Jeanne Edwards: Fired After Sexist Comments Fellow ESPN Anchor

ESPN announcer Ron Franklin was fired Tuesday by ESPN after making derogatory and sexist comments to sideline reporter Jeanne Edwards during a Fiesta Bowl broadcast.


Franklin was disciplined after a complaint was made about his behavior toward Edwards at a meeting. "Why don't you leave this to the boys, sweet baby?" Franklin allegedly said. When Edwards objected and told him not to address her like that, Franklin responded, "okay then, A-hole."

Franklin apologized for his remarks on Friday and said he deserved to be pulled from the Fiesta Bowl after the comments.

Franklin had worked for ESPN for 25 years.

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Rex Ryan Foot Fetish Video a 'Own Matter'

New York Jets coach Rex Ryan, at a news conference Wednesday, addressed the foot-fetish report posted by Deadspin.com, which showed videos of a woman who closely resembles Rex's wife, Michelle.


"To be truthful, and I get it, I know you need to ask and all that stuff, but it's a personal matter and I'm really not going to discuss it, reasonable?" he told reporters.
He was asked about the videos throughout the conference, but sustained to preserve that it was "a individual matter," according to ESPN. NFL league orator Greg Aiello said the league also considers the video report a personal matter.
One video shows a woman presenting her feet and toes from an SUV window to an off-screen cameraman who touches them. Other videos show the woman session on a couch and rubbing her feet.
This is the most recent headline-grabbing story to hit the NFL because of a Dead spin feature. Last October Minnesota Vikings' quarterback Brett Favre was involved in a "sexing" scandal when the website posted voicemails and pictures Favre allegedly sent in 2008 to former Jets game-day host and Playboy model Jennifer Sterger. Favre played for the Jets that year, and the NFL's investigation into the incident is ongoing.

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Jon Gruden: 2001 Miami Hurricanes Best College Football Team for ever

As an unabashed Canes fan, you know I’m not going to miss an opportunity to give some love to my Hurricanes, especially when it was prompted by somebody else. After Andre Johnson caught a touchdown prior to halftime of the Ravens-Texans Monday night game, analyst and former coach Jon Gruden began praising Miami.
Introducing what seemed to be a prepared piece by ESPN, Chucky said that the 2001 Miami team was the best college football team ever. He pointed out how 38 of the 89 players on the team were drafted, including 17 in the first round. They showed a team photo and spot-shadowed Andre Johnson and Ed Reed (both of whom were playing in the Monday night game) and mentioned Willis McGahee, who was also playing in the game. Other running backs on that Miami team were Frank Gore, Clinton Portis, and Najeh Davenport. In addition to Andre Johnson, Santana Moss, Jeremy Shockey, and Kellen Winslow II caught passes from Ken Dorsey. Defensive stars included Jonathan Vilma, D.J. Williams, Vince Wilfork, and Antrel Rolle and Sean Taylor as backups.

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'The Amazing Race': 'Sancho Panza's master to make history

Doctors Nat and Kat are your "Amazing Race" Season 17 winners. They bested second place team Brook and Claire and third place team Thomas and Jill. Nat and Kat are the first all-female team to win "TAR" and nearly 50% of Zap2it voters picked them.

There they had to ride a bungee swing in order to get the next clue. It was awesome, like bungee jumping but not quite as scary. During the bungee swing, Nat said, "I didn't even pee my pants." We're sad that wasn't the episode title.

Following the bungee swing the teams had a road black where they had to help decorate a Tournament of Roses Parade float. Thomas, the last man standing, struggled a bit with the road block. Brook and Nat were both a lot more comfortable with the challenge, but all three teams still finished fairly quickly.

The next clue forced them to figure out clues, including who Sancho Panza's master was. Don Quixote is the answer and it was directing them to Quixote Studios where they had to play a game show-like challenge. The challenge was to pick out the 11 greeters from each pit stop (from a grid of 48) and then put them in order.

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SMU Death Penalty To Be Aired In ESPN 30

The SMU Death Penalty will be aired today on ESPN 30. Try to catch the following details below from NCAA Football Fanhouse for more:

After being discovered, SMU proposed a series of penalties and vowed to obey the rules, but still saw the NCAA committee vote to cancel the school's entire 1987 season. The "death penalty" actually allows the NCAA to cancel a program for two years; the only thing that spared SMU from that fate was its cooperation with the investigation.

The full penalties included the 1987 cancellation, the cancellation of all 1988 home games, the extension of existing probation to 1990, the extension of existing bowl game and live television bans to 1989, the loss of 55 new scholarships over four years, the concrete ban of nine boosters, a reduction in the number of assistant coaches the school was allowed to hire, and a ban on off-campus recruiting until 1988.

Try to catch some more about SMU Death Penalty on ESPN for more.

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