ESPN Had Another Headline Issue Today, And This One Included The
Word "Gook"  Here's how the headline to this story looked early
Saturday morning on ESPN's Soccernet site. We actually got a tip
about it from Andy W, but dismissed it because we'd never heard
of Lee Dong-Gook and figured ESPN had Westernized the order of
his name (in other words, that his given name was Lee and his
surname was hyphenated).  That, alas, wasn't the case. "Gook" is
actually just part of Lee's given name, and not an especially
descriptive one, either. Nobody who knew what they were doing
would use "Gook" to mean Lee Dong-Gook, and you'll note that the
article has since been changed to use Lee's surname.  Soccernet
has always sort of been a satellite operation of, but there'd be
a tremendous irony here if the person filling in for Anthony
Federico—fired last week over the "Chink in the Armor"
controversy—wrote this headline, and was so novice as to not
know Eastern name order conventions, and thereby for a time
created a headline mo