Citing finals and Imus fatigue, the women of the Rutgers basketball team refused to meet with Sen. Hillary Clinton yesterday.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton finally dropped by Rutgers to meet with the school’s women’s basketball coach — but the players themselves skipped the half-hour meeting, citing their studies and Imus fatigue.

Clinton had been scheduled to meet with Scarlet Knight coach C. Vivian Stringer and an assistant, and possibly some of the players, Monday to talk with them about Don Imus’s “nappy-headed ho” comments.

But that sit-down was postponed due to weather and because the story seemed far less significant after the Virginia Tech killings.

“Many of the players were in study hall from eight to noon and some had finals,” explained a Rutgers source who said the players were “tired” of all the attention. “These young women need to do their classes, and wrap their spring semester.”

After meeting with Stringer Friday morning, Clinton addressed about 700 students and faculty on campus later in the day, praising the players and naming them one-by-one while criticizing “bigotry” against women. She never named Imus directly and made a point of saying her criticism wasn’t intended to curtail free speech.

It seems she was a day late and a dollar short.

Not to be deterred, she schlopped off to Manhattan to address Al Sharpton’s National Action Network Convention.

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Written by ~J~

One Response to “Hillary Stood Up By Rutgers Women’s Basketball Team”

1. Cal says:

   April 21, 2007 at 8:10 am

   You just can’t stop picking on my president. Can you?%-(