Yes to this, and also why I struggle to understand transphobic professional female athletes. You think this little of yourself? You think ANY guy can just show up and beat you? This is just garden variety sexism, against yourself?

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · yesterday

You can see the very obvious throughline from “men could transition and easily dominate women’s sports” to “women’s sports are lesser and shouldn’t be taken seriously” to “women shouldn’t play sports” to “here are the acceptable life choices for women”

FIFA’s plan to sell a stake in its commercial operations to outside investors is thankfully dead in the water, but what was behind this proposal? What would have been the implications for the beautiful game if Infantino had got his way? This is explored in today’s FREE ARTICLE.

need a prediction market but only for Carlos Alcaraz hairstyles

The point isn't to produce essays, it's to teach students how to think for fuck's sake. The minute you automate that, it's over. You might as well close the course. Which they're also doing. This is an attack on learning, and everyone is just shrugging.

17, 228 - Cruz Hewitt (17y 228d) is the youngest Australian to win an ATP main draw match outside of Australia since his father Lleyton (17y 174d) in New Haven in 1998. Lineage. #MubadalaDCOpen

Absolutely disgusting and infuriating to see from a tour founded on defiance and moral clarity. End of that era, end of that illusion. A betrayal of the LGBTQ+ community and women.

Ben Rothenberg@benrothenberg.bsky.social · 2w ago

Breaking news story at Bounces: Following cultural momentum around anti-trans pushes in sports, the WTA has enacted a new policy that will require *all* players to undergo genetic sex testing in order to continue playing on WTA Tour. Read at Bounces: www.benrothenberg.com/p/wta-requir...

110 minutes without a shot should be an automatic disqualification

the World Cup final will be between two teams that Cape Verde played even through 90 minutes

*Braces himself for an avalanche of posts featuring the pic of Messi bathing baby Yamal*

Giving *checks notes* the most accomplished technical attacker of all of history as much time as he wanted for recycled attack after recycled attack was a bad idea?

Michael Caley@michaelcaley.bsky.social · 3w ago

I have never seen a more perfect example of How Not To Defend A Lead

Potentially the worst game management coaching performance I have ever seen, remarkable

John Muller@johnspacemuller.com · 3w ago

You can actually watch football die

2018: Deschamps 2022: Desrunnersup 2026: Desconsolationfinalist (respectfully)

*sound of Martina Navrátilová's face being eaten*

James Goodwin@jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3w ago

My god. The Heritage Foundation, which mercilessly attacked transgender kids in order to protect the "integrity of women's sports," is now attacking the legal basis for women's sports. The transgender student decision is barely 2 weeks old.

This is how you know the battle is over and Ronaldo has lost lol.

CBS Sports Golazo@cbssportsgolazo-m.bsky.social · 3w ago

"People should stop fighting who's the best... We have a lifetime opportunity of seeing two GOAT's at the same time." This Portugal fan tells @Nicocantor1 why we need to appreciate BOTH Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi 🐐

A goalkeeper is the position where the default pundit opinion is you should save every shot cleanly, claim every cross and pass through a press without error. If every top keeper in the world is said to frequently be making errors maybe we just need to recognise that we assess it too harshly.

If Argentina win you can all learn about a little known missed call from Argentina and England’s history. At the time it was called “the hand of god” but nobody really remembers it anymore because in the pre-VAR era the beauty of a fluid game without stoppages meant fans didn’t dwell on blown calls.

When Dan Burn comes on at 83’ in the final

NBA Stat@nbastat.bsky.social · 4w ago

Kylian Mbappé, leading scorer at the World Cup, with Wemby. Sweet mother of God! 😳 #NBA

we've put English and Norwegian people in a soccer match in the Miami summer let's see how it goes oh

@futi.live just released individual game player ratings and this is crazy??? They’re literally measuring ALL the stats 💀

Muchova’s all-court style enchants everyone. It’s the kind of fluent, feel-based tennis that anyone who’s ever held a racquet has hoped, foolishly, to replicate on court themselves. via @girinathan.bsky.social www.thesecondserve.com/linda-noskov...

Noskova & Muchova: Styles Upon Styles - The Second Serve

The women’s final at Wimbledon is guaranteed to produce a Czech champion

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if you've been following soccer for the last decade+ you have known of these two guys as freaks, one in fifty million shot talents, for as long as you've known about them and it's super cool and the Norwegian team is fun as hell, it's just not because of socialism I wish it were lol but it ain't

every time a stutter step penalty is saved an angel gets its wings

I did it I wrote the article wish me luck Lionel Messi is the GOAT, Ronaldo is not, why just about every statistical analyst agress www.expectinggoals.com/p/messi-rona...

Why Messi keeps thriving as Ronaldo fades: The GOAT's always been the best

I'm not proud, or tired

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Paraguay to the World Cup audience:

Sheeeeeeeesh

jason ilagan@jasonilagan.com · last mo.

Alex Eala has really gotten under Iga Świątek's skin #Wimbledon

Saw a video where a guy calculated that awarding a penalty is like giving a team 83 free throws in a row and that’s how I’m going to explain this dumb sport from now on

lemme remind you what happens to the sport if those fouls don't get called

Michael Caley@michaelcaley.bsky.social · last mo.

if you don't want that to be a foul, do you want your football to turn into this because it will, believe me it will

big new Expecting Goals newsletter on set pieces and FIFA's new rules at the World Cup it looks like a big success: restarts are hugely accelerated and the meat wall may be cooked www.expectinggoals.com/p/world-cup-...

World Cup Update July 2, The New Rules: Has Time-Wasting Been Curbed, and Did FIFA Cook the Meat Wall?

Fleischwand Götterdämmerung

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