{"id":422019,"date":"2022-03-26T22:30:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T19:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/common-sense-fairness-not-applied-in-lia-thomas-case\/"},"modified":"2022-03-26T22:30:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T19:30:28","slug":"common-sense-fairness-not-applied-in-lia-thomas-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/common-sense-fairness-not-applied-in-lia-thomas-case\/","title":{"rendered":"#Common sense, fairness not applied in Lia Thomas&#8217; case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2814979cc4c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2814979cc4c\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/common-sense-fairness-not-applied-in-lia-thomas-case\/#%E2%80%9CCommon_sense_fairness_not_applied_in_Lia_Thomas_case%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Common sense, fairness not applied in Lia Thomas&#8217; case&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/common-sense-fairness-not-applied-in-lia-thomas-case\/#Gumbel_gets_%E2%80%98Real_by_getting_hypocritical\" >Gumbel gets \u2018Real\u2019 by getting hypocritical<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/common-sense-fairness-not-applied-in-lia-thomas-case\/#TV_steals_TOs_from_coaches\" >TV steals TOs from coaches<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CCommon_sense_fairness_not_applied_in_Lia_Thomas_case%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Common sense, fairness not applied in Lia Thomas&#8217; case&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/phil-mushnick.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Phil Mushnick\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/phil-mushnick.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/phil-mushnick.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>     <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>You\u2019re likely familiar with the scene. A rube sits down at the poker table and asks W.C. Fields, \u201cIs this a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> of chance?\u201d He answers, \u201cNot the way I play it, no.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That brings us to the ongoing Lia Thomas debate. Perhaps the most ludicrous element is that there is any debate.<\/p>\n<p>Would we debate the veracity of a crooked card game, a fixed ballgame, a rigged horse race, the cleanliness of any \u201csports\u201d event in which the winner is determined as a matter of a conspicuous, undeniable and insurmountably unfair, thus unsporting, advantage?<\/p>\n<p>Yet to offer such a common sense-driven opinion is to risk being condemned as a backward-minded, far right-wing political miscreant \u2014 transphobic, homophobic, woefully intolerant and even a hate-monger, as if denying the right of Thomas to her pursuit of h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>iness.<\/p>\n<p>But name-calling has become the easy response and dismissal as opposed to engaging in thoughtful exchanges.<\/p>\n<p>And if Thomas destroys the fair-play rights of those young women she competes against \u2014 their pursuit of happiness through legitimate competitive achievement \u2014 so what? That\u2019s not her problem, that\u2019s theirs. As far as Thomas is concerned, they can go to hell.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just the response of new-wave <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> engineers or even lunatics with no applicable sense of right from wrong, but even by the Biden White House, which has declared its unconditional support for transexuals to do and be as they wish.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/liathomas1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Lia Thomas\" class=\"wp-image-21671913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/liathomas1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/liathomas1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/liathomas1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Lia Thomas<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">USA TODAY Sports<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In theory, I\u2019m all in on that. I\u2019d provide my support. But not unconditionally. And that makes me what, a bigot? Do as you wish? Sure. But to anyone you wish? No way.<\/p>\n<p>In practice, at least in the case of Ms. Thomas, the former non-achiever on the University of Pennsylvania men\u2019s swimming team, it\u2019s preposterous \u2014 especially as she has \u201cearned\u201d an NCAA championship and set a Ivy League time record.<\/p>\n<p>As a male, Bruce Jenner was among the best athletes in the world. At the 1976 Olympics he won the 10-event decathlon, if that counts for anything.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/liathomas2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"University of Pennsylvania transgender swimmer Lia Thomas won the 500-yard freestyle at the NCAA Women's Swimming &amp;Diving Championships.\" class=\"wp-image-21671897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/liathomas2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/liathomas2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/liathomas2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>University of Pennsylvania transgender swimmer Lia Thomas won the 500-yard freestyle at the NCAA championships.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">USA TODAY Sports<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yet Wednesday, as Caitlyn Jenner, she tweeted that Thomas\u2019s swimming triumphs against women are bogus:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not transphobic or anti-trans, it\u2019s COMMON SENSE!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, Thomas swims on and wins on, leaving vanquished young women literally in her wake. Prior to her national attention, at least three girls and women\u2019s high school and college track championships have been won \u2014 and easily \u2014 by males transitioned to females.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the debate as to whether common sense should be applied or abandoned, whether fair play should be lost to incontrovertibly unfair play, continues. That\u2019s debatable?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well, now let\u2019s get back to common-sense matters, such as throwing tens of millions of dollars at mostly ordinary NFL TV voices, though not one has the ability to make a single soul watch.<\/p>\n<p>Common sense. Going, going, gone.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/bryant_gumbel.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Bryant Gumbel\" class=\"wp-image-21671956\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/bryant_gumbel.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/bryant_gumbel.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/bryant_gumbel.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Bryant Gumbel<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Gumbel_gets_%E2%80%98Real_by_getting_hypocritical\"><\/span>Gumbel gets \u2018Real\u2019 by getting hypocritical<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Oddly enough, the latest edition of HBO\u2019s \u201cReal Sports with Bryant Gumbel\u201d includes a piece on the skiing Cochran family \u2014 world class and Olympic skiers that operate a ski school in Vermont, a school that gives special attention to disadvantaged and physically impaired kids.<\/p>\n<p>How did this pass muster with the show\u2019s master, Bryant Gumbel?<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the start of the 2006 Winter Olympics, Gumbel used his \u201cReal Sports\u201d platform to speak one of the most blindly bigoted, ignorant racial screeds, yet walked away untouched, his incendiary, small-minded words fully indulged, then forgotten. Or, in the words of the winter sports season, he skated.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel: Skiing Cochrans Clip | HBO\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UO2hQLiPRgo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Here goes:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinally, tonight, the Winter Games. Count me among those who don\u2019t care about them and won\u2019t watch them. In fact, I figure that when Thomas Paine said that these are the times that try men\u2019s souls, he must\u2019ve been talking about the start of another Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause they\u2019re so trying, maybe over the next three weeks we should all try, too. Like, try not to be incredulous when someone attempts to link these games to those of the ancient Greeks who never heard of skating or skiing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo try not to laugh when someone says these are the world\u2019s greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention. Try not to point out that something\u2019s not really a sport if a pseudo-athlete waits in what\u2019s called a kiss-and-cry area, while some panel of subjective judges decides who won.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd try to blot out all logic when announcers and sportswriters pretend to care about the luge, the skeleton, the biathlon and all those other events they don\u2019t understand and totally ignore for all but three weeks every four years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the Winter Games were not worthy of his attention because they were predominantly contested by white athletes. Their devotion and training to become the best in their chosen sport meant nothing to Gumbel because they were mostly white and he was unfamiliar with the events.<\/p>\n<p>How much did he know about the Summer Games\u2019 hammer throw or Greco-Roman wrestling? Would he have said the same had he still been employed by NBC, the Olympics network?<\/p>\n<p>Not that Gumbel would have dared stooped so low as to watch those Olympics, but Shani Davis, a speed skater from Chicago \u2014 the city in which Gumbel was raised \u2014 became the first black to win an individual Winter Games gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>And now \u201cReal Sports with Bryant Gumbel\u201d has further betrayed Gumbel\u2019s dimwitted racism and ignorance to present a piece on a white family from Vermont that has devoted itself to, ugh, skiing.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"TV_steals_TOs_from_coaches\"><\/span>TV steals TOs from coaches<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Reader Michael Parente is the first of several who have written to wonder how Bobby Knight would respond to conducting a live, on-court interview during an NCAA Tournament game instead of coaching his team during a time out. Regardless, this is the latest in feckless \u201clook what we can do!\u201d (what we pay the NCAA for) TV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoach, what would you be telling your team if you weren\u2019t forced to stand here talking to me?\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>The NIT semis and finals reportedly are leaving the Garden after this year. The NIT in the Garden is where the Knicks fully discovered a player who led Southern Illinois to the 1967 title with a win over Marquette, a player by the name of Walt Frazier.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>World gone nuts, continued: The NFL\u2019s Panthers, after investing $170 million in a new project, want the city of Charlotte to kick in the balance, $630 million. That\u2019s $800 million to build the team a new practice facility. The Panthers were among the first NFL teams to demand PSLs.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/bobknight3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Bob Knight\" class=\"wp-image-10793778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/bobknight3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/bobknight3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/bobknight3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/bobknight3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Bob Knight argues with a referee during an Indiana game in 1999.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>Yet again, the NCAA Tournament final will be another fight-sleep, TV money-first challenge to more than half the nation\u2019s population. Tip-off time, Monday, April 4 on CBS, will be sometime after 9 p.m. Only TV money \u2014 prime-time ad revenue on both coasts \u2014 prevents it from being an all-in, greatest-good watch on, say, a late Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>There are sports gambling apps that invite \u201clightning bets\u201d or \u201caction bets\u201d in which those who cover the spread are paid more for every point scored beyond the cover and lose more for every point by which they fail to cover. Such action targets those afflicted by a gambling disease, those who lose more \u2014 often far more \u2014 than intended, as the odds, by definition, favor the house.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>Grant Hill seems like a lovely fellow, but Monday night I\u2019d trade him for Jim Spanarkel, Dan Bonner, Avery Johnson or Steve Lappas. 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A rube sits down at the poker table and asks W.C. Fields, \u201cIs this a game of chance?\u201d He answers, \u201cNot the way I play it, no.\u201d That brings us to the ongoing Lia Thomas debate. 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