I love women's basketball despite the liberal activism and political agenda of the WNBA.
It's a turn-off but I love the women's hoop action more than I dislike the silly politics.
The league is as woke as it gets when comparing it to other sports leagues.
I simply ignore the nonsense and focus on the important action between the lines.
Today, it looks as if the league's agenda is to eliminate white male coaches entirely.
How times have changed.
When the WNBA debuted in 1997, teams hired old NBA assistant coaches Richie Adubato and Ron Rothstein on the advice of David Stern to give the league "instant credibility."
In the upcoming season, only two white males are left (Mike Thibault in Washington and Curt Miller in Connecticut) as head coaches in the league and one of the them (Thibault) is on the wrong side of 70.
Connecticut head coach Curt Miller got into trouble last season (fined 10k and suspended for one game) for referencing Liz Cambage's weight -- Miller claimed 300 pounds, Cambage is listed at 216 -- when complaining to the referees.
I assume Miller built up enough credibility through the years to offset a blunder that could have resulted in his firing in this age of cancel culture.
Unfortunately, the WNBA ladies and anyone associated with the league promote diversity, but only if it aligns with their progressive agenda.
Diversity of thought doesn't matter.
A bigger criticism is reserved for
The Athletic, a left-leaning website dedicated to sports reporting.
A couple of years ago, the website dedicated itself to covering the WNBA with a reporter in every city.
The website put out a call for the best
female basketball reporters out there.
What?
The Athletic wanted to hire 12
women to cover the 12 WNBA teams.
Why not hire the 12 best reporters, regardless of sex?
Predictably, the coverage from the ladies was soft.
Few hard-hitting questions when former WNBA great Tamika Catchings floundered as General Manager in Indiana and no investigative reporting when Chennedy Carter was kicked off her team in Atlanta.
The ultimate slap to journalism came when ESPN's Holly Rowe was covering the WNBA from Bradenton, Florida.
It was the 2020 season and the league conducted a season inside a bubble, cleverly titled "The Wubble" on social media.
Rowe, always putting the players in the best possible light, was more a part of the WNBA publicity team than an independent hard-hitting reporter.
She's clearly a publicist, not an unbiased journalist.
ESPN, as a television partner of the WNBA, allows her to get away with it.
Even young journalists would recognize a problem with the championship photo (pictured below) of the 2020 Seattle Storm.
What is Holly Rowe doing in the championship photo?
Embarrassing.
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