Aditi Kinkhabwala writes for SI.com but still covers New Jersey sports, including Rutgers. In her "Viewpoint" piece she writes about the players Imus insulted.

This Rutgers women's basketball team is full of real people. Eight of the 10 players are African-American and five are just freshmen. They took a horrid 2-4 start and a humiliating thumping by Duke and turned it into a thrilling, giant-slaying run. They did on behalf of New Jersey, carrying the banner of the very state that you call home.

And when you decided to run with producer Bernard McGuirk's calling the Scarlet Knights "hardcore hos" the morning after these Cinderellas finally fell to Tennessee in the NCAA title game, well then, you turned them into cartoon characters.

(quick catch award to Stever)