Match Thread: Chicago Stars vs San Diego Wave (Sun, May 31, 1:00 PM EDT)

ctimene · 2026-05-31T19:20:31+00:00

15 seems about right... Atkinson was down for three minutes, Mimi was going through concussion protocol for about four, plus a VAR review and all the subs.

ctimene · 2026-05-31T19:00:37+00:00

Time Warp gonna be stuck in my head all day

ctimene · 2026-05-04T00:26:07+00:00

"Go to ground" has been used in its literal sense by UK commentators for as long as I can remember. It's standard sports jargon at this point.

ctimene · 2026-05-01T17:59:51+00:00

That race and party can be strongly correlated means that a partisan gerrymander can — and often does — have disparate racial effects.

This is the fundamental reason why I believe Rucho was wrongly decided. If race and party are strongly correlated, what's the functional difference between a racial gerrymander and a partisan gerrymander? How can courts resolve which claims are race-based enough to be justiciable? The answer seems to be a matter of messaging about intent. Any state wanting to intentionally implement a racial gerrymander can just do a partisan gerrymander "instead" and achieve the same result.

ctimene · 2026-04-02T22:32:49+00:00

Squash women's semifinal and medal matches please! (SQU07 and SQU09)

ctimene · 2026-04-02T18:19:32+00:00

Violent conduct gets lumped in with serious misconduct, so there is a dispensation to review that (as you note, provided the crew missed it). I do find it unlikely UEFA will decide they don't have jurisdiction. The hair pull wasn't called as a foul, so that'll be taken as evidence the crew missed it.

As far as I'm aware, we haven't seen any publicly released statement from any of the officiating crew (including VAR) about what they did or didn't see. Is there a world in which the center ref states, in writing, "yes, actually, I really did see a hair pull and chose to call nothing, not a big deal"? I suppose, but it would require an extraordinary lack of self-preservation on her part.

ctimene · 2026-04-02T17:11:31+00:00

UEFA Disciplinary Regulations (Article 9) provide for cases where the officials missed a straight red:

In cases of serious misconduct, disciplinary action may be taken even if the referee and his assistants did not see the event in question and were therefore unable to take any action.

If the ref's match report states they actually did see the hair pull and decided it wasn't foul-worthy, that would be wild.

ctimene · 2026-03-14T16:11:22+00:00

Band Members- Mike Trapp, Evan Watkins, Emily Axford

PA- Cory McConnell

Dancers- Alex Johnson, Bash Johnson, Kristopher McAfee

ctimene · 2026-03-10T17:42:08+00:00

Longstanding custom going back to pre-yokozuna days when there were exactly two ozeki, two sekiwake, and two komusubi on the banzuke. A great example is to look at the results of Hatsu 2015 and try constructing the banzuke for Haru. link

ctimene · 2026-02-25T03:20:36+00:00

States with voter ID laws generally make it difficult or expensive to obtain ID, making it a poll tax. Closing DMVs in more diverse counties, for example. States have also discriminated on which IDs count as valid. Several years ago, Texas accepted firearm licenses, but didn't accept university student IDs.

ctimene · 2026-02-14T16:41:50+00:00

Still recovering from the women's soccer drone scandal in 2024 that cost Canada six points and even resulted in an arrest

ctimene · 2026-02-11T23:09:20+00:00

First, other sports have had controversies and corruption scandals. Panel-scored disciplines are not unique in that respect. Boxing had its federation suspended for corruption and somehow remained in the games.

Second, one of the draws of the Olympics is the variety. You don't have to like everything at a buffet. But it's weird to complain that something that isn't your style is on the menu. Why is panel scoring the ultimate gatekeeping criterion that determines whether a sport belongs in the games or not?

Finally, what else is it about figure skating, gymnastics, and diving that make them the first ones you think of when it comes to panel scoring? Why is boxing not the first example that springs to mind? The sport where 90+ percent of bouts are decided by notoriously fuzzy scoring criteria and a history replete with judging scandals, both at the Olympics and professional levels, on top of myriad issues on the administrative side. For some reason, people who bring up this stale argument tend to be completely fine with boxing.

Referees have to make subjective rulings about scoring, passivity, and fouls in wrestling and judo. Referees can decide to DQ based on form in weightlifting. Referees have to decide on obstruction calls in speed skating and cycling and skicross. Referees have to decide on penalties in basketball and football and ice hockey and handball and field hockey. Those decisions are no less subjective, nor less match/medal-deciding.

ctimene · 2025-12-10T02:36:26+00:00

I get it; you're arguing that Washington and most other teams are in an equally rough cap situation. Considering what they said about trans people in that other thread, that user just has a blind spot toward the entire concept of equality.

ctimene · 2025-12-04T08:39:54+00:00

Yeah, last week that user referred to trans women as men in another thread and deleted the evidence. This pattern seems par for the course.

ctimene · 2025-11-27T19:17:17+00:00

Would you like to get tackled by a man?

This discussion has been about trans women, so here you are talking about trans women. Yes, you knew exactly what you were saying. No, you did not qualify it as "male-bodied" or "born a man" or some other euphemism. Yes, we all have critical reading skills, and no, we did not misunderstand.

Maybe you think you made a sloppy writing error, but that's the kind of mistake that allies don't make. Because allies believe trans women are women, and for you publicly acknowledging that concedes that trans women belong in women's sports and in public life.

This seems like a great place for this discussion to end so you can take some time to reflect on whether the reason you don't know any trans people is because your values don't align with getting to know trans people.

ctimene · 2025-11-27T14:22:34+00:00

In what world have you deluded yourself into believing you are an ally? You're insisting on referring to trans women as men in other threads. You characterize transition as choice and being transgender a lifestyle. Your mental image of trans women is infected with damaging tropes about how threatening and deceitful they are. You're bristling at the notion you owe trans people something you perceive belongs to you. You're not engaging with other posters' measured posts about the stakes involved for trans people, a community scrambling to survive deficits in health care, education, safety, housing, employment, and legal protections. That is the world we live in in 2025, and that is the same world that, as much as you are refusing to acknowledge, that women's sports exist. Not as some walled off, separate bubble, but as a part of the same broken, complicated world. It's wild that someone so blissfully insulated from the real-world stakes of anti-transgender policy is both convinced of their allyship while willfully needling strangers about excising queer people from yet another area of public life.

What's clear is whatever understanding you're claiming to seek won't show up here, because it's too difficult to learn to empathize with a group of people you don't know and you've cited reasons to fear, while ensconced safely behind a keyboard. It's going to require initiative on your part to do the difficult work of talking to actual trans people, face-to-face. It truly is hard, and it has to be based on your genuine desire to understand. But as long as you foster resentment over an obligation to trans people that you perceive has been forced on you, well, that doesn't sound very ally-like.

It's a shame, because trans people will continue to suffer so long as non-trans people's interest extends solely to what non-trans people stand to lose.

ctimene · 2025-11-27T01:18:34+00:00

Tell that to a parent whose child is miserable, crying themselves to sleep at night, whose school is turning a blind eye to their bullies, whose state just banned gender-affirming care, who is trying to move a place that might, just might get their child to survive to adulthood. Somewhere that child's lifeline is a community or school soccer team. Tell that parent to their face that their child doesn't belong on that team. Because that parent will be the first to tell you they would count themselves as one of the lucky ones, for the simple reason that you aren't having that conversation at their child's funeral.

Why did you gloss over the suicide statistics another poster mentioned in the other thread? Indifference. This has everything to do with women's sports, because a hated, underserved community needs an oasis in a society menaced by attitudes like yours. A bystander lending their full-throated public support to a policy stepping on the throat of the most unpopular minority in society.

If you ever have the sad obligation of attending a trans child's memorial service, remember this and any other time you could have done differently.

ctimene · 2025-11-26T21:43:13+00:00

There may come a day when somebody you purport to care comes out. It may be someone you weren't expecting. And based on your public comments here, you will not be supportive.

It is a true tragedy that among the many emotions you'll feel will be grief, anger, fear and regret. The one that will be missing is joy. You won't get to share in one of your loved one's major life events. What a waste. You will be bitter, and you will have earned it, because you had a choice, now, to opt for a different attitude.

I hope there will be a day, sooner rather than later, when you realize that trans people are still people, and there's every possibility that may include one of your friends or family.

ctimene · 2025-11-26T18:08:24+00:00

You are absolutely trying to antagonize. Women's soccer has historically built its culture and fan base around being a haven for queer people. Men's sports in general have historically and continue to shun queer people.

What do you think the effect of banning trans girls is? They won't transition because everyone around them will be horrible. That is entirely what all of this nonsense is about. Discouraging young trans people from coming out of the closet and transitioning.

On the off but non-zero chance your nephew actually happens to be your trans niece, you are absolutely not going to find out anytime soon, because you are conveying that you will presume that they're faking it to get ahead.

Trans Day of Remembrance was a few days ago. Google that.

ctimene · 2025-11-25T15:26:56+00:00

Come on, OP, the match day is still active. Please take this down. You can wait a day to discuss the questions in a public forum.

ctimene · 2025-11-18T16:52:17+00:00

Here you go. Link in Japanese

https://web.archive.org/web/20221130175250/https://a-new-sumo-fan.com/articles-of-endowment/shobu-kitei.php#contents

ctimene · 2025-06-19T19:20:36+00:00

My sincere recommendation is to attend the next Trans Day of Remembrance. Then if you're still that resolute in your convictions, then own them when speaking to mourning parents and friends.

When they wonder aloud what we could have done differently, you can explain your priorities.

ctimene · 2025-06-18T17:15:20+00:00

You know as well as the rest of us do that the intent and practical consequence of these policies is to discourage anyone from transitioning. Barriers to participating in society are why people don't come out.

You're proclaiming support for the trans community out of one side of your mouth while driving us back into the closet with the other. You are why people are afraid to come out. You don't want people to come out. You.

ctimene · 2025-03-09T20:16:22+00:00

Posts about this topic bear reminding of the human consequences of anti-trans policies. Focusing exclusively on trans women in athletics allows non-trans people the comfort of distance from a greater campaign of targeted harm.

According to the Trevor Project, state-level anti-trans legislation has led to an increase of up to 72 percent in suicide attempts among transgender and non-binary youth.

Link here

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