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Michael David Smith of FANHOUSE has the find of the day - the latest scene involving ESPN’s Mike Golic and Mike Greenberg on the soap opera “Guiding Light.”
We’re not sure how we missed this, but late last week Charlie Weis weighed in on the Dana Jacobson’s roast remarks and let us really know why ESPN took action against her.
Weis: “I was both personally and professionally offended by her comments. And if the situation were reversed, and that were me saying them, two things would have happened. I would have been the lead story on SportsCenter, and I would have been fired.” Read more…
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Michael David Smith of AOL Fanhouse watched Dana Jacobson’s return to ESPN’s morning show “First Take” and reports that she seemed slightly miffed at how her rant was reported. With the emphasis on slightly.
“I want to once again say how truly sorry I am for my poor choices and bad judgment,” Jacobson said. “I’ve taken responsibility for what I did say and do, and realize it was wrong. … I have already learned a lot.”
Although Jacobson didn’t get into the details of what she said at the roast, the way she emphasized the words “what I did say” seemed to be a subtle suggestion that some of the reports that have come out in the past two weeks overstated exactly what Jacobson said. Read more…
The CHICAGO TRIBUNE, via THE BIG LEAD, reports today “Sources have confirmed that (Dana) Jacobson, a co-host of ‘First Take’ on ESPN2, currently is serving a one-week suspension because of her behavior at a Jan. 11 roast for ESPN Radio personalities Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic at Atlantic City, N.J.
(Jacobson with Jamie Mottram in happier times)
“While declining to confirm Jacobson had been suspended, ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz said, ‘Her actions and comments were inappropriate and we’ve dealt with it.‘”
Dealt with it how? By getting her better material? That was the only problem we had with her alleged comments, which were, though foul, somewhat less than original.
UPDATE: Amateur Video from Mike & Mike Roast featuring Ditka d*ck joke fun!
UPDATE: Jacobson’s apology to the Catholic League.
UPDATE: Jacobson suspended by ESPN for a week.
UPDATE: Jacobson complains about off-air treatment by network.
ORIGINAL POST:
We seemed to have missed all the fun at the Mike & Mike Celebrity Roast Friday night. Or maybe we didn’t miss that much.
AWFUL ANNOUNCING tips us off to Scott Cronick of the PRESS OF ATLANTIC CITY, who chronicled the tribute to the Worldwide Leader’s own radio hams, Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic.
Cronick sums up the evening’s escapades by concluding, “The problem with this roast, unlike a Comedy Central or Friar’s Club roast, was that there weren’t enough comedians. Instead, the stage was mostly filled with athletes and ESPN personalities. Not comedians. And it showed.”
Some of the “highlights”:
We were reading in the ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION today about our Georgia Bulldogs and their recent, remarkable recruiting success when we ran across this line in Carter Strickland’s piece: “Maybe the Bulldogs aren’t as hot as Notre Dame, which has the top recruiting class in 2008 despite an abysmal 3-9 season.”
Notre Dame has the top recruiting class in the country? Apparently all those kids missed the recent “Mythbusters” episode on the school’s football program (ok, we made that up).
Just to make sure Strickland’s assertion wasn’t island-bound, we tracked down an opinion in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED from the top recruiting expert in the country, CSTV’s Tom Lemming.
