Category: sports & politics
What economic impact does PSU not playing football have for Pennsylvania?
Reports show that it will cost the local economy more than $500 million. Happy Valley Adventure Bureau President and CEO Fritz Smith of Penn State football told Yahoo Sports that it’ll be somewhere between $70 million and $80 million for every home game. PSU generally plays seven home games a year, which means PSU and […]
If COVID-19 saliva tests are game-changers, did Big Ten and Pac-12 act too soon in canceling fall football?
PIAA tells Gov. Wolf not holding Pennsylvania fall sports won’t eliminate youth coronavirus risk, it will just shift it elsewhere
By Ford Turner The Morning Call | Aug 12, 2020 at 11:09 AM Emmaus’ Rachel Herbine (10) shoots the ball for a goal against Easton’s Onalee Long (25) during a District 11 3A Field Hockey championship held at Whitehall High School last year. (April Gamiz/The Morning Call) The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association thinks organized fall […]
Kamala Harris Sponsored Bill That Would Force Schools To Let Male Athletes Compete In Girls’ Sports
California Sen. Kamala Harris (D) co-sponsored a bill that would force public schools to allow biologically male athletes who identify as transgender on girls’ sports teams. In March 2019, Harris cosponsored the Equality Act, which would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to make “sexual orientation and gender identity” protected characteristics under federal anti-discrimination […]
The Battle For College Football Is Raging
by Clay Travis The 2020 college football season is hanging by a thread right now and with it so are all of college sports until the fall of 2021. Because make no mistake about it, if college football isn’t played this fall, it’s highly likely no college sports will be played again until the fall […]
Europeans Are Waking Up to Government Covid Tyranny. Why Are We Still Asleep?
Tens of thousands of Germans marched through Berlin on Saturday, proclaiming a “Day of Freedom” and demanding an end to government-mandated face masks and “social distancing.” The UK and Netherlands also saw large protests against their governments’ tyrannical actions in response to the coronavirus outbreak. According to media accounts, the Berlin protesters held signs reading […]
Wonder Why People Hate ESPN? They Make Fun of Real Courage
‘The Dan Le Batard Show’ Asks If It’s ‘Funny’ That Jonathan Isaac Tore His ACL Because He Stood For The National Anthem. The Twitter account for “The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz” posted an absurd tweet Monday about Jonathan Isaac. According to Outkick, the official Twitter account for the show hosted by Dan Le […]
Pac-12 football players list demands in letter to conference
A group of Pac-12 football players from multiple schools wrote a letter in The Players’ Tribune threatening to opt out of fall camp and game participation unless their demands for fair treatment, safety regulations and concerns over racial justice for college athletes are met by the conference. Will winter athletes follow suite? Read more here
Sports Media Is Rooting Against Sports Returning
The easy answer is that they generally have been taught or have absorbed Georg Hegel philosophy that government is god and society needs to be destroyed to be rebuilt into a totalitarian utopia known as hell. Sports offers a diversion; right now, a diversion is not desired. The reason why is tied to the election […]
Female athletes to NCAA: Protect women’s sports
7/29/20 SAVE WOMEN’S SPORTS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: SignSaveWomensSports@gmail.com INDIANAPOLIS – More than 300 current and former professional, Olympic, and collegiate female athletes sent a letter Wednesday to the National College Athletic Association, urging it to reject the call to boycott Idaho for protecting the integrity of women’s sports. The signers include more than 40 […]
Some Colleges Will Require Students To Take COVID-19 Test Twice A Week. Good time for a Gap or Home School Year
Colleges and universities across the US are planning to roll out strict COVID-19 testing measures at their campuses for those starting back this Fall. In some instances, like Cornell University in New York or Baylor in Waco, all students, faculty, and staff will be required to test negative before being admitted on campus. Even more extreme […]
Considering Rutgers? Think again. RU Declares Grammar ‘Racist’
If you’re looking for peak idiocy from academic institutions that are falling all over themselves to kowtow to the mob’s notions of “social justice,” look no further. Assuming that “minorities” can’t write correctly is racism, not anti racist. More here The English Department at Rutgers University has declared that proper use of grammar is a […]
ESPN Radio Host Who Told Trump to ‘Chill’ over Riots, Suddenly Wants a Gun
Paul Gallant took a slap at Trump for saying the waves of protesters are “terrorists,” he changed his tune when the rioters came to his home. Two weeks later, Gallant was again tweeting about the riots, but this time he was a bit less confident that the rioters were mostly peaceful. On June 25, Gallant […]