Since I am not a basketball fan and my dear husband is, I am super glad that March Madness ended last night. The only reason I know as much as I do about the Women’s NCAA Basketball Championship game is that the darling man complained through the WHOLE DARN THING. Fouls, girls taunting, referees and finally Jill Biden, breaking with tradition, inviting both the winning LSU Tigers and the losing Iowa Hawkeyes to the White House. She even praised Title IX for giving us women’s collegiate sports which is really weird.
The thing that stood out from my husband’s rantings during the game on Sunday night was, “Aw, Come on, ref”. This is a sign that the referees aren’t letting the kids play. The refs are calling ticky-tacky, argle-bargle fouls. Jill Biden was in the stands but has not made her position on the refs known. Apparently through the WHOLE tournament, though, an Iowa player by the name of Caitlin Clark was taunting players from other teams. Big whoo. Iowa was up by a lot. Clark was taunting using the John Cena/Tony Yayo “You can’t see me” hand motion. Then, LSU ended up winning. Geaux, Tigers. A player by the name of Angel Reese followed Clark around the court doing the “You can’t see me” motion and adding a ring on her finger motion.
Its okay when they do it thou #AngleReese #CaitlinClark pic.twitter.com/XchUtAslJv
— bbt (@bigbrothertsns) April 2, 2023
Like I said, Caitlin Clark was swaggering through the whole tournament. She hit Hailey Van Lith with the “You can’t see me” and told her to shut up.
BleacherReport: "You're down by 15 points. Shut up."
Caitlin Clark chirping at Hailey Van Lith pic.twitter.com/AZNFh20CK6
— Koncorde Krash (@Koncorde_Krash) March 28, 2023
Now, everybody is racist for calling out Angel Reese. Stawp! Angel Reese won and looked good doing it. Caitlin Clark just got some back. Leave it alone. They’ll both probably be back next year. Reese and Clark could be the Michael Jordan and Larry Bird of women’s basketball. Oh gawd, I am old.
Now, Jill Biden is just as bad as her husband at reading the room. Both Bidens are so busy trying to ingratiate themselves with everyone, that they can’t see what’s the correct thing to do. Jill let it be known that she wants both the winning Tigers and losing Hawkeyes invited to the White House. Really, would Michael Jordan be cool with that? From ESPN:
First lady Jill Biden said Monday that she wants the defeated Iowa women’s basketball team to be invited to the White House in addition to national title winner LSU.
Biden watched LSU’s 102-85 victory over Iowa from the stands Sunday night.
Speaking Monday at the Colorado State Capitol in Denver, she praised Iowa’s sportsmanship and congratulated both teams on their performances.“I know we’ll have the champions come to the White House, we always do. So, we hope LSU will come,” she said. “But, you know, I’m going to tell Joe I think Iowa should come, too, because they played such a good game.”
The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment about whether President Joe Biden would also extend an invitation to Iowa — and whether it would be a joint visit with LSU or a separate engagement.Following LSU’s victory, Tigers coach Kim Mulkey said she would go to the White House if the team was invited.
LSU star Angel Reese tweeted a link to a story on Jill Biden’s remarks Monday. “A JOKE,” she wrote, along with three rolling-on-floor-laughing emojis.
Hey, Jill Biden! Winners go to the White House. Losers go home and practice:
LSU’s Angel Reese blasts Jill Biden’s Iowa White House invitation: ‘A joke’ https://t.co/ET13Wnsi7g pic.twitter.com/nxMHqyKIml
— New York Post (@nypost) April 4, 2023
Women getting invited to the White House isn’t what it used to be. Remember when Jill Biden gave a Courage Award to a Trans Woman?
Which really made the hypocrisy oozy when Jill ended her talk about the NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship with:
In her remarks, Biden also marveled at how far women’s sports in the U.S. have come since Title IX in 1972 gave women equal rights in sports at schools that receive federal funding.
“It was so exciting, wasn’t it?” she said. “It was such a great game. I’m old enough that I remember when we got Title IX. We fought so hard, right? We fought so hard. And look at where women’s sports have come today.”
She doesn’t hear herself, does she? The words roll around in her brain and slip out of her mouth without any awareness at all. Yes, women’s sports have come a long way and now they are being erased by trans, which Jill supports.
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Having them both is akin to getting a participation trophy.
Dumb idea!!…Looks like Foggy Joe is not the only daffy one in the white house !
Perhaps Kamala will be on hand with stirring and noble words of encouragement as she recently did to a the losers of a mens college game. “You played hard. You played to the very last second. You made us all so, so proud.”
of their greatness in that no one gave up and played hard until the end if the game!
A more appropriate comparison of Reese and Clark would be to call them the Magic Johnson and Larry Bird of women’s basketball. Bird and Johnson faced each other in the 1979 Men’s championship game, and then for several years in the NBA, as Reese and Clark likely will in the WNBA.
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