The end of woke sports? Washington Redskins urged to bring back original logo



In 2020, following the death of George Floyd, the Washington Redskins underwent an uptick in pressure from woke sponsors, investors, and the public to drop both their name and logo. Apparently, it was racist.

In 2022, the NFL team finally bent the knee and rebranded as the Washington Commanders.

However, it’s looking like Trump’s victory may have inspired a reversal.

“The Washington Redskins are going to be the Washington Redskins again,” says Jason Whitlock excitedly. “Twenty-two days after the election of Donald Trump, and we have the official end of the woke sports era."

Apparently, “The Blackfeet chief and the people in Montana,” who the logo was actually honoring, are “all in support of re-establishing the Redskins logo,” says Whitlock, adding that “there’s even talk that the Commanders may revert back to their name,” as well.

“Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and I’m going to be giving thanks to the end of this era” and to the “end-dians,” who have “ended wokeness in sports,” he says.

However, when you come to the end of an era, especially one that’s been overwhelmingly negative, it’s always good to reflect back on what went wrong.

And that’s exactly what Jason is doing by reviewing the top 12 most woke moments in sports.

To hear the list, watch the episode above.

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Is the NHL’s first female coach a sign of progress or imminent disaster?



On October 8, Jessica Campbell coached her first game as an assistant coach for the Seattle Kraken. Campbell is the first female coach in the NHL.

According to reports, when asked about his decision to hire Campbell, head coach Dan Bylsma claimed that he was simply hiring the best coach, and Campbell fit the bill.

Her list of accolades is long and impressive. Campbell played college hockey at Cornell University, won numerous medals playing on Canada’s national team, and even played professionally in Canada and Sweden.

Is this a situation in which a woman really is the best-qualified candidate? Or is this simply the woke agenda disguised as meritocracy?

Jason Whitlock and Steve Kim discuss the unique situation.

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“I just can’t see this not ending poorly,” says Jason, pointing to the reality that Campbell is 32, attractive, and surrounded by male athletes in the same age range.

“I would hate to be the HR department for Seattle,” he tells Steve.

Steve, however, thinks that a bigger problem is the fact that a female will have authority over men.

“At the highest levels of professional sports, there is no man that wants to be coached by any woman,” regardless of what they’ve been conditioned to say, he tells Jason.

“If you're going to be screamed at, if you're going to have a finger pointed in your direction, if you're going to be disciplined at that level of athletics, men want to be disciplined by other men,” he claims.

But Jason sees an even bigger issue.

Granted the amount of money the NHL players make, he thinks they will be motivated to “hop on board” with inviting women into the league. However, in private they will be resentful because “this isn't really about competition,” and they’re being forced to be “part of some social experiment.”

According to Jason, behind the scenes, the players will be thinking, ‘“They've got this 32-year-old hot blonde coaching me; this is a television show, it's not a competition.”’

“I think it harms the integrity of the game, and it makes the players more cynical about the actual sport they're competing in,” he explains.

Steve then points out that men’s hockey is still “largely a white sport with a lot of guys from different parts of the world where none of this DEI stuff is actually going on.”

“I actually wonder how these guys are going to take to quote-unquote female leadership,” he says.

“The DEI stuff is global,” Jason counters, “but as it relates to the athletes inside their homes ... you're right, this is not the construct that they grew up with.”

“I do think most of these white athletes ... are from a two-parent household structure that probably is more patriarchal than matriarchal,” he adds, noting that this will only serve to “enhance the cynicism” of the athletes forced to submit to Campbell’s authority.

Going back to the reality that Campbell is young and attractive, Jason is sure it’s not going to end well.

“It's like whatever woman is there during training camp, let's say if in real life she's a six, during training camp she's an eight and a half, damn near a nine,” he says, drawing on his own experience playing football at Ball State.

“The female trainers turned into the most attractive people on planet Earth,” he recalls, adding that Campbell “will be under attack in that environment.”

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

Ex-ESPN Host Tells the Inside Story of How Sports Went Woke | Sage Steele

Ex-ESPN Host Tells the Inside Story of How Sports Went Woke | Sage Steele

Former ESPN anchor explains the 'wokeification' of the sports network



Former ESPN “SportsCenter” anchor Sage Steele was living the life that all sports anchors dream of — until that dream job turned into a woke nightmare.

“When you kind of get pushed into a corner so many times, you have a decision to make,” Steele tells Dave Rubin. “Obviously, I made the decision I thought was right for me, to stand up and have a voice about being treated differently compared to my peers at the network because I didn’t fit the narrative.”

Steele was removed from the network in 2021 after she spoke out against vaccine mandates, telling a podcast host that while she respected an individual's decision to get vaccinated, she thought that mandating it was “sick” and “scary.”

Steele had also come under fire for her comments regarding female sports reporters and harassment, saying that women need to take responsibility for the way they present themselves.

“When did you start to see that something was not quite right?” Dave Rubin asks Steele, who tells him that there was one major catalyst for the woke shift.

“When Trump got elected,” she says, noting that on the night of his election, high ranking ESPN executives were tweeting about his election and how “sickened” and “disgusted” they were.

“That was the beginning of the end to me,” Steele says.

While ESPN’s blatant wokeness became a problem for Steele, it’s not the network's politics that rubbed her the wrong way.

“At the end of the day,” she says, “I don’t care who you vote for, I don’t care who you sleep with, I don’t care about any of it. Are you a good human? Are you kind? How do you treat me? Most importantly, how do you treat others when the lights aren’t on?”


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Caitlin Clark under attack for not being a black lesbian?



Iowa Hawkeyes superstar Caitlin Clark is the hottest name in women’s basketball right now and for good reason. She’s the NCAA's all-time leading women's scorer, she broke the NCAA record for most points scored in a tournament, and she’s considered the first-ever Division 1 player to reach 3,300+ points, 900+ assists, and 800+ rebounds in a career.

Clark’s extraordinary talent has caused a bit of frenzy in the domain of women’s basketball. Because of her, ticket prices have skyrocketed, lines of eager fans swarm for her autograph, and more people than ever before are flocking to watch women’s basketball in person and on television.

Popular news outlets are calling this “the Caitlin Clark effect.”

But as always, such wild popularity comes with a price. What is an inevitable result of unparalleled success?

Haters. And Clark certainly has plenty.

One of them is none other than three-time WNBA MVP Sheryl Swoopes, who was the first woman to be signed in the WNBA and who set the NCAA record in 1993 for the most points scored in a tournament — until Clark broke it in 2023.

Jason Whitlock plays a clip of Swoopes discussing Clark’s success or, in her opinion, the lack thereof.

“If you're going to break a record, to me, if it's legitimate, you have to break that record in the same amount of time that [the former record-holder] set it,” Swoopes said. “So if Kelsey Plum set that record in four years, Caitlin should have broken that record in four years.”

“But because there was a COVID year … she’s already had an extra year to break that record, so is it truly a broken record? ... I don’t think so,” Swoopes continued, suggesting that Clark is undeserving of her accolades. “But that will go in the record books as Caitlin Clark is the all-time whatever … but you have a 25-year-old playing against a 20-year-old.”

Unfortunately, Swoopes is dead wrong. Caitlin Clark just turned 22 on January 22, 2024.

She’s also dead wrong when it comes to the athlete’s shots per game. Swoopes argued that Clark “takes about 40 shots a game,” when stats prove that she’s taken “19.7 shots per game on average throughout her career.”

“That’s a lot of hate [and] a lot of bad information,” says Whitlock, who thinks Clark’s haters are guilty of not only jealousy but also of racism and heterophobia, considering Clark is a straight Caucasian.

“She's going to face a level of racism from black players, and she's going to face a level of hostility from lesbian players because she's not on team LGBTQ. She's a Catholic [and] she's got some boyfriend,” which means “she's going to walk into an extremely hostile environment,” he explains.

Steve Kim agrees, adding that Clark will likely receive the most hate from her future teammates once she enters the WNBA.

“When she gets into the WNBA, games that have maybe 2,000-3,000 will suddenly have 10,000 people” – many of whom will be wearing “Caitlin Clark paraphernalia” – and after the game, people will “race right past all these teammates that have been in the league for seven, eight years, who may have had more accomplished careers, to get [Clark’s] autograph,” Steve predicts.

“The endorsement deals are going to be with Caitlin Clark; all the appearances you have to make for the team in the league [will be for] Caitlin Clark. … The locker-room politics and the derision she is going to face over time is going to be really interesting,” he continues, adding that Clark will likely be painted as "the Great White Hope, the savior of the WNBA.”

Whitlocks agrees, but he also thinks alongside opponents and teammates, “the media is going to participate in the diminishment of Caitlin Clark,” as that’s “the woke thing to do.”

To hear the full conversation, watch the clip below.


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Woke writer BLASTS child as racist for dressing up for KC Chiefs game



Is it racist to dress up in support of your favorite sports team? Well, according to Carron Phillips, it is — especially if you are a child.

Phillips, who is a writer from the sports website Deadspin, attempted to accuse a young boy of racism for dressing up as the Kansas City Chiefs’ mascot. The boy’s name is Holden Armenta. He was wearing black face paint on one half of his face and red on the other.

The article used a side profile of Holden as it’s proof, which showed only the black side. “The NFL needs to speak out against the Kansas City Chiefs fan in Black face, Native headdress,” read the headline.

The article went on to accuse the boy of “doubling up on the racism.”

Sara Gonzales believes this was “a disgusting attempt to sick an outrage mob on a young child” who seems to have been Phillip’s target because he was white.

“I hope they Nick Sandman them,” Chad Prather tells Jaco Booyens and Gonzales.

Booyens notes that it was clear that the intent was to “go after the most vulnerable and say, ‘Oh, I can score points here.’"

Phillips, whose first name is pronounced “Karen,” doubled down on his attack of the child in a tweet.

“For the idiots in my mentions who are treating this as some harmless act because the other side of his face was painted red, I could make the argument that it makes it even worse. Y’all are the ones who hate Mexicans but wear sombreros on Cinco,” Phillips wrote.

However, over half of the players in the NFL are African-American. Prather notes that it then makes no sense for a racist child to be at an NFL game, let alone cheering them on.

“He’s cheering them on, supporting their careers, funding them,” Prather says, adding, “If Patrick Mahomes, the quarterback for the Chiefs, had walked up to that kid, that kid would crap his pants with excitement.”


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Jonathan Isaac: 'This is what the media did to me that red-pilled me'



Orlando Magic player Jonathan Isaac hasn’t just faced challenges on the court the past few years — he's faced challenges from teammates, the media, and fans for his beliefs.

Isaac became one of many headlines during the BLM riots of 2020 for refusing to kneel with his teammates during the national anthem and then again when he refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

“I never felt comfortable with the tone and the rhetoric of the Black Lives Matter organization, and I didn’t want to co-sign their message by putting on their T-shirt, and also, I didn’t want to co-sign, you know, their message by kneeling,” Isaac tells Dave Rubin.

While he got a lot of pushback for his decision not to kneel, Isaac doesn’t regret it.

He also received a lot of pushback for his refusal to be vaccinated, which he has now had a lot of discussions with his teammates about.

“People were being crazy about COVID — all these weird things about why you should get a shot and incentivizing you to get a shot,” Isaac says, adding, “and then obviously you’re getting bullied if you even have any questions about it, natural immunity, all that stuff.”

“If you’re trying to get somebody to do something, threatening them is only going to make them more weary,” Isaac says.

Isaac recalls being tricked by Rolling Stone magazine, which revealed to him just how much propaganda the media pushes.

“Then Rolling Stone put out an article, it was something like ‘NBA’s Anti-Vaxxer Problem,’” which he says seemed to be a “good faith” interview before it was published.

“I’m telling them about, you know, why my decision not to get vaccinated, and then the article comes out and it’s like, ‘Jonathan Isaac waited for people to die, he put his trust in God,' all this different stuff.’”

“This is the first time that I had saw that there is a media bias, and, you know, people call it propaganda,” Isaac continues.

“It’s freaky, but it’s freeing too,” Isaac says, adding, “I have my moment of like, 'Okay, I know what all this means.'”


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NBA Finally Paying the Price for Going Woke? (Pt. 3) | Jonathan Isaac | POLITICS | Rubin Report

NBA Finally Paying the Price for Going Woke? (Pt. 3) | Jonathan Isaac | POLITICS | Rubin Report

Jason Whitlock: Here's why American sports may NEVER be 'Great Again'



In the latest episode of "Fearless," BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock and James "Uncle Jimmy" Dodds take a look at the current "woke" state of professional athletics and lamented the loss of American exceptionalism.

"I look at professional sports, the NBA, the NFL, in particular, Major League Baseball, all of them — hell, even NASCAR went woke. It's all about message, not about product, and I don't know if we can ever recover," Jason said. "I guess, now that I'm saying this out loud and listening to what I'm actually saying, [I realize] this whole 'Make America Great Again' thing ..."

"...it ain't gonna happen," Uncle Jimmy finished.

Jason argued the "no consequences" attitude of today's society may have damaged American exceptionalism beyond repair, especially when it comes to sports.

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FLASHBACK: Were Dems Spreading Vaccine Misinformation Under Trump? | DIRECT MESSAGE | Rubin Report

FLASHBACK: Were Dems Spreading Vaccine Misinformation Under Trump? | DIRECT MESSAGE | Rubin Report