MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, on the Chris Simon-Mike Grier
incident: "Buried in the NHL's PC festival over what Simon
said is the fact that if he had merely battered Mike Grier
with fists or his stick and with enough malice to get him
arrested at any venue other than a hockey rink, they
wouldn't have punished him. You can beat the crap out of
somebody, black or white, for whatever reason, or lack of
reason, you want. ... [I]f there were an ethnically hateful
goon, he could repeatedly assault Mike Grier or anybody else
with the league's blessing, just so long as he didn't say
anything mean to him. Does it strike you that there's
something backwards here?" ("The Big Show," 11/12)....In
Seattle, Glenn Nelson, who will spend the NBA season
"searching for an heir" to Michael Jordan, opened his series
profiling Grant Hill. Hill "avoids looking perturbed when
things go wrong. It stamps him as a person intelligent
enough to understand there are more important things in life
than some game. ... [T]hat gives us perspective. It just
doesn't give us our next Michael Jordan" (SEATTLE TIMES,
11/12)....The Int'l Indoor Soccer Federation will hold the
inaugural World Indoor Soccer Championship Tournament in
Mexico City from November 14-23. The U.S. team will be
comprised mostly of CISL players (CISL).
