As someone who's tried to get back into shape by playing, it's much much more effective to lift weights and run. The Wall Street Journal article talks about her iron deficiency, and the USTA request is listed as "slimming down and getting in better shape" in one place and focus on "fitness" in another place.

Sure. But they're not mutually exclusive either. What else would she be doing when not going to tournaments? You lose weight by training.

Juniors rankings don't matter and nobody cares about them - USTA thinks she could be a future Grand Slam winner in adult events. They're pushing her towards that goal. They think her time would be better spent training and improving than beating up on girls who can't return her serves.

A lot of players on the cusp of the juniors/pro circuit skip juniors events to train for pro events. Her coaches think her time would be better spent training than playing against more juniors, so they won't pay for her to go.

Top spot for Juniors. That's very different than competing against adults, and they think she has the potential to win Grand Slams eventually - but that her being out of shape is holding her back.

Number 1 against Juniors. "We have one goal in mind: For her to be playing in [Arthur Ashe Stadium] in the main draw and competing for major titles" - McEnroe.

I believe the theory behind it is that if you win the case, you get the money back.

Because we spent millions and millions of dollars supporting Lance Armstrong back in the day, since his cycling team was sponsored by US Postal. The allegations here are fraud-related.

He's absolutely guilty. But it doesn't really matter, because pretty much everyone who finished top-10 in one of those Tours has already been convicted and found guilty of doping themselves. Vacating the Tour wins is a joke and everyone in cycling knows it - Jan Ullrich, who stands to "win" three of those, retired…

Women in archery use bows that require less force to draw back, are less stable, and therefore less accurate.

And there are mens and womens divisions in that, so canceling it makes no sense. And there are no motors. Cyclocross!

People take offense to it because it is historically/typically said in an incredibly offensive manner as a slur. Like "chink" or "Paki"

Because it has a very specific connotation in recent US history as a slur.

I think you missed the part where I said "Let's say Serena Williams is much better at tennis than she is."

The sponsorships and recognition are also a great point - especially with regards to a) improving their own times and b) inspiring the next generation of athletes.

What kind of performance-based metrics are there? Track and swimming are all about speed. Do you have a division for people who have never run under 11 seconds in the 100m dash? That doesn't make any sense.

But what about overall participation at high levels of the sport? Let's say Serena Williams is much better at tennis than she is, and could make the quarterfinals of a men's Grand Slam, and tennis is considered "integrated." Instead of going from a tour of 300 men and 200 women (for instance), you get a tour of maybe…

It's not incidental contact, it's accidental contact. It clearly had an affect on Morgan's goalscoring attempt. Should have been a card.

Yes, it's called Grindr.

Katie Baker is referring to a causal relationship. She acknowledged in the article that there is a correlation. But there are so many other confounding factors, like the dissent mentions, that they have not been able to show a *causal* relationship between abortion and suicide.