Freeman playing cards again:
And I’m trying to remember the last time a black player was called the face of college basketball. Maybe it has occurred 500 times. I just can’t remember…..[CBS]
Last 10 Naismith winners:
1998 – Antawn Jamison, North Carolina
1999 – Elton Brand, Duke
2000 – Kenyon Martin, Cincinnati
2001 – Shane Battier, Duke
2002 – Jason Williams, Duke
2003 – T. J. Ford, Texas
2004 – Jameer Nelson, St. Joseph’s
2005 – Andrew Bogut, Utah
2006 – J.J. Redick, Duke
2007 – Kevin Durant, Texas
Bogut and Redick are white, correct? Is that it?
Somebody please explain why Mike has a job with CBS with this on his résumé (get it? résumé?) :
I never get tired of reading this, especially after Freeman goes into full racebaiting mode. It makes me laugh and wonder if CBS keeps him around because he is …..
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, January 10, 2004; Page C04
A longtime New York Times sportswriter who left to join the Indianapolis Star has resigned from his new job after admitting that he falsified his résumé.
Mike Freeman, who covered professional football and basketball and did investigative reporting at the Times, apologized for telling the Star that he was a graduate of the University of Delaware. He said he attended the school for four years but did not graduate.
“These were lies,” Freeman, 37, said in a statement posted on the Web site SportsPages.com. He added: “This was a terrible and unforgivable manipulation of the facts. . . . It was the only time I have told such falsehoods and no other deceptions have ever appeared in any of my newspaper stories or two books at any time in my 16 years of practicing journalism. Nevertheless, the information I gave the Star was wrong and I will be punished with the loss of my newspaper career.”
Star Editor Dennis Ryerson said in an interview yesterday that he had accepted the resignation, although this was “a bit awkward” because Freeman had not yet started his job as a columnist.
“The message is, he will not be working at the Star,” he said. “I’m very sorry about the way it turned out.” Ryerson added that a college degree is not required to work at the Star, and in fact, he does not have one.
Ryerson disclosed the news to readers through the paper’s Web site yesterday afternoon.
Freeman worked for The Washington Post in 1988 and again from 1990 to 1992, covering pro football. He has also written for the Dallas Morning News and Boston Globe. Freeman is the author of “Bloody Sundays: Inside the Dazzling, Rough-and-Tumble World of the NFL,” published last year, and the 2000 book “ESPN: The Uncensored History.”
In July, he reported for the Times on allegations of academic misconduct involving Ohio State running back Maurice Clarett.
In his statement, Freeman said “there are no excuses or alibis” for misrepresenting his résumé. “This is my fault and my fault alone. Most of all, I have hurt and disappointed close friends and family, particularly my wife, and for this I am truly sorry. I also want to apologize to the Star.”
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3 comments
bwfull
March 14, 2008 at 1:18 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Does America really only love white tough guys?
Sincerely,
Jerome Bettis, Shack, Cassius Clay (his mama named him Clay, I'm gonna call him Clay), Priest Holmes, Charles Barkley, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Jordan, etc
zigzag
March 14, 2008 at 2:02 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
With about as much credibility as Eliot Spitzer, Mike Freeman comes across as the racist, lying, characterless dipshit that he is.
MoonDog
March 15, 2008 at 10:44 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Those who know the least are usually the first to speak.