Message to Every Friend of Dorothy

 

Hoop and Hate

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If the New York Liberty win today's Game 4 of the WNBA finals, they'll capture the franchise's first league title, overcoming a resilient Minnesota Lynx team, the defensive player of the year . . . and homophobic death threats.

I don't think Vegas oddsmakers figured in the latter.

After Game 1 of the series, Marta Xargay, wife of Liberty superstar Breanna Stewart, received anti-gay death threats via email. The couple alerted the league, and the NYPD is investigating.

Minnesota beat New York in Game 1, in part because Stewart blew a free throw at the end of regulation, which makes me suspect the email is more likely to have come from Montauk than Minnetonka.

Social media abuse against WNBA players, much of it racial, rose this season. "Why is this happening? Because we are the most inclusive league in all of professional sports and I can say that with confidence. But there’s no place for hate," said Stewart.

Apparently receiving death threats against your family can focus a person, as Stewart had a monster Game 2. But as motivators go, that one purely sucks.

This Week's Quote

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Before his milestone 100th birthday, former President Jimmy Carter told his family he wanted to hold on to support Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. On Wednesday, he cast his ballot for the vice president.

Savannah Kuchar and Marina Pitofsky

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Beats Enslaving Someone

 

Blast From the Past

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Unless you're deceased, you know that America is in the midst of a presidential campaign.

Which prompted the website History Facts to present some of the more notable presidential campaign slogans over the years. The Democratic candidate in 1928, New York Gov. Al Smith, opposed Prohibition, so he was considered a "wet" candidate.

That led to this campaign slogan:  "Vote for Al Smith and Make Your Wet Dreams Come True."

He lost.

Couldn't Agree More

 

This Week's Quote

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My third grade teacher called my mother and said, "Ms. Cox, your son is going to end up in New Orleans in a dress if we don't get him into therapy." And wouldn't you know, just last week I spoke at Tulane University, and I wore a lovely green and black dress.

Laverne Cox

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