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ESPN fires employee for racist Jeremy Lin headline

ESPN fires employee for racist Jeremy Lin headline

LOS ANGELES, Feb 19 (TheWrap.com) - ESPN has fired one employee and suspended another for using the same racist word in connection to New York Knicks’ guard Jeremy Lin. In both cases, an employee used the word “chink” in reference to Lin, a Palo Alto, California, native of Chinese descent. “We again apologize, especially to Mr. Lin,” ESPN wrote. “His accomplishments are [...]

February 20, 2012 | 0 Comments More
The average cable television bill has nearly tripled in the last ten

The average cable television bill has nearly tripled in the last ten

Do you feel like your cable bill is significantly higher than it used to be? That’s probably because it is. The average cable TV subscriber pays nearly three times as much for cable now as they did in 2001, according to research by SNL Kagan cited by theWall Street Journal. The jump in average prices — [...]

December 30, 2011 | 0 Comments More
ESPN Sideline Reporter Talks Larry Bird, Role Models And Female Sports Fans:Andrews Interview

ESPN Sideline Reporter Talks Larry Bird, Role Models And Female Sports Fans:Andrews Interview

Yes, Erin Andrews is a sports fan. So, please, stop asking. If there is a football game happening somewhere right now then she’s probably watching it. Well, if it’s a big enough college game then she is likely reporting from the sidelines. But, make no mistake, she is as smitten with football as many football [...]

September 16, 2011 | 0 Comments More
ESPN Announcer Says ‘Shit’ On Monday Night Football:Ron Jaworski Gaffe

ESPN Announcer Says ‘Shit’ On Monday Night Football:Ron Jaworski Gaffe

Apparently, we weren’t the only ones who heard Ron Jaworski accidentally swear during the Monday Night Football broadcast of the Patriots-Dolphins game. “That’s one Chad [Henne] would love to have back. He knew he had the one-on-one matchup going down the right sideline. Shit, you have to get rid of this ball just a split second quicker,” [...]

September 13, 2011 | 0 Comments More
College Football Writer Bruce Feldman Blasts ESPN After Leaving For CBS Sports

College Football Writer Bruce Feldman Blasts ESPN After Leaving For CBS Sports

For 17 years, college football fans heard from ESPN analyst Bruce Feldman every week during the season. After the advent of Twitter, they heard from him almost non-stop. Among the most respected and widely-read journalists in the country, Feldman has been as much a part of the college football season as fight songs and rivalry games. This [...]

September 1, 2011 | 0 Comments More
ESPN Makes Michael Vick White To See If We’re All Racist

ESPN Makes Michael Vick White To See If We’re All Racist

ESPN is under fire Thursday for creating and publishing the Photoshopped image above of Michael Vick(notes)with a white face to accompany a column in ESPN The Magazine entitled “What if Michael Vick were white?” After immediate backlash to the image, which was also posted on ESPN’s website, editors replaced the online picture with a regular photograph of Vick. The [...]

August 26, 2011 | 0 Comments More
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