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Re: “UT goes gonzo for Cuonzo — and prepares to test the adage that middling players make great coaches”
Maybe he can get a pipeline going for the Big Orange to all that great high school basketball talent in East TN.
Re: “In the wake of the Jets controversy, a female Titans reporter enters the locker room”
Well put! First of all in this unequal politically correct world we live in there are gross double standards when it pertains to this topic. The WNBA, one of the few female sports leagues that does allow Reporter access in their locker rooms, have a short period of time after a game (30 minutes) when reporters of either gender can come in and interview players. Once those 30 minutes are up the reporters are ushered out and the players can shower and change in total privacy. In addition, no cameras are allowed in the locker room under any circumstances. At no point is a female athlete naked or in any state of undress while reporters are in the locker room.
In male professional and even more disturbing college sports, Reporters of either gender can access the locker room 10 minutes after the game and can stay there until the last athlete leaves. These athletes are subject to the humiliation of having to change, shower and dress in front of female reporters and female camera crews! There is so much documentation on this and several books were written over the years by female reporters on what they regularly saw in the locker room including the graphic descriptions of men's body types and parts. (I G-Rated that sentence) Remember it was a FEMALE JUDGE that passed the law that granted female reporters the "right" to be present in the locker room when men are changing and showering. There are also many instances openly discussed by female reporters interviewing athletes naked and waiting for them by the showers. There are also incidences fully discussed by these reporters of watching men at the urinals.
A more disturbing topic is the same access is granted to Female Reporters in most mens college locker rooms. In many cases you have adult women watching teenagers showering and getting dressed. What is even worse is that due to this absurd "law" female college students studying sports journalism can enter the college locker room in which their male classmates are changing and taken showers. This never happens the other way meaning male reporters in the female college locker room with players in any kind of state of undress.
So there are a few questions to ask all of you politically correct feminists. What is the actual sexual harassment here? When a fully dressed lady barges in on 53 naked men trying to shower and change after practice or when a fully dressed lady who barges in on 53 naked men gets a few whistles and catcalls? Think if the shoe was on the other foot what the storyline would be? If a fully dressed man walked in on 53 naked ladies??
The bottom line is that this is an absurd double standard and male athletes do not have to be subjected to this. Especially college kids. The policy should be the same for male athletes as it is for female athletes. NO DOUBLE STANDARDS PERIOD. If the leagues refuse to change it then the open door policy should be the same for both male and female athletes. If you want equality then double standards should not exist right? I also wouldn't mind if all reporters stayed out of the locker room until all athletes are showered and changed...seems like the most logical thing to do.
And my last question to the feminists, as mentioned above, how much would you like male reporters watching you change, shower and sticking a microphone in your face when you are naked? Especially you female reporters...would any of you dare answer this honestly?
Re: “In the wake of the Jets controversy, a female Titans reporter enters the locker room”
To believe that female reporters should be allowed in a male locker room is the epitome of feminist hypocrisy.
The Feminist Movement is ultimately about gaining power and control over men. And the fact that females are now allowed into a male locker room when the men are naked or semi-naked reveals just how successful that agenda has become. It is successful to the point that any male athlete that dares speak out against this blantant invasion of his basic human rights to privacy, respect, and dignity is immediately slapped down by intimidation and threats of the loss of his job and income by feminists, feminist organizations, and those who have been brainwashed into believing it is clothed female reporters that experience sexual harrassment in a male locker room rather than the athlete.
I addressed this issue in detail in a 4-part article posted on The Cypress Times (http://www.thecypresstimes.com/ColumnistSe…). It explains why the arguments feminists use to rob male athletes of their basic human rights are flawed and hypocritical.
If feminists and female reporters were truly interested in equal rights they would insist that the sports organizations forbide all reporters - male and female - not be allowed in the locker room. Rather, a room would be specifically set aside for the purpose of interviewing the athletes after they are dressed. But they don't. They insist on bullying their way into the locker room in the name of equality.
It seems the idea of equality for feminists is the subjugation of men.
Re: “The Titans' coaching search shows the little absurdities of the NFL's effort to promote minority coaches”
Someone please explain to me why it's not racist to keep the best ballplayers on one's team regardless of their race & have no outcry of a racial quota, but somehow it IS racist for an owner to hire someone they're most comfortable & confident in to lead their team & heaven forbid he be white?
News flash: an owner would hire Hillary Klinton if they thought she could deliver a Super Bowl win. Owners don't give a rat's ass WHAT race their coach is as long as he wins. End of story.
Re: “Vanderbilt Coach Kevin Stallings on what he's learned at midlife”
I was blessed to have seen him play high school basketball for Virgil Fletcher at Collinsville. He was an extraordinary high school basketball player on a terrific team. I also knew his sister Cynthia (Jr. High at Webster together) that he refers to in this article. I did not know that she had passed away or that he had lost two of his brothers either.
Truly - God Bless Kevin Stallings - one of my all time favorite sports persons!
Re: “If every major sports city needs an athlete-celebrity hookup, Nashville just entered the big leagues with Carrie Underwood and M-Fish”
Star power can't hurt the box office. I now follow the preditors because I also follow Carrie Underwood. Not a bad deal for the preditors.
Re: “The Titans' coaching search shows the little absurdities of the NFL's effort to promote minority coaches”
ps Jerry Jones' interviewing of Ray Sherman speaks more to who Jerry Jones is as a person than the Rooney Rule.
Re: “The Titans' coaching search shows the little absurdities of the NFL's effort to promote minority coaches”
If you want to read a real article on the subject, check out ''Rooney Rule' broadens experience of NFL coaches, GMs": http://www.tennessean.com/article/20110204/OPINION03/102040343/-1/RSS0104/-Rooney-Rule-broadens-experience-NFL-coaches-GMs It's a fr---en interview for goodness sake. The author may have well just written about "The inherent value of the good ol' boys network" instead.
Re: “The Titans' coaching search shows the little absurdities of the NFL's effort to promote minority coaches”
Your article's premise of linking pro football's minority head coach hiring record to college football's own record is weak and disjointed. First, the two are in totally separate spectrums. The owner determines who gets hired in the pro leagues, and if the owner is a football-smart family like the Rooneys who saw leadership talent in Mike Tomlin, irrespective of the man's skin color, then he gets the job and easily reinforces their decision---or only ridicules it, as shown with the post-Eddie DeBartolo 49ers' ill-fated experiment with Mike Singletary. Second, the alumni decide who runs the sidelines in the college game, and who they shake hands and slap backs with at the homecoming game luncheon every fall. Turner Gill may have led the Nebraska Cornhuskers on the field during their early 1980's glory days, but apparently he wasn't the one the influential 'Husker followers desired to lead their precious red-and-white clad boys into the millenium on the sidelines too, and they let AD Tom Osborne know that loud and clear. In one, the one who paid for the team decides, and in the other, the ones who pay for their prime stadium seats and returned-call-immediately status, does the honors.
Re: “Hockey still isn't the sport of the South, but it's growing under the influence of the Preds — even in Alabama”
UAH has been a D1 Hockey program since the 99-00 season
Re: “MTSU and UT circle the bowls in the dregs of post-season play”
Pretty funny article actually, unless you're a thin-skinned Blue Raider fan...
Re: “MTSU and UT circle the bowls in the dregs of post-season play”
I actually liked the article. Even when I may not agree with the author, I do enjoy his writing. Quite the "wordslinger" in my opinion
Re: “MTSU and UT circle the bowls in the dregs of post-season play”
Beats the hell out of not going to a bowl at all...yeah, bowls in January on national TV suck [/Sarcasm]
Re: “MTSU and UT circle the bowls in the dregs of post-season play”
This sports writer is a disgrace to his profession and is trying to be funny, but is not.
His editor should be embarrassed to allow it to be published.
Re: “MTSU and UT circle the bowls in the dregs of post-season play”
Pathetic piece of journalism. Embarrassed for the writer.
Re: “How to transform Vanderbilt into a scrappier, more exciting losing team”
All you vandy fans can kiss my hairy white backside, I've been a Chicago Cubs fan for my entire life. 'Nuf Said.
Re: “How to transform Vanderbilt into a scrappier, more exciting losing team”
How did |*NAME*| not make your list?
Re: “A primer to hating the Anaheim Ducks, who started playoff play with the Predators this week.”
You all need to get a life. You're writing about a logo that pretty much explains the Preds logo, "sports logos shouldn't be abstract". If you were smart enough to take your head out of your sisters lap, you would notice that it's a duck's FOOT, not a ducks BILL. Although I do like the enthusiasm of your fans, I do think the whole "this goalie sucks", chants, are very immature. That's all the Preds fans yell at your home games, losers.