Sam Ponder Was The Only Woman At ESPN To Speak Out Against Men Competing In Women's Sports | Bobby Burack

ESPN fired Sam Ponder on Thursday, citing "budget cuts." 

The timing is suspicious. 

Ponder was the network's lead NFL studio host, the anchor of "NFL Sunday Countdown." The NFL season is three weeks away. Sources tell OutKick ESPN has not decided on a replacement host.

While Robert Griffin III was also fired, he was viewed on his way out of the company. ESPN had recently demoted RGIII off "Monday Night Countdown" due to poor performance. 

RGIII's ousting was inevitable. Ponder's was not.

Except, maybe it was.

Ponder had emerged as the only female voice inside Disney since Sage Steele's departure to speak out against "trans women" (as in men) competing in women’s sports.

Most recently, Ponder posted "XY= male XX= female" in response to the International Olympic Committee permitting Imane Khelif, who has XY chromosomes, to box against women in the 2024 Olympics.

Ponder first commented on the issue in May 2023, reminding her followers that it is "not hateful to demand fairness in sports for girls."

"I barely said anything publicly abt this issue & I’ve had so many ppl msg me, stop me in the street to say thank you+ tell me stories abt girls who are afraid to speak up for fear of lost employment/being called hateful," Ponder added.

That simple statement turned the Mean Girls of Sports Media against her. Ponder is no longer allowed at the lunch table. 

Notably, USA Today hag Nancy Armour filed a hit piece with the headline "What ESPN's Sam Ponder calls 'fairness' is plain old bigotry." 

Per Armour:

"Don’t be fooled by the people who screech about ‘fairness’ to cloak their bigotry toward transgender girls and women, the transgender girls and women who have the audacity to want to play sports, in particular. This is, and