I realize that Emily Cross' superpower would be more useful to the Scarlet Pimpernel or the Three Musketeers than to the constituents of Iron Man or Watchmen. But that's what makes her so cool.
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"With all these Chinese people around, I'm not sure if I bumped into him [Kim] in the hotel reception last night," Boxall said. "I'm not sure if it was him."If you want to know more, here is the article link. Here is another, older article about another announcer calling a golfer 'the Chinaman'. Here is another article with reader comments on today's incident below.
Not to be outdone, Critchley added his own cringe-worthy moment. After Kim's approach shot landed well past the pin, the British announcer described Kim as wearing a look of "oriental surprise," according to the Irish Independent.
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This is excellent news for Asian Americans in sports. Looking around, there aren't any other Asian American coaches or general managers, though Kim Ng has come close a few times in baseball. In football we haven't had an Asian American head coach or GM in the pros or in college sports, though Norm Chow has been offensive coordinator for the Tennessee Titans. To my knowledge there are no strong candidates in basketball either.
SEATTLE -- Don Wakamatsu became the first Asian American manager in major league baseball history when he was hired Wednesday by the Seattle Mariners. The 14th manager in Mariners history, Wakamatsu was bench coach for the Oakland Athletics last season. Before that he spent five years with the Texas Rangers. The 45-year-old was among a field of seven candidates interviewed by Mariners general manager Jack Zdurencik. None of the seven had previous major league managerial experience.
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In interesting counterpoint to that is a conversation I recently had with a friend who speculated that Vijay Singh -- and not Tiger Woods -- may be professional golf's "colored person," if by that we mean a category that renders invisible, unwelcome, or second-class those who are tarred with it. Singh has been cast as an uppity and hypermasculine threat to a gentleman's game; he gets a fraction of the press he deserves, and seems to be the guy that the establishment would love to watch fall on his face. So, pointed out my friend Sameer, might it be said that Singh is categorically Black in a way that also transcends biological race?
See here for Sameer's recent, deftly measured article on Singh for SI's golf issue. And come back if you'd like to comment on the shifting meanings of race in a world that "postmodern" seems almost too quaint a term to describe anymore. It's not that race has disappeared or become null and void; but the categories are certainly more supple now, in ways that both give us a lot more freedom of movement, and make it incredibly hard for us to tell where the sand-traps ahead of us lie.
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Apparently, the embarrassing let-me-pull-back-my-eyelids-to-pay-respects-to-my-Asian-friend ad featuring the Spanish Olympic basketball team was quite popular, so much so that their 2008 Federation Cup Tennis Team also wanted to try it out and share the spotlight.
Well, here it is, courtesy of the Spanish Tennis Federation site and good old Gawker:
I think Gawker's onto something, "maybe Asia-mocking is actually a favorite pastime of all Spanish athletes." How pathetic.
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Oh hellz no! What are we, 5 years old running around on a playground taunting each other with childish nursery rhymes?
What you're looking at is not a joke, or "satire" for that matter. It is in fact, Spain's Olympic basketball team posing for a pre-game ad for a courier company. This advertisement took up a full page in the sports daily Marca, which according to the Guardian UK, is "the country's best-selling newspaper."Amongst the team members is our very own Pau Gasol from the Los Angeles Lakers. Apparently, this was all very amusing to the people being photographed.
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"In addition to telling Sports Illustrated in May he wants to 'help kids,' reach No. 1 and 'be the baddest person on the planet,' he confessed that in his misguided rookie year of 2007 before he righted his thinking last fall and winter, he sometimes played with a hangover or with 45 minutes' sleep."
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Vendors outside Wrigley Field and on eBay are still selling shirts that have "Horry Kow" on the front and Japanese ball player Kosuke Fukudome's name and number on the back. The shirts poke fun at Japanese accents using the familiar "holy cow" that the late Cubs broadcaster Harry Caray used to always use.Continue reading "Holy cow, offensive Fukudome shirts still for sale"
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I loves me a good protest.
When it was clear that it was only a matter of days before the current Iraq war became official, I made sure that my boss and co-workers knew that I would not be coming into work. And when it was, I yelled my way through the early morning to midnight.
When I get swept up into a random march, my pulse races.
I cry at footage of mai '68.
And yet, there's something about the news of the Olympics protests in London and Paris that makes me... sad. Though my affection for the sports extravaganza has not gone beyond gymnastics circa 1984, and for all the revelations of performance-enhancing drugs shattering the athlete mythos, the fact that the torch has to hide out on a bus, extinguished, is an epic bummer.
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This month's issue of ESPN The Magazine is its Special 10th Anniversary Issue, and it features Ichiro on the cover with the text: “For Making Singles Sexy and Taking Baseball Global, Ichiro is a Perfect 10”. Here is a link to a previous 8-page ESPN special feature on Ichiro. He is one of only a few people in all of sports who uses his first name on the back of his uniform, and why not? The man is simply amazing, a baseball living legend in Japan and in the United States. Here is a breakdown of some of his greatest feats since entering the league.
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New Oakland A's coach Don Wakamatsu is highly regarded and may become the first Asian American manager in Major League Baseball.
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