We lose a lot of rights when we look the other way when it doesn't affect our lives or it isn't a cause we agree with.

Hmmm, will nardi just come clean or do we have to guess?

All those women who made the 50 Shades of Gray series a hit in print and screen now cannot fathom that its possible that there are people out there who like it rougher than they can imagine.

Trae Young will be a bust. Book It!

Does July understand that's what good lawyers do?

Probably the same reason people well versed in speaking should be radio hosts or those that have a firm grasp of spelling/grammar and can catch simple mistakes are editors.

Are you stoned or pissed off, or both, when you create these postings?

For instance they were never taught that Columbus was a slave owner.

Writer and Senior Editor really has a problem delineating her thoughts. Or she's just straight up disingenuous. Those women are labeled reporters because they are reporters; they are not analysts. You can argue that women are confined to being reporters (separate debate), but they are not doing the same job as the analysts.

The analysts played football. The reporters look good on camera.

Because you are stupid, maybe read some books educate yourself.

We walk, talk, and won't shit our pants

Are you stoned or pissed off, or both, when you create these postings?

reading about Julie having intercourse is not the path for a balanced breakfast

Reading many of Beardown's posts is not the path either...

Trae Young will be a bust. Book It!

Essentially if Julie's side wins the upcoming council elections, all the TV/film writers will quit and join the equivalent union out west (WGAW), leaving Julie's union to collapse.

Our hotel smelled like dead hooker vagina (before you ask I had gotten a detailed description from beardown)

This battle within the union is fascinating. Long story short, a few years ago the union (WGAE) representing TV and film writers wanted to expand its ranks, so they opened up the membership to "digital" writers such as blogs and shitty companies like Deadspin. The new bloggers flooded in and are about to outnumber the TV and film members, which is creating a rift because the original members fear their needs won't be met if the new group gets voting power. Plus the new members don't pay enough in dues (one third of the what the TV/film members pay). Essentially if Julie's side wins the upcoming council elections, all the TV/film writers will quit and join the equivalent union out west (WGAW), leaving Julie's union to collapse.

ESPN for all its faults has a pretty diverse set of people on air….

Certainly not in diversity of thought.

Beth Mowins does the Raider preseason games. I think she's pretty good. She gets the names right and doesn't talk over the color guys (Gannon and Millen). She's way better than Adam Amin...that guy is terrible. The only issue is I think they do something with her voice and it makes it sound like she has a bad head cold. I think its because a woman's voice tends to shriek when there is a big play so they're trying to make her voice deeper and it sounds weird.

i don't know why but beth mowins voice makes everything sound like i'm watching an iowa minnesota football game at 11 am on a crisp saturday morning. not complaining.

ESPN has canceled longtime reporter Rachel Nichols' show "The Jump" and pulled her from NBA coverage.

Nichols has faced backlash for comments she made last year suggesting Black colleague Maria Taylor got a coveted hosting job because of her race.
Taylor has since moved to NBC Sports.

ESPN will cancel its show hosted by Rachel Nichols and pull the longtime reporter from NBA coverage amid ongoing backlash to race-related comments she made about former colleague Maria Taylor, the network confirmed Wednesday.

ESPN will pull Nichols' weekday show "The Jump," and plans to replace it with new NBA content. It is unclear when the program will go off the air.

"We mutually agreed that this approach regarding our NBA coverage was best for all concerned. Rachel is an excellent reporter, host and journalist, and we thank her for her many contributions to our NBA content," David Roberts, the senior vice president for production at ESPN, said in a statement.

Nichols appeared to confirm her show's cancelation Wednesday. In a tweet, she said, "The Jump was never built to last forever but it sure was fun."

She added: "More to come ..."

A New York Times report in July revealed the comments Nichols made a year earlier to Adam Mendelsohn, an advisor to NBA superstar LeBron James, which made waves in the Walt Disney-owned company and NBA world.

In remarks captured on video without her knowledge, Nichols indicated she thought Taylor got a job hosting ESPN's pregame and postgame coverage of the 2020 NBA Finals because she is Black and the network was trying to improve its record on diversity.

"If you need to give her more things to do because you are feeling pressure about your crappy longtime record on diversity — which, by the way, I know personally from the female side of it — like, go for it," Nichols, who is white, said in audio published by the Times.

"Just find it somewhere else. You are not going to find it from me or taking my thing away," she said.

Following the Times report, ESPN benched Nichols during 2021 NBA Finals coverage. After a brief hiatus, she resumed hosting "The Jump."

After the audio of her comments surfaced, Nichols apologized to Taylor on air.

Taylor left ESPN earlier this year after she failed to reach a contract extension with the network. She joined NBC Sports and was a host and correspondent during the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Disclosure: CNBC parent NBCUniversal owns NBC Sports and NBC Olympics. NBC Olympics is the U.S. broadcast rights holder to all Summer and Winter Games through 2032.

— CNBC's Steve Kopack contributed to this report