tomverve wrote:smackeddog wrote:As well as hating the Heat, I hate their reporter, Dan LeBatard too, but I can't remember what he said in the past (I think it was back at the height of the rivalry) that annoyed me so. Was it something about LJ? Or did he make racisit remarks about Ewing? Or insult new york? I honestly can't remember, all I remember is his name and my hatred for him!
I know exactly what you're talking about. Here's an article on what that piece of **** wrote. If you can believe it, this was actually published in the NY Daily News as part of an article exchange with the Miami Herald, during the 90s Knicks-Heat rivalries.
Controversy number two resulted from a tongue-in-cheek column Le Batard wrote on the eve of the recent Miami Heat-New York Knicks NBA playoff series. Among other insensitive swipes in the piece -- which was entitled "New York Fans: Obnoxious! Overbearing! Unpleasant!" -- Le Batard described the typical Knicks fan this way: "He has almost as much grease in his hair as he does on his body, and he wears his baseball cap backward because, well, the hat didn't come with directions. He has pasty skin ... and he starts all sentences with the words, 'Yo, Vinny,' even when addressing his mother." Toward the end, the columnist wrote: "Then there's prehistoric Patrick Ewing, whose facial features were once used by cavemen to chase frightened woolly mammoths. The only reason Ewing isn't the ugliest person in all of sports is because a few years ago Washington imported Gheorghe Muresan from Triteni, Romania."
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/1997-07-17/news/a-cocked-pistol/1
The guido thing was funny. THe grease flows pretty good down in Miami.
THe Ewing reference deserves a beat down. I would have expected he got one from someone. That was very uncool.
Ewing in college was treated amazingly bad, including MSG fans when they played St Johns.
