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On why Cole Anthony signed with United, playing with ‘uncle Joe’ again, and choosing the NBL as his pathway: “This is a very well-respected league, where I can come and potentially carve a path for myself back to the NBA," he told ESPN. New on @ESPNAusNZ. espn.com.au/nbl/story/_/pa…

enes kanter and royce white what a couple of fucking losers

I put Olivia Miles highlights over Superfly by Curtis Mayfield and something magical happened… 🥽

i have been traveling and barely online but needed to come on here and make my stance on this clear. trans people, you are loved and welcome here! there are many real problems in this world and your existence will never be one of them

i hate to give the NBA grifters the attention they’re so obviously craving, but the fact that there are currently zero trans women in the WNBA makes it clear that this has never been about “protecting” anyone. it’s about exploiting the league’s growth to advance their anti-trans agenda. and it’s pathetic

(2 years ago today) Final 2:50 USA vs France 2024 Olympic Gold Medal match! THANK YOU STEPH CURRY!

Bec Allen is retiring from everything at once: 11 WNBA seasons and 12 years with the Opals. The night she tore her hamstring in Paris, she called Joe Ingles, the man she grew up going to games just to watch. basketball.com.au/news/rebecca-b… #AussieHoops #BecAllen #Opals #WNBA

With the 2027 FIBA World Cup a year away, the bulk of the Australian men's national team will take part in a player-led mini-camp in Melbourne this week, sources told ESPN. Giddey, Daniels, Mills, Simmons among those to attend. Details on @ESPNAusNZ. espn.com.au/nbl/story/_/id…

Royce White may not make it as a WNBA player, but as a mascot? Definitely got potential

Robin Lopez @rolopez42

3 days ago

Yes we get it you love slapping people with women's names

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Imagine any elected official saying this about Jewish Americans. Do you think the media would be silent? The rampant bigotry that is allowed and normalized against Muslims is disturbing.

Rolo still dunking on ppl

Robin Lopez @rolopez42

4 days ago

Biggest issue: If you're being drafted, people are saying "we want you around for 4 years" & I can't imagine anybody wants Enes Kanter or Royce White around them for even 4 minutes. We've seen this illustrated whenever Enes is near Turkey or Royce comes close to logic/reality.

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this is why i'll always root for her

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Jed Wells @JedWells23

5 days ago

Banger nbl season otw

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The biggest mass funeral in Gaza was held this week for 112 people (including 44 children) that were killed in an Israeli strike on a residential block in 2023. Their bodies were only recently recovered from the rubble in an operation that spanned across two weeks.

My son works full time here in Florida. Let me run his numbers. State minimum wage is $14/hour. He's at $15. 40 hours a week = $600/week That's about $2,600/month before taxes. Florida has no state income tax the thing they sell you on. So after federal and FICA he takes home roughly $2,200. Average one-bedroom in our area runs about $1,600. That's 73% of his entire paycheck gone to rent before he eats a single meal. Leaves him around $600 a month for: - groceries - gas - car insurance - health insurance - phone - emergencies - savings Car insurance alone eats a third of that in this state. He works 40 hours a week and cannot save a dollar. Not because he's careless because there's nothing left to be careless with. I spent thirty years paying off a house here. He's doing the same job I did at his age and he can't afford a one-bedroom. That's not a discipline problem. That's not avocado toast. The floor moved and nobody lowered the ceiling. Working full time should cover a roof. In Florida it barely covers the rent on one.

I am a world champion athlete who has published peer reviewed research in this field and I say it is clear that there is male-performance advantage over females.  Men on average are stronger than women due to the relative % of muscle vs. fat, and to power that extra muscle they have more oxygenating cells (haemoglobin) in the blood... ALL of which are controlled by hormones, they are not set at puberty. No-one disputes this. What is less clear is what happens after cross-sex hormone therapy, in trans women in particular. Trans women who compete in female sports are on gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) — typically oestrogen plus medications to lower testosterone. This therapy leads to measurable changes in body composition and function. What the evidence says about performance? After 2 years of GAHT, trans women show little to no advantage over cis women in tests like running 1.5 miles or number of sit-ups. By 1–3 years on GAHT, many performance differences in studied metrics narrow substantially or disappear.
 However, in strength tests (e.g. push-ups, grip strength), some small residual advantage may persist.
 In contrast, some areas suggest worse performance: lung function, efficiency of breathing, and fitness (Braga et al., Saitong et al., and Alvares et al.) when normalised to body size.
 In one study of national-level volleyball players, athletic trans women performed similarly to cis women (but below cis men) across multiple physical metrics.
 In a UK study, athletic trans women (on hormones for 4–6 years) had worse performance in lung function, jump height, and relative VO₂ max (a measure of fitness) than cis women, but absolute grip strength was higher.
 The most comprehensive synthesis to date, a 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis (Sieczkowska et al., British Journal of Sports Medicine) of 52 studies and 6,485 participants, found that trans women on 1–3 years of GAHT had upper-body strength, lower-body strength and relative VO₂ max comparable to cis women, despite higher absolute lean mass. The authors concluded the evidence does not support theories of inherent athletic advantage for trans women over cis women.
 A 2025 longitudinal study (Harper et al., European Journal of Sport Science) tracked 9 trans women runners and 1 trans woman swimmer before and after starting GAHT. Race times slowed by around 15% in runners (with bigger decrements in longer-distance events) and around 5% in the swimmer. After adjusting for training volume, the runners’ age-graded performance scores did not differ pre- versus post-GAHT, meaning they were roughly as competitive in the women’s category as they had previously been in the men’s category. This is the first study to use both retrospective and prospective data on the same trans women athletes before and after GAHT.
 In short: any advantage that exists is likely to be small, context-specific, and not universal. Despite frequent public talk, there is no robust empirical evidence that trans women increase injury risk to cisgender women in sport. Most policies that cite safety are based on theoretical models (assuming trans women are the same as cis men, and comparing cis men to cis women), not on observed injury data. What rules currently exist Many sporting bodies have eligibility policies. These often require: Maintaining testosterone levels below a threshold (e.g. < 5 nmol/L) for a set duration (e.g. 24 months).
 Submission of performance data (times, strength metrics, prior competition data). Some sports, however, have banned trans women entirely — but these bans tend to lack scientific justification, and they ignore the diversity among trans women in body size, physiology, training history, etc. In summary Fairness and inclusion can coexist. With thoughtful, evidence-based policies, both can be achieved without resorting to blanket bans. transresearch.org.au/post/trans-wom…

Oli London @OliLondonTV

a week ago

Tennis champion Aryna Sabalenka says she supports gender testing in women’s sports. “It’s obvious that biologically men are way stronger than women. So I feel like it would be not really fair for the women to compete against biological men.”

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Everyday that goes by we continue to learn even more about the horrific scale of Israel's genocide in Gaza. No wonder it doesn't want to let outside journalists and independent observers in.

Quds News Network @QudsNen

a week ago

Over the past two days, civil defense crews recovered the remains of 112 members of the Abu Sharia family, who will be buried tomorrow, in what is expected to be the largest funeral since the beginning of the genocide. Nearly 200 of their relatives are still believed to lie

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Full quote on Natalie Nakase’s answer to being asked about what she thinks about regarding the ongoing Sophie Cunningham/trans-athletes debate that has swept across the WNBA. Not going to pull out a quote from Nakase out of context so read the whole thing here.

Cheryl Reeve speaking on the trans rally that is planned prior to the Indiana Fever game Sunday and her views around trans athletes and Women’s sports Full video below: I don’t feel it’s right to clip or cut out snippets for quotes, so if you have time, give it a listen.