That Was The Week That Was In Links, January 24
Some stuff I’ve consumed and items of note…
Some stuff I’ve consumed and items of note…
A study finds that people who don't watch women's sports and/or think women’s sports are less deserving of media attention than men's sports and/or think women should prioritize adhering to traditional beauty/femininity standards are more likely to oppose transgender women's inclusion in women's sports. “The researchers were particularly interested in whether opposition to transgender athletes’ rights and support for sex testing in sports among U.S. adults stemmed from genuine support for women’s sports or was more influenced by adherence to traditional gender norms, idealized views of women’s physical appearances, and homophobic attitudes.” Turns out it’s usually the latter.
Dave Zirin interviewed one of the authors of The End of College Football, which explores “how football is both predicated on a foundation of coercion and suffused with racialized harm and exploitation,” in this podcast episode.
The folks at 5-4 explain how the Supreme Court is responsible for online sports gambling being all over your sports-consuming experience now. (note: I gamble–actually responsibly–on sports through an app; I also think it’s a huge problem that I or anyone else can have a casino in their pocket.)
Nancy Armour on ESPN allowing President Trump inexplicable airtime during the College Football National Championship and the hypocrisy of those who say “stick to sports”: “There is a portion of our society, though, that claims it doesn’t like to see politics in sports. What they really mean, though, is they don’t like to see the politics they don’t like in sports. And they especially don’t like to see the politics they don’t like in sports from Black and brown or LGBTQ people.”
Jesse Dougherty on how Trump’s second term might impact the already “chaos” of college athletics: “Yet college sports, from top to bottom, have maybe never had a less certain future, making the coming year critical. Some of that will be directly related to Trump and a Republican-controlled Congress. But the lawsuits also continue, meaning the foundation of college sports could be rocked — and rocked, and rocked — from many different directions.”
The NCAA added women’s wrestling as an official sport.
Weekend.
