Today marks the fifteenth anniversary of the longest surviving women's sports league in US sporting history, the WNBA. It started in 1997 with eight franchises in Los Angeles, New York, Cleveland, Utah, Sacramento, Phoenix, Charlotte, and (sniff sniff) Houston. It added teams and grew to as large as sixteen teams before attrition took it down to the current 12 teams once the NBA big brother arrangement ended. Out of the Original Eight franchises only four remain. Los Angeles, New York, and the Utah one that moved to San Antonio. I'm still royally pissed about the way the WNBA and then commissioner Donna Orender mishandled the Houston Comets situation.
They open the 15th anniversary season with the Seattle Storm aiming to defend their WNBA title and a new commissioner in Laurel J. Richie. The only game on the WNBA schedule tonight is one in Los Angeles featuring the Sparks (boo hiss) versus the Minnesota Lynx and their super rookie Maya Moore.
That's a nice segue into this week's Shut Up Fool Awards. Time to make some sparks fly and reveal which fool or fools have exhibited championship level stupidity this week.
I have plenty to choose from this week. Rudy Guiliani, Charles Krauthammer, Roger Ailes, Eric Cantor (R-VA), Steve Doocy, Rep Billy Long (R-MO), Gov Chris Christie (R-NJ), a group award for Fox Noise, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Michael Steele.This week's award goes to Mitt Romney, who announced his run for the 2012 GOP nomination yesterday on a NH farm.
Not only has Mitt been tap dancing around his own liberal record as the former governor of Massachusetts and Romneycare, he attacked President Obama with the 'European' sobriquet.
"He’s treating Israel the same way so many European countries have: with suspicion, distrust, and an assumption that Israel is at fault ...""Here at home, the president seems to take his inspiration not from the small towns and villages of New Hampshire but from the capitals of Europe ...""With the economy in crisis, his answer is to borrow money we can’t afford and throw it at Washington bureaucrats and politicians. Just like Europe ...""President Obama’s European answers are not the right solution to America’s challenges."
Yeah, right The Mormon corporate banker trying to play the 'Real American' card. Well at least he's not throwing shade (yet) at his African heritage like Newt Gingrich did, so I should consider it progress.
Mitt Romney, shut up fool!
