Women's Hoops Blog

Inane commentary on a game that deserves far better


Monday, February 23, 2004

Jackass of the Day: Mike Moschetti, former Boulder quarterback. On ESPN Radio yesterday (replayed on SportsCenter this morning), Moschetti called alleged rape victim Katie Hnida a liar. Despite 6 separate allegations of rape by football players, Moschetti said the whole thing is just a "witch hunt" at the behest of "these women organizations" and "you know, feminists."

Hnida's story was published in this Sports Illustrated article.

What would Stacey Pressman say about all this?

You remember Stacey. The most vacuous writer at ESPN.com's Page 2 (and that's saying a lot). The avowed women's hoops hater. The woman who thinks that more football is the cure for American men, who are just too gay.

Stacey writes about football, yet she's been remarkably silent about this, the biggest college football story this year. So what does she think?

She once wrote that "The world would be a much better place if more women's studies professors embraced [football]!"

Maybe now she would see that the converse is also true -- that the world might be a better place if college football players took a women's studies class. Then again, it shouldn't take a women's studies class to teach you that your status as a bigtime football player -- though it makes you godlike to some -- does not absolve you of your responsibility to obtain consent before having sex with a woman.