Renee Gork, an Arkansas radio sports reporter was fired a couple of weeks ago. Was it because she wore a Florida Gators cap to the Razorbacks press conference? She seems to think so, though her former boss and the University of Arkansas deny it. They can't deny coach Bobby Petrino was less than pleased. Apparently even after she was asked to leave, Gork also wore the cap to an interview. Double jeopardy got drop kicked through the goal posts along with the freedom to express one's self in a public forum. Which we now know, a college football presser most certainly is not. The boys expressed their right to pile on. A girl. Wonder how many two-a-days it took to get that play down.
Hey - I get it. But seriously, what year is this 1910? how insecure are these people if a reporter isn't wearing your colors or kissing your fat white ass, she's divisive? Your whole sports program is so fragile it will crash down because somebody doesn't dress the way you tell them? Did they think she was there to steal their double secret game plan. She sure was dumb then - that FLA cap didn't get past those geniuses. One more reason I hate "coach" and everything they don't stand for in life. They ain't there to espouse equal rights and a light heart. No sir. They are there to win football games.
If there's one thing I hate more than a room full of guys, it's a room full of guys and one chick. Like a bachelor party. Or a strip club - sure typically more than one guy (I think so, anyway...), but to be with a predominantly male crowd there? not me. Feels like a herd feed. I rather go see a guy strip in front of a female audience. I can imagine myself being that guy. In the reverse, I'm all ready that guy, and I'm just another bottom feeder.
That's why I loathe those GQ/Esquire fashion ads, the ones with 5 men and one woman. Sweet odds. If you're gay. Either way, I don't like gang bangs for any reason you might imagine. Ganging up on one person for whatever reason is bullshit. Unless the person is Jeffery Dahmer or Adolf Hitler. Or Glenn Beck. Except Petrino probably likes Beck, though his type are usually really insular and if he's not on ESPN, he has no idea who Beck is ( shocking, I know!). Since when do only reporters who are also fans attend press conferences. If that is the case here in 2010 all I can say is - yikes! Isn't that what your Public Relations people are supposed to get paid to do?
The popularity of sports networks & sports talk radio has opened the door to more hosts flaunting their fandom. It's not something I think is totally off base on a talk show. Opinions and editorializing are the foundation of generating audience response, so again, I grasp the concept. But a reporter is still ostensibly an objective journalist, even if the station for which she works is the flagship for the U. of AR - read - local yokel hillbilly assholes.
Razorback supporters probably all think Gork is a dumb bitch and deserved to get the boot. The radio station claims she was using Twitter against station policy. Yeah yeah, don't want that woman having her own opinion in public or say, tell the truth? Fire her ass, by all means. She won't play ball nice with the boys and she wore the wrong cap. BTW she says, she just grabbed the wrong cap on her way out her door and oops. . ..
One more reason big time college sports should be just for the students. I'm sure they'd never wear an opposing team's stuff on campus. They might get tarred and feathered or dragged behind a truck, just some of those good ol' boy shenanigans. Nothing to make a fuss over. If this were Nazi Germany or Saddam's Iraq, it would just be another day at work. Toto, I've a feeling we're still not in the 21st Century.
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