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Kidd Chris vs. the SEC

Shocking news out of Kentucky this morning:

Several women's basketball coaches were asked lewd questions by prank callers who infiltrated a media teleconference Tuesday afternoon.

A Southeastern Conference official said the league is working to find out who made the calls and is searching for ways to keep this from happening in the future...

The prank callers, who were claiming to be legitimate reporters, managed to get on and ask at least six questions to more than half of the league's 12 coaches. The questions were graphic in nature and included inquiries about coaches having sexual relations with players and players' performances based on their menstrual cycles.

On this morning's Kidd Chris Show on WYSP in Philly, the "Cream Team," a consortium of prank callers led by "media terrorist" East Coast Bob, claimed responsibility for the calls. Traditionally the Cream Team has specialized in prank-calling radio shows, but of late they've been infiltrating business conference calls and spreading their cheer that away.

But I have to wonder- so soon after the Imus/Rutgers scandal, is it really such a good idea for shock jocks to be screwing around with womens' basketball personnel? Then again, the Cream Team left racial stuff out of it completely, and these were coaches falling victim, not 19-year-old players. Also, and I'm sure Kidd and the Cream Team don't know this, but the SEC actually had a scandal last year, involving former LSU coach Pokey Chatman, in which a coach was accused of having an affair with a player.

Anyway, if you want to hear the bit, it's on the podcast here. It starts at about the 1:17 mark, with about 6 minutes of discussion before that.

Posted by Stephen Silver at January 23, 2008 01:14 PM