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I don't even know anymore...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/12/n...yment-discrimination.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
SMH, so first of all, this scumbag tries to "man up" (I use that term loosely) with her, and get him some, and she checked him like he was a child. Then, he's so p*ssy, he uses his influence to get her removed from her job. Probably scared she'd bust that ass if she got the chance
A female security official for the National Basketball Association said in a lawsuit Monday that Geno Auriemma, the coach of the United States Olympic womens basketball team, followed, grabbed and tried to forcibly kiss her at a hotel during a basketball tournament in Russia in 2009.
Kelley Hardwick
The security officer, Kelley Hardwick, said in the lawsuit, filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, that she pushed him away.
This year, the suit claims, Mr. Auriemma retaliated for her rebuff by successfully demanding that the N.B.A. remove her as the top security official for the United States womens team at the London Olympics. She served as a security official for the womens team at the Olympics in Athens in 2004 and in Beijing in 2008.
In the suit, Ms. Hardwick, 46, a lawyer and a former New York City undercover narcotics detective, accused Mr. Auriemma, the N.B.A. and USA Basketball, which oversees the women's Olympics team, of employment discrimination.
She provided a list of witnesses who she said knew about the encounter to the NBA this year, in an attempt to retain her Olympic assignment, she said. But the leagues general counsel did not talk to these people, or to Mr. Auriemma, according to the lawsuit.
I was willing to close this story in 2009, Ms. Hardwick said in an interview last week. If Geno had not interfered with my job and my livelihood, I would not have filed this lawsuit.
Strong-willed and self-consciously larger than life, Mr. Auriemma is a legend in womens basketball, serving as the longtime head coach for the University of Connecticut womens team. He coached the Huskies to a record-breaking streak of 89 consecutive wins.
Six of the 12 members of the roster for the Olympic womens team played for the University of Connecticut, the largest number of players from one school. Mr. Auriemma, in an e-mail statement on Monday, said, I was unaware of this lawsuit until hearing about it in media reports today and therefore will have no comment.
The N.B.A., through a spokesman, Tim Frank, declined to comment on the lawsuit. USA Basketball did not return several calls for comment.
Ms. Hardwicks lawsuit is the latest in a raft of charges involving sexual harassment that have become a legal headache for the NBA.
Last December, a veteran security official, Warren Glover, sued the organization, charging that top officials had ignored his complaints that female employees had been sexually harassed and discriminated against. In one instance, Mr. Glover said, a senior N.B.A. official made sexual advances toward a female colleague. When the woman spurned him, the official demeaned her publicly, Mr. Glover said. His suit is continuing.
A year earlier, Bernard Tolbert, the leagues former senior vice president for security, left the NBA after settling a sexual harassment lawsuit. And in 2007, the Knicks paid $11.5 million to a former executive, Anucha Browne Sanders, to settle a sexual harassment case against the team and its former coach, Isiah Thomas.
Ms. Hardwick stated in her lawsuit that she was paid less than male colleagues who hold a similar title and have less experience, and that she has slammed hard against the leagues glass ceiling.
But her lawyer, Randolph McLaughlin, said that she was reluctant to pursue a legal claim. If Geno hadnt tried to send a message of control by reaching into her company, he said, she would not have filed this.
Ms. Hardwick, in an hourlong interview, provided a detailed account of the 2009 incident in Russia, much of which is described in her lawsuit. Rachel Shannon, another N.B.A. security official and a current police officer in a Texas city, also accompanied the womens team on that trip and Ms. Shannon supported most details of Ms. Hardwicks account.
In October 2009, the American basketball team played in an invitational tournament in Yekaterinburg, a Russian city more than 1,000 miles east of Moscow. After dinner, Ms. Hardwick and Ms. Shannon decided to have a drink and saw Mr. Auriemma at the bar of the hotel with assistant coaches and trainers, the women said.
Ms. Hardwick and Ms. Shannon took their drinks and sat in the lobby.
Mr. Auriemma soon walked over. He invited himself and started talking about coming from an immigrant Italian background and saying he could relate to inner-city blacks, Ms. Shannon recalled. We were like whatever.
A short time later, the two women excused themselves and headed upstairs to their rooms. Mr. Auriemma also walked toward the elevator, and got on with the two women. Ms. Shannon exited first. As Ms. Hardwick exited on another and walked to her room, she said, she sensed someone behind her.
He puts his hand on my left arm and goes to kiss me, Ms. Hardwick said, referring to Mr. Auriemma. I grabbed his face and mushed him.
She yelled at him, she said: You better check yourself before you get hurt!
Mr. Auriemmas face, she said, flushed red, and he retreated down the hall.A few minutes later, Ms. Hardwick called Ms. Shannon.
Kelley said, Can you believe what this guy did?' Ms. Shannon recalled Ms. Hardwick saying to her. She wasnt scared; shes a cop like I am. But she was shocked.
The next day, the players asked Ms. Hardwick and Ms. Shannon to pose with them for photographs. A few hours later, two players asked to speak alone with the two security officials.
Upon returning to New York City, Ms. Hardwick said, she reported these encounters to Mr. Tolbert and to other officials at the N.B.A. Mr. Tolbert told her that she had handled the situation well.
Ms. Hardwick was willing to leave it at that. But on March 22, 2012, she said, she learned that Jim Tooley, the chief executive of USA Basketball had told the N.B.A. that Mr. Auriemma wanted Ms. Hardwick removed from her Olympic security assignment. That detail had emerged in a conference call among NBA security officials, according to Ms. Hardwick. (In 2006, Mr. Tooley sent Ms. Hardwick an e-mail complimenting her work and saying it was always a pleasure to work with her).
The United States Olympics basketball command structure tends toward the Byzantine. USA Basketball serves as the umbrella organization that oversees the men and women basketball teams. The N.B.A., which also runs the W.N.B.A., a women's professional league, is a member of USA basketball, and benefits commercially from its marketing successes.
But senior N.B.A. officials do not directly control the hiring, firing, or disciplining of Olympic coaches.
On March 29, the N.B.A.s chief counsel, Neal Stern, told Ms. Hardwick that he would look into her charges. She gave him a list of witnesses. A month later, he called back and said he had determined that USA Basketballs decision to remove her had nothing to do with Mr. Auriemma.
I asked Neal Stern, Did you talk to any of the people whose names I gave you? Ms. Hardwick says. He told me that This is the position the N.B.A.'
Despite this, and despite her belief that she is paid less than her fellow security directors, Ms. Hardwick took pains to say that she loved her job and working for the N.B.A.
Ms. Hardwick said she was concerned that the lawsuit could jeopardize her career. Im very uncomfortable; Im very disappointed, she says. I do enjoy my job. But I dont really feel I have a choice. Im being marginalized for standing up for myself.
SMH, so first of all, this scumbag tries to "man up" (I use that term loosely) with her, and get him some, and she checked him like he was a child. Then, he's so p*ssy, he uses his influence to get her removed from her job. Probably scared she'd bust that ass if she got the chance
on that cac
Thats a milf tho...
