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Anna M. Mangin made a major contribution to household needs in the 19th century. with her invention of the pastry fork. Anna �was born Anna Matilda Barker in October 1844 in the state of Louisiana. ...
by Black Kos
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on Fri Apr 05, 2024 at 02:00 PM PDT
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Former college basketball player Christian Laettner is against current college basketball players earning money by making money for their schools. Why does he care? It has something to do with team development. And it is not his only beef. But first,...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Thu Mar 28, 2024 at 05:29 PM PDT
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March Madness is rapidly approaching. The men’s college basketball championship�is a big business for the National Collegiate Athletic Association, which pulls in about�$1 billion per year from ...
by Charles Jay
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on Fri Mar 08, 2024 at 01:22 PM PST
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For fans of women’s college basketball, the Iowa Hawkeyes are playing at Nebraska Cornhuskers. The game is in the 4th quarter and the amazing Caitlin Clark is a just a few shots from breaking the all-time NCAA Women’s scoring record currently held by...
by RachelinNYC
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on Sun Feb 11, 2024 at 11:50 AM PST
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The NCAA women’s basketball tournament final and semifinals �got� record-setting viewership �this year, with the final getting 9.9 million viewers and peaking at 12.6 million. That’s not the ...
by Laura Clawson
69 comments
on Tue Apr 04, 2023 at 03:00 PM PDT
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I read seemingly nonstop criticisms of my Democratic Party and Democratic Party candidates here. One such criticism of Senator Warnock led me to write about the disadvantage Senator Warnock faces because of asymmetry. It is deductive in that it starts...
by Dem
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on Sat Oct 15, 2022 at 11:32 AM PDT
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On Friday, October 7th, the Dr. Phil Show aired an episode having a discussion about the idea of transgender women athletes competing against cisgender women athletes. The show was totally biased against trans athletes from the first moments, and...
by x15gal
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on Mon Oct 10, 2022 at 02:20 PM PDT
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Another day, another Republican trying to turn the general public against a vulnerable, marginalized population. This time, we can look at a recent campaign ad from Republican Sen. Rand Paul, who decided to use trans folks as a scapegoat to try and get...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Mon Oct 03, 2022 at 01:36 PM PDT
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College sports is 170 years old today .
1852 America's first intercollegiate sporting event takes place as the Harvard heavyweight rowing crew beats Yale by 2 lengths over 2 miles on Lake ...
by jck
80 comments
on Wed Aug 03, 2022 at 05:30 PM PDT
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When it comes to keeping their voter base angry and distracted, Republicans have really narrowed in on demonizing and villainizing trans youth, especially those who dare to want to participate in sports teams that actually align with their gender...
by Marissa Higgins
81 comments
on Wed May 25, 2022 at 11:40 AM PDT
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Sorry for the non-diary diary, but: KU wins a nailbiter against UNC!
by kansasmagic
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on Mon Apr 04, 2022 at 08:45 PM PDT
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An anti-trans sports bill, SB 83, has passed through both the Kentucky Senate and Kentucky House thanks largely to Republicans in power, with a vote of 25-9 in the Senate and 70-23 in the House, per the Los Angeles Blade. The exclusionary bill is on...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Mon Mar 28, 2022 at 08:49 AM PDT
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Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia is no stranger to spewing hateful rhetoric. The QAnon congresswoman has gotten attention, for example, by falsely blaming left-wing groups for the Jan. 6 insurrection, suggesting we should ban Democrats...
by Marissa Higgins
285 comments
on Wed Mar 23, 2022 at 10:22 AM PDT
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The video of winning Michigan coach Juwan Howard consoling Tennessee freshman Kennedy Chandler after a hard fought game that Tennessee lost moved me deeply. It was as powerful and poignant a scene as we’ll ever see. And not just in this edition of the...
by krb
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on Mon Mar 21, 2022 at 05:15 PM PDT
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I wrote elsewhere about “wokeism”. The attack on the canard “woke” seems so weird in that it attacks as a matter of projection the object of hatred on the basis that making the public aware of it shames the hater. Or worse it highlights the hater’s...
by annieli
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on Sat Mar 19, 2022 at 05:02 PM PDT
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If what’s going on in Ukraine or to not have to think about the latest GQP outrage, you can sit down for periods of about two hours and be entertain by young men and women play the game they love for it’s highest “amateur” reward. A National Collegiate...
by TexDem
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on Fri Mar 18, 2022 at 07:30 AM PDT
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As we’ve known here at Daily Kos, Republican Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota has absolutely no problem sharing her views and opinions about trans people. Noem has shepherded much anti-trans rhetoric in the state in recent months, especially when it...
by Marissa Higgins
30 comments
on Wed Feb 16, 2022 at 11:40 AM PST
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Throughout history Europeans have feed their daughters less food then their sons, a practice that continues with every-other Caucasian family to this date, and a practice that has spread to parts of the South Asia (i.e. Pakistan etc.) and Africa that...
by Kaizar
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on Wed Mar 16, 2022 at 11:02 AM PDT
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Republicans say the quiet part out loud in anti-trans bill that allows trans boys to join boys' team On Wednesday, the Arizona State Senate passed an exclusionary, discriminatory anti-trans sports bill aiming to keep trans girls out of girls’ sports, as covered by the Los Angeles Blade. The bill, SB 1165, follows in line with the plethora of...
by Marissa Higgins
118 comments
on Thu Feb 03, 2022 at 12:08 PM PST
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As Daily Kos has continued to highlight, state-level lawmakers have really come out against trans folks over the last few years. Republicans across the nation have pushed a variation of the same anti-trans bills to see what they can get away...
by Marissa Higgins
209 comments
on Fri Jan 28, 2022 at 09:38 AM PST
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