Comments on: West Virginia Topples Duke; National Morale Soars

By: rkm

rkm — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:00:46 +0000

What I’m saying is that dress code rules are not always about race. White people sometimes (unfortunately) have corn rows–either on their Caribbean vacation or if they are Justin Timberlake. Why don’t people say a team like Purdue, with tons of white players, is racist? I’ve played hoops my whole life, and it’s never about race unless you aren’t a good player and focus on those kinds of things. The test for your argument would be if a Duke guy ever had a pony tail, and that was allowed, since rows and a tail are both long hair.

By: DougGottliebsWifeHasABush

DougGottliebsWifeHasABush — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:38:42 +0000

On the same topic I once read in USA Today that Pat Summit does not allow any of her players to have a bush. True Story.

By: DougGottliebsWifeHasABush

DougGottliebsWifeHasABush — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:37:39 +0000

As for the Dean Smith facial hair rule

1. that was years ago
2. that is not a race issue like corn rows is, although I guess technically a white dude could have them but you get the point

By: rkm

rkm — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:19:09 +0000

Oops, I meant Alexander, not Andersen. Sorry about that.

By: rkm

rkm — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:18:11 +0000

Don’t forget that Dean Smith wouldn’t let any players have facial hair. The one exception being James Worthy, because he has a skin condition that makes it very painful to shave (I assume its ecsema or something like that.) Wow, talk about going out on your back. DeMarcus Nelson has been absent the past five games, not what you want from your Senior. By the way, how good do people think Andersen will be when he eventually goes pro? I think he’s an incredibly rare complete package for a guy that size, like Nowitzki with a better first-step/ups.

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:11:55 +0000

Actually ESPN is in a no-win situation no matter what they do. If they did it, people would accuse them of shamelessly promoting it. But if they didn’t, others would say that they are intentionally ignoring it because they don’t want to lose the contract.

By: Beast44

Beast44 — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:05:25 +0000

No way ESPN is stupid enough to do that. Augusta gives out the TV contracts to both CBS and cable on a yearly basis, so they’d yank it so fast from Bristol they wouldn’t know what hit them.

By: WVUChrisF

WVUChrisF — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:48:35 +0000

Glad to have Huggins over Belien anyday.

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:43:48 +0000

No way Augusta gives the cable rights to the WWL if they don’t agree to that.

I just hope they don’t bring out their Jemele Hill/Scoop Jackson “Is Augusta racist and sexist?” hatchet job/hype machine to promote the event (like they were accused of doing with the Auriemma/Summitt “conflict” to promote women’s basketball).

K-State is on life support. That one will hurt me.

By: Beast44

Beast44 — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:38:35 +0000

Yeah, USA had the same. It’s part of Augusta National’s annual TV deal. It was actually their call, not CBS’, to go commercial-free in ‘03 after the Martha Burke crap.