Butch Female Soccer Player Likes Springsteen (Shocker!)
In honor of the recent passing of both the United States’ 235th birthday as well as one of the most thrilling ends to a U.S. soccer game Sunday afternoon against Brazil, here is Megan Rapinoe coming close to being cool for a second:
The Good Thing That Turned Into A Relatively Bad Thing On The Scale Of Good Things
Three years ago, a high school cheerleader accused a member of her school’s football and basketball team of raping her. When she refused to cheer for him, she was kicked off the team and later lost her court case after she sued over it. On top of that, she was told she had to cough up the district’s $45,000 legal fees. Assuming you believe the victim, how much would you donate to help her pay those fees? Okay, what if we threw in a picture of you wearing tights and a cape?
The Closest You’re Gonna Get To A Furry Fetish Story Today…Probably
The good news is that in the last month, the U.K. has decreased its number of female mascots by just one. The bad news is that she represented 100 percent of Britain’s female mascots.
To be clear, we’re talking about the person inside the fuzzy suits when we say “female mascots.” To my knowledge there is only one female character representative of a sports team and that’s the Stanford Tree.*
The Indy 500: 199/200 Laps of Boring Repetition
Dan Wheldon won. J.R. Hildebrand didn’t. And it all came down to a matter of feet. Because we here at SportScape like to suss things out, we transcribed the microphone inside Hildebrand’s Indy car.
We were all surprised at his love of Kanye West.
French Soccer: Racism Free (Except For The Ways In Which It Is Not)
Two weeks ago, French website Mediapart released a report accusing members of the French Football Federation’s National Technical Board of racial discrimination. The site asserted that a 30 percent limit of young, developing French Colonial North African players would even be considered for the national team.
