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Nobody Cares About Your Favourite Sport
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If I'm ever in Arizona, I'm gonna have to try to hit up one of these events.
Also, why isn't this a sport in SL? I feel like this should be an SL thing.
Also, why isn't this a sport in SL? I feel like this should be an SL thing.
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Dude got off way too light. I don't want to hear about the asshole only making 5-6 million this year. I want to see him locked up. Using a fake vax card is a federal felony, which can result in up to 5 years in prison. Using a fake vax card to receive money or benefits is another federal felony, which can result in up to 5 years prison. That's up to ten years, before you even think about state and local statutes against this kind of thing. I'd love to see a prosecutor with something to prove go after this guy, and demonstrate that the law is about more than how much you have in your bank account. Unfortunately, that's not the world we live in. Rich people do whatever they want in America.
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President Biden welcomed the reigning NBA champions, the Milwaukee Bucks, to the White House on Monday, making them the first NBA champions to visit since 2016. We're thinking perhaps he offered them something other than fast food. We're hoping.
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Ebony Rainford-Brent: Ex-England cricketer shares image of racist hate letter
Rainford-Brent, who became the first black woman to play for England in 2001, posted the image of the sickening correspondence on Twitter.
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The record for the slowest hour on a bicycle was recently shattered. A video of the scintillating event is available at the link below. Make sure you have an hour or so to spare because once it starts you will be compelled to wait until the end.
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Formolo, Sperotto set novelty 'slowest hour' record at 918 metres
Italians part of October exhibition at Festival del Ciclista Lento
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I keep seeing photos from the 2021 ESPN Body Issue all over the internet today. It took me a while, but finally I looked it up, out of morbid curiosity. Here's the ESPN site for it (NSFW, obviously).
Honestly, I think it's terrible. I gotta rant...
I'm body positive, and sex positive, and I think these people look great, and it's good that they are finally showing women on ESPN for once... but that's the thing. This is the only time of year ESPN gives a shit about female athletes. That's fucked up.
I believe in an institutional definition of the term 'sport'. In other words, the difference between a game and a sport is that the sport is supported by sporting institutions. Sports are organized by high schools, colleges, and professional franchises. They sell overpriced schwag and stadium junk food to fans on a gargantuan scale. Teams and athletes get endorsements from companies like Nike and Gatoraid. Sports teams use shady business practices to make tax payers build your stadium. Sports have gambling odds set up everywhere in Vegas... and most importantly to a new form of sport, massive media concerns like ESPN must cover you. Without coverage, you can't have the scale of a sport. Sports must be ubiquitous. Everybody knows what basketball is, and can name at least one professional basketball team, because basketball is ubituitous. Most people can't even tell you how scoring works in hand ball, let alone name an important hand ball team or player, because hand ball is a game, not a sport, because it lacks ubiquity, which means it lacks the scale of a sport. This is the reason why we have the Olympic GAMES, and not the Olympic Sports. An Olympic curler might get on a box of Wheaties, because that's Wheaties's gimmick, but Vancouver isn't raiding their civil servant's pensions to build the curler a stadium (side note: No esport is actually a sport. Sorry, that's just how it is right now)
Women's games simply don't meet the criteria of sport, in this sense. I wish they did. I know women's sports teams have stadiums, and educational backing, and some small endorsements, schwag, junk food, and all that jazz... but they do not have the scale of a sport, because they do not have the media coverage of a sport. They do not have media coverage because large media concerns like ESPN black them out. That restricts the scale of women's sports, which makes women's sports less profitable, and leads to situations like the US women's soccer team making ten times less money for winning a world cup than the men's soccer team. This makes people respect female athletes less, which leads to things like absurd sports costuming for women's volleyball teams, and the institutional rape of American gymnasts. ESPN and similar powers-that-be claim they can't cover it because ratings are low for women's sports, but everybody knows that's bullshit. The ratings are low because the networks don't support them. It's the same situation as when Fox killed Firefly with a bad time slot and no advertising.
So once a year, ESPN remembers women exist, when they show their tits. I hope the women got paid well for these photo shoots, but I know they probably didn't.
I think ESPN should be forced to measure a ratio of how much coverage they give men vs women in any given year, and then, do their annual Body Issue with naked images of women to men in the same ratio. Only talked about female athletes in 2% of stories this year? Have fun with 98% men in the body issue.
Also... if they are so body positive, where are the dicks? No more of this puritan 'we gotta move the camera to preserve this dude's maiden honor' bullshit. I know a lot of the dicks are small because of steroids, but I don't care. Those tiny dicks would be a great PSA to warn people not to use steroids. Also, if they really wanted to break barriers... show an erection. Doesn't have to be massive, or lewd. Just show it. The erection is the one last final frontier in film and photography. Nobody shows erections. We show all kinds of body horror, but when dicks appear in media, they are the dicks are never, ever erect. I don't think even European film shows erections yet.
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Honestly, I think it's terrible. I gotta rant...
I'm body positive, and sex positive, and I think these people look great, and it's good that they are finally showing women on ESPN for once... but that's the thing. This is the only time of year ESPN gives a shit about female athletes. That's fucked up.
I believe in an institutional definition of the term 'sport'. In other words, the difference between a game and a sport is that the sport is supported by sporting institutions. Sports are organized by high schools, colleges, and professional franchises. They sell overpriced schwag and stadium junk food to fans on a gargantuan scale. Teams and athletes get endorsements from companies like Nike and Gatoraid. Sports teams use shady business practices to make tax payers build your stadium. Sports have gambling odds set up everywhere in Vegas... and most importantly to a new form of sport, massive media concerns like ESPN must cover you. Without coverage, you can't have the scale of a sport. Sports must be ubiquitous. Everybody knows what basketball is, and can name at least one professional basketball team, because basketball is ubituitous. Most people can't even tell you how scoring works in hand ball, let alone name an important hand ball team or player, because hand ball is a game, not a sport, because it lacks ubiquity, which means it lacks the scale of a sport. This is the reason why we have the Olympic GAMES, and not the Olympic Sports. An Olympic curler might get on a box of Wheaties, because that's Wheaties's gimmick, but Vancouver isn't raiding their civil servant's pensions to build the curler a stadium (side note: No esport is actually a sport. Sorry, that's just how it is right now)
Women's games simply don't meet the criteria of sport, in this sense. I wish they did. I know women's sports teams have stadiums, and educational backing, and some small endorsements, schwag, junk food, and all that jazz... but they do not have the scale of a sport, because they do not have the media coverage of a sport. They do not have media coverage because large media concerns like ESPN black them out. That restricts the scale of women's sports, which makes women's sports less profitable, and leads to situations like the US women's soccer team making ten times less money for winning a world cup than the men's soccer team. This makes people respect female athletes less, which leads to things like absurd sports costuming for women's volleyball teams, and the institutional rape of American gymnasts. ESPN and similar powers-that-be claim they can't cover it because ratings are low for women's sports, but everybody knows that's bullshit. The ratings are low because the networks don't support them. It's the same situation as when Fox killed Firefly with a bad time slot and no advertising.
So once a year, ESPN remembers women exist, when they show their tits. I hope the women got paid well for these photo shoots, but I know they probably didn't.
I think ESPN should be forced to measure a ratio of how much coverage they give men vs women in any given year, and then, do their annual Body Issue with naked images of women to men in the same ratio. Only talked about female athletes in 2% of stories this year? Have fun with 98% men in the body issue.
Also... if they are so body positive, where are the dicks? No more of this puritan 'we gotta move the camera to preserve this dude's maiden honor' bullshit. I know a lot of the dicks are small because of steroids, but I don't care. Those tiny dicks would be a great PSA to warn people not to use steroids. Also, if they really wanted to break barriers... show an erection. Doesn't have to be massive, or lewd. Just show it. The erection is the one last final frontier in film and photography. Nobody shows erections. We show all kinds of body horror, but when dicks appear in media, they are the dicks are never, ever erect. I don't think even European film shows erections yet.
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‘It is not fair’: Murphy rails at amateurs in pro snooker … after defeat by amateur
Shaun Murphy crashed out in the first round of the UK Championship and said his 6-5 defeat by Si Jiahui was ‘not fair’ because amateurs should not be allowed in professional tournaments
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Thread by @SlavaMalamud: Today, on #LinguisticsWithSlava The Russian word for a sports fan is "bolel'shchik." I'll explain in a minute. But first, did you know that for a long time Americans had no word for it?...…
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It is perfectly clear that amateurs can get to the main tournament of the UK championship.‘It is not fair’: Murphy rails at amateurs in pro snooker … after defeat by amateur
Shaun Murphy crashed out in the first round of the UK Championship and said his 6-5 defeat by Si Jiahui was ‘not fair’ because amateurs should not be allowed in professional tournaments
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So I guess it is Murphy's problem to deal with it, if he has to play one in that tournament.
That it can be annoying that they use possibly different play styles or pace, is totally his problem.
He can skip the tournament if he wants to avoid this.
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The newest, hottest esport is... Excel? The championship is on ESPN 3, and streams on youtube, in two hours, so... 11:30 AM today, EST.
I'm just going to watch it to see how much I forgot after college.
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I'm just going to watch it to see how much I forgot after college.
Top Excel experts will battle it out in an esports-like competition this weekend
The finals of the Financial Modeling World Cup (FMWC) take place this weekend, where the top Excel modelers will go head-to-head in an esports battle broadcast live by ESPN3 and YouTube.
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Good news everybody, all that money being spent at US football games to fly some of the world's most advanced weaponry has the added benefit of reassuring America's allies!
