#the sports casters

[pieplease]

Underrated overall film? Surfs Up (2007)

Underrated Music Score? SURFS UP (2007)

Underappreciated comedy????? Surfs UP (2007)!!!!!

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Olympics AU: Rachel Elizabeth Dare 💚 and Lester Papadopoulos ☀️

[probablyasocialecologist]

Champion runner Caster Semenya won a potentially landmark legal decision for sports on Tuesday when the European Court of Human Rights decided she was discriminated against by rules in track and field that force her to medically reduce her natural hormone levels to compete in major competitions.

But the two-time Olympic champion’s success after her two failed appeals in sports’ highest court in 2019 and the Swiss supreme court in 2020 came with a major caveat. The ruling didn’t strike down the rules and the world track and field body said soon after it was released that the contentious testosterone regulations would “remain in place.”

[pirateprincessjess]

What's unprepared casters? Sounds like a show I need to watch!

It’s an amazing podcast that does shorter self contained dnd arcs, so you can jump in at any point with needing to catch up! There’s some interconnectivity between arcs, but for the most part they are all self contained stories that you can listen to without any context! That way you can jump in where you want!

I would recommend arc 9 since that’s the one I was on, but I also really adore arc 4 (it’s my favorite DnD podcast story I’ve ever listened to).

It’s on all major podcast platforms!

[justinssportscorner]

Lisa Needham at Public Notice:

Donald Trump and JD Vance spent the 2024 election spewing the most rank transphobia, a tactic that should have made them pariahs but instead helped win them the presidency. Even though they haven’t taken office yet, their victory seems to have emboldened Republicans like Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to go all out in their attacks on trans people. Trump’s transphobia is often focused on trans athletes, and Paxton is following his lead by suing the NCAA in Texas state court under the state’s Deceptive Trade Practices Act. His allegation is that the NCAA is somehow swindling Texas sports fans by allowing trans athletes to compete in women’s sporting events. Texas’s Deceptive Trade Practices Act prohibits false, misleading, or deceptive acts in commerce. According to Paxton, the NCAA is misleading sports fans by advertising women’s sporting events when there are actually “biological males” competing. Or, as the lawsuit explains, the NCAA is “lead[ing] consumers to believe that they are purchasing goods and services associated with biological sex-based sporting events.” While rightwing weirdos might be attending NCAA games because of their deep desire to associate only with “biological sex-based sporting events,” the rest of the world watches women’s sports because they enjoy watching them.

The complaint rolls out four more counts, each fixating on a different bit of language from the Deceptive Trade Practices Act. At root, they’re all the same accusation: the NCAA is deceiving consumers by referring to women’s sports because it allows trans athletes to compete in some events. Of course, for people not consumed with a fixation on genitals, the term “women’s sports” includes trans women, because they are women. It only makes sense if you first grant Texas’s transphobic premise that there is no such thing as a trans woman playing a sport — only a “biological male” who has invaded a women’s team. Ostensibly, this lawsuit is just about stopping trans athletes from competing in women’s sports in Texas (or outside Texas if a Texas team is involved). But what it really represents is a chance for the state to spread its transphobia across the country.

Everyone knows that the GOP has made transphobia one of the centerpieces of its messaging, with the explicit goal of running trans people out of public life altogether. They’ve particularly fixated on trans women athletes, declaring that it is their deep love for the sanctity of women’s sports that drives them. So, it’s not surprising that Republicans have been demanding that the NCAA entirely ban trans athletes from competing.

But here’s the thing. There are roughly 510,000 NCAA athletes. And, according to the president of the NCAA, there are fewer than 10 trans athletes total. Even if all of these efforts to “protect” women’s sports were in good faith, this would still be a solution in search of a problem. Needless to say, these efforts are not in good faith, which is why, for example, the state’s complaint won’t even use the term trans woman or trans athlete, instead calling them men or “biological males.” It’s why there are dozens of paragraphs about athletes who are not trans, are not NCAA athletes, and are not even American athletes, like Caster Semenya and Imane Khelif. Invoking Semenya, a South African runner, and Khelif, an Algerian boxer, is a favorite tactic of transphobic right-wingers, sending the not-so-subtle message that they will police the gender of anyone they deem insufficiently female.

[...] The state wants the court to permanently bar the NCAA from allowing trans women to compete in women’s sporting events. In the alternative, they’ll take forcing the NCAA to stop using the term “women” for sporting events where trans women can compete if the event is in Texas or involves Texas teams. As far as protecting the sacred womanhood of sports, or whatever it is Paxton is pretending he is doing here, this lawsuit is entirely unnecessary. Texas already bans trans athletes from participating in collegiate sports in the state. But that’s not enough for Texas. It wants to reach into other states — states that may have laws that protect trans people — and impose a trans athlete ban if there’s a Texas team playing.

Texas’s culture wars-obsessed weirdo AG Ken Paxton (R) files a frivolous lawsuit against the NCAA over phony claims that the organization is “deceiving” people by using the term “women’s sports” when a trans woman is competing. This lawsuit is about eliminating trans people from public life fully and not a darn thing about “protecting” the “sanctity” of women’s sports.

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cats won a cup and thats means now south florida gets free hockey broadcasted locally WE ARE A HOCKEYTOWN

[butchlifeguard]

im so glad other people think carini was being a fucking asshole lmao. i didnt wanna detract from one of the posts i reblogged but i have to say that she takes punches for a living. some sources were acting like khalif put her in DANGER. with a single punch from someone in her own weight class?? yall are setting women back 80 years i fucking swear. not to mention the nasty intersexism targeted at khalif, doubly so because shes a black woman, and the misdirected transphobia from grifters like jkr

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Thought: Lester’s nickname from when he did archery should be Apollo! Because of how good he was! And now people call him and Rachel Apollo and the Oracle because of the thing with her predicting the athletes moves and and him already being nicknamed Apollo! Or something like that!

I really like this! And it fits into their canon identities perfectly. Almost, as if, I planned it that way 🩷 I’m so happy you agree it fits!

I love the idea of them both getting nicknames for being so good at what they do.

[synthient]

Greatest feminist minds of our generation are now bringing us "womanhood is a disability"

[pirateprincessjess]

are you gonna be on UC?! I’d love to see you on the show!! That would be a dream come true!

Oh wow I have some good news for you! I was actually already on Unprepared Casters! I’m on arc 9, and I’m on the last two trans lifeline streams they did!

[maslows-pyramid-scheme]

It’s a bit dishonest to claim the ‘ban’ is discriminatory; the guidelines do not ban transgender women from all sporting events, as it’s been reported on in some countries, but only from sporting events in the female category. Transgender women are not female, so why should they be permitted to compete in the female category?

I think one of the major problems around the ‘debate’ is the infantilisation of female athletes. We’re not seen as talented or capable as our male athletic counterparts, so our athletes and achieved can be framed as being about ‘inclusion’ and ‘fun’ and ‘artistic’ (rather than ‘competitive’ or ‘serious’ or ‘thrilling’).

I think one of the other major problems around the ‘debate’ is the willingness of well-minded people to ignore how sex differences practically play out in patriarchy (or, in other words, people are just too ‘sex-blind’). Of course female and male athletes have different sporting capacities - our sports aren’t ‘gender-neutral’/’body-neutral’ - they’re designed to show-case male bodies!

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I listened to the arc 2 ep 0 and I forgot that orbula was introduced in arc 2! Ash slept with a pro orbula player and stole his magic orbula bracers!

[b00bstone]

Bruh sick brain is messing with me so much I ordered dominos and I saw the estimated delivery time was getting shorter and I was like oh they’re going faster than they thought how nice

I forgot about the passage of time

I forgot time was passing and that’s why the estimated delivery time was getting closer.

[rulesforthedance]

Basically sports are never going to be a Totally Fair And Equal playing field where the only thing that determines your success is how hard you work because there are always going to be a million different types of bodies and genetic potentials in any category you might think to create. AND it is worth having SOME categories to make sports a little closer to fair and give more people a chance to be competitive. But the categories people choose to obsessively, rigidly police, the things about which people will say "THIS thing has to be EXACTLY EQUAL, nevermind all the other things that are not equal that I will never mention"... are. Telling

[jopzer]

being crazy about ted lasso and bg3 at the same time is making me kinda crazy i think. doing dnd shit to those soccer guys in my brain