The women got a higher % of revenue off the WC than the men did...obviously that is a much smaller figure in dollars. The women also get benefits and a guaranteed salary - in fact, if you at the list of highest paid employees on US Soccers last financial form the only players are from the USWNT (~$250k). Because they…

I don’t think the USSF is a public entity. They’re not government run or publicly funded, I don’t think. I don’t have much of an opinion on the pay issue but we shouldn’t kid ourselves that international sports are anything other than a business. 

fortnite earned $2.4 billion in 2018.  The women’s world cup generated about $75 million in revenue.

a game check handed to a member of the USMNT is larger than a game check handed to a member of the USWNT, when it should not be, if for no other reason than that the job is the same.

hot take:

Look, if you think his (alledged) behavior disqualifies him from the public conversation, that’s fine. It’s a validate POV -a lot of people think that and you are not alone...

Luckily the team here can follow their “ignore it til it goes away" playbook from the Greg Howard situation.

As someone who works in the auto industry, this is terribly mis-informed. First of all, you absolutely can’t make the car perfectly safe for the entire range of human body types. Vehicles aren’t very safe for people over 6'2" either, but the article doesn’t mention that.

You know, Boonie is on to something here. For as Rousseau said in his Discourse on Inequality, “In fact, the real source of all those differences, is that the savage lives within himself, whereas the citizen, constantly beside himself, knows only how to live in the opinion of others.” That is, in “the box” the batter…

This is a beautiful and thoughtful rant. But. Politics is the study of who gets what, when, where, and how. That’s what politics are. Gun rights are “political” because the conversation revolves around, among other things, who can own a gun, where s/he can carry it, how s/he can display it, and so on and so on.…

I’m sure the PGA Tour is run by a bunch of out of touch white men as well, but it is worth mentioning that the PGA Championship is not run by the PGA Tour. It’s run by the PGA of America. They are different organizations.

Likewise, the Masters is also not run by the PGA Tour. It is a separate tournament run by The…

I’m fine with players in any sport speaking their mind, advocating for what they believe in, and trying to help bring about whatever change they wish. Some of the greatest have moved the social needle, and not just color barriers with regards to Jackie Robinson/Willie O’ree/Fritz Pollard, but also great men and women…

Ah, how refreshing to again read the old Deadspin trope that a failure to comment is a tacit endorsement of the thing you don’t like. For some of us, sports are an escape. I get enough politics in my everyday life, and I’m more than happy to see a sports organization decline to comment every time Twitter blows up.…

I dunno Drew. I want sports commentators to stick to sports because they are grossly and wholly out of their knowledge and depth when they don’t. I don’t need nor want most of the chuds who write about sports for a living to write about politics with the same lack of skill.

The article seems to be about how narrative around this crime dehumanizes her, but then it does nothing to counteract that.

Sorry, I was going to comment sooner, but I kept accidentally clicking on Kinja Deals stories.

She has 4.6 million twitter followers, but only represents the 15,897 people of the 27,+ that voted for her in her district. She won by 15%. She in no way has a “mandate” to speak for the majority of America.

I prefer the one with Kermit and Tim Curry

Gizmodo has that effect on all the brands they acquire.

This article makes me feel truly ashamed of what AV Club has become.