ESPN being sued for sexual harassment

I take no pleasure in this. It all sucks. Just wanted to keep you guys apprised. I get the irony. Irony.

NigelUno wrote:How do you file a lawsuit on a Sunday? On the interwebs?

Yes. Federal courts allow for electronic filing.

So I got this... and I need a talk bubble. What should it be?

(actual Baghdad Bob quotes)

"There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!"
"They're not even [within] 100 miles [of Baghdad]. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq.
This is an illusion ... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion."
"On this occasion, I am not going to mention the number of the infidels who were killed and the number of destroyed vehicles. The operation continues."
"It has been rumored that we have fired Scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait."
"Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport."
"These cowards have no morals. They have no shame about lying."

SawGreen wrote:So I got this... and I need a talk bubble.  What should it be?

(actual Baghdad Bob quotes)

"There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!"
"They're not even [within] 100 miles [of Baghdad]. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq.
This is an illusion ... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion."
"On this occasion, I am not going to mention the number of the infidels who were killed and the number of destroyed vehicles. The operation continues."
"It has been rumored that we have fired Scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait."
"Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport."
"These cowards have no morals. They have no shame about lying."

But they pay Paula $$ so she stays there.  I think there's a name for that.

Hill posted this 45 minutes ago.


https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/970811867915608064

DWags wrote:I take no pleasure in this. It all sucks. Just wanted to keep you guys apprised. I get the irony. Irony.

Pay wall, bro.

Turtleneck wrote:Hill posted this 45 minutes ago.


https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/970811867915608064

Maybe Berman made her sleep in the wet spot?

Turtleneck wrote:Hill posted this 45 minutes ago.


https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/970811867915608064

Wow. The personal gain part is interesting.

Turtleneck wrote:Hill posted this 45 minutes ago.


https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/970811867915608064

So if all the news puts that headline out there, does a Sunday special, how does Bergman put the Genie back in the bottle?? Cause Dantonio and Izzo have to.

SawGreen wrote:

Turtleneck wrote:Hill posted this 45 minutes ago.


https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/970811867915608064

Wow. The personal gain part is interesting.

She's not saying Berman used it for personal gain. She's saying the person she confided in did.

Da Mayor wrote:
She's not saying Berman used it for personal gain. She's saying the person she confided in did.

Yeah, took some info, interpreted it how they pleased, and ran with it... for gain. Sounds kind of familiar.

SawGreen wrote:

Da Mayor wrote:
She's not saying Berman used it for personal gain. She's saying the person she confided in did.

Yeah, took some info, interpreted it how they pleased, and ran with it... for gain. Sounds kind of familiar.

It was probably that skank bitch Lavigne.

DWags wrote:

Turtleneck wrote:Hill posted this 45 minutes ago.


https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/970811867915608064

So if all the news puts that headline out there, does a Sunday special, how does Bergman put the Genie back in the bottle?? Cause Dantonio and Izzo have to.

Exactly and Jemelle calling out other media as wildly inaccurate is rich.

Floyd Robertson wrote:

DWags wrote:

So if all the news puts that headline out there, does a Sunday special, how does Bergman put the Genie back in the bottle?? Cause Dantonio and Izzo have to.

Exactly and Jemelle calling out other media as wildly inaccurate is rich.

Seems like Jemelle is actually calling out the woman suing BSPN, because her then-friend/former colleague included something in her lawsuit that mentions the Hill/Berman issue. It’s not Deadspin and others getting the story wrong, because they are correct in reporting that it’s in the lawsuit. It’s the now ex-friend whom Jemelle is accusing of trying to make a profit. But you are def correct that the bell can’t be unrung, despite all the updates to their stories.

tGreenWay wrote:

Floyd Robertson wrote:
Exactly and Jemelle calling out other media as wildly inaccurate is rich.

Seems like Jemelle is actually calling out the woman suing BSPN, because her then-friend/former colleague included something in her lawsuit that mentions the Hill/Berman issue. It’s not Deadspin and others getting the story wrong, because they are correct in reporting that it’s in the lawsuit. It’s the now ex-friend whom Jemelle is accusing of trying to make a profit. But you are def correct that the bell can’t be unrung, despite all the updates to their stories.

Yeah, but I stand by my story.

Floyd Robertson wrote:

tGreenWay wrote:

Seems like Jemelle is actually calling out the woman suing BSPN, because her then-friend/former colleague included something in her lawsuit that mentions the Hill/Berman issue. It’s not Deadspin and others getting the story wrong, because they are correct in reporting that it’s in the lawsuit. It’s the now ex-friend whom Jemelle is accusing of trying to make a profit. But you are def correct that the bell can’t be unrung, despite all the updates to their stories.

Yeah, but I stand by my story.

NigelUno wrote:

tGreenWay wrote:

Seems like Jemelle is actually calling out the woman suing BSPN, because her then-friend/former colleague included something in her lawsuit that mentions the Hill/Berman issue. It’s not Deadspin and others getting the story wrong, because they are correct in reporting that it’s in the lawsuit. It’s the now ex-friend whom Jemelle is accusing of trying to make a profit. But you are def correct that the bell can’t be unrung, despite all the updates to their stories.

Jemele's kind of dancing around it.  Sounds like Berman said something inappropriate...it just wasn't left on her voicemail. And whatever he said, she was happy with how it was resolved. Maybe she got paid not to talk about it...

Please don’t speculate.

Floyd Robertson wrote:

DWags wrote:

So if all the news puts that headline out there, does a Sunday special, how does Bergman put the Genie back in the bottle?? Cause Dantonio and Izzo have to.

Exactly and Jemelle calling out other media as wildly inaccurate is rich.

I am sorry she often has ideas that differ from those you feel she should have.

Turtleneck wrote:

Floyd Robertson wrote:
Exactly and Jemelle calling out other media as wildly inaccurate is rich.

I am sorry she often has ideas that differ from those you feel she should have.

But she always has those enticing green eyes.

WOTS is the Boston Globe expose' that ran Dec 14 '17 was the catalyst for John Skipper, ESPN President President and Co-Chair of Disney Media to resign on Dec 18 '17 very suddenly for "substance addiction issues" only a month after signing a contract extension thru 2021.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2017/12/14/women-who-worked-espn-say-its-problems-far-beyond-barstool-sports/L1v9HJIvtnHuBPiMru6yGM/story.html

Hard to take that company seriously on any bit of reporting about sexual abuse when the very problem is rampant in their own company.

GRR Spartan wrote:WOTS is the Boston Globe expose' that ran Dec 14 '17 was the catalyst for John Skipper, ESPN President President and Co-Chair of Disney Media to resign on Dec 18 '17 very suddenly for "substance addiction issues" only a month after signing a contract extension thru 2021.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2017/12/14/women-who-worked-espn-say-its-problems-far-beyond-barstool-sports/L1v9HJIvtnHuBPiMru6yGM/story.html

There was a book published a while back that claims that cocaine, boozing, orgies and prostitution wasn’t uncommon at ESPN. I actually think his substance problem is probably legit. The culture there was rotten and it always starts at the top.

Another old scandal at the place involving Berman, a make up artist and an affair with Chris Carter. Place sounds like a mess.

http://nyp.st/1Y2PO71

Seriously, Paula Lavigne working there is like Bob working for the Trump administration.

.....If we are to believe that she's really concerned about sexual misconduct, and not just interested in selling books, that is.

It's just such bullshit that she was just interested in helping the victims or just trying to stop this "culture" at MSU.  Where was her concern about other athletic programs?  Or about the general college population nationwide?  Or about, I don't know, maybe your own fucking company, Paula?  

MiamiSpartan wrote:Seriously, Paula Lavigne working there is like Bob working for the Trump administration.

.....If we are to believe that she's really concerned about sexual misconduct, and not just interested in selling books, that is.

It's just such bullshit that she was just interested in helping the victims or just trying to stop this "culture" at MSU.  Where was her concern about other athletic programs?  Or about the general college population nationwide?  Or about, I don't know, maybe your own fucking company, Paula?  

Couldn’t agree more. Hard to take their little crusade seriously when they have major problems in their own company!! The book about ESPN claims that the assistants were prostituting them selves to the fedex ups guys.

“At one point in the ’80s ESPN kept an apartment in New York City. “I remember [an ESPN exec] coming in and saying, ‘We gotta get rid of this apartment…because the mail boys got a couple of our secretaries hooking over there,'” says former ESPN CEO Bill Grimes. “Hooking! That’s what he said…. ‘They’re making money after work when no one’s there. It’s getting out of control.'””

Also read about Mike Tirico’s days At ESPN. You’ll never be able to look at him the same way. Dude was sick!

And more detail about the prostitution scandal at ESPN.

https://nypost.com/2011/05/22/new-book-reveals-hookers-coke-and-xmas-orgies-at-espn/