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Byline: David J. Neal
MIAMI _ Will there come a time when a young woman championship athlete with kinky hair and an iPod full of hip-hop free of "b----" and "ho" thinks, "Thank you, Don Imus?"
Could be.
Recent history says when impolite comments rip away sports' and society's polite veneer to reveal still-present infections from old diseases, two things have happened: punishment for the speaker, but also discussion about sports' societal condition of which the speaker's words were only a symptom.
See the American sports Hall of Verbal Infamy that Imus just joined in the public mind: Al Campanis. Jimmy the Greek. Marge Schott. Dennis Rodman. Fuzzy Zoeller. Reggie White.