Youth Sports. ESPN. Bad Idea: Part Two.

I will be STUNNED if we get through the 10-day tournament in Williamsport, PA without a violent incident.

The qualifiers from Davenport, IA are the center of a Houston Astros-like sign-stealing exhibition, according to MSN reports.

It's the "runner on second" who taps his leg to let the batter know what pitch is coming, says the team from Wisconsin.

Someone is going to take a fastball to the dome in this tournament.

NFL Suspension Blotter and some political MLB news...

First, three more suspensions:

• Atlanta Falcons:  James Pearce suspended the for 8 games, personal conduct.  For being accused of taking his car and ramming it into his girlfriend during a domestic dispute.  Let that process.  Attempted murder gets you only 8 games in the NFL.
• Buffalo Bills:  Phidarian Mathis:  Banned for the first 3 games.  Sounds like a repeat offense of failing to cooperate with the Substances of Abuse policy.
• Washington Commanders:  Dorance Armstrong, 1 game for personal conduct, assault and resisting arrest charges under probation in 2025.

And then, it sounds like the vibes against San Francisco's Pride celebrations worked for the Giants:

The Giants and the Bay Area host the All-Star Game for MAGA League Baseball in 2028.

And yet another story of why youth sports on ESPN is a BAD IDEA...

Every year, we seem to get at least one story a year as to someone breaching the rules to try to get their local sports on the Little League World Series (and softball as well) on ESPN.

Developing story out of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The Tulsa National softball team was disqualified at the championship game (one before they would go on ESPN for the Softball World Series, completed Sunday) for an ineligible player.

And now the story gets even messier:  The same has happened to the baseball team from that very same organization.  Disqualified at the championship game, as they were waiting to see who they would play.

No less than three other organizations in the tournament protested, giving at least five charges that the baseball team was also illegal.

Stay tuned.  I could foresee this getting all the way to arrests.

UPDATE:  They sued and won.  They'll play for the ESPN berth Tuesday.

AND ANOTHER TUESDAY AFTERNOON:  A higher judge reversed the decision.  Tulsa National is OUT.

Sports To The Right, Continuing WNBA Part: It's 3:25 Eastern on Monday...

Chicago plays tonight.

There is still no word on any suspension for DiJonai Carrington for either the two-armed shot to the face of Sophie Cunningham or the hateful social media screed after.

The shit is about to hit the fan if we don't hear it.

Especially in Florida, a state with no WNBA team.

The governor of the supposed "Free State of Florida" wants to make that kind of hit an off-court crime.

I would have no problem, except the fact that it's clear that it's because a MAGA cunt bitch got hit for be a bigot MAGA cunt bitch.

If this applied to all sports and levels, I wouldn't have a problem with it.  Will we see the "Cicarelli Rule" become law in Florida, possibly in other states too?

Sports to the Right, Part Eight: Tick, tick, tickticktickticktick....

Another Fever game, another few ticks off the time bomb:

This one is on the court.

In a moment that does want me to say "Hit her again!  Hit her again!!  Harder!!!  Harder!!!!", Sophie Cunningham got a two-handed/armed shot to the face by Chicago's DeJonai Carrington.

Quite correctly, she was thrown out of the game under the NBA/WNBA's "Excessive and Unnecessary" Flagrant Foul Tier II criteria.

But, on top of that, ESPN has reported that Carrington then took to her Twitter to yell "White Privilege!" at Cunningham and her Indiana Fever.

The suspension is expected Sunday or Monday.

Sports To The Right, Part Seven: And I don't mean this first line to be as funny as some people think it is...

"Of course you realize, this means war..."

Several parts ago, when I put a screed against Sophie Cuntingham, I entitled it that the WNBA will die within five years.

An action yesterday by two former NBA player bigots may have actually accelerated that to the end of this season.

Enes Freedom and Royce White have given the WNBA an ultimatum:  "Embrace Hate or Lose The League".

On the same day the WNBPA (the players association) rejected the hateful words of Cunningham and the usage of their two White superstars as right-wing political pawns, especially as it relates to transgender players, Freedom and White went Juwanna Mann and declared for the WNBA Draft.

Someone needs to kick their asses.  I don't give a damn if they are or were professional athletes.

Freedom is a known homophobe and transphobe.

I have said before of the after-effects of the anti-transgender sports movement.  Not only will it represent the murder of every transgender person in this nation, should it succeed, but it will also represent the end of all female sporting achievement.

If Freedom and White want to transition, they're more than welcome in the WNBA.  But even a cursory examination of this process indicates they are not and not going to.

And here's something a lot of people don't want to tell you:  The WNBA is evidence of one very simple fact.  The only instances of actual basketball (rather than the Curry and Fightball the NBA has become in the last ten years) people want to see are far below the professional level.

Sans prurient and sexual interest like the Lingerie/Legends Football League, there is not sufficient interest in women's sports at basically any level without force (economic or legal) to prop it up.

If these two pieces of shit succeed, it will end the WNBA one way or the other.  

Early NFL Suspension Blotter: And there's a 163 1/3% chance he's not making the Saints roster...

Brock Rechsteiner has been suspended the first six games of the season, but they say no one knows why.

Brock is the son of Scott Steiner.

I think anyone who's seen Scott Steiner the last 20 years or so can figure it out.

ROIDS!!!

EDIT TO ADD:  Confirmed.  PED policy.