The Media Whined That the Washington Post Cancelled Its World-Beating Sports Section.<br>The Media, You Will Not Be Surprised to Learn, Lied

The Media Whined That the Washington Post Cancelled Its World-Beating Sports Section.
The Media, You Will Not Be Surprised to Learn, Lied

By "sports," they meant what they mean in every case: DEI propaganda and gay communism bullshit.

They do this with every single entertainment men like. They fill men's entertainment with nonstop pro-gay, pro-feminism, pro-DEI propaganda.

So that's what was going on with the Washington Post's "sports" desk before they cancelled it.

Free Beacon's Andrew Stiles:

Angsty Journalists Said the WaPo Sports Section Was Indispensable. The Evidence Suggests Otherwise.

Recent 'sports' coverage highlighted Colin Kaepernick, climate change, racial equity, and the NHL's failure to adequately celebrate queer culture

The Washington Post shuttered its so-called sports section last week amid sweeping layoffs intended to transform the once-revered paper into a product that makes money because people actually want to read it. Doing what comes naturally, the journalism community shrieked in agony while denouncing anyone who suggested that a media outlet losing $100 million per year was not sustainable. Some journalists were particularly aggrieved by the demise of the sports section, which they hailed as uniquely indispensable due to the fact that some talented reporters had worked there several decades ago.
ESPN reporter Jenna Laine wrote that the layoffs were "so troubling" because they signaled that "the appetite for real sports reporting has died" as the industry continued "its slow, inevitable burn." New York Times reporter Ben Mullin wrote a eulogy for "one of the last bastions of great sports writing." More importantly, he explained, the Post was a "champion of diversity" and a "leader in women's sports coverage."
A Washington Free Beacon analysis of the Post's sports-related output in recent weeks did not find sufficient evidence to support these claims of journalistic greatness. Amid numerous offerings of gambling advice, the Post also published eight feature-length articles since Jan. 29 that--while technically sports-related--few normal American sports fans would describe as engaging content that must be published even if it means losing $100 million per year.
1) Hockey isn't gay enough
Days before the layoffs were announced, the paper's Washington Capitals beat reporter examined how the success of Heated Rivalry--the television series about two gay hockey players who have sex with each other--had made at least several people upset that the NHL wasn't doing more to elevate queerness and promote LGBTQIA2S+ inclusion.
2) NFL diversity police
As part of the Post's Super Bowl coverage, the paper expressed concern that the NFL was still "grappling" with its lack of diversity among head coaches. The story included quotes from NFL executives responding to diversity-focused questions from concerned reporters, and another from a black former coach, Tony Dungy, who said, "I try not to look at it in terms of race."
3) The enduring legacy of Colin Kaepernick
Sports reporter Adam Kilgore conveyed his agonizing displeasure with the fact that Colin Kaepernick--the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback best known for kneeling down to protest the national anthem--was not being widely discussed ahead of Super Bowl LX. Because the game was being played in Kaepernick's former home stadium--where he won roughly a third of the games he started--Kilgore argued there was no one "more relevant." The article included affirming quotes from four university professors specializing in social justice.

That's as much as I'll steal. See the article for more "sports" coverage.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:20 PM

Comments

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1 BLADE CANNOT BE DEFEATED

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 16, 2026 04:21 PM (iFTx/)

2 Nope

Posted by: Accomack at February 16, 2026 04:22 PM (8jVAy)

3

Fact: Blade is in a heated rivalry with Sponge

Posted by: imp at February 16, 2026 04:22 PM (g6TN6)

4 Sports Section?
Washington Post?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 16, 2026 04:22 PM (/lPRQ)

5 What's a Washington Post?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 16, 2026 04:24 PM (ExV1e)

6 "Recent 'sports' coverage highlighted Colin Kaepernick, climate change, racial equity, and the NHL's failure to adequately celebrate queer culture."

So ... normal "sports" coverage then?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 16, 2026 04:24 PM (iFTx/)

7 Posted by: imp at February 16, 2026 04:22 PM (g6TN6)

But sponge is funnier, as he usually says "First" at about 25 or more posts in.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 16, 2026 04:25 PM (PFs9e)

8 Days before the layoffs were announced, the paper's Washington Capitals beat reporter examined how the success of Heated Rivalry--the television series about two gay hockey players who have sex with each other--had made at least several people upset that the NHL wasn't doing more to elevate queerness and promote LGBTQIA2S+ inclusion.

They're claiming based on a fictional TV show that the real NHL should do things? I realize these are the same people who REEEEE when Trump doesn't play-act "The West Wing", but as Joe Biden would say, c'mon man.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 16, 2026 04:25 PM (QZThv)

9 OT: Side bar already covered it. Robert Duvall has died. One of the Greats! He was 95.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 16, 2026 04:26 PM (sAmhv)

10 Sports is another male space that was taken away.

Posted by: steevy at February 16, 2026 04:26 PM (YwEeS)

11 Gaming 'journalism' and shill 'film critics' have also been barely disguised propagandists for most of this century as well.

Posted by: the lower depths at February 16, 2026 04:26 PM (4QwTz)

12 > Young Girl Killed, Four Injured in Shooting at Ice Hockey Rink in Rhode Island

Even hockey has been 'enriched'.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 16, 2026 04:26 PM (/lPRQ)

13 If we’re being honest, I used to beat off to the WaPo Sports. Section.

Posted by: Sids Mom at February 16, 2026 04:27 PM (ZaHhH)

14 The media lies? Huh. Next, you'll be telling me Robert Duvall is dead...

Posted by: Boswell at February 16, 2026 04:27 PM (j10i6)

15

Yes, Fen, meaning that Blade in this metaphor is on the "receiving team"

Posted by: imp at February 16, 2026 04:27 PM (g6TN6)

16 They're claiming based on a fictional TV show that the real NHL should do things?
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Yes. Demonstration of gay sex on center ice at intermission might be sufficient. For now.
- WaPo "Sports"writer

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 16, 2026 04:27 PM (Dv3i1)

17 As long as there isn't a sportsball game on, I'll totally be there for you guys if a civil war breaks out.

Posted by: True Conserfative at February 16, 2026 04:28 PM (qUkBO)

18 Wife was at the grocery store yesterday and someone from our local rag was there trying to drum up business. He struck up a conversation with her and asked if she’d ever subscribed.

“Oh yes. For about fifteen years “

Why’d you quit?

Everyone on the editorial board seemed to want me dead. About 2016, so, you know. Trump era.

He gave her a free copy and told her it’s changed. I read it. It has not changed.

Posted by: Blutarski at February 16, 2026 04:28 PM (cxFcK)

19 Sponge is always first.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 16, 2026 04:28 PM (jc0TO)

20 The war on men is tedious. Stupid. Self destructive and doomed to fail. OF COURSE THEY WILL DOUBLE DOWN ON IT.

Posted by: FFS at February 16, 2026 04:28 PM (RLbsR)

21 The reality is that almost all modern "sports" coverage comes with a big heaping side helping of steaming woke gay bullshit. That, and endless pimping for sports gambling.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 16, 2026 04:28 PM (iFTx/)

22 ....

nope I tried really hard and do not care.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 16, 2026 04:28 PM (PYyV9)

23 "That's as much as I'll steal..."
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Euphemisms for "steal" include terms like "appropriate," "filch," and "liberate"

The latter will curry automatic favor from Liberals

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 16, 2026 04:28 PM (XeU6L)

24 I remember Fox had a show for a minute about a woman playing in the majors in baseball.

MLB already being a wokefest surely just called up a bunch of chicks to pitch 70 mph fastballs at 250 pound men who have spent the previous 10 years of their lives learning how to hit homeruns off of 95 mph fastballs, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 16, 2026 04:29 PM (GBKbO)

25 DEI is boring
They make everything boring

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 16, 2026 04:29 PM (f/buw)

26 Journalists are pieces of crap. Sports journalists are really stupid pieces of crap

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 16, 2026 04:29 PM (Ggsrp)

27 Did anyone mention here that Antifa literally beat someone to death recently?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 16, 2026 04:29 PM (PYyV9)

28 What a pity that AI won't be able to easily replace sports "reporting". Oh wait...

Posted by: Archimedes at February 16, 2026 04:30 PM (Riz8t)

29 Euphemisms for "steal" include terms like "appropriate," "filch," and "liberate"

A new one from the left: "Re-Loot" as in "take things from the museum to hand to African countries so they can sell them to collectors"

The game bombed miserably.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 16, 2026 04:31 PM (PYyV9)

30 The members of the media should act like their jobs are in the line because they are.

Americans have had enough bullshit and lies

They should be made beggars for what they have done and continue to do to the world.

Lie, cheat, steal, call everything fascist.

No reason for them to exist at all.

Posted by: melodicmetal at February 16, 2026 04:31 PM (XLfSN)

31 5 What's a Washington Post?

It's a special post used in the construction of liberals decks. You can't see any means of support

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 16, 2026 04:31 PM (jrgJz)

32 Angsty Journalists Said the WaPo Sports Section Was Indispensable.

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You keep using that word but I don't think you know what it means.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 16, 2026 04:31 PM (J+Psw)

33 Journalists are pieces of crap. Sports journalists are really stupid pieces of crap

Sports journalists are the journalists of education majors.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 16, 2026 04:31 PM (Riz8t)

34 "It's 1954, right?"
-journalists, it seems

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 16, 2026 04:31 PM (GBKbO)

35
We look like a newspaper.
But we're not.

Posted by: The Washington Post at February 16, 2026 04:32 PM (GAK49)

36 Bruce Springsteen, 73, shocks fans after falling over on stage during concert

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I heard it was an homage to Biden.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 16, 2026 04:32 PM (J+Psw)

37 BLADE CANNOT BE DEFEATED
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Showin' how funky and strong is your fight

Posted by: Crusader at February 16, 2026 04:32 PM (TN0g+)

38 27 Did anyone mention here that Antifa literally beat someone to death recently?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

French bodyguard that was protecting a woman's group that actually needed protection, so I'm assuming one that was concerned about the rising rates of rapes from certain demographics and/or men dressing as women in their bathrooms and changing rooms. Antifa prefers that the indigenous woman get raped by the colonizers or by men wearing dresses. To protest against it is fascism.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 16, 2026 04:33 PM (Dv3i1)

39 Did Springsteen break a hip? Time to hang up the Stratocaster ya douche.

Posted by: steevy at February 16, 2026 04:33 PM (YwEeS)

40 27 Did anyone mention here that Antifa literally beat someone to death recently?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 16, 2026

The guy in France?

Posted by: Piper at February 16, 2026 04:33 PM (OoFl2)

41 Why’d you quit?

You lie about everything. Even the stuff that you're too stupid to understand, somehow you still lie about it.

I could probably get over that. After all, there's some value in knowing that the newspaper will never, ever, tell you the truth about anything. But there's also the fact that the shit you're lying about happened five days ago. Hell, Netflix has already released the race swapped series based on the event by the time you publish.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 16, 2026 04:33 PM (ExV1e)

42 I'd like to quickly mention I deeply hate Heated Rivalry

just .. ew

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 16, 2026 04:33 PM (j+aD2)

43 When I had the NHL Network, I would watch occasionally. One of the networks talking heads had a complete meltdown when some of the russian players didn't love the LGTBXJDKL+ crowd enough. Even wanting to throw them out of the country. I was wondering if this guy was married to a tranny. Haven't watched any sports talk show in years, and I can't remember this dudes name. But his overwrought pearl clutching seemed a bit much.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 16, 2026 04:34 PM (sAmhv)

44 When they lie, they speak their native tongue for their are of their father, the devil, who was a murderer and a liar from the beginning.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 16, 2026 04:34 PM (zjgNU)

45 OT: Side bar already covered it. Robert Duvall has died. One of the Greats! He was 95.
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My goodness, so sad to hear this.

Posted by: Crusader at February 16, 2026 04:34 PM (TN0g+)

46 Why must people who enjoy sports be forced into caring what the sexual orientation of the players is? Just shut the hell up, and play the game and reporters , please report on it accurately . No wonder WaPo sports had so little to do sports.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 16, 2026 04:34 PM (PFs9e)

47 >>>1) Hockey isn't gay enough

*European dramatic flopping and kickball enters the chat*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 16, 2026 04:34 PM (dK+Kv)

48 What's a Washington Post?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

It's like a whipping post but more sadistic.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 16, 2026 04:35 PM (J+Psw)

49 upset that the NHL wasn't doing more to elevate queerness and promote LGBTQIA2S+ inclusion

does the long history of gay men (coaches) in the NHL grooming and abusing young players (like, really young) MEAN NOTHING TO THESE SICKOS?!?!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 16, 2026 04:35 PM (j+aD2)

50
Bruce Springsteen, 73, shocks fans after falling over on stage during concert

The Yawning Maw to Hell must have failed then, for that was to have been his departure date, time and place.

Dammit, Stan, get your infrastructure up to snuff!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 16, 2026 04:35 PM (xG4kz)

51 Did Springsteen break a hip? Time to hang up the Stratocaster ya douche.
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That douche plays a Telecaster.

Allegedly. The playing part, not the Telecaster part--its definitely a Telecaster.

Posted by: Crusader at February 16, 2026 04:35 PM (TN0g+)

52 Gay hockey players, 5 minute misconduct for intentional high sticking.

Enjoy your time together in penalty box.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at February 16, 2026 04:36 PM (5yDGQ)

53 This ain't like the old days.

Posted by: Oscar Madison at February 16, 2026 04:36 PM (wVcYX)

54 You've still got us.

Posted by: Flying Green Dildos at February 16, 2026 04:36 PM (GAK49)

55 They canceled sports because the sports coverage was gay and lame, and nobody read it.

My guess is they'll bring back sports in six months and hire some real people to write it.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 16, 2026 04:36 PM (L6dcX)

56 Did they ever do one called "why is soccer so gay?"

Also, if you would have asked me about my favorite actors, Duvall would top the list.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 16, 2026 04:36 PM (n5tGW)

57 Euphemisms for "steal" include terms like "appropriate," "filch," and "liberate"

Ricky Henderson holds the MLB record for liberated bases.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 16, 2026 04:36 PM (ExV1e)

58 42 I'd like to quickly mention I deeply hate Heated Rivalry

just .. ew
Posted by: BlackOrchid

HBO had some gay show that the critics loved and constantly celebrated it. I think 3 people probably watched it. Most of cultures 'EVERYBODY IS WATCHING shows is largely made up.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 16, 2026 04:36 PM (sAmhv)

59
That's as much as I'll steal.

Steal?!?!

You mean you weren't writing an homage to that sports article?

Posted by: naturalfake at February 16, 2026 04:37 PM (iJfKG)

60 Sounds like another HIPAA violation.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 16, 2026 04:37 PM (YlWIZ)

61 Bruce Springsteen, 73, shocks fans after falling over on stage during concert

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I heard it was an homage to Biden.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 16, 2026 04:32 PM (J+Psw)

Someone turned on his vibrating buttplug and he wasn't ready for it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 16, 2026 04:37 PM (ExV1e)

62 Hackman and Duvall gone, the greats. I should watch something with both. As near as I can find, the only movie they both were in was Geronimo: An American Legend. Given the title I expect they skim over some of his horrific atrocities

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 16, 2026 04:38 PM (PYyV9)

63 I remember Fox had a show for a minute about a woman playing in the majors in baseball.

MLB already being a wokefest surely just called up a bunch of chicks to pitch 70 mph fastballs at 250 pound men who have spent the previous 10 years of their lives learning how to hit homeruns off of 95 mph fastballs, right?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 16, 2026 04:29 PM (GBKbO)

It is actually funny but really slow pitches can be really hard for major league players to hit. I remember in the 70s a pitcher had a lob pitch and struck Johnny Bench out a couple of times with it. Third time up he blew it over the centerfield wall with a couple dudes on.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2026 04:38 PM (8avO+)

64 Euphemisms for "steal" include terms like "appropriate," "filch," and "liberate"

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Also Democrat. No, wait, that a euphemism for thief.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 16, 2026 04:38 PM (J+Psw)

65 the Glen character from Letterkenny (who also annoyed me) made Heated Rivalry (it's from a book or something, a very gay "book" and/or porn mag0

so yeah, great job there

I guess I have to like it since I made it through all of Letterkenny?

but I do not. unlike apparently many females (?!?!?!) I am sickened even by in-shape guys going at it

wtf EW

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 16, 2026 04:38 PM (j+aD2)

66 A new one from the left: "Re-Loot" as in "take things from the museum to hand to African countries so they can sell them to collectors"
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The girl friend of a friend has been busily buying bronzes from Benin for the last 5 years or so. She's convinced that she's doing the world a service. At least $100K so far. My friend just shakes his head.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin_Bronzes

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 16, 2026 04:38 PM (XeU6L)

67 I've been hearing about this figure skater who nicknamed himself "The Quad God" having been the first Olympian to land a quadruple axel in competition (I looked up the video -- pretty impressive).

However, I was expecting someone with bigger quads than me ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist at February 16, 2026 04:38 PM (5FL4d)

68 Allegedly. The playing part, not the Telecaster part--its definitely a Telecaster.

I think he can play, just not gonna set the world on fire. The E Street Band was never about tremendous musical talent.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 16, 2026 04:39 PM (PYyV9)

69 HBO had some gay show that the critics loved and constantly celebrated it. I think 3 people probably watched it. Most of cultures 'EVERYBODY IS WATCHING shows is largely made up.
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Game of Thrones, right?

Posted by: Crusader at February 16, 2026 04:39 PM (TN0g+)

70 63
It is actually funny but really slow pitches can be really hard for major league players to hit. I remember in the 70s a pitcher had a lob pitch and struck Johnny Bench out a couple of times with it. Third time up he blew it over the centerfield wall with a couple dudes on.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2026 04:38 PM (8avO+)

=======

It's hard to hit...once.

Then you get used to it and it's like crushing lobs from a pitching machine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 16, 2026 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

71 I worked the Friday night sports desk for the regional weekly years ago. We didn't care about looks or orientation, just that we got the correct info and spelled names right.

"Okay, is there a space between Van and Den and Berg? Oh, it's all one word? Huh, that's unusual for around here."

Posted by: pookysgirl even had a byline at February 16, 2026 04:40 PM (Wt5PA)

72 busily buying bronzes from Benin
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Sounds like a euphemism. An alliterative one.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 16, 2026 04:40 PM (Dv3i1)

73 67 I've been hearing about this figure skater who nicknamed himself "The Quad God" having been the first Olympian to land a quadruple axel in competition (I looked up the video -- pretty impressive).

Ilya is all right

he doesn't seem gay?

the male skaters on the US team are really tiny tho, most of them. not so much in the pairs! they have to hold up a girl skater and stuff

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 16, 2026 04:40 PM (j+aD2)

74 3

Fact: Blade is in a heated rivalry with Sponge

Posted by: imp at February 16, 2026 04:22 PM

Yet Sponge still manages to get a "First!" in every thread.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 16, 2026 04:40 PM (HlyYF)

75 They could have just covered European kickball 24/7 and called it a day.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 16, 2026 04:40 PM (JkO4W)

76 I don't want to read about sports in some rag, I want live sports streams for free.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 16, 2026 04:40 PM (gVUi7)

77 1 BLADE CANNOT BE DEFEATED
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 16, 2026 04:21 PM (iFTx/)

Wanna play a new game? Rock...Paper...Blade!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 16, 2026 04:41 PM (2WIwB)

78 It is actually funny but really slow pitches can be really hard for major league players to hit.

It can be, for a few pitches but if you aren't placing them really well like Jamie Moyer, they are gonna figure out the timing very soon and murder you.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 16, 2026 04:41 PM (PYyV9)

79 When I read about the job cuts at WaPo, I went back and reread the letter I sent them in 2008. It holds up.

This letter accompanies my decision to cancel my subscription to the Post. I doubt that you care, but you should. I...have subscribed to the Post all of my adult life. I have the newspaper habit, and I am the kind of person you won’t be able to replace. I am cancelling my subscription because I don’t like paying for something that I don’t receive, namely a newspaper. I get all the opinions I want for free from the internet. Over the years I have grown accustomed to filtering your coverage, but the filter has to be stronger every year. I am tired of trying to separate the spin from the facts. The outright propaganda you published this year has convinced me that there is no longer any value in your product.
I’m sure that you will warm yourselves with the idea that since you get criticism from both sides, you are being fair. However, I also have no doubt that in your hearts you know you are not fulfilling the most basic journalistic obligation of presenting the facts as they are, not as you think they should be.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 16, 2026 04:41 PM (Riz8t)

80 10 Sports is another male space that was taken away.

Posted by: steevy at February 16, 2026 04:26 PM

Well except for many girls high school sports, where deranged Leftists are adding "males" to that space.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 16, 2026 04:42 PM (HlyYF)

81 >>>I remember in the 70s a pitcher had a lob pitch and struck Johnny Bench out a couple of times with it. Third time up he blew it over the centerfield wall with a couple dudes on.

You may be thinking of Bill Lee of the Red Sox who decided to pull that crap during the 1975 World Series. Tony Perez hit it and last I heard, the ball is still in a low-altitude orbit.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 16, 2026 04:42 PM (CwhoI)

82 They could have just covered European kickball 24/7 and called it a day.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 16, 2026 04:40 PM (JkO4W)

A sport has to be good when after you play for an hour and a half with no result you play an entirely different game for a few minutes to settle things.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2026 04:42 PM (8avO+)

83 I don't want to read about sports in some rag, I want live sports streams for free.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 16, 2026 04:40 PM (gVUi7)

I don't much care about televised sports. Stopped when the Cowboys took a knee for BLM.

I'd kind of like to watch rally racing but not enough to figure out where I can watch rally racing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 16, 2026 04:43 PM (ExV1e)

84 ... the television series about two gay hockey players who have sex with each other ...

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Brokepuck Mountain?

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist at February 16, 2026 04:43 PM (5FL4d)

85 Game of Thrones, right?

Starfleet Academy, maybe

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 16, 2026 04:43 PM (PYyV9)

86
I stopped giving a shit about pro sports writing when Jim Murray died nearly 30 years ago. Which is around the time that I stopped giving a shit about sports in general.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 16, 2026 04:43 PM (kTyBw)

87 Doubt manyheresaw it anyway so who cares?

Posted by: Skip at February 16, 2026 04:43 PM (Ia/+0)

88 busily buying bronzes from Benin
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Sounds like a euphemism. An alliterative one.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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A surfeit of bilabial plosives.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 16, 2026 04:43 PM (XeU6L)

89 A sport has to be good when after you play for an hour and a half with no result you play an entirely different game for a few minutes to settle things.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2026 04

Duck duck goose!

Posted by: Piper at February 16, 2026 04:44 PM (OoFl2)

90 Meated Rivalry

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 16, 2026 04:44 PM (Kt19C)

91 They could have just covered European kickball 24/7 and called it a day.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 16, 2026 04:40 PM (JkO4W)

Hey...how many of us are breathlessly waiting the results of the World Cricket Match???

Posted by: Diogenes at February 16, 2026 04:44 PM (2WIwB)

92
WaPo laid off 300 journalists in virtually every section with several bureaus shut down.

Couldn't you start a whole newspaper with that laid-off staff? Alex Soros could get them up and running with an investment that would be trivial for him.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 16, 2026 04:44 PM (n7rxJ)

93 Sigh. Willow'd:

182 I want to be like a Somali Pirate and liberate big chunks of moolah from the gubmint. consequence free.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 16, 2026 03:54 PM (wVcYX)

A couple weeks ago, I started putting it in every Saturday prayer thread: please Lord, deliver us from temptation, and lock up every single fraudster in Federal PMITA prison. All of them. I have never even made six figures, my IQ is literally over double the Somali average, and the "X services" scams are auto-laundering due to the money coming from an official business; so if they go all "uh well prosecution resources are scarce, so we're focusing on the 7-figure scams" -- or worse, just the 8-figure ones -- then the temptation to stop being the gullible sucker-chump getting fleeced will be fierce.

They need to get hard time for all of them, 100% or bust.

Posted by: SciVo at February 16, 2026 04:45 PM (Sy6m/)

94 I don't much care about televised sports. Stopped when the Cowboys took a knee for BLM.

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I was surprised they didn't paint the end-zones at every stadium with "Kill Whitey."

/And don't get me started on MLB ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist at February 16, 2026 04:45 PM (5FL4d)

95 I like Aussie Rules football and Rally Racing, but like different nic above, not enough to go find it to watch. I used to love baseball, it got me through 2016, but 2017 they decided to go full in on BLM and I left them behind.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 16, 2026 04:45 PM (PYyV9)

96 I'm waiting to see if we have any more curling controversies.

Posted by: Crusader at February 16, 2026 04:45 PM (TN0g+)

97 Chess is considered a sport. Did they cover the physical exhausting sport of Chess?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 16, 2026 04:45 PM (abIsI)

98 I think that clip of Springsteen falling is from a few years ago. Says he’s 73 but I know he’s 76 now.

On a happier note he had to cancel a planned 12 city tour because nobody was buying tickets. So there’s that.

Posted by: Blutarski at February 16, 2026 04:46 PM (cxFcK)

99 Even if the wapo really had a legendary top notch sports section, sports writing is a tiny niche market. The vast majority of people who get or used to get a printed newspaper would toss out the sports section and never read it even before the internet became a big thing.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 16, 2026 04:46 PM (0N4FZ)

100 WaPo laid off 300 journalists in virtually every section with several bureaus shut down.

Couldn't you start a whole newspaper with that laid-off staff?

Your mistake is in assuming there are any actual journalists among that cohort.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 16, 2026 04:46 PM (Riz8t)

101 “ Gay communism bullshit”. Well pit ace. You may have at a stroke encapsulated the definition of our enemy.

Posted by: tubal at February 16, 2026 04:46 PM (pDt9x)

102 >>>Did they cover the physical exhausting sport of Chess?

It makes the hard man humble.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 16, 2026 04:47 PM (CwhoI)

103 >>>I remember in the 70s a pitcher had a lob pitch and struck Johnny Bench out a couple of times with it. Third time up he blew it over the centerfield wall with a couple dudes on.

You may be thinking of Bill Lee of the Red Sox who decided to pull that crap during the 1975 World Series. Tony Perez hit it and last I heard, the ball is still in a low-altitude orbit.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 16, 2026 04:42 PM (CwhoI)

No, it was a dude on the Braves. Before that game Sparky reportedly encouraged Perez by saying that Gil Hodges record of worst hitting by a 1B player in a WS was in sight for him. When Tony won the 67 all star game in 15 innings with a HR he said "If the game goes on long enough, the Big Dog is gonna BITE"

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2026 04:47 PM (8avO+)

104 At last, "queer culture" comes to ice dancing

Wait, ice dancing can be *more* queer?

Posted by: Delurker at February 16, 2026 04:47 PM (gtcuf)

105 96 I'm waiting to see if we have any more curling controversies.

the Canadian teams keep getting snagged for cheating the exact same way lol

it happened again today! I think they should just be fully DQed from curling

cheaters!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 16, 2026 04:47 PM (j+aD2)

106 The NFL is a reality TV show.
Starring 32 quarterbacks and 32 head coaches.

Posted by: Change my mind at February 16, 2026 04:47 PM (GAK49)

107
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 16, 2026 04:45 PM (PYyV9)

The best part about Australian Rules Football is Rule #1: No Weapons.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 16, 2026 04:47 PM (kTyBw)

108 WaPo laid off 300 journalists in virtually every section with several bureaus shut down.

Couldn't you start a whole newspaper with that laid-off staff? Alex Soros could get them up and running with an investment that would be trivial for him.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 16, 2026 04:44 PM (n7rxJ)

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Or you could start a brothel at $20/pop.

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist at February 16, 2026 04:47 PM (5FL4d)

109
I've been hearing about this figure skater who nicknamed himself "The Quad God" having been the first Olympian to land a quadruple axel in competition (I looked up the video -- pretty impressive).

However, I was expecting someone with bigger quads than me ...
Posted by: ShainS

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You do know what became of that guy, right?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 16, 2026 04:47 PM (n7rxJ)

110 gay = happy

queer = odd

happy ≠ odd

Posted by: The Wordsmith at February 16, 2026 04:47 PM (dIske)

111 104 At last, "queer culture" comes to ice dancing

Wait, ice dancing can be *more* queer?
Posted by: Delurker at February 16, 2026 04:47 PM (gtcuf)

I can hardly imagine how.

Posted by: tubal at February 16, 2026 04:48 PM (pDt9x)

112 Even if the wapo really had a legendary top notch sports section, sports writing is a tiny niche market. The vast majority of people who get or used to get a printed newspaper would toss out the sports section and never read it even before the internet became a big thing.
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I don't know man--the Atlanta Journal sports section in the '70s and the Dallas Morning News sports section in the '80s were pretty epic.

Posted by: Crusader at February 16, 2026 04:48 PM (TN0g+)

113 “ Gay communism bullshit”. Well pit ace. You may have at a stroke encapsulated the definition of our enemy.
Posted by: tubal at February 16, 2026 04:46 PM (pDt9x)

Well, to be fair, bullshit actually has some value as fertilizer.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 16, 2026 04:48 PM (2WIwB)

114 On a happier note he had to cancel a planned 12 city tour because nobody was buying tickets. So there’s that.

well he's probably charging 1200 bucks a ticket and not even Springsteen fans will pay that much to watch him croak his way through songs he barely can do now. The only acts that should keep going at his age are blues musicians.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 16, 2026 04:48 PM (PYyV9)

115 At last, "queer culture" comes to ice dancing

Subjectively judged event. Should be banned.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 16, 2026 04:48 PM (abIsI)

116 Wait, ice dancing can be *more* queer?

They added candelabra.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 16, 2026 04:48 PM (Riz8t)

117 I was at a minor league (ECHL) hockey game on Saturday night and there was no faggotry in evidence. Even had a good looking female "dance team".

Posted by: Rock-ribbed Straight Guy at February 16, 2026 04:48 PM (oftw2)

118 Wait, ice dancing can be *more* queer?
Posted by: Delurker at February 16, 2026 04:47 PM (gtcuf)

Don’t tempt fate or it will all be Chippendales Dancers skating around with Drag Queens in 2030.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 16, 2026 04:49 PM (6ydKt)

119 108

Or you could start a brothel at $20/pop.
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist at February 16, 2026 04:47 PM (5FL4d)

Colorado business plan pitch to the SBA.

Posted by: tubal at February 16, 2026 04:49 PM (pDt9x)

120 I like Aussie Rules football and Rally Racing, but like different nic above, not enough to go find it to watch. I used to love baseball, it got me through 2016, but 2017 they decided to go full in on BLM and I left them behind.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 16, 2026 04:45 PM (PYyV9)

Aussie Rules is the only sport I would like to have introduced into the US. Kinda Basketbally in feel with kicking a non round ball huge distances.

It is never on in the US aside from baseball strikes, there is some rule about that for some crazy reason.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2026 04:49 PM (8avO+)

121 Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 16, 2026 04:47 PM (kTyBw)

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BTW, I got a hearty chuckle upon belatedly seeing your comment about watching "13 Hours" every couple of months so that "The hate keeps me warm..."

Definitely stealing that ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist at February 16, 2026 04:50 PM (5FL4d)

122 Wait, ice dancing can be *more* queer?
Posted by: Delurker at February 16, 2026 04:47 PM (gtcuf)

Combine with soccer.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 16, 2026 04:50 PM (dK+Kv)

123 Any event that labels itself as "freestyle" is gay.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 16, 2026 04:50 PM (abIsI)

124 Wait, ice dancing can be *more* queer?

Next Olympics the "men" will be wearing the little dresses.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 16, 2026 04:50 PM (2WIwB)

125 That, and endless pimping for sports gambling.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 16, 2026 04:28 PM (iFTx/)

We watched the Dodgers this past October and I haaaaaaaate what gambling has done to America's Pastime.

Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at February 16, 2026 04:50 PM (Wt5PA)

126
Is there anything left to enjoy that doesn't browbeat us with queer trans shit??

Posted by: fourseasons at February 16, 2026 04:52 PM (3ek7K)

127 WaPo laid off 300 journalists in virtually every section with several bureaus shut down.

Couldn't you start a whole newspaper with that laid-off staff? Alex Soros could get them up and running with an investment that would be trivial for him.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 16, 2026 04:44 PM (n7rxJ)

no. Because they all are recent woke college products instead of actual writers and reporters. In the old old days sports reporters knew the sports and wrote about them. Those days are long gone in the media.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2026 04:52 PM (8avO+)

128 My state legalized online spirts betting and required age verification for adult websites at the same time. Politics is strange.

Posted by: tubal at February 16, 2026 04:52 PM (pDt9x)

129 Twan: I just love that little old Heated Rivalry. A beautiful story about two ice hockey playing mens with their roughing and their spearing and their two-on-ones!

Blaine: Two-on-ones? Well clutch my pearls! Two snaps up!

Posted by: Men on TV at February 16, 2026 04:52 PM (gtcuf)

130 97 Chess is considered a sport. Did they cover the physical exhausting sport of Chess?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgc_LRjlbTU

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 16, 2026 04:52 PM (jrgJz)

131 120 I like Aussie Rules football and Rally Racing, but like different nic above, not enough to go find it to watch. I used to love baseball, it got me through 2016, but 2017 they decided to go full in on BLM and I left them behind.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 16, 2026 04:45 PM (PYyV9)

Aussie Rules is the only sport I would like to have introduced into the US. Kinda Basketbally in feel with kicking a non round ball huge distances.

It is never on in the US aside from baseball strikes, there is some rule about that for some crazy reason.
Posted by: Oldcat

Fox Sports shows Aussie Rules Football. Usually live, so it's on in the AM. I'm up all night due to midshifts so I've watched quite a bit of it.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 16, 2026 04:53 PM (sAmhv)

132 s there anything left to enjoy that doesn't browbeat us with queer trans shit??

Posted by: fourseasons at February 16, 2026 04:52 PM (3ek7K)

probably the old queer underground media is giving sports and international news in retaliation.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2026 04:53 PM (8avO+)

133 Is there anything left to enjoy that doesn't browbeat us with queer trans shit??

Posted by: fourseasons

Target shooting?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 16, 2026 04:53 PM (abIsI)

134 more chess drama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxtD_GceaZk

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 16, 2026 04:53 PM (jrgJz)

135 Did they cover the physical exhausting sport of Chess?

I saw a marbles match on ESPN in the 80s. Back when they didn't have any major league contracts they were kinda desperate. I saw a Magic: the Gathering tournament on there too, that was... amusing. The announcers did their best

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 16, 2026 04:53 PM (PYyV9)

136
The NFL is a reality TV show.
Starring 32 quarterbacks and 32 head coaches.
Posted by: Change my mind at February 16, 2026 04:47 PM (GAK49)

I'd be mildly amused if someone got an NFL head coaching position and immediately told everyone to get a military regulation haircut by end of the day. Dreads, mullets, weird razor-cut fades, mohawks etc. Lop all that shit off.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 16, 2026 04:54 PM (kTyBw)

137 Gee, Hillary Clinton seems to have an uncanny ability to remind people why she’s the most despised person on the planet. What an ugly, useless, cottage-cheese ass, Jabba the Hut lookalike, cankles like trees, smells like crotch rot, lesbian licking, trailer park scholar, angry, dunce she is.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 16, 2026 04:54 PM (Q7yzj)

138 Chess drama. Trying to imagine what that would be.

Posted by: tubal at February 16, 2026 04:54 PM (pDt9x)

139 138 Chess drama. Trying to imagine what that would be.

did you forget the guy getting "directions" on play via vibrating butt plug?!?!?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 16, 2026 04:55 PM (j+aD2)

140 Wait, ice dancing can be *more* queer?
Posted by: Delurker at February 16, 2026 04:47 PM (gtcuf)

They could borrow the little hoops and ribbons from that queer gymnastic thing they do in the summer games. Or synchronized swimming.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2026 04:55 PM (8avO+)

141 139 138 Chess drama. Trying to imagine what that would be.

did you forget the guy getting "directions" on play via vibrating butt plug?!?!?
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 16, 2026 04:55 PM (j+aD2)

Nah, that’s not real, is it?? IS IT?????

Posted by: tubal at February 16, 2026 04:56 PM (pDt9x)

142 > did you forget the guy getting "directions" on play via vibrating butt plug?!?!?
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Wonder how long it took him to figure out the "signals" and to not squirm so much.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 16, 2026 04:56 PM (jtM2q)

143 38 Chess drama. Trying to imagine what that would be.

did you forget the guy getting "directions" on play via vibrating butt plug?!?!?
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 16, 2026 04:55 PM (j+aD2)

or Bobby Fischer being even more of an ass than the average chess player his whole career.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2026 04:56 PM (8avO+)

144 At last, "queer culture" comes to ice dancing

Wait, ice dancing can be *more* queer?

Posted by: Delurker at February 16, 2026 04:47 PM (gtcuf)

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What we really need is an "Ice Break Dancing" competition.

/Make Raygun Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist at February 16, 2026 04:56 PM (5FL4d)

145 Chess drama? They get their kicks above the waistline, sunshine.

Posted by: Delurker at February 16, 2026 04:56 PM (gtcuf)

146 Chess has a Queen.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 16, 2026 04:56 PM (abIsI)

147 did you forget the guy getting "directions" on play via vibrating butt plug?!?!?
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 16, 2026 04:55 PM (j+aD2)

Nah, that’s not real, is it?? IS IT?????
Posted by: tubal at February 16, 2026 04:56 PM (pDt9x)

Yup.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2026 04:56 PM (8avO+)

148 I love my local newspaper and their sports coverage. Girl's HS soccer, Senior Center Pickleball Tournaments and the AIDS Fundraiser Bathtub Races at Twink's Pub And S&M Emporium for February.

They covers all the bases!

Posted by: Karen Muddlumps, Local democrat scold and busybody at February 16, 2026 04:57 PM (Ksqrb)

149 I’ll never understand structuring your entire life around the fact you like to sodomize other men.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 16, 2026 04:57 PM (Q7yzj)

150
Why ESPN doesn't begin broadcasting The Ocho is a mystery to me.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 16, 2026 04:57 PM (kTyBw)

151 did you forget the guy getting "directions" on play via vibrating butt plug?!?!?
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 16, 2026 04:55 PM (j+aD2)

Nah, that’s not real, is it?? IS IT?????
Posted by: tubal at February 16, 2026 04:56 PM (pDt9x)

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I think it was a vibrating shoe that someone kicked up his ass -- or maybe a gerbil.

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist at February 16, 2026 04:57 PM (5FL4d)

152 Pretty sure they already have Naked Pickleball at The Villages.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 16, 2026 04:57 PM (Q7yzj)

153 Next thing you’ll tell me is that Liberace was gay.

Posted by: Blutarski at February 16, 2026 04:58 PM (cxFcK)

154 Did they cover the physical exhausting sport of Chess?

I saw a marbles match on ESPN in the 80s. Back when they didn't have any major league contracts they were kinda desperate. I saw a Magic: the Gathering tournament on there too, that was... amusing. The announcers did their best
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 16, 2026 04:53 PM (PYyV9)

They did the poker crap for way too long a time.

The women's pool used to be nice with the long ballgown dresses before the lesbianish players took over.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2026 04:58 PM (8avO+)

155
Chess drama. Trying to imagine what that would be.

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The Queen's Gambit. I didn't think much of it overall but it made the chess world look pretty interesting and packed with drama.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 16, 2026 04:58 PM (n7rxJ)

156 I am waiting for the New York Times to completely ruin the Athletic. I know it's coming.

Posted by: Ann at February 16, 2026 04:58 PM (w9jrX)

157 Pretty sure they already have Naked Pickleball at The Villages.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 16, 2026 04:57 PM (Q7yzj)

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Okay, now I'm imagining an AI-generated nude reboot of "The Prisoner" TV series ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist at February 16, 2026 04:59 PM (5FL4d)

158 152

Pretty sure they already have Naked Pickleball at The Villages.
Posted by: Vengeance at February 16, 2026 04:57 PM (Q7yzj)

That’s right up there with buggery as a cringe.

Posted by: tubal at February 16, 2026 04:59 PM (pDt9x)

159
Next thing you’ll tell me is that Liberace was gay.
Posted by: Blutarski at February 16, 2026 04:58 PM (cxFcK)

At least we have that manly man, Rock Hudson.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 16, 2026 04:59 PM (kTyBw)

160 Do they call it pickleball because if you bend over to get the ball, you get the pickle?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 16, 2026 04:59 PM (Q7yzj)

161 chess drama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvTSozU2ZJA

the middle finger was used in a threatening manner

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 16, 2026 04:59 PM (jrgJz)

162 The Queen gets to go and do wherever she wants, consorting with knights and pawns at her whim. The King is a cuck. THE KING IS A CUCK!

Posted by: Delurker at February 16, 2026 04:59 PM (gtcuf)

163 What's a Washington Post?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 16, 2026 04:24 PM (ExV1e)

It's a post in DC with a discarded tranny on top.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 16, 2026 05:00 PM (S/Y4j)

164 >>>I’ll never understand structuring your entire life around the fact you like to sodomize other men.

Posted by: Vengeance

>Especially when you can become a politician and sodomize your entire constituency.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 16, 2026 05:00 PM (gVUi7)

165 The only way that a woman might make MLB is as a soft tossing knuckleballer. Even that is a long shot

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 16, 2026 05:00 PM (Ggsrp)

166
Do they call it pickleball because if you bend over to get the ball, you get the pickle?

Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Vengeance at February 16, 2026 04:59 PM (Q7yzj)

Something about a goose.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 16, 2026 05:00 PM (kTyBw)

167 RIP Robert Duval. He was a great actor. I read that his favorite character of the roles he played was Gus from Lonsome Dove.
The best thing is I have no idea how he felt about Trump.

Posted by: Cosda at February 16, 2026 05:00 PM (kIN+K)

168 I’ll never understand structuring your entire life around the fact you like to sodomize other men.

Me either. Disgusting.

Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at February 16, 2026 05:00 PM (Ksqrb)

169 Journalists are pieces of crap. Sports journalists are really stupid pieces of crap
Skip Bayless has entered the chat. (Yeah, I really hate that asshole.)

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 16, 2026 05:01 PM (XMwZJ)

170
PAWN JUMPS QUEEN!!

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 16, 2026 05:01 PM (kTyBw)

171 The women's pool used to be nice with the long ballgown dresses before the lesbianish players took over.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2026 04:58 PM (8avO+)

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I never got a chance to watch the Lingerie Football League.

They might have more luck with a Lingerie Ice Hockey League IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist at February 16, 2026 05:01 PM (5FL4d)

172 152

Pretty sure they already have Naked Pickleball at The Villages.
Posted by: Vengeance

I watch from the bench with a towel over my lap.

Posted by: Carl Spackler at February 16, 2026 05:02 PM (abIsI)

173 >> RIP Robert Duval.

Robert Duval Died!?

Posted by: garrett at February 16, 2026 05:02 PM (gH8T+)

174 The only way that a woman might make MLB is as a soft tossing knuckleballer. Even that is a long shot
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 16, 2026 05:00 PM (Ggsrp)

The knuckler needs a bit of velocity in order to hop right according to Jim "Ball Four" Bouton. Not like a fastball. And you need a change of speed to keep fooling the batter

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2026 05:02 PM (8avO+)

175 My favorite role of Robert Duval was Bluebonnet Spearman

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 16, 2026 05:02 PM (PYyV9)

176 who wants to cut the cards?

Play Chess?

chase the goose?

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 16, 2026 05:03 PM (jrgJz)

177 Pretty sure chess isn't a sport. I'll venture to say, most Americans couldn't set-up a chessboard. Most students can't "read" an analog clock; I'm kinda lost how they can "read" digital clocks, and have a concept of time?

Posted by: pahound at February 16, 2026 05:03 PM (eyOo6)

178 Clea Duval his daughter?

Posted by: tubal at February 16, 2026 05:03 PM (pDt9x)

179 I was in a bowling alley once where two women stripped down and kept playing. I think it was a dare or something. I was enjoying the show and the manager comes up to me and says, why didn’t you stop them?. I just looked at him and said, “why?.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 16, 2026 05:03 PM (Q7yzj)

180 Since we’re talking hockey, some guy in Rhode Island just went to a high school match with his wife and three kids, and killed her and two of them while the third is in the hospital.

Video is out of the entire ice rink clearing out in about 30 seconds when the shots were fired.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 16, 2026 05:03 PM (6ydKt)

181 >>I’ll never understand structuring your entire life around the fact you like to sodomize other men.

That's not fair.

Ace has a Blog. His Vespa and Messenger Bag Collection. Fasting. Shelves.

There's a lot more to Ace than just sodomy.

Posted by: garrett at February 16, 2026 05:03 PM (gH8T+)

182 Spoil Sports

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 16, 2026 05:03 PM (Cqx++)

183 I had forgotten Duvall played Frank Burns in the movie version of MASH. "Didn't she moan Frank or did she just lie there?"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 16, 2026 05:03 PM (Ggsrp)

184 >> RIP Robert Duval.

Robert Duval Died!?

Posted by: garrett at February 16, 2026 05:02 PM (gH8T+)

95 years old. War time consigliere if there ever was one.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 16, 2026 05:04 PM (dK+Kv)

185 184 >> RIP Robert Duval.

Robert Duval Died!?

Posted by: garrett at February 16, 2026 05:02 PM (gH8T+)

95 years old. War time consigliere if there ever was one.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 16, 2026 05:04 PM (dK+Kv)

Never saw a movie that he was in that I did not like.

Posted by: tubal at February 16, 2026 05:05 PM (pDt9x)

186 >>>Pretty sure they already have Naked Pickleball at The Villages.

>They've had naked pickleball at the SCOAMF's bathhouse for years.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 16, 2026 05:05 PM (gVUi7)

187 Hey did you hear Robert Duvall died ?

Posted by: Amy Schumer at February 16, 2026 05:05 PM (pY+ea)

188
who wants to cut the cards?

Play Chess?

chase the goose?
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot

Go Fish!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 16, 2026 05:05 PM (Cqx++)

189 175 My favorite role of Robert Duval was Bluebonnet Spearman

RD would have made a great "Quint"

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 16, 2026 05:06 PM (jrgJz)

190 The King is a FINK.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 16, 2026 05:06 PM (z+bbR)

191 Have you ever seen a crisp $50 bill?

Posted by: Vengeance at February 16, 2026 05:06 PM (Q7yzj)

192 Shelby Lyman made a career out of analyzing and doing play-by-by play of the 1972 Chess Champeenship.

Posted by: Checkered Past at February 16, 2026 05:06 PM (oftw2)

193 The only way that a woman might make MLB is as a soft tossing knuckleballer. Even that is a long shot

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 16, 2026 05:00 PM (Ggsrp)

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Would be funny to see an underhanded female relief pitcher (a la softball) -- it's funny when they bring in position players to throw rainbows at the end of a game where they're getting crushed and see the batters have trouble hitting those slow arcing pitches as their timing is way off.

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist at February 16, 2026 05:06 PM (5FL4d)

194 In my 20s I worked at a large plant, where a whole group of guys kept up an intensely competitive ongoing speed-chess tournament in the lunchrrom. What kind of surprised me was, the majority were inner-city black guys.

I'm a pretty good player but I didn't participate, as I preferred to relax on my lunch break. Those guys were fierce.

Posted by: Delurker at February 16, 2026 05:07 PM (gtcuf)

195
Just an brief impression, but it seems that in a lot of post-game interviews the successful athletes profess their faith and give thanks to Jesus.

That's gotta give the "Journalists" fits.

Posted by: Auspex at February 16, 2026 05:07 PM (Y8DZL)

196 Chess has a Queen.
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But the moves they make would not excite you.

Posted by: Murray Head at February 16, 2026 05:07 PM (TN0g+)

197 Fonzie: how was the date?
Richie : we played chess
Fonzie : you played with her chest?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 16, 2026 05:08 PM (Ggsrp)

198 Sad news, Robert Duvall died.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 16, 2026 05:08 PM (XV/Pl)

199 95 years old. War time consigliere if there ever was one.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

Exactly the opposite in the book and movie.

Posted by: Auspex at February 16, 2026 05:10 PM (Y8DZL)

200 Sad news, Robert Duvall died.

Posted by: Thomas Bender

Who’s that?

Posted by: Kratwurst at February 16, 2026 05:10 PM (C362Q)

201 Clea Duval his daughter?

Posted by: tubal at February 16, 2026 05:03 PM (pDt9x)

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We really liked Clea DuVall in "Carnivàle" -- and she looks a lot like The Wifey (but The Wifey obviously is not a lesbian).

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist at February 16, 2026 05:10 PM (5FL4d)

202 I think when journalists hear an athlete praise Jesus, they're thinking of the pro-abortion, communist, open borders Presbyterian Jesus.

Posted by: Wally at February 16, 2026 05:10 PM (0e5Te)

203
NHL's failure to adequately celebrate queer culture

All the Russians in the NHL say to the WaPo, "Yob tvoyu mat!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 16, 2026 05:11 PM (tgvbd)

204 I think when journalists hear an athlete praise Jesus, they're thinking of the pro-abortion, communist, open borders Presbyterian Jesus.

They tend to cut away fast from any athlete who dares mention being Christian

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 16, 2026 05:11 PM (PYyV9)

205 There's a funny SCTV skit featuring a Liberace Christmas Show with Elton John as a guest. Dueling grand pianos and each trying to outglam and outvamp the other.

Posted by: Sequins Galore at February 16, 2026 05:12 PM (oftw2)

206 Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 16, 2026 05:08 PM (Ggsrp)

LOL. Classic. Right up there with "I like Ike. My bike likes Ike." and "There are no jelly donuts for you today. Only death."

Posted by: Delurker at February 16, 2026 05:12 PM (gtcuf)

207 Rush called it the "chickification" of men's spaces.

Posted by: Toenail at February 16, 2026 05:12 PM (hyQrc)

208 The WaPo dropped Sports and a few hundred other "journalists" cause Bezo's was losing too much money on that rag.
He has HUGE bills to pay for the 32 permanent crew members on his half billion dollar yacht, not to mention the surgery & botox bills he's paying for his sex-doll 2nd wife that he found in the After-Market Retrofit aisle at Bimbo's R Us.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at February 16, 2026 05:13 PM (MNCvZ)

209 Some of the Bananaball teams have one female pitcher. Usually throw an inning and do OK. Only saw one get hammered.

Posted by: Can Pick'em at February 16, 2026 05:15 PM (oftw2)

210 Everybody watches sports podcasts now anyway. Dead tree media is dead. You can pick who you like to watch and watch them when you want to. There's no going back.

Posted by: Delurker at February 16, 2026 05:15 PM (gtcuf)

211 Via GP:
California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Wednesday giving $90 million in tax dollars to Planned Parenthood, marking just the latest infusion of cash from the Golden State to the abortion behemoth.
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Its absolutely amazing that politicians withhold money from poor working folks and then instead of spending the money to help feed and house poor working and non-working folks just chuck that money to political partisans like Planned Parenthood.

Posted by: Murray Head at February 16, 2026 05:15 PM (TN0g+)

212
Bezos could play a better Blofeld than Donald Pleasance.

Posted by: Auspex at February 16, 2026 05:15 PM (Y8DZL)

213 Everybody’s favorite douche bag, Jake Tapper, just drew the wrath of Colonel Schlicter on the muslims hate dogs issue. Whoo boy.

>> https://tinyurl.com/55f976h8

Posted by: Marcus T at February 16, 2026 05:15 PM (nmw7B)

214 Robert Duvall was in True Grit, the greatest movie of all time

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 16, 2026 05:16 PM (jrgJz)

215
Claudio Manuel Neves Valente is the shooter at the hockey game in Rhode Island. He shot 11 people.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 16, 2026 05:16 PM (3ek7K)

216 I guess a couple people died and four in critical condition after a shooting at a high school hockey game in Pawtucket.

Jeepers.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 16, 2026 05:17 PM (IT8WN)

217 The WaPo dropped Sports and a few hundred other "journalists" cause Bezo's was losing too much money on that rag.
He has HUGE bills to pay for the 32 permanent crew members on his half billion dollar yacht, not to mention the surgery & botox bills he's paying for his sex-doll 2nd wife that he found in the After-Market Retrofit aisle at Bimbo's R Us.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at February 16, 2026 05:13 PM (MNCvZ)

This is a scurrilous falsehood! Koru has a crew of 40! Only poseurs would settle for a yacht with a crew of 32. -- Jeff Bezos (shopkeeper)

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 16, 2026 05:17 PM (ExV1e)

218 215
Claudio Manuel Neves Valente is the shooter at the hockey game in Rhode Island. He shot 11 people.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 16, 2026 05:16 PM (3ek7K)

I read he killed his wife and Daughter then killed himself?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 16, 2026 05:17 PM (mS7ek)

219 Some of the Bananaball teams have one female pitcher. Usually throw an inning and do OK. Only saw one get hammered.
Posted by: Can Pick'em at February 16, 2026 05:15 PM (oftw2)

What was she drinking?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 16, 2026 05:18 PM (ExV1e)

220 Waych Tender Mercies, if you haven't seen it. Duvall won an Oscar for it

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 16, 2026 05:18 PM (+mUZM)

221
Donna,
Yes

Posted by: fourseasons at February 16, 2026 05:19 PM (3ek7K)

222 144 At last, "queer culture" comes to ice dancing

Wait, ice dancing can be *more* queer?

Posted by: Delurker at February 16, 2026 04:47 PM (gtcuf)
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After seeing a few minutes of the "90's theme" skating night, "Blades of Glory" wasn't too far off.

Posted by: WisRich at February 16, 2026 05:20 PM (G0vdT)

223
I read he killed his wife and Daughter then killed himself?
Posted by: It's me donna

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Killed 4 people total, himself and TWO kids and wife. A third kid in the hospital?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 16, 2026 05:20 PM (n7rxJ)

224 NFL Diversity Police is Cheap Trick's worst song.

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 16, 2026 05:20 PM (f1kZG)

225 Posted by: Marcus T at February 16, 2026 05:15 PM (nmw7B)

Fake Tapper's timeline is just what one would expect it to be.

I especially liked him getting the vapors over that funny Pritzger Valentine's Day card.

Just lift the back of one lavender-scented wrist to your forehead and waft gently down onto your fainting couch, Tapper.

Posted by: Delurker at February 16, 2026 05:20 PM (gtcuf)

226 I enjoyed the tanya harding movie but it wasn't the best of all time

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 16, 2026 05:21 PM (jrgJz)

227 Nood.

"Revealed: The Erotic Poetry of... Eric Swalwell?"

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 16, 2026 05:21 PM (ExV1e)

228 It says Bezos bot the Post in 2013...has it really been 12 years and still it's a mess. WaPo had this enormous building on 15th and L street that Bezos did not get in the sale. Instead they moved to 1301 K (Franklin Sq) and probably have a burdensome lease for now - pretty much - empty space. What a waste of money. BTW, the print Sports section has pretty much disappeared. I bet they dont even report the death of Tre Johnson.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at February 16, 2026 05:21 PM (YoT4f)

229 Claudio Manuel Neves Valente

Isn't that the name of the Brown U shooter? I don't think they have a name for the hockey game shooter yet.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 16, 2026 05:25 PM (ix8EF)

230 95 years old. War time consigliere if there ever was one.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 16, 2026 05:04 PM (dK+Kv)

Never saw a movie that he was in that I did not like.
Posted by: tubal at February 16, 2026 05:05 PM (pDt9x)

Get Low is a favorite. Think it's on Y-tube..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 16, 2026 05:26 PM (nbLIj)

231 He was in Joe Kidd, Joe Kidd

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 16, 2026 05:27 PM (jrgJz)

232 We had a tango night at a nightclub that I worked at. Duvall was there. Nice guy. Somebody told me he had left his wife because she didn't want to tango dance.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at February 16, 2026 05:32 PM (Vpqw1)

233 Jake Tapper is a faggot.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: ballistic at February 16, 2026 05:44 PM (3BwY8)

234 Swalwell poetry of sex with AOC:

Her nostrils flaring
She intruded and extruded
Drawing blood, that excreted from our pores
We were formless in a puddle of snot and excrement

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 16, 2026 06:46 PM (WONhk)

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The Media Whined That the Washington Post Cancelled Its World-Beating Sports Section.
The Media, You Will Not Be Surprised to Learn, Lied