Lame Moments in Sports #10
Yet Another Racist Asshole Rears Her Appalling Head

Stephenson: Asians ruining LPGA Tour
Sports Ticker
10/10/2003

NEW YORK (Ticker) - Jan Stephenson is teeing it up with the men's 50-and-older crowd this weekend, but she might get more attention for teeing off on the LPGA Asian players in a magazine interview due out next week.

"This is probably going to get me in trouble, but the Asians are killing our tour," Stephenson says in the November issue of Golf Magazine. "Their lack of emotion, their refusal to speak English when they can speak English. They rarely speak."

I'm gonna get on this bus early. Seeking to fill the void in the sports world left by the precipitous departure of Rush Limbaugh, Jan Stephenson, whom I may have heard of before, decided to beak off about the state of the LPGA, and, as you can probably tell from the article above, her views are distinctly 19th century. If you don't wish to go and read the entire depressing thing, I'll sum up for you - she blames Asian people and ugly women (I kid you not) for the problems with the womens' game. This, in a sport where the most recognizable player is Annika Sorenstam...

Anyway, Fulton Allem was unavailable for comment.

The lamest thing about this affair is, however, the tide of people who will rush to Stephenson's defence, claiming that her freedom of speech is under threat, and that she is being trampled by the jackboots of political correctness. If you follow the link to the article and scroll down to the bottom of it, you'll see that the very first comment is from somebody whining about "bleeding-heart liberals" and so on and so forth - this before anybody had even complained about Stephenson's comments in that particular forum! Truly, truly, lame.