Didn't the Supreme Court just hold event organizers responsible for ANY damage caused by their protest?

Wow. I hadn't even thought to make that connection. Trump called these people to DC and he gave them their marching orders.

Pretty cut and dried, isn't it?

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You're not paying attention. Soccer is still a foreign sport trying to make inroads in the US. Basketball is quinessential heartland passion. It's popularity is not going to phase itself out anymore than our other seasonal sports do.

And CC is already becoming a national pitchman for products Americans already use and consume daily. When her shoe comes out, it will break all existing records possibly reaching Jordan status over time. EVERY kid can wear CC shoes. Women's soccer had/has no game related product to market other than jerseys and those are licensed to USWNT not the individual players themselves.

NBA rookie salary is $10M.

Only for the number 1 pick. No other rookie makes that amount.

My prediction is that by the next CBA we'll see the top players salaries between $500K - $1M.

The discrepancy exists not due to sexism. It exists because of the difference between revenues.

If the W's viewership numbers even reach 50% of what the NCAA tournament saw, the next W contract will also rise exponentially, probably into the low billions from today's around $60 million.

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2 tickets 3 rows off the floor in front of the visitor's bench are going for $1900 apiece for a Fever game here in Indy.

2 floor tickets next to the bench in Brooklyn when the Fever play the NY Liberty on going for $7155 apiece. Tickets 4 rows back are $2355 apiece.

It would have boosted sales, attendance, interest even farther...

Almost all her games are nearing sellouts for the entire season as it is, and the average ticket price to see the Fever play is hundreds of dollars higher than with any other WNBA team. So how could the above be true?

If anything, people are going to start complaining of being priced out of being able to see her in person. Even here in Indianapolis with 21 upcoming games, the upper deck seats that were $5 are now $55, and on the resale market some are priced at $160+. Other cities ticket prices AVERAGE $500+ for Fever games and these are arenas with upwards of 20,000 seats.

What the W pays Clark is really irrelevant to those interested in seeing her and her team play.

It would have boosted sales, attendance, interest even farther...
it certainly would not have been 'out of line', for her projected impact.

As I showed you earlier, Clark will not make $75K from the WNBA this season, she'll make another $250K due to the league's Player Marketing Agreements.

I can't think of a single person who's NOT going to watch Clark because of the predetermined WNBA's salary structure. It's existed for 25 years under various iterations. No one can pay someone based on the future in the present. Not to mention the fact the other players would rightly revolt if the league decided to pay one player more than the others, especially veterans.

The earnings gap between W and NBA players will start to shrink as soon as the next WNBA player's CBA is negotiated at the end of the 2025 season. Simply demanding more for one person is not how union bargaining works.

Seems he really is just another despicable Republican.

He's a squish. He does believe in the Constitution, but he's still willing to give deference to GOP political orthodoxy if doing so doesn't clearly cross an inviolate line, especially when it's the Democrats on the other side.

I don't know how much of it was a wrongful assumption vs simply assigning that position

First, the writing was only the author's opinion, it does not represent a unified viewpoint from which all Democrats operate. Second, Speaker Johnson just stood side by side with Trump last weekend in public agreement that there were "issues" with the 2020 election which is nothing more than propagating Trump's big lie in service of extracting even more money from those who believe the same. That IS alignment with Trump.

And it's fact that Ukraine's faultering military condition has been front and center for many months, yet until this moment, Johnson hasn't acted as though its defense needs were of immediate concern. Doing nothing is a positive for Putin and Trump at this point in time, as both don't want Congress to authorize more aid.

There were many opportunities to forward Ukraine funding - as has been publicly raised by Biden and Democrats on a near daily basis.

"We the governors of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas are highly concerned about the unionization campaign driven by misinformation and scare tactics that the U.A.W. has brought into our states," their joint statement reads. "As governors, we have a responsibility to our constituents to speak up when we see special interests looking to come into our state and threaten our jobs and the values we live by."

It is no shock to see conservative Republicans opposing organized labor. But it is difficult to observe this particular struggle, taking place as it is in the South, without being reminded of the region's entrenched hostility to unions - or any other institution or effort that might weaken the political and economic dominance of capital over the whole of Southern society.

The history of Southern political economy is to a great extent a history of the unbreakable addiction of Southern political and economic elites to no-wage and low-wage labor.