Hmm. Chink in the armor, eh? Of all the headlines to express the question of the US Basketball team’s vulnerability at the Beijing Olympics. Maybe “achilles heel” would have worked better. It’s just that, you know, the Olympics are taking place in China and it doesn’t seem all that proper for ESPN to splash the word “chink” across the top of a story on the Olympics. Although, ironically, I now have the word “chink” splashed across the top of a story on the Olympics.

I guess why this image, sent as a screengrab into Deadspin Friday afternoon, is so interesting to me, is because there are only two possible justifications for this headline. First, it’s supposed to be a play-on-words, in which case someone should be fired. Or second, ESPN employs headline writers that are so unbelievably linguistically oblivious, that he or she, I guess, didn’t know about that other meaning of “chink” and thought the expression was merely a good way of suggesting Team USA might lose. In which case someone should really be fired.

And as it turns out, Argentina wasn’t a chink in Team USA’s armor at all. We won 101-81.