Re: Bob Ryan being stupid again

[Josh Ozersky <josh_ozersky@xxxxxxxxx>]

Please.  I don't know the teams involved, but there
are A LOT  of teams that consist of heady white
players, and in fact they can't compete against teams
that feature the best black athletes.  It was true
when Texas-El Paso beat Kentucky, and it's true now. 
Hickory High only beats South Bend in the movies.  The
racism, if it existed, would lay in saying that the
great black athletes aren't every bit as hard-working,
heady, intelligent, and filled with team spirit as the
white guys.  White NCAA atheltes on the order of
Okafor or Elton Brand can be counted on the fingers of
one maimed hand.  

Josh
--- Jim Hill <jahill199@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ryan proves he is not only a stereotyping racist and
> that must have missed
> the whole "Big Three" period of the Celtics as well,
> but he doesn't know
> much about college hoops either.  What a disgrace to
> Boston.  Time to remove
> him for good this time.  People who wonder why
> Boston is considered bigoted
> only need to read the "news" papers.
> 
> <Jim
> 
> From www.Tonguetied.us
> 
> White Men Can't Talk
> 
> Boston Globe sports columnist Bob Ryan is catching
> hell for suggesting that
> a college basketball team has too many white guys
> to do well in the NCAA
> tournament, reports the Nashville Tennessean.
> 
> Ryan said on an ESPN radio show that the Commodores
> had ''too many white
> guys'' to beat Western Michigan.
> 
> Commodores coach Kevin Stallings was among the many
> players in the sports
> world who said the comments wrongly reinforced
> stereotypes.
> 
> Ryan, however, stood by his remarks.
> 
> ''The audience at ESPN is presumably a sports-savvy
> audience which means
> that in terms of basketball they know the code,
> ethics and culture of
> basketball, which is, in case anyone is new to the
> game like some of these
> idiots that apparently have responded in a negative
> fashion, the code is
> it's a black man's game and the white man is
> privileged to be allowed to
> step on the court,'' Ryan said. ''That is known by
> both blacks and whites.
> If it weren't easy to joke about this in the
> culture, you would not be able
> to have a move entitled White Men Can't Jump.
> 
> In any event, Vanderbilt won the game 71-58.
> 
> The whole story at:
>
http://tennessean.com/sports/vandy/archives/04/03/48558218.shtml?Element_ID=
> 48558218#
> 
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