USA Today's Dan Wolken Goes After Bruce Pearl For Sharing Conservative Political Views, Defends Steve Kerr

Double standards in political commentary from sports personalities are alive and well.

It was obvious with the recent controversy around ESPN's Mina Kimes and Sarah Spain, both of whom have openly shared left-wing political views in direct contradiction to their employer's policy. Kimes and Spain have remained employed and unpunished, while Sage Steele was unceremoniously removed for having different public political views.

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It's obvious why ESPN continues to get away with those types of intellectually inconsistent decisions; because most other sportswriters are fine with double standards too. Case in point: USA Today's Dan Wolken. 

Wolken is, stop the presses, another outspoken liberal in sports media. Unsurprisingly, he disapproves when prominent figures within the sports world share opinions that differ from his own. And doesn't care when other prominent sports figures confirm his views. 

Sure enough, Wolken was at it again in a series of recent posts on X, displaying how not to apply standards when it comes to political discussions.

CHICAGO - Steve Kerr, Team USA Men’s Basketball coach and Golden State Warriors coach, speaks onstage during the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on August 19, 2024. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Auburn Tigers men's basketball coach Bruce Pearl is an outspoken Republican, and a highly successful coach. He led the Tigers to a tie for second in the tough SEC in the 2023-2024 season, after finishing with the best regular season SEC conference record in 2021-2022. Auburn in January 2022 even reached No. 1 in the AP Poll for the first time in the program's history.

While recent