Is anyone on the Rutgers womens basketball team not adult, and not in a $multi-million worldwide TV

I don't see how anybody can say that these "girls" were not fair game for national discussion--which is one of the main criticisms of Don Imus's comments.

Isn't their coach writing a $multimillion book?

Isn'tcollegewomens basketball a HUGE industry??? How can anyone participate in one of the professionalcollegesports industries--really BILLIONS are at sake with advertising, equipment makers' revenues and endorsements, and TV time, and the salaries of the basketball announcers.

So how can these girls and Oprah and Hillary and others say that nobody should be talking about them?

PLEASE NOTE: This issue is entirely separate from the issue of what Imus said about them--it is only about whether Imus should be allowed to say something negative, not racial.

Is anyone on the Rutgers womens basketball team not adult, and not in a $multi-million worldwide TV event?nba live 2007

Good point.

Is anyone on the Rutgers womens basketball team not adult, and not in a $multi-million worldwide TV event?nba betting ,nba teams

no these are young women.. they aren't paid for what they do.. they did nothing to provoke that type of verbal attack. He is an old man he should know better. If he has been doing radio for so long, like 40 years, he should know his parameters
The Rutgers basketball players are NOT rich celebrities.

They don't make any money off of games or TV contracts.

They don't make money period.

The NCAA basketball companies might make some money. But the girls get ZERO dollars.

These girls are students who are working towards a College degree to support themselves and their families. They did not ask for this.

Being in the national spotlight has made their lives difficult, as they need to focus on studying and graduating from college, and that is hard with reporters chasing you around.
They were not public persons. Could you name any of them before Imus's slur. I couldn't %26amp; I'm willing to bet that very few could.
No one has suggested that public figures are not open for public discussion. But that does not excuse the obpenly racist remarks of Inuus and his ilk--nor does it excuse the attempts of racist trash--here or elswhere--to twist the truth in an effort to pretend what he did was 'okay." It wasn't--and neither is the effort to pretend otherwise.