Studying columns and information reviews about girls’s sports activities will be heavy and triggering.
Good Good Golf and Callaway at the moment are dealing with backlash over a horrific video commercial selling a model partnership between the 2 firms.
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Within the advert, a feminine worker reaches for a Callaway driver that includes a Good Good brand. Good Good co-founder Garrett Clark expenses at her from the background and pushes into her again together with his forearm. She falls to the bottom, smiling, and he stands over her and says very menacingly, “Don’t contact my new driver.”
The advert depicting violence in opposition to girls was shortly deleted, however the injury was completed. As soon as it is on-line, it is simple to search out and watch.
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The advert was meant to spoof the psychological thriller/horror film “Obsession,” Good Good Golf founder and CEO Matt Kendrick stated.
His assertion has been disputed and in addition criticized. Callaway issued two statements and admitted they wrongly accepted the advert. The PGA Tour was not completely satisfied. PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp on Tuesday informed reporters that he was dissatisfied in Good Good’s response to the controversy, saying that the corporate didn’t present sufficient accountability.
Callaway golf golf equipment are displayed at a Dick’s Sporting Items retailer on August 26, 2026 in Glendale, California. Callaway Golf and Good Good Golf apologized after a promotional video for a co-branded driver drew widespread backlash for depicting a male golfer shoving a feminine golfer to the bottom, prompting each firms to take away the commercial and Callaway to acknowledge that it had accepted the video earlier than its launch. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Pictures)
With an upcoming PGA Tour occasion sponsored by the collaboration, Callaway moved quick.
Notably, it wasn’t only a small minority of “woke” individuals opposing this, as Dick’s Sporting Items and Costco pulled the Callaway and Good Good Golf merchandise off their cabinets, in accordance with Entrance Workplace Sports activities.
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On Thursday, Callaway introduced it has lower all ties with Good Good Golf. Callaway stated it’s also donating $1 million to assist organizations that work to stop home violence in opposition to girls and assist survivors.
Sigh. How this advert made it by way of the Callaway approval course of has many shaking their heads. Good Good Golf is a media firm with greater than 2 million subscribers on YouTube and a once-thriving enterprise mannequin with a derivative, sadly named Good Good Ladies, with one other 176,000 subscribers.
Home violence getting used as a joke is not humorous. Let this be a lesson to “new media.”
Here is some lighter girls’s sports activities price watching:
Claire Hutton #8 of Bay FC controls the ball throughout the NWSL match between Bay FC and Seattle Reign at PayPal Park on August 01, 2026, in San Jose, California. (Brandon Vallance/NWSL by way of Getty Pictures)
Ted Lasso
The Apple TV sequence “Ted Lasso” turns its concentrate on girls’s European soccer in its fourth season and options good writing you do not need to miss. My favourite forged members, Hannah Waddingham as Rebecca Welton and Juno Temple as Keeley Jones, lead an unimaginable forged of newcomers. Tanya Reynolds as assistant coach Alice Chilton and Abbie Hern as Gemma be a part of the sequence, that includes actors and girls’s sports activities supporters Jason Sudeikis and Brendan Hunt.
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As highlighted beforehand within the Occasions Union by Kyra Santicola, Bethlehem’s Claire Hutton, who performs within the Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League for Bay FC, seems within the first episode as Coach Lasso is recruited again to Richmond to educate a brand new girls’s group, the Woman Greyhounds. Filmed at Hutton’s house stadium when she performed for the Kansas Metropolis Present, the sequence itself makes an incredible leap of religion by investing within the girls’s recreation.
4 episodes in, the sequence has explored many points and advances surrounding girls’s sports activities, together with inequities in amenities and primary provides. The present additionally showcases girls’s groups’ means to draw followers with distinctive advertising and marketing and recruitment methods, with a easy perspective: Consider.
Kinley Rasmus of Little League Group Southeast poses for a photograph throughout the 2026 Little League Traditional offered by New York Life between the Atlanta Braves and the Milwaukee Brewers at Journey Financial institution Ballpark at Historic Bowman Area on Sunday, August 23, 2026, in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. (Hailey Leonard/MLB Images by way of Getty Pictures)
“Worry the Bow”
Two-way participant Kinley Rasmus can be without end within the historical past books of the Little League World Sequence. The pitcher and hitter for Phenix Metropolis, Alabama, ended her glorious sequence along with her group’s loss on Wednesday.
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The 12-year-old Rasmus had 14 strikeouts within the event, tying Mo’ne Davis (Philadelphia, 2014) for probably the most strikeouts by a lady in sequence historical past. She is thought for her signature white hair bow and the group and followers have embraced her by chanting “Worry the Bow” throughout video games.
On Tuesday, Rasmus set a brand new file for hits by a lady on the LLWS, recording 5 hits and three RBIs.
On Wednesday night time, her group’s run led to an 11-2 loss to Hamilton, Ohio, within the U.S. Elimination Bracket Semifinal.
Baseball and softball are a part of the household’s athletic historical past. Her uncle, Case Rasmus, who performed 4 years within the minors, manages Phenix Metropolis. Her dad Cory, a former main leaguer, additionally coaches the squad. Case’s son Ryker performs first base and pitches for the group.
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Her mother, Jill, performed softball for the Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles.
Paige Bueckers of the Dallas Wings shoots over Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever throughout the second half at American Airways Heart on August 20, 2026, in Dallas, Texas. (Stacy Revere/Getty Pictures)
WNBA and the UConn dynasty
The WNBA will break for the FIBA Girls’s Basketball World Cup subsequent week, and the postseason groups are set after Paige Bueckers led the Dallas Wings to the ultimate playoff spot, becoming a member of Minnesota, Golden State, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Indiana, New York and Washington.
Along with watching Group USA within the World Cup, put aside a while to take a look at “The Dynasty: UConn Huskies,” a three-part sequence, additionally on Apple TV.
Seeing numerous levels of the dynasty – masking 40 years – go by way of Albany within the NCAA tournaments, attending video games at Gampel Pavilion on the principle campus in Storrs and the previous XL Heart in Hartford, the documentary, for me as a school basketball fan, brings again so many recollections. I used to be within the stands watching the pivotal recreation of the 2025 Championship season in Columbia, S.C. The Huskies’ blowout win that day over Daybreak Staley’s Gamecocks is a serious a part of the storyline within the last episode.
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The behind-the-scenes take a look at Geno Auriemma is unsettling to observe. It is not shocking.
“Coach has a really distinctive approach to get the very best out of his gamers,” Bueckers stated, echoing her many teammates featured within the sequence.
Former gamers and reporters shrug off his aggressive, usually abusive type as a result of, for probably the most half, he introduced out the very best in them and their groups. Bueckers, the documentary factors out, barely survived his techniques. His win-loss file and 12 NCAA titles definitely are unimaginable.
Is successful all that issues? On the collegiate degree, in fact it’s.
Ought to he have give up after getting his twelfth NCAA Division I championship with Bueckers, probably the greatest to ever put on a Huskies uniform?
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I’d say sure. His verbal altercation with South Carolina coach Daybreak Staley eventually 12 months’s Remaining 4, when South Carolina snapped the Huskies’ 54-game successful streak, is a stain on his legacy. It is not the one stain. Keep in mind that Auriemma and Pat Summitt had a extreme verbal {and professional} falling out that led Tennessee to abruptly cancel the groups’ historic rivalry sequence in 2007.
The Huskies go into the 2026-2027 season as favorites as soon as once more, on the shoulders of Sarah Robust.
I’ve by no means been a giant Auriemma fan. I am even much less of a fan after watching the documentary.
However I like all his gamers, particularly once they go on to play within the WNBA.
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This text initially revealed at Bassett: Why Callaway simply severed all ties with Good Good Golf.
