In an EPIC case of Get Woke Go Broke, NBA and MLB ratings have plummeted after protest-filled debuts result in a TV ratings crash. TNT ratings alone are down roughly 20% since 2020. Hello, people don’t want woke politics in sports. More from Mr. Obvious.
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Major League Baseball has belatedly opened its 2020 season but why even bother? The players are flashing their Black Lives Matter gear, playing politics instead of sports. The NBA and Women’s National Basketball Association have staged even more dramatic stunts. If athletes want to run for Congress, fine. Go for it. But when the games are on, they should be focusing on sports — not pushing their own brand of politics. More from Mark Dice.
Sports stadiums receive billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies, including the recent Oakland Raiders venue in Las Vegas, which pocketed $700 million, and Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta, which received $750 million. Economists who study the tax subsidies say that little or none of the money make it back to taxpayers. It turns out that 12 NFL teams have actually profited from stadium subsidies alone. So taxpayers, most of whom never attend a game, are subsidizing billionaires. Sound like a scam? John Stossel investigates in the following presentation.
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Two transgender women took first and second place this year in Connecticut’s indoor track-and-field championship last weekend – and by “transgender women,” I mean two biological guys with testosterone who just stole awards from biological girls. More evidence the Democrats mean to hurt all of us — men and women. Everyone except their biological monsters. More from Brittany Hughes at MRCTV.
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Liz Wheeler says the fact these trans athletes won so easily underscores how men have a different, and biological, superiority over women. It’s unfair to allow these men to enter female competitions, and stating that has nothing whatsoever to do with discrimination, but rather, recognizing biology. More from One America News.
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Ever play shin-kicking, where the contestants pound the living daylights out of their opponents shins? The object of the sport is get your opponent to fall to the ground. In the old days, rumor has it that contestants wore steel-toed boots to crunch their foes. To this day the sport still draws thousands of fans. Check out 14 other dumb sports in this edition of Danger Dolan.
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There’s a reason why fans obsess over sports. AsapScience explains what happens to your body when your team wins, such as the massive build-up of testosterone and a surge of dopamine. Check out the results.
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Mario, Fafa and Gorilla try to figure out which sport is the most dangerous.
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June’s Nanny of the Month winner from Reason.TV, as well as the runners-up, are all politicians who want to clamp down on your freedom of speech. Some want to criminalize speech to combat bullying. Others are trying to curb trash-talking at sporting events. But the clearcut Nanny of the Month winner, New Mexico State Rep. Mary Helen Garcia, has proposed punishing harsh speech directed at journalists, academics, celebrities, politicians, and the like, if the speech results in “substantial emotional distress.” Talk about an open-ended invitation to censorship.
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President Obama is reportedly a solid athlete. But then why does he always seem to choke when the cameras are on?
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