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Robertson: ‘There isn’t anything bigoted’ about calling gay NBA player an abomination
Televangelist Pat Robertson used a portion of his Tuesday 700 Club broadcast to defend an ESPN reporter who said that NBA player Jason Collins was “walking in open rebellion to God” for announcing he was openly gay. After Collins came out in a Sports Illustrated column published on Monday, ESPN…
ESPN reporter says gay NBA player Jason Collins ‘walking in open rebellion to God’
ESPN reporter Chris Broussard on Monday insisted that gay NBA player Jason Collins was not a Christian and was “walking in open rebellion to God.” After Collins announced he was gay in a column for Sports Illustrated on Monday, ESPN’s Outside The Lines asked Broussard how he felt about the…
ESPN apologizes for racial slur headline on Jeremy Lin
Sports network giant ESPN apologized Saturday morning for using a racial slur to describe new basketball sensation Jeremy Lin on its mobile website. ESPN ran the headline “Chink in the Armor” after Lin suffered his first defeat as a starter Friday evening when his team, the New York Knicks, lost…
World Cup More Popular than Baseball?
Maybe not, but the number of viewers were comparable to those of the World Series! For the ESPN empire and Univision, any questions about the return on their investment in the World Cup are being answered by viewers. On Saturday, the United States’ loss to Ghana was seen by 14.9…
Who’s Better At News?
The top story on ESPN is about Charlie Weis’ firing. The top story on CNN is about Tiger Woods. Which one of these organizations is better at news? You be the judge.…
Fantasy football gameweek: site switch
Last year, I fizzled out in my attempts to keep up with Premier League fantasy football (perhaps this had something to do with my focus being on American fantasy football for a living). We used the premierleague.com site to manage everything, and I have to say I was impressed by…
ESPN + EPL + US = 0?
So The Gaffer at EPLTalk broke the story last week that ESPN2 would be carrying Premier League games in the USA. They’ve already scooped up all of Setanta’s games in the UK, and fretting over their potential blundering of the coverage has become a pastime of its own across the…
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