October 22, 2003

BIRD IS THE WORD: Some

BIRD IS THE WORD: Some of you may remember a flap last July in which Sue Bird, the young player for the WNBA's Seattle Storm, made a wager with local radio personality Mitch Levy which stipulated that if her assist-to-turnover ratio for the season were above 2-1, the WNBA-bashing Levy would buy season tickets to the Storm's games. But if the ratio went below that number, Levy would be allowed to spank Bird on the air, while she proclaimed "harder, daddy, harder!"
Under pressure from the league and its fans, Bird canceled the bet before the season began, but I'm happy to report that Bird would've won it with flying colors, finishing with an assist-to-turnover ratio of 2.01, good for 6th in the league (this was, alas, my first-ever time searching the WNBA's statistics page). In fact, now that Levy is no longer on the hook for purchasing season tickets, I suppose everyone wins, aside from horny WNBA fans of both genders who were looking forward to hearing Bird get spanked live on the air.
Bird, who is NOT Larry Bird's illegitimate daughter (though he does have one), is also probably the second most attractive American female athlete, after Marion Jones. Yet for some reason I've been getting pornographic Google searches for the past year looking for her much-less-comely former UConn teammate Diana Taurasi. Why is that?

Posted by Stephen Silver at October 22, 2003 07:49 PM
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