To the editor:

The sports editor for the Lawrence Journal-World writes: “I don’t get poetry.” He certainly failed “miserably” in writing a disgraceful partial limerick in his Aug. 14 sports column. Not only is he a terrible poet, but his choice of an editorial column about the inflammatory remarks of U.S. Soccer Olympian Hope Solo obviously reflects his deep-seated bias against women athletes.

Not to excuse the undisciplined reaction of a losing goalkeeper in such a high level of competition and the media’s clamor over her remarks, there were many other more positive results of women Olympians who could have been highlighted in his sports column editorial. His editorial headline, “U.S. goalkeeper’s antics wearing thin,” with an Associated Press photo above showing Solo’s failure to stop a shot during a penalty shootout against Sweden, emphasizes his negative bias.

When there are many positive stories of women athletes competing at the Olympic level, university level or high school level, Journal-World readers would prefer sports editors with better taste and stronger support of women’s athletics. It is doubtful that anyone would want to complete his distasteful limerick as he suggested at the close of his editorial column. His “antics” are as bad as the woman he chastised.