Posted on 01/18/2015 7:48:29 AM PST by SunkenCiv
CBS suspended basketball analyst Greg Anthony indefinitely following his arrest Friday evening on a charge of soliciting a prostitute, a network spokeswoman said.
The 47-year-old former NBA player was arrested around 5.46pm and released later that evening, District of Columbia Police Lt Kelvin Cusick said.
'Greg Anthony will not be working again for CBS this season,' said a spokeswoman for the network. Turner Sports also suspended Anthony, but said it 'will have no further comment.'
Anthony faces a misdemeanor charge of solicitation, which is punishable by up to 180 days in jail.Â
Media reporter John Ourand tweeted Thursday afternoon that Anthony was scheduled to announce Saturday's game between Michigan State and Maryland game alongside Ian Eagle. Â
Anthony started his NBA career with the Knicks and played in New York for four years before being picked up by the Vancouver Grizzlies in the 1995 NBA expansion draft.
He finished with the Milwaukee Bucks after 11 seasons in the NBA, averaging 7.3 points per game over his entire career.
Anthony has also been politically involved, appearing in a Nevada campaign ad for Mitt Romney during his 2012 presidential bid, calling the Republican Party nominee a 'no excuse kind of guy.'
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If he can’t get it without paying for it in this climate, he is desperate.
“Jeez, CBS suspended him INDEFINITELY for THIS? “
No. For this:
‘appearing in a Nevada campaign ad for Mitt Romney ‘
Thank you! I agree wholeheartedly. Then again I’m a Christian, a Doctrines of Grace believing Baptist, the husband of one wife, and the father of three daughters.
Bingo! We have a winner!
Big Damn Deal. He gets a suspension for this? I have seen people in similar situations with a DUI and nothing happens.
The Hypocrisy is just too much.
Yes let us not forget Marv Albert and his depravity, remember the teeth marks on some of his women??????????
Key words here are anyone who cares. Even on a Conservative Christian dedicated site there are fewer who care about this issue than we would be comfortable in knowing.
Now that right there is funny, no matter who you are.
Had he been drugging and raping women and girls for decades on end, or been a homosexual pedophile, or been a Latino elected official from New Jersey, he’d have been in the clear.
Oh well. Personally, I think that frequenting prostitutes, besides being immoral, in this age of fatal incurable venereal diseases is just plain stupid.
However I would fear living in a country where the govt had the power to eliminate man’s oldest profession. Such a nation would be worse than North Korea. It would be more like THX1138.
Or if he had been a lisping faggot running a male brothel out of his townhouse, a drunken half-wit Senator from Massachusetts who drove his car off a bridge, or a tinhorn governor of Arkansas who liked getting his knob polished in the Oral Office ...
His crime was that he was soliciting a FEMALE prostitute.
If he had solicited a Male Prostitute then he would have been promoted.
They pay for it themselves.
I wholeheartedly agree. This is all about his having left the plantation. Player knocks out the woman in his life, gets basically no punishment. Kill someone, abuse a child, no problem as long as the politics check out, but those politics don’t come into play until the race card does.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3247944/posts
The nanny-statists do-gooders already beat us to it.
/bingo
Uh-huh.
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