> Women’s soccer in Spain is exploding in popularity—despite the decades of patriarchal abuse and mismanagement. As the players glow in their triumph, they also need to seize the opportunity to change the soccer culture, to make Spanish soccer hostile to the sexists and ensure women’s soccer gets the resources—and the coaching—they deserve.

#DavidZirin on #WomensSoccer #JenniferHermoso #Rubiales
#WomensSoccerInSpain

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/spain-world-cup-hermoso/

> If somebody’s getting beat up, you should be right there getting beat up, too. I think that our[white people's] role in this is tremendous, because we benefit so much, and we have benefited so much, and there’s yet to be a true national reckoning and acknowledgement and admission to what we did in the past and what we continue to do.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/megan-rapinoe-retirement/
#DavidZirin #ZIrin with #Rapinoe #MeganRapinoe #RaceRelations #USA #TakeTheKnew #TakingTheKnee #ColinKaepernick #Kaepernick

> The Bob McNairs and John Elways of the world hate the idea of a freethinking, openly anti-racist player more than they love the idea of winning a Super Bowl. That damns this league as much as hiding concussion data and ignoring instances of violence against women. It’s more evidence that the league’s moral compass points in one direction.. toward remaking this country in their political image.. where billionaires make.. us.. salute on demand.
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-nfl-owners-who-would-rather-lose/
#DavidZirin #NFLowners

> ... 59 minutes after the fact, after the players and coaches made the decision for him, #RogerGoodell, the #NFL commissioner, announced that the game would be postponed.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/nfl-damar-hamlin-buffalo-bills-cincinnati-bengals/
#DavidZirin #AmericanFootball