If I were slightly more paranoid and were a bit more inclined to carry the race card more easily positioned to play, I’d swear that, when Jay Buhner told Seattle radio station ESPN 710 that he would “vomit” if his former team, the Mariners, re-signed his former teammate, Ichiro, to a fat, multiyear contract extension, …
Category: Race and Sports
Mad Men and the End of Linsanity
The signs all are there. The end of a news cycle. The end of a coaching tenure. The end of focused, team basketball in New York. The end, that is, of Linsanity. And, for many reasons, the end of watchable professional basketball. If you’d hoped this NBA fairy tale was going to end with Jeremy …
The Bad Fortune of Linsanity
I don’t even have to sample Ben & Jerry’s limited-edition, Jeremy Lin-inspired flavor to know that it is tasteless. After the furor the past week over race and ethnic profiling in over-the-top media coverage of the breakout star of the New York Knicks, for something like this to happen not only is inexcusable, it’s arrogant …
