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Article: Rutgers Team, Coach Lash Out at Imus
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- April 10, 2007
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PISCATAWAY, N.J. - Rutgers women's basketball coach on Tuesday called the comments radio host Don Imus made about her team "racist and sexist remarks that are deplorable, despicable and unconscionable."
"These young ladies before you are valedictorians, future doctors, musical prodigies," coach C. Vivian Stringer told a nationally publicized news conference a day after the uproar over Imus' comments led to a two-week suspension of his show.
"They are young ladies of class, distinction. They are articulate, they are gifted. They are God's representatives in every sense of the word," Stringer said.
Team member Essence Carson said the team was angry and disgusted by the nationally ...