Jeff Pearlman calls University of Delaware racist

The food and football is pretty good down south, especially in the high school ranks. Sussex Central and Cape Henlopen are always forces in DI and DII.

 

In light of what just occurred at Del. State - I'd say he's correct.

EVERYTHING is about race and stop lying and saying it isn't.

 

You need to edit your post again. There are bad misrepresentations in there.

 

Can you enlighten me to what my "bad misrepresentations" are?

The Delaware basketball team was phenomenal in the early 90s, usually beating Delaware State rather handily. Delaware State has been much better in the recent years, going to the NCAA Tournament. Delaware has improved their field hockey and lacrosse programs. Hell, last year Delaware went to the NCAA Lacrosse Final Four.

The upper administration at Delaware doesn't want to play Delaware State and it comes through the vibes. It shouldn't be there.

 

http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071118/SPORTS/71118026

It's Delaware vs Delaware State on Friday at 1:30 PM on ESPN.

 

Seems odd the game is on Friday afternoon rather than Saturday, but it's good to see it being played at all.

 

First round of the sub division playoffs. Plus ESPN thought it would get a better market on Friday.

 

Given that it's the holiday weekend, there'll probably be a lot bigger man audience sitting around doing nothing Friday afternoon, especially after the wife drags him out to shop at 5 a.m. I wouldn't be surprised if the stadium sold out.

 

Just because:

A MINIVAN is rolling slowly down Atlanta's Route 400, and the University of Delaware, driving directly behind it in his blue Chevy Tahoe, is pissed.
"Stupid bitch! Learn to f---ing drive!" the University of Delaware yells. The University of Delaware honks its horn. Once. Twice. He swerves a lane to the left. There is a toll booth with a tariff of 50 cents. The University of Delaware tosses in two quarters. The gate doesn't rise. The University of Delaware tosses in another quarter. The gate still doesn't rise. From behind, a horn blasts. "F--- you!" the University of Delaware yells, flashing his left middle finger out the window. Finally, after University of Delaware has thrown in two dimes and a nickel, the gate rises. The University of Delaware brings up a thick wad of phlegm. Puuuh! He spits at the machine. "Hate this damn toll."

With one hand on the wheel, the other gripping a cell phone, the University of Delaware tears down the highway, weaving through traffic. In 10 minutes he is due to speak at Lockhart Academy, a school for learning-disabled children. Does the University of Delaware enjoy speaking to children? "No," he says, "not really." But of all things big and small he hates -- Delaware State fans, sore arms, jock itch -- the thing he hates most is traffic. "I have no patience," he says. The speedometer reads 72. University of Delaware, in blue-tinted sunglasses and a backward baseball cap, is seething. "So many dumb asses don't know how to drive in this town," he says, Billy Joel's New York State of Mind humming softly from the radio. "They turn from the wrong lane. They go 20 miles per hour. It makes me want -- Look! Look at this idiot! I guarantee you she's a Japanese woman." A beige Toyota is jerking from lane to lane. The woman at the wheel is white. "How bad are Asian women at driving?"

"The biggest thing I don't like about Delaware State are the foreigners. I'm not a very big fan of foreigners."
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The University of Delaware has opinions, and there's no way to sugarcoat them. They are politically incorrect, to say the least, and he likes to express them.

On ever playing Delaware State: "I would retire first. It's the most hectic, nerve-racking school. Imagine having to take the [Number] 7 train to the ballpark, looking like you're [riding through] Beirut next to some kid with purple hair next to some queer with AIDS right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. It's depressing."

On Delaware State itself: "The biggest thing I don't like about Delaware State are the foreigners. I'm not a very big fan of foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Delaware State and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?"

 

Amazing.

Did you use Find+Replace All for that, or did you do it manually?

 

Typed it once, then copied and pasted it.

Apologies, to Jeff. It was the first thing that came to mind when I read the initial post and it just made me laugh.