


Bill Veeck
Feb. 25, 1998: What A Farce. This Does Not Trivialize Sales' Career, But It Does Trivialize The Record

Nykesha Sales didn't set the all-time UConn women's scoring record. Soupy Sales did. Geno Auriemma and his old Philly pal, Harry Perretta, connived to put Sales in the history books. But all they did was succeed in putting themselves -- and their schools -- in the comic books. It was a sad, contrived joke. The kind of sophomoric hucksterism that gives women's basketball a pie in the face and gives the legion of backward thinkers who refuse to endorse women's sports more license to drive a wedge between the sexes. In case you missed it: Sales, who is sidelined for the rest of her college career with a ruptured Achilles' tendon, was allowed to stand alone under the...