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The WNBA is the sports version of South Africa.

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> Chris Rock: As a father, you have only one job to do: Keep your daughter off the pole!

While this is an obvious double entendre, the nominal meaning of pole in this context is the apparatus that exotic dancers use. Also, for those who don’t know, this pole is designed to rotate which makes it easier for the dancers.

> sports league executives have considerable power to change their rules (and how the referees interpret them) to improve their product

In the NFL, their competition committee meets every year at the league’s spring meetings in order to discuss potential rules changes. I don’t recall a year that the NFL hasn’t changed the rules in the off-season, even if they are minor tweaks in some years. Meanwhile for MLB to change a rule requires a lot of Sturm und Drang. Part of the issue is that the NFL can change their rules unilaterally with the vote of 24 of its owners (generally a formality) while in MLB they need the players union to also approve the change, and like any negotiation, the MLBPA will withhold approval out of spite in the hopes of using it as a bargaining chip.

This is one (of many reasons) why the NFL has far surpassed MLB in popularity and revenue, despite playing a season that is less than a quarter as long.

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I think many of the big black lesbian players probably grew up in rough areas playing basketball with boys. This made them develop an early 2000s hack a shaq style.

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