ESPN removes Curt Schilling for baseball season
The negative repercussions for Curt Schilling continued Thursday, following his tweet two weeks ago that featured a meme comparing Muslims to Germans during World War II, and subsequent email to a sports media blogger that was made public.
On Thursday, ESPN released a statement saying the former Red Sox ace will not appear on the network for “the remainder of the regular season and our Wild Card playoff game.’’
ESPN’s statement in-full:
At all times during the course of their engagement with us, our commentators are directly linked to ESPN and are the face of our brand. We are a sports media company. Curt’s actions have not been consistent with his contractual obligations nor have they been professionally handled; they have obviously not reflected well on the company. As a result, he will not appear on ESPN through the remainder of the regular season and our Wild Card playoff game.
Schilling did not immdiately respond to a request for comment Thursday evening.
After Schilling’s tweet, ESPN pulled him as an analyst from Little League World Series games, then, from one Sunday Night Baseball broadcast. After his initial suspension from the Little League World Series, Schilling took responsibility for the tweet on, where else, Twitter.
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Schilling also tore into a writer for his coverage of the tweet in an email that was published on the sports media blog Awful Announcing.
“All I ever ask is honesty and an attempt at integrity. But if you want to rip me, or talk s[—] about me, please do it with more than an ounce of pride in your job,’’ Schilling wrote.
A screengrab of Schilling’s, now deleted, August 25 tweet:
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