Sports Rubbish » Javelin http://www.sportsrubbish.com The Weirdest And Worst Of The Sporting World Sat, 19 Nov 2011 19:01:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Times Online Headline Uses Racial Slur To Describe Indian Baseball Players http://www.sportsrubbish.com/2008/12/26/baseball/mlb/times-online-headline-uses-racial-slur-to-describe-indian-baseball-players/ http://www.sportsrubbish.com/2008/12/26/baseball/mlb/times-online-headline-uses-racial-slur-to-describe-indian-baseball-players/#comments Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:32:00 +0000 Jonathan Sacks http://www.sportsrubbish.com/?p=264 A few weeks ago, the Pittsburgh Pirates signed a couple of guys from India to minor league contracts, making them the first Indians to sign with a team from any major American sport.

The Times Online just heard about this story, and wrote a headline that’s quite inappropriate.


Yes, I know they are javelin throwers. However, that doesn’t mean that it’s a good idea to call them “spearchuckers.” They certainly could have come up with something less offensive, like say… anything else.

The Times Online might want to look into hiring someone to screen their racist headlines. Seriously… Spearchuckers? [FanIQ]
Pittsburgh Pirates snap up Indian spearchuckers [Times Online]

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