Comments on: Rob Parker Out at ESPN in Wake Of “Cornball Brother” RG3 Comments

By: scripty

scripty — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:10:39 +0000

didnt cwebb come from a 2 parent household and go to private school?
yes. then he was a studio gangster at UM and in the NBA. Now that he wants to be on TV he has re-discovered his intellect. C-Webb is in the studio gangster HOF.

By: sctrojans

sctrojans — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:38:22 +0000

except for the fact that Hill is a year older than the Fab 5.

Though Rose did voice frustration over not being recruited by Duke IIRC

By: Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez has the highest WAR evah!

Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez has the highest WAR evah! — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:36:06 +0000

Jalen was just jealous Duke pursued Hill and not him b/c Hill is a much better player

except for the fact that Hill is a year older than the Fab 5.

By: sctrojans

sctrojans — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:28:52 +0000

Jalen was just jealous Duke pursued Hill and not him b/c Hill is a much better player

By: sctrojans

sctrojans — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:27:46 +0000

When will they finally take him off the air. He got several names wrong last night, such as “Terry” Bridgewater. His creepy comments about McCarron’s girlfriend and his blatent homerism for ND were gross

Oh c’mon, that’s part of the charm. But seriously, who is a better replacement?

By: MP III

MP III — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:27:19 +0000

good. adios, you piece of shit.

By: QueeferSutherland

QueeferSutherland — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:26:34 +0000

No. “Rob Parker’s contract expired at year end. Evaluating our needs and his work, including his recent RGIII comments, we decided not to renew.”

I saw that. Then why mention the contract and “their needs” at all? “He was let go for his inappropriate comments about RGIII” would have sufficed.

By: rodmansrage

rodmansrage — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:26:27 +0000

If I remember correctly, he said that’s what the Fab Five guys thought in the 1990s.

didnt cwebb come from a 2 parent household and go to private school?

By: MancitysShabbySheik

MancitysShabbySheik — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:25:14 +0000

Didn’t Jalen Rose come out and essentially say that Grant Hill and other black Duke basketball players were Uncle Tom’s because they came from a two-parent household? Outside of a few days of criticism, nothing happened to him.

He was asked in a 30 for 30, what at that time, he thought of Duke, and he was honest.

By: guinnessgirl13

guinnessgirl13 — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:24:49 +0000

No one punished Brent Pusberger for calling John Carlos and Tommie Smith ‘black thugs’ in 1968.

When will they finally take him off the air. He got several names wrong last night, such as “Terry” Bridgewater. His creepy comments about McCarron’s girlfriend and his blatent homerism for ND were gross.

By: jim

jim — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:23:43 +0000

At least he’s got his barbershop to fall back on.

By: Poindexter

Poindexter — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:14:23 +0000

So ESPN didn’t actually take a stand against shitty on-air talent saying moronic, baseless things. They just let his contract expire.

No. "Rob Parker’s contract expired at year end. Evaluating our needs and his work, including his recent RGIII comments, we decided not to renew."Before his second interview, where he basically said the same thing over again.

By: Scouser

Scouser — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:10:14 +0000

If I remember correctly, he said that’s what the Fab Five guys thought in the 1990s. Not sure why you would punish someone for candidly reflecting in a documentary.

No one punished Brent Pusberger for calling John Carlos and Tommie Smith ‘black thugs’ in 1968.

By: Nada

Nada — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:07:40 +0000

Yeah, I watched First Take this morning. Sue me

/ Knocks on door
// Serves papers
/// Runs

By: scripty

scripty — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:07:11 +0000

He still has a TV hosting gig at WDIV in Detroit. God dammit

He also has that barbershop, until he unwisely leverges his equity to finance a music studio.

By: scripty

scripty — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:05:54 +0000

BTW much respect to Whitlock bouncing in at the end of that interview thread.

By: VladimirCrouton

VladimirCrouton — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:04:16 +0000

He still has a TV hosting gig at WDIV in Detroit. God dammit.

By: QueeferSutherland

QueeferSutherland — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:04:11 +0000

I was all set to give ESPN some credit here, and then I read this:

According to SBJ’s John Ourand, the decision was made before his interview.

So ESPN didn’t actually take a stand against shitty on-air talent saying moronic, baseless things. They just let his contract expire.

By: Caribou

Caribou — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:03:03 +0000

Mullet said it all.

/moving on

By: sousedbergin

sousedbergin — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:02:03 +0000

Didn’t Jalen Rose come out and essentially say that Grant Hill and other black Duke basketball players were Uncle Tom’s because they came from a two-parent household? Outside of a few days of criticism, nothing happened to him.
If I remember correctly, he said that’s what the Fab Five guys thought in the 1990s. Not sure why you would punish someone for candidly reflecting in a documentary.

Jalen Rose was reflecting on his past thoughts as a present day studio gangster.