Members of the University of South Carolina baseball team will join hundreds of athletes from more than two dozen colleges at the White House on September 13 as President Barack Obama honors – en masse, apparently – recent collegiate national championship teams.
Alongside the Fairleigh Dickinson University women’s bowling team, the University of Virginia women’s rowing team and the Augusta State University men’s golf squad (and thirty other collegiate programs), the Gamecocks will file through for handshakes and maybe even get a picture with the President – if they’re unlucky.
Err, lucky (sorry).
Whoop-tee-do and la-ti-da, right?
South Carolina won its first ever national championship in a major sport earlier this year when the Gamecock baseball team defeated UCLA in the College World Series finals in Omaha.
Since then they’ve been honored by every politician under the sun … well, except the U.S. Senate.
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By Darth August 16, 2010 at 10:59 am
“Barack Obama honors – en masse, apparently – recent collegiate national championship teams.”
Maybe it really is a Title IX issue, intended to diminish the luster of men’s sports. Should we be suprised.