Monday, March 27, 2006
(3) Rutgers 27 42 69 Final
(2) Tennessee 29 47 76
So the Cappie Poindexter era ends at Rutgers; & wasn't she great to have around?
Old friends Rutgers coach Vivian Stringer & Tennessee coach Pat Summitt complain about their seedings & how they don't like playing each other in the NCAAs. But since it always seems to happen, certainly they'd rather meet up in the title game, not on the same side of the same regional bracket. But as Rutgers struggled with Dartmouth in a first round "home" game in Trenton, the Lady Vols were in Norfolk destroying Army 102-54. We'll know tomorrow if they rated a #1.
Meanwhile, Penn State coach Maureen T. "Rene" Portland faces an anti-discrimination suit alleging that she demonstrated bias against a lesbian player. Portland has in the past expressed an unfavorable view of lesbians, worthy of a Division III southern Bible college coach, but supposedly she follows a non-discriminatory policy now. Still, one wonders what what a recruitment interview by a prejudiced college coach might be like.
(2) Tennessee 29 47 76
So the Cappie Poindexter era ends at Rutgers; & wasn't she great to have around?
Old friends Rutgers coach Vivian Stringer & Tennessee coach Pat Summitt complain about their seedings & how they don't like playing each other in the NCAAs. But since it always seems to happen, certainly they'd rather meet up in the title game, not on the same side of the same regional bracket. But as Rutgers struggled with Dartmouth in a first round "home" game in Trenton, the Lady Vols were in Norfolk destroying Army 102-54. We'll know tomorrow if they rated a #1.
Meanwhile, Penn State coach Maureen T. "Rene" Portland faces an anti-discrimination suit alleging that she demonstrated bias against a lesbian player. Portland has in the past expressed an unfavorable view of lesbians, worthy of a Division III southern Bible college coach, but supposedly she follows a non-discriminatory policy now. Still, one wonders what what a recruitment interview by a prejudiced college coach might be like.
"Well, your grades & SAT scores are fine. Your high school team won the state title, you set school records in scoring & rebounds & made first team All-State. Say, do you like K.D. Laing? Ah, never heard of her. Did you see Melissa Etheridge on the Ellen Degeneres Show this morning? No? Ever read "The Color Purple"? Not required class reading, OK. Are you going to the prom this year? Great. Who's the lucky guy? What do mean, you have to rent a tux? "
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
Something's been going on at Penn State - & in women's college basketball generally - that needs to come out into the open & be dealt with. Many support "don't ask, don't tell" as a sufficient anti-discrimination attitude in 2006. I consider it oppressive.
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