stevenator65

This article explains the silly conversation that caused Fox Sports to drop a good, fun broadcaster. Fox Sports is the same company that sent a weather girl to their pregame Fox NFL Football broadcast dressed scantily. For a company not afraid to take chances, they sure look like conservatives here.

patrickj

One similar saking this week that absolutely DOES make sense though, and just makes for pretty funny reading:

This guy, describing the way out of hand Miami-FIU brawl:

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news;_...v=ap&type=lgns

stevenator65

I agree Patrick, and I didn't even have to read your link. That guy was out of control! I thought he was a gang-banger on TV talking to other gang-bangers. Now how can you compare those two firings?

diducmeb4

Originally Posted by stevenator65

I agree Patrick, and I didn't even have to read your link. That guy was out of control! I thought he was a gang-banger on TV talking to other gang-bangers. Now how can you compare those two firings?

Straight up thug. In an interview after his firing, he took responsibility for his comments and then turned right around and made the excuse that he has never recieved any training in journalism or broadcasting. I suppose he never recieved any training in common sense either. You don't get a full understanding of what he said just by reading the text, you really have to hear the audio. This guy was out of control. Here is a clip of the fight, along with the commentary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JWeE9KqZjQ

patrickj

Jeez - yeah - had not heard it before, only read it - that's unreal - surprised his network didn't just cut him off mid-flow ...

Originally Posted by diducmeb4

Straight up thug. In an interview after his firing, he took responsibility for his comments and then turned right around and made the excuse that he has never recieved any training in journalism or broadcasting. I suppose he never recieved any training in common sense either. You don't get a full understanding of what he said just by reading the text, you really have to hear the audio. This guy was out of control. Here is a clip of the fight, along with the commentary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JWeE9KqZjQ

stevenator65

Meanwhile, on ESPN radio w/Mike and Mike, they interviewed Donna Shalala, the Pres of U of Miami, and she said, "the buck stops with me." In the same conversation she said, and I paraphrase, "we went through the video of the on field fight frame by frame..."

Then some callers to the show pointed out that the previous day in her press conference she said she couldn't watch the video because she was at the game and saw the brawl live, and watching the video would upset her. Mike and Mike felt she had misrepresented herself at a minimum on their show, but stopped short of calling her a liar until they could talk to her again. They had an intern call the U and find out what happened. The U said she trusts her people and went with their judgement.

The problem is she said, "the buck stops with me." Yet she didn't see the video and misrepresented herself. And she only suspended some players for 1 game for removing their helmets and swinging them as weapons at guys on the ground. She further said that the U would not put up such behavior and spoke tough, yet the punishment was just light enough that the players would be back in time for the big game against Ga Tech.

diducmeb4

Sounds as though she's a hypocrite.