Samantha Ponder stated watching her daughter “get posted up by a boy” throughout a center faculty basketball recreation was “maddening” to see.
Increasing on the matter Sunday in a sequence of tweets, the previous host of ESPN’s “Sunday NFL Countdown” — who has been outspoken about her views on transgender athletes — stated her daughter’s crew misplaced the sport after taking part in in opposition to “clearly a naturally born boy.”
“It’s occurred many instances now dwelling in NYC… yet one more basketball recreation as we speak the place my center faculty daughter is guarding an clearly naturally born boy in a women match,” Ponder wrote. “The dad and mom cheer whereas the boy is bodily and dominant in opposition to the women. The all women crew loses.
“We’ve taught our children to by no means make enjoyable of the child… to at all times be type and loving. That the dad and mom are the issue. That no child is born within the mistaken physique. But when I’m trustworthy, watching my daughter get posted up by a boy whose dad and mom have deceived him on this means is exasperating.
“To everybody saying ‘simply transfer!’ I perceive the sentiment however IMHO [in my humble opinion] NYC is the best American metropolis that has misplaced its means. I need to struggle for reality and love. I don’t need to give in to madness and darkness. That is nonetheless America.”
Ponder and her husband, former Vikings quarterback Christian Ponder, are dad and mom to son Robinson True, 8, and daughters Bowden “Scout” Sainte-Claire, 11, and Value, 7.
When somebody on X requested if “is there any proof to this,” Ponder replied, “I don’t want you to imagine me. I’m dwelling it. As a smart pal as soon as informed me ‘a tall man feels no must show his top.’”
Ponder fired again after one other person stated she’s “attempting to maintain [her] grift alive” by sharing her put up.
“What’s the grift? what’s my motivation?” Ponder stated. “I can promise you I’m not being paid for this honesty however I’ve misplaced hundreds of thousands for it.”
Ponder and Robert Griffin III had been let go by ESPN final summer season because the community altered its NFL protection.
Ponder made waves on social media final summer season when she weighed in on controversial feminine boxer Imane Khelif, who gained Olympic gold on the Paris Video games.
“ENOUGH is what all of us needs to be saying!! Happy with this girl,” Ponder wrote, quoting a put up about Italian Angela Carini, who withdrew from her opening-round bout with Khelif.
Ponder additionally expressed help for President Trump after his assassination try at a Pennsylvania rally final July.
Ponder first joined ESPN in 2011, working largely within the school soccer house. She contributed to and hosted “Faculty GameDay” from 2012-16 and labored as an in-game sideline reporter in 2016.
She was promoted to “Sunday NFL Countdown” in 2017, becoming a member of a signature program that airs Sunday mornings previous to 1 p.m. ET kickoffs, with an analyst desk that options Randy Moss, Tedy Bruschi, Alex Smith and Rex Ryan.
ESPN’s Mike Greenberg — who additionally hosts “NBA Countdown” and the each day morning program “Get Up” — changed Ponder because the host of “Sunday NFL Countdown.”
