Running racism in America thread

The detector is just fine.

The story was ridiculous.

 

Here's the problem: Caroline Williams is the senior director of communications for USA women's hoops. She'll be replaced after these Olympics and the messaging will become more inclusive and diverse so that America embraces the '24 Olympic ballers should the team be heavily Black.

 

without clicking, is that a Julie Di Cairo column?

 

That was my guess. It's from Carron J. Phillips

 

They try just as hard, etc. etc.
But I'm guessing the reason the women's soccer team gets more pub is they play in the World Cup AND the Olys. And Nike cares more about women's soccer than women's hoops.

 

There is a story if Deadspin did some actual work.

 

Carron J. Phillips has one column theme: racial grievance, real or imagined. Nice work if you can get it.

 

There very likely is, but as used is such an apples to oranges comparison.

Soccer, while the U.S. women are by no doubts the top team, is more of a world sport and thus has a little more competition. That is why the U.S. doesn't have a clean slate over the last 25 years. As was mentioned, there is a World Cup, where the entire focus is on that, in addition to an Olympic tournament, which is much smaller in scale for at least a single sport. They also play year round. The U.S. women basketball team is so, so dominant that people just shrug it off like, yeah, we know they are going to win every game big again. The soccer team, while almost always going to be the favorite, could actually lose a late-round game. There is at least a bit of intrigue there. In all honesty, the same happens to the men in basketball. There is not really a huge interest in how they do in the Olympics unless things get tight, then we criticize, which I suppose is a whole other story.

 

Yes the white supremacists are flocking to support the men's team because of all the white players on the roster.

 

Anti-critical race theory parents reportedly object to teaching Ruby Bridges book

 

Totally aberrant upsets (especially including ties) are more common in soccer simply because of the inherent lack of scoring.

In soccer, it is utterly common that an obviously superior team can completely control play for 88 minutes and lead 1-0, then a ball takes a bad bounce or somebody falls down, and kaboom.