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Dear sports people in the media that seem think your position entitles you to be pompous, racist, sexist, arrogant, jerkoffs -
I don’t like you. I don’t like to read your stuff. And you are most definitely not as cool as you think you are.
This week, I’ve seen at least two cases of utter ridiculousness. The first involved a twitter buddy of mine and a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, Joe Cowley. Cowley made an ass of himself all over the twitters, in the name of “satire” (or so I’ve heard). Sir. You need to look up the definition of satire if you think that’s what you’re doing. Cuz…..
At least Cowley’s tweets did not go through the editorial process. But apparently, some editors are ok with things like racism, right New York Post?
Today, Phil Mushnack’s column on the Brooklyn Nets went so far and beyond that I’ll just let some of his words speak for themselves.
Why the Brooklyn Nets when they can be the New York N———s? The cheerleaders could be the Brooklyn B——hes or Hoes. Team logo? A 9 mm with hollow-tip shell casings strewn beneath. Wanna be Jay-Z hip? Then go all the way!
That’s really what you want to write about the Nets and their new black & white unis designed by co-owner Jay-Z (which I happened to dig, fwiw)? Ummmm…you sir, are out of touch. And ridiculous. And disgusting. And to the editors that let this column through untouched, how the h—- does that happen??
I had a recent conversation about the fact that some men in sports media (both mainstream and in the blogosphere) have started to seemingly take the entitled stance that this type of work is edgy or hip or just plain funny and totally acceptable.
Well if this is your take on your wordsmithing, you’ve most certainly lost my respect. And you’ve lost at least this pair of eyes on your work.
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npr:
What American Women Do For Work
Forty years ago, only one in three American workers a woman. Today, it’s one in two. What jobs did all those women get? And how did gender breakdowns change by industry? -Lam Thuy Vo
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Never Forget 4/19/95
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Pat Summit is carried off the court by members of the US Women’s Basketball team after defeating South Korea in the 1984 gold medal game. Summit, who also won a silver medal as a player, announced today that she is stepping aside as Tennessee women’s basketball coach. (Peter Read Miller/SI)
GALLERY: Sportsman and Sportswoman of the year (Summit and Coach K)
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“We want women to make choices, that’s why on healthcare we want women to have health savings accounts and the ability to be able to make their own choices in healthcare. You see, that’s the lie that happens under Obamacare,” Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said on “Meet the Press” today.
“The President of the United States effectively becomes a healthcare dictator. Women don’t need anyone to tell them what to do on healthcare. We want women to have their own choices, their own money, that way they can make their own choices for the future of their own bodies,” the former presidential candidate said.
” —- Michele Bachmann, among the most pro-life candidates of any in this election cycle, on Meet the Press (via stufficareabout)
Oops! Did she forget her own VERY pro-life platform? Lulz. Thanks for seeing the light, Ms. Bachmann.
"You will see the worst of people and the best of people in this story..." -
Major kudos to SMU’s Monika Korra for taking back her life. For standing her ground. For surviving. For overcoming. For not being silent.
For running.
Dave Zirin: Jackie Robinson, Trayvon Martin and the Sad History of Sanford, Florida -
This is Zirin’s blog post from March 23, but relevant on the 65th Anniversary of Robinson breaking Major League Baseball’s colour barrier:
As Jean West, a school teacher in Florida, wrote, “Branch Rickey had miscalculated the degree to which Jim Crow was entrenched in Sanford. As an example, an inanimate object, a second-hand piano, purchased in 1924 from the courthouse for use in a segregated school in nearby Oviedo, was filed as a ‘Negro Piano’ in the school board’s record; living human beings challenging segregation certainly would not be tolerated.”It wasn’t. The mayor of Sanford was confronted by what the author describes as a “large group of white residents” who “demanded that Robinson…be run out of town.”
The Mayor caved. On March 5th, the Royals were informed that they would not be permitted to take the field as an integrated group. Rickey was concerned for Robinson’s life and sent him to stay in Daytona Beach. His daughter, Sharon Robinson, remembered, “The Robinsons were run out of Sanford, Florida, with threats of violence.”
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The team then took an extraordinary step. As the late tennis star Arthur Ashe wrote in A Hard Road to Glory, Rickey, ”moved the entire Dodger pre-season camp from Sanford, Florida, to Daytona Beach due to the oppressive conditions of Sanford.” That sounds heroic and it speaks well for Rickey’s fierce desire to forge ahead with “the Great Experiment,” racists be damned. But the mob in Sanford had made, at least for the moment, a successful stand. In cites and small towns across the South, Jackie Robinson’s mere presence provoked challenges to power and provoked real, meaningful change. In Sanford, change did not come that easily.
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