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betED sportsbook article called View From The Couch talks about Kanye West not being alone, as just this past weekend has demonstrated. We’re seemingly up to our elbows with Jackasses…

September 18th, 2009 – Calling a Jackass a Jackass

When the President of the United States talks, people listen, so when Barack Obama let it slip he thought perma-douche Kanye West was a “Jackass” after his Cognac-driven diatribe on Sunday, you knew that would become a label that would probably stick.

Unfortunately in these uncivil times, Kanye is not alone, as just this past weekend has demonstrated. We’re seemingly up to our elbows with Jackasses.

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Two icons of their sports were positively Kanye-esque with their behavior.

Michael Jordan was, and in many ways still is, the face of basketball. His career was crammed with so many incredible moments, most still available on YouTube, he’ll perhaps, in most peoples eyes, never be supplanted as the greatest to ever play the game.

Too bad he’s such a Jackass.

On Friday he was giving a speech at his induction to the NBA Hall of Fame. He had a lot to talk about – his 10 scoring titles, his five MVP’s, those six championships. But that wasn’t what he wanted to use the occasion for.

He wanted payback. A lot of it.

First, he blasted his high school coach who had the temerity to cut him as a sophomore. Ironically it was Obama who, just last week in his speech to school kids, sighted the very same incident as a teachable moment on why you never give up.

Not #23. All he cared about was embarrassing the guy because he’s still pissed off 33 years later.

Next came his university coach, living legend Dean Smith of UNC, who blew it by leaving out Jordan when he picked the four starters for a cover of Sports Illustrated.

That happened in 1982.

Next up was Jerry Krause, the ex-Bulls General Manager, who once said “it’s organizations who win Championships, not individual players.”

Jordan didn’t like that then and it hasn’t changed. “Jerry’s not here. I don’t know who’d invite him. I didn’t. I hope he understands it goes a long way… He said organizations win championships. I said, ‘I didn’t see organizations playing with the flu in Utah. I didn’t see it playing with a bad ankle.’”

Jordan left the Bulls eleven years ago and their dominance had nothing to do with his amazing coach, nor teammates like Scotty Pippen, nor the Triangle offence…

It was all about him

He went after Kevin Loughery, his first coach in the NBA for some infraction. Players weren’t exempt. George Gervin, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird received full facials. As did Isaiah Thomas… okay he had it coming.

But he even went after his own brother.

Finally he did get around to thanking someone – his own kids, telling them “I wouldn’t want to be you guys.”

After Friday, I don’t think too many people who heard him want to “Be like Mike” anymore either.

Of course, this isn’t just a guy thing.

Serena Williams is probably the only female athlete who is as competitive as MJ. As dominant as any other woman player in the Open Era, when she chooses to play, which isn’t all that often, she’s almost unbeatable.

Yet she was beaten on Sunday, not by her opponent, but by her own mouth.

At the U.S. Open at the end of her semifinal match against Kim Clijsters, she was called for a foot-fault on second serve at love-30. There is no doubt the call was ridiculous, but Serena completely lost it in front of a packed house and on live TV, disgorging a string of swearing that would have made Ilie Nastase faint.

A wee bit unhinged throughout, she’d already been penalized once for racquet abuse, she was disqualified and later fined.

She’s since apologized twice but would you have ever thought that the most foul mouthed tennis player in the sport’s centuries long history wouldn’t be named McEnroe or Connors – but Serena?

This kind of ridiculous behavior isn’t just limited to the entertainment industry as Obama himself has his own issues with this kind of uncivility. At a joint session of Congress last Wednesday a sitting house member named Joe Wilson lost it yelling out, “You lie” as Obama was insisting his health care plan wouldn’t cover illegal immigrants – a first in as long as records have been kept.

I wonder what the word was that came into Obama’s mind when that happened?

Cheers – Gavin McDougald – AKA Couch

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