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Megan Rapinoe has taken women’s athletics 180 degrees in the wrong direction from the polite, wholesome Chris Evert Lloyd-type athlete of yesteryear. She’s done this by speaking social justice truth to power. Demonstrating a level of hubris putting LeBron James to shame, this everywoman says she just might be president one day.

Pay no attention to the men walking off with the women’s sports trophies, say LGBT activists. It’s a non-issue, they insist. Despite their denials, the controversy will flare up to new heights this summer at the Olympics in Tokyo. There, Laurel Hubbard, of New Zealand, is expected to be the first transgender athlete in Olympic history.

Eighty-thousand evangelical Christian men are gathering for a Promise Keepers rally in Dallas July 16-17 to “mainstream hate speech.” They’re cloaking bigotry as religious freedom.

The International Olympic Committee gets it. People don’t want social justice nonsense in sports, and the IOC won’t tolerate displays like “Black Lives Matter” at the Summer Games in Tokyo beginning July 23.

The super woke students of Cornell University continue to defend a 'BIPOC-only' rock-climbing class after an online uproar.

Deadspin has rudely downgraded Caitlyn Jenner from transgender icon to Republican villain. In 2015, Jenner was hailed by Deadspin as a more than fitting recipient of ESPN’s Arthur Ashe Award for Courage, but the honeymoon is definitely over. Now Jenner is trash because the California gubernatorial hopeful says it’s unfair for boys to compete in girls’ sports.

Befitting a Ripley’s Believe It Or Not entry, Time magazine included the fast-fading National Basketball Association in its list of the 100 most influential companies. Didn't get the memo, Time? This is a company in public approval freefall.

After all these years, Time Tebow is still living rent-free in the heads of lefty sportswriters. Tebow Derangement Syndrome reared its ugly head again today. Deadspin race-baiter Rob Parker declared Tebow “white privilege royalty” because the Jacksonville Jaguars gave him a tryout.

Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Will Cain let LeBron James have it with both barrels Wednesday. Cain told Outkick host Clay Travis that the woke NBA superstar is America’s “most destructive force” on American race relations.

The NFL draft starts Thursday night, and ESPN has practically turned the draft order of quarterbacks into a race war. Martenzie Johnson fired the first shot, calling the NFL a “racial institution,” in his ESPN blog post. Max Kellerman predicted an onslaught of white privilege in the draft, on the ESPN First Take TV program.

Ignoring pressure from woke U.S. athletes for the freedom to protest, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is standing firm against social justice madness. Washington Post left-streamer Kevin Blackistone predicts the IOC ban will only empower the radicals at the Summer Games in Tokyo.

A federal judge in Connecticut on Sunday dismissed a lawsuit by Alliance Defending Freedom against state policy allowing boys to intrude upon girls’ sports. SB Nation Outsports could not contain its contempt for the “hateful” Christian religious liberty group representing female plaintiffs against fake girls.

UFC President Dana White doesn’t back down from any fights, especially not with the media. In a recent interview on Wednesday's Colin Cowherd Podcast, the Ultimate Fighting Championship President trashed the media as being “full of sh--” when asked whether or not UFC needs the media.

GOP members of Congress on Thursday confirmed fast-shrinking Republican approval of Major League Baseball. They sent MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred a letter demanding documents about its politically motivated decision to remove the 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta and information about its antitrust exemption.