Gym Rat

Since this stirred quite a debate in here.... I thought I would update you on the situation. Sounds like the owner is a nut case but she is the owner, well ONE of THREE owners. I wonder if she had the authority to fire the coach and dictate playing time. The team's record is good. Quite the interesting controversy.


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Fork

Who the hell is Sally Anthony?

First of all, you'd have to be an idiot to sign a former NBA player to a two game contract (at $5,000 per game) and then demand the coach to bench him. That's probably the stupidest thing I've ever heard of.

Second, who the hell is Sally Anthony?



Now I see. Her idiotic album comes out this week. Nothing like a little controversy to drive record sales. What a jack-***.

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Sound's like the ABA's version of the Trailblazers.

tlong

After reading this it is clear to me that women would be unsuccessful at owning an NBA team as well as coaching one.

Gym Rat

Here is the latest...

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McElhiney staying as Rhythm's coach

By PAUL KUHARSKY
Staff Writer

The slow recovery from the Nashville Rhythm's embarrassing incident Saturday night finally wound to a close yesterday, as Ashley McElhiney agreed to stay on as coach of the ABA franchise.

She'll be on the bench Saturday night when the Rhythm play the St. Louis Flight at her alma mater, Gleason High School.

''Things happen, it was an unfortunate incident,'' McElhiney said last night. ''Me, along with the players and the organization are trying to put this behind us and look forward to playing our next game.''

McElhiney, the first woman coach of a men's professional team, didn't flinch when co-owner Sally Anthony got in her face on the bench and ordered her to sit Matt Freije, who was playing in the second game of a pricey two-game contract. The nationally publicized incident ended with security guards marching Anthony off the floor at Lipscomb's Allen Arena.

Anthony fired McElhiney after the game, but it had been unclear since then whether Anthony spoke for the team's entire ownership.

Yesterday's statement from the franchise said ''the majority owners and the team general manager have since confirmed that this action was taken without their consent.''

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Paramedics were dispatched to Anthony's home early Sunday. A caller identifying herself as Anthony's sister-in-law said Anthony had mixed *****, a prescription drug for anxiety, with alcohol and cut up her arms with scissors. The Tennessean confirmed Anthony was released by Vanderbilt Medical Center on Monday.

Rhythm forward Adam Sonn, who's out with a broken foot, said he thought family problems were the reason McElhiney's situation took so long to be resolved.

''There are some factors deeper than probably everybody knows,'' he said. ''We're trying to respect the Bucher family, something unfortunate has gone on there. But it should have been resolved or made public a little sooner.

''Obviously there were problems with Sally that need to be dealt with, not from the team perspective but from the family perspective, and it's not my place to speculate.''

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crandc

Of course tlong concludes that because one female part owner of a non-NBA team has a screw loose that no woman can own or coach in the NBA.
Yep. I once applied for a job and they told me they had hired one woman but she did not work out. I asked if they ever had male employees not work out. Of course, dozens of times. But they were individuals and she was seen as representing all women.
Sure. And does the coaching tribulations of Mo Cheeks mean that no African-American can ever coach in the NBA?