Bernie Sanders Has a Backdoor Plan To Socialize Sports Teams

Photo: Yolanda Ruiz/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent ! Get all your men out there this week, it's no time to leave points on the floor. Let's start by talking about the latest socialist threat against sports, followed by some thoughts on the NBA's plans to finally fix tanking once and for all if they just make the lottery system even more complicated.

We'll close with some thoughts on Drive to Survive and sports docuseries in general. Locker Room Links The Justice Department is suing Minnesota over transgender athletes . In case you missed it, the International Olympic Committee is now banning trans athletes from women's sports (previously, the governing body of each sport made its own eligibility decisions).

The NFL is threatening to hire replacement referees again. (NFL squabbles with the refs union always surprise me, because league spending on all refs every season comes out to, by my very rough calculations, about $1. 3 million per team.

) Florida's attorney general is threatening to take "civil rights enforcement action" against the NFL if it doesn't exempt the three Florida teams from the Rooney Rule ( which, as I previously wrote, is a well-intentioned failure ). California Baptist University is getting sued under Title IX— for eliminating three men's sports teams . Shocking: Study finds rampant media bias in sports betting coverage.