Awful Announcing
"I think it's a shame, to be honest with you, that the players aren't participating in the Olympics. I know when I got a chance to be in two Olympics, it's probably the highlight of my career."
Everyone has a podcast these days, and that list now includes recently-fired NHL commentator Don Cherry.
The lawsuit claims Comcast "wants to extinguish competition from Altitude so that Comcast can pocket more of the money it takes from consumers each month for sports programming."
We honor what you've meant to the game...Just [a] fantastic human being. And so I love you very much and we honor you tonight in this last talk about a Coach's Corner."
"Yeah, he said many things, but I don't know, I mean, was it that bad? I don't know. ...I don't think that his words were racist."
Cherry was fired by Sportsnet on Monday.
This sure seems staged.
Missed it by that much, SI.
"It has been decided it is the right time for him to immediately step down. During the broadcast, he made divisive remarks that do not represent our values or what we stand for."
Don Cherry launched into an anti-immigrant rant that literally included the phrase "You people!"
"After some reflection, the comments were, in my opinion, inappropriate. But I take responsibility, and I want to apologize."
Brashear played for the Montreal Canadiens from 1993-97; the Post initially used a Getty photo from 2009 that mislabeled Georges Laraque as Brashear.
“I stand by my real-time call. Brick [analyst Andy Brickley] encapsulated it when he said was it was self-inflicted.”
Jack Edwards crossed the line on this one.
This remark from Foley drew a lot of blowback.
