Centerfield

I was just saying to my wife last night that I thought it was the overwrought attention given to Imus' comments that was ruining things for the Rutgers women, not the comments themselves. Of course, the comments are a prerequisite for the attention, but not the sole determinant. And no one on the team would have even known about his comments without the subsequent media frenzy. (I calculate the amplification to be around +20 db. I'd say 100 times as many people know about this than would have from hearing it directly from Imus.)

I graduated from Rutgers, and it still strikes me funny that it does now seem like the Scarlet Knights (or Ladies, as always knew them) won the national championship rather than the Vols of Tennessee.

I should clarify that the women's teams at RU were referred to as the Lady Knights when I was in school. I always thought that was weird, giving them a different name because of their gender, especially considering that the difference was in the modifier, not the noun. Scarlet Ladies would have made more sense if anything needed to be changed at all. They were still scarlet, and "Lady Knight" doesn't really make sense to begin with.

If you want a lively discussion on the Imus affair, go over to Booker Rising. My short take: " I don't listen to shock jocks and what he said was despicable"

The inevitable.