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With all the fun we're having Tim Hardaway today, a reader writes in and blames ESPN for the whole thing:
ESPN publishes a book in which a gay former player comes out of the closet.
ESPN personalities all jump on this self-created "story" to publicly express that they are indeed tolerant.
ESPN personalities ask every living athlete about their thoughts on gay players hoping that...
An ESPN personality finally catches a former athlete, who's not up on the latest tolerance talking points.
ESPN runs non-stop coverage of said comments.
ESPN personalities get to go on camera once again and say how much they're against hate.
Interesting, though we'll confess that few people are having more fun with this Hardaway business than we are. (It's a slow sports week.) By the way, you can bid on TimHardawayIsGay.com
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"I'd hate fucking blacks if I wasn't black myself."
--T. Hardaway
Sorry, I've been away for a couple of hours. Is Tim Hardaway still gay?
The irony of that is Tim Hardaway is/was an ESPN personality.
I can feel the stupid eminating from that picture.
I'll take some blame. If I wouldn't pay attention, they wouldn't run it non-stop.
I'm bidding right now. Then I'm starting a blog with some fellow Deadspin commenters. KSK, DeadOn watch out ... here comes TimHardawayIsGay!
Tim: And that's where I'm going to put up my Kenny Chesney poster. Right next to the male stripper pole... I mean... I hate the gays.
Isiah: Sing it, sister.
"The CBA had queers, didn't it? Good work coach."
Neil Postman would be laughing if he were still alive.
You mean to say that ESPN is hyping something way beyond what it merits in order to further its own interests?! I am shocked, SHOCKED!
Am I bad for laughing hysterically everytime that I hear the clip of Hardaway? You can almost here him cocking the trigger (pun, why not) and aiming at his broadcast career
Hardaway kind of looks like Keith from Six Feet Under. You know, the gay black guy. Just saying...
I never thought Id like the man on the left in this picture more than the man on the right.
But when I heard Isaiah say he would make sure that a gay player on his team was accepted as an equal, it actually made me not care about his professional failures. There are worse things and, sadly, his rationale is rare in sports.
So he's just like Clayton Bigsby.
Hardaway should remember that just because President Buchanan, John Amaechi and Smithers are #### doesn't mean that he can make fun of the ####s.
(I suffer from image dyslexia)
But I thought Tim liked crossover dribbling.
If Vince McMahon was booking this angle...
Hardaway appears at halfcourt of the All-Star game with Gayness-Free Shavlik Randolph, with both of them wearing "Straight World Order" tshirts, confronting Amaechi. Hardaway would get on the microphone, and grab a steel chair, ready to give his finishing move, "The Gay-Bash." Hardaway then rips off his "Straight World Order" shirt to reveal...A pink polo shirth with a popped collar!
Hardaway then begins making out with Amaechi while Jim Ross screams "OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD!" as the screen fades to black.
Well said Swellesley, though I think you might be looking at the picture in a mirror.
The problem being, of course, that as much as some people would like it to be otherwise, it's not really a self-created story. A former pro athlete coming out is a story. Of course, the phrase
the latest tolerance talking points
shows exactly where this particular writer is coming from.
Time for fun with Tim's website. http://www.timhardaway.com/ Feel free to change the quotes how you'd like.
He's unbelievably hard. - Erick Murdock
You have to wrestle him for the balls - Chris Mullin
He thinks he's a big man, like 6-10 inches. - Chris Webber
(is the first one really an endorsement though, I think Erick Murdock would say I'm hard to guard.)
+1 adamrobert
for some reason timhardawayisnotgay.com is still available...
I think Isaiah is looking at Timmy (TIMMAY!) trying to figure out how to somehow trade his gay-hate for Eddy Curry and a 2008 mid-rounder.
If ESPN wasn't so busy inventing controversies, they'd have to fill that time with hockey highlights. We can't have that, now, can we?
Yeah, I'm beating the only begotten son of Dynaformer here, but damn if it isn't cathartic.
we're having Tim Hardaway today
Wow! Will got Timmy to accept the gay and even try it out!
Oh, I am not saying that the Amaechi coming out story isn't a big deal. I am just saying that ESPN's constant reaction harvesting is nothing more than self-serving sensationalism.
I for one find it shocking and sad that the former player/coach for the classiest team in the glorious history of the ABA, the Florida Pit Bulls, would make such comments.
When do I get TO's reaction to this?
Tim Hardaway, The ESPN Angle
That angle? Obtuse.
Fantastic Bellows- And that is why I don't watch Sportscenter anymore.
dudesshouldntbangdudes.myespn.com
I think the reader is right: it's a conspiracy. And I don't just mean the stuff about Hardaway. I think the belief that there are gay people--the very idea of gay itself--is just a big ploy by ESPN to make more money.
/don-aluminium-foil-cap
Which would we rather have ESPN cover? The Nascar Life or Tim Hardaway is gay? and is there room for a crossover? I mean, there IS Brad Daugherty.
I used to suck dick for coke.
-Bob Saget
Tim Hardaway has such a #### moustache.
He wants to take you to a gay bar, gay bar, gay bar.
Let's start a war! A nuclear war!
member of the Gibson family or not, dude makes some good-ass fucking chicken wings
AnalRapist thinks the way gays have sex is repulsive.
ESPN totally set Hardaway up. They even convinced him that he was actually doing an interview with a local Miami radio show. Clever bastards...
Highlifer, if Hardaway keeps this up, I'll have to show him nakes pictures of his mother.
*naked*
Since there is a picture...
No, No.
Bigotry is not sexy and I can't stand Isiah from his Piston's days.
AnalRapist - consenually?
Irony? The 'stache that Hardaway is rocking is the gayest thing I have seen all day, and I live in Chelsea! Haayyyooooooooo!
The guy selling the Hardawayisgay site is also trying to peddle Annasimplants.com. Truly a man that keeps up with what's going on in the news and likes to strike when the iron is hot.
When did he play for the Pacers? Did I miss something?
And I thought Laettner already came out of the closet?
Just thought I'd get all 3 of those stupid comments lumped into one submission.
After listening to the audio, Dan pulled a slightly fast one by not letting his announced "last question" (about having a gay teammate) be the last question. So Dan may have handed Timmy a small child-size shovel...but then Timmy used a bulldozer. I agree with some of the writer's points (suspicious timing of the book launch to coincide with the dead period of sports; can we say "manufactured news", class?), but this one's all on Tim.
"So I just reach around and grab? Is that the move, Isiah?"
"Yeah, pretty much."
But I thought Tim liked crossover dribbling.
No, BDD; Tim kills crossovers. It's a common misconception.
Too funny:
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I have to say..since this is my first post and since it is how I got my invite
Tim Hardaway hates Sissy Spanish Soccer Fights
Hardaway never played for the Pacers - he just liked the way the jersey colors complemented his eyes.
Winslow: dude makes some good-ass fucking chicken wings
Tim Hardaway is glad your hyphen wasn't one word to the right.
Winslow: dude makes some good-ass fucking chicken wings
CDNMoose Tim Hardaway is glad your hyphen wasn't one word to the right.
Atomic? No thanks. Louisiana Licker sauce sounds good.