Leave it to the Pac-10 Conference to lead the charge of progressive language in women’s basketball. Someone should tell Arizona State coach Charli Turner Thorne that if she’s gonna say something dirty in a halftime tirade that’s being captured on videotape, she should just go ahead and say it. You can’t filter out the word and then expect your message to have the same effect. Poop, pee-pee, bush, make love to, wiener, tinkle, mommy’s special friend, and boobies just don’t carry the load of anger and frustration the same way. What, do you feel vindicated having said poop?
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We mentioned on Monday that Pat Summitt’s Tennessee Vols lost to Ball State in first-round action of the NCAA women’s tournament over the weekend. But when you’re a living legend in Knoxville, your season doesn’t end until you’re damned good and ready. And so, with no game to play for another six months, Coach Summitt ran her team back onto the practice floor. And the hilarious thing is that Summitt’s still gonna get more press than the other teams that are actually still playing for the title. Oh, Pat. Don’t you ever change.
Former Central Michigan basketball player Brooke Heike has filed a lawsuit against that university, claiming that her former coach, Sue Guevara, cut her from the program in part because Heike is heterosexual. From FOX News, the number one news source of lesbians everywhere:
Heike said Guevara told her she wore too much makeup and was not the coach’s “type.” That meant she wasn’t a lesbian, according to a lawsuit filed last week in federal court in Bay City.
The former Romeo High School star lost her scholarship after the 2007-08 season. “I didn’t feel that she did anything to improve herself after being told over and over what she needed to do,” Guevara told an appeals committee last June.
You can’t tell me this woman would try to coach a team full of lesbians. I mean, look at that shimmering short haircut. That awkward smile. The affinity for plaid clothing. Sure, she might be a lot of things, a liar, an idiot, a lesbian, but she is not a porn star.
Away from all the Super Bowl hoopla in Tampa comes a more lighthearted story about a dead basketball coach and the vandalism of a memorial to her. Yes, the victim is a woman, so put on your laughing pants.
A mural in N.C. State University’s Free Expression Tunnel to honor women’s basketball coach Kay Yow, who died Jan. 24 after a long struggle with breast cancer, was defaced Saturday with blue paint and offensive language.
A blue mustache and the phrase “cancer rules” were added to the painting [not actually pictured], which shows a portrait of Yow against a pink background. The graffiti was removed and the mural restored by early Sunday morning, but the incident did not sit well with students.
Aw, crap, I forgot to make the background pink. Hey, wait a second, I thought pink was just for cancer survivors. Now I’m somewhat relieved that a kind soul took some initiative to correct it. Even though defacing a memorial to someone that only left this earth a week ago is probably the most cowardly thing ever.
Ironically enough, the mural is situated in the Free Expression Tunnel. Mission accomplished, I’d say.
[News & Observer via GameOn]
The incomparable Unsilent Majority unearthed this pic for Deadspin earlier today. That birth canal you find yourself staring into belongs to our possibly-future vice president. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be practicing a little “gun control” before my boss gets back. They don’t call me The Time-Traveling Masturbator for nothing.
UPDATE: Whoops. Palin is actually No. 22 on the Wasilla Team. Eww. Good thing I already busted my load.
