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Thread ID: 18038 | Posts: 10 | Started: 2005-04-30
2005-04-30 19:32 | User Profile
[URL=http://www.newsok.com/article/1486591/?template=sports/ou]Sooners coach suspended for racial comments to EPSN [/URL]
By Carter Strickland and Andrew Gilman The Oklahoman
NORMAN ââ¬â Oklahoma baseball coach Larry Cochell was indefinitely suspended from the bench Friday for racially insensitive remarks made in two off-camera interviews with ESPNââ¬â¢s Gary Thorne and Kyle Peterson before Tuesday nightââ¬â¢s OU-Wichita State game. [QUOTE]Troublesome comments Other athletes who reportedly made racist remarks:
[list][*]Paul Hornung asked for his alma mater, Notre Dame, to lower its academic standards so more African-American athletes would be admitted. Hornung lost his halftime radio show.
[*]Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan said Vanderbilt was ââ¬Åtoo whiteââ¬Â to get past the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Ryan also insulted Jason Kiddââ¬â¢s wife. Ryan was suspended for a month.
[*]Former NBA player and coach Larry Bird said the NBA needs more white superstars. Bird issued an apology.
[*]On ESPNââ¬â¢s pregame show, Rush Limbaugh said the media had inflated Donovan McNabbââ¬â¢s ability because it had been ââ¬Åvery desirous that a black quarterback do well.ââ¬Â Limbaugh was forced to resign from ESPN.
[*]Three Syracuse players charged womenââ¬â¢s coach Keith Cieplicki was racially insensitive. Cieplicki denied the accusations.
[*]Miami linebacker Junior Seau said the best way to stop Chargersââ¬â¢ running back LaDanian Tomlinson was to fill him up with fried chicken and watermelon. Seau said it was a meant to be a joke.[/list]
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According to ESPN, the Sooners coach told Thorne, ââ¬ÅThereââ¬â¢s no n* in him,ââ¬Â in reference to freshman Joe Dunigan, an African-American.
In a separate discussion about Dunigan with Peterson, Cochell reportedly said, ââ¬ÅThere are honkies and white people and there are n** and black people. Dunigan is a good black kid.ââ¬Â
Oklahoma officials were made aware of the comments at 4 p.m. Friday. ESPN subsequently aired a report on Cochellââ¬â¢s remarks.
Cochell, who is in his 39th year of college coaching, did not return phone calls. A reporter was also turned away at his home.
Cochell, who has been at OU for 15 years, issued a statement.
ââ¬ÅI profoundly apologize for my remarks,ââ¬Â the statement said. ââ¬ÅI am deeply sorry for any pain or embarrassment I have caused for any individual or the university. Our university family is totally committed to equality and mutual respect. I personally hold those values and will always regret that my careless use of language did not reflect my own values, and it certainly did not reflect the values of the University of Oklahoma.ââ¬Â
2005-04-30 20:40 | User Profile
I love it when white jock-heads get themselves in trouble! :clap:
Still, why any self-respecting White man is involved professionally in the negro-infused sports industry is baffling.
2005-04-30 22:34 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Stuka]I love it when white jock-heads get themselves in trouble! :clap:
Still, why any self-respecting White man is involved professionally in the negro-infused sports industry is baffling.[/QUOTE]Actually baseball is one of the whitest sports there is. I think that may be why you tend to have more antiPC comments there, [I]a la[/I] John Rocker.
2005-05-01 04:27 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Okiereddust]Actually baseball is one of the whitest sports there is. I think that may be why you tend to have more antiPC comments there, [I]a la[/I] John Rocker.[/QUOTE]
It is? It sure isn't any NBA, but the days of Lou Gehrig are lamentably gone just as surely as they are for basketball and football.
Moving beyond the majors, though, there might still be some hope in rugby, mountain climbing and underwater BB stacking. Watch for them on the next ABC sports weekend.
One sport that might bear watching of late is women's professional tennis. It's been interesting to follow how the Williams sisters were promoted from a very early age, and to note how the womens tour, the national tennis organizations and promoters like Nike intervened to make sure they were a success (dovetailing with the wave of black prominence in music and TV and anything mass-media). It is amazing that in the age of congressional investigations of baseball and football we have professionals so obviously using performance-enhancing drugs right in front of millions of fans and righteously outraged legislators. Uh, isn't it? The Williams sisters are unquestionably two of the most obvious abusers of steroids in women's sports, given their appearance, injuries (and recoveries) and "rests" from the game. Yet Sports Illuskoshtrated and ESPEisner ignore the signs to focus on fagboy Canseco and his accusations- giving whimply Mark McGwire an out with his specs-n-tears meltdown was just a revenue-saving punctuation on the smoke/mirrors act drawing attention away from the idiocies of Bush foreign policy and the failure of the RNC.
American professional tennis is going the way of football, basketball and baseball, although much more slowly due to the different demands of the sport. But just like the rest, multicult driven revenues will demand the rise of the tan- unless you train your kids not to fall for the scam.
2005-05-01 13:31 | User Profile
[QUOTE=weisbrot]Moving beyond the majors, though, there might still be some hope in rugby, mountain climbing and underwater BB stacking...One sport that might bear watching of late is women's professional tennis. [/QUOTE]What about golf? I lost interest in golf the second Tiger Woods appeared on the scene. The way that grown white men fawned over this kid 24/7, as if he would single-handedly save the sport from extinction, disgusted me. It still does. And now I notice the media are starting to hype Asian involvement in the sport, desperately trying to find the next non-white golfing Wunderkind. There's some Asian woman golfer who seems to fit the bill.
Let's not forget sports like surfing, swimming, & spearfishing, which are still overwhelmingly white. :rockon:
2005-05-02 17:08 | User Profile
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) -- University of Oklahoma head baseball coach Larry Cochell resigned Sunday, two days after reports surfaced of alleged racial remarks he made during two off-camera interviews to a sports network. [URL=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/baseball/more/05/01/oucoach.resigns.ap/index.html?cnn=yes]more[/URL]
There doesn't appear to be any allegations of racial bias. He's a good man and a good coach. These presumably white reporters chose to go public with these comments. The remarks had no relevancy, yet the reporters chose to air them because they were inflamitory, knowing that it would destroy his effectiveness as a coach and ruin the career of a good man. Yellow journalism. They should have ignored the comments, just as they would have ignored off-color comments that weren't so Politically Incorrect.
2005-05-02 20:27 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Happy Hacker][URL=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/baseball/more/05/01/oucoach.resigns.ap/index.html?cnn=yes]more[/URL]
There doesn't appear to be any allegations of racial bias. He's a good man and a good coach. These presumably white reporters chose to go public with these comments. The remarks had no relevancy, yet the reporters chose to air them because they were inflamitory, knowing that it would destroy his effectiveness as a coach and ruin the career of a good man. Yellow journalism. They should have ignored the comments, just as they would have ignored off-color comments that weren't so Politically Incorrect.[/QUOTE]I don't know - perhaps a lot of reporters would. But its not new for university people to know that just a casual reciting of the n-word in a private gathering among friends can get a hi-profile guy fired, as has happened in Oklahoma as elsewhere. To make this remarks in an official interview with national reporters, and not just once but twice - it is very surprising.
2005-05-02 20:53 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Okiereddust]its not new for university people to know that just a casual reciting of the n-word in a private gathering among friends can get a hi-profile guy fired, as has happened in Oklahoma as elsewhere. To make this remarks in an official interview with national reporters, and not just once but twice - it is very surprising.[/QUOTE]
Perhaps he just didn't friggin' care any more. It can be quite exhausting trying play act through all the new & creative little ways we are supposed to exhibit our solemn devotion to each and every one of the constantly expanding list of "smelly little orthodoxies" that have replaced traditional morality, common sense, empirical evidence, the scientific method, the law, esthetics, etc., etc., etc., ad infinitum, ad nauseam
2005-05-02 23:48 | User Profile
[QUOTE]Perhaps he just didn't friggin' care any more. [/QUOTE] There has been speculation to that effect. He was 65, and may have thought it was time to hang it up.
Of course, his statement is not offensive to Southern blacks except to the extent it implies that an excessive proportion of blacks qualify as "niggers"; they share his understanding of the term. If the term is offensive, it has to mean something other than "black". And it is so understood. As one of my students at a negro high school put it to me a couple years ago, a "nigger" is an ignorant black person, and similar formulations are common throughout the South. It's certainly consistent with the understanding in South Carolina when I was growing up there 20 or 30 years ago.
It's interesting to note that just yesterday a Jew on ESPN national radio maliciously used the term "honky" two or three times.
2005-05-03 11:18 | User Profile
[SIZE=4]In a separate discussion about Dunigan with Peterson, Cochell reportedly said,[/SIZE] [COLOR=Red][SIZE=4]ââ¬ÅThere are honkies and white people and there are n** and black people. Dunigan is a good black kid.ââ¬Â [/SIZE] [/COLOR]
The coach violated the ultimate taboo in today's ewwed Amurrica: he pointed out the obvious. Nig bigmo Michael Wilbon tore into the bastard, saying that they were right to shitcan him, and that "You jes don' axe fo' redemption - you gots ta earn it!"
Not that I care about the travails of a professional sucker of malodorous khoisanid buttocks.
Of course, hebeSPN ain't makin' no stink about the "honkies" part of the remarks; it's always open season on Whitey in HymieWorld.