by sumac | Apr 29, 2025 | Other Apologies, Sports Apologies
Hard-fought tennis game at the Open de Rouen. French player Loïs Boisson dominating. British player Harriet Dart struggling. As they changed ends, Dart spoke to the umpire. “Can you tell her to use deodorant because she smells really bad?” This was picked up by...
by snarly | Feb 13, 2020 | Sports Apologies
Boy, the Houston Astros’ apology for cheating was EPIC in its vileness, no? (Here is SorryWatch in the Houston Chronicle, discussing just how epic.) Why, it seems like just yesterday we were gaping at this team’s propensity toward crap apologies. In the...
by snarly | Jan 26, 2020 | Bropology, Sports Apologies, Youth apologizes
The bicep-enabled young man with the microphone is Charlie, son of Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Brad Hall, a walk-on player at Northwestern. He is amusing. But let us take this opportunity to note that his teammate Nathan Taphorn’s unsolicited apology for failing to...
by snarly | Oct 22, 2019 | Bropology, Corporate Apologies, Sports Apologies
SorryWatch is still in recovery from Lance Armstrong’s and Ray Rice’s godawful apologies. However, at the urging of a longtime baseball fan and blogger who was not authorized to speak on the record, SorryWatch agreed to wade into the Houston Astros mess. A...
by sumac | Jun 5, 2019 | Sports Apologies
It was a fearsome minor league matchup, a doubleheader pitting the El Paso Chihuahuas against the home team, the mighty mighty Fresno Grizzlies. The Chihuahuas team name was selected in a contest, and we think it’s better that the name Aardvarks did not win....
by sumac | Nov 29, 2017 | Sports Apologies
When Dr. Larry Nassar pleaded guilty to first-degree criminal sexual conduct last week in Michigan, he was facing 7 counts. Three of the crimes were against girls under 13, the rest against girls between 13 and 15. Nassar was an osteopathic physician seeing patients –...