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November 22, 2006

Oh, Shit

As a sports headline, it was both confusing and evocative: "Injuries, suspension shit Tigers' strength." Were the Memphis Commercial-Appeal editors using "shit" as a verb, without the usual preposition "on," as per terse headline style? Or should we read "suspension shit" as a noun phrase, with the editors expressing their opinion on either the merits of the suspension of a Memphis Tigers football player, or on the sheer shittiness of the suspension situation? Alas, we'll never know, for the shitty headline was one more thing: short-lived. Yet it lives on, after the jump.

shit screengrab
A memorable moment in sports journalism.
To the right is the screengrab of the original headline, since changed to "Injuries, suspensions hit Tigers' strength" in the article, though not yet fixed on the Commercial-Appeal sports page. (Update: It's now fixed there, too.) Too bad, really: It's a rare day when a mainstream newspaper leads the Google News search results for "shit."






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