How do you feel about Candace Parker's C-cup being referenced in this lede?

Sheesh. Somebody writes an edgy lede, and the freak-out police come out like gang busters.

Get a grip and stop hating. Cool lede, good story -- ESPN The Mag or not.

 

Really, you think so? Interesting.

 

Lede is way, way over the top.

Saint in high tops?

Mein Gott.

 

Here's another point - I gather Candace didn't go under the knife for her Cs, she was born with them. I don't begrudge anyone being proud of a certain part of their body, but I doubt her efforts had anything to do with them. Maybe that's what kind of rubs me the wrong way - I'm used to reading about athletes working on various aspects of their game, the long hours they put in at the gym, just seems kind of odd for an athlete as talented as Parker to be proud of an aspect of her self she had little to do with. It would be like saying Baron Davis is proud of his beard or Tom Brady is proud of his dimpled chin. This thread has gone on way too long, but I'll say this for the writer, she wrote a lede that made people want to read the next paragraph, which is job one.

 

Not me.

 

Maybe I am one of the few that feel this way, but the lede made me stop reading. I never read the article because of the lede. But that's just me. And remember, I am of the minority here and not a journalist. Just a reader of the news. So maybe that matters. Maybe it doesn't. Just a thought.

 

Actually, the lede kinda made me roll my eyes. I might have read another graf or two just to see if the writer kept trying to show off. If she did, there's no way I make it to the end of the story.

 

Well we're six pages in on this thread. The lede seems to have broken through the clutter.

 

Oh, hell, that means nothing. We go on for hundreds of pages about Charlie Brown. I'm sure we'd have six pages at least about a lede that read thusly: skjklfjlksjfljsdlkjdfakljfljakfjfjdaj. sdfjhkdlfjaksjlfkas.

The amount of discussion about something doesn't automatically give something a quality good or bad. It was different, so we talk shop about it. Different isn't necessarily better.

 

The lead didn't make me want to finish the story. Maybe it was meant to make me want to look at the photos that accompanied the story?

In any case, thought it was much too fawning. Like an earlier poster, I'm tired of reading stories about how "THIS is the athlete who will change the world!" Cry wolf too many times, and . . . you know the rest.

 

I'd hit it.

Kind of upset my radar. I had her pegged for a big B, not quite a C.

If the writer of this piece is listening, could you please profile Erin Andrews, Stacey Dales and Cat Osterman in the coming weeks? Thank you.

 

Because it pissed me off.