Back At It
Curt Schilling returns to the headlines – and this time, with a political statement. He came out in support of North Carolina’s transgender law, which required all people to use the bathroom of the sex they were born with. But he wasn’t exactly tactful – Schilling tweeted, “LET HIM IN! to the restroom with your daughter or else you’re a narrow-minded, judgmental, unloving racist bigot who needs to die.” Schilling chose to accompany the tweet with a hurtful photo of a man in woman’s clothing. This thoughtless and unnecessarily destructive tweet crossed a line, and led to him being immediately fired by ESPN.
Back At It
Strike Back
In 2005, Ray Rice beat his wife on an elevator, and everyone seemed to have something to say about it. ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith said, “Let’s make sure we don’t do anything to provoke wrong actions, because if I come — or somebody else come, whether it’s law enforcement officials, your brother or the fellas that you know — if we come after somebody has put their hands on you, it doesn’t negate the fact that they already put their hands on you.” He later apologized, but was still suspended for a week. Things just spiraled downhill when Michelle Beadle tweeted her opinion.
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