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Second ESPN host suspended after admitting he hit his girlfriend in domestic violence discussion
DailyMail ^ | 8 August 2014 | By A. Greg

Posted on 08/09/2014 6:02:48 AM PDT by dennisw

Second ESPN host suspended after admitting he hit his girlfriend in Ray Rice domestic violence discussion just days after another tells women not to 'provoke' men

Max Kellerman has been suspended from his ESPN positions He told listeners on ESPN-LA radio that he once hit his now-wife when they were in college The admission came during a discussion of Ray Rice's domestic abuse of his wife ESPN's Stephen A. Smith has also been suspended for comments he made while discussing the same case

A boxing commentator and radio host has been suspended from his job with ESPN-LA Radio following a conversation he had on-air.

Max Kellerman was on the Mason and Ireland show which leads into his afternoon drive program when the subject of Ray Rice's domestic abuse of his wife arose.

Kellerman admitted on-air that he hit his girlfriend many years ago.

The New York Daily News reports that ESPN suspended Kellerman following the 'inappropriate' comment.

ESPN issued a statement Friday afternoon neither confirming nor denying that Kellerman had been suspended.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: domesticviolence; espn; kellerman
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1 posted on 08/09/2014 6:02:48 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: dennisw

What are these MO-RONS trying to prove by opening their big yaps? Or are they publicity hounds?

Did he ever kick a squirrel into the Grand Canyon?


2 posted on 08/09/2014 6:04:28 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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What are these MO-RONS trying to prove by opening their big yaps? Or are they publicity hounds?

Your first question speaks to the problem with ESPN - but to answer the second question, OF COURSE they're publicity hounds. That's why THEY WORK AT ESPN in the first place. No one has ever applied there for an on-air position who was NOT a pub hound.

As for the first, this is the problem when you're on 3-4 different networks 24/7 to talk about sports. They run out of topics to talk about. And they run out of interesting things to say about the same old topics. So it's an environment ripe for idiotic statements….and ESPN is full of idiotic statements all day. They do some great work too, but to fill that air time, it gets pretty dumb sometimes.

3 posted on 08/09/2014 6:09:20 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: dennisw

His Wiki Bio is not surprising - typical leftwing socialist:

Born: Aug 06, 1973 (age 41) · Greenwich Village, New York
Net worth: $6 million USD (2014)
Spouse: Erin Manning
Education: Columbia University · Hunter College High School


4 posted on 08/09/2014 6:09:42 AM PDT by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothing" - Edmund Burke)
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To: dennisw

Good decision making skills are not a strong point of the Kellerman family.


5 posted on 08/09/2014 6:10:48 AM PDT by EEGator
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6 posted on 08/09/2014 6:14:49 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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Second ESPN host suspended...just days after another tells women not to 'provoke' men...

Yet another thing everybody knows is true that nobody is allowed to say.

7 posted on 08/09/2014 6:15:47 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Arthur McGowan

(Language)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlvvCYUDHrQ


8 posted on 08/09/2014 6:17:46 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: C. Edmund Wright

God forbid they ever show an MLB game or something.


9 posted on 08/09/2014 6:43:54 AM PDT by dangus
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To: dennisw
I think it is unhealthy for men to be obsessed with sports.

We all know the type. Those who closet themselves in the den on weekends watching game after game and when "their team" fails to win, they throw a temper tantrum and sulk like children. Sometime they might even smack the wife around, slap the kids or kick the dog. It happens. Wives of sports-obsessed men are right to be out of the house Super Bowl Sunday. Go shopping with your female pals, take in a chick flick or something. And if their husbands team doesn't win, they shouldn't even bother going home. Just spend the night in a hotel room, it's safer that way.

You see these lunatics at the games, grown men wearing the jerseys of their favorite player, waving around those foam "We're Number 1" fingers, and just acting the total fool for the TV cameras. Grown men! It's unhealthy, I tell you. Personally, I think anybody over the age of 13 wearing a sports jersey of a professional team (unless they actually happen to be a professional player on the field) has some serious growing up to do.

Speaking for myself, I'll take in a game here and there. Sometimes on a cold autumn day, I like to come in from yard work to light the fireplace, obtain a tankard of cold cider or ale, and take in a football game. Playoff football can be pretty exciting to watch, though the Super Bowl itself is usually a letdown.

However, I don't get emotionally invested. I might hail from New England but if the New England Patriots don't win the big game, I don't go around the house knocking over furniture or calling radio shows to say that so-and-so "sucks" and that the referees made a bad call. That is all so lame. When it comes down to it, who really cares whether or not the home team wins? I mean, unless it is your son or best friend out there on that field, what does it matter really? If the team from Green Bay, Wisconsin wins a championship, does that really mean that Green Bay is the "best" city and that all the people living there are temporarily superior to those who live in Kansas City or St. Louis?

Consider this. The squad of any professional sports team is made up with highly paid athletes from all over the country. In some sports, from all over the world. The athletes playing for those teams are on contract and they really don't give a crap about the town they happen to be playing in at the moment. The quarterback for the Detroit Lions catches the first plane out of town as soon as the season ends and hopes to be playing in New York or Dallas the year after - or anyplace other than Detroit. And that could be said for any sports team.

So why do grown men get so emotionally invested in their home teams? To the point where they collect cards and pore over career statistics like they were some 12-year-old star-struck kid. And don't even get me started on autographs. Can you imagine how disgusting it must be for a professional athlete to have fat middle-aged men follow him around trying to get him to sign some stupid artifact? How absolutely pathetic is that? If you are a grown man and you are still asking athletes to sign autographs for you, can you please explain? I would like to know why a man would humiliate and degrade himself so (and please don't tell me it's for your 8-year-old son at a cancer ward because I'm not buying it).

10 posted on 08/09/2014 6:51:58 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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I hate ESPN. With a passion. All they ever do is TALK; even during prime-time. Histrionic morons screaming at each other are cheaper than actual sports, I guess. But it’s turned a generation of sports fans into blowhards in imitation.

A generation ago:
Me: “Yankees have the pitching, actually... they just need to get their hitting out of a slump”
Other sports fan: “They’ve been lucky so far with their pitching; I can’t see people like Green and Kuroda winning in the playoffs, can you?

Now:
Me: “Yankees have the pitching, actually... they just need to get their hitting out of a slump”
Other sports fan: “DUDE! OH MY GOD!!! HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT???!!!! The Yankees pitching SUCKS!!!! You know they’re all going to choke, because that’s what Yankees do! THEY SUCK!!! They don’t have ONE GOOD PITCHER in their whole staff!!! Like Green is going to pitch in the series? OH MY GOD, CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT!!!??? Verlander is going to kick their asses in so quickly, so long before they get that far!!! KANSAS F***ING CITY IS BETTER Than the Yankees!!! [30 more minutes of screaming, shouting, etc.]


11 posted on 08/09/2014 6:56:21 AM PDT by dangus
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You’re just saying that because the Red Sox suck.

No, I’m totally joking. After writing about how sports fans have become such jerks because of ESPN, I couldn’t help being a jerk to be silly. I largely agree with you; I’m all for getting all worked up during the game, but put it aside, and carry on!


12 posted on 08/09/2014 6:59:44 AM PDT by dangus
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Well, the Red Sox are “sub par” these days. No...really they suck. A lot. And I’m a sox fan. The only ones who suck more are the Celtics. I pray every night for Tom Brady’s health.


13 posted on 08/09/2014 7:04:48 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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To: dangus

well, they do show a lot of MLB games.


14 posted on 08/09/2014 7:05:54 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: dennisw

wow what a man hitting a female the hell with him


15 posted on 08/09/2014 7:17:42 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

>> well, they do show a lot of MLB games. <<

Seriously? On all of their networks, they show 1 game a week: Sunday night. Occasionally, they’ll show a second game in a week. 1-2 games per week. Not saying I’d expect them to, but they COULD show about 23 games a week per channel. But that would cost more money than having some crack-pumped people screaming at their TVs.

Let’s face it: ESPN doesn’t show many sports at all. It’s Oprah Winfrey for men.


16 posted on 08/09/2014 7:22:35 AM PDT by dangus
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To: SamAdams76
I agree.

It is much more mature to run after Ms. Palin for her autograph.

Joking aside, the attention paid to any sport boggles my mind.

Get outside and workout yourself. Don't sit or pay to watch others do so. Everyone, get a life!

17 posted on 08/09/2014 7:23:55 AM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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Even chasing Sarah Palin for an autograph is a silly thing for an adult to do. I never got the whole "autograph" thing. I've had a few celebrity encounters in my life and never once did I lower myself to ask them to sign something for me even though others around me melted like butter and threw out objects for them to sign. It is just not something that anybody with dignity and self-respect should do.

I can understand little kids doing the "hero-worship" thing but not grown people.

18 posted on 08/09/2014 7:37:50 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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"I might hail from New England but if the New England Patriots don't win the big game, I don't go around the house knocking over furniture or calling radio shows to say that so-and-so "sucks" and that the referees made a bad call. "

Good for you and I absolutely agree..... But :-) I did have a boss that was a big Boston sports fanatic. He grew up there and apparently even worked part-time while in high school at the Boston Garden.

Outwardly, a nice guy. But get him talking about sports and he becomes Mr. Hyde. Even at 45 years old, he insisted on wearing his Tom Brady jersey in every Friday. His office was packed with Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics and Bruins memorabilia. Penants, little toy figurines, a couple of photos of him with some sports figures... As to your article, scientists and psychoanalysts really lost an awesome opportunity during the 2004 ALCS to do a case study using this guy as their subject. He went from "still hopeful" to total drunken despair in 3 games, culminating with him stripping his car of his #1 Red Sox Fan front license tag at 3 in the morning after the Red Sox lost game 3. Then... in the ensuing 4-game comeback by the Red Sox, he went from people actually starting to feel bad for the guy to, once again, the most obnoxious fan in the world.

He coached his daughter's softball team and spent half the day at work going through his personal scouting reports on the upcomng opponent and building his line-up for the evening's game. He would call the "league office" (the local parks and planning office) the day after games to complain about the umpire and ask for the league's interpretation of the rule in question, etc... Heck, in preparation for the upcoming annual Spring softball draft, I even heard him call the father of a 13 year old girl (from a rival team) in an attempt to get her to play for his team. HE HAD A LIST OF 13 YEAR OLD GIRLS SOFTBALL PROSPECTS FOR A YOUTH LEAGUE DRAFT DAY!!! Creepy on any level...

The guy was waaay too obsessed. And the scary part is that we see these people on TV in the parking lots and the bleachers all the time. And no matter what team they cheer for, I suspect, like my former boss, the obsession isn't just on display for a few hours on Sundays.

19 posted on 08/09/2014 7:43:29 AM PDT by Hatteras
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So why do grown men get so emotionally invested in their home teams?

Because associating with successful others increases their positive feelings about themselves. It also changes their hormone levels. If their team wins their testosterone level shoots up and they feel good. If their team loses, their testosterone level goes down and they feel miserable. Their team's success also affects their cortisol levels.

20 posted on 08/09/2014 7:52:33 AM PDT by ladyjane
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