And we've got a live one in Week One!!!

Western Michigan defeated #16 Michigan 12-7 today at the Big House.

That's not what anyone will tell you.

Ladies and gentlemen, a rigged result.

As expected, he got waived...

Brock Rechsteiner's NFL career is over.

He will spend his six-week steroid suspension as a free agent, cut by the Saints today.

Gee, Brock, trying to tell us something as to your NFL aspirations?

This may get Al Michaels thrown off NFL broadcasts...

Knowing the NFL's ties to the military, government, and to Trump.

That said (with the reminder that the NFL does not allow embeds -- and an additional reminder this was actually posted by a MAGA piece of shit), in this particular case (and to those who might disagree on other stands, in this one ONLY):

All hail Al Michaels!

The world of college sports is ending, people...

The recent court rulings rendering NFL training-camp invitees eligible to return to college and the NCAA has finished the job.

We're just watching the final downfall:

• The Big XII has banned all professional athletes from any sport.
• The SEC is going further:  Any school which offers professional athletes a path of return is DONE WITH THE CONFERENCE.  They lose their voting rights, half their athletic budget, and their head coach for at least half a season.
• The Big Ten has at least banned NFL returns.
• The ACC, the last of the "Power 4", is considering joining them.

The question now is simple:  Who's the first school which is gonna walk?

An anachronism has been completely and finally put to bed...

The Pro Bowl Games -- and that meaning any on-field Pro Bowl itself -- finally died today.

And, as I've already seen in one Discord server with the report -- Nothing Of Value Was Lost.

The rampant sacrifice to football -- THEY ALL HAVE CTE!!! ALL OF THEM.

And the article in MSN from Amy Tennery deliberately obfuscates the situation.

878 former NFL players have died between the years of 2016 and 2021.

The article states at least one in four -- 215 of them -- had their brains tested and found CTE within them.

There's only one problem with the findings.

Not all of the brains were donated to science.

235 of them were.

That means almost 90% of the donated brains were found to have CTE -- an effective finding that every one of the brains donated had the disease.

That the basic finding should be that THEY ALL HAVE CTE.

EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM.

ALL OF THEM.

The findings also assert that the players are already beyond brain-damaged before they even hit the NFL -- that the players are fucked by youth football and high school football and college football too.

Bad Faith Actors Get Nothing

An AP source indicates the two former NBA players who are trying to get every transgender person killed by farcically entering the WNBA will not be permitted to do so.

Transition and you can be in, assholes.

But you're bad faith actors, as your continuing incidents are indicating.

I will be more than blunt here:  I'm beginning to wonder if there's a longer play here, straight out of the Heritage Foundation.

It is no secret that these bigots want every transgender person dead.  On top of that, though, I think they have very little want for the women who are actually in the sport today (which see Kanter Bitch's incident last night, for which he might well get the same NBA/WNBA ban that some of the sex toy-throwing morons have gotten).

It is also no secret that many of the men in control of things in entertainment do not see a non-sexual market for women in anything except between their legs (colored as "fertility" by the Heritage Foundation in recent revelations).

But what of an NBA Seniors' Tour?  A summer NBA Legends League?

No one has proposed it, but I'd have to think some of these bigots have thought about it.

EDIT TO ADD:  On and off, Elon Musk has been trying to get people to drum up a campaign that Brittney Griner is a man.

A number of his supporters have said that a number of unnamed WNBA players are men.

Well, this isn't something the NFL wanted public three weeks before the season...

Jed York, as of 2025 a 15% owner of the San Francisco 49ers (and it's CEO since 2008), was arrested over the weekend in Ohio, apparently over a prostitution bust.

Spent two days in jail this weekend over a no contest plea over disorderly conduct and possession of criminal tools.  Paid about $1200 in fines, and the matter is closed to criminality.  A prostitution charge was dropped in the exchange.

Look, I get it.  You do it because you can.  Ask Robert Kraft and Donald Trump.

But you can't think that's going to look very good to the NFL, less than three weeks before the season starts.

Hedge the 49ers accordingly this season.

Gee, is this any shock?

Think these WNBA attendees were sending a message as to the only value of WNBA players, or women at large?

For the second consecutive night (both Thursday night and last night), a WNBA game was disrupted by fans throwing sex toys onto the court.

Does anyone need the dots connected here?

They don't give a fuck, Natasha Cloud.  The only reason you even exist to them is SEX.  And when you realize that, you'll realize the ass-kicking these motherfuckers need and deserve!

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.

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.

Sports To The Right, Part Four: Enemies of Baseball

(No, this was not originally scheduled.)

I hope you all have something to do next year, around the first of April and onward.

Because, after last night, there is now effectively zero chance (outside of an owner- or Trump-enforced season) that there will be any professional baseball of the regular stripe.

The fact that the Dodgers are getting two-time defending American League Cy Young award winner Tarik Skubal is bad enough.  What makes it even worse (and makes me wonder if the upcoming lockout is going to be just one season) is that they gave effectively nothing in return.

And that MLB is going to stand for this is indicative of some very ugly political realities...

MLB is MAGA.  There's a very real chance they've gotten through to the Dodger ownership and they're MAGA too -- and that now the brass of Major League Baseball is rigging a dynasty to kill the game as you knew it.

The Dodgers are now enemies of baseball.

So are Rob Manfred and the MLB leadership.

MAGA League Baseball wants to bleach itself, wherever possible.  MAGA League Baseball wants rid of LGBTQ support.  MAGA League Baseball wants there to be one elite team or a small group of elite teams -- which will create the same illusion of competition the NBA fails to purport.

And the Dodgers are now in full economic and political lockstep.

I do genuinely wonder how many people, last night and today, have finally given up on the National Pastime of Delusion.

You want to talk about common sense? Here you go...

Not a good week for the prediction markets.

Nevada has banned Kalshi and has put a bill on the docket to ban sports prediction markets entirely.  New York is suing Kalshi, because it believes that the prediction markets are using circumvention methods to allow sports gambling in manners and ages to which it is not allowed.

Well, DUH...

To my understanding, the prediction markets are, for example, legal to trade in in the state of California.  A state which rejected all sports gambling by 3-1 and 4-1 margins two years ago when the situation was placed on the ballot in various forms.

And guess which side Donald Trump is on...  Take a fucking guess -- in the face of over 20 such lawsuits now, Trump has come down on the side of the prediction markets.  Markets which have been seen as markedly conservative and large-scale crypto operations.

This is something which should be obvious to anyone with an IQ above that of kumquat.  The sports predictions markets are sports gambling.  Period, end, full fucking stop.  And many of them are done without the safeguards and controls that the states which do legalize it have -- and they also conduct themselves in states in which no such gambling is allowed in any stripe.

It is becoming obvious, with the passing days and weeks, that the expansion of sports gambling (or, many would say, any sports gambling at all) is/was a very bad idea.  The question is:  Can you unwind the situation without killing American sports (pro and college), and, if so, how?

I am still reminded of the fate of KGO in San Francisco.  After various incursions with the law, including it's most prominent host getting nailed for child porn (released in 2014, Bernie Ward is now a sex offender for life -- he apparently IS still alive), KGO was forced to pull the plug on it's news-talk format, and became, briefly, a competitor to all-news KCBS in San Francisco, just up the dial.

That didn't work out too well for them, and, a few months before the ballot initiatives on California sports gambling, KGO was converted to "The Spread", a sports-gambling based national radio station.

KGO no longer exists.  In fact, it has been completely flipped into it's conservative rival, KSFO, and the fascists now broadcast on KGO's former 810 AM.

Sports To The Right, Part Three: The WNBA is dead in five years, and walking back on No Hate ensures it.

A recent WNBA game in Seattle against the Indiana Fever was the last straw.

The brass of the WNBA (and probably of the NBA as well) is transphobic.

Two MAGA jackasses/whores went in support of Sophie Cunningham's transphobic bullshittery (forgetting everything I've said about the transphobic women's sports movement), and they were openly challenged and confronted by no less than the co-owner of the Seattle Storm Celeste Keaton.

Keaton has been banned from all home games by the league for the entire month of August.

If that doesn't tell you that the brass of the WNBA (which probably also espouses the brass of the NBA) is not only transphobic, but actively supports it's own demise (which see the goals of the right-wing Heritage Foundation, that women's sports are to be burlesque for sexual want and nothing else), I don't know what's going to.

Are there transgender players in the WNBA?  Almost certainly not, we'd have found out about them.

But the only reason the WNBA is allowed to exist comes from the fruit of the same tree:  Without "Woke", there is no WNBA.  There are no women's professional sports.

Hell, the biggest professional football league for women in this is an Arena knockoff called the Legends Football League.

Of course, that's rebranded.  What it actually IS, and used to be called, was the LINGERIE Football League.

Women have no place in this country, under women like Cuntingham, but sexual playthings, rape toys, and creation of White Rapist Male Incels.  And maybe someone needs to wake that bitch in Indiana up on that fact.

Ban me too, WNBA.  Because you're done if you don't get with the program.  You have any number of female players in your league (many of them Black, but not all) who bitches like this MAGA whore Cunningham would state were men.

Bank that!

Sports To The Right, Part Two: Caitlin Clark is about to be upstaged because she's not going to go far enough for her masters...

I could smell it the moment I saw her picture on ESPN's front page and about her being "unmissable".

Welcome to the new probable face of the WNBA, for however little long the league has left, right-wing bigoted MAGA cunt Sophie Cunningham, or, after her transphobic rant last week, I prefer to call her Cuntingham.

She has made no secret of being a loud-mouthed supposed "Christian" who hates transgenders and transgenderism.  And, in a sport where it has been made no secret that much of the recent corporate success of the sport can be traced to the fact that the largely Black and liberal sport of women's basketball in this country has been gravitated (by ESPN and other parties) around a WHITE woman from Iowa, MAGA finally has the athlete it can perfect what they started with Clark.

And Clark better understand this if she has an interest in remaining the center of women's basketball, at least in corporate, media, and political realities.

Cunningham has one thing Clark does not:  She IS good-looking enough to be the Great White MAGA Hope of (The End Of)Women's Sports.  That includes this year's Sports Illustrated annual jack-off fest.  That's rare among actual qualified women athletes (Riley Gaines, that means you're out, you cunt whore!).

Cunningham has made her presence felt on transgender athletics and misgenders them every chance she gets.

What the cunt doesn't get is that she doesn't have a job -- probably of ANY KIND -- in the America she supports.  The only reason you have a WNBA IS "woke".  And there is a massive poison pill of MAGA which has crystallized behind Caitlin Clark (and might well perfect itself behind Cunningham -- see my third post on this subject which will come tomorrow -- too late to do it tonight!).

But the edges are beginning to fray.  I am fully expecting the belief of Cunningham that the WNBA has a number of transgender players (even if it does not -- or there are no known ones)...

Sports To The Right, Part One: Another UFC jackass...

I don't think a lot of people are getting the extent to which sports themselves are gravitating towards the Right...

So here are three posts with three of today's/recent examples of such:

For the first, we go to the UFC and another "fighter" who decided to smack his bitch up:

Dateline, Nebraska:  Former UFC fighter Anthony Smith is facing three felonies in the state for wanting to run over his wife, an indictment this week charges.

Sounds like COVIDIOT-Shithead isn't doing it to just football teams...

Danica Patrick basically states that Aaron Rodgers is an emotionally-abusive twit -- saying "He leaves behind a trail of blood."

No.  Shit.  Sherlock.

Two related stories, both gambling:

USA Today:  DraftKings and FanDuel have already spent $72,000,000 on the midterm elections -- making gambling the third highest campaign contributor behind crypto and tech.

And, in the "no coincidences" file...

Fortune:  Gambling on sports (and this probably is only the legal handles, and does not include states which do allow Indian casinos to do sports-gambling (Wisconsin and Florida are two), nor the prediction markets which have muscled into sports-betting and can do so in states where sports-betting is illegal...) now is not only the largest entertainment method in the country at $166 billion, it outspends music, concerts, books, museums, and movies, by more than double -- combined!!  ($70 billion between the five, none above $20 billion)

The "No Shit Sherlock" File, Part Two: The Russians Are Coming...

Saw this a few days ago and am finally getting to posting it to the blog.

Putin's bitch gets his wish -- the Russians are allowed back in the Olympic Trump Transphobe Games.  Just in time for Los Angeles.

The "No Shit Sherlock" file, Part One... The Heritage Foundation lets it slip...

Now that the Supreme Court has gone full bigot and transgender athletes can be banned part and parcel, the Heritage Foundation lets it slip.

They openly WANT the end of women's and girls' sports -- stating that destroying Title IX is necessary to protect women's "fertility".

Just waiting, at that point, for the calls of execution of the childless cat ladies, the sterile, and those women too old to have children and never had one.

(Source:  Erin in the Morning)

Also note:  Cheerleading is fine.  They need to have women burlesque for the entertainment of high-testosterone boys and men who are willing to exploit fertility.