Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. missed the point about surprising New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin. Granted, Lin’s Asian American heritage is part of his intriguing story — but the player’s unexpected success is what’s most compelling about him. [Read More]
The editor, who was fired, insists that he intended no pun on Lin’s ethnicity — in which case he was guilty only of being bad at his job, because absent the racist reference, the headline is so stale it’s nearly senseless. [Read More]