RedState Sports Report: Now, Where Were We? | Political News
Greetings from the sports activities desk positioned someplace under the principle deck of the Good Pirate Ship RedState. I’ve been away tending to some issues, and the second I used to be back on board, I requested Sammy the Shark and Karl the Kraken if they’d been protecting you, our light readers, abreast of the consistently altering world of sport …
I’m so slicing off the fish cracker provide for these two jokers.
Anyway, a transient recap of what they missed, beginning with the just lately concluded NCAA faculty basketball tournaments. Heading into the championship sport between Connecticut and South Carolina, the latter’s coach, Dawn Staley, complained loud and long concerning the quantity of consideration lavished all through the event on Connecticut star participant Paige Bueckers, believing it was one way or the other disrespectful to her group.
“Sometimes, we create these narratives about great players. Caitlin [Clark] was one of them; Paige [Bueckers] is one of them right now—and we tend to forget about the narrative about what our kids have been able to do, going for their third in four years,” Staley mentioned Saturday. “There’s a sentimental narrative about Paige. Great freaking player. Anybody would start their franchise with Paige because of her efficient way of playing, because she’s a winner, because cerebrally knows the game, just has an aura about her.
“When you put a narrative on the market, everyone sees that, and it places us at a drawback. Whether you need to imagine so or not. Officials see it. It’s throughout TikTok. It’s throughout SportsMiddle. It’s throughout all of that.”
As it turned out, the one drawback was not having the ability to hear the basketball bounce during the championship sport over the sound of canine gnawing on chicken bones as Bueckers and her Huskies teammates chewed up Staley’s Gamecocks 82-59. Way to make that case for respect, women.
Meanwhile, the event people watched, i.e., the boys’s, featured a slam-bang remaining between the Florida Gators and the Houston Cougars. Score one for Godzilla’s cousins as Florida gutted out a 65-63 comeback win. For these protecting rating at home, the ladies’s championship sport had a 54 % drop in viewership from final yr’s championship sport which featured Caitlin Clark. Total quantity of viewers in 2025? 8.6 million. Total quantity of viewers for the boys’s championship sport? 18.1 million. But sure, keep telling us everybody watches ladies’s sports activities.
Turning to the professionals, whereas the NBA postseason begins on April 15 with the NHL following close behind, the principle notice of curiosity has been the nascent baseball season and its plethora of surprises. The best shock is that the Los Angeles Dodgers won’t go 162-0 this yr regardless of a lineup that, on paper, appears unbeatable. They aren’t. Going into tonight (April 14, 2025) Los Angeles is in third place within the National League West behind the San Diego Padres and the San Francisco Giants. While even essentially the most fervent Padres and Giants followers endure no delusion of any guarantee issues will stay this fashion, wouldn’t it’s enjoyable to see an precise division race within the Wild Wild West?
Finally, a personal notice. Thank you to everybody who’s supplied immeasurable assist during the current tough season. While I hesitate to say issues are all higher, indicators level to the worst now firmly residing in my rearview mirror. This ought to imply more frequent posts, all hopefully centered on the precept that sports activities should be enjoyable and, thus, mentioned entertainingly. Now, if solely Sammy and Karl would stop having fairly a lot enjoyable and get some work carried out as soon as in a whereas …
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