Usually I load up my first wailbag with a lot of self-serving stuff about the vacation, keyed on my return home from same. But this time the old letterbox was fairly bulging with so much stuff about my timid little prediction of the Vikings to win Supe XLIII, all sent to me in such a lighthearted spirit of good fellowship, that I simply had to address it now before I forget what these blokes had written.
When Don Imus made his controversial remark about Dallas Cowboy Adam Jones on Monday, there was only one cable channel broadcasting his show as live TV.
Radio host Don Imus said Tuesday he was making "a sarcastic point" that police often unfairly target blacks when he asked about Adam "Pacman" Jones' race on his show.
Just when you figured it was time to focus on a kinder, gentler NBA -- from a draft full of young guys who haven't yet misled or disappointed a soul (other than the college coaches and programs they're leaving prematurely) to a league spared at least for a few weeks from conspiracy theories and referee allegations -- someone had to go and hand Shaquille O'Neal a live microphone.
The shock jock claims his most recent race comment was "misunderstood"
Don Imus said Tuesday morning on his radio show that he was trying to "make a sarcastic point" with his latest on-air remarks about race, but that they had been misunderstood
Radio show host Don Imus is the target of a lawsuit saying he undercut advertisements about a book by President Gerald Ford by making disparaging comments about it and the company that published it.
They've won 10 straight games and are fifth in the nation with a 15-2 record. They play basketball with a fluid grace and are coached by someone considered a "legend." And yet I'll wager you have no idea what I'm writing about.
We could try to avoid the truth, as so many sports figures did in 2007. We could follow Roger Clemens' lead and issue a statement categorically denying that '07 was a lousy year in sports, full of misdeeds and disgrace, despite all the evidence to the contrary. We could take a page from Don Imus' apologists and say that the ugliness of the year was taken out of context or blown out of proportion.
Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 3. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays, click here.
Usually I load up my first wailbag with a lot of self-serving stuff about the vacation, keyed on my return home from same. But this time the old letterbox was fairly bulging with so much stuff about my timid little prediction of the Vikings to win Supe XLIII, all sent to me in such a lighthearted spirit of good fellowship, that I simply had to address it now before I forget what these blokes had written.
When Don Imus made his controversial remark about Dallas Cowboy Adam Jones on Monday, there was only one cable channel broadcasting his show as live TV.
Radio host Don Imus said Tuesday he was making "a sarcastic point" that police often unfairly target blacks when he asked about Adam "Pacman" Jones' race on his show.
Just when you figured it was time to focus on a kinder, gentler NBA -- from a draft full of young guys who haven't yet misled or disappointed a soul (other than the college coaches and programs they're leaving prematurely) to a league spared at least for a few weeks from conspiracy theories and referee allegations -- someone had to go and hand Shaquille O'Neal a live microphone.
The shock jock claims his most recent race comment was "misunderstood"
Don Imus said Tuesday morning on his radio show that he was trying to "make a sarcastic point" with his latest on-air remarks about race, but that they had been misunderstood
Radio show host Don Imus is the target of a lawsuit saying he undercut advertisements about a book by President Gerald Ford by making disparaging comments about it and the company that published it.
They've won 10 straight games and are fifth in the nation with a 15-2 record. They play basketball with a fluid grace and are coached by someone considered a "legend." And yet I'll wager you have no idea what I'm writing about.
We could try to avoid the truth, as so many sports figures did in 2007. We could follow Roger Clemens' lead and issue a statement categorically denying that '07 was a lousy year in sports, full of misdeeds and disgrace, despite all the evidence to the contrary. We could take a page from Don Imus' apologists and say that the ugliness of the year was taken out of context or blown out of proportion.
Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 3. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays, click here.
TV bounty hunter Duane "Dog"Chapman's show has been pulled from the air by A&E, two days after a phone conversation in which the reality star used a racial slur repeatedly
U.S. stock futures jumped before the market open Friday after a much-anticipated jobs report came in considerably stronger than expected.
Don Imus, who was fired by CBS Radio in April for making disparaging remarks about the Rutgers women's basketball team, will return to the air Dec. 3 with New York's WABC Radio, the station's owner confirmed Thursday.
The offseason wasn't kind to women's basketball. From Don Imus to Pokey Chatman to the Geno Auriemma-Pat Summit feud, the game was marred by negative headlines.
A Rutgers University basketball player Tuesday withdrew a slander and defamation lawsuit she had filed against Don Imus and CBS Radio, among others, after the shock jock called the team a racial slur.
NEW YORK (AP) -- A Rutgers University basketball player on Tuesday withdrew a slander and defamation lawsuit she had filed against Don Imus and CBS Radio, among others, after the shock jock called the team "nappy headed hos."
Last week SI writer Richard Deitsch interviewed Boomer Esiason for the magazine's Q&A. The CBS Sports analyst takes over the Don Imus slot on WFAN-New York on Sept. 4. Here are additional excerpts from their interview:
Fired radio host Don Imus settled his lawsuit with CBS Radio this week, pulling down $20 million amid talk that he is plotting a return to the airwaves.
SI.com caught up with Mississippi College School of Law professor Michael McCann, who is a frequent contributor to a blog on sports law, about the lawsuit Rutgers center Kia Vaughn's filed against Don Imus.
Don Imus is being sued for libel, slander and defamation by a member of the Rutgers Women's Basketball team for the derogatory remarks that ended up costing the shock jock his job in April, ABC News reports.
Don Imus has settled his outstanding multimillion-dollar contract with CBS after being fired by the network in April.
Don Imus has reached a settlement with CBS over his multimillion-dollar contract and is negotiating with WABC radio to resume his broadcasting career there
U.S. broadcaster CBS has settled its termination dispute with fired radio shock jock Don Imus, the company said Tuesday, a possible step toward Imus going to work for a rival broadcaster.
Don Imus' attorney Monday described the former talk show host's pending $120 million lawsuit against his former employer, CBS Radio, as "very easy" and said he expects a jury to award him the full amount for wrongful termination.
Former radio talk show host Don Imus has hired one of the country's top trial lawyers to sue CBS Radio following his dismissal last month for making racial and sexual on-air comments about members of the Rutgers University women's basketball team.
Don Imus, the tousled and acerbic radio host whose racial remarks engendered a media storm that triggered a swift upending of his career, is not going away quietly even if the imbroglio has all but disappeared from the national conversation in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre.
One of the greater ironies of sport is the absolutely contradictory manner in which we look at athletes. On one hand, we hold these young stars up as our idols, All-Americans, heroes, or that cold, clinical modern term substituted for hero: role model. Athletes are role models.
1. K.C. Johnson, blogger: Arguably, the most important media figure in the Duke lacrosse case, Johnson's Durham-in-Wonderland blog provided exhausting, meticulous and obsessive daily coverage. It was a remarkable bit of citizen journalism, and upon the dismissal of all charges, one of the accused players, Collin Finnerty, cited Johnson for "his diligent work exposing the truth every day." He and Stuart Taylor Jr., a legal columnist for the National Journal who deserves equal acclaim, are a writing a book on the case.
Now that media giants have pulled the plug on Don Imus, the debate has moved to rap lyrics and the limits of free speech. But what we should really address is the hypocrisy of those who blasted Imus for insulting comments about African-Americans and then proceeded to repeat insulting comments about Mexican-Americans.
Sometimes you find a silver lining in someone else's cloud.
The year was 1968. I was covering the summer Olympics in Mexico City and I was on my way to one of the venues, driving on the Pereferique, the freeway that ringed the city. All of a sudden there was this tremendous commotion of horns and sirens and flashing lights behind me. I thought it surely must be an ambulance or a hospital emergency and pulled the wheel right, hitting the shoulder of the road and nearly flipping.
Uncle Mordecai was sitting on his front porch where his garden was going to be when I walked up. Do you remember Uncle Mordecai? He was the one who told me the story celebrating his niece, Brenda, in my book "Nappy Hair." All of us in the Kenilworth neighborhood were curious to hear his thoughts on these insults that have been flying around. Before I could get through the gate he had already started complaining.
No one would have thought that when Rosa Parks opted not to give up her seat to a white man in 1955, a dozen years later blacks would have the full right to vote, the ability to eat in hotels and restaurants and see Jim Crow destroyed.
The Rutgers University women's basketball coach said Friday her players have accepted radio host Don Imus' apology for racist and sexist comments toward the team and they are "in the process of forgiving."
New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine was hurt in a car accident Thursday evening while traveling to host a meeting between the Rutgers University women's basketball team and former radio host Don Imus.
CBS said Thursday it fired Don Imus from his radio show after a public outcry regarding slurs he used about the Rutgers' women's basketball team last week.
In many ways the 21st century sports world, with its round-the-clock cable networks, Web site wise men and ceaseless talk-radio debates, would have been unrecognizable to Jackie Robinson. He no doubt would have been amazed by the sheer number of voices crashing into each other in our modern-day Babel, not to mention their volume. But there is at least one thing that hasn't changed in the 60 years since Robinson broke baseball's color barrier: The most hateful loudmouths are the ones that seem to make themselves heard above the din.
CBS has fired Don Imus. But Dan Mason is still walking into the toughest job in the media business.
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CBS has canceled Don Imus' radio show, effective immediately, after an uproar over his racist and sexist comments about Rutgers women's basketball team.
All charges have been dropped in the sexual assault case against three former Duke University lacrosse players due to "insufficient evidence to proceed on any of the charges," North Carolina's attorney general announced Wednesday.
Talk radio host Don Imus has been suspended by CBS and MSNBC for two weeks after he referred to members of the Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos."
Companies including Procter & Gamble, Staples, GM and Sprint are pulling advertisements from Don Imus' show due to the shock jock's on-air racial slur about the Rutgers University women's basketball team.
MSNBC has canceled its "Imus in the Morning" simulcast, the network announced Wednesday.
April 11, 2007
Don Imus has gotten himself into trouble numerous times during nearly four decades on the radio.
After a 2-4 start, C. Vivian Stringer's Rutgers University team hardly looked like a squad capable of reaching the NCAA women's basketball tournament.
Rutgers coach C. Vivian Stringer spoke Tuesday about radio commentator Don Imus' remarks about her team. This is a partial transcript of her speech:
Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter has an idea that seems to make sense, especially after a trying first week in baseball in which the Indians had seven games either snowed out or relocated to a different time zone, stars such as Johnny Damon, Hideki Matsui and Victor Martinez were hurt trying to play baseball in football weather, and fans, when they bothered to show up at all, sat through miserable conditions to watch something that did not pass for major league-quality baseball.
Does the Don Imus controversy have an echo quality to it?
Don Imus "has stolen a moment of pure grace from us," the captain of the Rutgers women's basketball team said Tuesday, responding to the uproar over the radio host's description of the players as "nappy-headed hos."
MSNBC and CBS Radio are suspending Don Imus for two weeks after the radio host described the Rutgers University women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos," the networks said Monday.
MSNBC and CBS have decided to suspend Don Imus for two weeks following his reference last week to members of the Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos."
All right Don Imus, I hate to break it to you. Saying you're "embarrassed" isn't going to cut it.
The office of New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has ended a probe into a charity run by radio talk show host Don Imus, according to published reports.
Radio host Don Imus is facing criticism from the Wall Street Journal Thursday for the costs incurred by his charity that brings sick children to his ranch for visits.
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