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The Ohio GOP would like to ‘inspect’ your daughters’ genitalsOhio’s ban on trans youth in sports is the epitome of the conservative culture war on the LGBTQ community. Their obsession has reached pathological levels. Last week, Ohio’s Republican-dominated House approved a bill requiring genital inspections to prevent transgender female athletes from competing...

Tell me something I don’t know, CamBeing a woman and a sports fan means looking at your phone first thing every morning and steeling yourself for the repeated punches to the gut....

Northwestern doesn’t take women seriouslyBack in February, when 80 faculty members — all female — wrote a heartfelt letter to the powers that be, begging the school to meaningfully address sexism and racism on campus, and specifically in the athletic department, Northwestern University assured them that the school “fully appreciated” their...

Claressa Shields has an unrelenting desire to prove all of you wrong

Claressa Shields was getting her hair done when we spoke. Not because she was celebrating the holidays. She was preparing for war....

Dear Cris Collinsworth, I have some <i>really specific questions</i> about your sexism

I would love to put Cris Collinsworth’s latest gaffe in the long list of things that have sucked about 2020, but the truth is, women working in sports hear this kind of ignorant tripe all the time, even from men in our industry, no matter what year it is....

My Twitter fight with Trevor Bauer

Trevor Bauer and I both worked in Toronto during the 2016 American League Championship Series. One of us made it all the way through Game 3 without bleeding all over the place from a cut sustained while working on a drone and forcing our boss to replace us....

Lindsey Vonn schusses (get it?) bigots, talks depression, love, Covid & how she almost drove for Formula One

Lindsey Vonn opened up on In Depth with Graham Bensinger this week on a wide array of topics, including depression, having a pandemic wipe out your wedding, and dealing with hate for being in an interracial relationship....

When Jason Whitlock opens his gaping maw, the abyss stares back at you

Much like Skip Bayless, the person he used to sit next to before that became yet another gig in the litany he’s fucked up and lost, Jason Whitlock’s purpose in media and in life is merely to billow pollution. It doesn’t really matter what it’s about or how marooned it is from logical or defendable, ...