competition between the sportsmen deciding the event.

An event in which decision is based on judges is a "performance."

The only exception being boxing, for humanitarian reasons.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 21, 2021 01:13 PM (YqDXo)

303 293 Can we get rid of the Olympics?
Posted by: SMH at June 21, 2021 01:11 PM (UoJTm)

I'd be fine with keeping the Olympics if we got rid of the IOC, allowing professional athletes to compete, and all the graft and corruption. Which, come to think of it, might end up being the same thing...

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at June 21, 2021 01:13 PM (II3Gr)

304 I was promised a Return to Normal and I got trannies competing as women in the Olympics, and soon trannies taking all Title IX scholarships intended for women.

That is not normal ... oh, I misread, they promised a New Normal ... so CRT is the NEW Normal but fortified with trannies.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 21, 2021 01:13 PM (Cus5s)

305 Can we get rid of the Olympics?
Posted by: SMH at June 21, 2021 01:11 PM (UoJTm)

World Championships are more important to those on the inside.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 21, 2021 01:13 PM (2DOZq)

306 Mr Obama's Neighborhood: 52 Shot In Chicago This Past Weekend

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You shoot sixteen guns and what do you get
Bunch of dead and wounded and it ain't over yet

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at June 21, 2021 01:13 PM (d9FiS)

307 I thought a girl boner was when a woman got aroused and the blood flow to her clitoris increased.
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at June 21, 2021 12:53 PM (8548M)

Late to the thread but if it's something other than that I don't want to know.

Posted by: ... at June 21, 2021 01:13 PM (x7jF8)

308 Is ballroom dancing an olympic sport yet?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 21, 2021 01:13 PM (uwc6D)

309 294 264 I would prefer that Pro Football just go back to running their own minor leagues. The locals would have a team to follow and the colleges could get back to educating students. Who the fuck cares about Competitive Diving?
Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2021 01:06 PM (/MaDp)
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They had a minor league that folded and was restarted a few times. World League of American Football, NFL Europe, etc. I think they gave up.
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They gave up cuz it was cheaper to scout college players.

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2021 01:13 PM (/MaDp)

310 I know this is going to totally shock everyone here but

https://tinyurl.com/4d3rxypx

Google is reportedly force-installing some Covid-19 tracking apps on Android

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 21, 2021 01:13 PM (KZzsI)

311 There is a tranny running tonight in the women's 1500 qualifier for the final olympic track team.

Posted by: redenzo at June 21, 2021 01:13 PM (E7vND)

312
I actually like WWE, by the way. It's fun. Like all these superhero movies, but with better acting and even-more-exaggerated steroid physiques.

Not like fake sports, which is a complete mystery to me. If you have to pretend the guys are actually achieving something that hasn't been scripted, it sucks all the fun out of it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2021 01:14 PM (7U3R4)

313 "Election fraud? Nah, too busy posting tweets about trannies."

You're not wrong.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 21, 2021 01:14 PM (83lwH)

314 Those woman's gymnast leotards are going to look fabulous on trannies with a bit 'o junk left over.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 21, 2021 01:14 PM (3H9h1)

315 Scotland would like a word...
Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2021 01:12 PM (8D42x)
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Hey! MacLeod! Get offa my ewe!

Posted by: Scottish Rolling Stones at June 21, 2021 01:14 PM (Jsjd7)

316 World Championships are more important to those on the inside.
Posted by: Just a side note
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Can't say I give a shit about those either.

Posted by: SMH at June 21, 2021 01:14 PM (UoJTm)

317 [2nd best halftime speech, 2nd only to Knute Rockne's Gipper]

Coach Rig: Now, let's analyze what's been working for us. [Long pause] NOT A GOD DAMN THING'S been working for us. Like this goddamn suit doesn't work for me... and this stinking tie... and this goddamned shirt. IT DOESN'T WORK FOR ME. YOU KNOW HOW TO PLAY WINNING HARD-NOSED FOOTBALL? YOU PLAY FOOTBALL LIKE ED GENERRO PLAYED FOOTBALL. A guy who gave his life for this football team. He was a 140-pound halfback, and HE PLAYED LIKE A GODDAMN WILDMAN! NO! LIKE A GODDAMN RAMPAGING BEAST! And that's the way you got to do it! YOU GO OUT THERE! YOU TEAR THEIR FUCKING HEADS OFF, AND YOU SHIT DOWN THEIR NECKS! Let us pray.

Posted by: Count de Monet, checked in to the Heartbreak Hotel at June 21, 2021 01:15 PM (4I/2K)

318 >>>This is the end of college sports. Agents and contracts come next. In 10
years, there will be no difference between college and professional
football.<
>And there won't be any edumacating going on. And I really like the idea of free agency.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 21, 2021 01:15 PM (HnNKD)

319 How's CNN paraphernalia selling?

https://bit.ly/3gKDp9b

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at June 21, 2021 01:15 PM (d9FiS)

320 now pay reparation to precious college athletes

Posted by: runner at June 21, 2021 01:15 PM (V13WU)

321 The patent office denied copyrighting Washington Football Team cuz it wasn't patentable. Is this how they will bring back the Redskins?
Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2021 01:12 PM

Patent =/= trademark =/= copyright.

Probably rejected the TM app for descriptiveness. It would be funny if that brought them back to Redskins.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 21, 2021 01:15 PM (m+jkK)

322 Funny, Larry Hubbard looks nothing like a woman. Does look mentally ill, however.

The "Olympics" have been dying for a while. Way to go, New Zealand, for applying the coup de grace.

Posted by: Flyover at June 21, 2021 01:15 PM (tL0qd)

323 Can we get rid of ~~Snowboarding as an~~ Olympic Sport?
Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2021 01:11 PM (/MaDp)

FIFY.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 21, 2021 01:15 PM (YqDXo)

324 *previous not precious

Posted by: runner at June 21, 2021 01:15 PM (V13WU)

325 YOU GO OUT THERE! YOU TEAR THEIR FUCKING HEADS OFF, AND YOU SHIT DOWN THEIR NECKS! Let us pray.
Posted by: Count de Monet, checked in to the Heartbreak Hotel at June 21, 2021 01:15 PM (4I/2K)

Necessary Roughness. A great and terribly underrated sports movie.

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at June 21, 2021 01:16 PM (II3Gr)

326 Can we get rid of the Olympics?

The world went without them for like 2000 years, probably better to just let it die. They haven't been worth watching for over 20 years anyway.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 21, 2021 01:16 PM (KZzsI)

327 "I don't really see how you can limit the payments to just "educational expenses."...how can you then say "Well they can't impose that decree, but they can act as a cartel to impose this slightly-less-restrictive one?""

Look at dis guy, trying to apply logical consistency to our capricious and arbitrary rulings like some kinda douchebag. Git oudda here!

Posted by: Mob Chief Justice Roberts at June 21, 2021 01:16 PM (3MG/9)

328 The "Olympics" have been dying for a while.

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really ? got any numbers ?? to back up your claim ?

Posted by: runner at June 21, 2021 01:16 PM (V13WU)

329 That said I would rather punch myself in the face than watch the WNBA, which looks like low powered HS mens' ball.
Posted by: Zek at June 21, 2021 01:13 PM (5RTdG)

I saw a Nike commercial which said that the problem with the NBA was not that they could not dunk (cut to a dunk). not the lack of trash talking (manly women yelling at each other), not the lack of social commentary (cut to everyone on the court kneeling in Black Lives Matter shirts), the problem is that YOU DON'T WATCH.

Think about that.

Posted by: blaster at June 21, 2021 01:16 PM (4q7lA)

330 321 The patent office denied copyrighting Washington Football Team cuz it wasn't patentable. Is this how they will bring back the Redskins?
Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2021 01:12 PM

Patent =/= trademark =/= copyright.

Probably rejected the TM app for descriptiveness. It would be funny if that brought them back to Redskins.
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You're right - trademark.

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2021 01:16 PM (/MaDp)

331 Female pole vaulters with tight asses will disappear.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at June 21, 2021 01:16 PM (cSyAR)

332 331 Female pole vaulters with tight asses will disappear.
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at June 21, 2021 01:16 PM (cSyAR)

And this is the real tragedy.

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at June 21, 2021 01:17 PM (II3Gr)

333 Probably rejected the TM app for descriptiveness. It would be funny if that brought them back to Redskins.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 21, 2021 01:15 PM (m+jkK)

Yep. That would be funny.

You might elaborate on the "descriptiveness" consideration for the non-cognoscenti.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 21, 2021 01:17 PM (YqDXo)

334 329 I saw a Nike commercial which said that the problem with the NBA was not that they could not dunk (cut to a dunk). not the lack of trash talking (manly women yelling at each other), not the lack of social commentary (cut to everyone on the court kneeling in Black Lives Matter shirts), the problem is that YOU DON'T WATCH.

Think about that.
Posted by: blaster at June 21, 2021 01:16 PM (4q7lA)

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I saw that commercial, and I burst out laughing.

"No one watches us," is a really weird marketing strategy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 21, 2021 01:17 PM (LvTSG)

335 The patent office denied copyrighting Washington Football Team cuz it wasn't patentable. Is this how they will bring back the Redskins?
Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2021 01:12 PM
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Probably not trademarkable because it's generic.

If anyone had any balls, they'd say, "Fine. Redskins it is."

But no one does, so it'll probably be the "Capital City Pride Enthusiast Equitable Justice Football Club."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2021 01:17 PM (Jsjd7)

336 What is the pacific islander group that converted to pacifism. Right as another group showed up and started literally eating them?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 21, 2021 12:42 PM

This, too, is the story of Minnesota. And Sweden.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 21, 2021 01:17 PM (OssQ4)

337 39 Will any of the actual women competing speak out against this?
Posted by: Jordan61
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I'm tellin' ya, they should take turns kicking him in the balls !
Posted by: JT at June 21, 2021 12:27 PM (arJlL)

At my gym, the women are all OK with this. And to a person, they all compete at some level in weightlifting or powerlifting.

I.Just.Don't.Get.It.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at June 21, 2021 01:17 PM (BgMrQ)

338 ESPN has started some ad campaign for the WNBA. They can talk trash, some can dunk, they can dripple, shoot and score.

The only thing wrong with the WNBA is YOU'RE NOT WATCHING IT.

Yeah, that'll work.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 21, 2021 01:17 PM (Zz0t1)

339 Can't say I give a shit about those either.
Posted by: SMH at June 21, 2021 01:14 PM (UoJTm)M

That's fair but I still like to see who is best in the world at all kinds of disciplines.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 21, 2021 01:18 PM (2DOZq)

340 That's an old picture from when she lifted for the USA. 205 - Maybe don't call people stupid without doing 5 seconds of Googling.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 21, 2021 01:03 PM (Bmy3R)

If she lifted for the USA before, then she can't lift for another country, genius. Maybe you should Google Olympics rules.

Posted by: Mente de Caca at June 21, 2021 01:18 PM (GQ0Sl)

341
I saw a Nike commercial which said that the problem with the NBA was not that they could not dunk (cut to a dunk). not the lack of trash talking (manly women yelling at each other), not the lack of social commentary (cut to everyone on the court kneeling in Black Lives Matter shirts), the problem is that YOU DON'T WATCH.

Think about that.
Posted by: blaster at June 21, 2021 01:16 PM (4q7lA)

Ah, it's Nike. Not ESPN.

Either way. BWWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 21, 2021 01:18 PM (Zz0t1)

342 Necessary Roughness. A great and terribly underrated sports movie.

Loads of fun. And it actually brings up a really interesting concept for a book I've been sort of percolating for years: a pastor on a warship in the Napoleonic wars. How do you teach Christianity and love on a ship designed to kill the enemy? How do you teach forgiveness and charity to warriors? I know they did it, but like modern day chaplains it has to be a challenge.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 21, 2021 01:18 PM (KZzsI)

343 "So this means that we can now replace the obnoxious purple-haired woman on the US Women's National Soccer Team with a fifteen-year-old boy?"

The quality of play will certainly improve.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 21, 2021 01:18 PM (83lwH)

344
Dave Rubin did an interview with a HS women's athlete who is suing over this

https://tinyurl.com/8ndvasrx

Revealing the Cost of Girls Competing with Trans Athletes | Chelsea Mitchell Interview (15 minutes)

Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2021 01:18 PM (ySM85)

345 28... all of the (at last count) 57 genders.
...
Posted by: Bete at June 21, 2021 12:26 PM (Ojki1)

That's one for each state!

Posted by: Obumma at June 21, 2021 01:18 PM (tL0qd)

346 You're right - trademark.
Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2021 01:16 PM

Your point still stands. I'd laugh my ass off if the owners couldn't stomach losing that sweet, sweet cash, told the wokesters to FOAD, and went back to Redskins.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 21, 2021 01:19 PM (m+jkK)

347
In her first fight, xhe broke xer opponent's orbital bone and knocked her out of the sport for MONTHS.

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Fox vs. Brents. It was an absurd and embarrassing and ultimately gruesome spectacle... everyone involved should have been ashamed of themselves, most especially Brents' manager. Never should have happened, and she's lucky to be alive.

If your client is too stupid to know not to do this, and you encourage her to step in there anyway, that's just reckless, money-grubbing and dangerous exploitation of a retarded girl.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2021 01:19 PM (7U3R4)

348 Obama is a prolific chicken fucker. What hasn't he fucked with?

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2021 01:19 PM (/MaDp)

349 Warrior Competition Championship should be more publicized. Special Forces team competition.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 21, 2021 01:19 PM (2DOZq)

350 I saw a Nike commercial which said that the problem with the NBA was not that they could not dunk (cut to a dunk). not the lack of trash talking (manly women yelling at each other),

Trash talking is exactly the reason I don't watch the more ghettoized sports.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 21, 2021 01:19 PM (YqDXo)

351 They gave up cuz it was cheaper to scout college players.
Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2021 01:13 PM (/MaDp)
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The NBA has a little-known minor league called originally called the D-league (developmental) now the G-league (for Gatorade, they got a sponsor).

Posted by: zmdavid at June 21, 2021 01:19 PM (xqRaG)

352 Good.

Now Lou Saban won't be the only money grubbing bastard on campus.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 21, 2021 01:20 PM (8VdmT)

353
"No one watches us," is a really weird marketing strategy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 21, 2021 01:17 PM (LvTSG)

Perhaps they are just trying to justify why they pay WNBA players less for sponsorship.

Posted by: blaster at June 21, 2021 01:20 PM (4q7lA)

354 The world went without them for like 2000 years, probably better to just let it die. They haven't been worth watching for over 20 years anyway.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 21, 2021 01:16 PM (KZzsI)

tbh, if you're watching nbc's "coverage" then you're not actually seeing the sports themselves for most of the broadcasts...

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2021 01:20 PM (8D42x)

355 =========

I saw that commercial, and I burst out laughing.

"No one watches us," is a really weird marketing strategy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 21, 2021 01:17 PM (LvTSG)

It will soon be "You need to get your misogynist, sexist ass watching or you'll be sent to re-education camp, racist."

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 21, 2021 01:20 PM (Zz0t1)

356 Enjoy your smart home.
https://is.gd/u2WNNe

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2021 01:20 PM (Jsjd7)

357
Now Lou Saban won't be the only money grubbing bastard on campus.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 21, 2021 01:20 PM (8VdmT)

Lou?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 21, 2021 01:21 PM (Zz0t1)

358 BTW: in the College World Series, Stanford and Arizona are starting the 2nd inning on ESPNU.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at June 21, 2021 01:21 PM (sWM8x)

359 In Mayan basketball, did they sacrifice the winning team or the losing team?

Posted by: zmdavid at June 21, 2021 01:21 PM (xqRaG)

360 "No one watches us," is a really weird marketing strategy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 21, 2021 01:17 PM (LvTSG)
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Last I heard, WNBA players do well in Russia. Russia likes women's basketball for some reason. Even *that* would be a better angle than what was described.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2021 01:21 PM (Jsjd7)

361 I am indifferent to the NBA but do I have to care about the WNBA?

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at June 21, 2021 01:22 PM (cSyAR)

362 The WNBA uses a smaller ball.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 21, 2021 01:22 PM (2DOZq)

363 tbh, if you're watching nbc's "coverage" then you're not actually seeing the sports themselves for most of the broadcasts...

I blame Wild World of Sports, where Jim McCay popularized the "up close and personal" stories. She grew up a poor black sharecropper in Alabama and suffered the loss of her pet squirrel "chippie" at a tender age, but fought past all these hardships to become an Olympic checkers player!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 21, 2021 01:22 PM (KZzsI)

364 346 You're right - trademark.
Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2021 01:16 PM

Your point still stands. I'd laugh my ass off if the owners couldn't stomach losing that sweet, sweet cash, told the wokesters to FOAD, and went back to Redskins.
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Its not so much the wokesters as its the National Media. Redskins don't rent space from DC, hell, they don't even play in DC, so no troubles with the City Council. The problem is the Networks that provide 95% of all revenue to the NFL. The only way to fix this is for the NFL to develop their own delivery system absent the Networks.

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2021 01:22 PM (/MaDp)

365 Meanwhile, this 42 year old will be competing at the Olympics, because it's perfectly normal for 42 year old women to still be of Olympic power in strength sports.

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Yeah, but he's only six in dog years.

/Math is hard ...

Posted by: ShainS at June 21, 2021 01:23 PM (L1U9a)

366 > "No one watches us," is a really weird marketing strategy.

Sounds like they're trying to shame the, "I love women's basketball, in THEORY" SJWs who don't ever watch into watching.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 21, 2021 01:23 PM (YYlyE)

367 I like women's beach volleyball.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at June 21, 2021 01:23 PM (cSyAR)

368 If she lifted for the USA before, then she can't lift for another country, genius. Maybe you should Google Olympics rules.

Posted by: Mente de Caca at June 21, 2021 01:18 PM (GQ0Sl)

Not true.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 21, 2021 01:23 PM (Q9lwr)

369 "No one watches us," is a really weird marketing strategy."

I know that's what I look for in movie reviews.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 21, 2021 01:23 PM (83lwH)

370 some dude shaving his head, putting on lipstick and kicking your ass.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 21, 2021 01:12 PM (Zz0t1)
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The fellas should have a talk with him.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 21, 2021 01:24 PM (RkmKf)

371 YOU GO OUT THERE! YOU TEAR THEIR FUCKING HEADS OFF, AND YOU SHIT DOWN THEIR NECKS! Let us pray.
Posted by: Count de Monet, checked in to the Heartbreak Hotel at June 21, 2021 01:15 PM (4I/2K)

Necessary Roughness. A great and terribly underrated sports movie.
Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at June 21, 2021 01:16 PM (II3Gr)

Which had a woman playing on the men's team. Hmmm...

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 21, 2021 01:24 PM (Ez6QX)

372 If she lifted for the USA before, then she can't lift for another country, genius. Maybe you should Google Olympics rules.

Posted by: Mente de Caca at June 21, 2021 01:18 PM (GQ0Sl)

Not true.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 21, 2021 01:23 PM (Q9lwr)

Whoops........

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 21, 2021 01:24 PM (Zz0t1)

373 Lou?
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 21, 2021 01:21 PM (Zz0t1)

Remember, we're all 29 here.

Lou is appropriate for that age cohort!

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at June 21, 2021 01:24 PM (BgMrQ)

374 tbh, if you're watching nbc's "coverage" then you're not actually seeing the sports themselves for most of the broadcasts...

I blame Wild World of Sports, where Jim McCay popularized the "up close and personal" stories. She grew up a poor black sharecropper in Alabama and suffered the loss of her pet squirrel "chippie" at a tender age, but fought past all these hardships to become an Olympic checkers player!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 21, 2021 01:22 PM (KZzsI)

true, that probably had something to do with it, but it took a number of years to fully percolate over. now it's so bad that the small human interest story interspersed in the sports coverage has become the small sports coverage interspersed in the human interest stories...

ESPECIALLY when the events are on tape delay from middle of last night.

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2021 01:24 PM (8D42x)

375 Frankly the lack of thug culture and dunking was one of the WNBA's few attractions, advertising that isn't exactly going to draw more customers.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 21, 2021 01:24 PM (KZzsI)

376 366 > "No one watches us," is a really weird marketing strategy.

Sounds like they're trying to shame the, "I love women's basketball, in THEORY" SJWs who don't ever watch into watching.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 21, 2021 01:23 PM (YYlyE)

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Heh.

Possible. Probably won't work because, you know, the WNBA is terrible and most leftists don't like sports anyway.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 21, 2021 01:25 PM (LvTSG)

377 ---------------

The fellas should have a talk with him.
Posted by: Braenyard at June 21, 2021 01:24 PM (RkmKf)

That one's ALL on Dana White. He should've NEVER allowed that freak in the ring with a woman.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 21, 2021 01:25 PM (Zz0t1)

378 You might elaborate on the "descriptiveness" consideration for the non-cognoscenti.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 21, 2021 01:17 PM

The TL

R version, is that a trademark can't describe the goods it's being used for. It's supposed to identify the source of the goods. For example, if there was more than one Washington football team, the others couldn't even describe themselves as Washington football teams without infringing on the Washington Football Team's trademark. A lot of companies don't get this, and need to be talked off the ledge when their marketing-tested awesome trademark idea gets kicked back. I'll be happy to bore anyone with details at the NoVaMoMe.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 21, 2021 01:25 PM (m+jkK)

379 Equal pay for men and women college athletes is going to be Title IX on steroids/crack.

Posted by: TexasDan at June 21, 2021 01:25 PM (ohOLP)

380 "No one watches us," is a really weird marketing strategy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 21, 2021 01:17 PM (LvTSG)

Interesting psychology. It suggests that people not watching know something that makes them stay away.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 21, 2021 01:25 PM (YqDXo)

381 Sounds like they're trying to shame the, "I love women's basketball, in THEORY" SJWs who don't ever watch into watching.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 21, 2021 01:23 PM (YYlyE)
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That won't work. It doesn't work for their woke-ass TV shows that are better the WNBA. It sure as shit ain't gonna work for that organization.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2021 01:25 PM (Jsjd7)

382 @334

The ironic thing is that the WNBA plays a more watchable, relatable style of game than the NBA.

Watching guys running up and down the court, largely uncontested is boring.

Where the hell is Anthony Mason Lambiere when you need them?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 21, 2021 01:26 PM (Siz82)

383 Enjoy your smart home.
https://is.gd/u2WNNe
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2021 01:20 PM (Jsjd7)

What did you think would happen, dumbass?

Posted by: Red Forman at June 21, 2021 01:26 PM (4I/2K)

384
Necessary Roughness. A great and terribly underrated sports movie.
Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at June 21, 2021 01:16 PM (II3Gr)

Filmed at one of the many college type environments I've given money to. They actually still have the bronze armadillo on campus somewhere.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 21, 2021 01:26 PM (Zz0t1)

385 Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 21, 2021 01:25 PM (m+jkK)

Well done. I just thought that your remark re descriptiveness might be a little too cryptic for the Horde.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 21, 2021 01:27 PM (YqDXo)

386 >>>... all of the (at last count) 57 genders.<
>They pulled this arbitrary bullshit number off of a bottle of steak sauce.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 21, 2021 01:27 PM (HnNKD)

387 In the US, trannies didn't kill the Olympics. thst unbearable drama queen Bob Costas did.

NBC turned Olympics coverage into a freaking soap opera. The sad stories about "victimized" women and "oppressed" rich Black girls competing in the Olympics were nauseating.

Posted by: Mente de Caca at June 21, 2021 01:27 PM (GQ0Sl)

388 Ah. So that's how you get that grinning emoji.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 21, 2021 01:27 PM (m+jkK)

389 How do you teach forgiveness and charity to warriors? I know they did it, but like modern day chaplains it has to be a challenge.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 21, 2021 01:18 PM (KZzsI)

Joshua Graham ie The Burned Man in Fallout: New Vegas: "We can't expect God to do all the work and "I don't enjoy killing, but when done righteously, it's just a chore, like any other."

Your statement there brought all the memes around that character to mind. The FNV DLC "Honest Hearts" is probably the weakest DLC of that game, but I always play it just for Graham's interactions.

Posted by: Thrawn at June 21, 2021 01:28 PM (a+Mub)

390
Remember, we're all 29 here.

Lou is appropriate for that age cohort!
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at June 21, 2021 01:24 PM (BgMrQ)

Point

[ X ] Noted

[ ] Not Noted

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 21, 2021 01:28 PM (Zz0t1)

391 Well done. I just thought that your remark re descriptiveness might be a little too cryptic for the Horde.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 21, 2021 01:27 PM

Point. It is a bit of inside baseball.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 21, 2021 01:28 PM (m+jkK)

392 I played basketball but I never enjoyed watching it. Same deal with soccer - fun to play - not fun to watch. Baseball is a past time, a sport that allows you to read a book while 'watching'. Football and Rugby are spectator sports and provide great entertainment. Women's tennis was good before the buffaloes started playing.

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2021 01:28 PM (/MaDp)

393 Equal pay for men and women college athletes is going to be Title IX on steroids/crack.

Yeah, I can't wait to see colleges destroyed by that fight. Sure, the womyn's lacrosse team gets fewer viewers than a re run of the last episode of Game of Thrones, but they should be paid just as much as the Football team.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 21, 2021 01:28 PM (KZzsI)

394 Let's face it, the Olympics began being a slush fund for the 3rd world.

Someone's gonna pay for all the stuff and I'd bet that the money comes indirectly from US.

And since they want more "equal" representation and all they had to start including some of the more easier "sports" so that even some dinky 3rd world team can win SOMETHING.

It's just been affirmative action for countries is all. Been that way since about the 60s.

And personally they should just have a sport and whoever can do the best gets on the team. by having separate men/women's teams they admit right there in the open that men and women can't compete against each other in most athletic contests.

Sure there are some and that's all good. Let's stop this sexism.

Posted by: jakee308 at June 21, 2021 01:29 PM (++Sf8)

395 Necessary Roughness. A great and terribly underrated sports movie.
Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at June 21, 2021 01:16 PM (II3Gr)

Which had a woman playing on the men's team. Hmmm...
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 21, 2021 01:24 PM (Ez6QX)

Lucy the kicker was an Armadillo. But not like the others.

Posted by: Manu the Slender at June 21, 2021 01:29 PM (4I/2K)

396 > Enjoy your smart home.

Damn. I have all of my IoT on a VLAN that gets zero access to the internet. If I want to access them, I SSH in.

However, I don't know if you can do that with a Nest thermostat. I'm assuming, because Google, they demand the ability to phone home or it stops working.

My Chromecast is like this. Any time I clamp down on its network access, it suddenly can't connect to anything it should theoretically have access to.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 21, 2021 01:29 PM (YYlyE)

397 I'll be happy to bore anyone with details at the NoVaMoMe.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 21, 2021 01:25 PM (m+jkK)

Are you licensed to discuss THE NoVAMoMe?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 21, 2021 01:29 PM (Q9lwr)

398 Possible. Probably won't work because, you know, the WNBA is terrible and most leftists don't like sports anyway.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 21, 2021 01:25 PM (LvTSG)
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They won't see the commercials unless they are already watching ESPN unless they have enough money to run them on shows with a real audience.

Posted by: zmdavid at June 21, 2021 01:30 PM (xqRaG)

399 So the very best woman New Zealand has to send out against the world is....a dude.

Is this when we can finally talk about how the PM of New Zealand is also very -VERY- mannish?

Posted by: Speed Racer's Banana Hammock at June 21, 2021 01:30 PM (kZVsz)

400 The endgame is for parents to make money off of their children via social media, which this and the NIL will allow.
So basically double digits will be exploiting their kids and other kids at age 8 and up. It's already happening for clicks.
POS football coaches put a small kids against a beast for illegal tackling drills off of the small kid getting knocked out. Yes, this is the extreme example, but it's out there.
I don't think children's sports should be monetized (at all) because some kid goes through puberty early. Every kids sport will have an NBA mentality. But hear we go..... weeeeee down the slippery slope again.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at June 21, 2021 01:30 PM (sOFEO)

401 I blame Wild World of Sports, where Jim McCay popularized the "up close and personal" stories. She grew up a poor black sharecropper in Alabama and suffered the loss of her pet squirrel "chippie" at a tender age, but fought past all these hardships to become an Olympic checkers player!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 21, 2021 01:22 PM (KZzsI)

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"What in the Wide World of #Woke is a-going on here? I hired you people to get a little track lay, not to jump around like a bunch of Twitterati faggots!"

Posted by: ShainS at June 21, 2021 01:30 PM (L1U9a)

402 In Mayan basketball, did they sacrifice the winning team or the losing team?
Posted by: zmdavid at June 21, 2021 01:21 PM (xqRaG)

Winners got sacrificed.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2021 01:30 PM (ySM85)

403 The ironic thing is that the WNBA plays a more watchable, relatable style of game than the NBA.

The problem is that basketball is inherently boring, so its tough to get people to watch any of it to begin with. I agree with Puddin, soccer is dull as paint drying to watch but its fun to play.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 21, 2021 01:30 PM (KZzsI)

404 There was a time where athletes were paid a decent salary and they made all their money off endorsements.

How come no one is pissing at Nike or Under Armor for not signing some female athlete to the Rory McIlroy $300 Million contract?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 21, 2021 01:31 PM (Zz0t1)

405 "Russia likes women's basketball for some reason."

Appears it's 7 oligarch's trying to outdo each other:

"When basketball is your passion and you're part of the new Russian oligarchy, what is $6 million over the course of a season?

There are six or seven owners like him in Russia...they're hotheads who want the best women's basketball team, and that's their hobby, so they don't care how much they pay."

ESPN source, so uncertain of credibility
https://tinyurl.com/cehzruv4

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 21, 2021 01:31 PM (83lwH)

406 Since the Olympics allows professional athletes to compete in events now, what's the point of preserving amateur status?

Posted by: Amateur Troll at June 21, 2021 01:32 PM (JHPaT)

407 Point. It is a bit of inside baseball.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 21, 2021 01:28 PM (m+jkK)

It is, to be sure. But you did a great job on elaborating on it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 21, 2021 01:32 PM (YqDXo)

408 397 I'll be happy to bore anyone with details at the NoVaMoMe.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 21, 2021 01:25 PM (m+jkK)
Are you licensed to discuss THE NoVAMoMe?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 21, 2021 01:29 PM (Q9lwr)

Do not go to the NoVaMoMe if you're allergic to the NoVaMoMe...

Posted by: Legal Disclaimer Dude at June 21, 2021 01:32 PM (BgMrQ)

409 Are you licensed to discuss THE NoVAMoMe?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 21, 2021 01:29 PM

Have I violated the first rule of the NoVaMoMe by talking about the NoVaMoMe?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 21, 2021 01:32 PM (m+jkK)

410 Enjoy your smart home.
https://is.gd/u2WNNe
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2021 01:20 PM (Jsjd7)

Psst, that's nothing. In Los Angeles, politicians are using "smart meters" to cut off water in poor neighborhoods because of "muh drought". It was around the time tgat lunatic Sharon Osbourne shared with the world that she only flushed the toilet when she took a number two.

Hollywood's pristine green landscapes were left untouched, of course.

Posted by: Mente de Caca at June 21, 2021 01:32 PM (GQ0Sl)

411 Nood.

Posted by: Bete at June 21, 2021 01:32 PM (Ojki1)

412 But hear we go..... weeeeee down the slippery slope again.

Remember folks, the "slippery slope" fallacy isn't called that because it isn't true. It often is exactly true.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 21, 2021 01:32 PM (KZzsI)

413 ... However, I don't know if you can do that with a Nest thermostat. I'm assuming, because Google, they demand the ability to phone home or it stops working. ...
Posted by: bonhomme at June 21, 2021 01:29 PM (YYlyE)
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I suspect (though I don't know, because I don't have any smart home stuff) that the Nest device will work without internet, but only as a dumb thermostat.

The way they managed to make a lot of these inscrutable devices useful is by simplifying them and removing the interface. If you've ever tried to program a traditional programmable thermostat, you know how arcane that crap is.

Instead of dealing that kind of indecipherable brain damage, they created nice UIs that run on your mobile phone. Programming is suddenly intuitive and easy, as is reporting. But it also means that get *anything* to work properly, you have to have a cell phone or tablet to connect to it. And that means that it's online. Even if the device itself is locked out, your app can get the data and then forward it happily along.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2021 01:32 PM (Jsjd7)

414 Will be interesting to see if smaller schools can be competitive at all with the Big Boys.

In the Seventies the NCAA increased football competiveness by reducing scholarships in a couple of ways. Until then, big schools would sign more top-level skill position high school players than they could reasonably use, just to keep good players out of other schools in their conference.

Posted by: Every filthy rich college alum at June 21, 2021 01:33 PM (AMIL/)

415 There are six or seven owners like him in Russia...they're hotheads who want the best women's basketball team, and that's their hobby, so they don't care how much they pay.

That sounds really plausible to me

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 21, 2021 01:33 PM (KZzsI)

416 And since they want more "equal" representation and all they had to start including some of the more easier "sports" so that even some dinky 3rd world team can win SOMETHING.

Hey Mon! Take that back.

Posted by: Jamaican Bobsled Team at June 21, 2021 01:33 PM (4I/2K)

417 Women had the power to stop the trans movement into their sports a long time ago. But predictably, they chose to fight against the very men who fighting on their side because "men bad" and "down with the patriarchy."
I have zero compassion for them at this point.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at June 21, 2021 01:34 PM (sOFEO)

418 "The problem is that basketball is inherently boring"

I hate it. It's a self-esteem sport to me. What's notable is when a a team DOESN'T score. 101-100 is around 100 goals total?

And too often there is no real separation. Five nights in a row of Team A vs Team B is 113-111, 98-97, 97-98, 111-113, 101-100.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 21, 2021 01:34 PM (83lwH)

419 > It was around the time tgat lunatic Sharon Osbourne shared with the world that she only flushed the toilet when she took a number two.

Ever been in a house where they let piss marinate in the toilet? The whole place smells. Betcha Osbourne is either lying, or she runs the fan all the time so her house doesn't smell like downtown L.A.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 21, 2021 01:34 PM (YYlyE)

420 Winners got sacrificed.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2021 01:30 PM (ySM85)
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Thanks.

Posted by: zmdavid at June 21, 2021 01:34 PM (xqRaG)

421 335
Out: Washington Redskins
Out: Washington Football Team
In: Washington Foreskins

Posted by: Glenn John at June 21, 2021 01:35 PM (LilNs)

422 The only way it works to pay college athletes is if you have a ranked pick system. The top high school athlete may be picked by the Akron Zips in the first round over Ohio State. Otherwise schools with money will always lead. So it becomes Ohio State and Alabama and everyone else. If the player declines to sign with Akron, then no pay to him at his choice school. Or Akron gets paid by Ohio State.

Posted by: Actually inside the Beltway at June 21, 2021 01:35 PM (fMhOl)

423 It is, to be sure. But you did a great job on elaborating on it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 21, 2021 01:32 PM

Thanks. I've had to explain that a few too many times.

That and wonder why companies that should know better paid us to do a trademark search for crap their marketing divisions came up with after clearly failing to spend 30 seconds on the interwebz to discover that their competitors were already using the proposed marks. I mean, we'll take the money, but, smh...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 21, 2021 01:35 PM (m+jkK)

424 In Mayan basketball, did they sacrifice the winning team or the losing team?
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Winners got sacrificed.

I'm betting that a lot of games went into overtime tied at 0-0.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 21, 2021 01:35 PM (nfrXX)

425 The problem is that basketball is inherently boring, so its tough to get people to watch any of it to begin with. I agree with Puddin, soccer is dull as paint drying to watch but its fun to play.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 21, 2021 01:30 PM (KZzsI)

Baseball kinda has that problem. I like to watch to study the mechanics of the players: how they throw, how they swing, how they run, etc. It's instructive even to watch less accomplished players, whose mechanical flaws are more apparent.

I don't (and didn't, before BLM) follow any teams, and didn't much care who won/lost, I just watched the game for the above consideration.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 21, 2021 01:36 PM (YqDXo)

426 Women's sports will be devastated by the SC ruling because they rely upon football revenue to even exist. Once the money starts flowing to the men who actually earn it, then the the women will have to come up with a new grift.

There are only maybe two college women's basketball programs which are self-sufficient, and no teams in any other women's sports are. Men's sports outside of football and basketball will be hurt too since they all suckle off those programs.

Posted by: Thatch at June 21, 2021 01:36 PM (qWceQ)

427 Thanks. I've had to explain that a few too many times.

I hear ya. If I had a dime for every time I had to explain that getting a patent in and of itself did NOT give someone the right to do anything other than sue someone else for infringement ...

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 21, 2021 01:38 PM (YqDXo)

428 183...Where is the outrage from the WOMAN's Movement?
Posted by: redridinghood at June 21, 2021 12:56 PM (NpAcC)

[yawn] [files nails]

Posted by: feminists everywhere at June 21, 2021 01:39 PM (tL0qd)

429 I was invaded by a small boy. Won the war with blueberries and Snickers.

Posted by: creeper at June 21, 2021 01:41 PM (XxJt1)

430 I can't follow truncated links at work, but I assume the "enjoy your smart home" is a link to the story out of Houston where a bunch of people had their smart thermostats jacked up to 80 on a hot afternoon because ERCOT declared a need for conservation?

While I agree that the actions taken by the service provder are absolute GARBAGE, I do lay a pretty hefty amount of blame squarely at the feet of the homeowners.

YOU DIDN'T READ THE E-U-L-A, DID YOU? You signed up for some schlocky "program" because it had a feel-good name, came with being entered in a sweepstakes, and didn't bother to read any farther than "WIN AN X!" This is Houston, which is not short of sanctimonious liberals, so I'm willing to wager that most of the people who signed up (and were impacted) are people who still possess the following political yard-signs:
- Biden / Harris.
- BETO
- Hillary!
...and depending on how long ago they moved here from Cali, possibly a Wendy Davis sign, too.

They employed zero critical-thinking skills, preferring instead to shore up their feelz, and now BLAMMO that self-righteousness wound up making the microcosm of their home suck for a day.

I lol'd. And I'd lol again.

Posted by: Speed Racer's Banana Hammock at June 21, 2021 01:41 PM (kZVsz)

431 Betcha Osbourne is either lying, or she runs the fan all the time so her house doesn't smell like downtown L.A.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 21, 2021 01:34 PM (YYlyE)

Of course she was lying, but those sweet retweets from the woke crowd were gold.

Then again, her husband Ozzy was known for sniffing piss-glazed ants right off the sidewalk, so you never know.

Posted by: Mente de Caca at June 21, 2021 01:43 PM (GQ0Sl)

432 I'm an expert at archery. Can you imagine:

"Hey Fen, how would you like to come to Russia for awhile and lead our archery team? Really want to beat an old rival of mine..."

Come to Russia? Like over a weekend?

"We just built this indoor mega-range too, you'll have the best of anything that money can buy. Best gear, Olympic medal instructors, a maid, a masseuse, a driver... all the girls booze and drugs you could want..."

Huh?

"And we'll pay you $300,000 per month. With a $1k bonus for every bullseye you hit"

WHAT?

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 21, 2021 01:44 PM (83lwH)

433 I'm betting that a lot of games went into overtime tied at 0-0.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 21, 2021 01:35 PM (nfrXX)

I'm betting that there a shitload of own goals.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 21, 2021 01:44 PM (YqDXo)

434
You forgot the Romulans. They're pretty bellicose

Better them than the Ronulans.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain wants a Real Truth and Reconciliation Commision at June 21, 2021 01:48 PM (Clxcy)

435 Also - just because something *can* be connected to the Internet, does not mean that it *should* be. I have a "smart thermostat" and I have not hooked it up to the wifi. It's not an over-intrustive Nest or anything like that, but it does offer the ability to use the Honeywell app to "monitor and adjust your temperature from anywhere!" and also to use geofencing for it to automatically detect when I'm not home (and thus jack the temperature around).

I do not like any of these features. I particularly do not like the assumption that me being away means it's alright for my house to get up to 80 in the summer. Just because people aren't home doesn't mean pets aren't still in the house. Doesn't mean I don't still have produce sitting out on the kitchen counter. Or 3D printer filament I'd like to keep actually at room temperature.

I've never understood the notion that letting the house grow warmer in the afternoon and then maintaining that temperature really saves anything, especially since you now have to run for an extended period that evening before I get home to bring it back down. As opposed to simply maintaining a lower temp all day...

Posted by: Speed Racer's Banana Hammock at June 21, 2021 01:48 PM (kZVsz)

436 Then again, her husband Ozzy was known for sniffing piss-glazed ants right off the sidewalk, so you never know.
Posted by: Mente de Caca at June 21, 2021 01:43 PM (GQ0Sl)

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Don't knock it 'til you've tried it.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at June 21, 2021 01:50 PM (kZVsz)

437
I've never understood the notion that letting the house grow warmer in the afternoon and then maintaining that temperature really saves anything, especially since you now have to run for an extended period that evening before I get home to bring it back down

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Enough time and not just the air but all the objects get warm. So you have to run the AC longer to get all that stuff cool too.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2021 01:57 PM (mht8P)

438 I'm betting that there a shitload of own goals.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 21, 2021 01:44 PM (YqDXo)

Wasn't there only one hoop?

Plus i'm getting that most times no one got sacrificed when I search.

But then since the Conquistadores wiped the Mayans out (or was it the Aztecs and the Conq's did them in?) we don't have a lot of really exact info on their culture. Mostly just ramblings from Priests wishing they were back in Barcelona.

Posted by: jakee308 at June 21, 2021 02:00 PM (++Sf8)

439 Classic chick MMA moment, when Rhonda Rousey talks all kinds of shit to Holly Holm, who proceeds to knock Rhonda the fuck out with a kick to the head.

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at June 21, 2021 01:05 PM (II3Gr)

Of course. Rousey came out and endorsed Biden a few days prior to the fight.

So she redistributed her title.

Posted by: Dr. Washington Nearsider, Single and #SuperStraight at June 21, 2021 02:09 PM (cvNl1)

440 I wonder which national women's teams will refuse to compete in the Olympics. Ours certainly will go compete and lose, but I am curious as to who will boycott the event.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2021 12:30 PM (Jsjd7)

The gals should just kick each competitor in the groin before the lift for luck. After all, they are all the same down there, right?

Posted by: Oldcat at June 21, 2021 02:09 PM (eoQWY)

441 Of course. Rousey came out and endorsed Biden a few days prior to the fight.

So she redistributed her title.

Posted by: Dr. Washington Nearsider, Single and #SuperStraight at June 21, 2021 02:09 PM

Dammit... Endorsed SANDERS.

Posted by: Dr. Washington Nearsider, Single and #SuperStraight at June 21, 2021 02:10 PM (cvNl1)

442 But then since the Conquistadores wiped the Mayans out (or was it the Aztecs and the Conq's did them in?) we don't have a lot of really exact info on their culture. Mostly just ramblings from Priests wishing they were back in Barcelona.
Posted by: jakee308 at June 21, 2021 02:00 PM (++Sf

Cortez did in the Aztecs, I think the Mayans abandoned their cities far earlier without European aid.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 21, 2021 02:10 PM (eoQWY)

443 Kavanaugh argued:
"All of the restaurants in a region cannot come together to cut cooks' wages on the theory that 'customers prefer' to eat food from low-paid cooks. Law firms cannot conspire to cabin lawyers' salaries in the name of providing legal services out of a 'love of the law.' Hospitals cannot agree to cap nurses' income in order to create a 'purer' form of helping the sick. News organizations cannot join forces to curtail pay to reporters to preserve a 'tradition' of public-minded journalism. Movie studios cannot collude to slash benefits to camera crews to kindle a 'spirit of amateurism' in Hollywood," Kavanaugh wrote. "Price-fixing labor is price-fixing labor."

Posted by: SMOD at June 21, 2021 02:12 PM (RHGPo)

444 @334

The ironic thing is that the WNBA plays a more watchable, relatable style of game than the NBA.

Watching guys running up and down the court, largely uncontested is boring.

Where the hell is Anthony Mason Lambiere when you need them?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 21, 2021 01:26 PM (Siz82)

Fast pitch women's softball is similar - its a lot like what baseball was in the 1890s - 1910s where you had to move the runners along more than just wait for a home run

Posted by: Oldcat at June 21, 2021 02:16 PM (eoQWY)

445 @422 In Ohio, there is a legend of sport. In the legend, OSU gets what it deserves. The first time THE Ohio State University ever played a game of football against an opponent, it was the college that later would be known as The University of Akron. State lost so badly that they literally gave up the game for several years.
If only the ZIP's reminded them of this every year, it would not be so bad.
But Youngstown, OU, Bowling Green, Toledo, several schools in Cleveland, and Purdue relate the story whenever they meet.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at June 21, 2021 02:43 PM (zMFmR)

446 Athlete Students

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 21, 2021 04:05 PM (77j3F)

447 There are women who actually believe that they can compete in sports against biological men. Other than a very few exceptional women, and a very few exceptional sports, that has never been true. They will find that even men taking testosterone blockers have incredible innate advantages over them. Science knows this to be true, leftists simply deny it.

This is one of those "Remember, you wanted this" moments.

Posted by: Inspector Kemp at June 21, 2021 05:14 PM (I262G)

448 My daughter is captain of a sports team in college. She freely admits she wouldn't even make the men's team, and that even the weakest guy on the men's team would crush her in a head to head competition, no matter how much she trained.

Posted by: Inspector Kemp at June 21, 2021 05:18 PM (I262G)

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