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NFL legend Tom Brady is facing criticism from former USWNT star Megan Rapinoe over his public feud with Logan Paul. Rapinoe questioned why Brady would use his platform for a rivalry she views as unnecessary.
Speaking on her podcast "Why Are You Like This?," Rapinoe discussed Brady while answering a question about the most overrated public figure she had encountered. She made clear that her criticism focused on Brady's recent behavior rather than his football career.
"Sorry to this person in advance," Rapinoe said. "But I think, especially in light of recent events, and with the platform and capital available in what is a world that needs role models."
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Rapinoe then questioned Brady's involvement in the ongoing Paul promotion. "I'm like Tom Brady, what are we doing? Why are we doing that?" she said.
#rapinoe #paul #like #questioned
Speaking on her podcast "Why Are You Like This?," Rapinoe discussed Brady while answering a question about the most overrated public figure she had encountered. She made clear that her criticism focused on Brady's recent behavior rather than his football career.
"Sorry to this person in advance," Rapinoe said. "But I think, especially in light of recent events, and with the platform and capital available in what is a world that needs role models."
MORE: Tom Brady calls out NFL players for resting during preseason
Rapinoe then questioned Brady's involvement in the ongoing Paul promotion. "I'm like Tom Brady, what are we doing? Why are we doing that?" she said.
#rapinoe #paul #like #questioned
29 days ago
Invoking a wounded innocence that their desire for sports to be simple, just like they used to be, conservatives for a decade and a half have dreaded the word "politics". Now they cannot get enough.
Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator Vic Fangio has spent 40 years in the National Football League unknown except for his defensive schemes, but last week opened his press remarks mocking the congressional testimony of Dr Anthony Fauci, jokingly invoking the Fifth Amendment before taking questions. Apropos of nothing, President Trump publicly surmised that LeBron James might be a racist. Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham is now in the act, accepting the role as the right's anti-Black, anti-transgender culture war ambassador, the role originally intended for Caitlin Clark.
If Clark has lacked the courage and dexterity to say anything beyond the milky and ambiguous, Sophie Cunningham does not suffer from such internal conflicts. Largely anonymous politically or otherwise during her eight-year career, Cunningham – she of the viral finger-point which has been adopted as a symbol of the white animosity toward the WNBA culture – is in her moment. Her comments in a lengthy 21 July ESPN profile stating her opposition to transgender athletes has earned her hero status of the specious "Protect Our Girls" movement, even though you'd need a microscope to find any critical mass of transgender women participating in sports at any level.
Cunningham plays role of the blithe and bubbly iconoclast, oblivious to the world around as she unapologetically speaks her truths, but she is every bit as political as Colin Kaepernick, Megan Rapinoe, or her locked-armed, T-shirt wearing colleagues that defined the WNBA when she first entered the league in 2019. Cunningham forged a tough, take-no-prisoners-without-taking-herself-too-seriously persona, but was too meek to address the toxic roots of her newfound fame.
So too, was ESPN, which waited nearly 75 paragraphs just to sidestep the foundation of Cunningham's rise: she is profiting from cultural fractures that may be good for her but are tearing her league apart:
#cunningham #WNBA #invoking #sports
Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator Vic Fangio has spent 40 years in the National Football League unknown except for his defensive schemes, but last week opened his press remarks mocking the congressional testimony of Dr Anthony Fauci, jokingly invoking the Fifth Amendment before taking questions. Apropos of nothing, President Trump publicly surmised that LeBron James might be a racist. Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham is now in the act, accepting the role as the right's anti-Black, anti-transgender culture war ambassador, the role originally intended for Caitlin Clark.
If Clark has lacked the courage and dexterity to say anything beyond the milky and ambiguous, Sophie Cunningham does not suffer from such internal conflicts. Largely anonymous politically or otherwise during her eight-year career, Cunningham – she of the viral finger-point which has been adopted as a symbol of the white animosity toward the WNBA culture – is in her moment. Her comments in a lengthy 21 July ESPN profile stating her opposition to transgender athletes has earned her hero status of the specious "Protect Our Girls" movement, even though you'd need a microscope to find any critical mass of transgender women participating in sports at any level.
Cunningham plays role of the blithe and bubbly iconoclast, oblivious to the world around as she unapologetically speaks her truths, but she is every bit as political as Colin Kaepernick, Megan Rapinoe, or her locked-armed, T-shirt wearing colleagues that defined the WNBA when she first entered the league in 2019. Cunningham forged a tough, take-no-prisoners-without-taking-herself-too-seriously persona, but was too meek to address the toxic roots of her newfound fame.
So too, was ESPN, which waited nearly 75 paragraphs just to sidestep the foundation of Cunningham's rise: she is profiting from cultural fractures that may be good for her but are tearing her league apart:
#cunningham #WNBA #invoking #sports
1 month ago
Former U.S. Women's National Team star Megan Rapinoe said Tuesday that efforts to bar transgender athletes from competing in women's sports amount to "an attack on women in society," arguing the debate extends far beyond questions of fairness in athletic competition.
Appearing on ABC's "The View," Rapinoe dismissed arguments that restrictions on transgender athletes are primarily about protecting girls and women's sports.
Instead, she argued, opponents are using the issue as part of a broader campaign against women's empowerment.
"They're going after trans people in sports, and they're using this as a wedge issue because we love sports. And, you know, we don't want our little girls to be unsafe in sports. And it's like, 'Unsafe from who? But OK,'" Rapinoe said.
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#sports #using
Appearing on ABC's "The View," Rapinoe dismissed arguments that restrictions on transgender athletes are primarily about protecting girls and women's sports.
Instead, she argued, opponents are using the issue as part of a broader campaign against women's empowerment.
"They're going after trans people in sports, and they're using this as a wedge issue because we love sports. And, you know, we don't want our little girls to be unsafe in sports. And it's like, 'Unsafe from who? But OK,'" Rapinoe said.
California Billionaire Tom Steyer Defends Trans Athletes In High School Sports As Governor's Race Heats Up
#sports #using
1 month ago
U.S. women's national team legend Megan Rapinoe said the U.S. men's national team had a good vibe at the 2026 World Cup — until Donald Trump got involved.
Earlier this month, the U.S. president revealed he pushed FIFA president Gianni Infantino to reverse Folarin Balogun's red card suspension ahead of the Belgium match in the round of 16.
Though Infantino has insisted that Trump did not influence FIFA's Disciplinary Committee, which operates independently, Balogun's suspension was lifted at the 11th hour in controversial fashion.
Even with its best forward available, the USMNT turned in a dismal performance against Belgium, losing 4-1 to crash out of the tournament.
"It didn't give them the boost that they were thinking it would or that Trump was hoping that it would," Rapinoe said on The Daily Show this week. "It seemed like it threw them off their game."
#Belgium #national #team #president
Earlier this month, the U.S. president revealed he pushed FIFA president Gianni Infantino to reverse Folarin Balogun's red card suspension ahead of the Belgium match in the round of 16.
Though Infantino has insisted that Trump did not influence FIFA's Disciplinary Committee, which operates independently, Balogun's suspension was lifted at the 11th hour in controversial fashion.
Even with its best forward available, the USMNT turned in a dismal performance against Belgium, losing 4-1 to crash out of the tournament.
"It didn't give them the boost that they were thinking it would or that Trump was hoping that it would," Rapinoe said on The Daily Show this week. "It seemed like it threw them off their game."
#Belgium #national #team #president
