The men claiming to defend women’s sports are throwing sex toys at female athletes
The WNBA has attracted grifters who care little for basketball – and whose latest stunt exposes the hollowness of their supposed concern I regret to inform you that yet another dildo has hit a WNBA court. The Chicago Sky v Golden State Valkyries game was sullied by sex toys being chucked on to the playing surface on Friday. Aren’t we tired of all this yet? To paraphrase the Sky’s Natasha Cloud, it takes a lot of effo
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- 24 Aug 2026, 09:10 UTC
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- 25 Aug 2026, 05:56 UTC
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- Publisher
- The Guardian
- Country
- England / United Kingdom
- Source published
- 24 Aug 2026, 09:00 UTC
- Source updated
- No update timestamp supplied
- Byline
- Dave Schilling
- Section
- WNBA
The WNBA has attracted grifters who care little for basketball – and whose latest stunt exposes the hollowness of their supposed concern I regret to inform you that yet another dildo has hit a WNBA court. The Chicago Sky v Golden State Valkyries game was sullied by sex toys being chucked on to the playing surface on Friday. Aren’t we tired of all this yet? To paraphrase the Sky’s Natasha Cloud, it takes a lot of effo
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The men claiming to defend women’s sports are throwing sex toys at female athletes
The WNBA has attracted grifters who care little for basketball – and whose latest stunt exposes the hollowness of their supposed concern I regret to inform you that yet another dildo has hit a WNBA court. The Chicago Sky v Golden State Valkyries game was sullied by sex toys being chucked on to the playing surface on Friday. Aren’t we tired of all this yet? To paraphrase the Sky’s Natasha Cloud, it takes a lot of effo
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- publisher category WNBA rss-category
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- #1936
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- 24 Aug 2026, 09:10 UTC
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- news-ledger/0.1
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