Seems the Imus story has some legs. Despite apologizing for his remarks about the Rutgers women's basketball team, some are rejecting his apology and calling for his firing and/or a boycott.

In New York, behind the wall over at the Times, Rhoden has an article entitled "The Unpleasant Reality for Women in Sports" with the teaser line:

"Many of our young people have been raised in cocoons, led to believe that sexism and racism have significantly subsided."

UPDATE: via beknighted, we get this further excerpt:

On the surface, Imus’s remarks were aimed at African-American women. But as [Linda] Greene [a law professor at the University of Wisconsin and a founding member of the Black Women in Sports Foundation] points out: “No woman who participates in sport, and no mother or father who encourages and supports that participation, can escape their animus. Beyond his bold and overt racism lie assumptions about the proper bounds of femininity, assumptions that Title IX and other civil rights legislation sought to shatter.”

WNYC's Brian Lehrer took some time to focus on the controversy, looking at Imus' "style" and influence as part of his discussion with Newsweek's Jonathan Alter (often a guest on Imus' show). Lori Tharps, co-author of Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America was also on the show.

Tharps wrote about Imus' comments on her blog, "My American Melting Pot, joining a variety of blogs that have picked up on the story. Some interesting discussion has ensued, with the requisite "backlash" in the public comments section. Sigh.

This past Sunday, Coach Stringer attended Easter services at First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset, N.J. Said Rev. DeForest B. Soaries, Jr. "It's time for Mr. Imus to leave that job and take off that cowboy hat and be unemployed."

Interestingly enough, Imus has expressed a desire to speak with the players and CViv. I'd pay good money to sit in on that discussion.