Oct
10
ESPN Suspends Jemele Hill for Advertiser-Boycott Tweets
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ESPN on Monday announced it has suspended 6 p.m. “SportsCenter” co-anchor Jemele Hill for what the network characterized as a “second violation of [its] social media guidelines.”
The action came the day after Hill fired off a tweet storm criticizing Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones, who in a post-game press conference Sunday evening had said that any of his players who did not stand for the national anthem would not take the field.
“The whole deal is political and incited by politics,” Jones said after Dallas’ 35-31 loss to Green Bay. “But let me be real, real clear: The thing that the National Football League needs to do and the Dallas Cowboys are going to do, is stand for the flag. We’re going to do that.”
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