UConn suspended a women’s soccer player for giving an ESPN camera the middle finger salute.
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The Connecticut Huskies women’s soccer team won their first American Athletic Conference title on Sunday, a big accomplishment and one worth celebrating. Of course, someone was bound to spoil the party.
That person was a freshman player who decided to give an ESPN camera the bird. Yup, she decided to flip up her middle finger and stick it to ESPN.
For her actions, she was suspended as the Hartford Courant reported yesterday. The school later released a statement from coach Len Tsantiris addressing the incident:
"“The University of Connecticut and its women’s soccer program would like to apologize for an inappropriate gesture a UConn student-athlete made to an ESPNU camera following today’s American Athletic Conference championship game…The gesture showed poor judgment and sportsmanship and does not represent what we want our program and University to stand for.”“The issue has already been addressed by the coaching staff to the student-athlete. The student-athlete has been indefinitely suspended from all team activities, including participation in UConn’s upcoming NCAA tournament games.”"
I don’t know what UConn is so upset about, students routinely do this to ESPN through signs on College GameDay, particularly those schools who aren’t in the SEC and expressing their displeasure with the bias that exists.
Is there an SEC of woman’s soccer that they show favoritism too possibly, and this was her expressing her frustration with the lack of fair coverage?