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some thoughts on WNBA superteams.
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this will be my only tweet ever: my deadspin days are over. if any editor’s interested in the story i took too long to file, on an independent women’s basketball league put out of business by the nba—a story of people in suits killing something with a soul—email me, won’t you?
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I think WNBA players merit better analysis than the cursory “don’t forget about them!” so here’s my blog on their solidarity this week, which proved that stopping play wasn’t a privilege but a moral necessity
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I went to a labor fight and a hockey league broke out! My story on the new PWHL, its union and women's hockey's first-ever collective bargaining agreement:
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pivoting to tweets: the widespread assumption that a person associated with women’s sports will be good because of it is very convenient for the many bad people in women’s sports! a millionaire who owns a women’s team is still a millionaire, a manager of women is still management
I honestly cannot fathom that this is a tweet from a WNBA owner. The amount of cognitive dissonance ...
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an exasperating story to work on!
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what a dream to be joining defector, a worker-owned publication. i hope you'll subscribe.
This is Defector, a new sports blog and media company from the writers you missed. We made this place together, we own it together, we run it together.
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We're starting a new series of blogs on terrible owners in sports, and mine is the first entry. On Kelly Loeffler and the women's basketball myths she shatters:
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can't believe that three years in, Defector (a) still exists and (b) has the resources to launch a puzzle, in partnership with
@AVCXWord
!
we're starting off with this
@gridsthesedays
banger, edited by
@dcwdkim
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in a bizarro world, the Lions and their hotshot quarterback are the biggest story in football. the bizarro world is Canada…here’s my story about the big story:
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apply to work
@defectormedia
, especially if you’re the sort of person who never imagined working for a sports blog. that was true of me not so long ago and now I get to blog about women’s basketball, Beowulf, CRISPR, vaccines and college football. a dream!
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my very first defector blog, regrettably (if sort of inevitably) about the university of michigan
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@kalynkahler
I would simply tell holly rowe, with a dead-eyed stare, that I do not believe in myself at all
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As nothing else is going on right now, consider reading my story on a war between women's basketball leagues in the late '90s:
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like six women's basketball news cycles behind at this point 😵💫 but wrote a little about the whole "young phenom vs. jealous vet" trope, which seems to misunderstand both parties
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another update, in which Lucas Capetian finds Defector to be unfriendly :(
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some WNBA players might have good politics, but that's never been true of the league and owners, who are all perfectly content with the terrible wages and working conditions. ascribing "progressive values" to the WNBA doesn't help women, it helps Adam Silver
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for senators week, I wrote about an original sens sicko: Lady Byng herself! she liked flowers, traveling, suddenly becoming a rabid hockey fan and being in frustrating romantic relationships. sadly can't relate!
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one more update! the Sixers nearly made Allen Iverson and Julius Erving promote an app that does not exist!
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we are reading a new translation of Beowulf at Defector this month, and you are required by law to join us!
Welcome to Defector Reads A Book, a new feature in which Defector reads a book, and then writes about it.
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anyway, a theme of this story is that your working conditions shape the kind of work you’re able to do, and I’m grateful to work full-time at a place that gave me all the time, resources, and editing I needed. way too few people who cover women’s sports are allowed those things.
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"rah rah herstory" obfuscates the material conditions of these athletes. reminds me of Phil Murphy greeting the USWNT at the airport, while the women on the NWSL team he owns take ice baths in trash cans because he won’t pony up for a real practice facility
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Defector is looking to hire additional Pistons fans for the summer of 2022. (please apply! it'll be fun!)
Defector is looking to hire interns for the summer of 2022! Apply here by Jan. 7:
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never got to do an Against Cathy Engelbert blog at deadspin, but be skeptical, please. in my ideal world, we are booing her goodell-style at the draft but I will settle for sports media simply asking tough questions of the W and its commish and pushing back on the answers
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here is a baseblog I wrote. sharing a photo of my scorebook felt...strangely intimate!
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also I'm like 45 percent sure I witnessed the Ohtani deal while reporting this
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something I’ve wanted to write for a while: a little profile of the great women’s basketball writer Mel Greenberg, who gets honored by the Basketball Hall of Fame this weekend. highly recommend calling him and talking for a few hours.
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separate but related point: I'm struck by how much low-hanging fruit there still is on the front office side. MLB has huge analytics/player dev/scouting staffs all chasing tiny advantages. the WNBA has james wade doing like 4 jobs. investing even a little could get you really far
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really enjoyed soaking up CFL knowledge over the last couple months but now I don’t know what to do with it. does anyone want to talk about the 2009 grey cup ending with me
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They chanted overrated at Caitlin Clark..She responded with 42 points and the win 😈
@CaitlinClark22
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wrote a bit about the Olympic team stuff, mostly to plug Sara Corbett’s VENUS TO THE HOOP, about the ‘96 Olympic team and the birth of the WNBA. not sure anything has shaped my writing and thinking about women’s basketball more.
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went to a Seattle Kraken game and had a rather nice time! here is a blog about it:
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is it frustrating to see a sport you really love wrung through the take machine? yes! in a lot of ways! but also i've found it helpful in sharpening my own thinking about some stuff, and it's fun to have more people to talk to :)
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also i do not know what is going on in this old photo. it was described by getty images as "the crossword puzzle dance"....
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There's a lot in this that I think applies to other women's sports—certainly the idea that pressure to "grow the game" makes it really hard for athletes to speak up when they're unhappy with their leagues.
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@kimischilling
the thing that’s driving me crazy is it’s close enough that if he just played normally they would probably win and get another game for him to break it!
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@kalynkahler
i have never felt so owned in my life...
1. paying $80
2. for an NFL+ subscription
3. to watch Detroit Lions all-22 🤡
4. which is not even there
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zoë and this piece are very smart. too many people who cover women's sports (where labor issues abound!) lack the vocabulary to discuss labor actions. and "striking is a privilege, so respect everyone" is wrong, ahistorical and makes me want to fling myself down a well.
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just what everyone wanted: my morose, week-late take on the WNBA's new labor agreement at
@slate
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Also linking our spec sheet here for any interested constructors. Kim is *such* a thoughtful and responsive editor, and we pay well/quickly.
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and read the brilliant Defector newsletter!
Earlier today, we emailed out three blogs about the NBA strike situation. To read them, check your inbox or click this link:
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also especially if you are a fan of the detroit pistons
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@natalieweiner
best part of the kaplan report was the authors using the gavin degraw concert (vs. the men's katy perry/chainsmokers concert) as an example of how the women were treated worse
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something i'm thinking about today and basically every day is this really excellent
@girinathan
blog. not "sports," but it *is* about nauseating spectacle and fervor and charisma, which are so key to understanding modi's fascism and hindu nationalism
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@paulcteeple
@DefectorMedia
ok don’t ask why I’m watching a ducks-flames game in october but I saw this live and agree we must legalize interference from the bench!
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@lippesq
wasn't it just yesterday I was in the Lippitt living room asking you elementary questions about golf? thank you for always, always supporting me.
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@SophieHaigney
i love the idea of arriving at the most devastating, brutal ending in all of literature and wondering if you’ve missed the book's “hidden message”
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@kalynkahler
I think what I like most about scoring is it's a good, rare opportunity for adults to practice their penmanship!
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@Marisa_Ingemi
alarmed that my first instinct was to take this 100 percent seriously and think no, we need a RIGHT tackle!
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@BenMathisLilley
some skimmable chapters, but I liked Nelson Lichtenstein's biography of Walter Reuther, who (to me) is the most fascinating Michigander
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@ShakerSamman
maybe the worst team in the NBA should try to assemble a good or even somewhat coherent roster instead of hoping a lottery system bails them out!
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@ShakerSamman
the only thing I dislike about this trade is what it's done to the team's francophone population.
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@ajflax
man just be happy your guys actually *won* a world series before they all got traded for dawel lugo 😪
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@fromkurtis
very simple explanation for this: the Liberty poached Sandy and the Mercury poached Walt
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@louisahthomas
oh, thank you! your profile of her is so great (I’d read it before, but it was nice to revisit!)
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@marvinstockwell
haha, that’s exactly what happened—I spent a couple minutes talking them up and the cut that part! had a lot of fun watching them all season.
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