{"id":746,"date":"2013-05-31T14:09:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T18:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=746"},"modified":"2013-05-31T14:09:24","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T18:09:24","slug":"rick-pitino-calls-gordon-gee-a-a-not-so-nice-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2013\/05\/31\/rick-pitino-calls-gordon-gee-a-a-not-so-nice-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Pitino calls Gordon Gee a a not so nice name"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_747\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-747\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-747\" alt=\"rickpitino\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/05\/rickpitino.jpg\" width=\"676\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/05\/rickpitino.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/05\/rickpitino-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/05\/rickpitino-70x50.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-747\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">credit: getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rick Pitino appeared on 84 WHAS Louisville to speak with Terry Meiners about winning the NCAA Basketball championship and the recent comments of Ohio State President Gordon Gee.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6dMJ-p_2e00\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe really doesn\u2019t know how to tell jokes, he really doesn\u2019t know how to get laughter because he has to denigrate others to get laughter,\u201d Pitino said. \u201cIt\u2019s a pompous attitude. \u2026 I have a major problem with him, not with Ohio State&#8230;. and he\u2019s a pompous ass for making those statements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gee has apologized for his statements but Pitino was not having any part of it. Only a call from Gee to Louisville president Dr. James Ramsey will do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;we don\u2019t accept it until he calls Dr. Ramsey,\u201d Pitino said. \u201cUntil he calls us, we don\u2019t accept his apology.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Pitino appeared on 84 WHAS Louisville to speak with Terry Meiners about winning the NCAA Basketball championship and the recent comments of Ohio State President Gordon Gee. \u201cHe really doesn\u2019t know how to tell jokes, he really doesn\u2019t know how to get laughter because he has to denigrate others to get laughter,\u201d Pitino said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[71],"coauthors":[3],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-back-page-featured","category-news","tag-rick-pitino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}