When I was going over the possible teams for the NCAA tournament this year, I came across one of those cliches that brings me perilously close to throwing up.
In discussing one of the Big East coaches, it might have been the one at Pitt, the idiot commentator said that his sister at Army, where she is putting in her first year as head coach for the women, did a better job than her brother.
Now this nonsense has been floating around the athletic media for so long that it has grey hair, a pot belly and is senile.
Usually it takes the form of an broadcaster of a game saying so-and-so has a sister who plays croquet for Wellesley and his color man chips in with, “And you know who’s the better athlete? His sister.”
Yeah, sure.
I wonder if these dopes know how much damage Title IX has done to men’s sports?
This also reminds me of the dumbest argument I have heard over the past 35 years, namely that women would “catch up with men eventually”
as athletes.
I challenge anyone who has said this argument in earnest to find a sane and sober biologist who would back him up.
It would require a biological evolutionary leap that so far has been unheard of.
But so would a lot of the malarkey that has been floating over the past 35 years.
