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DeadSpin: Former #ESPN VP Filed Pre-Emptive Lawsuit Denying He Masturbated In Front Of #ErinAndrews

The DeadSpin/ESPN love fest continues. This time the story revolves around a guy named Keith Clinkscales, ESPN’s former senior vice president for content, development, and enterprise, who left the company earlier this year to become an independent producer. It’s a rather long and complicated drama (as most of these “insider creeps at ESPN” stories are) but because it involves an alleged incident on an airplane with the lovely Erin Andrews, it’s slightly more interesting.

Here’s our favorite paragraph from the story (Connie is the name DeadSpin assigned to the ESPN insider who fed them the story and who is being sued by Clinkscales):

Earlier this year, Clinkscales traveled to Los Angeles with Erin Andrews for a work-related event. Andrews sat in the middle, while Clinkscales was on the aisle. It was in either first or business class. What happened next was related by Andrews herself to both Connie, her husband, and ESPN anchor Sage Steele. At some point during the trip, Andrews saw Clinkscales masturbating in his seat, beneath his iPad. When he realized he had been caught, Andrews told Connie, Clinkscales panicked and muttered, “You know, I’m one of your bosses.” Andrews, still scarred from the very public peephole stalking incident, was angry but conflicted, Connie tells me. She shared the incident with a handful of people at the network, but refused Connie’s suggestion that she go to HR. “Do it anonymously then,” Connie advised. Erin declined. She just wanted it to go away.

Are You Ready for Some Hitler? ESPN Drops Hank Williams Open From Monday Night Football After Comments

Hank, Hank, Hank. You crazy country singer, you! Don’t you know the only reason you’re making a living today is that one phrase “Are You Ready for Some Football?” Apparently not. From AJC.com:

In an interview Monday morning on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends,” Williams, unprompted, said of Obama’s outing on the links with House Speaker John Boehner: “It’d be like Hitler playing golf with (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu.”

Asked to clarify, Williams said, “They’re the enemy,” adding that by “they” he meant Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.

Anchor Gretchen Carlson later said to him, “You used the name of one of the most hated people in all of the world to describe, I think, the president.” Williams replied, “Well, that is true. But I’m telling you like it is.”

WTF? #ESPN Suspends Bruce Feldman for Helping Write #MikeLeach Book – #freebruce

We’ll let other tell the story better than we can, but apparently ESPN has suspended one of it’s writers after a book came out by former Texas Tech football coach Mike Leach that was critical of college football analyst and pretty boy Craig James. That’s AFTER ESPN game Feldman permission to write the book! Read our friend Brooks’ article then join the #freebruce campaign on Twitter.