Lol, call me a sceptic, but I don’t think that hurdling picture is real. It’s more like a photoshop dream come true. Hurdling over the first hurdle would have make her crash right into the second one, in high heels! no less.

The opposite is true with ESPN’s decision. If the similarity between baseball and softball (‘softball is baseball for girls’) is in fact a stereotype, then the people at ESPN fell for it by hiring Mendoza under the pretense that a softball player is basically a female baseball player and thus knows baseball.

Those two are not analysts, they are the play-by-play guys. In the NFL booth, Buck is the play-by-play guy, Troy Aikman is the analyst. Big difference.

You’ve missed the point completely, but I guess you’ve just needed to rant. The whole point of the article was to prove, that softball ISN’T like baseball, only for girls! If that claim was true, then hiring a softball player to analyze baseball games wouldn’t have made much sense. You tried to prove to me, that…

List a few analysts in professional sports who didn’t play or coach on the highest level of said sport (football, baseball, hockey, soccer, basketball...). I can’t think of anyone.

Oh great. So revenge porn laws should not apply to women exclusively, only to men, since you think leaking this sex tape was such a great idea?

To my knowledge, there are no female NFL football analysts cuz there is no pool of former female NFL players/coaches to hire from.

Announcers are usually journalists, analysts are always former players/coaches.

You mean other than two teams trying to carry/pass a ball into an end zone or kicking it between two uprights?

“The sport—often stereotyped as baseball, but for girls”

Where do you get Mirage? Her real name is Maraj. Who said anything about the quality of her music? Isn’t that the whole point, that Calvin Harris is the most successful DJ in the world (full disclosure - I don’t care a bit about EDM), yet he gets chided for his stage name. How petty is that? Oh, whatever!

Did she also go by the last name Minaj instead of Maraj since childhood days? Oh I forgot, the porn name. So the woman who has both butt and breast implants, sprays cream on her boobs in videos and is known for her raunchy lyrics (and why not) would be too virtuous to go with a porn-y name like Maraj but Nicki Minaj…

So why not go with Onika Maraj? That definitely doesn’t sound like a porn name. It also sounds less American than *Nicki* Minaj.

Why the snark? Oh, I get it, they committed the ultimate crime - singing and dancing while white!

Nicki Minaj’s real name is Onika Tanya Maraj. I wonder why she changed it from Onika to Nicki? Could it be, that she wanted to have success in good old ‘Murica and thought maybe Nicki sounded catchier and less exotic than Onika and has anyone ever called her out on it?

I’d say, as a general rule, the space occupied by a person is determined by the size of that person. It’s pretty self evident, that men are taller and bigger then women on average, so there’s that and before you can say ‘manspreading’, I’ll give you the places-her-handbag-onto-the-seat-next-to-her womanspreader.

So it was basically the patriarchy that killed her, not the fact that she got too close to the edge and didn’t watch her step?

....and after that he invented the monocle, cuz wearing glasses no longer was an option

The fact that you and so many others around here can’t stop talking about the myth that is called the‘Bernie bros’ defeats your argument. There is nothing that suggests that those ‘bros’ exist in higher numbers or are representative in any way, shape or form for his supporters. We are talking about millions of Sanders…

If you believe that a few carefully selected pro-Bernie anti-Hillary tweets is some kind of movement, intent to derail the Clinton campaign, then you belong to those who are both mathematically challenged and believe everything they read on the internet (esp. on jezebel/The Slot).