I am dubious that this wasn’t a prank story....but if its real it ranks up there with the news lady reading the fake names of the four pilots of the crashed jet a few years ago....
From another new source:
“Lee, who still calls select Siena home games for Spectrum Sports (formerly Time Warner), initially was scheduled for the William and Mary at Virginia game but is now assigned to Youngstown State at Pittsburgh, according to the website. Both games are part of the ACC Network Extra package, whose games are shown on ESPN3.com.”
So there is really no announced reason why he switched assignments for that week. I can think of many reasons why this might happen other than his name. For example, somebody with more seniority wanted to do the Virginia game, or maybe he wanted to go to Pittsburgh that weekend. ESPN has certainly not said that this was to avoid offense in Virginia. One website jumped to that conclusion, and others are repeating it, but they cannot really know what is behind this.
ESPN is Disney. Disney is one of the 4 major corps peddling its anti-American BS on the Country.
This is real.....we live in insane times.
ESPN is catering to the same audience who thought the word “niggardly” was hate speech.
If your name is Lynch and you’re not black, you better go change it right now.
Why not ban anyone named Robert? It’s no more nonsensical.
They will replace him with Suc Mi Dong.
On a very related point, Wikipedia has a whole page that catalogues incidents where someone got into trouble for using the word “niggardly.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_%22niggardly%22?wprov=sfla1
You just can’t make this shi+ up!
The hubris of American sports, players and broadcasters is overwhelming.
This move is proof positive that sports broadcasting is managed by morons. Just dipshits in expensive suits.
Well, what side did his family fight for during the Civil War?
This is about as absurd as the school district who suspended a little girl who brought a Tweety bird key chain to school because the district had a zero tolerance weapons policy.
They would have been hammered by the left for the coincidence of the guy’s name, Virginia, and all the current snowflakery. They are just getting out in front of the criticism.
this is getting out of hand.I hope Mr Lee tells ESPN where they can shove their job
Very niggardly of ESPN.
Crazy.
These folks are like the people in the 70s playing record albums backwards looking for satanic messages. If you look hard enough...
It’s Disney. It’s ABC. Of course they’re leftists.