In this day and age, race is not the issue in sports it once was when athletes like Jackie Robinson were trying to break through color barriers in America. These days issues with race for the most part tend to flair up when a sports commentator makes a guffaw on a live telecast. Such seems ...
Finding little known facts about Tiger Woods is a needle in a haystack proposition. His early entry into the world of golf , his record breaking performances, his multiple appearances in sports record books, none of these can be called little known facts about Tiger Woods. Anyone could guess from the steady controlled demeanor Tiger ...
Kelly Tilghman has become the most infamous golf commentator since CBS’s Ben Wright was fired in 1995 for making negative comments about lesbians in women’s golf. In Tilghman’s case, her comments that the only way Tiger Woods could be defeated was if his opponents “lynched him” touched off much more controversy. But as Tilghman came ...
It was a clear cut case of “Open Mouth, Insert Foot” for Golf Channel anchor Kelly Tilghman when, while covering the opening event of the PGA Tour, she said that today’s young golf players should “lynch Tiger Woods in a back alley.” ESPN reports that Tilghman apologized on the air during Sunday’s telecast and that ...
There’s an outbreak of foot-in-mouth disease in sports reporting these days, at least as far as female anchors are concerned. WorldNetDaily.com reported today that ESPN suspended anchorwoman Dana Jacobson for certain remarks that she made at a recent celebrity roast. Jacobson’s suspension comes soon after the Golf Channel suspended Kelly Tilghman for two weeks for ...
Dana Jacobson vs Kelly Tilghman: Who is Worse? Maybe it started with Howard Cosell, or maybe it started with those loony ESPN anchors in the early stages of that revolutionary network, but somewhere along the line, the train leapt of the track, and we started wanting our sportscasters to be less like Jim McKay and ...
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