President Obama Doesn’t Care About Athletic People
Have you ever been asleep, only to be subconsciously jarred awake by a loud noise? Then while you’re lying there, dazed and still half-slumbering, it occurs to you that you may have dreamed the loud noise that supposedly woke you up in the first place?
That weary, displaced emotion is what I’ve been feeling about our president ever since the baseball All-Star Game. Something ain’t quite right. It’s unsettling. And it’s only getting worse.
I’m beginning to think that he isn’t really all that into sports.
Why Are Women’s Sports Failing?
This post does not suggest that women don’t have a place in professional sports. It does ask what exactly that place is, especially given sports’ current climate.
You Might Want To Sit Down For This: Five Reasons Cheerleading Is A Sport
If someone spending six hours a day being tossed in the air and flip-twirling (or perhaps twirl-flipping) called themselves a gymnast-athlete, you’d not likely bat an eyelash (or perhaps flip-twirl an eyelash?) at this label. But what if someone who did these same activities called themselves a cheerleader-athlete? Would that change anything? Would you accept the “athlete” portion of the cheerleader’s claim?
Mercury Falling, LifeLock Rising, pt. 2
By now it’s no longer big news that LifeLock will be sponsoring the Phoenix Mercury, placing their name and logo boldly across the players’ fronts, leaving no room for things of lesser importance such as the city the team resides in or the team’s actual name. I hope they thought long and hard about this and how they’ve doomed themselves to become known as the LifeLock Mercury from this point on. But it’s not all bad to accept the sponsorship and ride them as far as they’ll take you, which is why I gave the Eastern Conference teams some suggestions of who they might want to hit up as a better alternative to batting their lashes and asking daddy for a loan. Or selling candy bars door to door.
Mercury Falling, LifeLock Rising, Pt. 1
The WNBA Phoenix Mercury, have announced a deal with LifeLock, the identity theft protection company, that will involve LifeLock essentially buying out the rights to the name plastered across their jerseys. No more “Phoenix Mercury,” say hello to the “LifeLock Mercury.” (Actually, both “Phoenix” and “Mercury” will be taking at least a three-year hiatus from their jerseys in light of this sponsorship deal, but we have to call them something.)
