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  thaswassup 5:02 pm on January 20, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Ignorance (4), Segregation, Sports, Whitey   

  Proposed All White Basketball Team Not Sitting Well With Some in Augusta 

  

  "A black man would rather miss than look bad," says Billy Hoyle.

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  Augusta, GA—This is not the type of news that Augusta Mayor Deke Copenhaver wanted to hear the day after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

  Mayor Deke Copenhaver: “I am a sports enthusiast, myself, but I just don’t think that idea is going to fly in Augusta, Georgia.”

  It’s the idea of an all white professional basketball league. According to a press release from the All-American Basketball Alliance, the group is looking to target southern cities such as Augusta, Albany and Chattanooga, Tennessee to form a team.

  Mayor Copenhaver: “We have done to much to really foster a spirit of inclusiveness in this city.”

  The press release goes on to say that only natural born United States citizens and players, whose parents are both Caucasian, can join the league.

  Dip Metress, ASU Head Men’s Basketball Coach: “Nobody is going to put money behind this. Basketball is an international game. We have three, four international players here and coaches international.”

  Don “Moose” Lewis is the league commissioner and says that “white basketball players” are essentially shutout of conventional professional basketball due to the growth of non-organized play on the court. This statement is not sitting well mistress.

  Metress: “The game has changed throughout the years. In a sense, it’s more athletic games, but the fundamentals are not eroding.”

  Lewis also states players on professional teams are carrying guns, attacking fans, and fundamentally sound white players are a vanishing species.

  Mayor Copenhaver: “You still see lots of players who are fundamentally sound that basketball is played in a bunch of different fashions. You have five different positions. You have a point guard who distributes the ball, so I think basketball is basketball.”

  Source: WJBF TV

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  thaswassup 3:37 pm on November 29, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Borat, Ignorance (4), Sports, Two teams nobody cares about   

  Clippers Announcers’ Controversial Comments About Hamed Haddadi 

  Fox Sports Prime Ticket suspended announcer Ralph Lawler and analyst Michael Smith earlier in the week for offending some viewers with their comments about Memphis Grizzlies center Hamed Haddadi. Smith spoke of the Iranian center: “You’re sure it’s not Borat’s older brother?… If they ever make a movie about Haddadi, I’m going to get Sacha Baron Cohen to play the part.” After Haddadi passed the ball to a teammate for an assist, Lawler said, “I guess those Iranians can pass the ball.” Both announcers were suspended one game.

  Source: Huffington Post

   
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  thaswassup 8:33 pm on September 20, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Chinese (2), Sports, Technology (2), Timberlake   

  Manning/Timberlake Bravia Commercial 

  *waits for you sensitive types to reply with – ‘that’s not racist!’*

  H/T to Angry Asian Man

   
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  thaswassup 3:39 pm on July 28, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Red, Red dot or feather (5), Sports   

  Maine Indians want athletes honored 

  By GLENN ADAMS, Associated Press Writer Glenn Adams, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 26 mins ago

  INDIAN ISLAND, Maine – Leaders of Maine’s Penobscot Indian Nation say it’s time for a pioneering baseball player from their tribe to be properly recognized for his contributions to America’s pastime.

  Penobscot Chief Kirk Francis and tribal Rep. Wayne Mitchell, who gathered with other tribal members at the grave of Louis Sockalexis, also reiterated their request to the Cleveland Indians to stop using the caricature of a grinning Chief Wahoo on players’ uniforms and team publications.

  Sockalexis played professional baseball for the Cleveland Spiders from 1897-1899 and batted .338 in 66 games in his first season.

  A resolution passed June 12 by the Maine Legislature calls Sockalexis the “first known American Indian to play major league baseball” and the inspiration for the team name Indians, which was officially adopted in 1915. The resolution also criticizes Sports Illustrated for not including Louis or his cousin Andrew, who competed in the Olympic marathon in 1912, on its list of Maine’s 50 greatest athletes, and asks that the magazine “correct the oversight.”

  “They were always talked about in my upbringing on the reservation,” said Francis, adding “they truly were heroes in this community.”

  But Francis and Mitchell said the contributions of the two athletes have been largely overlooked by baseball and the media.

  “To me, their accomplishments went far beyond their athletic prowess,” said Francis.

  Sports Illustrated spokesman Scott Novak said the magazine has “great respect for the Sockalexis cousins. In fact, Louis was profiled by SI in 1995.

  “These lists are very subjective in nature and if SI produces a similar feature, we will surely give them the utmost consideration which they deserve,” Novak said.

  Mitchell said the Penobscots first asked the Cleveland Indians in 2000 to stop using the Chief Wahoo image, “a bucktoothed cartoon face Indian that they wear on their uniforms.”

  “We felt then as we do now, that it was ignorant and disrespectful,” Mitchell said. “But that franchise completely ignored our request … and showed their complete disregard for us, and their disrespect.”

  Messages left with Indians’ spokesman Bob DiBiasio and were not immediately returned.

  The Penobscots’ resolution also asks the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., to formally recognize Sockalexis as the first American Indian to play major league baseball. Baseball author Ed Rice, who also spoke at Tuesday’s event, acknowledged that Sockalexis did not play enough games to qualify for the hall itself.

  But “Sock broke the red color line” in baseball and opened the door to other Native Americans who played, Rice said.

  James Madison Toy, who played for Cleveland a decade before Sockalexis, was said to be of Sioux ancestry but he never publicly acknowledged his Indian heritage. Toy’s 1919 death certificate lists his race as white.

  Sockalexis’ meteoric career was cut short by alcoholism and he died at age 42 on Dec. 24, 1913, according to the state of Maine Web site. In 1934, the state erected a stone marker to replace the wooden cross that had marked his grave.

  Andrew Sockalexis finished fourth in the 1912 Olympic marathon in Sweden and second in both Boston Marathons in which he competed. He died of tuberculosis at the age of 27 in 1919.

  Source: Yahoo News

   
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  thaswassup 11:09 pm on July 24, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Clothing, Racist Mascots, Red dot or feather (5), Sports   

  King of Cleveland by Pennant Race 

  

  Item description from Turntable Lab:

  What do you get when you combine the most offensive logo in sports with the greatest player in basketball?

  Answer: The gas face.

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    sherpaco 4:51 pm on August 6, 2009 Permalink | Reply

    I kind of want that shirt now.