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Erica M @ericamauter.com · 4h

Exactly.

Erica M @ericamauter.com · 4h

How about that?!

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Erica M @ericamauter.com · 13h

Between ICE and the price, is anyone going to any World Cup games in the U.S.?

Nancy Armour @nrarmour.bsky.social · 13h

FIFA keeps saying next year’s World Cup will grow the game’s fan base here. But Super Bowl-esque ticket prices aren’t the way to entice new or casual fans, let alone families.
As always with FIFA, greed wins out.

FIFA cheapens 2026 World Cup by pricing ordinary fans out of games | Opinion

After super-sizing the 2026 World Cup by expanding it to 48 teams in 2026, FIFA is jacking up ticket prices, excluding middle-class families.

www.usatoday.com

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Erica M @ericamauter.com · 13h

I had about five different things I started to post about how fucked up this is and I’m just gonna not give it anymore attention because JFC.

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Erica M @ericamauter.com · 13h

Actually, is that similar? Maybe not. But, clearly not a coincidence that the “poorest” owners are the ones at the table.

Erica M @ericamauter.com · 13h

Similarly, while I hope the broader conversation around the players’ demands in the CBA continues to shift focus towards Adam Silver and NBA owners, it’s also notable that the vast majority of team owner reps on the bargaining committee are from teams that are *not* owned by NBA owners.

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Erica M @ericamauter.com · 14h

And most people involved (especially casual fans) weren’t old enough to have experienced that. Most of the owners who inherited their money are old enough or have parents who were on the other side of that, though.

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Erica M @ericamauter.com · 14h

And I’m often conflicted as a fan. I want these women to be equitably respected and invested in, but I hate leaning into the extreme capitalism of how that is conferred or reflected.

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Erica M @ericamauter.com · 14h

I really appreciate the foregrounding of the actual labor economics and history, not just the “drama.” It’s easy to blow it off b/c the athletes’ jobs are our entertainment, but it’s a real workers vs owners thing that’s also very present in the story of the recent success of women’s sports broadly.

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Erica M @ericamauter.com · 14h

There were probably other signs along the way but honestly once they gave it to Obama, it became pretty meaningless.

Ky (she/her) @kyalynn.bsky.social · 19h

celebrating the Nobel Peace Prize going to a woman, despite it going to a pro-genocide leader with close ties to the Trump administration, is peak 2025 “Feminism”

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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 20h

So Project B-- which is planning on a new 14 week globally traveling women's basketball league-- is created by a US tech executive and funded by the Saudi PIF? This shit deserves to die on the vine.

www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/202...

Project B aims to build global women’s basketball league, eyes men’s expansion

Former Google and Facebook exec Grady Burnett said that the venture he co-founded, Project B, features a women’s league that is still being built, while a men’s league could still be created.

www.sportsbusinessjournal.com

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Erica M @ericamauter.com · 14h

I feel like at this point the more I hear from her, the less I want to hear from her.

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Erica M @ericamauter.com · 15h

Regardless of my appetite or ability to do anything about this particular thing, it’s still pretty fucking bad. Which has been true of all the things we’ve seen this year. It’s all been shit.

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Erica M @ericamauter.com · 16h

Given what we’ve seen the entirety of this year I think we’re doing ourselves a disservice by not expecting the worst. By the time we know which version it is, it’ll be too late.

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Erica M @ericamauter.com · 16h

I have zero faith in the conservative machine broadly. Why else would they buy this company in the first place? It can’t possibly be just to save those folks from getting buried by those lawsuits.

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Erica M @ericamauter.com · 16h

That seems really bad.

Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 1d

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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Erica M @ericamauter.com · 16h

Remember how the Super Bowl started doing a big halftime show because 20 million people turned it off to watch a live episode of In Living Color?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

From @theathletic.com: Turning Point USA, the organization founded by the late right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, announced that it will be hosting its own Super Bowl halftime show on Feb. 8, 2026, to rival the NFL’s choice of Bad Bunny.

Turning Point USA, group founded by Charlie Kirk, announces Super Bowl halftime counterprogramming

Turning Point USA is calling its Super Bowl halftime show a celebration of "faith, family and freedom."

nyti.ms

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Nate Pentz @natepentz.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao Hanif.

Hanif insta story mocking Sophie Cunningham (maga Barbie)

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Erica M @ericamauter.com · 17h

a cat is peeking out from behind a table and says `` high five meow day '' .

Alt: a cat is peeking out from behind a table and says “high five meow day”

media.tenor.com

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David Berri @wagesofwins.bsky.social · 1d

It is fascinating how many men
a. know nothing about the WNBA
b. are not interested in the WNBA
c. have immensely strong opinions about the economics of the WNBA

We need to create special WNBA Dunning-Kruger stickers for these men:

"Congratulations! You are a WNBA Dunning-Kruger Effect!"🤣

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Erica M @ericamauter.com · 17h

This was a fantastic listen. And kinda dense; I was multitasking and missed stuff and had to rewind a few times. But a ton of great insight here.

No Cap Space WBB @nocapspacewbb.com · 1d

What does the WNBA's labor fight look like to someone that has intimate knowledge about how it all works?

On this week's Ball Up Top, Andrew is joined by former NBPA Executive Director Tamika Tremaglio to discuss a CBA negotiation for the ages.

What Comes Next in the WNBA's Labor Battle with Former NBPA Leader Tamika Tremaglio | Ball Up Top: A WBB Podcast

Tamika Tremaglio helped lead the negotiations for the NBA's Collective Bargaining Agreement in 2023 and advised on the WNBA's CBA in 2020. So what are her thoughts on the W's labor battle?

www.nocapspacewbb.com

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Erica M @ericamauter.com · 17h

It’s overalls season! *clip*clip*

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Erica M @ericamauter.com · 1d

Thinking about this alongside MLB’s ongoing labor talks, Bill Belichick at UNC, etc.

Erica M @ericamauter.com · 1d

On a recent episode of Good Game @sarahspain.com made a point about the sexism in the “the girlies are fighting” undertone to the #WNBA labor situation coverage and now I can’t unhear it (especially from some specific outlets).

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Erica M @ericamauter.com · 1d

Here’s a hint: Consider your use of the word “drama.”

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Erica M @ericamauter.com · 1d

On a recent episode of Good Game @sarahspain.com made a point about the sexism in the “the girlies are fighting” undertone to the #WNBA labor situation coverage and now I can’t unhear it (especially from some specific outlets).

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