Nappy Headed Hoes

[anodyne]

for someone who sported that hairstyle for so long, sharpton really did not have much of a sense of humor.

[Spawn's dad]

WTF? mike and the mad dog in the morning?

[MattZ]

WTF? mike and the mad dog in the morning?

 

and in the afternoon. Temporarily.

[Spawn's dad]

teh whack!

[MattZ]

We knew this was coming...

 

http://www.aolsportsblog.com/2007/04/17/ru...into-book-deal/

 

Rutgers Coach Parlays Don Imus Flap Into Book Deal

 

Rutgers women's basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer, in the public eye for much of the last two weeks after Don Imus called her players "nappy-headed hos," has signed a contract to write her autobiography.

 

"It's about an incredible woman with an extraordinary life story," said Tina Constable, executive vice president for publicity at Crown, who declined to say how much the company will pay Stringer. "She's a pioneer, a legend, an icon and a role model."

 

Although the Imus incident is obviously going to be the main selling point for the book, it should be noted that Stringer's life story was interesting even before Imus insulted her team. She has 777 coaching wins, she is the only women's coach to have taken three teams to the Final Four, she has a daughter who was paralyzed by spinal meningitis, she has a son who was kicked off the North Carolina State football team for his role in a fight that led to someone being shot and killed. It's a book that could be worth a read.

[tongue-tied lightning]

Imus will make eveyone rich

[EL the Famous]

We knew this was coming...

 

http://www.aolsportsblog.com/2007/04/17/ru...into-book-deal/

 

Rutgers Coach Parlays Don Imus Flap Into Book Deal

 

Rutgers women's basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer, in the public eye for much of the last two weeks after Don Imus called her players "nappy-headed hos," has signed a contract to write her autobiography.

 

"It's about an incredible woman with an extraordinary life story," said Tina Constable, executive vice president for publicity at Crown, who declined to say how much the company will pay Stringer. "She's a pioneer, a legend, an icon and a role model."

 

Although the Imus incident is obviously going to be the main selling point for the book, it should be noted that Stringer's life story was interesting even before Imus insulted her team. She has 777 coaching wins, she is the only women's coach to have taken three teams to the Final Four, she has a daughter who was paralyzed by spinal meningitis, she has a son who was kicked off the North Carolina State football team for his role in a fight that led to someone being shot and killed. It's a book that could be worth a read.

 

She may have lead an interesting life worthy of a book, but my guess is (after seeing the non-disclosure on her payday) it's worth a lot more to Crown than before.

[owl]

By the time it's written, it probably won't sell. Then, it will be pulped.

[uncle wilco]

[Spawn's dad]

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Former radio talk show host Don Imus has hired one of the country's top trial

lawyers to sue CBS Radio following his dismissal last month for making racial and sexual on-air comments

about members of the Rutgers University women's basketball team.

 

Attorney Martin Garbus told CNN Wednesday that he has agreed to represent Imus in a wrongful breach of

contract suit against his former employer.

 

Garbus would not disclose when he was retained by Imus but said he plans to file an action against CBS in the

near future. Calls made to Imus by CNN were not returned.

 

A CBS spokesman declined comment.

 

Imus had $40 million remaining on a multiyear contact that began in 2006 and included a clause that CBS wanted

him to be "irreverent" and "controversial," according to CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, who was shown part of the

contract.

 

"Company (CBS Radio) acknowledges that Artist's (Imus') services to be rendered hereunder are of a unique,

extraordinary, irreverent, intellectual, topical, controversial and personal character and that programs of the same

general type and nature containing these components are desired by Company and are consistent with Company rules

and policies."

 

Toobin said the legal issues in the Imus case are simple: "Did Imus breach his contract by saying what he did about the

Rutgers basketball team?"

 

CBS dismissed Imus on April 12, eight days after he called the Rutgers players "nappy-headed 'hos" on his radio show,

"Imus in the Morning."

 

"What stands out in the contract is he is supposed to be controversial and irreverent. That's what his statement about

the Rutgers basketball team was," Toobin said.

 

"How is CBS going to argue that what he said was so controversial and so offensive that it isn't what they asked for in the

contract?"

[cryptique]

I hope he wins.

 

 

I'm no fan, but it sure sounds like his contract expected him to get into exactly those kinds of situations ... so, screw CBS.

[Spawn's dad]

BY NEIL BEST |neil.best@newsday.com

 

Don Imus will end his radio exile of nearly eight months by returning to the air on or about Dec. 3, filling the morning drive time slot on WABC-AM, a person familiar with the plans said Monday.

 

Citadel Broadcasting, which owns ABC Radio, likely will announce a deal with Imus by the end of the week. He is expected to bring with him most or all of his cast from the "Imus in the Morning Show" that until April 12 was heard on WFAN and other stations around the nation. It was cancelled by CBS Radio in the wake of what many considered racially and sexually insensitive remarks directed at Rutgers' women's basketball team.

 

Bernard McGuirk, Imus' controversial producer/writer/performer, is expected to have a role on the show but it was not clear Monday night precisely what it will be.

 

Citadel presumably will syndicate the program on the radio and seek a partner for a TV simulcast. Imus' WFAN show was seen on MSNBC.

 

Yet to be determined is how many of Imus' former advertisers will make the switch to WABC with him, but at least several important ones are expected to do so.

 

Imus is in line to replace the long-time WABC morning team of Curtis Sliwa and Ron Kuby. Sliwa said Wednesday he had not heard anything from station executives about a possible Imus signing.

[cryptique]