Trash-Talking in Sports

[mthoopsfan]

The LSU player Reese, the tourney MVP, is taking heat for her trash-signaling at the end of the championship game. She signaled to the Iowa start Clark, multiple times at the end of the game. She wants to be a model, I read. Clark did a Cena "can't see me" sign at the end of the SC game, but not nearly as much as Reese did. In sports, I was not a taunter or trash-talker, especially at the end of game, so I don't know much about this type of stuff. It's not my style, tho.

"‘I’m too ghetto’: College basketball star slams racial hypocrisy over hand gesture outrage"

""All year, I was critiqued about who I was," Reese said. "I don't fit in a box that y'all want me to be in. I'm too hood. I'm too ghetto. But when other people do it, y'all say nothing. “So this was for the girls that look like me, that's going to speak up on what they believe in. It's unapologetically you."

https://news.yahoo.com/m-too-ghetto-college-basketball-173925530.html

""I'm going to be me, "

This article has a good photo. Reese did this several times, which were shown on tv.

https://www.vox.com/culture/2023/4/3/23668696/angel-reese-caitlin-clark-taunt-ncaa-womens-basketball

"Keith Olbermann apologizes for calling LSU's Angel Reese a 'f---ing idiot' after taunt battle goes viral"

https://www.foxnews.com/media/keith-olbermann-apologizes-calling-lsus-angel-reese-a-f-ing-idiot-after-taunt-battle-goes-viral

"Shaquille O'Neal defends LSU's Angel Reese from Keith Olbermann, Dave Portnoy's trash talking criticism"

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-basketball/news/shaquille-oneal-lsu-angel-reese-keith-olbermann-dave-portnoy-trash-talk/ocvuducoksqga6hc40vnodif

"Lakers Star LeBron James Sounds Off on Angel Reese 'You Can't See Me' 'Taunting' - NBA Tracker"

https://www.si.com/nba/spurs/news/los-angeles-la-lakers-star-lebron-james-lsu-tigers-national-championship-angel-reese-you-cant-see-me-taunting-nba-tracker

 

[Griz in Tokyo]

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[mthoopsfan]

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Trash-talking and taunting in sports has a lot to do with this forum.

 

[mthoopsfan]

Jill Biden suggested that both LSU and Iowa be invited to the White House. So does race.

https://nypost.com/2023/04/03/angel-reese-blasts-jill-bidens-iowa-white-house-invitation/

LSU’s Angel Reese blasts Jill Biden’s Iowa White House invitation: ‘A joke’

"Angel Reese wasn’t exactly appreciative of Jill Biden’s invite to the White House.

The recently crowned national champion following LSU’s 102-85 win over Iowa on Sunday responded to the First Lady’s wish to have both the Lady Tigers and Hawkeyes visit the presidential quarters with two words and a bevy of laughing emoji.


“I know we’ll have the champions come to the White House, we always do,” Biden said Monday in Denver, a day after seeing Reese and LSU’s win at American Airlines Center in Dallas in person. “So, we hope LSU will come. But, you know, I’m going to tell Joe I think Iowa should come, too, because they played such a good game.”

“A JOKE,” Reese wrote in a quote-tweet of an ESPN story about Biden’s remarks, adding three rolling-on-the-floor-laughing emoji.

"Jill Biden faces scrutiny for floating idea of inviting Iowa to White House after national title loss to LSU

First lady Jill Biden quipped Monday she would ask the president to invite Iowa to the White House along with LSU after the women's national basketball championship."

Read in Fox News: https://apple.news/Av5GEgnDJSpWGIDut1WwD7w

https://nypost.com/2023/04/03/stephen-a-smith-race-a-factor-in-angel-reese-caitlin-clark-treatment/

Stephen A. Smith: Angel Reese, Caitlin Clark treatment ‘a white-black issue’

 

[EverettGriz]

Good lord. Can't we just say they're both spoiled punks and be done with the issue?