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It was years after she began her transition that Mianne Bagger earned the invitation to play professional women's golf. And it truly was an invitation. While she had returned to the links post-transition because of her love for the game, it was through lots of listening and sharing that she built understanding in golf of who she was and her place in the women's game. Now several years after retirement, Bagger still wrestles with formulating what might be the perfect trans inclusion policy in sports, the concept that participation in professional sports is a "right," and her place in the current conversation on these topics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this week's show, Alex chats with another gay sports talk veteran, Ben Livingston, who used to produce Philadelphia's No. 1-rated afternoon show on WIP. Alex and Ben talk about encountering homophobia, talking about their gay lives on the air, and how much sports talk is too much sports talk? Follow Ben on Twitter, @bliv94. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There are no adjectives baseball people like to throw around more than "young and exciting." Last week, we talked about the young and exciting Padres and now it's time to head to the South Side and shine the spotlight on the AL's most young and exciting team: the Chicago White Sox. As a Chicagoan, I am legally required to write that they are hotter than a jar of Giardiniera. What can I say? We like to eat. I'm joined by comedian and friend of the pod Fritz Nothnagel to review a week of amazing Sox performances. Lucas Giolito throws a no hitter! José Abreu hits six homers in three days! Hawk Harrelson continues to stay as far away from a live microphone as humanly possible! This might be the greatest seven days in White Sox history. We also take some time to look back on MLB players embracing the protests and wildcat strikes that are sweeping pro sports. As a Cub fan, I share my feelings about how the rest of the team should've stood with Jason Heyward and declined to play Wednesday's game. It was a missed opp

Hello, Lovelies! After one of the most jam packed wrestling weekends in some time, Brian Bell welcomes his partner KC back to the show to discuss the most important show of the weekend: Saturday's Black Wrestlers Matter event. From the significance of ACH's involvement to twerking for Jesus, the two unpack the message and impact of this celebration of Blackness in pro wrestling. Worship and praise and cake for days. Follow Black Wrestlers Matter on Twitter: @BWMdsm Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM Follow LGBT In The Ring on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod  The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital! Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp. Check out IndependentWrestling.tv for the best in current and classic independent pro wrestling, including live events from top independent promotion

Rugby athlete Grace McKenzie beams up to share the story of how she organized a petition to stop a proposed ban on transgender athletes by World Rugby. She shares the story of transition, activism, and of course fandom. Plus as a biologist, she explains why the nonsense term "biological male" should be abandoned. Dawn and Karleigh's interview is part of Rugby Week at Outsports, focusing on the fight for inclusion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hannah Mouncey is a woman of rare distinction. She's either one of one, or one of two, people to compete on a World Championship-qualifying men's team, and then do it on a women's team. She played handball for Australia on the international scale both before and after transition, and she talks about the struggles and triumphs of both. She also played Aussie Rules Football, and shares her professional journey that was interrupted by some strange new policies. Oh, and please ignore Hannah's dog barking. The dog just gets excited about these topics too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's a summertime mailbag on this week's "Sports Kiki!" Fresh off some overnight radio stints, Alex answers listener questions, ranging from naming his best friend to lessons he's learned about himself during quarantine. Follow Alex on Twitter, @AlexReimer1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's just another week in Major League Baseball: the only sport where you occasionally have to apologize for being the best player in the game. Fernando Tatís Jr is amazing. He crushes home runs! He steals bases! He...is really sorry for doing that sometimes. As you probably heard, both the Rangers and his own manager were mad at him for hitting a grand slam on a 3-0 count with his team up by seven. But you know who wasn't mad? Every baseball fan on the planet. This week, comedian and Padres fan Jono Zalay returns to toast a rare moment in baseball history: a time when the rest of the game is talking about San Diego. Jono's been waiting for his team to return to relevance for a long time and he just wishes that said relevance also involved a record more than three games over .500. But even with a horrifying bullpen costing them games, things are definitely looking up for the Fathers. And it's mostly thanks to Tatís Jr. If you get a chance to watch him, take it! He's worth staying up until 1 AM to see! Twitter

Hello, Lovelies! LGBT In The Ring welcomes back "The New Classic" Billy Dixon this week to chat about his upcoming event that brings ballroom culture and pro wrestling together, Paris Is Bumping. Dixon reveals the origin of the idea, the similarities ballroom and wrestling hold and how events like Paris Is Bumping hope to push wrestling further into new cultural spheres. We also discuss the meaning behind the name of his new finisher, the E.M.T., and why Billy has remained so vocal about black trans & queer identites amid the racial equity movement. Follow Billy Dixon on Twitter: @TheBillyDixon Follow Paris Is Bumping on Twitter: @ParisIsBurning Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM Follow LGBT In The Ring on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod  The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital! Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check ou

Federal judges issued 2 orders this week that show support for transgender Americans, particularly trans student athletes. Karleigh and Dawn discuss what's next. Then we beam up D-Gil, Darius Gilchrist, the host of the new LGBT Sports podcast, Game Day Tea, to talk about being gay and Black and a sports fan, coming out and surviving Covid-19. Plus we share our love for the classic film, ALIEN! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

US Rowing coxswain Julian Venonsky says he was never in the closet. Even during his years competing for Cal, which ended in a national title, he was out to teammates, they knew his boyfriend, and all was good. He talks with us now about aiming for the Olympics as an out gay man, and he explains what exactly is involved in being a coxswain for a rowing team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Alex begins this week's show with a look at the hottest stories of the week on Outsports, including a gay cyclist who's found more sponsor support than she could've imagined. Then, Alex delves into the controversy surrounding Alex Morse, the openly gay Massachusetts mayor and congressional candidate who was accused this week of having inappropriate relationships with college students. Are the allegations against Morse rooted in homophobia? Alex discusses with a reporter who's been following the story from the start, Ryan Grim of the Intercept. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This feels like a PODCAST EXCLUSIVE, doesn't it? I've found that rarest of species: someone who's actually been inside a major league ballpark to witness a 2020 MLB game IN REAL LIFE. And yes, the 2020 Texas Rangers count as Major League Baseball. Don't be snarky, this is cool! Rangers beat writer Alex Plinck (Dallas Sports Fanatic) stops by to tell us what it feels like to attend a game in this weird, weird year. Turns out it's kind of odd! We talk Joey Gallo, Lance Lynn, Elvis Andrus, and the current group of Rangers who just might 2020 their way into a playoff spot this season. Alex also fills all of us in on the new Rangers ballpark and what to expect it to feel like whenever it's safe to go to a game again. Additionally, we spend some quality discussion time ruminating on the experience of being a gay writer covering a team in the current era. Alex lets us in on how he's been able to forge relationships with members of the Rangers and the sense of support he's gotten from doing so. It's a very positive d

Hello, Lovelies! Brian Bell is running solo again this week, but that won't keep him from speaking to one of the most frustrating yet unsurprising bits of wrestling programming to air in recent weeks: WWE's Retribution. As protests for racial equity amidst an increasingly escalating level of force from law enforcement (not to mention a global pandemic), WWE has rolled out a reductive representation of such movements. Its failure isn't shocking given WWE's usual attitude toward mishandling real-life issues in storylines, but this one goes one step beyond in multiple ways. Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM Follow LGBT In The Ring on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod  The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital! Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit p

A lot to talk about this week as Dawn and Karleigh update listeners on the lawsuit against Idaho's HB500, the conferences canceling college football, misgendering attacks against PA Health Secy. Rachel Levine, the WNBA getting political in a U.S. Senate race, William Shatner's rant against being labeled cis and we review episode 1 of Star Trek: Lower Decks. A note to listeners: we recorded a discussion of who Joe Biden should pick as his running mate, but it seemed dated to include since he chose Kamala Harris, and not Brynn Tannehill, Gloria La Riva or Karleigh Chardonnay Webb. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Last week I got a notification of a follow on my twitter handle @lpfpod and saw that it was from The Game Day Tea podcast. After listening to two episodes, the host D-Gil and I started messaging. Figured he had to be my guest this week. So we spoke about his growing up in Georgia, moving to California, his job and his recent diagnosis of being positive to covid. We also spend a bit of time talking about race in an America. Please check his podcast out, follow him on all the social medias @TheGAMEDAYTEA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Laura Hurff won a national championship with Syracuse and coached at Cornell. Now she's representing Team USA on the international stage and hoping for a spot in the 2024 Olympics. She talks about realizing she's gay and the stereotypes involved in her sport, as well as the time her sister sat her down and asked her if she's gay. A great conversation that encompasses Hurff's personal and professional journeys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this week's show, Alex speaks with acclaimed attorney and college athletes' rights advocate Richard G. Johnson about Pac-12 and Big 10 players demanding rights, and whether these movements will gain any real traction. Alex and Richard also talk about whether college football will be played this fall, and how media coverage is impacting our view of the virus' risks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Well, it took the Mets all of one week to Mets up the 2020 season. Quick word of advice to MLB GMs: during a pandemic, try not to create an unnecessary panic about one of your players going missing. ESPECIALLY if he ends up opting out because his mother is sick. To recap the Yoenis Céspedes saga, Mets fan and NYC comedian Johnny MacDonald (Rooting for Laundry podcast) joins me to try and figure out what the hell all that was. It's a shame Céspedes's time in Queens had to end so weirdly, especially considering how excited he made everyone by helping win the 2015 pennant. We also discuss a slow start for Pete Alonso and Jacob deGrom's neverending quest for a single solitary run of support. Someday, Jacob. Keep the faith. Oh...and I go all Chicago on Johnny Mac for like eight minutes. If you're going to talk to me for an hour, that'll happen. Twitter: @KenSchultz_ @HeresJohnnyMac @RootForLaundry Insta: @kenthinguy @heresjohnnymac @rootforlaundry Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoice

Hello, Lovelies! Brian Bell runs through MV Young's Outdoor Poly Cult Party and Ariel Italic's exit from The Nobodies before touching on the recent closure of the Acworth, GA Shoney's restaurant owned by longtime pro wrestler Scott Steiner. The news put Brian in a nostalgic mood, so he invited his friend and fellow Scott Steiner Shoney's visitor Hollis Adler to chat about it's closure, their trip to the land of muscles and breakfast bars and why the news holds cultural impact. This one goes out to all the North GA freaks out there! Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM Follow LGBT In The Ring on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod  The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital! Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices