She's on the cutting edge.

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wait US women's has never won in figure skating? seriously? or am I reading it wrong and this girl won her first title

I don’t think the problem here is the war- it’s the fact that it’s getting out of hand and there needs to be REAL change if they want to be key back

Anyone know if/when there will be a replay of the event?

Yeah, if you’re talking about strategy, Sagan had both the power and the strategic insight to read the race and not waste too much power along the way.

While he wasn’t my favorite rider, I respected his qualities and he grew on me a bit.

Which is not racist. In this context, it’s a compliment because monkeys are superior to humans in the traits that he’s comparing. Michael Phelps is sometimes called the “flying fish” because he, like fish, is a good swimmer.

You're right, it's a metaphor for not being human....you know being an animal.

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Dude it’s called a metaphor. He is not literally saying the player is a monkey. Sometimes people call someone a monkey as a slur. Sometimes they do it to make a comparison that describes how athletic someone is.

>If you're the one calling someone racist

I'm not

He was a Wake Forest alumni. It was an ACC thing, most likely maybe even more a NC thing. It was always a joke that if he was calling a UNC game we would just mute the TV and turn the Woody Durham radio broadcast on. He always just seemed more brutal towards them than anyone else in his analysis.

The salary cap makes their “huge amounts of money” irrelevant, they needed the money and design talent two years ago.

Thanks~ Not every day there is a figure skating post on reddit, and as a lifer in that sport, it's always fun to chime in here.

Agree! I know very little about skating, but I really enjoy watching it. She is a captivating performer. Hope to see her in the Olympics!

I appreciate your insight.

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She was phenomenal. certainly a cut above the rest in the country at the moment. While she certainly has some areas that will grow with experience, she is already executing really well crafted programs with amazing jump technique. You feel like you can rely on her to land her big items when it counts... something our ladies have been having a little trouble with in recent years.

Anyways, great skate, well deserved title.

I assume we will be getting another first time US title holder on the Men's side also. Can't see anyone touching that Quad Axel.

what did he have against UNC?

Howard Cosell on Monday Night Football used the expression "little monkey" to describe small, fast wide receivers in the 70s and 80s - whether white or black.

But he got in trouble in the mid 80s over the expression.

https://historydaily.org/howard-cosell-little-monkey-controversy

As an announcer though, I'm surprised he survived that comment in the 90s.

But whether it was racist? Howard Cosell probably wasn't racist and he was using "little monkey" in the 80s for small, fast wide receivers in football. When he used it for black players, it got him forced out.

https://historydaily.org/howard-cosell-little-monkey-controversy

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He shat on ALL Big 10 schools.

We would turn off the sound when “Fudge” was calling the game.

I was able to find the phrase being used innocently in Seinfeld, which lends some credence to the possibility of Packer not meaning it in that way. 

That being said, I think regardless of Packer's thoughts when saying it, he should've realized how bad it sounded and he shouldn't have tried to brush it off as people being too sensitive. 

There's just too much history of racists referring to black people as "monkeys" to use that phrase when there are so many other phrases that bring the same meaning across. He could've easily referred to Iverson as a "tough cookie" and it would've had the same meaning without the racial overlap.