Because you're a journalist. There are three things every pro journalist, no matter what path they take, ends up writing about, one way or another: Sex, taxes and sports.
Howard Cosell (on S two LLs) was a lot of things, but one thing he was was a journalist. He always said sports coverage should be done by journalists. I agree and that is why I welcome your coverage of this.
to me, this is not just a story about sports but about how the right bends us culture towards fascism. they are ringing the bell early and often so that their side as well as ours develops a Pavlovian response to something that should be such a non-issue.
Sports provide stories. That's why they're interesting. Sports, and public schools, are among the only remaining places where people of all races, ethnicities, classes, opinions, creeds; all mix together. Not even the military, not even in line at the DMV.
So you get all these stories, involving all these wildly different people converging on a profoundly unserious goal taken incredibly seriously; it's theater.
Of course you find compelling material there. That's what it's for.
“That's why they're interesting. Sports, and public schools, are among the only remaining places where people of all races, ethnicities, classes, opinions, creeds; all mix together. Not even the military, not even in line at the DMV.”
Citation needed about the military. Because in my quarter of a century of service, the military is absolutely integrated more than schools. In fact, people of all races, ethnicities, classes, opinions, creeds; all mix together in the military every single day.
Forced patriotism.......yeah, yeah, that's the ticket. Nothing says freedom like mandatory participation in nationalistic rituals......
Kinda weird that Landry would mention segregation and then immediately follow that with "unites us under one flag" jingoism. Maybe seek out some of the surviving Selma marchers and ask them about the whole "all men are created equal" trope.
Next up- loyalty oaths. How many can YOU sign per day? An armed cop at every grocery store entrance, "suggesting" that you should sign this here oath of allegiance on his clip board before you go in; every time you get anything in the mail, the carrier ensures that they are not enabling Marxist subversives to conduct interstate plots, by simply knocking on your door and offering you your mail, but first would you put your name down on this form to attest your 100% Americanism.
And when Your Favorite President chases out the Usurper and regains His throne, all the old loyalty oaths will be burned to make room for that new ones that affirm and attest to your eternal doglike submission to Preznit Loudstupid.
LSU's mascot is a tiger. I hope they stopped this practice I saw 40 years ago. But back then they were keeping a large beautiful tiger in an enclosure at the entrance gate. I watched the animal walking the perimeter of its oval prison, staring outside with a determined, and pissed-off look. Fuck LSU, and Louisiana, and the horse it rode in on.
I just wish that Lousiana would decontaminate. I knew a guy 55 years ago from Shreveport who explained that some college down there found a calculus text they could use that taught anti-differentiation, not integration like all the other ones. Yeah. He later became a university president until he pissed off all the faculty. Lousiana has problems.
But everyone who is in john taking a pre-game shit or piss or who is ordering nachos or a Coke must be shot on the spot.
Everyone who does not correctly cover his or her heart and have the proper look of uber patriotic enthusiasm on their face will be drawn and quartered.
"...this is a big deal, and yes he’s serious that the First Amendment requires athletes to salute the flag any time a nearby loudspeaker plays the national anthem."
When I was in the Army in the early 80s, when they lowered the flag on post for the evening, they would play "Taps" on the loudspeakers positioned all over the kaserne. You were supposed to stop and salute towards the flag until "Taps" was over.
Always in the minutes leading up to the time (I forget what that standard time was), you could see soldiers dodging into shops, company areas, mess halls, and bowling alleys to avoid having to stand there like an idiot, saluting the wind.
“Our basketball programs have not been on the court for the anthem for the last several seasons. Usually the anthem is played 12 minutes before the game when the team is in the locker room doing final preparations,” a spokesperson for LSU said in the statement.
Chessa Bouche, a sports reporter for BR Proud in Baton Rouge who addressed the team’s absence from the court on X, told VERIFY in an email that the LSU football team doesn’t stay on the field for the national anthem, either.
“I’ve covered LSU for six years and all three years under Mulkey, [the women’s basketball team] has done the same thing,” Bouche added.
Bouche also said in another post on X that it’s a “common practice in college sports” for teams to be in the locker room during the national anthem.
Both the UConn and USC women’s basketball teams were not on the court for the national anthem during their Elite Eight matchup on Monday, April 1, either, according to Bouche and the Times-Picayune newspaper in New Orleans.
Trump shows up on stage and fondles the flag, kisses it, and grabs it, squeezing it to his chest like it was a 40 DDD cup topless dancer and the crowd roars. Then he opens his rallies with a plea to support violent felons in jail for swarming over the Capitol, assaulting over 100 police, and sending a thousand people fleeing for their lives under armed guard to safe rooms in hidden corners of the building. And once again the crowd roars in support. But taking care of business before the most important game of the year at that time should be replaced with the rote standing of a crappy rendition of the national anthem because Trump thinks it's patriotic. But as witnessed by watching Trump's lips moving when trying to sing along, all he knows are the words "Oh say can you see" and "Twilight."
Trump needs to be called out on this and required to repeat the words in the first verse of the national anthem, and recite the pledge of allegiance. With a bonus by saying what the first 9 words are in the constitution. And to prove his biblical skills, throw in reciting the Lord's Prayer, something most Christians learn before they leave elementary school. And explain the difference between the old and new testament.
Or just make him take the same test immigrants must pass to gain US citizenship. Something probably at least 50% of native born citizens would not pass.
Note to self: Copy and paste this and send it on the Biden's debate prep team.
Of course my advice to Biden would be for him to respond to any entreaties to schedule a series of debates is for him to have a press conference and state "Fuck that guy, he's a moron and a waste of my time".
How the hell did I become a sports columnist?
Intersectionality, natch!
Skill and daring, with a spoonful of luck?
Lack of attention to detail.
There you were, just being your own true self, not paying attention to the machinations of the universe when BAM! Entropy strikes.
Two words: Caitlin Clark.
Ok,,,not really, i know. I just like to see your eyes glaze over at the mention. :)
When you started coining brilliance like "this jingo isn't going to ism itself"
Woke Renaissance Woman.
You start out by wanting to be a journalist but no one will hire you, based on samples of your work. Then you drop to your knees...
Because you're a journalist. There are three things every pro journalist, no matter what path they take, ends up writing about, one way or another: Sex, taxes and sports.
Howard Cosell (on S two LLs) was a lot of things, but one thing he was was a journalist. He always said sports coverage should be done by journalists. I agree and that is why I welcome your coverage of this.
Nobody else was willing to do it?
to me, this is not just a story about sports but about how the right bends us culture towards fascism. they are ringing the bell early and often so that their side as well as ours develops a Pavlovian response to something that should be such a non-issue.
𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 4-𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯
I can't think of anyone who is more adept at describing my own love for the sportsballs and lacrosse pucks and hockey brooms and so on.
Sports provide stories. That's why they're interesting. Sports, and public schools, are among the only remaining places where people of all races, ethnicities, classes, opinions, creeds; all mix together. Not even the military, not even in line at the DMV.
So you get all these stories, involving all these wildly different people converging on a profoundly unserious goal taken incredibly seriously; it's theater.
Of course you find compelling material there. That's what it's for.
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People of all stripes mix in the military also, too
Just like the post office
“That's why they're interesting. Sports, and public schools, are among the only remaining places where people of all races, ethnicities, classes, opinions, creeds; all mix together. Not even the military, not even in line at the DMV.”
Citation needed about the military. Because in my quarter of a century of service, the military is absolutely integrated more than schools. In fact, people of all races, ethnicities, classes, opinions, creeds; all mix together in the military every single day.
Agreed, though women still have a hard time in the military.
You are a snark collaborator and your prose is primo!
The same way I started writing about movies? I appreciate the sports coverage, because it's about much more. Thank you for doing it!
You pulled yourself up by your bootstraps?
These fascist douche-canoes are fucking insufferable.
Forced patriotism.......yeah, yeah, that's the ticket. Nothing says freedom like mandatory participation in nationalistic rituals......
Kinda weird that Landry would mention segregation and then immediately follow that with "unites us under one flag" jingoism. Maybe seek out some of the surviving Selma marchers and ask them about the whole "all men are created equal" trope.
Next up- loyalty oaths. How many can YOU sign per day? An armed cop at every grocery store entrance, "suggesting" that you should sign this here oath of allegiance on his clip board before you go in; every time you get anything in the mail, the carrier ensures that they are not enabling Marxist subversives to conduct interstate plots, by simply knocking on your door and offering you your mail, but first would you put your name down on this form to attest your 100% Americanism.
And when Your Favorite President chases out the Usurper and regains His throne, all the old loyalty oaths will be burned to make room for that new ones that affirm and attest to your eternal doglike submission to Preznit Loudstupid.
LSU's mascot is a tiger. I hope they stopped this practice I saw 40 years ago. But back then they were keeping a large beautiful tiger in an enclosure at the entrance gate. I watched the animal walking the perimeter of its oval prison, staring outside with a determined, and pissed-off look. Fuck LSU, and Louisiana, and the horse it rode in on.
I just wish that Lousiana would decontaminate. I knew a guy 55 years ago from Shreveport who explained that some college down there found a calculus text they could use that taught anti-differentiation, not integration like all the other ones. Yeah. He later became a university president until he pissed off all the faculty. Lousiana has problems.
2025: LSU women's basketball team fails to make March Madness. Governor Landry says he just can't understand why.
2025: LSU women's basketball team fails to make March Madness. Governor Landry says he just can't understand why.
Fuck those assholes. That is all.
Fine.
But everyone who is in john taking a pre-game shit or piss or who is ordering nachos or a Coke must be shot on the spot.
Everyone who does not correctly cover his or her heart and have the proper look of uber patriotic enthusiasm on their face will be drawn and quartered.
For freedom!
I hate conservatives.
"...this is a big deal, and yes he’s serious that the First Amendment requires athletes to salute the flag any time a nearby loudspeaker plays the national anthem."
When I was in the Army in the early 80s, when they lowered the flag on post for the evening, they would play "Taps" on the loudspeakers positioned all over the kaserne. You were supposed to stop and salute towards the flag until "Taps" was over.
Always in the minutes leading up to the time (I forget what that standard time was), you could see soldiers dodging into shops, company areas, mess halls, and bowling alleys to avoid having to stand there like an idiot, saluting the wind.
I've forgotten when we forgot to punch Nazis, like Captain America.
“Our basketball programs have not been on the court for the anthem for the last several seasons. Usually the anthem is played 12 minutes before the game when the team is in the locker room doing final preparations,” a spokesperson for LSU said in the statement.
Chessa Bouche, a sports reporter for BR Proud in Baton Rouge who addressed the team’s absence from the court on X, told VERIFY in an email that the LSU football team doesn’t stay on the field for the national anthem, either.
“I’ve covered LSU for six years and all three years under Mulkey, [the women’s basketball team] has done the same thing,” Bouche added.
Bouche also said in another post on X that it’s a “common practice in college sports” for teams to be in the locker room during the national anthem.
Both the UConn and USC women’s basketball teams were not on the court for the national anthem during their Elite Eight matchup on Monday, April 1, either, according to Bouche and the Times-Picayune newspaper in New Orleans.
I’m just so excited to see you as one of our beloved writers. I wonder who will steal you from us….
Trump shows up on stage and fondles the flag, kisses it, and grabs it, squeezing it to his chest like it was a 40 DDD cup topless dancer and the crowd roars. Then he opens his rallies with a plea to support violent felons in jail for swarming over the Capitol, assaulting over 100 police, and sending a thousand people fleeing for their lives under armed guard to safe rooms in hidden corners of the building. And once again the crowd roars in support. But taking care of business before the most important game of the year at that time should be replaced with the rote standing of a crappy rendition of the national anthem because Trump thinks it's patriotic. But as witnessed by watching Trump's lips moving when trying to sing along, all he knows are the words "Oh say can you see" and "Twilight."
Trump needs to be called out on this and required to repeat the words in the first verse of the national anthem, and recite the pledge of allegiance. With a bonus by saying what the first 9 words are in the constitution. And to prove his biblical skills, throw in reciting the Lord's Prayer, something most Christians learn before they leave elementary school. And explain the difference between the old and new testament.
Or just make him take the same test immigrants must pass to gain US citizenship. Something probably at least 50% of native born citizens would not pass.
Note to self: Copy and paste this and send it on the Biden's debate prep team.
Of course my advice to Biden would be for him to respond to any entreaties to schedule a series of debates is for him to have a press conference and state "Fuck that guy, he's a moron and a waste of my time".