Tag: Megan Rapinoe

United States women’s national soccer team star Megan Rapinoe, has been named as Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year. The magazine selected Megan Rapinoe as the athlete whose performance embodied “the spirit of sportsmanship and achievement” and covered her year in a feature written by Jenny Vrentas.   Rapinoe who is the U.S. Women’s National

Women’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe continues her run of riling up Trump supporters, this time by sharing what she would tell Trump-supporting soccer fans. In an interview with Meet The Press, Rapinoe addressed a controversy-filled week without apology for her criticisms of Donald Trump. She also asserted that her elevated celebrity gives her the platform to bring attention to much-neglected issues, like Trump policies on racial equality, equal pay and LGBTQ rights. When host Chuck Todd pressed her on what she would...

While most of the country has been celebrating the U.S. Women Soccer team’s World Cup victory, the right-wing has been acting like a bunch of sore losers because of the number of out and outspoken lesbians on the U.S. team. President Trump has complained bitterly about star Megan Rapinoe who said she’d refuse to step foot in the White House. Compounding her offense in the eyes of the right: Rapinoe’s having taking a knee during the national anthem as a...

Megan Rapinoe Nike AdNew York police have opened a possible hate crime investigation after eight posters depicting out-lesbian soccer star Megan Rapinoe were defaced with homophobic graffiti. Commuters reported the graffiti to police after discovering it in Manhattan’s Bryant Park subway station. Nike posters showing Rapinoe on the field had been defaced with phrases like “shemale” and “screw this ho.” The Metropolitan Transit Authority responded immediately and notified police.”Hate has no place in the transit system and we work hard to...

Posters of soccer star Megan Rapinoe were defaced in New York City with homophobic slurs. The posters in the NYC subway showed Rapinoe in her U.S. Soccer Women’s National Team uniform with the phrase “Dream with us,” meant to celebrate the team’s World Cup victory. Police said that eight posters around the Bryant Park subway station in Manhattan were defaced with homophobic messages on Monday, just days before Rapinoe and her teammates came to New York for a ticker tape parade. “Hate...

Fresh of her win at the Women’s World Cup and the newfound megastardom that followed, out-lesbian soccer player Megan Rapinoe has slammed Donald Trump for his administration’s treatment of queer people. Rapinoe appeared on Anderson Cooper 360 to discuss her big win at the World Cup, and to address the already brewing controversy over her taking a knee during the National Anthem. She had previously said she would kneel as a sign of solidarity with football player Colin Kaepernick, who knelt...

Soccer star Megan Rapinoe would beat Donald Trump in the 2020 election, according to a new poll. Saying it was responding to “popular demand,” the political research firm Public Policy Polling (PPP) asked registered voters if they would vote for the captain of the U.S. Soccer Women’s National Team or the former host of The Apprentice. Rapinoe won, 42% to 41%. Not only did she lead her team to victory in the Women’s World Cup, but Rapinoe also won among Democratic voters,...

The U.S. Soccer Women’s National Team defeated the Netherlands in the final round of the Women’s World Cup yesterday, team captain Megan Rapinoe said that their victory had one key ingredient: gays. “Go gays,” she told Yahoo! Sports. “You can’t win a championship without gays on your team. It’s never been done before. Ever. That’s science right there.” The team’s win secured the U.S.’s fourth Women’s World Cup win since the tournament was started in 1991. Rapinoe is gay, and the official...

Donald Trump might be weaseling out of his promise of a White House invitation after the U.S. won the Women’s World Cup, after Fox News broadcast people celebrating the victory by chanting “Fuck Trump!” Days ago, captain of the U.S. Women’s National Team Megan Rapinoe got into a war of words with Trump. She said in an interview that, if she’s invited to the White House, she definitely wouldn’t go. “I’m not going to the f–king White House,” she responded. “We’re not...

The final match of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup happens tomorrow at 11 a.m. EST at the Parc Olympique Lyonnais in France’s eastern Décines-Charpieu region. The two teams facing off — the U.S.A. and the Netherlands — both have the highest number of openly queer players, making their match possibly the queerest pro-soccer game of all time. Outsports.com reports that each team has five players identifying as lesbian or bisexual, and the American team also has a queer coach. Among...

Sue Bird, a lesbian professional basketball player for the Seattle Storm, recently wrote an article addressing Trump’s criticism of her girlfriend, U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team’s co-captain Megan Rapinoe. The article was entitled “So the President F*cking Hates My Girlfriend.” Quick recap: Last week, Rapinoe emphatically stated that she won’t be visiting the White House if her team wins the Women’s World Cup. “I’m not going to the f–king White House,” she said “We’re not gonna be invited. I doubt...

Donald Trump is not taking soccer star Megan Rapinoe’s refusal to visit the White House well. Earlier this week, Rapinoe told Eight by Eight magazine that she would not visit the White House if the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team won the Women’s World Cup, which is being held now in France. “I’m not going to the f–king White House,” she said. She also said that she wouldn’t be invited anyway. “No f–kin’ way will we be invited to the White House,” Rapinoe...

Soccer star Megan Rapinoe said that she won’t be visiting the White House if her team wins the Women’s World Cup. Rapinoe is the co-captain of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team, and they are currently playing at the Women’s World Cup in France. Speaking with Eight by Eight magazine, Rapinoe said that she wouldn’t visit the White House if the team wins. “I’m not going to the f–king White House,” she said when asked if she was excited about the possibility...