Good vs. evil, easy as pie. In Don Imus, HBO’s investigative “Real Sports” had its male villain. Now it needed its heroine. And Rutgers women’s basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer would perfectly fit that script.
So, in 2007, when Imus & Co., even by Imus’ often cruel standards, recklessly and hurtfully spoofed RU’s women’s team as “nappy-headed ho’s” — the end of his WFAN reign despite his abject apology — “Real Sports” portrayed Stringer as a highly successful “nurturing” coach and a woman blessed with unimpeachable dignity, credibility and honor.