March 24, 2009, - 10:25 am
Whiny USA Today Sports Columnist: “Why No Women’s Bracket From Obama?”
By Debbie Schlussel
If you’re familiar with USA Today sports columnist Christine Brennan, then you remember her as the extremely masculine chick who made a federal case (with her butch friend Martha Burk), back in 2003, out of Augusta National not having female members. She lost. And all of her feminist fights for the brush-cut pseudo-female set in the sports world are losers, as is she.
Dumped from her little-read perch as a Washington Post sports columnist, Brennan was picked up by the McLiberals at USA Today, where she’s whined in print on and on and on with the same old message:
Figure skating and male-looking, substandard “chick” basketball players–good; men in any sport (especially football)–bad . . . veeeery bad.
I debated Brennan on ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” back in 2003, regarding Augusta National and female golfer Annika Sorenstam getting special exemption entry in men’s tournaments, and I wiped the floor with her. She resorted to having a temper tantrum over my earpiece once we were off the air, consisting of her slurry of C- and F-words (and calling me dumb, to which I responded that I’m a member of MENSA and she’s a member of DENSA). Yup, a class act, this one.
Now Brennan is whining that Barack Hussein Obama only did his ridiculous NCAA basketball tournament bracket for the men’s tournament and not the wannabe men a/k/a the college “women”‘s basketball players.
Lady (at least we think you’re a lady, but only your physician knows for sure), no one cares about the chick hoopsters. I can’t name a single one. And I challenge my readers to do the same.
It reminds me of a hilarious “Saturday Night Live” sketch years ago, in which Kevin Nealon and someone else play ESPN sports analysts forced to call the NCAA women’s basketball tournament. At first, they majorly screw up on the names, and then they finally admit it’s an embarrassment to be sentenced to this horrible work. And that’s the truth. No-one in sports broadcasting wants to do play-by-play of the women’s games because they know it’s like doing community cable television.
Here’s Brennan’s not-so-fine whine, which is so inane that it didn’t get it’s own web page and is merely a sidebar:
As the father of two athletic daughters, President Obama should know all about the importance of sports for women and girls.
Which is why he should have filled out not only a men’s NCAA tournament bracket but also a women’s tournament bracket in his well-publicized appearance on ESPN last week.
I realize the men’s tournament is much more popular than the women’s, and Obama is a big men’s hoops fan and avid player, but the fact remains there is another top-notch college basketball tournament going on at the same time, and he absolutely should have acknowledged it.
“Top-notch”? College Women’s Basketball? What’s this woman smoking?
He also should have insisted on saying his bracket was for the “men’s NCAA tournament.”
Those who don’t use that pesky little adjective — and you know who you are — are acting as if there’s no women’s tournament at all, or it’s so beneath them, it’s not worth mentioning.
You got that right. Hey, it’s true what they say about that broken clock.
This is rather silly. It is 2009, after all.
While we’re on the subject of adjectives, why do some schools still insist on calling their women’s teams “Lady” this or “Lady” that? Is there any men’s team out there that calls itself the “Gentlemen” (add the nickname)? Of course not. The best-known of the tea-and-crumpets set is the Lady Vols, who were upset by Ball State Sunday night in a tough, bruising, very unladylike game.
Defenders claim the use of “Lady” is tradition. It might be that, but it’s also degrading and entirely unnecessary.
Yeah, why do they call these butch freaks of nature, “lady”? She does have a point there. If you’ve ever accidentally turned your television to a channel featuring this substandard sequence of slow-motion underhanded shots, you’d know there isn’t nary a real lady in the bunch.
By the way, at the bottom of her column–surprise!–there’s this:
Click here for blog updates from the World Figure Skating Championships
Then, there’s this:
Click here for Twitter updates from skating
Hmmm . . . I wonder what the line in Vegas is on figure skating. Hint: There isn’t a line. And if they aren’t betting on it in Vegas, it’s not sports of any import.
Hint #2: If women are playing in it, it’s not sports of any import.
Christine Brennan, typical WNBA season ticket holder.
Deb,
You nailed here with that “DENSA” line. Brennan is a dunce! Just look at the stupid ratings this crap gets (errr… doesn’t get). Even the Women’s Final 4 is a complete Nielsen Flatline.
Yiddish Steel on March 24, 2009 at 11:39 am