ESPN suspends Tony Kornheiser.. SMH..

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stringer bell
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edited February 2010 in From the Cheap Seats
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/2010-02-23-espn-suspends-tony-kornheiser_N.htm
ESPN suspends Kornheiser for comments on Hannah Storm's attire

ESPN Tuesday announced that Tony Kornheiser, current co-host of its daytime Pardon the Interruption talk show and a former Monday Night Football game analyst, is on suspension for comments he made Friday about ESPN anchor Hannah Storm.
On his weekday local radio show on ESPN Radio's Washington, D.C. affiliate, Kornheiser Friday talked about what Storm was wearing on-air at the time.

He called her outfit "horrifying" and said her "very, very tight shirt" looked like "sausage casing" and that her "Catholic school plaid skirt" was "way too short for somebody" her age.

Kornheiser subsenquently apologized to Storm and apologized on-air. Kornheiser missed PTI Monday as part of his suspension, the length of which has not yet been announced by ESPN.

i think he did not deserve to get suspend for that.. he just stating his true feelings about what she was wearing...
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  • Darius
    Darius Members Posts: 22,649 ✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2010
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    ESPN has been wack for years, i dont even check for them like i used to
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  • BackInWhite
    BackInWhite Members Posts: 23,591 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2010
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    i like Tony
    he reminds me of my aunt
    always using words he don't know the meaning of
    "so if i have a sidepiece can i also have a jumpoff too?"
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  • TheGambinoLegacy
    TheGambinoLegacy Members Posts: 2,322 ✭✭✭
    edited February 2010
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    what a joke.
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  • Will Munny
    Will Munny Members Posts: 30,199 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2010
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    Lame. You don't do that to a guy like Kornheiser.
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  • Darius
    Darius Members Posts: 22,649 ✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2010
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    Steven A Smith should be suspended for life
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  • corporatebrotha
    corporatebrotha Members Posts: 72
    edited February 2010
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    matt- wrote: »
    ESPN has been wack for years, i dont even check for them like i used to

    I actually agree with you on this...Too much "E" and not enough "SPN" if you ask me...too many agendas on that network aside from live events
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  • BOSS KTULU
    BOSS KTULU Banned Users Posts: 978 ✭✭
    edited February 2010
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    i need kornheiser for my ?
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  • junegemini
    junegemini Members Posts: 2,775 ✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2010
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    smh @ this ? 's sig...i aint never said "Holy ? " in my life :(
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  • goat334
    goat334 Members Posts: 3,604 ✭✭
    edited February 2010
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    PimpMVP wrote: »
    ESPN are getting too ?
    @ your sig.......I hear ya....Leon Phelps
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  • BackInWhite
    BackInWhite Members Posts: 23,591 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2010
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    PimpMVP wrote: »
    Steven A acts like a little female....He needs to shut his ? ass up
    i hate that ? !
    why the ? his face always look like that?
    why his head always tilted just slightly?
    ? he always screamin and spittin for?
    junegemini wrote: »
    smh @ this ? 's sig...i aint never said "Holy ? " in my life :(

    until now
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  • G.R.I.P. Money $$$
    G.R.I.P. Money $$$ Members Posts: 18,939 ✭✭✭
    edited February 2010
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    smh...come on espn..
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  • Cutler 26 INT's LOL!
    Cutler 26 INT's LOL! Members Posts: 7,708 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2010
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    Lebetard on PTI this week, huh?
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  • stringer bell
    stringer bell Members Posts: 26,212 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2010
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    amd_hannah_storm_outfit.jpg
    Pardon the interruption: Tony Kornheiser has been benched from "Pardon the Interruption."

    ESPN has banned the print, radio and TV personality from its popular "PTI" show for biting on-air comments he made last week about SportsCenter host Hannah Storm's wardrobe.

    Kornheiser, who has built a persona on caustic shots at a wide swath of sports figures, couldn't get away with turning his sights into ESPN's house – saying Storm dressed "like she has sausage casing wrapped around her body" and calling the 47-year-old anchor "a Holden Caulfield fantasy," referring to the protagonist in J.D. Salinger's book "The Catcher in the Rye."

    Kornheiser opened his ESPN Radio show by briefly addressing the suspension, saying he "had made intemperate remarks, and stupid remarks, about Hannah Storm … and as a result of this I have been sent to the sidelines from PTI for a while." The suspension is expected to be a few days.

    "I've said about a thousand times while doing radio in my life the following sentence: If you put a live microphone in front of somebody, eventually that person will say something wrong. This was one of the times I said something wrong," Kornheiser said. "It seems to me without any question that I broke the rules, and this is the punishment that's come."

    The firestorm - just the latest sexual harassment flare-up to hit ESPN - occurred the evening after Storm had hosted the morning SportsCenter wearing a slim-fitting red sweater, a red-plaid skirt and red boots ending just below the knee.

    "Hannah Storm in a horrifying, horrifying outfit today," Kornheiser said on PTI. "She's got on red go-go boots and a Catholic-school plaid skirt. … Way too short for somebody in her 40s or maybe early 50s by now. She's got on her typically very, very tight shirt. She looks like she has sausage casing wrapping around her upper body.

    "I know she's very good, and I'm not supposed to be critical of ESPN people, so I won't. But Hannah Storm, Come on now! Stop! What are you doing? She's what I would call a Holden Caulfield fantasy at this point."

    Miami sportswriter Dan Lebatard filled in for Kornheiser on Monday's PTI show, as he did when Kornheiser was suspended once before, in 2002, for remarks that were critical of ESPN management. That suspension took Kornheiser off all ESPN airwaves for a week.



    Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/2010/02/23/2010-02-23_espn_supsends_kornheiser_for_storm_comments.html#ixzz0gOiVUKRZ

    SMH @ Dan Lebatard filling in for the whole week on PTI...
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  • sTaY_TrUe
    sTaY_TrUe Members Posts: 4,189 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2010
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    matt- wrote: »
    Steven A Smith should be suspended for life

    for keeping it real huh
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  • G.R.I.P. Money $$$
    G.R.I.P. Money $$$ Members Posts: 18,939 ✭✭✭
    edited February 2010
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    she shoulda been roasted for that ? ....
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  • 1of1
    1of1 Members Posts: 37,468 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2010
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    People are too sensitive. His whole identity on the network is that of a brazen character who spews his opinion on things. It's not that serious.
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  • usmarin3
    usmarin3 Members Posts: 38,013 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2010
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    Penguin dances out this thread, Tony K is king
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  • rapstar39
    rapstar39 Members Posts: 521
    edited February 2010
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    he got suspeneded over something that's not that serious.
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  • jasonwllms55
    jasonwllms55 Members Posts: 810 ✭✭
    edited February 2010
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    smh. he didnt say anything worth suspension. Mike and Mike in the morning said "Martin Luther ? " in reference to MLK. did they get suspended?
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  • ToWn_DrUnK
    ToWn_DrUnK Members Posts: 1,018 ✭
    edited February 2010
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    that ? funny when they go to commericla come back and he acts like he dont know there back he said " so four vodka laters im on the table dancing screamin ohh we back welcome back " hahaah
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  • traestar
    traestar Members Posts: 6,030 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2010
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    rapstar39 wrote: »
    he got suspeneded over something that's not that serious.
    agreed but

    that was not short, but I understand the plaid

    He gets suspended for voicing his opinion....isn't that what ESPN commentators get paid for??

    ESPN are plaid idiots... but Steven A is my dude, he speaks real and he's entertaining
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  • dc's teflondon
    dc's teflondon Members Posts: 5,895 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2010
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    stringer bell wrote: »
    amd_hannah_storm_outfit.jpg



    SMH @ Dan Lebatard filling in for the whole week on PTI...

    hannah looking she need to be in groovers in the heart video
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  • vageneral08
    vageneral08 Members Posts: 19,535 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2010
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    michael wilborn said tony was on vacation yesterday
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  • toheeb27
    toheeb27 Members Posts: 10,049 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2010
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    LOL, i actually listen to his radio show. He is lucky Hoda Kotb is not on ESPN, he takes a nine iron to that woman almost every show.
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  • maximus preme
    maximus preme Members Posts: 1,995 ✭✭
    edited February 2010
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    He do gotta a point though. Hana do be wearing some crazy ass outfits that leave saying wtf? She still a MILF though. :)
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