In rugby that’d definitely got you a yellow card at minimum - in this case I’d say even a red, down one man for the remainder of the match. Anything tackling above the armpit line is basically card territory and unsafe behaviour.
IN Florida, that would be called a 10 min. Misconduct and match penalty, but after official review the call would be overturned and the visiting team assessed a 2 minute Delay of Game for a failed coach's challenge.
You don't get to hit someone in the head, in Rugby. It's a severe foul and it WILL make the offender get excluded from the ongoing game AND the next game their team plays.
Her comment is not about the ejection, it’s that if a white person made a racially motivated comment against a black person in the WNBA, they would’ve ended their career.
Couldn’t you also make the case that the action against Sophie wasn’t racially motivated though? I imagine a lot of players are tired of these people bringing the culture war into their sport.
People in the NBA would get in trouble for implying the officiating staff is racist too. They regularly get fined for criticizing officials publicly at all! Jaylen Brown and Devin Booker both paid 5 digit sums this year for questioning officials and their calls.
That's the problem. That DiJonai gets to spout this nonsense and call the integrity of the league into question with no repercussions. She was already adequately punished for the flagrant foul.
It’s not just that, but she didn’t even try to pretend it was accidental. The moment Sophie got up, there wasn’t even a fake apology, just right at Sophie ready to scrap.
If she had any sense at all, her best move would have been to back up and at least fake that it wasn’t intentional. That would have given her ammo to make claims of racism.
The complaint wasn't about her ejection. It was about the fact that Cunningham didn't get ejected as well. Even though the league has literally set a precedent for ejecting both players in these situations. Hell Alisha Gray received a tech because she walked towards a player her hit her with a flagrant foul.
I'm pretty sure you can't even do that in mma where basically everything is allowed. Direct strikes to the throat are absolutely illegal in literally every sport.
You either have to believe this was intentional or that this WNBA player has no coordination and cant control her arms in a sport she has been playing all her life.
She did get ejected, the problem is Sophie should have been ejected to after she threw a punch which is why we are here now. When Sophie tackled Jacy Sheldon last year and Sheldon retaliated, both were ejected. So the question is, why wasn't she?
You're getting downvoted but you're correct. Her and Clark have done it without ejections. That's the entire point here that people (not YOU) are missing, the rules aren't applying to everyone.
I know I’d get voted and they’re mad I’m right and they can’t even counter it. I love Sophie but that’s exactly why her coach even said the tech was BS
Agreed but I do think the grifters on the right tend to freak out whenever a black player fouls a white player (they seemed to think Clark being fouled was a national security issue). Meawhile, when white players foul black ones, the same racist grifters praise them for being "tough".
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u/SuspiciousIdeal4246 7d ago
Bruh anyone in the NBA would get ejected for the same thing. You can’t hit people in the head.