• Should Thom Brennaman be forgiven? Announcer sounds off on complicated redemption

    Should Thom Brennaman be forgiven? Announcer sounds off on complicated redemption

    Thom Brennaman may very well have destroyed his career last month when he uttered a gay slur on air, and there are many who would be just fine with never hearing from the Cincinnati Reds broadcaster again. “Believe me, I know there are a lot of people who are still very angry and I understand …
  • Sports media mailbag: Mike Golic’s new role in ESPN’s college football lineup

    Sports media mailbag: Mike Golic’s new role in ESPN’s college football lineup

    You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers & columnists to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: sports media. Looks like Joe Tessitore is returning to CFB on ESPN with Greg McElroy and Holly …
  • What is with these ESPN hirings?

    What is with these ESPN hirings?

    Perhaps we expect better from ESPN because it’s a 24/7 sports network, the last place we’d think would wreck every sport it touches. Yet, here we are. Again, and still. To tune to ESPN to watch a live sports event is to be conditioned — air-conditioned — to anticipate a production that will challenge the …
  • Thom Brennaman’s slur was wrong but so is selective justice

    Thom Brennaman’s slur was wrong but so is selective justice

    Who’d a thunk it? In our exchanges, he’d never even cussed. Can’t say the same for myself. I know Fox and Reds broadcaster Thom Brennaman long enough to be shocked that he’d speak a slur for homosexuals — the F-word — even when he thought he was off the air, let alone while attached to …
  • Thom Brennaman’s slur apology was awkwardly interrupted by Reds home run

    Thom Brennaman’s slur apology was awkwardly interrupted by Reds home run

    The Reds gave Thom Brennaman a chance to apologize Wednesday night on air after his homophobic slur was broadcast to Fox Sports Ohio viewers over a hot mic. However, the 56-year-old’s mea culpa — for saying “one of the f-g capitals of the world,” to the shock of viewers — was interrupted by a Nick …