{"id":9693,"date":"2015-06-11T03:07:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T03:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9693"},"modified":"2015-06-11T03:07:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T03:07:08","slug":"espn-to-honor-caitlyn-jenner-for-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9693","title":{"rendered":"ESPN to honor Caitlyn Jenner … for what?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Bob Costas is a smart sports journalist who goes far beyond who gets the most hits, scores the most touchdowns or sinks the most three-point field goals.<\/p>\n

He’s been known to offer opinions on a wide range of issues beyond the field of competition.<\/p>\n

He often is spot on.<\/p>\n

I think he’s on target with his assertion that ESPN’s plan to honor Caitlyn Jenner with a special courage award, named after the late tennis great Arthur Ashe, is an attempt to exploit Jenner and boost the network’s ratings.<\/p>\n

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This likely will be the final thing I’ll say about Jenner, whose sex changed from man to woman. Jenner once was Bruce Jenner, Olympic decathlon champion who turned into a reality TV personality; he married Kris Kardashian and became the foil for his former wife and her daughters.<\/p>\n

Then Bruce became Caitlyn.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure about the “courage” it took to do such a thing. Jenner always has struck me as someone who craves publicity. She’s getting a ton of it now.<\/p>\n

The Arthur Ashe Courage Award is named after the tennis great who died of AIDS complications in 1993. He announced to the world that had contracted HIV through a tainted blood transfusion. It broke the hearts of a sports nation that had admired him for his talent on the tennis court and his courtly, gentlemanly demeanor.<\/p>\n

Caitlyn Jenner earning an award in memory of Arthur Ashe? It just doesn’t feel right.<\/p>\n

There. I’m out.<\/p>\n

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