You Won’t Be Able to Go Watch the Tokyo Olympics in Person
James Matsumoto/SOPA Images/ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Today, Japanese officials confirmed that outside spectators won’t be able to turn up to watch the world’s biggest sporting event this year. Seiko Hashimoto, the president of the…
Tommy Tuberville Is Still Losing at Sports
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) speaking on the Senate floor.C-Span Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville, an anthropomorphic talk-radio microphone that no one has noticed is no longer plugged into the wall, failed…
Mississippi Is About to Ban Trans Athletes Over a Hypothetical Problem
Terry Miller (center) was one of two transgender sprinters sued last year for participating in the women’s division.Christian Abraham/Hearst Connecticut Media/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Mississippi legislators on Wednesday sent a bill to the governor’s…
The Real Threat to Women’s Sports Isn’t Trans Athletes. It’s Sexually Predatory Coaches.
David Eulitt/Kansas City Star/TNS/Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.The February 26, 2021 passage of the Equality Act in the US House of Representatives piqued conservatives into a moral panic. The bill, which would ban discrimination…
Georgia Senator David Perdue Privately Pushed for a Tax Break for Rich Sports Team Owners
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Don’t Forget the Other Radical Activists in Professional Basketball: WNBA Players
The Washington Mystics wear T-shirts with seven red circles on the back to protest the shooting of Jacob Blake by police. Courtesy Espn2/ZUMA Wire/Cal Sport Media via AP Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.NBA players return to the court today after ending a strike that started…