Jason Alexander Issues Serviceable Apology for Calling Cricket a
‘Gay Sport’  Just in case anyone was really starting to pine for
some vintage George Costanza foot-swallowing, actor and recently
re-sodded cranium Jason Alexander called cricket a "gay sport"
last week on Craig Ferguson's Are You Still Fucking Awake? talk
program. Alexander expatiated on cricket's supposed
homosexuality:  You know how I know it's really kind of a gay
game? It's the pitch. It's the weirdest… It's not like a manly
baseball pitch; it's a queer British gay pitch.  Uh huh. So,
yeah, anyway, people were understandably irked by Alexander's
pejorative use of "gay" to describe a sport that the greatest
sports movie of all time is based on (that movie would be
Lagaan). On Saturday, Alexander issued a lengthy apology, in
which he offers a long, meticulous rationalization of his
reasons for using "gay" pejoratively, followed by a poor man's
Platonic dialogue, in which Alexander ruminates with his "gay
friends" on why anyone would be offend