by snarly | Jun 30, 2014 | Sports Apologies
Uruguayan footballer Luis Suarez, after being banned for four months and fined £66,000, has finally acknowledged biting Italian player Giorgio Chiellini, and apologized. (He did not acknowledge or apologize for his two previous chomping offenses.) He tweeted: Need I...
by snarly | Jun 20, 2014 | Funny-on-Purpose Apologies, Sports Apologies
Canadian musician DJ NDN, who is Anishnabe from Nipissing First Nations, apologizes for his nouveau-Redskins* t-shirt. Or rather, “apologizes.” As Sumac quoted me (so I quote her back, nyah nyah) in one of her posts, “A totally facetious WE ARE POINTEDLY...
by snarly | May 29, 2014 | Bropology, Sports Apologies
On Wednesday afternoon, 18-year-old American tennis phenom Taylor Townsend unexpectedly defeated 24-year-old French person Alize Cornet, reaching the third round of the French Open. “After she won she smiled wide and danced in the rain,” reported the Wall...
by snarly | May 23, 2014 | Sports Apologies
I’m thinking of doing a WikiHow. How Not to Give A Press Conference Apologizing for Beating the Crap Out of Your Wife in a Hotel Elevator and Dragging her Unconscious Body Out of It As Captured by Security Footage: 1. First, don’t start off by saying:...
by snarly | Apr 8, 2014 | Celebrity Apologies, Sports Apologies, True Crime Apologies
Not well. You can read a more complete version of his statement here. The main issue: Pistorius spends much more time talking about how upset he is than about how sorry he is. He uses the SorryWatch-unapproved terms “since this tragedy happened” and...
by sumac | Mar 28, 2014 | Media Apologies, Sports Apologies
The April issue of SELF, the magazine whose title makes me mutter “Really?” has a snarky section called “BS METER: Our SELF-y guide to what’s legit and what’s lame this month.” Edgy! Attitudinal! What could go wrong? How about this: with a colorful photo...