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By Patrick Sicher On Friday, January 4th, 2013
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ESPN Jemele Hill Shares Racist Hate Mail Letter

By now, it is not uncommon for people to take to social media outlets like Twitter and Facebook and express their hate, bigotry and general. Some of our biggest stories in 2012 involved twitter gangsters going More...

By Robert Littal On Thursday, January 3rd, 2013
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Ray Lewis Set to Join ESPN Once He Retires

One thing I have learned over the years is just because you are a great motivational speaker while you are playing sports, doesn’t mean you will be great talking about sports and critiquing players and coaches. I More...

By Robert Littal On Tuesday, January 1st, 2013
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ESPN Hannah Storm Suffers 1st Degree Burns in Propane Grill Accident

It could have been worse, but Storm suffered second-degree burns on her chest and hands and first-degree burns to her face and neck. She lost her eyebrows, eyelashes and half her hair according to USA Today. Here More...

By Robert Littal On Thursday, December 20th, 2012
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ESPN Suspends Rob Parker For 30 Days For Calling RG3 “Cornball Brother”

You saw this coming after Parker’s weak apology yesterday. You don’t apologize when they fire you, you apologize as a part of the punishment they are handing out to you. http://twitter.com/richarddeitsch/statuses/281831847472820225 To More...

By Robert Littal On Wednesday, December 19th, 2012
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Rob Parker Apologizes For Calling RG3 a “Cornball Brother”, But Why It Isn’t Enough

My daughter apologizes a lot. When she doesn’t clean up her room, when she forgets to put her dishes in the sink, when she leaves her Barbies on the floor and etc, etc. One day, I asked her why was she apologizing, More...

By Robert Littal On Monday, December 17th, 2012
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ESPN Employees Don’t Want to Be Lumped In With 1st Take Clown Act

Richard Deitsch of SI.com does an excellent job in breaking down why the Rob Parker situation isn’t as much about Parker than it is culture at ESPN. There is a disconnect between the people at ESPN who are More...

By Robert Littal On Saturday, December 15th, 2012
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The Rob Parker Scale of Blackness Released, See If You Are Down For the Cause (Photo)

I will be honest I scored terribly on the Blackness Scale. I must be a cornball brother, because I love the Big Bang Theory and follow NASCAR. I guess I have to hand in my Black Card at one of Rob Parker’s More...

By Robert Littal On Friday, December 14th, 2012
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ESPN Suspends Rob Parker Indefinitely Over RG3 Comments

He is lucky he is just suspended when a termination should be in order. What he said about RG3 was one of the most offensive things I have ever seen on Television. Following yesterday’s comments, Rob Parker More...

By Robert Littal On Thursday, December 13th, 2012
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ESPN Says Rob Parker’s Comments on RG3 Were Inappropriate; Evaluating Proper Action

I have never called for Skip Bayless to be fired. The reason is even though he says a lot of silly things the intent behind words is rarely malicious. I don’t like the name calling like “Bosh Spice” More...

By Robert Littal On Thursday, December 13th, 2012
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Grizzlies Hire ESPN’s John Hollinger for Front Office Position

Hollinger is best known for coming up with the Performance Efficiency Ratings aka PER for NBA players. That was enough to land him a job with the Memphis Grizzlies. Hollinger is being brought in to upgrading Memphis’ More...

By Glenn Erby On Monday, December 10th, 2012
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ESPN President John Skipper Says Network Mishandled Tebow Coverage

For the past two years the sports public and NFL enthusiast have been swamped with daily and countless hours of Tim Tebow coverage by ESPN. Many pundits and critics questioned why so much attention was paid to More...

By Al Bruce On Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
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Vikings QB Christian Ponder and ESPN’s Samantha Steele Get Engaged

This may be bad news for some Vikings fans, but USA Today reports that Vikings quarterback Christian Ponder and ESPN college football reporter Samantha Steele are now engaged.  According to USA Today, Ponder More...



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