Lauren Smith

When women AREN'T the punchline What happens when women's sports are taken seriously.

Good things happen when you support and invest in women’s sports, rather than laugh at them.

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U.S. Women's Hockey Team declines Trump's invitation to the State of the Union President Donald Trump invited the men's and women's hockey teams after both won gold medals in overtime games against Canada.

GOOD

I hope the entire women’s team tells him to take his invite and shove it, and then to go F himself.

🤷🏼‍♀️

NBC10 Philly reporter Ted Greenberg - who got the short straw and is down the shore - hates life right now.

And this afternoon there are new American flags over Johnny and Matt Gaudreau’s ghost bikes, marking where they were killed.

#USAhockey #Olympics #Gaudreau #bikes #cycling @bikesky.social

We’ll have to wait until next week to find out. 🤪

He’s now working on his second diagnosis. Let’s see if he’s right…

We Love A Winner... Unless we disagree with them.

Today’s post by @kennysmith.org explores the notions of fan identity, nationalism, and how quickly a fan will turn on “their” athletes if that athlete dares to use their voice in a way the fan doesn’t agree with.

We had a conversation about indoor drafting techniques while watching the individual races last night because @laurensmith.bsky.social and I know how to party.

There’s a Lot the Skier Lindsey Vonn Can Teach Us. First Off, Know Thyself.

When Simone Biles pulled out from the Olympics in 2021 due to not being in the right mental place, critics piled on. When Lindsay Vonn stayed in the Olympics with a torn ACL, critics piled on. Women: make your choices on your own terms. @josiecox.bsky.social
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Tomorrow?

Tomorrow!?!?

Two cats sitting together on a couch looking at the camera.

They heard the halftime show had a bunny. #SuperBowlLX

Everyone has a moral line.

Telling people to calm down and chill when theirs is different than yours is a choice.

Just…don’t engage then. It’s easy.

I know he’s a Dem, hates Trump, and does a tremendous amount of charity work.

I also find Robert Kraft a morally reprehensible piece of human trash. So to find out JBJ is friends with Kraft… 🤷🏼‍♀️ I find that gross.

Look. You do you.

But if I decide that being friends with a human piece of trash like Robert Kraft is not something I find tolerable, then idgaf what the political affiliation is.

So maybe lay off telling me to calm down.

I did not realize he was friends with Kraft.

I love the band, and love him, but I have a real problem now knowing he is friends with Kraft. That is just flat gross.

I can think of plenty!!! FFS, Matt Damon was just on the New Heights podcast talking up his beloved Pats.

I have zero problem hating the piece of trash that is Robert Kraft.

Is that a tree coming out of it?

Or a bone?

Why do people ruin food like this?

Welp. Not going to be a Bon Jovi fan anymore.

New Jersey >>>>>>> Belichick

I’m a huge Bon Jovi fan. And I am so pissed right now.

Why did Bon Jovi introduce the Patriots?

BON JOVI.

The same Bon Jovi who is from NJ. Who has a friggin rest stop on the Jersey Turnpike named after him.

THIS IS NOT OK.

#superbowlLX

Everyone watches women’s sports.

Official from Unrivaled:

21,490 fans in the building tonight.

That’s an all-time record for the highest-attended regular season professional women's basketball game ever.

Also, a record for a professional basketball game — men’s or women’s — at Xfinity Mobile Arena.

Grew up watching the men fill up this arena, now the city of Philadelphia is showing up - SOLD OUT - for her. I fucking love women’s sports.

#unrivaled

I’ll make sure to nod at you a lot in Dublin.

How Norway’s ski jumping scandal rocked a proud nation and bedrock Olympic sport With the Olympics near, Norway's ski jumping scandal took its latest turn last week, a controversy that has roiled the sport and country.

In my Mega Events class this semester we will talk about Olympic scandals. I did not expect a current scandal to be “skin doping,” aka “illegally altering the crotch of a ski jump suit.”

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Tonight’s conclusion: Jamaica is large enough to host a Games. Kenny was correct. I was not.

I’m just over here waiting for the “keep politics out of sport crowd” to be furious and denounce this.

I’ll get a snack, because I’m thinking I’ll be here a while.