ESPN Mag's Bryant: Comparing Women's Sports to Men's Is Sexist, Racist
The WNBA marks its 20th anniversary this year, and ESPN’s May 23 issue was devoted to wondering why people weren’t watching the games (that the network just happens to air). Magazine columnist (and social justice keyboard warrior) Howard Bryant blamed sexism and racism for the game’s failure to achieve popularity, even roping in the civil rights movement and the history of American inequality: "…
ESPN the Leader in Push for Lefty Sports Media Change
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Yep. It’s not your imagination: Sports journalism – long a bastion of reflexive liberalism – is only getting worse. Last summer MRC Culture presented 10 Reasons ESPN is MSNBC with Better Video. We can add dozens to the list. And it isn’t just ESPN.
Curt Schilling: ESPN Is ‘Outwardly Bigoted and Intolerant’
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Curt Schilling is still bringing the heat against his former employer. In an appearance on the Dan Patrick Show on NBC, Schilling let fly with a scathing rant about why he got fired, and the hypocrisy of ESPN.
Not a Shock: ESPN Hires Left-Wing, Hillary-Supporting Analyst
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In what might go down as the most redundant and superfluous hire in the history of redundant and superfluous hires, a network already dominated and run by leftist, LGBT activists hired…wait for it…a leftist, LGBT activist.
ESPN's Justice Warriors Prod LeBron for Quitting Gun-Control Activism
ESPN, not content to cover sports, wants in on the burgeoning social-justice market as well. In “Waiting for LeBron," an ESPN magazine essay, Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow pondered why Cleveland Cavaliers basketball legend LeBron James backed off his brief anti-gun activism. Saslow’s histrionic analysis of James “the athlete and the activist” makes it clear that LeBron has (somehow) let…
ESPN Pulls Curt Schilling ‘Bloody Sock’ Game From ’30 for 30'
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Apparently, being fired by ESPN means not only are you erased from the employee rolls at Bristol, but you are also erased from history!
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NBC, ABC Hype ESPN Firing Schilling After ‘Offensive’ Transgender Post
On Thursday, both NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America reveled in ESPN firing baseball analyst Curt Schilling after the former all-star pitcher objected on social media to liberal demands that transgender people be allowed to use whichever bathroom they choose. At the top of Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie announced: “He's out. Former all-star pitcher Curt Schilling fired by ESPN after…
Liberal Sports Media Revel in Curt Schilling's Firing from ESPN
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The sports media continued their postgame celebrations on Thursday, after ESPN’s firing of Curt Schilling. A firing that so many members of the liberal sports media openly, and privately, rooted for.
ESPN Fires Curt Schilling for ‘Unacceptable’ Free Speech
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Curt Schilling was fired by ESPN on Wednesday, for expressing an opinion online earlier in the week which just happens to be the view held by the vast majority of the American people. Earlier this week, Schilling posted a picture of a transgender person, and made a comment regarding the effort to let transgender men use women’s restrooms.
Imagine That: ABC/ESPN Blog Demonstrates Chicago 'Ferguson Effect'
Two writers at the Five Thirty-Eight blog, purchased by ABC's ESPN network two years ago, have done something the crime increase causation deniers will surely detest: demonstrate, based on statistical evidence, and despite their tentative language, that "real changes in the process of policing in Chicago" have led to "spike in gun violence in Chicago since the end of November."
Translating the…
ESPN’s Bomani Jones ‘Caucasian’ Stunt Falls Flat
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ESPN’s Bomani Jones really wants you to know that his T-shirt is clean, and powerful. Bomani Jones wore a ‘Caucasians’ t-shirt after his appearance on Mike & Mike last week. A shirt basically identical to a Cleveland Indians shirt, complete with Chief Wahoo, except it says, ‘Caucasians’ and has a dollar sign in place of a feather.
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ESPN Cries ‘Invasion’ After Cuba Broadcast Is Halted by Dissidents
Bob Ley, ESPN's longest-serving commentator, was in Cuba yesterday after the Tampa Bay Rays defeated the island nation's national team 4-1 in an exhibition baseball game.
Shortly after the conclusion of that game, ESPN had Ley report from a rather nice-looking streetscape in Havana (not your typical avenue in the workers' paradise). As he did, a demonstrator interrupted him. ESPN, acting as if…
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ESPN Host: ‘ESPN Heads Toward Communism Like Another Cruise Port’
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ESPN has had a hoot playing the role of sports Pravda during Barack Obama’s trip to Cuba.
