This isn’t the first time the tabloid has dabbled in homophobia while covering sports. After all, doing that would be much worse than what Clemens allegedly did - cheat by injecting steroids.īelieve it or not, this newspaper actually won a Pultizer Prize way back in 1974, thought it’s apparently been downhill since then. At least not in the way The Trentonian 'cleverly' implied in this headline last month.

BECAUSE THAT’S EVEN WORSE THAN TAKING STEROIDS!ĭon’t you just love how homophobia can crop up in any old situation without nary a warning? I bet you didn’t think that major league baseball’s recent steroid scandal had any gay connection, did you? Well, it doesn’t but that didn’t stop New Jersey tabloid The Trentonian from giving readers this headline about baseball pitcher Roger Clemens:Ĭan’t you just picture the juvenile twits who came up with that headline cackling with laughter and patting themselves on the back for being so witty? 'We said Roger Clemens ’took it the butt’! Hehehe! That’s guh- ross!'ĭon’t worry heterosexual sports lovers! Your All-American icon Roger Clemens didn’t really take 'it in the butt'.