Pam Borton compared Katie Ohm's variety of skills to Larry Bird.  Should that be considered a racist remark?

 

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From:  marc  hugunin <mailto:marc@...>  
 
To: mnbuckets@yahoogroups.com
 
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 10:02  PM
 
Subject: [mnbuckets] Good show
 

 
 

The  Gopher women defeated a good Northern Iowa team 75-63 tonight. The Panthers  finished 3rd in the Missouri Valley last year, they have 4 starters back, and  they are picked to finish 3rd in the MVC again.

And there's more good  news. Katie Ohm came off the bench to lead Gopher scorers with 15 points.  Emily Fox had a points/assists double-double, the first since Lindsay Whalen,  with 13 and 10. Brittany McCoy scored 11, Kelly Roysland 10, and Korinne  Campbell came off the bench to score 8 with 10 boards.

The Gophers  used a quick tempo to take a 20-5 lead, but Northern got back within 25-20.  The Gophers made it 34-26 at the half, but Northern again closed the gap to  40-37. An Ohm 3-pointer gave the Gophers a 55-47 lead at 6:20 and they held a  double-figure lead the rest of the way.

Next up: Charlotte at the barn  on Tuesday night at 7 p.m. Personally I feel like I should be supporting Kelly  Roysland this year, though I admit that tonight I went to the Gopher  volleyball game instead. The Gophers defeated Illinois fairly  easily.

PS. It has come to my attention that the Gopher  volleyball team has signed one of its greatest classes ever. 6-2 Lauren  Gibbemeyer from Cretin, a middle blocker, is rated the #4 senior in the  country, and Brook Dieter of Kennedy, an outside hitter, is rated #5. And yet  Hailey Cowles of Eden Prairie was the MN and Metro player of the year. She did  everything for EP but was recruited as a defensive specialist (libero). And  there's a 4th girl from Ohio who is rated #88 in the nation. The Gophers  return junior Jessy Jones (once rated as the #13 recruit in the nation),  sophomores Rachel Hartmann (#11), Katie Vatterodt (#18) and Kyla Roehrig  (#20), and freshman Rachelle Hagerty (#19). Roerig, whose sister played  basketball at Michigan State (in the national championship game in 2004), has  become the Gophers’ leader in kills. Hartmann is the regular setter,  displacing Kelly Bowman after Bowman earned all-America honors as setter in  the Gophers’ Final Four season of 2004.
When not playing volleyball,  Gibbemeyer is an outstanding hoopster for the Cretin girls, not one of the top  25 seniors in the state, probably, but a solid all-conference type of  player.

Marc