ESPN Fires Ron Franklin

• wildcats20

  

  ESPN fires Ron Franklin after calling Jeanne Edwards "sweet baby" and an expletive, which of course was "bitch." This happened during a meeting before the Fiesta Bowl.
  
  I'm gonna miss hearing his voice during college basketball games, kind of the voice of the Big 12.
  
  http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/post/ESPN-pulls-announcer-for-calling-female-colleagu?urn=top-303299
• jordo212000

  

  Yeah I always liked Ron Franklin. Obviously he is a moron for using those words with people around him
• Iliketurtles

  

  I just don't understand why ESPN keeps letting these women out of the kitchen....
• Little Danny

  

  What he said was inappropriate and set ESPN up for a sexual harassment lawsuit, but....
  
  they kept the one jewish announcer who said F Jesus and Ms. Hill who makes racially comments on a daily basis. Not so much for consistency....
• WebFire

  People sure are soft these days. Why didn't she just fire back or slap, then the both of them move on?
• ytownfootball

  

  political correctness run amok...bullshit
• Fab1b

  

  I read it somewhere today and I can't freaking remember where but he called her an asshole, not a bitch.
• wildcats20

  

  Fab1b;624748 wrote:I read it somewhere today and I can't freaking remember where but he called her an asshole, not a bitch.

  
  Ah, the article just says [expletive] so I figured it was bitch.
• Fab1b

  

  I am trying to find the article I read from earlier but can't, I thought it was in Yahoo but now the same article is posted in Yahoo that just says [expletive]
• SportsAndLady

  

  WebFire;624741 wrote:People sure are soft these days. Why didn't she just fire back or slap, then the both of them move on?

  
  Would you rather slap someone or sue them for a cool million
• vball10set

  ccrunner609;624750 wrote:well is she?

  
  aren't they all?
• ytownfootball

  

  vball10set;624764 wrote:aren't they all?

  
  Out of ear shot...well yeah
• gerb131

  

  He was my favorite ESPN announcer.
• wildcats20

  

  gerb131;624831 wrote:He was my favorite ESPN announcer.

  
  He was definitely up there as far as basketball goes. Kind of the voice of the Big 12.
• karen lotz

  

  he called her sweetcheeks to which she replied "don't call me that." he then replied back "ok, then you're an asshole."
• Little Danny

  

  I'm curios as to the context of these statements. From what Karen is describing, it sounds like was not acting like some 40 year old man oggling over a busty high school cheerleader by calling her "sweet-cheeks", it sounds as if he was saying in a condescending manner based on some action/comment that she had taken. When he called her an asshole, he just repeated it again a harsher manner. He could have very easily made the same comment to any colleague-- male, female, young or old. I am curious as to what she said or did to elicit his comments. Maybe she actually is an asshole and deserved what she got.
• karen lotz

  

  They were in a production meeting for a bowl game and he and a couple of the TV guys were discussing the game. She offered her opinion on something and he said something like "why don't you leave this to the men, sweet cheeks" Sports By Brooks had story about it the day it happened but I didn't think anything would come of it other than Franklin being pulled from the Fiesta Bowl broadcast.
• Fab1b

  

  Thought it was "Sweet Baby" not "Sweet Cheeks"?
• karen lotz

  

  Fab1b;624879 wrote:Thought it was "Sweet Baby" not "Sweet Cheeks"?

  
  
  Actually we are both wrong.
  
  http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/franklin-to-female-espner-sweetcakes-a-hole-29388
  

  As Gilmore, Cunningham and Franklin discussed the subject, Edwards tried to join the conversation.
  When she did, Franklin said to her, “Why don’t you leave this to the boys, sweetcakes.”
  Edwards responded to Franklin by saying, “don’t call me sweetcakes, I don’t like being talked to like that.”
  Franklin then said, “okay then, a–hole.”
  After the meeting Edwards reported Franklin’s comments to ESPN management.

• Fab1b

  

  Cake is good!
• ts1227

  

  WebFire;624741 wrote:People sure are soft these days. Why didn't she just fire back or slap, then the both of them move on?

  
  To what I understand, this wasn't his first offense when it came to stuff like this.
  
  (someone else may have mentioned that, but I'm too lazy to read the thread)
• Mulva

  

  Is there any ESPN personality that isn't a complete frat boy asshole?