{"id":4285,"date":"2024-08-15T23:06:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T23:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=4285"},"modified":"2024-08-15T23:06:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T23:06:13","slug":"sam-ponders-old-comments-about-transgender-athletes-are-doing-the-rounds-on-social-media-after-espn-terminated-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=4285","title":{"rendered":"Sam Ponder\u2019s Old Comments About Transgender Athletes Are Doing The Rounds On Social Media After ESPN Terminated Her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Ponder\u2019s previous comments on transgender athletes are going viral again following her release from ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Ponder, who took over hosting \u2018Sunday\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NFL<\/a>\u00a0Countdown\u2019 for the network in 2017, was fired on Thursday. The Worldwide Leader in Sports also let\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/tag\/robert-griffin-iii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Griffin III<\/a>\u00a0go.<\/p>\n<p>The Athletic\u2019s Andrew Marchand, who broke the story, reported that the firings were budget-related. Still, there has been lots of speculation over whether what she had to say about transgender athletes last year had something to do with the decision to terminate her.<\/p>\n<p>Several social media accounts, including that of swimmer Riley Gaines, have implied that Ponder was fired because she opposed men\u2019s participation in women\u2019s sports.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">ESPN is a joke. We stand with Sam Ponder. \ud83d\udc9c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VmHiBxDjL5\">https:\/\/t.co\/VmHiBxDjL5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Riley_Gaines_\/status\/1824172304882077755?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI barely said anything publicly abt this issue &amp; I\u2019ve had so many ppl msg me, stop me in the street to say thank you + tell me stories abt girls who are afraid to speak up for fear of lost employment\/being called hateful,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>the sportscaster.<em>\u00a0\u201cIt is not hateful to demand fairness in sports for girls.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-sam-ponder-stuck-to-her-guns\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sam Ponder Stuck To Her Guns<\/h2>\n<p>Ponder\u2019s tweet was a polarizing one. While she was lauded for speaking out against the woke agenda, lots of people\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/05\/28\/espn-host-sam-ponders-support-for-fairness-in-womens-sports-plain-old-bigotry-columnist-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">accused her of bigotry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She refused to back down from the take and, just earlier this month, tipped her hat to\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/tag\/kirk-herbstreit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kirk Herbstreit<\/a>\u00a0for saying men do not belong in women\u2019s sports, adding he does not care about the backlash.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Of course not. Ridiculous question <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SpwZ07zewv\">https:\/\/t.co\/SpwZ07zewv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kirk Herbstreit (@KirkHerbstreit) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KirkHerbstreit\/status\/1820833772247429341?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m done giving any s***s at all about any of it. It\u2019s almost like there are two different sets of rules, and if you have a view that\u2019s a little more traditional, or I\u2019m a Christian guy, it\u2019s like there is a different set of rules for that viewpoint,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>he told OutKick in an interview.<em>\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s hard to just turn the other cheek time after time after time.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"incontent-ad-3\" class=\"pw-incontent\" data-label=\"Advertisement\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pw-ad-scroll-container\" data-pw-in-article=\"true\">Given her talent, Sam Ponder will likely land another media job soon. But ESPN has to figure out who\u2019s going to replace her now.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Ponder\u2019s previous comments on transgender athletes are going viral again following her release from ESPN. Ponder, who took over hosting \u2018Sunday\u00a0NFL\u00a0Countdown\u2019 for the network in 2017, was fired on &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4287,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285\/revisions\/4287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}