Are you a unicellular organism? Do you feel like too much of today’s sports talk is just a bunch of nerds and women screaming about analytics, or that everyone on TV is talking too fast? Do you miss smoking in hospital wards? Next, Jason Whitlock dug up some stale fruit disguised as sports pictures, just for you.
Two decades ago Hunter S. Thompson opined in a column that, “the downward spiral of stupidity in America is about to hit a new low.” In 2023, look no further than Whitlock. On Tuesday morning, Whitlock used his platform to whine about the visibility of women’s basketball on SportsCenter.
Another poor attempt
Of all the things to be angry about, ranting about women’s hoops being too front and center is almost cartoonishly misogynistic. When Whitlock isn’t running around wearing his dark soul, Whitlock is trolling. Twitter gave him a new way to test his poor results. Whitlock is a dark soul. Other than that, there’s no depth to him other than an insidious desire to pile on, show solidarity with supremacy movements, and see everyone as miserable and full of grievances as he is.
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For every obnoxious Stephen A. Smith speech, Whitlock is several levels of hell below that challenges the lowest common denominator to stay relevant. At a time when women in sports face threats of violence in ever-increasing numbers, Whitlock is an insurgent with a platform that provokes outrage at their presence on Sports center. The replies to his complaining tweet are a series of false complaints about women’s sports being given more prominence than men’s sports.
But here’s the point. Despite his complaining, he still watches SportsCenter. Nobody told him that women’s basketball comes in a package? Whitlock is the only one kicking up a dust up about women’s basketball hosting SportsCenter because that’s his modus operandi.
Arrangements on the spot
His twisted mind conjured up some anti-masculine, feminist agenda at work within the largely male-run ESPN fold as their highlights menu expanded Monday night, because he’s a simple-minded buffoon. ESPN made a deal worth half a billion dollars from the 2011 NCAA this conditioned the network broadcast of highly ranked women’s games. Caitlin Clark is the best player in the country, and her opening highlights on a career night when there is no prominent story to take the lead is common sense for anyone with adequate critical thinking skills.
The world leader also has a multimillion-dollar contract with the WNBA to broadcast about twenty regular season games a year, and Clark is expected to be one of the brightest new faces in the league next season. Watching her and a host of other women’s basketball highlights won’t poison minds as much as hearing Whitlock’s speech will.
Diversity is the spice of life. ESPN hosts every debate show with the Dallas Cowboys or a stupid segment where Stephen A. Smith mocks “America’s Team”. Jalen Rose, recently subtweeted Stephen A’s tired gloating after every Cowboys loss. There’s a lot more to dig than the latest from JerryWorld or the superficial trappings of rearranging the quarterback hierarchy after every match. There is a world outside men’s sports.
Whitlock is the same journalist who advocated Kyrie Irving and Kanye West during the scandals surrounding their antisemitic comments, the screaming about agendas and women’s sports is not surprising. He has a history of this sort of thing. He’s perfect for the fringe audience on right-leaning Blaze TV where his conspiracy theories can flourish in the dark. Whitlock is a food lover from the bottom of the food market where his bread is buttered. If anyone has an agenda, it’s him and his obsessive admiration Ron DeSantis and the extreme right crept into his work. They’ll keep spouting nonsense because Whitlock is a pointless, attention-seeking joke.