Oklahoma softball capped off a historic, record-breaking season on Thursday night, and the players gave all the glory to God on national television.
In a 3-1 victory, the Sooners swept Florida State in a best-of-three series to win the their third straight national title live on ESPN.
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โ Oklahoma Softball (@OU_Softball) June 9, 2023
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โ Oklahoma Softball (@OU_Softball) June 9, 2023
Oklahoma ended its one-loss season on a 53-game win streak, which is good enough for the winningest season in NCAA history.
The team has won six championships in the last 10 seasons while head coach Patty Gasso has won seven titles in total at the helm of the program since the year 2000.
But there was something extra special about this yearโs team, which went 61-1 and took a lot of flak from critics for its attitude.
The ladies spent the season celebrating walks with the same enthusiasm as home runsย -- of which there were plenty. Given their on-field dominance, those celebrations from this Sooners team always felt justified.
But after Oklahoma beat up its conference rivals in the regular season and run-ruled others out of the park in the 2023 WCWS, the players always ended each game with a humble prayer.
On the biggest stage on ESPN Thursday and after its grittiest victory to date, the team didnโt flinch in regard to showing where its priorities were.
The Sooners and the Seminoles came together for a prayer that ESPN cameras caught some of:
Sophomore pitcher Jordy Bahl was asked later about being named this yearโs WCWS most outstanding player after the game.
Bahl passed on taking a personal victory lap and instead credited God.
โIt doesnโt matter how it really ends because all of the efforts and the glory is given to the Lord all the same,โ she said. โIโm speaking on behalf of our entire team. We all feel that same exact way.โ
Later, catcher Kinzie Hansen was asked how she is able to constantly deliver, given the sky-high expectations of her and the rest of the team.
โI know I have Jesus on my side,โ she said. โAll of us do.โ
Gasso, a vocal Christian, has put together an amazing program with a talented roster that is made up of women who put Christ first and let everything else fall into place where it may.
Just look at how three Oklahoma players addressed the media earlier this week when they were asked about facing a talented team in Florida State:
This is what happens when the joy of the Lord is your strength. #BoomerSooner #WCWS pic.twitter.com/bCye4GHqef
โ Virgil Walker (@VirgilWalkerOMA) June 7, 2023
Shortstop Grace Lyons was asked by ESPN on June 6 how the team remained joyful and anxiety-free with a target on its back.
Lyons responded, โThe only way that you can have a joy that doesnโt fade away is from the Lord. Any other type of joy is actually happiness that comes from circumstances and outcomes.โ
These ladies arenโt just winners on the field, nor can they be defined simply by their penchant for breaking records or for being fun to watch.
This historic Sooners team is made up of extraordinary young women who each witness for Christ at every opportunity.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
That sound you heard on Tuesday was the collective gasp of golf fans across the world when news broke that the PGA Tour and LIV Golf, ostensibly bitter rivals, would be merging into one massive entity governing professional golf.
Given the amount of mud slung between the two bodies, the move -- which the PGA described as "a landmark agreement to unify the game of golf" -- is the rough equivalent of Democrats and Republicans suddenly announcing a new, super uni-party.
Speaking of Republicans, that other sound you likely heard on Tuesday was a chuckle emanating from the 45th president of the United States. Why?
Because, while most people are still picking their jaws up off the floor over this merger, Donald Trump predicted it -- nearly a year ago.
"All of those golfers that remain 'loyal' to the very disloyal PGA, in all of its different forms, will pay a big price when the inevitable MERGER with LIV comes, and you get nothing but a big 'thank you' from PGA officials who are making Millions of Dollars a year," Trump said on Truth Social in July 2022.
Notably, the former president added, "If you donโt take the money now, you will get nothing after the merger takes place, and only say how smart the original signees were."
Well, the merger has taken place (officially between the PGA Tour, the DP World Tour -- the PGA Tour's European equivalent -- and the Public Investment Fund, which owns LIV Golf) and, just as Trump predicted, it's unclear how any of the golfers who spurned LIV Golf's big checks will be made whole.
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For the unfamiliar, the PIF is basically a massive trust fund for the Saudi Arabian government.
Those ties to the deep pockets of the Saudi royal family (estimated net worth: $1.4 trillion) gave the fledgling golf league the kind of money to pry some of the biggest names away from the PGA, such as Phil Mickelson, Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson.
Some big names who allegedly passed on LIV Golf money after PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan begged them to stay loyal?
Reported offers to join LIV ๐
Tiger: $800M+
Rory: $400M+
Rahm: $400M+
Matsuyama: $300M+
Morikawa: $100M+
Zalatoris: $100M+Oof pic.twitter.com/on6fx9jk6l
โ Pickswise (@Pickswise) June 6, 2023
While the Tiger Woods offer appears to be the most credible, there are a number of PGA players who might have left generational wealth on the table out of some misplaced sense of loyalty.
And if there's any doubt that the PGA and Monahan were specifically targeting consciences to counter LIV Golf targeting bank accounts, look no further than this clip of Monahan from 2022:
"Have you ever had to apologize for being a member of the PGA Tour?โ
PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan comments on players joining LIV Golf. pic.twitter.com/MeHAbR1qQL
โ TSN (@TSN_Sports) June 12, 2022
When presented with news that families of victims of 9/11 were outraged at golfers accepting Saudi-linked money, Monahan said, "I think you'd have to be living under a rock to not know that there are significant implications."
"And I would ask any player that has left or any player that would ever consider leaving: Have you ever had to apologize for being a member of the PGA Tour?"
By Monahan's own moral standard, the answer to that question is now, apparently, yes.
But while the aftermath of this merger will undoubtedly be seismic, those who've already been working with LIV Golf will probably notice nary a tremor.
One such person? Trump, who has long been associated with LIV Golf despite the criticism of it. The former president has three of his golf courses hosting various LIV events.
This is as big a win as Trump has gotten, perhaps, since 2016. He acknowledged the bombshell announcement shortly after it was made on Tuesday.
"GREAT NEWS FROM LIV GOLF. A BIG, BEAUTIFUL, AND GLAMOROUS DEAL FOR THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF GOLF. CONGRATS TO ALL!!!" Trump posted on Truth Social.
That aforementioned announcement from the PGA Tour was a whole lot of words to say, "We were facing an entity with so much more money than us that it could just bleed us dry via a million paper cuts."
The PGA has a sizable war chest to operate with (the exact figure is not known, but it's estimated to be in the range of hundreds of millions of dollars), but it pales in comparison to what the PIF has in its coffers (estimated to be $6.5 billion.)
It's showing up to a gunfight with a slingshot.
And just like how people would point and laugh at the poor sap without an actual gun, those who've supported LIV Golf -- including Trump -- can point and laugh at the poor saps who actually bought into Monahan, the PGA and their warped sense of "loyalty."
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
A coroner in Las Vegas has announced that the death of a 20-year-old college football player in February was caused by a naturally occurring heart condition.
Ryan Keeler, a sophomore defensive end for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, was found unresponsive in his apartment on Feb. 20. He was later pronounced dead.
No cause of death was revealed while authorities awaited the results of an autopsy.
The Clark County coroner's office revealed Monday that Keeler suffered from a heart condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, The Associated Press reported.
The condition is characterized by the thickening of the heart muscle, which ultimately leads to an irregular heartbeat that can prove fatal.
According to the autopsy report, Keelerโs death was caused by the condition. The coroner's office classified his death as natural.
Coroner makes ruling in death of UNLV football player Ryan Keeler https://t.co/KuPOdwL5OP pic.twitter.com/amtUpJMzPa
โ New York Post (@nypost) June 5, 2023
Las Vegas police had launched an investigation into Keeler's unexpected passing but were waiting on the release of the coroner's report.
Robert Wicks with the police department said the investigation is now officially closed.
A week after Keelerโs death, TMZ Sports shared a police report that offered a little more insight into the circumstances surrounding his death.
According to the report, Keeler had been suffering from nausea the week before he died and was prescribed an undisclosed medication by a team doctor.
The day before he died, Keeler reportedly told a friend that he was feeling "a little better."
The next day, an assistant coach found Keeler โcold to the touchโ during a welfare check.
The 6-foot-6, 275-pound Keeler transferred to UNLV after his freshmen season in 2021. He began his college football career at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
The Chicago native played in seven games for UNLV last season and earned a place on the Mountain West All-Academic team with a GPA of 3.8.
UNLV head coach Barry Odom, who was hired in the offseason and had not yet coached Keeler in a game, said in a statement that the young manโs death had โdevastatedโ the program.
โWhile I had the honor of knowing Ryan for only a couple of months, he already stood out to our coaching staff as an incredible person, student and teammate," Odom said.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
Orlando Magic power forward Jonathan Isaac may be best know in conservative circles for standing during the pre-game playing of the national anthem while his teammates kneeled.
That may be about to change, however, as he branches out into a new career: selling pro-Christianity, anti-woke clothing.
Isaac tweeted Thursday about the new company, Unitus, which he said would launch in August.
Retail brands have the freedom to go woke. We have the freedom to create an alternative. UNITUS launches August 2023. Stay tuned๐ #WeAreUnitus pic.twitter.com/2TIfkVc6Zt
โ Jonathan Isaac (@JJudahIsaac) June 2, 2023
Isaac was also one of the few NBA players who went public about not supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, according to the video accompanying his tweet.
The goal of his new apparel company is to "[bring] people together over love of God and country," according to the video, which was a clip of a recent PragerU documentary that covered the new company, "Unwoke Inc.โ
"UNITUS is a sports and apparel company," Isaac told fromer radical leftist Amala Ekpunobi in the clip, "and the basis of it for me is freedom."
"You have companies that are in that field who have made a conscious decision to either attack or undermine Christian values, you know, conservative values and things like that," he explained. "And I think that they have the free choice to do so, as much as I disagree. But I feel that we also have a freedom to create what we want to create."
Or, to put it more succinctly, as Isaac did in his tweet:ย โRetail brands have the freedom to go woke. We have the freedom to create an alternative.โ
Isaac is confident that he's not the only one willing to put his name out there in promoting these products.
"The hope is to be able to sign athletes across all different sports and to create a real infrastructure of people who are in the sports world. Moms and dads who want to buy their kids sneakers and clothes but wanna give their money to a company that they know is going to work toward bolstering their values," he said.
โWe can be proud of what we believe in," Isaac added in the video. "You know, we donโt have to hide or be ashamed of it.โ
Isaac apparently expects western culture to continue its decline and move further from the foundation of Judeo-Christian values that made it great in the first place.
"As the day continues to get, you know, darker and darker and crazier and crazier, you standing up for what you believe in is only going to get harder," he said. "But itโs only going to become more and more necessary."
Isaac published a book last year, "Why I Stand," about his athletic career as well as his personal beliefs.
His last couple of years in the NBA have been plagued with injury, but he's expected to return to training camp next season, according to the U.K.'s Daily Mail.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
There was once a legendary group in Texas that, despite being hopelessly outnumbered and facing prospects of abject failure, stood their ground in the face of insurmountable odds.
That can apparently describe the Texians at the Alamo or the MLB's Texas Rangers.
But whereas the men who perished at the Alamo were battling bayonets wielded by the Mexican Army, the Rangers are battling mounting pressure from LGBT activists.
It's June, which means every corporate entity, including Major League Baseball, is partaking in some token celebration of LGBT "pride" until the calendar turns to July.
Here is MLB's main Twitter account celebrating "pride" while stopping just short of actually mentioning what the individual letters in LGBT stand for:
Celebrating community, pride, and love of baseball! #Pride pic.twitter.com/KevUC8fpdu
โ MLB (@MLB) June 1, 2023
Naturally, with the league itself celebrating "pride," 29 of the 30 MLB teams have all scheduled some form of "Pride Night" game, where teams go out of their way to celebrate LGBT with any number of gimmicks -- whether it's rainbow-themed jerseys or drag queens at the ceremonial opening pitch, as the Boston Red Sox did last year:
WARNING: The following video contains content some viewers may find disturbing.
Tiffani Faison throws out the first pitch in celebration of Pride Night at Fenway Park. @tiffanifaison | #RedSox pic.twitter.com/Hyrlu7tT05
โ NESN (@NESN) June 15, 2022
The one MLB team that has held steady in refusing to host a specific "Pride Night" celebration are those aforementioned Rangers -- and public pressure is mounting for them to cave.
All manner of outlets, from Sports Illustrated to The Dallas Morning News, have called out the Rangers for refusing to hold a specifically denoted "Pride Night."
Backlash from pro-LGBT baseball fans on social media echoed those sentiments:
Absolutely shameful @Rangers. Shameful. https://t.co/eR8EojPODo
โ Cornell Woolridge ๐ฆ (@RenaissanceXM) June 3, 2023
@RangerBlake @Rangers if you truly believe in inclusivity, a Pride Night would be a huge step in the right direction. Especially for LGBTQ+ season ticket holders such as myself.
โ Zach Zant (@zacharyzant) June 2, 2023
Despite that, the Rangers have held steady in not hosting a "Pride Night" event in June.
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Per Sports Illustrated, this tradition began back in 2001 with the Chicago Cubs. Interestingly, the last two teams who didn't embraced LGBT "Pride Night" were both from Texas. However, the Houston Astros eventually acquiesced and hosted their first "Pride Night" event in 2021.
While the Rangers may not host a specific event for "pride," the organization was a "Platinum Corporate Sponsor" for the NAGAAA Gay Softball World Series that was held in Dallas in 2022, per WFAA.
When the outlet reached out to the baseball club, the team responded with a statement that made it clear they have no intention of breaking their tradition anytime soon.
"Our commitment is to make everyone feel welcome and included in Rangers baseball. That means in our ballpark, at every game, and in all we do -- for both our fans and our employees. We deliver on that promise across our many programs to have a positive impact across our entire community," a team representative told WFAA via statement.
The Rangers are in the midst of a stellar season, perhaps offering an explanation for why they are not interested in taking the focus off the baseball diamond. The team is currently atop its division and has the second best record in the league.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
In 2020, after George Floyd died in police custody and the nation's activists demanded justice in fiery but mostly peaceful protests, the NFL knew exactly how to handle the situation: They put the words "End Racism" at the back of the end zone.
And, just to make it clear that they meantย you needed to help, they also put the words "It Takes All Of Us" at the back of the other end zone. Thus, all of us ended racism. Job well done, football fans. Also, we managed to nullify centuries of injustices perpetrated against Native Americans by changing the name of the Washington Redskins. It was just so easy.
Having gotten all of us to collectively end racism and completely erasing the legacy of the Trail of Tears by renaming Daniel Snyder's perennial disgrace of a franchise to the Commanders, the NFL set out to quash another injustice: America's history of homo-trans-nonbinary-asexual-intersex-two-spirit-phobia. It's June -- "pride month" -- which means it's time to bring out the big guns. Or rather, the rainbow flags.
Unfortunately, that didn't quite go as planned. And ending racism was so easy!
Instead of "It Takes All of Us," the official pride month slogan this year seemed to be "Football is for Everyone." Which is a) true and b) has nothing to do with whether affirming that same-sex relationships are sinful according to Biblical standards is bigotry, whether a man can become a woman, or whether puberty blockers should be used on children suffering from gender dysphoria. Those are the big-ticket items this pride month, so, you know, not addressing that seems like a non-trivial thing, but I digress.
An important reminder โ football is for everyone.
Happy Pride ๐ pic.twitter.com/TYJoaLxF7F
โ NFL (@NFL) June 1, 2023
This ended well, as you might expect:
Well looks like another season Iโm not watching any NFL games
โ Shae Jordan Lipp (@shaelipp) June 1, 2023
Major rare NFL L
โ PICKETTSBURGH (@Pickettsburgh8) June 1, 2023
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โ Reggie J Parker๐น๐ด๐ฆ (@trippieregg) June 1, 2023
But that's not all: We have the individual teams going rainbow, too!
Happy Pride ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ pic.twitter.com/EiG0GshtRs
โ New York Giants (@Giants) June 1, 2023
Celebrating love. Happy #Pride Month from the Texans! ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ pic.twitter.com/yrJDOKAuo8
โ Houston Texans (@HoustonTexans) June 1, 2023
Love is love โค๏ธ๏ธ
Join us June 10-11 for the @CapitalPrideDC Parade & Festival as we march, pass out giveaways and more! pic.twitter.com/OeN8fniLVC
โ Washington Commanders (@Commanders) June 1, 2023
Love over everything.
Happy #Pride! โค๏ธ๐งก๐๐๐๐๐ค๐ค๐ค pic.twitter.com/xGb9YDAWqO
โ Indianapolis Colts (@Colts) June 1, 2023
We celebrate and stand with the LGBTQ+ community this #PrideMonth.
We are proud to display the new rainbow Eagles wings mural in Pepsi Plaza, painted by LGBTQ+ artist Tiffany Urquhart pic.twitter.com/MxSDJRkstG
โ Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) June 1, 2023
Things the Philadelphia Eagles celebrate: throwing snowballs at Santa Claus,ย opposing players getting temporarily paralyzed, and the LGBT community!
But -- what the bloody heck? -- this didn't end what passes as homophobia or transphobia these days. People still refused to cheerfully endorse whatever sexual practices and/or gender identity people decided was right for them! Which, as you know, is out-and-out hate:
Sigh.
โ txeaglesfan (@txeaglesfan1991) June 1, 2023
โ Greg ๐๐บ๐ธ (@z0sixxer) June 1, 2023
Can we get a nuclear family month? Can vets get more than 1 day? Jeezus
โ Chris (@Chrisvbape4amc) June 1, 2023
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โ Truth Seeker (@_TruthZone_) June 1, 2023
Good grief..now I understand why you keep having losing seasons
โ Ranger On Point Pissed Off Neanderthal MAGA ๐ (@AmazingRanger83) June 2, 2023
Literally every team in all sports and all companies are going wokeโฆ
โ Riley MacDonald (@Riley_8273) June 2, 2023
OK, so maybe it was time to start on Instagram. Twitter is all those right-wing Elon Musk fans, whereas the woke kids love the 'gram, right? Or are they into the TikkerTokker now? It's so hard to tell these days. Anyway, let's give that a shot. First up, Arizona Cardinals:
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Sample comments: "We deserve an 0-17 season after this." "Stop shoving this down peopleโs throats!" "Yeah football is for everyone so why are we pointing out a certain group." "Go woke go broke."
All right, that's Arizona. You know them: Barry Goldwater, Kari Lake and, uh, Kyrsten Sinema, the first openly bisexual sen... OK, never mind. They're still bigots. But Minnesota! Sure, their politicians are forced to resign after sexually harassing women or are rumored to be abusive toward their staffers, but at least they're all woke, right?
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Yet another sample: "Iโm unfollowing after this one." "Why do veterans have 1 day while lgbtq+-xyz*#% have a month? Considering they have every right any other citizen has." "No wonder we canโt win a playoff game."
Hmph. Tough crowd. Well, at least there's Los Angeles. La La Land, where anything goes. Surely the hometown Chargers had better luck with this:
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Again, a sample: "Because 99% of fans arenโt gay. What the hell letโs risk losing them to virtue signal. Looks amazing on the DEI index." "May was Military Appreciation Month yet most people donโt even know this. Where was your post for them? We should be celebrating the heroes. We donโt need to celebrate people based on their sexual preference." "Damn so quick to make a pride post but what about a Memorial Day Post honoring those who lost their lives? Sad."
Well, maybe some of the NFL's surrogates can help out here. For instance, nothing says football like beer. Maybe the official beer sponsor of the NFL can help educate people who just don't tolerate corporate America's woke values being shoved in their face. I think I'm going to send them an email suggesting they do something to.
But what is the official beer sponsor of the NFL? It's been a few months since the season ended, so I'm a little rusty on this. Let me just Google that ... and it's... Bud Light.
Oh.
You may perhaps begin to see why there wasn't exactly social media unity among NFL teams when it came to making splashy pride-month social media campaigns -- and why there was pushback when teams did it in the first place. It seems the league can't even take a lesson from one of their top sponsors.lgbt
Given the number of accounts NFL teams maintain across multiple platforms, it's impossible to determine what teams did what to shove some woke rainbow propaganda down our collective maws, but as of Saturday morning we could confirm over 10 teams hadn't posted anything on Twitter or Instagram supporting the LGBTQIABBQ2+ (or whatever) community.
Now, it's only the third of the month, and several teams that hadn't posted anything when we initially spotted the trend of teams staying out of the fray have since gone ROYGBIV. Graphic designers can indeed be a lazy lot, after all. Maybe they need until Monday.
However, one of the takeaways from the teams thatย did choose to shout their wokeness loud and proud was that pro-forma platitudes paying homage to whatever progressive cause is in vogue this month doesn't go by unnoticed in 2023 -- particularly when it has to do with LGBT causes, which has gone from humble pleas for acceptance to Drag Queen Story Hour for public school children in the amount of time it takes Jaylen Waddle to run the 40-yard dash.
First there was the Bud Light/Dylan Mulvaney debacle, where the failure to read the room when hiring a transgender "influencer" to hawk the brew led to a drop of over 25 percent in sales; the fiasco was such a dumpster fire that the phrase "go woke, go broke" seems to have been replaced, at least temporarily, with the term "BudLighting" when describing a company that alienates customers by disguising agitprop as advertising.
Among the other victims of the phenomenon is Target, now the subject of a boycott after a massive push of pride-month merchandise in stores -- including LGBT pride clothes for babies, items designed by an honest-to-goodness satanist and a certain women's swimsuit for transgender men that gave new meaning to the phrase "tuck rule" -- backfired so publicly the company quickly pushed the swag out of sight.
I'm sure this'll all change when the NFL puts "Dylan Mulvaney Rocks" and "Drag Queens Belong at Public Schools" in the back of the end zones next year, however. It worked for racism, after all.
Right?
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
For the first time in a very long while, it seems as if there is a genuine ray of hope and light amid a sea of rainbow-themed darkness.
As most conservatives will begrudgingly admit, there has long been an air of defeat surrounding the way in which the LGBT agenda has permeated our culture. Many justifiably felt that the LGBT lobby had effectively "won" the culture war.
Well, that proclamation of the war being over might have been a tad bit premature if you've been paying any attention at all about what's been happening leading up to this year's "pride month," which started Thursday.
Because if you have been paying attention, you might have noticed that leftists have gone so far left that they are beginning to alienate people who otherwise might not have had much skin in the game.
Look no further than the furor over Major League Baseball and its horrifically bungled approach to "pride month."
MLB, not unlike most major sports leagues and massive corporate entities, has been beholden to at least some token celebration of "pride" throughout the month of June in recent years.
But it wasn't until this year, amid a general transgenderism backlash thanks to Bud Light's tacit endorsement of it, that the league might have finally crossed that very thick, very well-marked line into lunacy.
The Los Angeles Dodgers, specifically, became an epic migraine for MLB when the team invited, disinvited and then re-invited a disgusting group of mentally ill blasphemers collectively known as the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgenceย to be honored during its "pride" celebration.
Why such harsh language to describe them? Well, just take a look for yourself:
WARNING: The following video contains graphic content that the viewer will find disturbing.
Dodgers pitcher @ClaytonKersh22 has Col. 3:23 in his bio: "Whatever you do, work at it w/ all your heart as working for the Lord." Manager Dave Roberts has said, "My relationship w/ Christ is the most important thing in my life." Will they be silent as @Dodgers honor this group? pic.twitter.com/ZVMbrtEpmK
โ Megan Basham (@megbasham) May 23, 2023
Facing a backlash, the Dodgers tried to escape conservatives' wrath by shamelessly plugging a "Christian Faith and Family Day" after the fact, as if that would somehow offset inviting people who so openly denigrate and mock all people of faith (and, frankly, all people of moderate sensibilities).
Now, it appears that MLB is mimicking the Dodgers' strategy of flip-flopping about, hoping to fall backward into a solution.
Just look at these Facebook posts:
That post from Wednesday denoted the league changing its Facebook profile logo to one emblazoned with LGBT colors. It's the sort of vapid, superficial move only a leftist would even care about.
Well, bad news for those leftists: Look at this post from MLB from early Friday:
That was the league stealth-changing the logo back to its traditional colors.
MLB later updated its profile logo again to commemorate Lou Gehrig Day, which is June 2.
Look, the plan always might have been to swap the logo out for a day. Gehrig is, after all, one of the most iconic figures in the history of the sport, and MLB's 4ALS promotion raises awareness about the disease that claimed his life.
This could just be a matter of really bad optics coupled with even worse timing.
But why distinctly change the logo back to the original MLB logo in that case? Why change the logo at all when a commemorative post to honor Gehrig would have been just as meaningful a gesture? Why call attention to the LGBT-ized logo in the first place?
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The answers to all of those questions probably will not sit well with leftists who are enamored with championing this cause, because the answer is so simple: People have finally, finallyย had enough of their nonsense.
It's not worth celebrating, even in the most token sense, LGBT "pride" when it's become so closely intertwined with the abject mutilation of minors. It's not worth celebrating LGBT "pride" when it's getting into bed with literal satanism. It's not worth celebrating LGBT "pride" when it's somehow becoming more perverted -- and increasingly focused on children -- by the day.
People are sick and tired of being sick and tired of being told that men can get pregnant and that womanhood is an accessory one can purchase at the local drugstore.
MLB, Target and Anheuser-Busch are all learning that painful reality in real time.
Buckle up, because this may be the most fascinating "pride month" since this insipid "tradition" first began.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
The last time a Republican candidate won a U.S. Senate race in deep-blue California, the seminal cult classic horror movie "They Live" was still playing in select theaters.
The year was 1988 and the senator was incumbent Pete Wilson, who held off Democrat Leo T. McCarthy in the Senate race.
Since then, California Democrats have consistently mopped the floor with their Republican counterparts in U.S. Senate races, and that comes as little surprise given just how blue the Golden State is.
After decades of losing, undeterred Republicans soon might have their best shot yet at ending this losing streak.
The year will be 2024 and the potential GOP candidate is MLB legend Steve Garvey.
Garvey, who starred for the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres during an illustrious 19-year career -- including 10 All-Star berths, four Gold Gloves, a World Series ring and a league MVP award -- has met with "senior GOP officials" about a Senate bid, ABC News reported Thursday.
โHe is seriously considering entering the race,โ said Andy Gharakhani, a veteran consultant who is advising the legendary first baseman.
Garvey, however, is noncommital.
โI have been approached to run for office and am exploring that. No announcement is imminent," he said in a statement released by a Dodgers representative.
Should the 74-year-old baseball great enter the race, he will be chasing a highly publicized and hotly contested seat.
It currently belongs to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the 89-year-old Democrat who has announced that she is not seeking another term amid mounting questions about her health.
According to ABC News, there are some heavy hitters on the Democratic side of the ledger vying for the seat -- though those heavy hitters aren't without some warts.
California Reps. Katie Porter, Adam Schiff and Barbara Lee have already thrown their names into the hat to replace Feinstein.
Porter and Lee are reliably liberal Democrats who are well-known in their districts.
Schiff, meanwhile, has become a virtual household name thanks to his highly publicized clashes with then-President Donald Trump, especially during the first impeachment.
Trump bestowed the less-than-flattering nickname of "Pencil-Neck" on Schiff during the height of the vitriol between the two. The congressman, meanwhile, has never been shy about his excessive disdain for Trump either.
On the Republican side, attorney Eric Early announced his bid in April.
Garvey, meanwhile, is largely known for his "Mr. Clean" good-guy image (aside from his well-publicized marital issues in 1988), and some Republicans see him as a strong challenger for the seat.
โI think Steve Garvey would be one of the most interesting and dynamic candidates for a statewide office Republicans have had in decades,โ Republican National Committeeman Shawn Steel told ABC News.
โHe's good on the stump ... and he reminds me of a Reagan-esque approach,โ Steel added, referring to former Republican President Ronald Reagan, another Californian.
While every election season gets heated, given what's at stake and who could potentially be involved in the 2024 cycle, next year's election season is shaping up to be explosive.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
When the Phoenix Suns fired head coach Monty Williams in May, more than a few heads were scratched.
To some, the move made some sense, given the embarrassing manner in which the Suns have been eliminated from the playoffs the last three years (those include a pair of blowout home losses in elimination games, and losing four straight games to the Bucks in the 2021 NBA Finals after winning the first two.)
But to others, the move simply made no sense.
Williams wasn't just the 2022 NBA Coach of the Year, nor was he just the guy with a sterling 194-115 regular season record (and a 27-19 record in the playoffs) in the Valley of the Sun.
The 51-year-old head coach was also the guy who turned around a culture of losing and ineptitude that had infected the Phoenix Suns for years following the departure of former league MVP Steve Nash after the 2012 season.
That's a lot of years of losing until Williams arrived in 2019. After one year of building up the young roster, Williams spent the last three seasons in Phoenix winning more games than any other coach in that span.
Just as importantly, Williams helped mold and develop franchise superstar Devin Booker from a one-dimensional scorer to an all-around star. Heck, the culture that Williams cultivated was the same one that attracted superstar Kevin Durant, who arrived via trade last season.
That's a lot of positives to turn one's nose at.
But one team's loss is another's gain -- but what a costly gain it is for the Detroit Pistons.
Per ESPN, Williams has come to an agreement on a mammoth six-year, $78.5 million contract with the moribund Detroit Pistons, with the Motor City front office banking (literally) on Williams turning the franchise around like he did in Phoenix.
The contract is the "largest coaching deal in NBA history," according to ESPN.
There is an obvious and considerable risk on the part of the Pistons. Any $78.5 million investment presents some sort of risk.
But for the Pistons, this is a risk well worth taking. Williams, for whatever faults he may have as a coach, works particularly well as a mentor for young men (his issues stem more from when that young team gets older and begins grappling with expectations) and the Pistons are a very young team.
Pistons star guard Cade Cunningham is just 21 years old. The team actually has a glut of talented, young big men. Jalen Duren is 19, Marvin Bagley III is 24, Isaiah Stewart is 22, and James Wiseman is also just 22.
The best part of Williams coaching and mentoring such young talent?
Much of the wisdom that Williams departs stems from his own personal deep well of faith.
Williams is a very public Christian, even dating back to when he first burst onto the coaching scene as an assistant coach for the Philadelphia 76ers.
โI always tell people God makes me look much better than I deserve, and thatโs just where it is for me,โ Williams told Andscape in 2018. โI donโt like coming off with the fake humility stuff.โ
Williams continued: โThereโs a lot of times within the faith, as a Christian, that most people think we walk around like we have it together, and I just got to be straight with you. The longer youโre walking with the Lord, itโs the exact opposite. Itโs like way on the other end. I need the Lord because I donโt have it together. I am broken. I am flawed no matter how Iโm viewed.โ
Eerily, Williams actually addressed specifically in 2018 why "not getting signed" wouldn't be an issue for him thanks to his powerful faith.
โWhether itโs winning or losing or getting a contract or not getting signed by a team and all the in-between, my faith allows me to hopefully have something to hold onto thatโs much bigger than sports,โ Williams said.
โYou realize youโre not the catโs meow. Most athletes, we feel like we can overcome and withstand anything. Thereโs been a few times in my career where I couldnโt change the consequences with lifting more weights or getting more shots or whatever the case may have been. And thatโs when you realize how small you are and how much you need a relationship with God. And I felt like that was where I started to grow.โ
Growth, again, is the core strength of Williams' coaching acumen.
Growth will be what turns the Pistons into perennial playoff contenders. Growth is what turned the Suns into perennial playoff contenders after years of failure.
And that growth is rooted in Williams' faith.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
You never know when that training you never thought you were going to use might come in handy.
That's exactly what happened over the weekend, when a 3-year-old boy nearly drowned in the hotel pool at the Encore Las Vegas.
Luckily for that boy and his family, Los Angeles Rams defensive coordinator Raheem Morris was on site, and had received training on how to use an automatic external defibrillator.
According to a Wednesday Instagram post from Morris' wife cited by multiple outlets, including ESPN, the boy's father got him out of the pool and brought him to a lifeguard, but by that time he had no pulse. (The Western Journal has been unable to locate a link to that Instagram post or verify its contents independently.)
Morris saw the lifeguard beginning CPR on the boy and went for the AED immediately.
"I saw people calling 911 so my first question was, where is the AED?" Morris told ESPN.
"When I got back, we had a doctor on site that was able to start the compressions," he said.
"I was able to hand the AED to him, get it open for him, put the pads on the child, and he ended up being OK," Morris said.
Morris said Damar Hamlinโs on-field collapse during a Buffalo Bills game in January had helped raise awareness about the importance of AED's and training in their use.
He also cited the case of Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Shaquil Barrettโs 2-year-old daughter, Arrayah, who drowned in April after apparently falling into the pool at their home, according to the U.K.'s Daily Mail.
That incident, too, had raised awareness of the need for lifesaving training, Morris said.
"I'm just thankful I knew what to do," Raheem Morris said. "You just never know when you're going to need that stuff."
Twitter users were quick to praise Morris' quick action.
A TRUE HERO: #Rams defensive coordinator Raheem Morris helped save a drowning child, and credited AED training:
โI saw people calling 911 so my first question was, where is the AED?" Morris told ESPN on Wednesday, referring to an automatic external defibrillator, which Morrisโฆ pic.twitter.com/BIRs6W9pJs
โ MLFootball (@_MLFootball) May 31, 2023
Rams DC Raheem Morris helps save drowning child, credits AED training.
Incredible, life saving reaction by Morris. https://t.co/wJ1aP9um3C
โ Lindsey Thiry (@LindseyThiry) May 31, 2023
According to Nicole Hamlim's Instragram post, the young boy stayed in the hospital overnight and was discharged the next day.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
