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Sports investigations at The Washington Post. Formerly: BuzzFeed, South Minneapolis. molly.hensley-clancy @washpost .com

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@mollyhc
Molly Hensley-Clancy
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Hi, so, I have some personal news: I’m joining the Washington Post (!!) as a sports investigations reporter (!!). This job is an actual dream come true and I can’t wait to get started.
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The owner of Gandhi Mahal, a (very delicious) local restaurant in South Minneapolis that was damaged in the fires last night: "Let my building burn, justice needs to be served."
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Here is the thing with “former gifted kid” tweets. You weren’t gifted you were just white and middle class
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A reporter asked Beto in Charlottesville how he’d reassure people afraid the gov’t would take their assault weapons away. “I want to be really clear that that’s exactly what we are going to do,” he said. If you own an AK-47 or AR-15, “you’ll have to sell them to the government.”
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Incredible: Rick Perry denied sending text messages to Mark Meadows with suggestions about overturning the election results, except that he signed one of his text messages "Rick Perry" with his phone number
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Republicans are trying to throw out 100,000+ votes cast at drive-in voting centers in Harris County. I went to one yesterday. Voters use the exact same voting equipment that is used in traditional polling places. The only difference is that they’re sitting in their cars.
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This got lost in the news cycle a few weeks ago, but important given what's happening in Kenosha: The man who first started breaking windows in Minneapolis, at the Autozone, was a white supremacist who came to the city trying to spark violence:
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Warren takes the stage here in NH and congratulates "my friend Amy Klobuchar for showing just how wrong the pundits can be when they count a woman out."
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NOT A JOKE: Minnesota has same day voter registration.
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Sean Hannity 🇺🇸
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NOT A JOKE: Ilhan Omar Tells Residents ‘You Don’t Have to be Registered to Vote’ in Minnesota
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I spoke to Ruhan Islam. He is heartbroken, but he told me this hours after his beloved restaurant burned: “Life is more valuable than anything else. We can rebuild a building. But we cannot give this man back to his family.”
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“You’re homophobes, that’s what you all are, you’re homophobes!” a Buttigieg supporter yelled at the protesters after the event. “We’re all gay!” a protester responded.
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A Harris County official told me they were “surprised” to find Republicans suing over the centers bc the party had been consulted extensively in their conception & design. See that fan? It’s there because Republicans asked for them, to prevent carbon monoxide buildup
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Katie Hill is resigning amid allegations of inappropriate relationships with staffers *and* after a campaign of harassment, including revenge porn, allegedly from an ex-husband who she calls "abusive." Reporters should mention both those things!
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A couple who just got married came running through Black Lives Matter Plaza to join the huge crowd celebrating Trump’s loss
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New: Sen. Kamala Harris told me she believes Rep. Katie Hill is a victim of "cyber exploitation" and called the release of intimate photos of Hill "harassment."
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Molly Hensley-Clancy
4 years
Worth reading this whole answer from the USWNT's Crystal Dunn on Rapinoe kneeling in 2016. I remember people making a thing of the image of Dunn standing next to her. "I’m scared for my job. I’m scared that it’s going to look different if a black girl on the team kneels."
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If you're going to uninvite a charity drag group from your Pride night because some people (a Republian Senator from a faraway state?) had "strong feelings" and were "offended," why have Pride night at all?
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The official told me that the drive-through centers had been especially helpful for parents with young kids. Parents told him it was so much easier to vote when the kids were buckled in and occupied in the back seat.
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Good NYT correction today
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3 years
In case you're not tired of USWNT news, the men's team filed a pretty remarkable amicus brief in the equal pay appeal today. The gist: The men agreed US Soccer discriminates against women, and they also think the women should have made more than them
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Another group the official said the drive-in centers had been helpful for: disabled folks and older people who didn’t walk well but still wanted to vote in person These are the kinds of voters for whom showing up on Election Day will be difficult if the ballots are thrown out
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Molly Hensley-Clancy
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Law enforcement was entirely unprepared for what happened today at the US Capitol. But here's the thing: it was being planned out, explicitly, in detail, in public, for weeks on the pro-Trump internet. Every single illegal thing. From me and @JaneLytv :
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3 years
When ur ex texts you for men’s soccer advice 🌚
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People doubted earlier that US Soccer was actually arguing that women are inherently inferior to men as part of the federation's attempt to prove it isn't discriminating against the USWNT based on gender. So here are some court filing excerpts where they do just that:
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Molly Hensley-Clancy
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The significance of a Republican abstaining from certifying the election results of a state Joe Biden won by 150,000 votes should not be overlooked in this.
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Ben Jacobs
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Michigan certifies the result of the 2020 election 3-0 with one Republican on the canvassing board abstaining.
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Molly Hensley-Clancy
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The Black officer who some criticized for continuing to retreat as he was pursued by rioters was actually leading them away from the wide-open main entrance to the Senate floor. The Senate had not yet locked down.
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Igor Bobic
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Looking again at the video I took of the mob storming the Senate, there’s a moment when the lead rioter looks right for a second, before continuing to follow the officer left, away from the immediate entrance to the Senate. This happened at 2:14.
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This video is nice, I guess, but I had to scroll down 112 tweets to see the last time SportsCenter tweeted about a woman in sports. It's been almost a week. The last time they tweeted about a woman was May 3.
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SportsCenter
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"It's like the best job ever." This Mother’s Day, we celebrate all of the women balancing motherhood while pursuing their dreams in sports ❤️
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Couldn't fit it in a tweet so I had to notes app it. The last 12 hours in sports:
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VERY relatable that Bernie doesn't think that 1990 was 30 years ago
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Trump: "I take full responsibility. It's not my fault."
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Enhance:
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Actually, they all did.
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@joelpollak
Joel Pollak
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I’m guessing Canada didn’t kneel for their anthem.
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This detail of Ma'Khia Bryant's life is so heartbreaking. What if the money that the state spent to put her and her siblings into the system had gone to her grandmother — towards keeping the family together?
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If you are willing to pay $85,000 for a draft pick, that player's starting salary shouldn't be $26,000
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Molly Hensley-Clancy
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New: I talked to the pollster behind the poll that left Elizabeth Warren out of a key question, angering her supporters. He said they were only able to poll 5 candidates, and the fifth spot went to Klobuchar.
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Take a sec to learn about how “gifted” programs segregate kids by race! Black students are half as likely as white kids to be put into “gifted” programs. Some districts ID kids as early as kindergarten with questionable tests that parents have to pay for
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A friend reports so many people have showed up to help clean up Lake Street in Minneapolis, at the heart of the protests, that there are too many people to do the work. "There was no glass to pick up," my dad said. "So many people had come yesterday that we couldn't find any."
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NEW: NWSL players went to US Soccer with multiple complaints about emotional abuse by Red Stars coach Rory Dames "I was made to feel by U.S. Soccer that I was in the wrong, there was nothing to report, and that this was acceptable," said Christen Press.
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Good time to learn about Midge Purce, the other USWNT player at the White House rn. She's also an NWSL star, an activist with the Black Women's Player Collective, and ... won a seat on the Harvard Board of Overseers last year on a climate change platform
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The scale of giving in Minneapolis right now - with basically every grocery store burned or shuttered, and food and diapers etc totally unavailable to many people - is pretty staggering. Here’s photos of just one donation site in South Mpls this AM:
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Molly Hensley-Clancy
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Christen Press getting to 60 goals and becoming the ninth-highest scorer in USWNT history is a really remarkable achievement given that she's never really been a regular starter. (Until now, please.)
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Molly Hensley-Clancy
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"Only 6%" is trending on Twitter as people spread the false claim that CDC data shows only 6% of COVID deaths were actually from COVID. The data actually says that 6% of COVID deaths had no reported co-morbidities, like obesity.
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You're telling me the USWNT just played to a miserable 0-0 draw and Simone Biles is out of the gymnastics finals and I'm just supposed to ... do work today???
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It's one poll question. But the thing that is very clear from this is how much of a flashpoint it was for Warren's supporters, who were furious at what they said was a stark example of how the media has erased her candidacy.
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I am really excited for people to learn more about Sunisa Lee and the amazing Hmong community in St. Paul
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NEW: A Post investigation found multiple allegations of sexual misconduct against former NWSL coach Rory Dames in youth soccer, including a player who alleged he groomed her and had sex with her once she turned 18. "Nobody believed those teenagers."
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Just a little thing that was really meaningful to me personally was how incredibly supportive Kobe was of the USWNT and women's sports/athletes in general
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Ooooh no try again, the correct answer is "Christine Sinclair"
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Arjun Pradeep
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Greatest international scorer of all time. 🐐 @Cristiano
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A woman at this Beto rally just tried to tell me she couldn’t talk to me bc she didn’t speak English and when I told her we could do the interview in Spanish too she cackled and said “I was just trying to get out of it”
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Molly Hensley-Clancy
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This is a powerful moment: 9 US Women's National Team players taking a knee together during the national anthem. Four years ago, Megan Rapinoe was iced out of the national team and banned from kneeling by US Soccer.
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ESPN didn’t show this but TUDN did. #BlackLivesMatter #USWNT
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Behind that viral photo of a high school hallway in GA: Teachers say staff tested positive after going to work with symptoms, there's an outbreak on the football team, and students say they were forced to attend in-person. From me and @ceodonovan :
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New: Per a source, here's the full text of a letter sent from Michele Kang to the NWSL's Board of Governors, claiming that Steve Baldwin "no longer has control of the team or the ability to dictate the terms of any sale."
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It says a lot about Canada — and Christine Sinclair — that I'm tearing up with happiness for a rival team that beat the USWNT a few days ago. But I'm so freaking happy for them!
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so, this is homophobic
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Molly Hensley-Clancy
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The WNBA draft was less than a week ago and if you’re a professional sportswriter, not knowing this fact is being bad at your job
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Adam Schefter
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For the first time in what feels like forever, a real live sporting event.
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The fact that FIFA would, in the year 2022, claim to be "caught off guard" by the demand for Women's World Cup tickets tells you basically everything you need to know
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If you spend any time talking to voters, who are torn all the time between Bernie and Biden or Pete and Warren, you know that this kind of categorization makes zero sense
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Meet the Press
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DATA DOWNLOAD: Plus, if you look at the combined percentages of the centrist candidates versus the liberal ones the centrists perform better in both Iowa and New Hampshire. #MTP
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I will say, this timeline is worth noting: Press asked for a trade because of Dames' mistreatment. Dames sent her to Houston even though she'd said she wouldn't go there. When she stood her ground, she not only got a ton of criticism, Ellis didn't call her into the national team
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New: Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan, Christen Press and other prominent USWNT players are accusing US Soccer of “willful inaction” in the face of abuse claims following our story about Rory Dames "USSF failed to respond to protect these young players"
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New: Another US Soccer sponsor is condemning the federation's comments about women athletes. A Deloitte spokesperson tells me: "While our support for the team is unwavering, we are deeply offended by the views expressed by the USSF.”
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Molly Hensley-Clancy
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Do you guys remember when the owner of Politico told employees two weeks ago that they shouldn't unionize because there was no "clash of economic interests" lol
@BenMullin
Ben Mullin
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Politico has sold to Axel Springer for more than $1 billion, people familiar say.
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NEW: An investigation into elite girls’ soccer, where men are in control at nearly every level and women coaches told me they face sexism, discrimination, and even harassment. Women are being driven out of their own sport, and girls are paying a price.
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Manchester United said they were delaying a decision on whether to re-sign Mason Greenwood so they could "consult" women players who are at the World Cup. you'll never guess what happened next.
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More disparities in the NCAA bubble: the women are getting less accurate COVID antigen tests while the men are getting PCR tests, known as the "gold standard." I've put out two requests for comment to the NCAA but haven't heard back.
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Amanda Christovich
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On call with reporters, UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma confirms that inside their respective bubbles, men's teams are using daily PCR tests and women's teams are using daily antigen tests. He doesn't know why they're using different types of tests.
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I think Carli Lloyd has spoken about why she doesn't want to kneel during the national anthem. But I'm curious if anyone has asked her why she chose not to take a knee for a minute before kickoff along with every other American player, staff member, and referee
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Warren campaign manager Roger Lau says the campaign feels “confident - it’s close between Warren, Sanders, Buttigieg. I believe the Vice President is a distant fourth.”
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Mayor Pete got into the car and drove away from Homestead without going to the ladders to look over to the children in the facility. Protesters screamed “See the kids! See the kids!” as he drove away. They were furious that he didn’t see them: “This is about them.”
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call my lawyers, BuzzFeed misinterpreted a yearsold joke of mine and then ... put me in a list that calls me straight!!
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The way reporters talk about Dems limiting in-person campaigning implies it's a decision based on laziness/overconfidence, and not on keeping people from dying in a pandemic. It's fine to consider that it might still have political effect, but the current tone feels misleading
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Update: today, Dunn knelt during the anthem - along with every single starter on both teams
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Molly Hensley-Clancy
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Worth reading this whole answer from the USWNT's Crystal Dunn on Rapinoe kneeling in 2016. I remember people making a thing of the image of Dunn standing next to her. "I’m scared for my job. I’m scared that it’s going to look different if a black girl on the team kneels."
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Harris told me said she respected Hill's decision to resign, but added: "Let’s also speak the truth that men and women are not held to the same standards. I mean, look at who's in the White House."
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AD Franch, the USWNT goalie, is getting married today and this video of her dancing with her wife from Crystal Dunn's Insta really got me
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The story about Spanish women’s team can’t be read through the lens of men’s football. There’s a backstory of deep mistrust between federations and their women’s teams after decades of neglect and worse - many national teams simply don’t believe their fed. cares if they win
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Lyon is the best women's club soccer team in the world. But when a player got pregnant, the club refused to pay her salary, wouldn't let her bring her baby on away trips while breastfeeding, and kicked her off the team after she brought the issue to FIFA
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NEW from @ggarciaroberts and me: Trevor Bauer, the star pitcher accused of sexual assault in California, was the subject of a temporary order of protection sought by a different woman last year, according to sealed court records reviewed by The Post
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NEW: NBA star Ja Morant was accused of violent or threatening behavior in two police reports, including previously unknown allegations that Morant "threatened" a mall security director. Four days later, a teenager told police Morant punched him repeatedly
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Ilhan Omar is back home in Minneapolis, and stopped to play some soccer with kids at this street fair. My official assessment is that she’s got some moves
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This video shows the context that the single dumbbell rack in the viral photo is located in a huge, mostly empty room. The NCAA told me they initially didn’t make a weight facility for the women because... they didn’t think the convention center had enough space.
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KDOT
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One rack of dumbbells for women vs a whole planet fitness for the men. Women’s basketball stays getting disrespected.
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Hire women sports reporters.
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Molly Hensley-Clancy
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I love sports, but also, now the game is over and we're all talking about the inevitability of racist abuse and domestic violence in the wake of this. So yeah, could use some fixing I think
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I'm sorry I just can't get over "Why would he lie?"
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Justin Baragona
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Chris Matthews asks Elizabeth Warren why she believes a female employee who sued Mike Bloomberg for telling her "kill it" when she was pregnant over Bloomberg. "You believe he's lying? ...Why would he lie? Just to protect himself? ...You’re confident of your accusation?"
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Trump touted a WSJ story coming out about Hunter Biden. WSJ tonight: "The venture never received proposed funds from the Chinese company or completed any deals, according to people familiar with the matter. Corporate records show no role for Joe Biden."
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One of the funniest things about that dumb mask on a plane tweet is the sheer number of people in the replies who are experts on “HIPPA”
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You guys are all going to do the same coverage next year about how much money the USMNT makes off of the USWNT’s World Cup, too, right?
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Thinking again about the role that homophobia played in the Paul Riley allegations as the NWSL deals with outrage over the signing/drafting of two players that expressed homophobic/transphobic views. The two teams involved, of course, are the two teams that employed Riley.
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Molly Hensley-Clancy
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Lotta people confusing foreshadowing for character development this morning!!
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Molly Hensley-Clancy
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Charlie came home this morning!!! I started down the fire escape this morning with a can of tuna and she was casually coming up for breakfast. She doesn’t know why everyone was crying, but she’s enjoying the tuna immensely.
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Molly Hensley-Clancy
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Hi DC followers, my sweet cat Charlie slipped out my fire escape door early this morning at my apartment in Petworth/16th St. Heights, on Georgia Ave near Webster. Please DM me if you find her or possibly see her anywhere! She is very shy and timid.
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Molly Hensley-Clancy
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Famously the sexism on the internet stopped in 2016 after Hillary Clinton was nominated
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Molly Hensley-Clancy
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Yet again: sports viewership is down in the pandemic, but not in women's sports.
@SoccerInsider
Steven Goff
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USWNT’s 1-0 victory over Canada drew an average of 498,000 viewers on FS1, most watched SheBelieves Cup match on FS1, up 78% from the 2019 SheBelieves Cup average, 3rd most-watched USWNT match (non-World Cup) on FS1.
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Breaking: Minneapolis Public Schools just voted unanimously to end its contract with the Minneapolis Police Department after the killing of George Floyd. I talked to students & organizers about the years of work that went into this victory:
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Molly Hensley-Clancy
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NEW: At least four players have left the Washington Spirit in the last two years because of what they said was "verbal and emotional abuse" by their coach, Richie Burke. My story on what's been going on behind the scenes at the Spirit:
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Molly Hensley-Clancy
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How could law enforcement have known that Trump supporters gathering today planned to storm the Capitol if the electoral college certification didn't go their way? Here was one hint:
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A lot happened yesterday in women's soccer, but it shouldn't be missed that one of the outcomes of the NWSL abuse reckoning is that an Asian American woman is now the controlling owner of an NWSL team, with the full support of her players
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The USWNT kept their statement focused on black players and fans. But it's also worth noting that after Megan Rapinoe knelt, she was kept off the USWNT roster for 6 months. As soon as she said she'd comply with the policy, she was back on the roster.
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As peoples’ phones begin to wail with a curfew alert, a Black Lives Matter organizer at a park in Kenosha tells the small crowd: “If you’re out here after curfew, you’re not associated with us. We don’t want no more of what we had last night.”
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When you admit you’ve never before aired a regular season women’s college basketball game on your biggest network
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Saturday, @ABCNetwork airs its first-ever regular-season women's college basketball game 🏀 1p ET | @UCLAWBB vs No. 3 @UConnWBB 🎙 @RyanRuocco , @RebeccaLobo & @sportsiren
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So many journalists tweeting about how "mad" Haley Stevens just got on the House floor / breaking House decorum but not saying why she was angry or what her speech was about?? Her district has been hit HARD by the virus.
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A number of people reading the Dames story have noted that "coaches yell at male players all the time." I want to share this quote from a player who played for Rory Dames that I think gets at that idea. It's different.
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NEW: An NWSL investigation of the Washington Spirit has widened to include allegations by multiple women of a misogynistic, "old boys' club" culture, including the use of degrading nicknames for women players and staff by a male executive:
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