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Saturday March 12th, 2011  08:13am EST Everyone in media today works in a fishbowl where viewer and reader perceptions are hyper-tuned to pick up any trace of perceived bias, spin or “agenda,” and ex-athletes who move in front of the camera are unusually susceptible to the charge: They wore the uniform, after all. We have [...]

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Tuesday, January 4, 2011; 6:10 PM ESPN fired veteran play-by-play announcer Ron Franklin on Tuesday, four days after Franklin referred to a female colleague as “sweet baby” and followed that up with an expletive after she objected. Franklin, who has called games for the sports cable network since 1987, was due to broadcast the Fiesta [...]

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  Mar. 15 2010 – 7:12 pm The Erin Andrews peephole pervert gets 30 months Stalking and secretly video taping Erin Andrews will get you two and a half years in prison, reports TMZ. Michael David Barrett, 49, made a peephole video of the hottie ESPN sportscaster while she was brushing her hair and primping [...]

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Upon Tues, ESPN’s show compeer Dana Jacobson brought out a formal excuse on the behalf of the channel after the occurrence regarding Barry Melrose’s use of the s-word two times during the show. The occurrence has been taken lightly by the fans & a lot of them are blowing it for being humorous. The past [...]

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Miller wins Ford C. Frick Award Jon Miller, who has spent parts of five decades as the voice of five major league baseball teams, has been selected as the 2010 recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award. from:  http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/hof10/news/story?id=4877543 Jon Miller was born on October 11th, 1951 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Miller October 11th 10 + 11 [...]

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