You know, I get it if you are a 13 year old, you just scored on someone in an online game and you typed out "pw3ned." But at your age, you really really don't know better?
Posted on 07/11/2020 11:51:41 PM PDT by knighthawk
ESPN suspended NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski a day after a profane email from him to Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., was leaked to social media, according to multiple reports.
Outkick and the New York Post both reported that the basketball reporter was suspended. The newspaper reported he was suspended without pay. It was unclear how long the suspension is for.
The incident occurred after Hawley’s office sent a news release detailing a letter he planned to send NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, criticizing the league’s decision to limit messages players can wear on their uniforms to “pre-approved, social justice slogans” while “censoring support” for law enforcement and criticism of the Chinese Communist Party.
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So who is the guy, who was suspended, was he suspended for being pro- or anti-Chinese, and is the NBA being washouts?
Just curious.
You know, I get it if you are a 13 year old, you just scored on someone in an online game and you typed out "pw3ned." But at your age, you really really don't know better?
fired from espn = promotion
Out of curiosity - WTF is ESPN keeping busy with these days?
only a suspension
libtards only get suspensions
he also still may be paid
The NBA can take a flying hoop to hell as far as I’m concerned, I’m done with these spoiled idiots.
And that goes double for the "analysts" who have man crushes on the athletes.
What’s ESPN? Another form of the coronavirus flu, American style?
ESPN is starting to realize that there are more than libtards that watch ESPN. If you allow your employees to crudely insult high profile people you will piss off some of the non-libtards, (normal folks), who spend a lot of money on their advertiser’s products.
Best policy is to tell all their employees to keep their opinions to themselves or find another job.
at least keep their opinions separate from their employment... the slur was cast from an @espn.com email
Well, ESPN Ocho might be running runs of DodgeBall
Now that they are showing re-runs of 30 year old football games, no one is watching.
A sports talk show that has no sports to talk about, gets pretty old, pretty quick.
I tuned out espn years ago, even before the nfl creatures started the kneeling and disrespecting the American way of life, but now, there is no way I will ever go back to watching them.
No basketball so he did them a favor
I have seen the National Collegiate Cornhole Championship on ESPN, which is about as desperate.
ESPN inflates certain athletes and has served as an outlet to make household names out of people who generally play with balls. The sport itself can be secondary. ESPN is self-serving. If they cover the sport, they will seek to make certain markets or definitely certain athletes rise about the clutter. It isn’t geared towards certain demographics who can see through their propaganda. ESPN wants to be TMZ and appeal to the short attention span viewer who doesn’t so much care about the prevent defense or the business of the sport but rather the zombie with the glazed look and mentality of “Look at ‘Lebron (first name only needed)’ get his morning coffee and into his car. Like, OMG. He is like literally so amazing and stuff.” That is the ESPNification of America. Self-professed intellects who went to mostly “elite” colleges but produce division, hatred and bigotry under the guise of brainwashing a la their college professors.
I take pride that I dropped most major sports years and years ago. Thirty years of not watching a Super Bowl for instance. I have other interests related to sports including the financial, societal, political and business involvement in certain areas and how it relates to specific and sometimes general discussion but rooting for athletes left me when I departed college in the early 80s. I will never understand how a grown man can wear a jersey of another man’s last name. At a game, OK. But in public, a restaurant? A 50 year old man wearing the name of a 25-year-old who likely wouldn’t give you a dime if you needed it.
Two memories of ESPN that are benign in a sense, descriptive of the mentality:
1. A radio host apologizing for the very rare Game of the Week in baseball between two small market midwest teams (Minnesota? Milwaukee?) because “We KNOW you want to watch...” fill in the baseball heroes of the large east coast markets [remember: this is a NATIONAL broadcast that shows multiple games a week, not like the old NBC or ABC once a week showing]. It is baseball, a long season and one game in the summer isn’t going to break the house. With the various sports packages out there, people don’t need ESPN as much as the station’s earlier days.
2. A radio host mocking a caller who wanted to talk about the Edmonton-Carolina Stanley Cup Finals in 2006 that went the full seven games. Like hockey or not, a 7-game series in the Finals is rare in sport and should be treated with kid gloves if a station is truly universal. The host said “Hockey? When I think of hockey I think of some guy named Sven in Minnesota who lives in his parent’s basement.” Imagine if someone said something similar about any other fan bases. Nope, hockey has few “stars” and the sport is what sells unlike say baseball or basketball which has a slew of first-name idols to the masses.
Piss off a Senator and you may suddenly find legislation requiring ala carte cable and satellite channel selection. Then we’ll see how many people will pay the current rate of $9 per customer, which will then increase as people start dropping ESPN.
Game Reruns and of course endless political talk.
ESPN is busy talking about people who are talking about people who are talking about “white racism” in sports.
They should just move their HQ to Pyongyang—and stop pretending...
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