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By William L. Anderson

When Cunningham left her feet to take the shot, Carrington’s right arm reached out, but missed the ball by several feet. However, Carrington then used her left arm to strike Cunningham’s face, knocking her on her back to the floor, setting off a brief but intense confrontation between the two players. Officials quickly labeled Carrington’s deliberate foul as a Flagrant 2, which meant immediate ejection. After she marched off to the Chicago dressing room, she bizarrely put on social media, “WHITE PRIVILEGE” in all caps while tagging the Indiana Fever.

Dude the WNBA is absolutely insane

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It's funny how bad it is because women's college basketball has been pretty well respected for a long time.

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slap the “pro” title on and everyone goes nuts

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The WNBA article reads as Mises-flavored: the claim is that union rules + expansion subsidies distort what the market would otherwise price. The strong version of the argument — that the league is a subsidized cartel that outscores its revenue — is testable: if WNBA TV ratings keep breaking records while revenue lags, that's a revenue-allocation story, not a demand story. Worth separating those two claims.