I've got a bone to pick with Boston Globe sportswriter Bob Ryan for 
not only disrespecting a man's wife, but for disrespecting whom would 
have been my future wife had Jason Kidd not beat me to the punch. 

In case you have not heard, but the other night, Ryan, who can be seen on 
ESPN's "Around the Horn," was on WBZ TV's show "Sports Final," hosted 
by Bob Lobel. Ryan told the host that he'd "like to smack" Jason Kidd's 
wife, Joumana, because he feels that she uses her son T.J. as a "prop." 
"I got theories with this woman, this Joumana Kidd who 
wants to be a TV star. Shewants face time on camera. The 
great way to get face time is to bring the cute, little 
precocious kid. Oh, great. I'd like to smack her," said Ryan. 
Host Lobel gave Ryan a chance to retract his statement 
during the show, but Ryan refused. 

Ryan's comments were in extreme poor taste, not only for 
his blatant disrespect of a man's family, but for his 
                       ignorance in making a reference to an act of domestic 
                       violence. The Kidd's marriage already has a history of 
domestic abuse, and for Ryan to take a cheap-shot at that is journalism 
at its very worst. 

Plain and simple, Ryan is just a middle-aged, sorry excuse for a man 
that wishes he could have a woman with even half the beauty of Joumana 
to simply give him the time of day. Duke, you're a hater. Besides, your 
comments about Joumana don't even make sense to begin with. Do you 
really think that she would need to bring her son to the game to receive 
camera time?? Look at the lady, she's a notch. During televised New 
Jersey Nets games, the director cuts to a shot of Joumana to appeal to 
the male demographic out there who are tuned into the telecast. Sex sells 
my man, and if you have a problem with a mother bringing her son to a 
basketball game to have the good fortune to watch his father, a future 
hall-of-famer, play in the NBA, then I think you're the one that needs a 
smacking. 






- May 7, 2003

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