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Good USA Today article on why trash talk in title game was good for women’s sports
Posted on 4/3/23 at 8:53 am
Posted on 4/3/23 at 8:53 am
USA Today
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Half the people who watched the national championship game were furious with the officials, while the other half was incensed an athlete had the audacity to talk trash. If you want the surest sign yet that women’s basketball has arrived, there you go. For too long, women’s basketball – all of women’s sports, really – has struggled for air in the national conversation. There are all kinds of reasons why, and that’s a debate for another day. But for several decades, the score of LSU’s 102-85 win over Iowa on Saturday would have been noted, maybe the fact it was the Tigers’ first national title, and that would have been about it.
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Now the women are getting the same kind of treatment the men get, with every detail parsed over and picked apart. Did Angel Reese really diss Caitlin Clark? Or was she mimicking what the Iowa star did just last week? Was this game part of an on-the-job training program for officials? Or did they really think the sold-out crowd and millions more watching at home were there to see them?
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Yes, some of the debates went too far. First, Google "Clark and John Cena," or Reese and ring things, and then calm down. Second, if you are outraged at LSU players boasting about their title and it coming at the expense of America’s new favorite player, you’re going to be horrified when I tell you about a guy named Michael Jordan. Or Aaron Rodgers.
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Posted on 4/3/23 at 8:56 am to Revelator
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Second, if you are outraged at LSU players boasting about their title and it coming at the expense of America’s new favorite player, you’re going to be horrified when I tell you about a guy named Michael Jordan. Or Aaron Rodgers.
Posted on 4/3/23 at 9:05 am to Revelator
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Second, if you are outraged at LSU players boasting about their title and it coming at the expense of America’s new favorite player, you’re going to be horrified when I tell you about a guy named Michael Jordan. Or Aaron Rodgers.
Posted on 4/3/23 at 9:10 am to mdomingue
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Second, if you are outraged at LSU players boasting about their title and it coming at the expense of America’s new favorite player, you’re going to be horrified when I tell you about a guy named Michael Jordan. Or Aaron Rodgers.
Or Larry Bird. Or Tom Brady. Or Kobe Bryant.
Posted on 4/3/23 at 9:12 am to SaintLSUnAtl
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Larry Bird
Truly the king of trash talk. Except is it trash talk when you back it up?
Posted on 4/3/23 at 9:12 am to Revelator
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Yes, some of the debates went too far. First, Google "Clark and John Cena," or Reese and ring things, and then calm down. Second, if you are outraged at LSU players boasting about their title and it coming at the expense of America’s new favorite player, you’re going to be horrified when I tell you about a guy named Michael Jordan. Or Aaron Rodgers.
Literally this part is the most accurate part of all. shite Tom Brady is one of the most extreme trash talkers to every play. Psycho Tom is and always was a thing and the media loved it. The fact everyone is hating on LSU and Angel Reese for doing exactly that is just infuriating. But who cares we won. Keep those receipts for next season and go win it all again with a better roster.
Posted on 4/3/23 at 9:13 am to SaintLSUnAtl
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Or Larry Bird. Or Tom Brady. Or Kobe Bryant.
Especially Larry Fu$&ing Bird. He might be the worst trash talker in NBA history
Posted on 4/3/23 at 9:15 am to Revelator
People in here were being such racists yesterday calling Angel classless and a thug and a liar and every name in the book.
Our Black Queen says
and the other haters like Dave Portnoy. Ring us up bitches.
Our Black Queen says
and the other haters like Dave Portnoy. Ring us up bitches. Posted on 4/3/23 at 9:15 am to Revelator
i don’t have a journalism degree and could’ve told you that. We’re talking about women’s basketball.
/thread
/thread
Posted on 4/3/23 at 9:18 am to Revelator
Or Jimmy Connors or Nick Kyrgios or the king of tennis trash talk, John McEnroe.
Posted on 4/3/23 at 9:25 am to Klark Kent
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i don’t have a journalism degree and could’ve told you that. We’re talking about women’s basketball.
Told us what? That having the trash talk scrutinized would bring publicity to the game, and in the long run, help it?
Posted on 4/3/23 at 9:25 am to TBoy
On YouTube there a lot of videos with players describing how much trash Larry Bird talked. A lot of great stories. But like they all said he could back it all up.
Posted on 4/3/23 at 9:26 am to Revelator
All very good points concerning trash talking.
Some of the greatest Kings of Trash talking in sports history:
Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, Reggie Miller, Deion Sanders, Tom Brady, Muhammed Ali, Mike Tyson, Richard Sherman, John McEnroe, Jimmy Conners, etc.
Some of the greatest Kings of Trash talking in sports history:
Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, Reggie Miller, Deion Sanders, Tom Brady, Muhammed Ali, Mike Tyson, Richard Sherman, John McEnroe, Jimmy Conners, etc.
Posted on 4/3/23 at 9:35 am to Revelator
all this gatekeeping of what class is and isn't is hilarious to me.
Posted on 4/3/23 at 9:36 am to SaintLSU
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Especially Larry Fu$&ing Bird. He might be the worst trash talker in NBA history
Cheryl Miller’s little brother is 1st on that list.
Posted on 4/3/23 at 9:45 am to Revelator
I think what Mulkey and Stacey at South Carolina realize is, sure you can win lots of game with girls who play with great fundamentals and are mild mannered, but to win championships, you might have to get some girls who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and had to scrap through life.
Mulkey said as much in her post game interview when saying,” most coaches shy away from players with personalities, but I love them. I played with personally!”
Mulkey said as much in her post game interview when saying,” most coaches shy away from players with personalities, but I love them. I played with personally!”
Posted on 4/3/23 at 10:04 am to LSUnGA
Reese backed it up in the NCG.
Clark backed it up in the tournament overall.
I'm good.
GEAUX TIGERS!
Clark backed it up in the tournament overall.
I'm good.
GEAUX TIGERS!
Posted on 4/3/23 at 10:24 am to SaintLSU
quote:You misspelled "best"
Especially Larry Fu$&ing Bird. He might be the worst trash talker in NBA history
Posted on 4/3/23 at 10:32 am to Revelator
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trash talk in title game
The debate hasn’t been about trash talk “in the title game”. The debate is “after the game” rubbing it in your opponents face.
Reese would not have done it to South Carolina’s bigs because they likely would have brawled on the court.
It’s just where we are as a society now and we are on a slippery slope.
Glad the Tigers won, though.
Posted on 4/3/23 at 10:40 am to Froman
Nope, go find what Miller said about Bird. He basically said I learned how to trash talk from LB.
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